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a the the the a a 2 THE NEWS AND SERVER, RAY EIGH, N. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1944. One Death, Much Damage Reported In Storm Area Nag's Head Hotel Man Killed in Hurricane; Bridges, Roads Damaged Elizabeth City, Sept. of one death, coupled with serious damage to roadways, bridges and communication lines, trickled out of the Outer Banks region tuck and Dare counties today, the great hurricane of Thursday passed northward. Red Cross headquarters announced that L.

S. Parkerson, owner of the Parkerson Hotel at Nag's Head, resort town on the Banks, was killed Thursday during the storm. No details were available, an unconfirmed report that Parkerson came in contact with a fallen power line that had entangled itself about his car. Coast Guard plane from the local base took Cross representative to Manteo today, then contindown the Banks Bouto. Hatteras All Lines day with Nag's Head, Manteo Communication lines were cut toil Hatteras, and only meager reports were The Coast, Guard plane the erson's death, and the Red Cross said the plane's pilot also said he saw heavy damage below Kitty Hawk and at Collington.

There was no word at all from the lower Banks, except one report that a large section of the roadway near New Inlet, which cuts the sand spit below Oregon Inlet, had washed away. The highway from Elizabeth City Manteo was blocked in two places--at Coinjock, where a passng barge damaged the drawbridge, ind at the crossing to Roanoke Isand, where the bridge was washed ut. Several days will be required make the roadway passable. At Kill Devil Hill Weather Staion, said one report, Captain Midett estimated the wind's velocity 26 the miles heighth per of hour, the hurricanould ndicate the worst part of the storm "Banks." Midgett said it as the hardest wind he had seen 1 all his experience. The station's 0.000-gallon tank was blown own.

Crop damage throughout the Alemarle section was reported as eavy, and nearly all power and elephone lines were damaged. cores of summer cottages were unpoted along the beaches, but none estroyed completely. Elizabeth City itself was cut off rom electric power for 10 hours nd telephone and telegraph communication still was in confused tate tonight. The Coast Guard has been unto contact its stations below Oregon Inlet, Cape Hatteras' radio cation having quit early yesteray. Some damage was reported at the Consolidated- Aircraft base ere when the strong wind broke everal planes loose from their moorings.

The ships had been taked down, but the lines holding hem proved insufficient. One of the Navy's observation limps at the Navy base near here vas damaged badly when shredded by tons of shattered glass. At Morehead City, damage of come $4,000 was caused by the unroofing of houses and breaking of plate glass windows. A number of business signs were blown down and some places were flooded. A hundred or more trees were uprooted or broken off.

QUEBEC Continued from Page One. talking details. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told reporters today: "The conferences in Quebec between the President and Prime Minister will be concluded by tomorrow noon." Vocal stress which he gave the words "in Quebec" and the fact he declined to say whether Roosevelt and Churchill might continue personal talks elsewhere, pointed a probability that they would do just that. Each will go "off the record" tomorrow. The hints of informal, additional discussions between the two United Nations leaders pointed up two definitely, factors: The presence here, belatedly, Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, of Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Undersecretary of State of Foreign Affairs, and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau.

The fact that Allied troops are swiftly wedging apart the inner delenses of Germany itself, which calls for immediate clarification policies on occupying the Reich and keeping it under. a heavy Allied thumb until. Nazi militarism longer threatens to scourge the world. Eden's Flight. Eden's flight to Queit can be said, has no connecon with plans for pulverizing Japan.

Actually, those plans had been worked out fairly well before the American President and British Minister ever made their second journey, to this picturesque capital French Canada. Here in Quebec, Roosevelt and Churchill went over withe their chiefs of staff and fine there adjustments still required to make them tick. That, primarily, it has been emphasized officially, was the purpose of the Quebec conference. But within the fastnesses of Quebec's Citadel, the President and Prime Minister saw mirrored on their war maps the march of their fighting men on German soil. Naturally, they came to discussions the political and economic problems which even now confront portions of Europe and which press Weather Data TEMPERATURS.

Highest temperature 85 Lowest temperature 66 Mean temperature 76 Excess for the day 5 PRECIPITATION (in inches.) For 24 hours ending 8:30 p.m. 27 Total for month to date 0 60 Deficiency for the month 21 Excess since Jan. 1 0 72 HUMIDITY. 1 p.m. Dry bulb 80 Wet bulb 70 Rel.

humidity 61 Sunrise 6:56 a.m. Sunset 7:22 p.m. Islanders Report New Bern, Sept. 15-Evacuees from Be isolated Ocracoke Island, arriving here tonight after a boat trip across the sounds, reported tremendous property as result of the hurricane.her Curric.Mrs. damage William would Robert run to Smith half a million dollars at Ocracoke.

Pamlico Inn was damaged badly, a number of houses were also damaged, mail boat was ashore and the post office building destroyed, she said. Mrs. Tom Eaton Hatteras wired her mother here that damage there also was very heavy, but that there were no deaths or serious injuries. She is the former Helen Hawks of New Bern. even more urgently for solution with the crumbling of the Siegfried Line.

Eden, Morgenthau 'and Cadogan thus fitted into the portion of the Quebec military like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle. The British foreign minister sired an Anglo-Russian-American European advisory commission which has been studying the question of occupying Germany. Morgenthau is member of an American Cabinet Committee assigned io deal with war-germinated economic problems. Cadogan is the British delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington, where Britain, the United States and Russia have been attempting to erect the sign posts permanent world Here on misty heights above the St. Lawrence, all the problems of continental politics could not be solved in a week.

Marshal a Joseph Stalin of Russia was absent and not even represented. Additional conferences, tied to Europe and her future after the war, therefore appeared to be in order, and, as a prelude, more informal talks between the American chief executive and his British partner. TEXAS Continued from Page One. were met. The Texas conditions were not accepted by the Chicago convention.

Subsequently the 15 indicated they would cast their electoral college votes for Sen. Harry Byrd, Virginia. Eight said they would support Roosevelt. At a second Democratic convention this week in Dallas pro-Roosevelt forces took control and chose a substitute list, ousting the 15 antiRoosevelt electors. They presented the second Latham.

Will Bring Suit. After Latham announced he was certifying the May list of electors to appear on the November ballot, Chairman Harry L. Seay said the Democratic state executive committee would bring suit to compel certification of the September 12 convention electors. The State Supreme Court, a mandamus action could be filed, is in recess, but it could be called together for action on the issue which has kept the Democratic party of Texas in turmoil through the summer. Prior to the July 22 primary the court refused to issue a mandamus, asked by fourth-term advocates, mittee ordering to the place party's the names executive of CoroRoosevelt electors, selected at a state convention May 23, on the primary ballot.

Latham, in a prepared statement, said "it is the considered opinion of the Secretary of State that the Presidential electors nominated May 23 shall be placed on the official ballot" for the November election. Earlier at Houston John H. Crooker, one of the electors ousted, declared the Dallas convention had "neither moral right nor legal power" to eliminate the 15 anti-Roosevelt electors. Latham had wrestled with the dual elector problem since the second set of electors named at the September 12 convention was filed with him yesterday. effect of Latham's decision today is to reinstate all the electors chosen in May, undoing the action of the pro-Roosevelt tion in September.

CONGRESS Continued from Page Ore. erty Administrator, and a four-man board. Will Clayton, present Surplus Property Administrator who was appointed by the President, denounced the latter proposal as impractical and unbusinesslike said he could not appointment, under its provisions. the threeas "ever so much better." Clayton's View. Clayton drafted the House version of the bill which called for a single administrator, but in his letter to War Mobilization Director James F.

Byrnes blasting conference changes. he said that one-man rule was not the issue. The -amended version provided for board Senate to administer the program. Rep. Carter Manasco, and Sen.

Elbert D. Thomas, Utah, chairman of the House and Senate conferees, respectively, said that the conference report represent "a good bill and a good compromise." The agreement gave the threeman board, established "in the Office of War Mobilization and in its full policy administrative power over surplus property disposal. Members, each office for two years, would be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Other Provisions. The bill also provides for: 1.

A 15-month freeze of strategic metals and minerals in a Treasury stockpile. 2. Sale or lease of medical and educational equipment to private or taxsupported institutions, with preferFederal facilities. 3. Federal preference on airports and harbor facilities, with second preference to buy or lease going to local political units.

4. A leading place in reconversion for the Smaller War Plants Corporation, permitting it to extend and credits to small business in the purchase surpluses. 5. Authority for the Attorney General to check, possible, monopolistic practices war plants. 6.

A ban on sales of strategic Missing Pfc. John T. Faucett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

T. Faucett of Roseboro, has been reported missing in action in France since August 26. He enlisted in the Army at Fort Bragg on August 11, 1940, and went overseas in the fall of 1943. His brother, James Faucett of the Marine Corps, was reported wounded on Guam last month. plants valued at $5,000,000 or more without specific authorization from 7.

Classification Congress. of surplus land by the Surplus Property Board which will name the disposal agency. Preference purchase would to former owners, their heirs, their tenants, and veterans, in that order. The compromise provisions for a three-man board represent a victory for the Senate conferees. They had held out for a board rather than an administrator.

The Director of War Mobilization would have veto power over the board only in case of conflicts between its decisions on surplus property and other reconversion policies, SOUTH FRANCE Continued from Page One. have been put. CANADIAN TROOPS PUSH ACROSS MARANO RIVER reton. It has not been announced into what army groups these units Rome, Sept. -Canadian troops of the Eighth Army plunged across the Marano river today fought their way northward to within one mile of the Rimini airfield and less than three miles from the mouth of the Po Valley.

American Fifth Army troops, fighting their way into the depths of the Gothic Line north of Florence, captured important positions on a highway leading through German defenses, and other Allied units, including Greek soldiers, pushed northward through strongly-fortifled sectors. Eighth Army troops, whose porting artillery up to yesterday had hurled 1,000,000 shells into German positions, captured and helped the San Savino-Coriano ridge. Infantry and tanks in an encircling movement west of San Savino captured or killed most of the 289th German grenadier regiment of the 98th infantry division; and in mopping up operations in Coriano, captured 170 Germans and killed or 400 more on the southern fringes of the ridge. In the Gemmano area and southward to Pian di Castello, heavy Aghting continued and there were no changes in position. Millionth Shell.

United Press War Correspondent James E. Roper reported from the Eighth front near Coriano, now in Allied hands, that the firing of the millionth shell in the Adriatic corridor yesterday was followed by tens of thousands of other shells. Artillery he said, were the heaviest in the Fifth Army's history, approximately 1,000 guns in an area 8,000 yards square. Firing was so rapid, he said, that individual guns had several shells in the air at one time. At.

times, Roper reported from a hilltop observation post, thousands of shells roared overhead simultaneously. The Germans offered stiflening resistance to Fifth Army advances north of Florence and Pistola, but Allied elements captured Monte Catino and Ponte di Moriano, both four miles north of Lucco, and then took Pietrabuona, important highway leading through the mountains between Lucca and Pistola. Greek units advanced towards San Lorenzo, 13 miles northeast of Florence. The town was bypassed early this week by The Germans rushed new artillery units into the Gothic Line before the Allied advance and sought to halt the northward march of both the Fifth and Eighth armies in the western and central sectors with every type of armament. The major part of air force operations from Italian bases was directed against German positions the Gothic Line and north of it in the Po Valley.

Athens Bombed. Some 500 American heavy bombers today blasted three crowded German airdromes outside Athens and a nearby Nazi submarine base, seeking to close the last feasible escape route left for high German officers and technical experts trapped in Greece. The heavy attack was the third within 48 hours on Athens air fields by Allied bombers. RAF medium and hreavy bombers plastered these targets last night. A small group of American heavies attacked them on Wednesday.

Pilots reported the airdromes jammed with big German transport planes and other aircraft. The attack with fragmentation bombs which fell in "good patterns" and did great damage. Fires were left raging at each air field. Good bombing results also were reported by the raiders, who hit the enemy submarine base on the Island of Salamis, off the Athens port of Piraeus. With the collapse of Romania and Bulgaria and the drive of the Russians to Yugoslavia, the German garrisons throughout Greece and the Aegean Islands were cut off from escape routes northward to the Reich.

The only railroad trunk line, through eastern Yugoslavia from the Vardar valley to Belgrade, has been cut at many places and is dominated by Yugoslav partisan forces. Fighter Plane Crashes. Albemarle, Sept. U. S.

plane crashed in a field two miles south of here this afternoon. The pilot suffered an injured foot and lacerated face. The plane was badly damaged. Song Festival. A Song Festival will be held at Memorial Auditorium tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 under sponsorship of the Mt.

Calvary Holiness Church. of Raleigh. Admission will be charged. Under the Dome of the public and it provides for the naming of a comptroller for the board, who "under the direction of the board shall have supervision and management of the fiscal affairs of the board." is provided' that the "general supervision" of public schools shall be vested in the State Board of Education. The proposed amendment eleminates this conflict in authority as to the superintendent and the board by designating the superintendent of instruction as "the administrative, head and of by the giving public the school Board of Education general supervision of public schools.

The proposed amendment makes no mention of a comptroller to handle fiscal affairs of the board. Continued from Page One. EXAMINATION--Another of the five proposed amendments to be voted on this fall provides for the elimination of an outmoded section of the Constitution requiring private examination of wives in the conveyance of property. Elimination this section will place a man and his wife on an "even basis" in the deeding of propeach will be required to sign the customary acknowledgement. PAY-A third proposed amendment would place in the hands of the General Assembly the authority for setting the compensation of the lieutenant governor.

The Constitution now provides that the lieutenant governor receive the salary as the of the House, whose compensation is set by statute at $700 for each biennium, and per diem pay, not to exceed 20 days, for a special session of the General Assembly. Under the proposed amendment, the salary of the lieutenant governor can be changed as often as the Assembly wishes, although another section of the Constitution provides that the amount of a lieutenant governor's compensation shall not be increased nor diminished during the time for which he has been elected. EXEMPTION--The fourth proposed amendment to be listed on the Constitutional amendment ballot would exempt notaries from the Constitutional prohibition against "double office-holding." exempted are justices of the peace, officers of the militia, and "commissioners of public charities or commissioners for special purposes." Many persons hold the office of notary public by virtue of their jobs in private enterprises, and the amendment is proposed in order that clerks, auditors, and other employes of businesses may be elig. ible for other public offices. THREE The fifth proposed amendment would make three elective State officials members of the Executive Department and of the Council of State.

Those affected by the amendment are the commissioner of insurance, commissioner of labor, and commissioner of agriculture. Present members of the Executive Department are the Governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of State, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction. The attorney general is legal advisor. secretary of State, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction now constitute ex-officio the council of State to advise the Governor in the execution of his office. PACIFIC Continued from Page One.

announced the in the Palau island Peleiu, it landing, was reported, the prime objective -only a few after MacArthur had announced the Morotai landing in the Halmahera group. Invasion Leaders. Vice-Adm. Theodore S. Wilkinson, Rosslyn, commander of the Third Amphibious Force, directed the landing operations in the Palau invasion and Marine Julian C.

Smith, Alexandria, who led the Marines at Tarawa, led the Palau expeditionary force. General MacArthur personally left Australia for a new headquarters in New Guinea to direct the Morotai landing. (An eyewitness dispatch by William Ewing, pool correspondent, said the Peleliu landing was made after a terrible bombardment by warships and planes. By nightfall, he said, the Marines had ed a beachhead along the southern tip of Peleliu. (The Japanese were Aghting hard and they were entrenched strongly, Ewing said.

The Japanese, protected by the trees, held their fire until the landing craft were nearly on the beach, he said, as recorded by CBS.) It was indicated that the landings by the forces of MacArthur and Nimitz, undoubtedly closely prearranged, were made at almost the same moment. OBJECTIVES ON MOROTAI ARE REACHED QUICKLY Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Saturday, objectives Island, northernmost of the Halmahera group and only 250 miles south of The Philippines, have been taken by American infantrymen who invaded the island yesterday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. The Arst objective, the unfinished Japanese airstrip, at Pitu at the southwestern Morotai, fell into American hands soon after the first assault waves splashed ashore and established positions. MacArthur's communique said that engineers already had begun construction work on the airfield, apparently having gone ashore immediately behind the troops.

Land and carrier-based aircraft continued to support the Morotai operation, which "has progressed according to plan," the communique announced. Achievement of all objectives on the island, which covers about 700 square miles, indicated rapid United States. extension of control over those coastal areas held by the Japanese. The surprise of the landing appeared to have been given the United States forces an advantage which was quickly capitalized upon. Americans seized the Gila peninsula and Pitu airdrome immediately after the landing and no organized Japanese ground reaction has been reported thus far, the communique said.

at the island's southwest corner, is The Cape Gita peninsula, located a low plain with an elevation of less than 100 feet. Doruba village, a few miles up the west coast, is JURY IN DURHAM ACQUITS COUNCIL Bus Driver's Plea of Self Defense in Negro's Death Accepted by Jury Durham, Sept. Lee Council, 36, Duke Power Company bus driver charged with murder in cannection with the slaying of a Negro soldier, was acquitted today by a Durham Superior Court jury which deliberated 28 minutes. The trial consumed most of three days. The soldier was stationed at nearby Camp Butner.

Judge Luther Hamilton presided at the trial. Council was tried for the July 8 pistol slaying of Pvt. Booker Spicely. The shooting stemmed from an argument over the North Carolina law requiring Negro passengers seat in the rear of any bus. Council and defense witnesses said the Negro cursed the bus driver.

State witnesses said the Negro did not. Council said the Negro advanced toward him with his hand in his pocket and that he shot twice in what he regarded as self-defense. FINLAND Continued from Page One. tic conflagration might be started the outbreak of hostilities between and Germany. The Swedish Finland, already on a wartime footing, is reported to have received a warning to be even more alert.

An earlier Finnish communique said the German Suursaari attacks had been repulsed except for one weak Nazi bridgehead, and that nine German ships were either sunk or set afire. Persons connected closely with the Finnish peace movement openly declared tonight that the German attack on Suursaari was "the best thing that could have happened to Finland." since it would precipitate a decision by Finnish soldiers to fight their former partners in arms. This was the first outbreak of hostilities between the Finns and the Nazis since Finland broke diplomatic relations with Hitler's government September 8 and ordered the Germans to quit all Finland by September 15. RUSSIA Continued from Page One. of fighting for Praga, Moscow's war bulletins revealed early today.

While the battle for Warsaw raged -a battle described as probably the fiercest and most costly since Stalin-the Germans reported that the Red Army had begun a massive, new, three-way offensive to seize Riga, capital of Latvia. The Germans, fortifying themselves on heights, in the streets of villages, on the banks of marshy streams and on rail embankments, were putting up a grim battle north of Praga as Marshal Rokossovsky's troops fought to consolidate their northern flanks before attempting to take Warsaw. Moscow dispatches said it was not known whether Rokossovsky's forces would attempt to storm the 130-foot cliffs across the quarter-mile river barrier between Praga, captured yesterday, and Warsaw proper. Gen. Bor, Polish underground leader in the capital, reported that two bridges were destroyed by the Germans August 13 and Berlin broadcasts said that the remaining two were blown up before Praga was liberated.

Berlin said that Russian and Polish troops had "not yet dared to cross the river" in an attempt to take the city by frontal attack on the almost sheer cliffs -historically an impossible feat. Soviet guns, however, were blasting the German garrison inside the main city. Gen Bor reported that the Danzig railroad station and other points in the capital were under continuous bombardment. Hundreds of Soviet planes also attacked the German defenders and a Soviet frontline dispatch said that the Russians entrenched on the east bank of the Vistula in Praga hardly could distinguish Warsaw's contours as huge columns of smoke and flames enveloped the capital. While the battle for Warsaw raged, three great Soviet armies, attacking with 40 infantry divisions 400,000 to 600,000 men -were lunging toward Riga, the capital Latvia, Berlin said.

The Germans said the new "largescale offensive" began yesterday. Gen. Ivan Maslennikov's Baltic Army was attacking from the Valka area, on the Estonian-Latvian border, 85 miles of Riga. Gen. I.

Yeremenko's Second Baltic Army was smashing westward from Madona, 75 miles due east, and Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's First Baltic Army was driving due north from Bauska, 35 miles south of Riga. Meanwhile, in Southern Poland Gen. Ivan Y.

Petrov's Fourth Ukranian Army extended its front before the Czechoslovak border, capturing Lisko, 29 miles southeast of Krosno. Southern Front. In Hungarian annexed Transylvania, Soviet and Romanian troops captured the key communications center of Toplita, 85 miles east of Cluj, thus sealing all but one pass through the eastern Carpatians. Forty other towns and settlements fell to advancing Red Army forces in the area. For the second successive night, long-range Soviet bombers blasted Budapest, capital of Hungary, and directly hit an important bridge across the Danube.

More than 35 huge fires were set off in the capital's industrial area. Moscow's midnight war bulletin said that Soviet and Polish troops who freed Praga received an enthusi.stic welcome. Citizens helped Soviet troops in battle and Polish girls and women rescued Soviet wounded under enemy fire. However, the Russian communique one mile from the Pitu airstrip. While most of Morotai is covered with trees, the southwestern corner where the Americans landed, is low and marshy and overgrown with sago palms, but failure of the Japanese to offer stiff resistance or even counter-attack the invaders more than offset the temporary disadvantages of terrain.

Promoted Clinton S. Crissman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Crissman of Pittsboro, has been promoted to captain in the Army Air Forces. His station is at the AAF Western Technical Training Command, Shepherd Field, Texas, but at the present time he is on detached service at the AAF School of Aviation Medicine for Medical Corps Officers, Randolph Field, Texas.

Five Polio Cases The State Board of Health announced that five cases of infantile paralysis were reported to the board yesterday. Durham reported two cases, and Cumberland, Guilford, and Yadkin reported one each. There have been 696 cases of polio reported to the board since June 1. said "despite Gen. Bor's statements regarding so-called underground army, not hone soldier of it was found in Praga." Dispatches said that a vast area of Praga was devastated from the seven-week siege that preceded its capture.

Nearby fields and forests were blackened from the first of battle and hardly a. building remained standing in the suburb. Drive Into Greece. troops thrusting into Greece and deep inside Bulgaria were reported approaching Alexandropoulis (Dede Agach), a a key Aegean port and railroad terminus northwest of the Dardenelles, and to have occupied the trans-Balkan railroad town of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. A United Press Istanbul dispatch said Marshal Feodor I.

Tolbukhin's left wing had advanced through Greek territory to within 16 miles of Alexandropoulis and quoted an unconfirmed report that the port itself had been occupied by Greek patriots after the German garrison fled. Greek guerillas also have liberated the two strategic ports of Kalamata and Pyrgos, on the southern and west coasts respectively of the Peloponnesus, a Greek communique issued in Cairo announced It added that while Nazi troops were withdrawing from Crete, there still was no confirmation that the large island sealing the Aegean had been evacuated completely. Tolbukhin's Third Ukranian Army was reported reliably in a Cairo dispatch to have taken over Plovdiv. His advance units linked up with Marshal Tito's Yugoslav partisans, cutting the vital Salonika-Skoplie railway in several places and blocking the only German escape route to Central Europe. North of Skaplie, in the vicinity of commun indicated that heavy Kumanovo.

a Yugoslav da broadcast fighting was in progress, with the partisans and repulsing Albanians. attacks Other by mans patriots in Macedonia continued to chop up Nazi communications. WESTERN FRONT Continued from One. treme southern end of the front, it was announced that it had been placed under Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower's Thus, four Western United Front States command. -the mightiest striking force ever welded together in American history-were assembled battlefields of Europe for the showdown struggle with Germany. It also was announced that Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers, Deputy Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean, had been placed in command of the Sixth Army Group on the Western Front, and it was presumed that the Seventh Army was included.

The outer works of the Siegfried Line were found less formidable than many obstacles smashed on the Normandy beaches, a front dispatch said, and there were indications that the Germans were in fighting retreat to a second line of defense on the Rhine. Deepest penetration into the Reich was north of the fortified city of Trier, which itself echoed to the shots of Doughboys fighting outskirts after braving hot machinegun and rifle fire to blast of pillboxes. Thrty-five miles to the northwest tanks and self-propelled artillery rumbled up to the edge of Prummain Siegfried defense supposedly a fortress anchoring, the tering concrete tank barriers, braving artillery and anti-tank fire routing the Germans from pillboxes with bayonet, dynamite and flamethrower. On the south, the last enemy stand in Northern France was wilting in the the United States Third Army, which captured the Moselle river stronghold of Nancy, capital of German Lorraine, with only the whiz of sniper bullets contesting the entry. Thirty-seven miles to the southwest, the Third Army captured the road junction of Epinal, which is about midway between Nancy and Belfort.

(The Germans said Belfort was manned "for a good fight," but the rush of the Third east and southeast of Nancy toward the Vosges Mountains and Strasbourg imperiled any determined stand there.) The British in Northern Belgium were cleaning up pockets left on a field of slaughter between the.Albert and Escaut canals after seizing the only bridge left intact by the Germans over the Escaut at Degroot-an enemy tactical error that sealed his own fate. On the seaward front, the Canadians were closing all along the Leopold canal north of the Belgian city of Brugge, but yielded one bridgehead in the face of intense artillery and mortar shelling. Battle Brest. Far away to the west on the tip of the Breton Peninsula the battle for Brest roared to a climax, with the Americans fighting forward, street by street, as the waterfront rocked to German demolitions. (The German commander, by Almost Tied By UNITED PRESS.

The road to Berlin: 309 Miles from the Western Front (measured from point east of Stollberg.) 308 Miles from the Eastern Front (measured from Vistula river near. Praga.) 553 from the Italian Front (measured from near Rimini.) my accounts, messaged Hitler that he was under attack, all ships were scuttled in the harbor, the port was aflame and the defenders were fighting with their last few weapons indicating the vital port soon would fall.) grand assault on the Siegfried Lines ripped out holes two to 10 miles deep and nine miles wide at three points where the Germans must stand if they hope to defend their big industrial cities. The forces plowing ahead to Trier found the defenses thinly manned, but the Germans fought fanatically from their well-camouflaged points. A front dispatch said Doughboys had to blast out the enemy, pillbox by pillbox, in deepening a wedge two miles wide. and artillery fought outAt strategic Prum, where.

tanks skirts at the apex of another wedge six miles wide and eight miles deep, the Americans came under artillery fire, apparently from the main Siegfried fortifications. The Allied communique, mentioning the Siegfried fortifications for the first time, announced the sixmile wide breach on this sector and declared "progress is maintained." American infantry fought to the summits of the lofty hills ringing Aachen, hammering back a motley force of defenders ranging from SS (elite) troops to deaf and ordinarily non-combatant units, an Associated A senior Press American correspondent staff officer declared. clared that throughout the Aachen area the German population for the most and quiet. Some Pettizens appeared, relieved at being longer iron rule of the Nazis. Maastricht Freed.

The liberation of Maastricht, capital of Limburg province with population of 66,000, came four years, four months and four days after the Germans marched in. Supreme Headquarters had no confirmation of German accounts that American units had forced the Maas River north of Maastricht and had sped on to the Geal River, two to three miles northeast of the city. This would put the Americans about 48 miles almost due west of much-bombed Cologne while the Doughboys near Aachen are within 30 miles of that big industrial city. The Germans pulled out of the French city of Nancy last night after it was outflanked by General Patton's Third Army on the northeast and southeast. The population went wild with joy as an American general in a jeep led his forces into the city.

French forces of the interior had rounded up most of the few Germans hours left before the behind in Americans the exciting: While the British held their bridgehead over the Escaut canal at Degroot, Belgium--gateway to Holland-American, forces on their right flank fought a strange battle to death with Dutch Nazis. These Dutchmen, men without a country, were annihilated by American infantry and. tanks near the Belgian town of Hasselt, and only a few dozen surrendered. I The Canadians moving up to the western Dutch frontier near the coast were fighting to clear south bank of the Schelde River as the first step to make the great port of Antwerp, lying farther downstream, usable. There was no report of progress in the siege of the channel ports of Calais, Boulogne, and Dun- kerque.

CATTLE SHOW ATTRACTS CROWDS TO REIDSVILLE First Negro Show in State Is Success; Winners of Awards Announced Reidsville, Sept. Simpson of Reidsville, Route exhibited the grand champion the champion bull and Zeb Jones of Routesterdhowed Reidsville in the first purebred show and sale ever staged by Negroes in North Carolina. The event was staged by the Rockingham Bull Association under supervision of Negro County Agent R. L. Hannon of the State College Extension Service.

Thirty eight purebred animals were shown in' the various classes and more than 250 farmers from Rockingham and surrounding counties attended event. County Agent Hannon and Eugene King of Ruffin exhibited blue ribbon animals in the cow class. Blue ribbon heifers were shown by Levi Jones, Richard Allen, and W. L. Mitchell.

Blue ribbons in the bull classification went to McKinley Graves and Tom Settles. W. Luke Mitchell, president of the Rockingham Bull Association, won a blue ribbon for his yearling heifer. Judges for the show were John A. Arey, Extension dairy specialist, and Paul Legans, Extension program The planner, visitors both of State were Collected by Mayor W.

A. Trotter Reidsville. Commisisonemade of the Agriculture feature ad- W. dress and complimented the Negro farmers on the fine quality of the animals exhibited. John W.

Mitchell, Negro field agent of the Extension Serivee in the Southeastern states, outlined the progress which Negro farmers are making in North Carolina. Farm Agent F. S. Walker of Rockingham County explained the need for a better feed program in building a permanent livestock industry. Other speakers were R.

E. Jones, Negro State agent; J. W. Jeffries, assistant State agent; and Dr. W.

L. Kennedy, head of the dairy department at College, Greensboro. PFC. ALTON P. HILL, WOUNDED WITH MARINES Kinston, Sept.

Mildred E. Hill of Route 2, Kinston, has been notified by the Marine Corps at Washington that her son, Pfc. Alton P. Hill, has been wounded a second time in action in the South Pacific. He was wounded in action in the Mariana Islands July 29, but the report failed to state how serious the injury was.

He was wounded on July also, but recovered and returned to action. He has been overseas since February, 1944. OFFICE WORKERS OF OPA 'STRIKE' Seven Panel Clerks Fail to Report for Work: Complain of Their Bossi: Salisbury, Sept. (P Seven panel clerks failed report for work this morning at the Salisbury War Price and Rationing Board office. The work stoppage had been anticipated by the Charlotte district office of the OPA, and six emergency employes were on hand -to -take over the office work.

The strikers, two matrons and five young girls, are seeking the, discharge or' resignation of the chief clerk, Mrs. Minnie C. Thornton, they say, and report sending to the trict OPA A office at Charlotte following telegram; clerks ration board left. Will return- when -Mrs. Minnie Thornton leaves." Questioned by telephone, L.

W. Driscoll. chief of the OPA Charlotte office, said it was his understanding that the seven employes of the Salisbury office had resigned. The clerks, however, assert they have not resigned, and a spokesman for the local board stated they had not been discharged. Driscoll also told the Post, that complaints filed against Mrs.

Thornton had been thoroughly. Investigated by his office and that she had been found to be an efficient employe worthy of retaining her position. added that the emergency force from Charlotte will continue to handle affairs at the 10- cal office' until a new force is cruited. EDDIE JACKSON DIES OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS Clinton, Sept. Jackson, 36, farmer Newton Grove, Route 2, died of gunshot wounds, either accidental or self-inflicted, at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Holland of Newton Grove, Route 2, at 9:30 o'clock this morning. Residents of the Holland home reported hearing a shot fired in the yard, and when they looked outside they saw a shotgun falling' from Jackson's hands. He lived across the road from the Hollands. Since there were no witnesses, it was not known here whether the shooting was accidental or tional.

An inquest was deemed sary. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 4 p. m. from the of a sister, Eva Jackson of Newton Grove, Route 2, by the Rev. Minot Godwin, Baptist Burial will be in the family cemetery.

Surviving are his Mrs. Mary Bryant Jackson; a daughter. Peggy Jean Jackson; a son, James E. Jackson, and three sisters, Mrs. Carl P.

Holland, Eva Jackson, and Mrs. J. L. Andrews of Baltimore, Md. WILMINGTON YARD SOON TO FINISH 8TH DRYDOCK WILMINGTON COMMITTEE WILL SEEK MORE PARKS Wilmington, Sept.

eighth and last the feinforced concrete drydocks buil for the Navy the Tidewater -Construction Company is scheduled to be completed about December it was disclosed today by Commander H. B. Buse, officer-in-charge of construction. At the same time, the Naval offcer revealed that several drydocks either already are on duty at advance basis or soon will be. "The reason some have remained here so long is because the damage to ships in the Pacific has not been as great as originally anticipated," he added.

The USS ARDC 4, the at the fifth drydock to near completion yards on the Northeast Cape Fear River, will be commissioned and schistened at 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 3. Each of the auxiliary repair docks measures 389 feet long and 84 feet wide, with the hull constructed entirely of reinforced concrete. The docks are built to handle vessels weighing up to 2,800 tons, including destroyers, vessels, destroyer escorts and "any smaller' vessels. Page Wilmington, Sept.

S. Currin, Wilmington's mayor protem, last night was named by the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce to head a new military and national parks committee, which will act as a liaison group between Wilmington citizens and park authorities, Walter J. Cartier, Chamber secretary, announced today, The committee, which is. to be named by Currin, will function to promote military parks in the Wilmington area, particularly the Moore's Creek National Park at Currie, and also between the citizenry and the city planning, board connection with the possible location military park at Fort Fisher, Cartier explained. Co-Chairman Named.

Burlington, Sept. 51.4-Mrs. Roscoe Strickland, assistant home demonstration agent in Alamance County, has been appointed co-chairman of junior Red Cross activities 'in this county to assist Carrie Wilson, who has served for some time as junior chairman in Burlington. W. L.

Shoffner, chairman of all Red, Cross work here, said in making the announcement that Mrs. Strickland will have charge of the program among juniors in the county. Miss Wilson wil continue as head of activities in Brazil is the only South American country that declared on Germany during World War I. IN MEMORIAM In memory of our only son and brother. I was standing by his bedside When a voice did come and say, Mama, dear, your boy is leaving.

Then God took my son away. How it left me, oh so lifeless, With the thoughts of him so deep. Until an angel softly whispered. He's not dead, he's just asleep. He will awake some day in heaven.

There he'll be with God I know. He will be a little angel And watch o'er us here below. Some day I am going to meet him On that bright and golden shore, Where there'll be no pain or sorrow And we'll have to part no more. MR. and MRS.

DANIEL BOONE and SISTER JANIE..