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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LAP THE CENTRAL UNITED PRESS PRESS THE SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR IS. BOMBERS I ALEUTIANS CROWD TOKYO WITH 350 MILES OF CAFITAL TO HIT WEEP NIP ISLAND The Associated Press): (Br Aleutian based bombers swept 120 miles of the Japwithin their deepest strke at the in Islands a Tokyo broadCurie today 11 the wake ast reporter the devastatng Amrican. Dirt- at one of Nippon's reatest production enters Comet news agency said 12 attacked Kita Island berators the Kunles twice Thursday It said two were shot orning tierce air battle." own Kita 15 -point Island 90 fles closer to Tokyo than any get pre inasly hit on the norBern road to Japan, "Suicide boys" of the 13th Air. orce returning Tuesday from second mass raid on the orneo oll center said they bombed hell out of Balikpapdespite a vicious Japanese efense. Other southwest Pacific bomens destroyed or damaged nine ore Japanese freighters off the hilippines.

Ambonia and CerIn two days communiques ave announced U. S. planes bd submarines accounted for more Japanese ships, mostly hall cargo vessels, but includfour warships. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ported that the invasion of lau east of the Philippines has the lives of 11,043 Japanese 11.022 Americans.

Caslities totaled 7,408, including wounded and 280 missing. Japanese communique U. S. casualties. Tokyo conceded that bombers crating from captured Peleliu rdrome were continuing heavy ids on ether Palau Islands.

By -RALPH TEATSORTH P. War Correspondent Allied Headquarters, SouthPacific, Oct. 6-(UP)-Alwarplanes, striking for the cond time in five days at JaIn 5 richest oil prize in the cific, stoked new fires in the Pat Balikpapan refineries on stern Borneo Wednesday and ot down 19 to 24 intercepting lemy fighters. a communique closed today. (GMAN RITES ERE TODAY 14 O'CLOCK FELONG COUNTY RESIDENT DIED ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT Funeral services for James comas Sigman, 83, Who died at residence on West leet Perry ht extended, Wednesday about 9:30 o'clock, were from Keeshan-Lambert lapel this afternoon at 4 conducted by Rev.

O. L. lock, le, pastor of the West Helena thodist Church. Burial folled in Odd Fellows Rest, West Lena. Ar.

Sigman was red born and in Phillips county and a lifelong resident. He was member of the urch. Methodist Survivors include his wife, Mollie Sigman, Helena; man daughters, Miss Amanda, and Mrs. J. ekson, Mrs.

W. F. Black, oxville, J. Herd, and Mrs. E.

G. mpbell. Memphis; two sons, Sigban, Helena, and Sutsix Knoxville, Sigman, Pall grand children. orge bearers will include: artield Gist, Vineyard, C. S.

Lee Fielder, Williams, R. Taylor and Jack McDonald, charge of all arrangements. 18 Helena 'AND Complete Daily Reports by Associated Press ENTRANCE TO CORINTH GULF SEALED OFF ALLIED LAND FORCES INVADING GREECE CAPTURE PORT OF RION Rome, Oct. 6- -fAP) --Allied land forces of the Adriatic have sealed off the entranec to the Gulf of Corinth in their Greek invasion by capturing the fortified port of Rion, Allied headquarters announced today. Official Greek reports indicated that more than half of the Peloponnensus penisula was securely in the hands of British troops and Greek Patriots.

Greek Premier George Papandreou said in a statement that a minister of his cabinet had visited Tripolis where "security battalions" Greeks fighting on the side of the Germans had "surendered to Brith officers without any skirmish." Tripolis in the east central Peloponnesus is 60 miles southeast of captured Patrai, on the Gulf of Corinth, and 75 miles southwest of Athens. Rion was overwhelmed in an eastward advance. along the Gulf of Corinth from Patrai. The Greek announcement also said the government member landing from the island of Kythera off Greece's south coast also had visited Kalamai, on the southwest coast. This indicated the territory intervening between Kalamal and Tripolis was virtually freed of Germans.

The Germans appeared to be attempting to flee by every available means--air, land and sea. FUNERAL FOR S. E. NEWTON ON SATURDAY SERVICES TO BE HELD AT STAR CITY AT 11 O'CLOCK A. M.

Funeral services for Samuel Eli Newton, 83, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. J. Porter- at Marvell Thursday morning, will be held at the Newton Chapel in Star City Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Kirb Ingram, Presbyterian minister.

Burial will follow in the Newton Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Newton died about 2 o'clock Thursday morning of infirmities of age after an illness of several months. He was born in Lincoln county. For 28 years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Rest, moved to Conway in 1910 and came to Marvell July 1.

1938, to make his home with his daughter. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Besides Mrs. Porter, he is survived by one other daughter, Mrs. Ora Baker, Amarillo, Texas; two sons, Earl Newton, Shreveport, and Floyd Newton, Big Flat, five grand children and three great-grand children.

Keeshan-Lambert is in charge of all arrangements. Horton Heads War Fund Drive In West Helena The Business and Professional Men's Club in West Helena will sponsor the National War I and drive in that city, it was nounced today. 1. C. Horton has been named ch: 'man for the campaign and J.

J. Mitchell will serve as an. AL KANSAS WEATHER (By the Asociated Press) Fair this afternoon, tonight and Saturday not much change in temperatures. World EAST ARKANSAS RECORD Over Leased Wire. Issued Every Afternoon Except Saturday, and Sunday HELENA (ARKANSAS) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 ,1944.

ROBOT BOMB FACTORY IN CAVE -U. S. soldiers inspect one of the machine many 2 shops of an underground robot bomb factory captured north of Metz, France. 5TH HAMMERS OUT GAIN OF 3 MORE MILES AMERICANS CAPTURE ROAD JUNCTION OF LOIANO NEAR PO VALLEY Rome, Oct. 6-(AP)-American Fifth Army troops hammered out gains up to three miles yesterday over the rain-bogged mountainous terrain on the approaches to the Po Valley.

They captured the road junction of Loiano, less than 14 miles south of Bologna on the main road from Florence, Allied headquarters announced today. The Nazis threw reinforcements of experienced Austrian and German Alpine troops into the central sector adjacent to the highway and unloosed fierce artillery barrages, but on both sides of the road Allies pushed ahead against the stiff resistance and despite the foul weather. Capture of LianG gave the Americans a position commanding the highway to the communications center of Bologna. On their right flank Americans and forward elements of British pushed orward and dug in on Monte Cece and Monte Della Valle, about 15 air miles from Imola, but were driven back by heavy German counter attacks. In the isolated hill country of the central sector Indian troops of the Eighth army pushed on Monte Caibano and Scarzana and found them clear of enemy troops.

Despite the weather airmen bombed and strafed rail and motor traffic north of the bat-, tle area nd enemy shipping in the Adriatic. Got Your City Auto lag? Please Put It On Your Automobile Chief of Police Lucian Webster urged today that every person who has purchased a city license tag, display it on his automobile in order to save policemen a lot of time and effort. "Practically everyone, I believe, has purchased tags." Chief Webster says, "but the law requires that they be displayed and if automobile owners will attend to this little matter. it will save my men a lot of time and effort. We have only a skeleton force and we should not be required to be checking up on automobile owners to see that they display their stickers." Requirements for industrial alcohol for 1944 for all war purposes are estimated at 614 million gallons by the Rubber Director.

ARKANSAS PRESS ASSOCIATION SERVING PRESS AND STATE. No. 240. AMERICANS PUSH THROUGH FOREST First Army Strikes Solid New Blow Southeast Of Aachen London, Oct. 6 (AP)- -U.

S. First. Army forces supported by hundreds. of plane sand guns struck a solid new blow today southeast of Aachen which carried through the dark lanes of Hurtgen Forest to within six miles of Duren, 20 miles from Cologne on the Rhine, The new attack carried nearly a mile. in coordination with other First Army units which were locked in some of the fiercest fighting of the Siegfried Line battle in the C'bach breach north of Aachen.

Armor from the latter forces hurled behind the main broken line of Siegfried line of steel and concrete and reached the outskirts of Gerlenkirchen in a three mile rush. U.S. First Army Headquarters, Oct. can troops late today fought their way back 6-(AP)-Ameridorf and established a firm into Beggengrasp upon it. London.

Oct. 6 (AP)off to the fifth day of attack fried line at l'bach ran into counter attacks today and had had been breached threw their The Germans asknowledging with hundreds of guns and fierce determination block L'bach Americans had to fall back and three to four miles. DEFINITE CAN COLLECTION DATE OCT. 11 CHIEF WEBSTER EXPLAINS WHY THEY HAVEN'T BEEN GATHERED UP Tin cans were not collected last Monday as had been originally planned because the Police Department just did not have the men to do the job, Chief of Police Lucian Webster said today, in promising that the first collection will be made by city trucks on Wednesday, October 11, Chief Webster pointed out that it is important that the cans be placed in some sort of containers--either a card-board box, sack or other container and placed at the street curb so that little time will be lost in stopping and picking them up. "We just can't stop at each house and ask whether they have any cans," Chief Webster said.

"We are so short handed that it would be impossible." No cans will be picked up which have not been prepared according to specifications ends cut out, all paper labels removed and mashed flat. PUBLIC NOTICE On instructions from the eral overnment we will make collection of tin cans one day in each month, starting Wednesday, October 11th. Please bear in mind the following instructions. Tops and bottoms of cans must be removed. Cans must be washed and dried, and the labels removed therefrom, and the cans flattened out.

After the above operations are completed, the cans must be placed in a container of some kind, and placed on the curb in front of your residence, and the City Trucks will pick them up. The first collection will take in all the territory North of Perty Street, D. T. Hargraves Mayor of the City of Helena Phillips County And Towns Get Gasoline Turnback Little Rock, Oct. 6-(AP)Distribution of $115,438.56 in sales tax turnback funds to Arkansas cities and towns for the quarter ending Sept.

30, included: Helena, $556,37. West Helena, $196.70. By counties: Phillips $1.006.86. Reed the Helena World Want Ads, LK! COMMAND32 photographic study. of Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, of all Allied forces front, is the latest formal picture of the general. BRONZE STAR AWARDED TO PAUL SMITH HELENA VETERAN OF PACIFIC WAR GETS DECORATION Private First Class Paul C. Smith, of Helena, was awarded the newly authorized Bronze Star for heroic achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy during the battle for Attu by, Brigadier General LeRoy J. Stewart of the Seventh Infantry Division, in a ceremony held recently at a Central Pacific Base.

Pfc. Smith, a member of an Infantry assault unit, received the decoration in recognition of his outstanding actions, beyond the call of duty, in the grueling three-week battle for Attu, tip of the -bound Aleutian Island chain, a year ago. A veteran of two campaigns in the Pacific war, Pfc. Smith participated with the Seventh Division in the recent assault and capture of Kwajalein atoll, center of Jap held Marshall Islands. In addition to the Bronze Star, Pfc.

Smith wears the Asiastic-Pacific Theater ribbon with two battle stars, the Good Conduct Medal and the Combat Infantryman's Badge. He is the son of Mrs. Ethel Smith, who resides at 176 Oakland Avenue. DELTA EAGLE HITS M. A.

FREIGHT CAR TRAINMAN IN HOSPITAL WITH BI. MEN LEG RECEIVED 1., ACCIDENT James G. Woods, 43, of McGehee, oiler on the Lolta Eagle, Missouri Pacific strean.I her, is in the Helena Hospital with a broken leg sustained about 7:50 last night when the Eagle struck the rear end of a moving Missouri and Arkansas freight train at Helena Crossing. Mr. Woods received the broken leg, reports said, when he jumped from his train before the collision, A car of the freight was derailed.

The Eagle was damaged only slightly, the tender being battered when it struck the freight as the passenger train' was pulling 0.. of Helena. Insure against accidents with Edwin L. Burks Room 301 Solomon Bldg. Tel.

M-66 or W-141. Read the Helena World Want -First Arm: soldiers jumping in their wedge in the Siega storm of heavy armored to fall back at two places. first sizeable armored forces their Siegfried 'defenses infantry into their assaults in the road to the Rhine. The to Beggendorf a mile east of inside Germany. AIRPORT WILL BE LEASED TO DFC AGAIN CITY COUNCIL VOTES IN FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT AGENCY REQUEST The City Council, at its meeting last night, passed a resolution authorizing the Airport Commission to lease for another year with an additional year's option, the Helena-West Helena airport to the Defense Corporation.

The Defense Corporation sets out in the terms of the lease that the field will be used either for a military. flying school, a landing field of storage place for planes. It is being used for the latter purpose now since the training school closed in August. The Council passed two ordinances providing for the annual tax levy as follows: General puroses 4 1-2 mills, library maintenance 1-2 mill, principal and interest on judgment on bonded indebtedness 4 1-2 mills and principal and interest on airport bonds .8 mills and a one mill levy for retirement pensions for members of the police department, their widows or minor children of deceased policemen. The Council voted to accept the resignation of Sam W.

Tappan as a member of the Helena Sewer Commission. Mr. Tappan, who was recently appointed to another term as commissioner, presented his resignation in a letter which was read to the Council last night. His successor has not been named. Chief of Police Lucian Webster reported a total of 79 arrests for the month of September with $1,380 in fines and costs collected.

WORLD WAR CCT. 7 ,1943 (By United Press) At Naples, 100 soldiers and civilians are killed by a German time-bomb explosion at the post office. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports that the Japanese have apparently evacuated their base at Vila on Kolombangara Island in the Central Solomons. In Italy, the Allied Fifth Army pushes toward the Volturno River.

Soviet troops plunge forward along the front from Leningrad to the Crimea; in the north, other Soviet units capture German base of Nevel. Yugoslav Partisans claim to have Zagreb, Crotian capital, under virtual siege and the Adriatic coast, except Fiume, Sisak and Spalato, under their control. REDS FIGHTING IN CUTSKIRTS OF BELGRADE MARSHAL TITO REPORTED NEAR FRONT, MAY ENTER CITY FIRST Moscow, Oct. 6-(AP)-Russian and Yugoslav troops fought the Germans in the outskirts of Belgrade today and front dispatcres indicated patrols had crossed to the south bank of the Danube from Pancevo, less than nine miles from the capital. Marshal Tito was reported near the front and it was believed troops of his army of National Liberation would be the first formally to enter the fortified old city of 267,000.

The range of hills at whose west corner Belgrade is locatedis ideal for Red Army infilteration tactics. Allied Slavic troops had reached the vicinity of Nis 130 miles southeast of Belgrade where the Belgrade-AthensSalonika and Belgrade Sofia railroads meet. In northern Yugoslavia along the Tiaza river other Russian troops were less than 30 miles across flat Hungarian country from the second largest Hungarian city, Sezeged, imperiled frontally from Robania as well. The, conquest of Hungary was declared in Russian newspapers to be the first priority objective of Russian strategy. Thirty-five miles due south of Belgrade Yugaslav units were locked in bitter battle with the Germans for the village of Topola.

Bulletins Washington, Oct. 6 (AP)The Chinese delegation at Dumbarton Oaks has accepted without change, it was learned today the blue print for a world security organization drawn up by Britain, Russia, and the Untied States in the first phase of the conference. London, Oct. 6-(AP)-A fleet of more than 1200 American plane engine plant in Berlin heavy bombers attacked an and numerous other industrial objectives and airdromes in Germany today. METEOROLOGIST REPORT (James A.

Burnett, Observer) Twenty-four hours ending at 7 a.m. today, River gauge 10.6; rise 1.4. Rainfall 0.14. Temperature: Maximum 83; Minimum 69. Under the pressure the Americans also was forced off the top of a pill-box ridge a mile and.

a half south of Ubach and a mile east of Hurback. But they held on to the lower slopes and Allied air power given clear skies for the first time since the wedge battle started flew at the chance to deal devastating blows on enemy armor. Another break through was acknowledged by the enemy in the area north of Nancy in the Third Army sector. To the north the Germans declared more Allied parachutists had been dropped in Holland to reinforce the Allied held western loop between the Nader Rhine and the Waal, west of Arnhem and Nijemgen in Holland. To the south Lt.

Gen. George S. Patton's infantry sprayed with shell fire from German strong points on either flank, fought into their third day for Ft. Driant, whose "buttoned in" garrison battled from underground passages and trapdoor gun posts. Dunkerque's strange truce ended at 10 a.

m. after 19,000 civilians had been evacuated. The Germans said a "great British-American autumn offensive in surely in the course of preparation and declared Lt. Gen. Omar N.

Bradley, commander of the American 12th army group had shifted his strength heavily toward the Nijmegen-Aachen. Swedish correspondents in Berlin reported the last German civilians had been removed by night from Aachen whose complete encirclement the Germans said was an objective of the Ubach drive, She Should Know There's A War On Cambridge, Oct. 6- (AP) -Miss Lorna L. Slocomb, aged 28, pretty owner of a typewriter bureau, pleaded not guilty to a charge of malicious destruction of property in court here Thursday. It was charged that she broke dishes in the Fisher candy shop and restaurant, after a waitress had' refused to substitute squash for potatoes on an order.

Miss Slocomb said that she accidentally tipped over, some dishes after the waitress asked her: "Don't you know there's a war on?" Miss Slocomb said she had given seven pints of blood to the Red Cross, that her three brothers were in the service, that her cousin had been killed at Guadalcanal and that her fiance was on duty in the Pacific..