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Weatfier Korth Carolina Friday dear la Partly cloudy with moderate temperatures Local temperatnree yee-terday: High 86 low rain inches To Berlin Ruslan front: 812 miles Western front: 319 miles Eastern France: 440 miles Italian front: 588 miles FIFTIETH year FINAL EDITION DURHAM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1944 18 TWO SECTIONS PRICE DAILY Be SUNDAY 10 CAN IAIM0 Big Blow Blazes Trail Of Untold Damage In North Famous Steel Pier In Atlantic City Is Broken In Two Way Cleared For To Boost Ceilings On Pay WLB Finds Living Costs Have Risen About 43 Per Cent Americans Open Philippine Baffle Japs Lose 501 Planes 173 Vessels Heavy Aff ack On Aachen nderway Jap Air Losses Are Staggering Morotai Invaded New Penetration Of Reich Made In Prum Section Americans Span Meuse River In Belgium With Pontoons An armored half-track crosses one pontoon bridge across the Meuse River near Liege Belgium while American engineers build another bridge downstream A crowd of civilians on left bank watches the operations (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto) Move Catches Enemy Unprepared Destroy 501 Planes By The Associated Press General Headquarters Southwest Pacific Friday Sept 15 Yank in-vasion forces heading toward the Philippines have invaded Morotai northernmost of the Moluccas islands within 300 miles of Mindanao easy fighter plane range Geo Douglas Mac Arthur announced today in a special communique After luring Japanese ground forces further south in the Hal-mahera group by repeated bombings there MacArthur caught the enemy totally unprepared by moving an invasion force around them and landing against light resistance on Morotai 12 miles off the tip of Halmahera Island 'LINE PENETRATED "The Halmahcra-Philippines line now has been penetrated" General MacArthur said enemy con quests to the south are imperiled by threat of envelopment up of the remainder of this line would cut off and isolate garrisons in the East Indies estimated at 200000 men of the 16th and 19th armies and would sever the vital supply to the Jap mainland of oil and other war Heavy attacks by planes and warships preceded the virtually unopposed landings The invaders' losses were light headquarters said NO LOSSES SUFFERED 1 Morotai is 350 miles northwest of Sansapor MacArthur's most ad i vanced base on Dutch New Guinea No Naval or air losses were suffered in invasion "The point of landing was the special communique said "the enemy having anticipated it in the lower parts of the islands where he had accumulated very strong forces in heavily defended positions bypassing these forces and landing further to the north he was taken by surprise and his initial resistance is being rapidly over Swift establishment of air bases on Morotai would enable fighters to escort huge forces of land-based bombers in raids on the Philippines as deadly as the carrier-based attacks which in four days Sept 8 11 12 and 13 have knocked out 501 enemy planes and 173 surface craft there JAPS SUFFER DEFEAT Pacific Fleet Headquarter Pearl Harbor Sept 14 (UPJ Car- See PACIFIC on Page 2 By JACK WOLISTON New York Sept 14 (UR) A great tropical hurricane smashed across the coast of Connecticut tonight after blazing a trail of untold damage north from the Carolinas It split Atlantic famous Steel Pier in two broke all wind velocity records in New York City where gusts reached 95 to 100 miles an hour and caused an undetermined number of dead and injured As the storm swept onto the New England shores almost in the same spot where a hurricane six years Water In Streets Boston Sept 14 (JP) Water whipped up by the Atlantic hurricane swirled through the streets of several Rhode Island and Massachusetts communities tonight as the storm steadily increased in fury The downtown streets of Providence I were flooded to the curbs Winds that reached a velocity of more than 80 miles an hour whipped up the waters of Nar-ragansett Bay pushed them into the Providence River and carried them into downtown Providence At Newport I the ocean was two feet above the high tide mark and still rising at 10:30 (E T) ago killed 682 persons and caused damage estimated at $400000000 its intensity was reported increasing HARDEST HIT AREA Atlantic City probably was the hardest hit of scores of coastal towns in seven states that felt the fury of the storm up to 10 Damage in the resort town was expected to total more than $4000000 The first reported death in the storm was an Atlantic City air raid warden John Dicicco 42 who was struck by flying debris At least 50 other persons were injured as timber was tossed about like match-sticks glass showered down like the torrents of rain that fell with it and the famous boardwalk buckled in a dozen places Roaring northward from New Jersey the hurricane whipped across the tip of Long Island and New York City rocked under record breaking constant wind of 80 See HURRICANE on Page 2 Ship Driven Aground By Winds And Waves Crew Of 31 Men Rescued Unharmed Rehoboth Beach Del Sept 14 (JP) Lashed by winds of hurricane force the 250-foot freighter Thomas Tracy was driven aground on the beach here today and broke in two shortly after its crew of 31 was rescued unharmed by the Coast Guard Working in gales that attained a velocity of 75 miles an hour Coast Guardsmen under Lt Comdr Car-roll A Osborne labored for an hour to bring the crewmen ashore by breeches buoy Ropes were strung around buildings and tossed to the ship which lay about 100 yards off the boardwalk and crews of men hauled on the lines as the sailors were brought ashore one by one Huge waves the largest ever seen by Coast Guardsmen here broke over the top of the ship throughout the rescue operations and the last man was barely ashore when the freighter which had remained upright split in two and began disintegrating Commander Osborne said it would be a total loss Praga Industrial Suburb Of Warsaw Falls To Reds Russians Lay Siege To Polish Capital Nazi Garrison In Praga Crushed After Night Fight By HERCHER London Friday Sept 15 (JP) Russian and Polish troops yesterday captured Warsaw's industrial suburb of Praga on the east oank of the Vistula River and immediately laid seige to the great Polish capital! taken by the Germans in the first month of the war five years ago i by shelling enemy position on the 130-foot bluffs across the wide stream Marshal Konstantin First White Russian Army troops and the First Division of Lt Gen Zigmund First Polish Army crushed the German garrison of Prafia atoan battle much of it hand-to-hand fighting a midnight Soviet com- a By CHARLES HERROLD Washington Sept 14 (UJ9 Two War Labor Board panels reported tonight that living costs have increased 25 to 43 per cent since January 1941 base period of the Little Steel formula and thus cleared the way for a WLB recommendation that President Roosevelt raise wage ceilings The reports summarize findings on which the WLB will hold public hearings Sept 26-27 and then make recommendations to President Roosevelt probably before the Highlights Of Reports Washington Sept 14 (UK) Highlights of the Little Steel and A panel reports to the War Labor Board on relaxing the Little Steel wage ceiling formula: The cost of living has increased 25 to 43 per cent since January 1941 The WLB should reexamine the Little Steel foAnula which has held wage rates to only a 15 per cent rise and the board may recommend to President Roosevelt that the wage ceiling be lifted The President has authority to modify the wage formula and such revision would not conflict with the Stabilization Act Wage rates have played a relatively minor role in boosting prices Nov 7 elections The board will meet in executive session the week of Oct 9 to consider both reports and evidence taken at the hearings The reports are based on months of tedious investigation growing from charges of organized labo that it has been placed at a big economic disadvantage by rigid wage ceilings while widespread price increases have been permitted POLITICAL ISSUE Whichever way the President moves either for or against relax ing the wage ceilings his decision is expected to provide a major political issue If raises are authorized before the election his opponents are believed certain to charge that he is seeking to muster the labor vote behind his fourth-term campaign If the boost is denied labor has made it plain that it will be heard from Some unions are talking about scrapping the national DO' strike pledge Best available information Is that Mr Roosevelt will relax the ceilings: The present wage formula adopted in July 1942 permits a maximum increase of 15 per cent above the January 1941 level to compensate for cost-of-living increases be tween that date and May 1942 The panels found however that living costs between January 1941 and last July have increased 25 to 43 per cent FLEAS HEARD The panels have been hearing pleas of the United Steel Workers and the A of for increases beyond the formula Both panels held that the President has authority to modify the wage formula and that such revision would not be contrary to the intent of Congress under the stabilization act The steel panel which heard dispute between the United Steel Workers and 85 basic steel companies said it did not determine whether there has been a "com that an increase would See LITTLE STEEL on Page 2 Belfort Gap Remains Open For Enemy Use Yanks And French Are 20 Miles Away Rome Sept 14 (JP) American and French forces of the Seventh Army have cracked three strong outposts of German defenses guarding Belfort Gap and are now 20 miles from Belfort but the Gap itself is still open for the movement of Nazi units north of the Doubs River and west of the Vosges Mountains The closing stages of Lt Gen Alexander Patch's campaign to destroy or drive out every German soldier in Southern France have brought his divisions into the toughest fighting they have encountered so far "Considerable opposition" was encountered by Americans advano-ing northeast from Vesoul General headquarters announced late tonight Indicating the importance the Germans are attaching to holding this last line of retreat open French troops pushing north from Champlitte 36 miles northwest of Vesoul are encountering some enemy units who so far have been unable to reach the Gap In the latest onslaught of the campaign to gain the Belfort gateway and a foothold from which Allied troops could penetrate the Upr per Rhine Valley army was attacking on a 20-mile front in the Doubs Valley area The attacks from the south and southwest are aimed at the fortress city of Full-Scale Offensive Opened Along Entire 90-Mile Front By WILLIAM BON I Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Friday Sept 15 The American First Army opened a full-scale assault on the great Siegfried Line citadel of Aachen today driving to within mile of the city from the south and poured tanks and infantry across the German frontier at a number of points in a general offensive extending southward more than 90 miles Aachen an important industrial city as well as a gateway to the prized Ruhr and Rhineland regions was already partially ring ed from the west as well as the south as American armored power plowed through tank traps and pill boxes and rolled through half dozen outlying villages to close in on the border bastion Southward 40 miles the Americans made a new penetration of Germany driving into Nazi territory some 11 miles at a point northwest of Prum This is 30 miles above Trier near where the first invasion of Germany was made and 40 miles west of Coblenz on a main road to that important city BREACH IS WIDENED Near Trier at the lower end of the 90-mile invasion front Yankee infantrymen and tanks fought into the Siegfried Liqe for a depth of two miles and widened their breach to four miles through thinly man' ned and lightly armed fortifications American reconnaissance fliers returning to Ninth Air Force headquarters in France reported sighting American vehicles 16 miles inside the German border at one point not immediately identified The First Army in closing in on Aachen captured Hergenrath and Gemmenich Belgian border towns three miles south and three miles southwest of Aachen respectively and seized the Nazi village of Forstebach two miles inside the border and five miles south of Aachen The Germans made no effort to hide the success of the American attack announcing that the largest array of at Aachen the invaders had "succeeded in See GERMANY on Page 2 Government Indicts 174 German Aliens First Legal Action Against Nazi Party Washington Sept 14 (JP) Indictment of 174 German aliens on charges of concealing their affilia tion with the Nazi party was announced today by the Justice Department Although individual members of the party have been indicted previously on various charges the present indictments constitute the first legal action against the party as such Maximum penalties under the indictments are $10000 fines and from two to 10 years imprisonment Those indicted include a number of persons already interned as dangerous enemy aliens The indictments the Justice Department said were the culmination of a long investigation of German efforts to promote the Nazi party in the United States Party activities the indictments state were under way in this country as far back as 1933 "operated actively through the German Ambassadors and consular All those indicted the Justice Department said were residents or former residents of the New York and New Jersey area slew Income Tax Form To Be Available To Taxpayers In March Washington Sept 14 (Ufi) A new income tax form calling for simplified computations based on elementary arithmetic will be available to taxpayers in March the Treasury announced tonight Most taxpayers will be permitted to file withholding receipts as their complete return The new form is designed for those who are required or prefer to submit an itemized computation Persons earning less than $5000 yearly and who claim no more than 10 per cent deductions for charitable contributions interest payments and medical expenses will figure their return through a tax table contained in the form Those claiming greater deductions must itemize their computations munique said Polish patriots fighting inside Warsaw could see the Russians and Poles coming to their aid Thousands of Pbles have lost their lives in the Warsaw struggle but Moscow dispatches early today said the Poles still were battling the enemy and attempting to secure west bank stretches of the river to aid a possibly imminent Russian-Polish crossing from the Praga area FOUR BRIDGES OVER RIVER Four bridges span the Vistula which varies from 450 to 650 yards wide at Praga Front dispatches did not say whether these had been blown up by the Germans The Russians and Poles already hold bridgeheads across the Vistula 25 and 100 miles south of Warsaw and the coming decision on the eastern front is expected to bejscribe(i aa unlikely fought out in the 150-mile strip of British spokesman asserted plains between that river and Ger- tbat Eden was not coming an many's border 'adviser on any one specific topic troops reached the and that he believed Prime Minis Eden landed unexpectedly at the Quebec Airport after his plane had passed up a scheduled stop at Montreal Prime Minister Churchill paying his respects to the Canadian Parliament at the time immediately hurried to the Citadel to join his Foreign Secretary Eden who made the flight from London in 17 1-2 hours landed at 5 and his early arrival speeded up by six hours his meeting with Churchill and President Roosevelt who still hope to complete their conference this week-end HULL MAY NOT COME Whether Secretary of State Hull would follow him to Quebec as he did a year ago was uncertain Hull told Washington reporters he had no plans to come here In any event prolongation of the conference beyond the week-end was de- Wins Victoria Cross Named as "probably the greatest bomber pilot of any air force in the Wing Commander Goeffrey Cheshire 27 of the RAF has been awarded the Victoria Cross highest award for gallantry He is also the holder of the Distinguished Service Order with two bars (equivalent to winning it three times) and the Distinguished Flying Cross (International) Fringe Of Storm Hits Coast Damage Heaviest In Elizabeth City Area By RALPH HOWLAND Morehead City Sept 14 (IP) A swerving tropical hurricane veered eastward today just enough to miss the North Carolina coast but the fringe of the storm wrecked communications systems from Morehead City north to the Virginia border After a night of suspense in which many coastal inhabitants fled inland before the big blow the hurricane turned northeast at dawn At 11 A a bright sun 'broke through the clouds here and evacuees began returning to their homes Winds that reached a velocity of almost 70 miles an hour tangled telephone wires uprooted trees and broke windows and torrential rains poured all along the coast but damage was only superficial and no one was reported killed or injured At Raleigh State Highway Patrol headquarters said that damage in the Elizabeth City area probably would be heavier than at any other point on the North Carolina coast The Elizabeth City area had been without communications with the outside world since shortly before noon Telephone and power lines were blown down by winds said to have reached a velocity approxi mately 75 miles an hour HOUSES DESTROYED Capt Farmer commander of the eastern division of the patrol said houses were blown down in the Elizabeth City area and on beaches in the vicinity Particularly heavy damage was apparent in areas south of Nags Head There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries he said Patrol headquarters had been in communication with the area by radio until shortly before 1 when the storm passed No further reports had been received since that time Farmer said Warned in advance as the weather bureau plotted the course of the See STORM on Page 2 Joe Goebbefs Claims Nazis Will Not Capitulate London Sept will not capitulate Germany cannot be conquered" Paul Joseph Goebbels today assured the Jap anese people in a broadcast inter' view with the correspondent of the newspaper Mainichi The Nazis are coming up with "tremendous new weapons" Goebbels told the Japanese reporter and promised that Germany would fight on with "new divisions' raised by total mobilization ern land by executive order as "characteristic of the deviousness of the New lack of respect for the rights and opinions of the people Dewey spoke of opposition In Wyoming to what he called the Government of 220610 acres at Jackson Hole and expressed belief it would "boil He referred to President executive order taking over the land for a national monument and park after Congress had rejected the proposal Jackson Hole ranchers have brought suit to invalidate the order Altogether Dewey declared the Government has acquired 383000-000 acres in the 11 Western States of which he said only an "infinitesimal" amount was for military purposes Asked by Jack Bell of the Associated Press if the cattle ranchers with whom he had talked believed the land should be returned to private ownership all at once Dewey replied: "No The cattlemen feel it should be acquired first by the States and then sold out to individuals apportioned in such a way as to prevent any monopoly and give the little fellows a Paralleling their status with that of the Indians Dewey said: "These fellows like being wards of any Eden Summoned To Quebec Meet Secretary Makes Fast Time On His Flight By DOUGLAS BK CORNELL Quebec Sept British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden ar- and rain ter Churchill wanted his Foreign Secretary here for consultations on "general requirements' and "a wide range of subjects Before the announcement that Eden was coming the stress here had been on the battle of the Pacific Now however the major military decisions of the conference centering around strategy for hammering Japan into submission are complete Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told a late afternoon press conference that the question of the creation of a new so-called super- See QUEBEC on Page 2 Purple Heart decorations were strewn among the wreckage The other two Pullman cars two baggage coaches the locomtive and tender piled up along the tracks The trains crashed at 2:20 A (CWT) in a heavy fog which enveloped the scene of death and destruction and hindered rescuers trying to locate the cries of the injured Unhurt passengers helped volunteers pull the dead and injured from the wreckage Three of the dead were members of the Dixie crew The other besides the soldiers was a member of the Army Corps Doctors and ambulances arrived from Terre Haute shortly after the crash Red Cross workers set up a first aid station and members of the Office of Civilian Defense joined city and State police searching for dead and injured An emergency consignment of blood plasma was flown from Chicago in a plane chartered by The Chicago Herald-American The 20 pints were used on the more seriously injured until supplies arrived from Indianapolis and I officials said the wreck was the first on its line involving passenger fatalities since 1905 hv'nlarie nved dramatically tonight by plane toroncan litical feuM through fog in suburban areas southeast of Praga a month and a half ago but the final battle which carried into Praga began only several days ago After gruelling struggles the Russians overwhelmed the Germans and captured 15 localities including Zielonka five miles northeast of Praga Stary-and Nowy-Rembertow four miles to the east Saska Kepa just below Praga along the river and Miedzeszyn eight miles to the southeast The capture of Praga 325 airline miles from Berlin coincided with other important developments along See WARSAW on Page 2 UAW Restates No-Sf rike Pledge Decision Comes After Very Close Balloting Grand Rapids Mich Sept 14 (UR) The United Automobile Workers (C I O) Convention tonight reaffirmed the controversial no-strike pledge made to President Roosevelt immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor President Thomas said the 2300 delegates in a show-hand vote "decided in overwhelming majority" to retain the pledge that only a short while before was defeated by a vote so close that the convention adjourned temporarily while a committee tabulated the outcome Thomas called for a second ballot on the no-strike pledge as soon as tabulations showed a simple majority of 51 per cent in favor of its revocation Unofficial reports indicated a majority of only 361 out of approximately 11000 votes defeated the resolution to reaffirm the pledge The convention had devoted a greater share of two days to debate on the issue and previously had defeated three other proposals forcing the resolutions committee to draw up two more Of the latter one called for flat revocation of the pledges the second for unqualified reaffirmation The majority resolution for retention of the pledge was supported by President Philip Murray A President Thomas Vice President Richard Franken-steen and Secretary Treasurer George Addes The minority proposal calling for retention of the pledge in plants still engaged in war work but not in those working on civilian goods was supported by Vice President Walter Reuther Prior to voting on the no-strike pledge today convention delegates heard Sidney Hillman I Political Action Committee chairman assail the Republican Party Activities Ot trowder To Be Probed Washington Sept The political activities of Earl Browder Communist leader will be examined next week by the House Campaign Expenses Investigating Committee Chairman Anderson (D-NM) announced today that Browder will be questioned Tuesday about the formation of his "Communist which came into being after the United States Communist party was dissolved The committee received from Gerald Smith of Detroit founder of the American First party an assurance that "none of our candidates spent any in obtaining nominations this year Dewey Curious How FDR Made Depression Last For 11 Years 22 Air Force Veterans Killed 65 Injured In Rail Accident Today's Morning Herald Friday September 15 1941 LOCAL Herman Lee Council expected to learn fate today in bus Page 8 Sec 2 Durham Fire Chief Bennett named head of State Firemen's Association Page i Sec 2 Durham beer dealers to send committee to Washington to fight OPA price Page 8 Sec 2 STATE Morehead Fringe of storm hits coast with heaviest damage reported in Elizabeth City area Page 1 Dr Clyde A Erwin advocates immediate increase in pay for teachers as crisis hits school Sec 1 Page 9 Chapel Rotarians map postwar plans at international Sec 1 Page 9 DOMESTIC New York Wind of high velocity roar through New York streets lap at New Page 1 Grand Rapids United Automobile Workers (C I O) reaffirm their no-strike pledge made to President Roosevelt immediately after Pearl Page 1 Washington War Labor Board finally admits living costs have risen more than Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports show Page 1 FOREIGN Pearl Eighty-four Japanese surface ships sunk or damaged 233 planes destroyed in attacks in Philippines Page 1 Supreme Headquarters London-Seven American columns continue drive into Germany advance as much as 11 miles beyond Page 1 SPORTS Durham High seeks second straight football victory against Burlington High here tonight Demon Deacons must be watched in this year's grid race even Coach Walker admitting they are pretty fair Sheridan Wyo Sept 14 (JP Stepping up his direct attack on President Roosevelt Thomas Dewey today attributed to "one man" the "incredible accomplishment" of having prolonged the depression 11 years The Republican Presidential nominee told an applauding station crowd on his arrival here that the issues in this campaign are "whether we shall go on down the New Deal road toward a completely regimented and totalitarian society or whether we shall start going up the road toward a free society in which we can achieve both security and Jobs for Terming his Presidential cam paign most serious endeavor I have ever found myself involved In" the New York Governor said: -We have been going downward for 12 years The first seven years of this New Deal were peacetime years in which with 58 billion dollars to spend and more power than any previous administration in the United States one man managed to make a depression last 11 years an Incredible twice as long as any other in the history of the At a news conference in the oak-paneled dining room of Sheridan Inn Dewey assailed the Federal Government's acquisition of west Terre Haute Ind Sept 14 Twenty-two Air Force veterans who had completed up to 50 missions in overseas combat were among 26 persons killed early today in a head-on collision of two passenger trains on a single track three miles north of here About 65 others including several more Air Force veterans were injured The soldiers who had just completed 30-day furloughs were en-route to a redistribution center in Florida They occupied the first three Pullman cars of the 14-coach Chicago and Eastern Illinois Dixie Flyer which crashed into an express and mail train bound from Florida to Chicago The express carried no passengers Ironically the only coaches to hurtle from the tracks after the collision were those carrying the soldiers Thirty-nine non-commissioned Air Force officers occupied the first coach and 34 commissioned officers were in the two following Pullmans Army authorities refused to release a full list of the dead and injured servicemen until the next of kin have been notified The first coach burst wide open spewing torn bodies along the right of way Many soldiers were crushed in their berths Air Medals and I.