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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1944
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Roosevelt Says GOP Apes New Deal for Votes^ Lies in Nazi Patfern
Price of Treason
Depression Blame Is Handed Back; Predicts Epoch of Free Achievement
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Wuhlngton, Sept. 23. (in>)— Preatdent Roosevelt tonight accuaed Rtpubllcvia of aping the New Deal to get votea, and charged Thomas E Dewey and other GOP cam¬ paigners with iying In the Nasi pattern.
He declared that after winning the war hia administration would lead the nation into history's "greatest epoch of free achieve¬ ment by free men."
In this first avowedly political speech of his fourth-term campaign, the President fired a salvo against the party whose leaders, he said, produged the "catastrophe which we inherited."
He was addressing 900 leaders of the AFL's Teamsters' Union — who shortly before had unanimously ratified their cxcrutive board's en¬ dorsement of the Democratic ticlcet -- but his blistering words were broadcast nationally. Preidlela flreat Eporh
Mr. Roosevelt ajiserted confi¬ dently that the American people would win a "victory for de¬ mocracy" in this war and "move forward with God'a help to the greatest sp«tch of free achievement by free men the world has ever known or imagined possible."
His administration, he said. Is now laying the groundwork for that epoch, and "the keynote of all that we propose to do in reconversion ran be found in the one word — •jobs'."
He laid down this program;
"We shall lease or dispose of our Rovernment-owned plants and facil¬ ities and our surplus war property and land on the basis of how they can hest be operated by private enterprise to give jobs to the greatest number.
"We shall follow a wage policy which will sustain the purchasing power of labor—for that means more production and more jobs... this Is not a time in which men can be forgotten as they were In the Republican catastrophe which we inherited." XSt'ltk Tobln and Cireen
The President sat at dinner be¬ tween Teamsters' President Daniel .1. Tobln and AFT, President Wil¬ liam Green. He waa given an up¬ roarious ovation when he entered the hall and again when he started to speak.
Tobln, in introducing Mr. Roose- \plt. credited him wltli leading the country out of the era of "cheating and robbing" which the union lead¬ er said preceded the New Deal. Tobln called current Republican Iradcrshlp a "Rang" of "avaricious" opporluni5ts gambling on the coun¬ try's future.
A few minutes before, the or^ cheatra had evoked a thunderous uproar from the crowd by playing "Don't Change Horses In the Mid¬ dle of the Stream or You'll Be Sorry."
The teamsters interrupted the President's speech constantly with dclighttd  and  noisy applause.
The President did not once men- lion any Republican by name, but he singled out statements by Dewey for special attention. Referring to the Republican candidate's charge at Philadelphia that the admin'i- t ration planned to keep men In the armed forces until they found jobs, he said: "Braten Palaehood"
"This callous and brazen false¬ hood about demobilization was an effort to stimulate fear among American mothers, wives and sweethearts.
"The very day that this fantastic charge waa first made." Mr. Roose¬ velt said, "a formal plan for the method of speedy discharge from the Army had already been an¬ nounced by the War Department— a plan based upon the wishes of the soldiers themselves."
The President accu-ied the Re- Jiubllcnna of using "the propaganda technique invented by the dicta¬ tors" according to which "you should never use a small false¬ hood;  always  a  big one."
Mr. Roosevelt Raid the Repub¬ licans were now supporting re¬ forms which thia administration Introduced. In so doing he revived the words ".New Deal." which sev- iContinued   on   Page  A-4)
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28th Division Is in Action
V. S. First Army Headquar¬ ters, FfMice, Sept. 23. (UP) — The 28th Infantry Division of Pennsylvanians, the "Keystone Division," is participating in action against the Germans aa a ptu-t or Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First Army, It waa dta- closed  today.
SPIRITUAL REVIVAL IN POST-WAR PLAN
Wants Waste Ended; Clare Luce Has Had Enough 'Applesorcery'
By CHARLES P. Mc.>IAHOX
Norwalk, Conn.. Sept. 23. <UP>— Gov. John W. Bricker Af Ohio, Re¬ publican vice-presidential nominee, tonight pleaded for m, "great spritu- al revival" of the American people to plan for the reconstruction period in the post-war era.
Making his last speaking engage¬ ment on his 3.250-mlle eastern campaign swing through five states, Bricker said that America must be ready to provide jobs for returning servicemen, must take the federal government out of private business and must "re¬ capture the faith we had" in self- government for 190 years.
"The American people are deter¬ mined that when they and their gallant allies rid the world of auto¬ cracy and cruel might." Bricker said, "they will rid the government of needless bureaucracy and waste in government spending." New Word for Clare Luce
Bricker said that a "religious spirit" is pervading the army camps throughout the nation and overseas and said that lie hoped and believed it would be carried throughout the nation to counteract "subversi^ forces threatening to destroy free go\'ernment In America."
Mrs. Clare Booth Lure, Republi¬ can congressman from Connecticut, appeared on the stage of the high school auditorium before a crowd of 2.700 with Governor Bricker and coined another word to add to her "globalonev."
In speaking of the Republican gubernatorial victories In past elcc-' tions In Connecticut and Ohio, Mrs. Luce said that the people had be¬ come "fed up with economic sorcery
or should I say applesorcery."
250 END STRIKE
AT STANTON COLLIERY
Avenging wrong* of bia coun¬ try suneMd at hands of own people, member of FFI ties con¬ demned youth to slake to pay highest    price    for    treason    In
France. Trial waa conducted ac¬ cording to atrictaat legal rules and traitor waa found arullty after own admlaalon of i.oIlabo- rating with Nads.
Marines Resume Advance On Peleliu Island
Smash Attempt to Reinforce by Barge; 7,970 Japs Killed There and on Anguar; Philippine Puppet Declares War on U. S.
By MAC R. JOHNSON
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 23.—(UP)— American Marines have resumed their northward advance on Peleliu In the Patau group, winning approximately three-fourths of the island and killing 7.020 Japanese in nine days of bloody fighting. Admiral Chester   W.  Niniitz  announced  today.
The advance was resumed after American planes and warships smashed a desperate Japanese attempt to reinforce the besieged garrison,   sinking   all   seven   of
A strike at the Stanton Colliery of the Glen Alden Coal Co. ended ycaterdav with the announcement that 250 men who walked out at the Empire shaft and Kidder slopes of the colliery would return to  work   Monday.
The men were idle since Thurs¬ day In a dispute over pay dockage which the company claimed result¬ ed from their failure to work a full seven-hour .ihift. The return to work was cited pending adjust¬ ment of the grievance.
2JAPSIIMNK OFF PHILIPPINES
By RALPH TEATSORTH
Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific. Sunday, Sept. 24 (UP)—A Navy Catalina bomber off southern Mindanao in the Philippines sank two Japanese merchant vessels of 2,000 and 500 tons In attacks Wed nesday night. Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur announced today.
Other long-range Navy bombers struck at shipping off Borneo the same night, hitting at enemy sea routes which are being puil'^rt far¬ ther westward with the steady ex¬ tension of Allied air control. A 1.000-ton freighter was destroyed in the raid.
MacArthur's communique said that Allied ground and naval forces have killed an additional 835 Jap¬ anese In mopping up back areas in Sew Guinea, with 201 prLsoners taken. In addition, 102 friendly na¬ tions were freed.
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group of enemy barges seeking to push men and supplies ashore on the   coral   Island.
The puppet Philippine govern¬ ment, echoing Tokyo's fears of an imminent invasion as the Ameri¬ cans stood on island thresholds leading to the Philippines, declared war on the United States and Britain.
Report S Manila Attacks
Tokyo continued to report that three or four powerful American task forces still were ranging the Philippine waters after having twice attacked the Manila area. (A Berlin broadcast recorded by CBS said a third attack was made Friday.)
Nimitz, who announced that 205 planes were destroyed and 37 Jap ships sunk or damaged In an assault Wednesday (Thursday Philippine Time), again made no mention of any attacks on Manila besides the first one.
Nimitz' bulletin also reported that carrier-based wiu-planes smashed the Japanese naval base Island of Yap, 315 miles northeast of Peleliu, in a Thursday attack, hitting what it called "few worthwhile targets.'' No alrljorne opposition waa met and anti-aircraft fire waa moderate. Other planes made widespread at¬ tacks on Japanese islands in the Marianas, Bonins, Carolines and Marshall Islands and on Marcus Island, 1,250 miles southeast of Japan. ^
Take Small Island
Nimitz announced that the Japa- neae on Peleliu. 515 miles east of the Philippine island of Mindanao, were "slowly but steadily being puahed toward the northern end of the island" on Friday. Garekoru village and a small, unnamed island along the east coast were t!iken by the Marines.
The plunge to Garekoru carried the Marines forward approximately 1,800 yards and partially broke the Japanese grip on the stubbornly- defended western peninsula ridge. The advance broke a deadlock where the First Marine Division had been held up on Umubrogol Mountain, a 100-foot rise. Capture of the small east coast island elim¬
inated right  flank  fire on the ad¬ vancing Leathernecks. Army Wiping out Japs
By sundown Friday, Nimitz re¬ ported 7,020 Japanese had been kill- ed'on Peleliu, and another 950 were killed on Angaur Island, six miles to the south. Troops of the Amer¬ ican Army's 81st (Wildcat) Division on Angaur were pressing the anni¬ hilation of 200 remaining Japanese bottled In the caves on the north¬ western tip of the island.
Nimitz said the seven barges try- (Continued on  Page A-10)
GOP SPEAKER CLAIMS JOBS IS REAL ISSUE
Germans in Baltics Face Collapse
Cut In Two by Reds; Soviet Fleet out To Stop Evacuation; Open Drive on Hungary
By BOBEBT MV8EL
London, Sunday, Sept. 34. (UP) Russian troops, driving a SO-mile wedge across Estonia to the sea, yesterday captured the Riga Gulf port of Parnu, spilt Adolf Hitler's rapidly disintegrating Baltic armies in two and trapped a substantial Nazi force In northwestern Estonia. The speed and overwhelming strength of the Red Army's mighty Baltic offensive presaged the col lapse of the entire German position In the Baltic states within a matter of days.
Already Berlin was admitting further withdrawals. The Nasls were desperately evacuating thou¬ sands of troops in every available boat — ships that were being sunk by Red Air force and naval planes as they attempted a minor Dun- kerque — and a great p<ncer move' ment was developing on Riga, al' ready under heavy artillery fire. Bneomiiig a Mmtt
Enmty troopa flceliic from Et' tonla into Latvia also were In im¬ minent danger of being split anew by hard-driving Soviet forces plunging to tlie Gulf of Riga below Parnu, and the German retreats took on all the appearance of disorganised rout
Indicative of enemy demoralisa¬ tion, Moscow's Saturday midnight communique said that near Parnu more than 1,000 Germans were taken prisoner, whije In one town the panic-stricken (German garrison fled, leaving behind military hos¬ pitals with German wounded.
At the same time, Ruaslan trpops were storming the pre-war border of Hungary amid reports of wide¬ spread unrest in Adolf Hitler's last big Balkan satellite.
There were also indications that the (Germans were preparing for an ultimate evacuation of IVarsaw. Gen. Bor, the patriot leader In the Polish capital, said the Nazis were erecting new defense lines west and south of the city as more Soviet troops reportedly swarmed into the city from fiercely-contest¬ ed bridgeheads on the Vistula River's west bank. Preventing Kvacuatlon
As the raging Red Army rapidly was liberating almost all of Estonia, the Soviet high commano was making every effort to prevent a Nazi evacuation. Long-range bomb¬ ers blasted the port area and the rail station at Riga, from where a seat>orne evacuation was already reported  under  way.
German troop transports also were heavily blasted by naval air¬ craft before Russian and Estonian forces stormed into the port and in the Finnish Gulf and the Baltic Sea, other Soviet Baltic Fleet planes sank 11 German transports and damaged three others that had fled from Tallinn. But the chances of a successful. (Continued on Page A-10)
Boston,  SepL 23   (UP)—The Re publican State convention adjourn ed   late  today  after  hearing  Gov. Levcrett   Saltonstail   of  Massachu¬ setts say that the question of pro¬ viding sufficient   post-war  jobs   Is the main issue of the coming elec tlon.
The Governor told some 1,500 delegates and guests at historic Tremont Temple that the "one vital issue to be settled at the November election Is which party offers the best hope of providing for the jobs that bring contentment and oppor tunity to our people."
MRS. KERMIT ROOSEVELT SUPPORTS PRESIDENT
New York, Sept. 23. (UP)—Mrs. Kcrmit Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of the late Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, has joined the Democratic party as an active campaigner, it was announced to¬ day.
'The women's division of Demo¬ cratic National Committee said Mrs. Roosevelt, widow of Major Roosevelt, killed while on active duty In Alaska laat year, will make her first political npeech In Roches Icr, N. Y., on Sept. 27.
'I   believe   President   Roosevelt's experience  and  wisdom   are   need¬ ed at this critical time of our his tory," Mrs, Roosevelt said.
Chutists Reinforced as Gliders Bring in Troops
Nazis Hold Line In North Instead Of Leaving Country
London, Sept 23. (UP)—A Fin¬ nish comnMinique said tonight that Finnish troops had attacked Ger¬ man troops, their former comrades- at-amu, in north Finland after It became apparent that the Germans had not withdrawn in accordance with Russo-Flnnish armistice terms and had Instead occupied a line extending northwestward from Sotkamo to the  Gulf of  Bothnia.
The communique, broadcast by the Finnish radio, came within three days of bitter complaints by the Soviet press that Finland was not attempting to intern German troops remaining on Its soil after Sept IS, as the Baltic nation was bound to do by the armlatlee.
It was the first Finnish official word of atUeka an tb* OeniMuia. although Stockholm mwrlously haul reported clashes. The German radio several days ago announced that Berlin had no Intention of withdrawing its armies from Fin¬ nish soil If military necaasity de¬ manded that they remain and threatened to scorch the earth of north Finland aa a military measure. Held Strong Una
Strong German detachments have occupied a line from Sotkamo, 55 milea northeast of Usalml, north¬ westward along the Oulu Lakes and the Oulun River, the communique said, and the region north of this line.
Finnish troops were sent north¬ ward as reinforcement and reached Ristijaervl and Hyrysalmt, about 2S and 87 miles respectively north of Sotkamo. They found that the Ger¬ mans had mined and booby-trapped the roads and destroyed bridges and ferries.
Helsinki dispatches said that the Russian control commission would make Its headquarters at the Estonian legation in the Finnish capital as soon as repairs were completed, and that it was believed in Helsinki that the entire commis¬ sion will be composed of Russians although the armistice called It an Allied control commission.
Force Way Across RItine; 200 Tanks Stopped; Berlin Calls Arnhem Decisive Battle
By PHIL AULT
AUicd Supreme Hcadqaarters, London, Sondajr, Sept 24. (UP)—Patrols from the heroic Allied parachutist band around Arnhem fought their way south across the upper branch of the Rhine Saturday and established contact with the British Second Army as a new sky army of thousands of Anglo-American troops swept down by glider to join tho crucial battle.
Simultaneously, the Second Array drove three miles east from Nijmegen on the main branch of the Rhine and reached the German border at the frontier town of Beelc.
Berlin called the struggle at Arnhem the decisive test of the war in the west and in an attempt to nip off the Allied corridor Adolf Hitler sent 200 tanks lunging against its base 25 miles to the south. They were hurled back after tempore arily cutting the vital Eindhoven-Nijmegen highway and driving a wedge in the salient.
Patrols pushing across the river from the airborne "island" established the "barest sort" of contact with the British re8« cuo force. Allied headquarters said, but the fact that they were able to get across sent hopes soaring that a full junction would soon be made.
Furious battles raged along the 60-niile length of the Allied •client aeroai Holland, but despit* waves of eountor-attaeki t r crack SS and panzer units, the Allies were able to widen the corridor in at least two sectors.
Westward of Bifidheven, nins of four to Ave miles were mad* on a 12-mile front while in the Nijmegen sector along the main branch of the  Rhine  Lt. Oen.  Sir Miles  C.  Dempsey's Second Army  Infantry pushed eastward three milsi, capturing Bcek on the German border. IW Miles of Sky Train
A sky train 170 miles long—extending unbroken from British bases to Holland—carried out the new operation, with scores of DC-S "Dakota" transport planes towing hundreds of big gliders bulging with troops and supplies. The reinforcements were landed successfully despite strona apposition from enemy ground defenses and also from the Luftwaffe, headquarters announced.      	
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NEW YORK GAS SUPPLY SHOWS BIG INCREASE
Albany, Sept. 23. (UP)—Despite rationing, motor fuel consumption In New York state during the first seven months of 1944 amounted to 804,590,939 gallons, an Increase of approximately lOO.OOO.OOO gallons over the same period last year, RoUin Browne, state tax commis¬ sion  president,  reported  today.
War  Sommarj
WESTERN FRONT—New Anglo-American sky army ^Hdes to aid of British forces driving north to re¬ lieve pocketed airborne troops near Arnhem; heavy German armored onslaught against Allied corridor in Holland hurled back.
EASTERN FRONT—Fifty-mile Red Army dash across Estonia captures Baltic port of Parnu and traps large GeiTnan forces in northwestern part of coun¬ try ; Russians storm across pre-war border of Hun¬ gary.
ITALY—-Allies mass for all-out drive on Bologna and rich Po industrial valley; Eighth Army drives far¬ ther north of Rimini on Adriatic coast.
AIR WAR—Italy-based American heavies hammer Nazi industrial targets and communications in Sudeten- land and Austria, and plaster Italian cruiser Taranto at La Spezia; hufce fighter forces stream across channel from Britain.
CHINA—American airmen fire VN'uchow and pound Jap¬ anese supply lines on 1,000-mile front in effort to cripple double-edged enemy offensive.
BURMA—Fortified village of Tonzang in Chin Hills falls to British 14th Army troops advancing on big enemy base at Tiddim.
PACIFIC—Marines slug way farther north of Peleliu, gaining control of three-fourths of island in bloody fighting which hat cost Japs more than 7,000 killed in nine days.
and American fighter planes In strength provided cover for the Isndlngi.
The reinforcements apparently were landed outside the pocket of airborne troops on the north bank of the river, since a special bulletin announced apeciflcally that they descended in support of the Second Army's drive.
Berlin said that reinforcements were landed between the two branches of the river but were not able to smash open the German bolt" position north of Nijmegen on the southern branch or break through to the rescue of the para¬ chutists around Arnhem. Arnhem Bridge Still in Doubt
Linking up with a amaller air¬ borne force on the south bank of the river, the British found the main bridge to Arnhem still Intact but it was unclear In late reports which side controlled the crossing.
The Arnhem area l>ecame the flaming focal point of virtually the entire 2IS0-mile front as sharp but Inconclusive battles were fought along the West Wall Inside Ger¬ many and battered enemy panser forces withdrew In the Moselle sector after losing 317 tanks in 11 days.
Lt. Gen. George 6. Patton's Third ^my tanks promptly smashed forward six miles, crossing the Muerthe River and capturing Buri- ville, 10 miles southeast of Lune- ville and 40 miles west of the big fortress of Strasbourg.
(The Dutch Radio Orange re¬ ported that the Germans were blowing up the harbor works ef the great port of Amsterdam, which has bf<en outflanked In the Uiruat through Holland.)
The capture of Stolberg, five miles east of Aachen, was formally
announced although strongpolnts In the main city and industrial sub¬ urbs remained to be mopped up. With a population of 17,000 Stolberg Is the largest German city yet taken.
Driving on four miles beyond Elst after detouring a German road block at that Dutch town, the Brit¬ ish Second Army breasted wither¬ ing Are from their flanks to reach the Neder, or Lower Rhine, a (Continued on Page A-ll>
Trapped Chutists Fight Constantly
By WALTER CROMUTC
With Airborne Forces in Hol¬ land, Sept. 23. (UPI—Constant guerrilla battles rage along the whole length of our front as the Germsns probe for a weak spot that they might build into a route home. Airborne troops repelled   such  attacks  today.
No major town along the en¬ tire road has escaped the flra of   German   88's.
Citizens crowd Into the streets between shellings, wave flags and cheer the constant stream of of tanks. They cover up only when the angry scream and nasty crack announces the beginning of an hour or so of German fire.
A platoon of American para¬ chutists, fighting a battle through the woods for a Dutch town, within 24 hours captured several Germans, then was cut oft from the rest of Its force, next cap¬ tured by the Germsns, then re* leased with an even bigger bag of Nasls after establishing ecsi- tsct with other American anltaL
Swedes Close Nazi Route To Iron, Paper and Wood
Stockholm, Sept. 23. (UP)—All foreign shipping will be forbidden access to Swedish territorial waters in the Gulf of Bothnia, effective next Wednesday, the government announced tonight in a move which denies the Germans use of the vital iron-ore route via the Swedish port of Lulea.
The ban on entry of foreign ship¬ ping covered Swedish territorial waters from the Finnish frontier at the Tornio River to the Faisterboro Canal, which empties Into the Bal¬ tic southwest of Malmoe — the en- Ure Gulf of Bothnia coast.
The measure waa officially re¬ ported taken to prevent clashes between Russian and German naval   forces   in   Swedish   waters.
but actually it cuts off the direct route of Swedish iron ore expotta and the bulk of paper wood and steel   products  to  Germany.
The port of Lulea, connecting with an overland railroad to Uie iron center of Narvik on the Nor¬ wegian Atlantic coast, lies near the head of the Gulf of Bothnia and thus is forbidden to (jerman as  well as other foreign shipping.
Thus the only route left for ship¬ ment of Narvik ore is the open Atlantic around the Scandinavian cape under the constant vigilance of the British fleet and air forces, plus whatever products the Ger¬ mans can export from Swedl^ west coasl port on the Skscerrak and   Kattegat.