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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Windy, much co'ider, i snow flurries in mountains; Monday, colder. 39TH YEAR, NO. 1 — 48 PAGtlS OMITBO PRKaa WIra N*«< aevrlce WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS ALUES SETJOR BIG^SH German Line at Budapesf Collapses F.D.R. Says Dewey lacks Trust In II.S. Accuses Opponent And Gov. Bricker Of 'Working Both Sides of the Street' Walsh Walks Out On Roosevelt Fenway Park, Boston, Nov. 4. (UP) —U. S. Senator David I. Walsh, greatest Democratic vote- Keller in Massachusetts' modern political history, "walked out" on President Roosevelt In apparent resentment at being called an "isolationist" by Vice Presiden¬ tial Candidate Harry S. Truman. Senator Walsh boarded Mr. Roosevelt's train at Worcester and rode with him Into Boston. Bul he was not on the platform wilh the President here tonight. ^ Kenwa.v Park. Boston. Xov. 4. (UP)—President Roosevelt made; his final bid for a fourth lerini tonight, ridiculing a Republican, charge that "Communists are seii-1 Ing control of the New Deal" andj accusing his opponent. Gov. Thomas I E. Dewey, of "a shocking lack of trust in America." Vigorously defending his lecord,; Mr. Roosevelt told a cheering, ap-| plauding crowd of some 40,000 that i jammed this American I.«aguc field' that America was at war because •be was attacked and that under the same circumstancci in future, he would choose to fight— "again and again and again." Onl.v one discordant note crept Into the roaring welcome accorded Mr. Roosevelt bv crowds both in¬ side and outside the field. That was the absence from the spealier.'«' platform of U. 8. Sen. David I. Walsh. D..Mass., who still was ¦martlng from the rebuke by Draioeratlc vIca praaldantial can¬ didate, Harry 8. Truman, who had ealltd htm an ijalatlanUt,M -Batk SMas af Streat" It seemed to him, Mr. Roasevelt told hit nationwide radio audience snd the crowd Inside the field, that the Renublican partv was "work- inr both sides of tlie street'* in nil sttempt to win the eieclion by em¬ bracing New Deal reforms of the jis.st 12 years. The President said liie war i** still far from over that there is tough, hard and bloody fighting ahead. Making his lasl major campaign stand, on an Indian summer night beneath a starry sky, Mr. Roo.<ie- velt aald there was much to ac- rompllsh in the war 24 Die in Plane Crasli Dewey Says Meddling Delays^War Claims U.S. Troops Paid in Blood for Nazi Propaganda Based On New Deal Plan New York, Nov. 4. I Thomas G. Dewey, Victims of Jap Fire TWA Transport Explodes in Air In California (UP)—Gov. returning lo scenes of past triumphs h.i the nation's No. 1 racket prosecutor, charged tonight that President Roosevelt by "confused incompe¬ tence'^ has prolonged the uar in Rurope al the expense of "the lives of American men." j Climaxing In his home cily a flghtlng campaign for the presi-1 dency, the Republican candidate! addressed a cheering crowd in' Hanford. Ca!., Nov. 4 (UP>—The Madison Square Garden estimated bodies of 24 persons who died in by Chief Inspector John .1. O'Con-' 1*1^^: the flaming wreck nf a lianscon-Inell of the New York police at tinental Wcitcrn Air Lines trans- 25,000. port near Hanford tonight were to prolonged cheers. Dewey removed to this city's two small! promiged n elected on Tuesday to mortuaries ss wcarv. rain-soaked;-put a stop to the incompetence workers completed their grim task |n Waahington which is costing the In a dark fleld illuminated only by;i,ves of American men and delay-1 flashlights and automobile hesd!i„g the day of flnal victory." lights. ' Hundreds of Hanford's citizens joined aheriff'a officers In the work of locating the mangled bodies, ¦catterad through a large fleld wheh the tranaport, which one wlt- neu aald apparently dlilntegrated In the air. plummeted to earth snd burst Into flames. Native Filipinos who helped the I gave his life, while another is invading Allies in taking Leyte I shown writhing on the ground fought valiantly. One (center) | after being wounded by Japanese molar flre only l,^ feet from a war correspondent's ever-ready camera. « In a speech broadcast nationally, Dewey asserted the war waa being prolonged by the "improvised med¬ dling which is so much a part and parcel of the Roosevelt adminis¬ tration." He also declared: "And at the very moment when his own confused incompetence has thus prolonged the war in Europe. Bodies covered the floors of the Franklin Rooaevelt goes on the mortuaries as the ambulances radio snd claims for himself the brought in the last group. 'credit for everything our engin- Such tragedy has never come tOjpers. our war workers, our industry, this city before. Scores of towmi-jour farmers and our fighting soii-i people offered their ser\'lces to aid have done." in searching the area for peraonal ^^^^^ y^ Ovation effects of the dead and worked will- „ . • •¦ /^ j ^ . ingly throughout a heavy downpour Dewev. entering tne Garden Just to load ambulances. as he waa to go on the air re- . . lZ-i a, ceived a noUtv. five-minute ovation. Lightning Slorm H, launched into his speech with- The crash occurred during a lout waiting for the uproar to sub- heavy rainstorm and occasional. side, [o .c-i ""''*' °' IlRhln'nif «hol across thej ^, ^^ j^^, rcpeatediv in the past davs ahead h"*^ during the night. week, Dewey returned lo the at- I TWA olBcial.-, who hnd announced'tack on the "One Thousand Club," that the Irnnsport, Flight 8, was an organization of Democrats con cn route to Burbank from San Krancisco. left for the scene of the i crash and said an investigation .»....» ..w,,.u ...... .^u. fc.. |r..'.. :. ..u u- ........J i the democratic processes of this country and "lo tell our boy.s dv.-i- seas that the country Ihey are fighting for is still goinK strnn):." Hit* •Campaign ef Fear" Earlier In the dsv, the Presiden!. Witnesses aiding in the seanh for Thousand Club. This is the scheme spoke at Bridgeport and Hartford, i.odles reported that the bodv of in Connecticut, and again inl,h, ,tewardess. clad in a uniform Springfield Mass. accusing thejbesring the TWA insignia, was Republicans of attempting to win! found near the plane the election by a "campaign of| They reporled thnl there were both civilians and servicemen in¬ cluded In the group. Witncaaes said the plane "sp¬ in the air." Open Assault to Encircle Capital of Hungary and the peace days to oome Whether he wins nr loses nn Tuesday, Mr. Rooaevelt said, he had this hope: that al lea.sl M.OOO- 000 voters would lurn out lo prove'""'" h^'", ""'". .""' 'rf,.7;Kl' .k- -1 .1,. _/ .ui.i would he started immediately. I J S. Bartels, regional operalioivi j manager al Burbank. reporled thnt jthe plane was a Douglas D0.3 twin- jengined transport, carrying 21 '' passengers and a crew of three. tributing $1,000 each to the Demo¬ cratic campaign. A.sserting that there had been "decay of the moral fiber of government" under IJie N'ew Deal, he added: "That decay reached its logical result when Franklin Roosevelt was compelled lo admit that it was he himself who sponsored the One ATWALeREED; WASWARLEADEP Represented Britain On Combfned Chiefs Of Staff in U.S. Nazi Government Leaving City As Street Fighting Is Reported; Columns of Refugees Pour Out London, Sundsy, Nov. B.—(UP)—Thcp Red Army yeaterday completely collapsed the main enemy defense line east of revolt-torn Budapest| and, according to enemy broadcasts, stormed Into the southern suburb| jof Soroksar and launched a mighty assault to encircle the Hungarian! capital. i Moscow's war bulletins did not confirm that Russian tank:*, infantry land Cossack horsemen had broken inlo the streets of Soroksar, adjoin-{ jing the capital's municipal boundary, but reported olllcially that major Soviet Yanks Shift for Grand Assault On Saar Basin I Whole 500-Mile Front Bristles; Troops Pushed Back at Schmidt; \ Western Holland Drive Resumed By JAiVlKS F. Mc(;LINC\ I Pai'i.s, Sunday, Nov. .'» (LP)—Counter-attacking German ! tanks and infantry drove the U. S. First .\rmy from the ci-o.ssruads of Schmidt southea.st of Aachen Saturday a.s the Berlin radio reported that the First -\rmy was shifting its main power southward to join the Third .\rmy and the "mystery" Ninth Army in a grand-«cale a-ssault on t|ie I Saar. ] Simultanoousl.\, .American Fl\ ing Fortres.scs carried out a ilieavy daylijrlit attack on Saarbiuecken, the rail and highway inib of Ctei'iuaiiy's niineial-ricli Saar Basin. j With tlieir Sclielde I.sland flank cleared, .Anglo-American columns resumed their drive through western Holland and advanced three miles to within 17 miles of Rotterdam, col¬ lapsing the enemy's makeshift line along the Mark River, six miles below the Maas. Onwalcheren, a last pocket of some 2.500 Germans fought on from the 17th century moated fortress of Middleburg, in the center of the flooded Island, under steady bombardment by Allied planes and tha artillery of troopa closing in from three sides. Drawn up for Big Push From the Dutch front around to the almoat forgotten Riviera sector in the mountains above Mentone. a twisting line of nearly SCO milea, bristling Allied armies were drawn up for a big push that would be launched on the dale of Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's choosing. 'Violent fighting flared on a number of sectors and usually after the smoka I cleared the Allies had inched for- ¦ _ Ka ¦ {ward another few hundred yarda I 4^B aA^^ »J ^^ m^*m ^ \ closer to the Reich's main defenses. I DllTD YQnilv! "^^^ '*'''''<' >" ^vestern Holland ¦ QW In I fllllmali?'^"''''.'''^'' ^'l'^ enemy's rear guard Yanks Open Attack fear" and promising that thiaj country will remain prepared for any eventuality after this war. ___ Tonight In a vigorous outline of parentiv disintegrated nis past record, the Presideni said - - thst thia country was al war be¬ cause she was attacked, and that under the the future. 1^ H»ro!d Anderson, a rancher, said he was driving on the highway when a mail sack and motor part.' same lircunistaiices in dropped in front nf his car. he would .hoose to flght s„„„^ „,.„ ^ ;»„|, •gsin and again and again. j,^^,., „f ,,,p pl„„,, ^^^e scatter- In a fighting mood rivaled in tlii.« -d over a mile-square area, campaign only by his Septemberj yiati of llie bodies discovered speech to the Teamsters Union ininmund the plane sonic of them Washington, the President with-j lying 200 to fiOO feet'from the atill out rslling names pictured Deweyl flsminc wrecliage were taken lo •nd his Renublican running mate, („ngrai parlors in Hanford. Gov. John W. Bricker. as conduct-1 The wreckage was still hurnin.': Ing contradictory campaigns. an hour after the crash and sher- "Beth Sides of the Sireet" I iff's ofliicrs did not know how long "The American people." he said.! it would be before the fuselage "arc quite competent to judge a| could be searched for additional political party which works bolh' bodies. aides of the street -a partv which{ TWA offlcials in .San Framisro hss one candidate making cam-jsaid the passcneer Hal would be paign promises of all kinds of! released from thfir Kansas (tly. added government expenditures In! Mo., offlees. Names of militarv the Weat while a runnlnp mate! personnel will be wltliheld (Continued on Page A-14) next of kin are notified. which offers In writing for »l.000 id a voice In of administration Washington. Nov. 4.— 'UP>— '¦ Field Marshall Sir John Dill, chief I of the British joint staff mission to the United SUtes. died tonight at Walter Reed Hospital, where he had been confined for several months with a refractory type of anemia. He was the V. S. representative special privileges »nd a voice in^of Prime Minister' Winston Churchill tn his capacity as min¬ ister of defense. the formulation policies. "Never in our history was cor- Sectetary of War Henry Stimson ruption heen so braxen. Never be-;p,ij tribute to Dill and said his fore has a President admitted rfeath "deprives us of the hand sponsorship of such a scheme." Differed from Elsenhower Dewev said that Gen, Dwight D, Eisenhower last Sept. 1 reiterated forces had pursued the enemy through Falsopakony, less I than six miles southeast of thej half-deserted capital. Take Stolnok Fortress The major enemy defense line based on the BudapeatnSzolnok railroad and highway between the Danube and Tisza rivers was col¬ lapsed, however, when Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2d Ukrain¬ ian Arm.v captured the fortress clly of Szolnok. 49 miles east southeast of the capital. Astride the railroad and high¬ way, the mid-way baations of Cegidd, 33 miles east southeast of Budapest, and Abony, 41 miles from the capital, also were cap¬ tured, and German and Hungarian Meter Violators Need New Trick that played a major part in forg- reinforcement.^ fell bark in disor ing the Allied military machine and in the application of its tre¬ mendous force." until MESA Defies Presideni With 49 Struck Plants f. i Detroit, Nov. 4,--(UP)—Matthew Smith, nalional secretary of the Mechanics' Bducatlonal Society of America, called another secret hud- ^e tonight at Toledo, hut refused •o divulge possible action in lon- •ection with general .strikes that •it 4S Detroit and Tolrdo iiinnt.- •nd threaten 15 Cleveland fac¬ tories. Smilh. however, c-onlinurd to defy Presideni Roosevelt's surprise •ei^ure of eight Toledo plants. Through an ufflcial spokesman he ¦aid: "1 want it to He known that there is no possibility of a back- to-work movement unlil the Toledo In Today's Issue Classified A—21 Kditorial _ C—2 Movies A—20 Social B—« Hport* „..„.....„ B—1 Outdoor ..._„_.._.....«..„._ B—8 ¦Udio ,., A—M case is settled, ll still may be necessarv to call out the Cleveland plants." Smith's apoktsman. reached at Toledo, said "in the best Interests of this situation we nre making no stnlcnient.H to the prcs.i it only would lompliiatr matters." This source did confirm, how¬ ever, that Smith una not in con¬ ference with the union's nalional loniniittcc. ME.SA spokesman chargee an early prediction that Germany] Friend of America could be beaten in 1944 "if everyone ' ' ' at home would do his part." "Yet." he added, "last Thursday Mr. Roosevelt decided lo tell.us the war had still a long way lo go." Dewev said that Mr. Roosevelt took to "his Quebec conference with Brilish Prime Minister Winston Churchill "that master of military strategy and foreign affairs." Sec¬ retarv "of Treasury Henry Morgen- thau"lr.. "with his private plan for dispersing of the German people after the war." "The plan was so clumsy," Dewey said, "thst Mr. Roosevelt himself finally dropped it -- but the dam¬ age was done. "The publishing of this plan while everything else was kept secret was juat what Ihe Nazi propagandisU needed. Thai waa aa good as 10 fresh German divisions. It put fighl back into the German army; it stiffened the will of the German nation lo resist. Almost overnight, the head-long retreat of the Ger¬ mans stopped. They stood and fought fanatically." Paying in Blood Dewey a.sked "What does this mead?" and answered: der to the next parallel railroad. Two regiments of enem.v infantry were wiped oul and more than 1,000 prisoners were taken as the Russians slugged across swampy fields and roads washed away by ceaseless rains lo lake the Tisza River bastion of Szolnok, Moscow said. 'The people of the United States have lost one of their strongest friends," Slimson said. "The effects of his work will be felt in the firm peace which must follow from this war," Slimson added. "For in himself he embodied the very fundamentals of the In¬ ternational understanding upon which such a peace must be estab¬ lished." Dill was chief of the imperial general staff during and after Dunquerque, England's ». - . . , ,•,. hour. For more than two years, he I a carpet of shcllfire on has been General George 40 Hungarian Towns Advancing one to .six milea along a BO-mile front, the Russians seized more than 40 Hungarian towns and villages as they drove inexorably forward and secured the right _ flank of an armored wedge al- darkest ready believed to be laying down „ he I a carpet of shcllfire on Peat, the Mar-'capital's eastern suburb on the eaat shall's "opposite number" on the combined chiefs of staff In Wash¬ ington. >larahall Sounds Praise After learning of Dill's death, Marshall issued a statement say- (Conllnued on Page A-15) TWO JAP VESSELS DAMAGED IN PALAUS U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarter.i. Pearl Harbor. Nov. 4. (UPi-Two small Japanese cargo vessels were i heavily damaged near Babelthuap. "11 means that the biood of our,^^ ,^1^^^^ .^ ^^^^ Palaus. and fighting men is paying for this """barges and trucks were destroved provUed meddling which IS so much, ^j ^^^,j Babelthaup and Yap pnrt and parrel of the R'"'"^'''" | Wednesday in heavy stril<es hy administration" Marine Corsair fighter-bomber, Dewey summed up the campaign Ujn, Chester W. Nimitz an- aituation this way: nounced today. "All over the world tonight The MF-SA "Pokesman ^^'«^|^-,Americans are fighting for the right yi".^;bed''ty°'VpiTh'l"sm'ith|?f free men to govern themselves. gov ' koAi, <n ivnrli movc-1 Here at home we are waging a a back-to-work movc '^^^^^^^ ^g^paign to make secure .i»« in con-1 the liberties for which they fight." \va.s in con | ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ Brirker GOP vice presidential candidate, were dedicated to these may order ment. The contradiction nectlon with earlier reports quot¬ ing Smith as saying: "Arrange¬ ments arc being made for a meet- l^e of the national commitltec and propositions: there mny be an order lor ^an ^^r ^ To^p«'"^^,^^„ „, „^, fighting men." ¦2. "To provide Americsn not Toss'our ership in ths world for an effectivs I day 1. "To speed total victory and (.rpanizcd back-lo-work move .there mav not. One thing is cer_ I lain there will be no scattered I breakaways—we will I solidarity." ' Meanwhile. ' Arherican aircraft continued raking Japanese island bases throughout the Central Pa¬ cific, hitting Doaitions al Marcus and Marianas Wednesday and Thursday. Seventh AAF Liberators bombed the Marcos alratrip and installa- tions both days, while Army Thun¬ derbolts attacked Pagan in the Marianas Thursdav and de«troyed one twin-engined enemy bomber. Marine Corsairs slso destroyed lead-!gun emplacements on Rota Thurs- while a single Navy PBY bank of the Danube Unconfirmed reports said sireet fighting was raging in Budapest's outskirts and the Budapest radio said the situation was "critical" with the 'fluctuating battle" in¬ creasing In fury amid anti-tank ditches encircling the city. Buda¬ pest claimed, however, that the Russians had been thrown out of Soroksan. Berlin reported that Marahal Malinovsky's army, wilh the aid of the Soviet Danube River flofill.i. had attempted to force the wide river barrier at Dunafoldvar, 42 miles south of the capital. The at¬ tempted crossing to the west bank. Oflicer Jack Feisler, Wilkes- Barre police department's ace dis¬ tributor of calling cards for meter violators. Is not being fooled these days. Yesterday he was seen examin¬ ing the tickets on windshields. He replaced one with a card of his own. Soma drivers hava the habit of saving a ticket and using it again and again and again. Assaulting Port; Show-Down Battle For Island at Hand By niLXlAM B. DICKI.NSO.N Allied Headquarters, Philippine!,!"lent 'n'o the Hollandsch Diep, line along the River Mark as the Americans and British fused two bridgelie.ids over the river and drove to within less than three miles of the Hollandsch Diep (Hoi- land Deep), capturing Fijnaart and De Kreek. To the wesl. a Canadian column captured Sleenbergen. anchor of the Mark Line, while Polish troopa to the east linked two other bridge* heads over the river, captured "Ter- heyden and Den Hout. four and five miles north of Breda, and drove within three miles of the Maas just ahead of Its debauch- Hungary's armies thai attempted to hold the Soviet onrush were falling back in disorder. Dive Vombers in Action Overhead, hundreds of fioviet dive bombers and fighters, with complete air mastery, lashed the fleeing troops and roared over the capital to pummel its rear com¬ munications west of the Danube. "The thunder of guns is rolling in waves across the city," the Nazi Transocean agency's war reporter Hugo Boesen said in an eye-wil- ncss broadcast from the 'city. "Budapest has become a front line cil.v. Evacuees march in long col¬ umns through the streets. Inces¬ sant columns of motor vehicles roll over the Danube bridges. Some quarters of the city are complete¬ ly empty. Nothing is left of iU former abundant life," Boesen said. Amid a welter of reports, it was ] clear that the cily was In the throea lof a serious disturbance aa the pro- j Nazi government met In extra¬ ordinary session and reportedly was being evacualea lo Vienna, 140 miles northwest. Report Strtet Fighting Stockholm reporLs said violent street fighting was raging, the Free Hungarian radio called on Partisans to take up arms against the Ger¬ mans, and Istanbul reported- that demonstrafors were demanding im- Leyte, Sunday, Nov. 5 (UP) —U. S. troops In the northern sector of Leyte have commenced a land and over water assault on the port of Pinamopoan, seven miles west of Carigara, al the northern end of the narrow Ormoc corridor. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced to¬ day. Hasty defenaea have been thrown up by the Japanese In the hills overlooking the plains around Ormoc, last major enemy base on the western coast of the island, MacArthur's communique said. Plane* Block Highways U. S. fighter planes continued their attacks aKainst Japanese mn Nazis Rarape over >Iaas Nearly all of the German 18th Army's survivors were now acrosa the lower Maas and there was aa .vet no indication that the enemy had set up a strong defense Ilna on the far bank to withstand a push on north to Rotterdam. Amphibious forces and Canadian infantry from the Soulh Beveland causeway had formed a solid Una around the diked perimeter of Wal¬ cheren covering nearly two thlrda of its shoreline, with the flooded interior resmblmg the lagoon of a Pncific atoll c.\ccpt for the "island" of Middclbiirg and high ground to the east. Deepening their foothold on tha island lo two miles, the Cnnadiana lorized columns pushing north had joined up with the British from Ormoc, dispersing the enemy Commandos who raptured Flushing forces and preventing Japanese; and the joint force waa moving on (Continued on Page A-15> (Continued on Page A-1,1) Dortmund Obliterated By 1,000-Plane Raid Follows Day Attack By 2,000 U.S. Ships; Luftwaffe Stays Away By DOI (iALD WERNKR London. Nov. 5. - - ' Sunday i ;ern Germany and IJnz In Austria Fighter-escorted RAF Lancaaterg joined in the daylight attacks <m 1 German industry with a oonean* trated bombing of the Ruhr in* du3lrial cily of Solingen, 19 mflaC northeast of Cologne. More than 800 American fij^tei^ accompanied over 1,150 Flylnc whlcS (UP)—German industrial blazed again today as the RAF i.,,.„,,_. „ ,.„„ ,,„„ ,.,. _..* sent more than 1.000 heavy bomb- """''ed Germany from the waa^ •^'"^'i Fortresses and Liberators era to llie Ruhr, and first reports said Bochuni. the main objective, had been obliterated. Bochum, lying between Dort¬ mund and Essen, is the fifth great industrial In the Ruhr a few miles but neither bombers nor figbtcri reported air 'combat. Antl-airoraft fire wa.s heavy, however, and meal bombing waa done through eloudat > 2,000 Tons Hit Hanibarg i Nearly half of the estimated t,60t (Continued on Paga A-14) bombed Nauni Wsdnaaday aight. 4 mediate military evacuation of the which the enemv claimed had been j capital and its declaration aa an repelled, presaged a Soviet drive j open city. to envelop Budapest's rear de- Moscow dispatches said that the fen.se.". |f«te of Budapest might be decided Tanks Cut Rail Line ] within the next 48 hours, although Tho »„m«v nlsn renorted thi\l there was no officially-inspired opti- SoTfet lank sVniheads'Vntcreu ,hr mism that the Red Army might be small town of Vecess. three miles able to usher In the 28th ye,".r of Seas of Budapest cutting the the Russian revolution Tuesday vital Budapest-Szolnok railroad de-;wlth the occupation of the Axui fcnse line in a surge northward capital, lo hurl a aelge arc around the capl'*'- ^ „ NA\'Y FIJER DIES I.V CR.ASU Powerful Soviet armed unlfs^ pushed inlo the outskirts of Peat, Haverhill, M.iss.. Nov. 4. (LP> - eastern half of Adolf Hitler's last A Navy fighter pilot on a routine great Balkan capital on the Dan-|flight from the Quonset Point, Rl.. ube's east bank, after a seven-mllei naval air station burned to death advance through the enemy's col-|today when hia plane crashed into lapsed defense line, Moscow dis-,a sand pit here. The name of the patches said. I victim was withheld pending noti- The remnanta af Oermanir'B aad Acation of kin. behind the front to be saturated tons carried by the 8th Air Fore« by a l.WKi-pIane attack within less than a fortnight. The RAF armada swept over the coast toward tJernianv for more than an hour following a da.v in southwest of Hannover. which nearly 2,n(X) Amerii-nn wnr olancs attacked the Hamburg- Harburg. Gelsenkirchen and Han¬ over areas. LuftualTe Stays Auay The American air assaults were the fourth in six days against Cier¬ man fuel sources and the Luft¬ waffe, which loal 183 planes in air battle against a .«imilar fray Thurs¬ day, failed to challenge them. A U. S. Strategic Air Forces com¬ munique said 14 planes, eight bomber.s and aix fighters were Saari missing. Otiier American heavy hombers | lacked Berlin Friday night. from bases in Italy^bombed Munich I though no heavy bomber* waro Regensburg and Augaburg In aouth-' ported In action. ___ i bombers fell into the Hamburg* Harburg area, last attacked on Ocfc 30. Other targets included refiner* ies at Hannover and al Mlaburgk bruckcn is regarded as a '"front line rail center." and its lines fan out to an area of over 150 mlleg along the Western Front. Observers regarded the attacks against German oil as indicatins' American airmen were dftermined to reduce to the slightest trickla fuel supplies for German armed forces and industries. The RAF.\ which has joined ia the continual attacks upon German oil during October and the early part of this month, announced thai ils Moaqulto medium bombers at>
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
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Month | 11 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Issue | 1 |
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Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Windy, much co'ider, i
snow flurries in mountains; Monday, colder.
39TH YEAR, NO. 1 — 48 PAGtlS
OMITBO PRKaa
WIra N*«< aevrlce
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1944
PRICE TEN CENTS
ALUES SETJOR BIG^SH
German Line at Budapesf Collapses
F.D.R. Says Dewey lacks Trust In II.S.
Accuses Opponent And Gov. Bricker Of 'Working Both Sides of the Street'
Walsh Walks Out On Roosevelt
Fenway Park, Boston, Nov. 4. (UP) —U. S. Senator David I. Walsh, greatest Democratic vote- Keller in Massachusetts' modern political history, "walked out" on President Roosevelt In apparent resentment at being called an "isolationist" by Vice Presiden¬ tial Candidate Harry S. Truman.
Senator Walsh boarded Mr. Roosevelt's train at Worcester and rode with him Into Boston. Bul he was not on the platform wilh the President here tonight.
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Kenwa.v Park. Boston. Xov. 4. (UP)—President Roosevelt made; his final bid for a fourth lerini tonight, ridiculing a Republican, charge that "Communists are seii-1 Ing control of the New Deal" andj accusing his opponent. Gov. Thomas I E. Dewey, of "a shocking lack of trust in America."
Vigorously defending his lecord,; Mr. Roosevelt told a cheering, ap-| plauding crowd of some 40,000 that i jammed this American I.«aguc field' that America was at war because •be was attacked and that under the same circumstancci in future, he would choose to fight— "again and again and again."
Onl.v one discordant note crept Into the roaring welcome accorded Mr. Roosevelt bv crowds both in¬ side and outside the field. That was the absence from the spealier.'«' platform of U. 8. Sen. David I. Walsh. D..Mass., who still was ¦martlng from the rebuke by Draioeratlc vIca praaldantial can¬ didate, Harry 8. Truman, who had ealltd htm an ijalatlanUt,M -Batk SMas af Streat"
It seemed to him, Mr. Roasevelt told hit nationwide radio audience snd the crowd Inside the field, that the Renublican partv was "work- inr both sides of tlie street'* in nil sttempt to win the eieclion by em¬ bracing New Deal reforms of the jis.st 12 years.
The President said liie war i** still far from over that there is tough, hard and bloody fighting ahead.
Making his lasl major campaign stand, on an Indian summer night beneath a starry sky, Mr. Roo. |
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Year | 1944 |
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