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Fri. Sit. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1(12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 (23) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Weather Forecast Southern California Night and morning low clouds over coastal portion and Increasing high cloudiness generally Tuesday afternoon; otherwise clear xcept scattered heavy clouds over mountains this afternoon; cooler north and west portions Tuesday. San Bernardino range yesterday: 83-49. Central and Northern California-Light rains In extreme north portion today and tomorrow.

cMWAspaper for Jaa FIFTY-FIRST YEAR FOURTEEN PAGES MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1944 OP Associated Press OP) United Press 60 a copy 81.10 a month ffanfMi blAk fn rn 1 JV IM Eft LEITE Synthetic Port Used in Normandy Invasion Work Begun to Make It Russian Arctic Army Reaches Norway Border Berlin Says Other Red Forces 21 Miles Inside East Prussia Great Base; Philippines Putmet's Laws Revoked Antwerp Block Shaken; Yanks Gain in South British, Canadians Open Heavy Attacks In Western Holland LONDON, Oct. 23 (Monday) GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Philippines, Oct. 23 (Monday) (Via Army Radio) (AP) Steady expansion of American ground force positions on all Leyte island fronts today paralleled the beginning of work on what a communique called a "great base for all arms for future operations." Simultaneously, Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a proclamation declared the Americans had come as "liberators for the entire Philippine archipelago." He declared the seat of the islands' government had been reestablished under President Sergio Osmena of the commonwealth government, who landed with 4 Japs Told U.S.

'Attempting to tt ri- lit 4.. SW Two synthetic harbors, including prefabricated piers and breakwaters, were set up off the Normandy coast by engineers and used for discharging cargo vessels, reinforcements and heavy equipment for the allied invaders of France. Manufacture and installation of the harbors, both the size of Dover, England, has been called one of the most remarkable engineering feats of all time. This aerial view of one of the harbors is an official British photo. Eisenhower's Decision to Start Invasion June 6 Despite Risky Tides Probably Saved Expedition LONDON, Oct.

23 (Monday) (AP) Russian troops hurled the enemy across the Norwegian frontier on a 40-mile front yesterday, capturing valuable nickel mines and driving to within 17 miles of the Nazi naval base at Kirkenes. Berlin meanwhile announced that other Soviet forces were now 21 miles inside German East Prussia and shelling the strategic rail city of Tilsit. Red army units attacking East Prussia from the north reached the Niemen river opposite Tilsit in a 15-mile advance, and farther south other troops in a 21-mile penetration from the east overran the Rominter forest, cut the Gumbin-nen-Goldap highway, and began assaulting those communication towns, Berlin said. As the East Prussian offensive entered its seventh day, Moscow still had not mentioned the battle which Berlin described as the most savage of the entire war in the east. ADVANCE ON BUDAPEST The Russians, however, reported that their troops had advanced 12 miles closer to Budapest in Hungary, had captured the big eastern Hungarian junction city of Nyire-gyhaza and other points near the southern Czechoslovakian border; had toppled the north Yugoslav communications town of Sombor, and forced the Sava river beyond fallen Belgrade in a pursuit of the enemy.

In northern Finland the Soviet Karelian army under Gen. K. A. Meretskov, supported by the red Arctic fleet, reached the Norwegian frontier on a front extending from Vuoremi on the Barents sea inland to Lake Kuotsjarvis. Nickel mines in the Petsamo area which were ceded to Russia by defeated Finland were torn from the enemy.

At Vuoremi the Russians were 20 miles east of Kirkenes, the Nazi naval base from which German planes and ships have preyed on allied lend-lease shipments moving through the Arctic to Murmansk. At Kuotsjarvis lake, where the Arctic highway leads into German-held Norway, the Russians were only 17 miles south of Kirkenes. INVASION IMMINENT Norwegian underground reports to London said a Russian invasion of Norway, held by the Germans since the spring of 1940, was imminent. A midnight Soviet bulletin said that Meretskov's troops, moving across terrain often without roads, had inflicted heavy losses on the Germans retreating into Norway. The enemy, raked by Soviet artillery and red bombers, abandoned much equipment.

Torpedo boats of the red fleet also sank two German transports and three auxiliary vessels in Va-ranger fjord, the late bulletin said. The midnight bulletin said 3,000 enemy troops were killed and several thousand captured during the day in Hungary. (AP) The whole water logged western front from Hoi land to the Belfort gap burst back to life in a thunder of allied attacks Sunday at the Brit ish and Canadians launched a cleanup squeeze on the western Dutch flatlands and the American Third army made a new thrust eastward to the Saar. The Germans, surprised, reeled back before the fury of the attacks and, in this hour of vengeance, their civilian slaughter weapon, the robot bomb, was seen for the first time in the frontline battle zone. The flying bombs were noted "in some numbers" over the U.

S. First army front, which includes the Aachen area. At what they were aimed was not clear and where they fell was not disclosed. The new allied offensives menaced the German hopes of maintaining their block on Antwerp and holding the Americans from the Rhine. CANADIANS TAKE BRESKENS Striking at dawn yesterday in a surprise offensive, the British second army drove within less than four miles of the Germans' Dutch bastion of 'S-IIertogenbosch and put a giant squeeze on southwestern Holland in concert with a powerful Canadian drive from the north.

The Canadians meanwhile seized Esschen, 16 miles above Antwerp, and also captured the stronghold of Breskens in the pocket south of the Schelde. The U. S. Third army at the same time broke forward in a push east of Nancy, in France, advancing two miles in the sector below enemy defenses inundated by the bursting of a dam by air assault. TWO-HEADED PUSH The British offensive sliced 2V4 miles toward 'S-Hertogenbosch, main escape route for the Germans fighting desperately, to hold the southwestern Dutch coast.

It was a double-headed push springing from the west flank of the deep British salient into Holland near Nijmegen. Forty miles to the west, the Canadian army took Esschen, five miles below Roosendaal on the Antwerp road, after a night attack. This victory, capping an 11-mile advance, bolstered the allied grip on the narrow causeway to the west leading to Schelde estuary Islands, where German guns deny allied ships the sea lane to Antwerp. The German "blockade" pocket (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) Colonel Lindbergh On Combat Missions PASSAIC, N. Oct.

22 P-Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, New York to Paris solo-flight pioneer, flew on combat missions during his recent trip to the Pacific, the Passaic Herald-News said in a copyrighted article today, and was also credited unofficially with the destruction of a Japanese plane. By JAMES M. LONG SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, X)ct.

22 UPl-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's historic decision to go ahead with the invasion of Normandy on June 6 despite risky weather may have saved the whole allied assault from a disaster as stark as that which wrecked the Spanish armada in 1588 in the same treacherous channel, it was disclosed officially today. If the operation had been delayed beyond June 6 to take advantage of proper tide conditions, it probably would have been launched in calm water on the night of June 17-18, and might have been swamped by the 700-to-1 chance northerly gale which broke over the channel at dawn June 18. As it was, high allied officers who directed and carried out the stupendous task of building two artificial ports in England and transporting them to Normandy's JL A 1 BLAMES WAR I Charged with bigamy resulting' from word her first serviceman husband, reported killed in action more than two years ago, is alive, Mrs.

Frances Morris French, 23, Chicago, said she will seek annul ment of 1943 marriage to A.A.F. Pilot Lt. David J. French, who is reported In German prison camp Bomber Plant Strike to End Kansas City Union Heeds Board Action KANSAS CITY, Oct. 22 UP) Employes of the North American Aviation Co.

bomber plant, where irate servicemen dispersed pickets and tore down union placards yes terday, voted today to return to work at 7 a.m. Monday. Members of local No. 31, United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) voted at a mass meeting to return to work on recommendation of their executive board. The board's action came after a group of 127 workers, whose discharge from the company's modification plant precipitated the walkout which closed the huge bomber factory, voted to urge the other employes to return to their jobs and their individual cases be left in the hands of the regional war labor board.

Philippines Award Given to MacArthur GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Philippines, Oct. 22 (IP) President Osmena of the Philippines commonwealth today conferred the Philippines valor award upon Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur. Acknowledging the award, Mac-Arthur said in a note to Osmena that he was "deeply grateful" for the action.

but his face tense and muscles tight, told me "the most unforgettable man I knew who was fighting with brilliance in Mindanao was an American a civilian who had taken to the hills with his wife and baby. "Ever since the Japanese had forced this American family out of its home in 1942 they had lived with Filipino guerrillas alv. scared always on the move never any time to catch their breath never any feeling of security. "But there came a time when the wife became sick and couldn't be moved. The Japs were reported moving in on the guerrilla barrio (village.) iMi'jJ, the liberating forces.

Enemy forces on Leyte apparently are withdrawing westward after their "preliminary defeat," the communique reported. It said work had begun to prepare the captured airfields near Tacloban and Dulag for American use, as other preparations commenced to make Leyte a great offensive base for future campaigns. PUPPET'S LAWS VOID MacArthur's proclamation declared the laws and regulations of Puppet President Jose P. Laurel's "republic" are "null and void" in areas "free of enemy occupation and control." The authority of the commonwealth government will be extended by "constitutional process" to liberate! areas as soon as they are freed, the proclamation said. The commonwealth government is "subject to the supreme authori ty of the government of the United States." The headquarters communique reported the Japanese supply problem already had become difficult and might become worse.

The Japanese attempted "minor and ineffective" air raids on American shipping off Leyte, the announcement said. Allied bombers, however, were extremely active in bombing flank bases in the Philippines and other southwest Pacific areas. SEVEN SHIPS STRUCK Heavy bombers unloaded 94 tons of explosives on Mindanao, smashing buildings and other installations. Among targets was Taga-yan, principal communications center in the northern part of the island. Medium bombers and fighters also roared over Mindanao, the latter strafing 23 trucks on Sayre highway.

They also damaged two small vessels off Sarangani island. Medium bombers hitting the Vis-ayan islands, in the central Philippines, sank three small frighters and probably sank four more. Night reconnaissance planes con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Jap Ships Fleeing South China Sea CHUNGKING, Oct. 22 (JP) Jap anese snips in nit; suuiu Valium MJa are racing northward to escape de miui-uuii iy rtinui ludii pidiits, iu- nese reports today said. Many of the ships, which steamed northward under emergency orders after the battering given seacraft in coordinated attacks by U.

S. naval planes and land planes of the U. S. Fourteenth Air force, have reached the coast of northern Fukien province. "The guerrillas pleaded with the American to save himself and his child and to flee with them.

But he refused without a moment of indecision. "We never heard from him again. But we learned this is what happened: When the Japs approached, the American calmly shot his wife. Then he shot the child. He then took cover and opened fire on the Japs.

He killed many before they finally got him." Tinnell said he told me the story because It typified in a small way the courage of thousands of Americans who escaped from the Japanese in 1942 and have been hiding with and fighting by the side of the guerrillas. Wipe Us Out' SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 (P) The Japanese people were told today by Seizo Kobayashl, president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Political society: "The enemy, with great military strength and numerical superiority, is attempting to wipe us out." Radio Tokyo in a domestic broadcast said Kobayashi addressed a "Crush Anglo-America" rally at Fukuoka, on Kyushu island which American Superfortresses have hit several times. Filipino Regime Set in Tacloban MacArthur, Osmena In Dramatic Event TACLOBAN, Leyte, Philippines, Oct. 23 (Monday) (JP) Against a background of aircraft fire, Gen.

Douglas MacArthur today announced establishment of the temporary seat of the Philippine commonwealth government in this recaptured island capital. With President Sergio Osmena standing on his right, the general opened a dramatic ceremony a brief radio speech to the Filipino people, reestablishing on Philippine soil a government based on the "sacred right of self-rule." His audience included hundreds of American Army officers and men, naval officers and townspeople of the liberated city who cheered lustily at the end of the general's address. "For you," said the general, "we' are not a conquering army. We are an army bringing you liberation. We are citizens like yourselves, determined to the death, determined that democracy shall not die.

That is the American way." llf 1 (jQYQI'flQf Declared to Be on Road fo Recovery SACRAMENTO, Oct. 22 UP) Dr. J. B. Harris said today he believed that Gov.

Earl Warren, ill In a hospital with influeni and a kidney infection, is on the road to recovery. The doctor said Warren last night had the best night of any since he entered the hospital a week ago, and that the patient's temperature was normal. Pencillin treatments were ordered for Warren yesterday by Harris and Dr. Nathan B. Hale, urology specialist.

The medicine was administered every three hours and Warren's reaction to it has been excellent, Harris said. Churchill to Speak On Moscow Parleys LONDON, Oct. 22 (iD-Prime Minister Churchill returned to London today by air from hi nine-day conferences In Mowow with Marshal Stalin. He looked fit and well. The prime minister is expectM to make a statement to common! this week on hli Moscow talks.

1,100 American Bombers Attack Northern Germany Without Loss beaches told correspondents here that the gale created widespread havoc. Through three raging days that' storm almost destroyed one great beach port which the Americans had two-thirds completed at St. Aubin. It damaged the port which the British had slightly more than half finished at Arromanches, hurting it so badly that the landing of supplies was put about a week behind schedule at a crucial time in the beachhead expansion. Rear-Adm.

William Tennant, planning and operations control officer in charge of these harbors, said there was only a fractional chance a ratio of a half day in a year that such a "winter" north wind storm would hit the beaches in June. But it did, hurling 14-foot waves against the uncompleted structure of breakwaters and piers. The American port was hardest hit because it was on deeper, more shifty sands, and lacked the protection of a shoal. or damage of five barges and five small steamboats. Two gas manufacturing plants were shot up.

R.A.F. Lancastors escorted by fighters made a heavy attack this afternoon on the German inland port and railway center of Neuss, just across the Rhine west of Dus-seklorf, and 20 miles northwest of Cologne. No planes were lost. The R.A.F.'s famed Brazilian Typhoon squadron, named in honor of Brazil, that had been credited with mortally wounding Nazi Field Marshal Rommel last July 17, attacked a "heavily defended headquarters area" in the Breskens pocket, where Canadian Iroops are driving to clear the Schelde estuary. Reports from bomb weary German citizens arriving in Stockholm indicated the constant allied aerial offensive was, leaving its mark.

A woman from Stuttgart said only one house in every 25 was left standing, Berlin householders have been warned there will be no central healing this winter and reports of "no gas" have been prevalent for days. Flying Bombs Kill Seven in England LONDON, Oct. 22 IJP) Rescue workers said today they held no hope of saving the mother, her babe in arms and a man, all buried alive last night when flying reduced several houses to rubble and killed four persons "It was very sad that after all their work, energy and great drive the Americans had put into build ing their port that the gale should have wrecked such a large part of it," Tennant said. "Fortunately at that time they were on the point of capturing Cherbourg, and it was decided they should assist the British with all they could save of their pier roadway, that the deep water breakwater of caissons should be abandoned, but that the blockship breakwater should be extended, strengthened, and double-banked, with the port becoming a shallow water harbor. As such, it has functioned since shortly after the gale and has landed its quota of tens of thousands of tons of stores." By now the British concrete port and the American breakwater-guarded harbor have done their job.

"One day now along will come a normal winter gale, and that will be the end of it all," Admiral Tennant said. Lemnos Island Cleared of Foe Cleanup Extends To Dardanelles ROME, Oct. 22 (JP) The British broom sweeping the Germans out of the Aegean has reached the northern extremity with a landing on the strategic island of Lemnos guarding the entrance to the Dardanelles. A royal navy communique announced today the capture of the port of Mudros on the south coast of the island after a fierce 30-hour battle. Four hundred prisoners were taken, the communique said.

(The British Broadcasting Corp. later reported the entire island of Lemnos and all of the Cyclades group had been freed.) TANKS MOVE AHEAD ROME, Oct. 22 (British tanks manned by New Zealanders have speared seven miles into the Po valley north of Cesena in Italy, while other eighth army troops using boats and bicycles in pursuit of the retreating Germans on the swampy Adriatic coast sector are approaching Cervia, six miles north of captured Cesanatico, allied headquarters announced today. Nell Brinkley Dies NEW ROCHELLE, N. Oct.

22 (JP) Nell Brinkley, 56, whose pen and ink drawings were syndicated throughout the country for more than 30 years, died in a hospital last following a long illness. DAVID LARDNER; WAR CORRESPONDENT, KILLED American Civilian Guerrilla Kills Wife, Child To Save Them From Japs, Dies Fighting Enemy LONDON, Oct. 22 (PI A fleet of more than 1,100 American heavy bombers, attacking without loss, bombed northern Germany's rich industrial belt from Hamm and Munster east to Hannover and Brunswick today. Two of the 750 covering fighter planes did not return, and they were believed to have landed in friendly All of the bombing was done by instruments through clouds. No enemy aircraft were encountered and antiaircraft fire was generally moderate.

Fighter pilots reported the destruction of 13 locomotives and 25 railway cars, and the destruction ago on his first war assignment. Hill is a veteran correspondent of the western desert campaign and of north Africa. (Lardner, 25, father of two children, joined the editorial staff of the New Yorker in 1939, later becoming its movie critic. He asked for an overseas assignment after being rejected for military service because of poor eyesight. (A brother, James P.

Lardner, was killed in 1938 during the Spanish civil war while fighting for the loyallsls as a volunteer in I he international brigade. (His widow, mother and two brothers, Ring a motion picture writer, and John Lardner, a writer for Newsweek magazine, also survive him.) WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY NEAR AACHEN, Oct. 19 (Delayed) CP David Lardner, correspondent for the New Yorker magazine, was injured fatally and Russell Hill, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, was injured today when their jeep was blown up by road mines near Aachen.

The jeep driver also was killed. Lardner, son of the late famed humorist Ring Lardner, and Hill were returning from the smashed German city to a press camp when they ran into a mined area. One report said the jeep touched off a siring of seven nnlivehk-ular mines. Lardner had joined the First army press corps only a few days By RICHARD BERGHOLZ WITH AMERICAN RANGERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Oct. 17 (Delayed) (JP) A tragedy of the Pacific war in which an American civilian guerrilla fighter killed his sick wife and child to keep them out of the hands of the Japanese and who was slain himself after he had shot many of the enemy was disclosed to me today by Ranger Lt.

Leon Tinnell. I met the lieutenant when I landed with the rangers who went ashore on Dinagat and other islands in Leyte gulf several days before Yank assault waves hit Leyte beaches. The lieutenant, his words calm.