The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 9

Weather forecastSpokane and vicin fly, cloudy and continued cool with an expected maximum today of 45. Sunday's high, 44.8 at 2:30 p. low, 28 at 3:30 a. m. Weather forecastSpokane and vicin 4- 1 ity, cloudy and continued cool with an 7C -z 1 qr) expected maximum today of 45.

Sunday's ID high, 44.8 at 2:30 p. low, 28 at 3:30 aREVIE ifinEE SPOKANE, PRICE FIVE CENTS 1943. 61ST YEAR. NO. 178.

MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 8, YANKS SEIZE HEIGHTS 0 DOMINATING VALLEY ROUTE TO RO SPOKANE'S FIRST SOLDIER IS DEAD 111111111 ILI MU ill 4 Wirephoto: View of Street in Kiev, Taken by Russians HONOR BETON ON 80TH BIRTHDAY REDS CUT VITAL NAZI RAIL LINE Allies Capture 52 Towns in Advances Up to 10 Miles in Italy. Dangle New Noose Over Thousands of Foes. Party Lines Disappear in Tributes to House Leader. 11 4 ,....,.......,,,4, 0 1 i rt f' I I.

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7.American troops in brilliant mountain fighting which surprised the Germans have seized dominating heights outflankinv, trategic Mignano in Italy, headquarters announced today, winnin)z positions for a plunge up a broad valley to hy-pass the Nazis' powerful new Aurunet mountain 1 I ie(di tr rifil a nt 'irt LA ris GM 1 nri Bs hr iai ni abandoned Agnone, Carocilit and For all in li, a lorri. APP tory 16 miles deep and nor, h- atnaspirtY; the eastern of the 1 1 I P'S I front Landlord Sees Curb, on Rents at Great Injustice. auk' 4,41410 THIS IS AN A. P. WIREPHOTO.

Here is a captured by the Russian army according to an view of Kreshchatik, central street of Kiev, announcement by Premier-Marshal Joseph capital of the Soviet Ukraine, which has been Stalin in a special order of the day. 404, t.L---..,; AI 1. z-41 A ,10 i. 'liar' it Avkl0 This is the seventh of a series of articles on OPA bureaucracy. as experienced hy small business mem Today's article relates the exper1-1 ence of an apartment house owner.

ARTICLE t. UPRISINGS WAKE IT HOT FOR NAZIS GERMANS BLAST ALLIED CONVOY 52 TOWIIS Taken. The nritish offensive to the east smashed forward as deep as five miles, VPPling I hp Germans back from their Frigno line. as allied warriors captured 52 towns and villages in a blazifl g. climax to a year of war sin0 the allied landings in French north Africa.

Fighting desperately, the Germans threw still another division the pith infantryagainst the Fifth army. Nine Nazi divisions now are pitted against the allies, SIX of them engaging the Fifth army. Galluccio, three miles southwest of Mignano, was captured as Lieutenant Mark W. Clarks soldiers surged forward to take heights rising to 3500 fret on both sides of Mignano. These victories raked the possibility of by-passing Mignano completely for a sweep up the Via Casilina along the broad valley leading to Cassino and Rome, in a drive outflanking the Aurunci mountain range on which the Nazis intended to establish the west coast anchor of a new defense line.

Nearer the west coast. British Fifth army patrols crossed the Garigliano river at least at one point. Advance Five Miles. Landlords are the only persons left who are holding the line' against inflation, Scott C. owner of an apartment at S318, McClellan, complained He bitterly protested against the injustice, as he saw it, of the OPA holding down rents while permitting other commodities to get higher prices.

"The OPA froze my 1937 depres-1 sion rents as tight as the north pole," he declared, "and when asked to whom I could appeal, 11 was informed there could be no; appeal, that, everything would he settled right in the OPA office. This means farewell to liberty, when there is no appeal. Guerrillas in Seized Countries Grow More Daring. Claim 13 Troopships Either Sunk or Damaged. FSA FUND DEMAND MAY START CONTEST WASHINGTON, Nov.

7. demand by Senator Russell (Dent, Ga.) that the senate include funds for the farm security administration in the $214,854,124 deficiency appropriations bill passed by the house Friday raised prospects today of another spirited contest in congress. The house appropriations committee flatly rejected art FSA plea for $6,500.000 in administrative funds and $37,500,000 in borrowing authority and the item was never submitted on the house floor. "The continuation of he farm security administration is vital to the war food program," Russell told reporters. "1 hope the senale appropriations committee and the senate Nvill see that adequate provision is made." By Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. 7.The red army liberators of Kiev smashed ahead 35 miles southwestward today to capture the key rail junction of Fastov, dangling a noose over hundreds of thousands of battered German troops facing their biggest catastrophe of the war below the Dnieper river. Sweeping over ground taken by the Germans in the early days of the 1941 invasion, General Nikolai Vatutin's forces, who took Fastov, cut the enemy's direct railway linking his northern Ukraine forces with those being bled white at Krivoi Rog in the Dnieper bend, 210 miles to the southeast. This great wheeling movement sliding toward the Polish and Rumanian borders, 120 and 150 miles away, threatened to collapse German resistance based on the Krivoi Rog-Nikopol-Nikolaev triangle in the Dnieper bend, and raised distinct possibilities of the entrapment of a huge number of the enemy's forces. Soviet amphibious forces which landed several days ago on the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea "improved their position," and the red army on the north central front captured six more localities in a sweep which has carried beyond Nevel to points only 45 miles from the Latvian and old Polish borders.

The bulletin said 219 German tanks and 74 planes were knocked out and shot down on all fronts during Saturday's fighting. "Pursue the enemy day and night Annihilate or capture his men and material," Marshal Premier Joseph Stalin ordered. Joy in Moscow. Stirring victory scenes were enacted in Moscow when Marshal Stalin announced the fall of Fastov on the 26th anniversary of the Soviet revolution. It was the happiest day in the Soviet, union since Germany launched her invasion June 22, 1941.

There were smiles, handshakes and congratulations among Russians, Britons and Americans in Moscow's sunny streets, where large crowds gathered in holiday mood. Twelve artillery salvos from 124 guns in Moscow boomed a night salute to the units taking the vital junction. The troops seizing Fastov were commanded by Lieutenant General Bybalko, and their formations henceforth will bear the name of Fast ay. Berlin, through the Nazi-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau, said German blood was flowing as never before, and that new Russian attacks beyond Kiev "have made the Germans' positions even more dangerous than before." By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov.

Roosevelt took the lead today in honoring Robert Lee Dough-ton on his 80th birthday anniversary. Party lines vanished as praise was heaped on the North Carolina Democrat who heads the house ways and means committee, which originates all tax legislation. In a letter to Doughton, the President said: "Dear Bob: "Hearty congratulations on your reaching the four-score mark. The best thing about being 80 in your case is that you are too busy with the present and future to spend much time dwelling on the past. "With every good wish for your continued health and happiness, "Very sincerely your friend, "Franklin D.

Roosevelt." Republican Tribute. Representative Knutson of Minnesota, ways and means Republican leader, called personally to congratulate Doughton, and later told newspaper men: "Doughton is one of the grand men of this era. With his sound judgment and discernment, he is the ideal man to head the important ways and means committee in these critical times. Doughton stands for national solvency, economy in government and individual initiative. He is as highly regarded by the Republicans on the ways and means committee as he is by the Democratic members." Speaker Rayburn Texas) and House Democratic Leader McCormack of Massachusetts were among those sending birthday messages.

Doughton visited his office after attending church services today to open birthday messages. His desk was banked with flowers and other presents. Coins Apt Phrases. The veteran Democrat, who always has an apt, picturesque phrase for every situation, used to advise his colleagues to "get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose." But nowsince he balked on the administration's request for 500,000,000 in new revenuehe's putting it another way. "You can shear a sheep once a year," he remarks, "but you can skin him only once." Thumbing back through 80 years, he disclaimed today any "special virtues" for himself, but summed up in a sentence his philosophy for a full and prosperous life.

"There are," he observed, "no substitutes for honesty, courage, fidelity and industry." Doughton never drinks liquor, doesn't smoke, nor does he swear. Others may, and be counted among his close friends. Ile is tolerant, but there's one trait he can not endure'. That is idleness. BAPTIST PASTOR 7 I I( Col.

Abercrombie, 861 1 Veteran of Early Indian Wars. (See picture on page 6.) Spokane's first soldier, Colonel William R. Abercrombie, 86, died yesterday. Colonel Abercrombie first set foot i in the tiny hamlet which grew into I the city of Spokane in the fall of 1877, the first soldier to enter the pioneer village of 20 persons, In diens were on the warpath in those Idays and settlers had been sending frantic appeals for soldiers to come to Spokane to protect them. Colonel Abercrombie, then a shavetail i lieutenant, who earlier that year had been ordered west from a sleepy Georgia post, rode out ahead ,1 of his 700 troops through country he had never seen to bring hope to the pioneer community.

Indian War Veteran. The troops immediately took the field and Colonel Abercrombie went through the Nez Perce war against Chief Joseph and Chief Looking Glass, taking part in the battles of Mount Idaho and White Bird and several skirmishes south of Lewiston, Idaho. His commander was General O. O. Howard.

At the close of the war he was detached to survey service which i Iater brought him fame, but was recalled to active duty in the middle '809 when the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians went on the warpath in Wyoming and the Dakotas. His troop was in the Black Hills until the death of Sitting Bull. When fighting ceased, I he again was assigned to duty in the northwest. "Pins Down River." General Nelson A. Miles, then commander of the department of the Columbia with headquarters at ii Vancouver, Washington territory, i assigned Colonel Aberceomble to a survey of mineral and other re- I sources of eastern Washington un- der Lieutenant George Goethals, later builder of the Panama canal, I who was in command of all surveys In the department.

1 Colonel Abercrombie was the first to survey Lake Chelan and 11 the territory in its vicinity. Then he was assigned to a survey of the Pend Oreille river to the Canadian boundary and to "pin it down on the map." This order was occasioned by the earlier or "cayuse" survey which, on the map, made I the river appear as a dotted line flowing up hill and even through mountains. Honored by Legislature. While working in the Metaline district, he used a peak west of Locke, known variously as "Baldy" and "Kalispell" peak, as a triangu lation point. Later, in recognition 4 for Colonel Aberbrombie's contribution to the development of the territory through his reports on resources gathered during this survey, this 7200-foot peak was named Mount Abercrombie.

The colonel. before his death, was I the only living man in the United States after whom a mountain was named. His reports on topography, waterways, mineral deposits, attracted much attention and have been credited largely with attracting mining interests to the Pend Oreille country. Other Surveys Made. Colonel Abercrombie also made a census of the Colville Indian reservation, and was the discoverer of the route now used by the railroad from Valdez to Tanana in Alaska.

In Alaska is a glacier which bears his name. Colonel Abercrombie was commandant at Fort George Wright with the 251h infantry in 1910, when he retired. Ile also served in the Spanish-American war, receiving campaign ribbons for service in 7 the Philippines. Ile also had a I stretch of duty in China. At the start of the World war I Colonel Abercrombie came out of retirement and served as chief of staff in the Panama canal zone.

Father a General. Colonel Abercrombie's father was also an army man, General John J. Abercrombie, and his wife, who died in 1934. as the daughter of a general. The colonel received his second lieutenant's commission at the age of 19 from the then President of the United States, General U.

S. Grant. He was a member of the Exi plorers' Club of America and had written books and many extensive I. reports on Alaska and other sec- lions of the western portion of North America. He was an hon- orary life member of the Spokane University and City club.

Colonel Abercrombie made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Alan Paine, W2509 Summit, who sur- vives him. Other relatives are two granddaughters. Mrs. Charlotte Hahn, Winnetka, and Miss Sally Paine, Spokane.

Private funeral services will be held Tuesday at Smith's. 1 0 RESIGNS Reading his resignation at the communion service following the morning services yesterday, the Rev William M. Macintosh informed his First Baptist church congregation of his intentions to leave January 1944. The Rev. Mr.

Macintosh was Nye Icomed to Spokane in August, 1934 by a summer night audience By Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 7.German radio broadcasts declared today that Nazi airmen had sunk or damaged 13 fully loaded troop transports and two destroyers from an allied convoy encountered in the western Mediterranean off the north African coast. The claims were without confirmation in allied quarters. In the varying German accounts, the allied force was made up of 22 transports and eight destroyers, and only nine transports and six destroyers escaped damage from the attack with bombs and torpedoes.

The transport victims were said to total 140,000 tons. A DNB dispatch quoted Hitler's headquarters as announcing that 13 transports and two destroyers encountered in waters in which they might have been proceeding to reenforce the Fifth and Eighth armies in Italywere hit "with destructitve effect" and several of the troop carriers were seen burning or "in a sinking condition." A subsequent broadcast of a German transocean dispatch declared the 13 transports and the two destroyers "were sunk." DNB said the attack constituted "a new and heavy blow against enemy troops and supply transport' in the western Mediterranean." Nazi bombers were said to have carried out the raid "in bold, low-flying asaults." Returning flyers were quoted as saying that several transports were seen burning and in sinking condH lion and "many thousands of young! American and British reserve troops went down with the ships." 1 I By Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 7.Reports of assassinations and in'creasing ly daring guerrilla opera-lions came today from France, I iolland and Denmark and the war- battered Nazis preparing for an up- 1 rising in Norway, were said to be erecting street barricades. In France, guerrillas attacked seven town halls in a two-day perind, seizing ration cards and police Irecords of suspected workers, while 1 another band encircled a village near Valenciennes early in the week and wounded two gendarmes 1 in a gun battle, according to reports I reaching Madrid from within 1 France.

1 A paper factory was said to have been burned at Rouen and several Icollaborationist policemen killed by unidentified persons. In Limousin a guerrilla force was reported to have driven back Vichy mobile troops in a skirmish Thursday 'night. From Limoges came a story lot a regiment of mobile reserves returning to their base with 35 killed or missing after a clash with guerrillas. In the north of France, guerrillas have distributed pamphlets bearing the insignia of an impudent Gallic cock and announcing that they will take no more prisoners in fighting. The manifesto threatened to match German tortures of patriots with similar treatment of prisoners in guerrilla hands.

An Oslo dispatch to the Swedish press said German police in the Norwegian capital were preparing entrenchments in the center of the city. A thick granite protective wall six and a half feet high was said to have been erected outside the main police station. Investment Larger. "The OPA forces me to charge a month for four furnished rooms and a private hath, with refrigerator and main line telephone! free," Sharp said. "This compels me to pay a part of my tenant's! legitimate living expenses, for $22 1 is exactly what I had to charge! 'during the depression years when there were thousands of vacancies i and the average man was lucky to get a WPA job at $55 a month.

"Regardless of the fact that have increased my investment, the OPA compels me to rent for 45 per less than the price which received for the 13 years prior to i 11929, which was $40 a month. And I now in these boom times the OPA! forces me to rent the same apartment at the depression rate of $22. "I built my apartment house by the sweat of my brow," Sharp continued. "1 excavated with pick, shovel and wheelbarrow. I laid the I stone and bricks and carried the I worked alone from 5 in the! morning until 9 at night to finish i the job.

I was young and over-: with the exuberance of Road to Despotism. "1 thought it was going to be mine to enjoy, or to sell, devise or bequeath, or to occupy any part! or all, without being accused of subterfuge by OPA attorneys if wanted to move into an apartment! occupied by a tenant. 1 "I thought 1 would have the to say whether it could he occupied by human beings, with or without dogs, cats, canary birds.1 or pet mice, and that 1, set a reasonable rent. 1 "But congress has abdicated. The! OPA bureaucracy is the road to despotism and the end of private' property, private enterprise and the American form of Yes, Kiwanis, keep his America: American and paint the discarded! Constitution and the Bill of Rights; upon the high and burnished heavens for all the world to see." The Eighth army, beating back a series of sharp, tank-spearheaded enemy counterthrusts.

hammered out gains up to five miles in sectors near the Adriatic coast for a total advance of 10 miles in three days. A general attack drove the Germans back from the Trigno river along a front inland from the the few remaining Nazi strong points near the Trignos headwaters were left untenahie. This onslaught tumbled seven major towns and numerous villages into the hands of General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British. Canadian and Indian troops.

including Montedorisio, four miles southwest of Vast. Six other important towns captured in a line southwest from Vasto along the Trigno front were Cupello, Furci, Pa Imori. Turin. Celenza and Bagnoli, the latter 14 miles northeast of Isernia. Yanks in Fierce Battle.

The heaviest fighting aground was met by American doughboys driving north and west into the mountains from Venafro. There the Nazi command threw In reenforcements in a furious effort to retain the heights dominating the main inland highway to Rome the Via Cast linarunning through the narrow mountain gap at Mignano only 10 miles short of Cassino. The enemy, who in recent weeks has seemed consistently to have underestimated the mountain fighting skill of United States troops. apparently fully realized his danger too late. From their new vantage points.

Clark's forces are looking over the broad valley through which flow the headwaters of the Garigliano river as well as a long tributary the Liri riverflowing from the direction of Rome. .4 iOf BRUSH FIRES BAD IN SO. CALIFORNIA'THINK PHANTOM ANTA MONICA. Calif Nov. 7 LEFTOVER GHOST SANTA MONICA, Nov.

7. BLAST WRECKS FEDERAL HOUSE MORE MP SHIPS HIT BY PLANES STERLING, Nov. 7. (R)-- Sterling's most talked about phenomenon. a wisp of haze usually shaped like a mans torso, got temperamental and refused to appear.

Nearly two months ago this apparition took up hunting grounds in a residence whose present occupants refused to give their names. Eschewing murky darkness usually favored by ghosts, it clattered about on hollow footsteps under the broad beams of an electric light. Occasionally it waved a pair of hodyless arms, hut seemed to like the torso get-up best. Thursday night it was observed by several women, captained by Mrs. Cora Radcliffe, a crack rifle shot who brought her gun along.

"You can't shoot a shadow." she said. "I saw the phantom. I tried to touch it, but finally it disap-! penred before my eyes." More than 1000 persons jammed, the house and yard Friday but the ghost refused to appear. Saturday the Sterling Gazette was flooded with calls from theorists. One suggested spiritualists probably held seances there at one time and opined that this was just a leftover ghost.

The neighbors think the culprit is a street light which might cast a haze into the house. But they couldn't explain the footsteps. ANACONDA, Nov. 7. (13) An explosion believed by firemen to have been caused by leaking gas early today destroyed a block-long unit of the federal victory housing project here, injuring two persons.

No fire followed the explosion. Residents of other units in the seven-apartment structure were not in their homes when the blast occurred. Not all the apartments are tenanted. Injured were Mrs. Carl Schiffer, a broken leg, and her husband, bruises and shock.

Fire Chief Henry Quane said the accident occurred when Schiffer turned on a bathroom light, and expressed the belief that gas leaking from outside the project had collected near the Schiffer apartment, a corner unit. No estimate of damage was available. An investigation was started by federal housing authority (13)--A brush and tree fire continued to rage out of control on a seven-mile front in the Santa Monica mountains today, with approximately 10,000 acres blackened and 50 houses or cabins destroyed. Spencer Turner, chief county forester, estimated damage at $500,000. Another blaze broke out this morning 20 miles to the northeast in the Newhall area when a natural gas pipeline in an oil line exploded from unknown cause.

This fire had consumed 300 to 400 acres of brush and was heading toward the Olive View county tuberculosis sanitarium, two miles from the fire front. Some 2000 soldiers and more than 500 county forestry crews and volunteers were building firebreaks in an effort to stop the Santa Monica mountains fire, which started yesterday near Girard. The blaze was halted a quarter-mile from the exclusive Fernwood district and missed the $200,000 home of Richard Dix, film actor, by a few hundred yards. Hundreds fled from their homes with what belongings they could carry. A hundred miles south of here in San Diego county, a brush fire started near Lake Hodges and, driven by an east wind, burned a 15-mile strip to the vicinity of Rancho Santa Fe.

Three large houses burned to the ground and 20 families were evacuated. Homes of Crooner Bing Crosby and other Hollywood notables were in the flames' path. Smoke from this blaze and four others in the eastern part of the county blanketed San Diego with a pall that obscured the sun. U. S.

POSTAL RECEIPTS PASS BILLION MARK WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. (43) Postal revenues have passed the mark for a 1-month period for the first time. Revenues for the 12 months ended September 30 totaled 000.000, Postmaster General Walker announced today. Expenditures totaled $991,000,000.

resulting in a surplus of Walker called attention to the fact that the period is neither a fiscal nor a calendar year. L.agiiiiii.imataiisimaimmi-.4111 WORSE IN ITALY. attending union services in IhiP BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 7. Westminster Congregat ional and Assassinations of Italian Fascists preached his first sermon here that land sabotage against German forces night.

have increased to such an extent The Rev. Mr. Macintosh was pas- in northern Italy that the Fascist tor of Central Baptist church of party secretary, PavoSan Francisco before being called has ordered summary trials and to the Spokane pastorate to re- executions of the "moral instigaplace the Rev. J. Newton Garst, tors" as well as those directly re-who resigned to go to Des Moines, sponsible.

Iowa. Creation of special Fascist triHe was born in Scotland 43 years bunal on the spot within 24 hours ago and came to the United States after each case to try those responwhen a boy of 10. He lived inisible was ordered. Georgia and received his early A Milan dispatch to La Suisse in education there, although he grad-Geneva said Italian partisan act iviuated from Colorado college. Ilislties were so widespread they indidivinity training was at the Berke-Icated a "well organized plan of Icy school.

civil war." He is the author off "The King, and His Kingdom," published last NINEMINERS DIE February, which was described by the publisher as in reality a brief The Rev. Mr. Macintoshs an- sketch of Christ. IN COAL BLAST nouncement yesterday made no mention of his future plans. NELLIS, W.

Nov. 7. UM Nine men lost, their lives and two BENGAL FAM local gas explosion wrecked a FAMINE local were hurt last night after la 'section of the No. 3 mine of Amer-OUTLOOK Rolling Mill company, which had resumed work only two days ago after the general mine shut-NEW' down. Only 11 men were In the mine at the time of the blast.

the first Bengal are being doubled, General in 17 years, said Superintendent A. Sir Claude Auchinleck, Indian E. Oakley. army commander, said today. i Two were brought out alive and He told a press con ference that sent to hospitals at Charleston, 25 several thousand soldiers soon 'miles away.

The other nine were would be working in Bengal die- known to he dead and seven of the tributing food in sections where hodies had been located at mid-distribution bottlenecks have de- night, four and a half hours after veloped. the disaster. Normal deliveries of 900 to 1000 Oakley said the dead were found tons of food daily into uncountrY in the blast area two and a half Bengal are being doubled, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Indian army commander, said today. 1 He told a press conference that several thousand soldiers soon would be working in Bengal distributing food in sections where distribution bottlenecks have developed. Normal deliveries of 900 to 1000 tons of food daily int upcountry 4 a 1 135,000 KILLED 35 UUU KILLED I OUTLOOK GRAVE BY NAZIS REPORT army 1'E Nov.

OfP(ii-ivNeVriitehs 'into outlying starvation districts of GRAVE' DELHI, Nov. 7. (WIWith army food deliveries into outlying starvation districts of NEW DETAIL Nov. 7. (W)--With army food deliveries into outlying starvation districts of U.

S. DISASTERS 178 DURING YEAR THREE DIE, MANY HURT WHEN TORNADO STRIKES DURANT, Nov. 7. UM-- Three persons were killed and an undetermined number injured when a tornado struck five west of Vaiden, Saturday night. Killed were Mrs.

John Thomas Walker. farmer's wife; her son, Henry NVaiker, 13; and Carrie Hill, Negress. A number of farm homes vere damaged. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Nov.

8 (Monday). (iP)---A Japanese cruiser at 1 Rabaul was "probably hit" by an lathed air torpedo, General Doug-1 I las MacArthur announced today. IA Japanese light cruiser and a destroyer tender have been bombed in the Bismarck sea and a cargo ship has been blown up at Rabaul in the latest stages of the growing attack on enemy reenforcements being rushed from Truk to that big New Britain base, the communique said. Four large enemy barges have been sunk in the Vitiaz strait above the Huon peninsula on New i Guinea. These sinkings added to the two Japanese cruisers sunk and seven Icruitters and two destroyers dam-, aged by earlier allied air actions.

(Tokyo radio taking cognizance of the "battle of Bougainville island" claimed more than 56 allied war- ships had been sunk and 78 dam- aged in this area from October 31- to November 5.) No change in the ground situation was reported at Bougainville, and Choiseul islands, Japan's last footholds in the Solomons which have been invaded by allied troops. Southern Bougainville was swept by Mitchell bombers. Three enemy raids on allied poi sitions in the Ramu and Markham valleys of New Guinea were termed "ineffective." MOSCOW, Nov. 7. (4)An ex-: traordinary state commission on atrocities announced today that the Germans killed 135,000 civilians and captives during their occupation' and evacuation of Smolensk province.

Other charges made by the committee were: The Nazis took hundreds of tons of steel from buildings: hack to Germany; blew up the electric power station and the city's: principal bridge; burned library books; tore down a section( of the Smolensk kremlin wall built between 1567 and 1620; and de-' stroyed or damaged numerous churches. two of which were built in the 10th century. miles underground. CHICAGO IN NO MOOD FOR PARTY CONVENTIONS CHICAGO, Nov. 7.

(Q)Chicago frequent host of national tried to woo the 1944 conclave of either the Democrats or Republicans. A spokesman for the Chicago Association of Commerce disclosed today the city hasn't bid for either convention or raised funds for corn pet it ive "Neither national committee has come forward with what they want in the way of minimum guarantees and convention facilities," the spokesman said. "With the war on and the hotel situation as acute as it is. no city wants to tie up the number of rooms usually required for a convention." dist rids are being increased to' 2000 daily, he added, and an additional limited amount of medical assistance is being provided to combat outbreaks of disease. Seventy to 90 persons still are dying each day in hospitals in Calcutta.

where they were taken too late for revival from starvation and disease. Relief steps probably will save many thousands of persons. hut thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands are destined to die before relief efforts can take full effect. Chanting groups of beggars and destitute families are bearing their own starved dead' to places of in Bengal. WASHINGTON, Nov.

7. (Ri--1 Disasters in the United States oc-! curred at the rate of three a week! during the last 12 months, the Red! Cross said today in reporting that it had given aid to 119,205 persons' they affected. It listed as most costly in human life the Cocoanut Grove night club fire in Boston last November whenl the death toll was 402, "more that'll were killed in the bombing of Coventry by the Germans." The Red Cross counted 178 disasters in 45 states, broken down into 68 fires, 42 floods and 37 tornadoes, plus plant and mine explosions, and' train, bus and airplane The total killed was 1010. FLY MARINES' FLAG ON CAPITOL DOME WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.

()The American flag which the first marines who landed on Guadalcanal carried ashore will be flown over the Capitol dome on the marine corps' birthday Wednesday. The sriate and house naval committees invited the marines to display because: "It is our belief that this flag has great historical value inasmuch as it signifies the first successful offensive launched by American forces in this great war." 2 Fiery Imagination In San Jose, Fire Warden G. E. Arnold, rehearsing a group of volunteer citizens, said: ''Now, let's just imagine that we see a fire in that building across the street." To the consternation of all present, the building immediately broke into flames. The power of suggestion is a uonderful thing, and while we make no claims that it vill start fires.

or anything like that, still Want Ads often do bring pretty hot results. For example here's an ad that sold a baby buggy the first day it ran: WICKER BAtre BUGGY. GOOD CCri: di Glen. $671. r218 Gar.tnct.

'ENTIRE WACS COMPANY IS FLOWN TO ALGIERS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Nov. T. ()PiAn entire company of WACs, assigned to the 12th air force service command, was flown to Algiers today in transport 'planes from a port of debarkation many hundreds of miles away so they could be put to Nrork in a hurry. The W'ACs will assume clerical, stenographic and other administralive jobs. said Colonel David R.

of Washington, D. chief of staff of the 12th alr service command. The new company marched from the planes through mud to a welcoming ceremony. Parts of north Africa over which they flew "reminded me of the had-lands of Montana," said Private iMarsha Hoeckle, Lewistown, Mont. 2000 BRITONS FLEE NAZI PRISON CAMP, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.

AL-I GIERS, Nov. 7. (P)Approximately! 2000 British empire troops escapedi from a prison camp in one of thet biggest mass breakouts in historyi when German guards took over an Italian prison camp upon the capit-' ulation of Italy, fugitives related! today. Eight hundred were recaptured by the Nazis, but hundreds of others already have filtered through to the American-Brit ish lines. Among them were four Canadian flyers who told the story today.

NVALLACE CORRECTED. CHICAGO, Nov. 7. (P)The Transportation Association of America, in a letter mailed to members of congress, today said that Vice Preaident Henry Wallace "misrepresented" the organizations position in a speech at Dallas. Texas.

on October 20. The association said that. "In order to concoct the chare that propose '1PZiOnal monopolies' for transportation, Mr. Wallace left out the v.ord 'competitive." in his speech. SIX BLONDE HOSTESSES, OAKES JURY'S ORDER NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov.

7. C41)-- The shadow of rebellion at being locked up for three weeks appeared last night among the 12 jurors who will decide the guilt or innocence of Alfred de Marigny in the Oakes murder trial. When they handed the waiter at the Rozelda hotel their usual written order for dinner, he read. "Six blond. hostesses." MOBILIZE LATVIANS.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 7. (oP)--The newspaper Aftontidningen said today that every man in Latvia between 17 and 60 who could carry weapons had been ordered mobihzed to help the Germans, now battling the Russians less than 55 miles from Latvia's eastern frontier. Those failing to register were threatened with severe punishment Mobilization in neighboring Estonia began a week ago, the newspaper said. AID WOUNDED VETS.

NEW YORK. Nov. 7. of the National Association of Manufacturers have adopted a resolution urging all employers to make every effort to provide suitable jobs for vounded veterans in addition to their legal obligations to employ physically fit former employees honorably discharged from the armed forces. END TURMS11 CONFAB.

CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 7. (43)-- Turkish Foreign Minister Numan NI4110111PriCiO4111 ani British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden con-' cluded a five-day tonfereve heve today. No official indication was of topics discussed. Mrs.

W. F. Bo 'land. Garland, says, "I was called Out Of bed early in the morning to sell the bugzy. Had more than a dozen calls before 10.