Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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37TH YEAR, NO. 50—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943
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SOVIETS CLEAR CAUCASUS
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U.S. Airmen Smash Deep Into Naziland
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Bulk ot Hitler's Fleet Feels Power of
Far-Flying Air Armada
Road to Rome
Second Impressive Victory Over Hun Fliers in Two Days Costs 29 Bombers
Italian Agency Says Mussolini Is Dead   I
Cairo, Oct. 9. (UP)—The Fre* Italian ageiuy Giustlzia e LilMrta reported today that It was rumc - ed throughout Italy that Benito Mussolini was dead »n/< *^.-,l '.i b.).i> sfKfOOcii laKcn to German^-.
Thc ageniy cited the erstwhile Duce's silence since his recap¬ ture by German paratroops, as¬ serting that the voice purport^ ing to be that of Mussolini's in a broadcast Sept. 25 "had noth¬ ing in common" with the former dictator's voice. It adding that recent photogrHphs have been so blurred as to make his Identity uncertain.
BLAST JAPANESE BASEATHANOI
Nip Fighter Pilots Change Tactics As U.S. Takes Big Toll
ALlUbHflO '< MtA «N tTU.r AUIID THIIIATS
^'i^,,f:IUriot,c Seo
By WILUA.M B. DICKI.NSOX
London. Sundav. Or **H*T—^rt'eiican Liberators and Flying Fortresses, in tiie war's deepest penetration of Central Europe b.v Britain- based planes, attacked major targets in Nortlieastern Ger¬ many, Poland and East Prus¬ sia yesterday, aiming one blow at what is believed to b« the anchoraKe of the bulk of Adolf Hitler's fleet.
The hninh»r« nf^od "O fnr in'r the Reich they reached within 400, miles of the Russo-Germsn fight¬ ing front and press comments In London said the aUacl(8 were In direct support of the Soviet Army.
Gunners of the attacking planes shot down »1 Nail fighter planes deflnltely. an American communi¬ que announced, while other sources said probably 25 more also were destroyed for the second imprcs- ilve victory over the Luftwaffe in Si many days.
Twenty-nine of the big bombers were mlsiing, bringing V. S. losses for a S«-hour period to 59 bombers
and thr«e fightera. On Friday 142 Headquarteri. 14th U. 8. Air German fighters were shot down porce, China. Oct. 9. (UP) —U. 8. during a daylight raid Ott-VagesackU,^^, ^^^ y,,^^^ j^, Japaneae in  which 30  bombers were  lost. ». ^    „       .   u.„_.   „j»i,
(The  U. S,  Federal Communica-iGlalam  Airdrome  at   Hanoi  vrith-, tions    Commission    reported    that o"t  air  opposition   »n<1   Maj.   Oen. I By EDWARD W, BC ATTIE radios  in  Berlin,  Breslau,  Kalund-|pi««f-Chennault sa.d there were^    London,   Oct.  9.   (UP)-The  Red »..r. i» r«.nr««ru .nH BrntlsUvn In 'n<*'eatlons that enemy flghter pilots! ^ u    ,.    j
s!i^kia   ha^   aon.   off   th.   a^^ becoming   wary   and   chang-j Army s three Dnieper bridgeheads,
^e'que^tlyJn'indlcst'ion     Allied i",  th.ir  tactics. | which by next week may have be-
jFifth Army \Oust Riddled Nazis Is 95 Mites l^fO'w Taman Peninsula
From Rome
MILIS
Caserta Captured;
UestroyTb i anks';'	
Eighth Army Smashes Inland from Adriatic
British Ship,
U, S, Nurses Lost
Gradually the Allies close in on Rome and battle for the Eternal City has begun. Map shows how Allies have advanced. British Sth Army has covered most ground since Invasion on Sept. S. American Fifth Army that landed at Salerno has met with the heaviest lighting.
Victories Give Russia Great Bargaining Power
raiding   plan.s  are  over  th.  con-
tinrnt.i
.Mueh of Navy In (td.viiia
Hanoi is the capital of occupied come lances aimed at the heart of Indo-Chlna.    Yesterday   American Hitler's   Europe,   will   have   great 1'*" made a heavy raid on Halp-, poimcai importance as well as mili- Tnn.    of.  high    ejiplosives   werej hong,   important   P"'   »\'"''". ^° tary prominence when Russia and loosed   on  a   concentrated   area  at'the  east,  and  no  planes were  lost ' .„        ,.    ,     .  ,,
Gdynia,   the   port   15   miles   north In   either   attack. | her   western   Allies   begin   talking
of   Dsn.ig   wher.   four   years   agol    ,a   communique   from   Lt.   C.en.'[J^V;;"; .""'^^^^^ Germany began th. w.r by attack-!Joseph   W.   Stllwell's   headquarters7i'^""""»   conference in the Krem- Ing Polsnd snd   where  Hitler was reported  Saturdsy  that  U.  S.   air-;    e^.^„ „^j ^^e Russians nol been
ate with the victor natlona in building and maintaining a work¬ able peace.
Russia's own acquisitions, prior to the German invasion of White Russia, gave the best indication of what she considered necessary for
By RICHARD D. Mc.%nLL.AN
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 9 (UP)—American Fifth Army troops drove tonight within 95 miles of Rome after crossing the flooded Volturno River on the Ger¬ mans' own pontoon bridges, while the Eighth Army smashed inland toward the Eternal City from the Adriatic coast where the Nazis ^•.vcrc  In  V,».ii1*.r.ri;   ri*vi-f}.,*.
The Fifth Army, consolidating its 17-mile front along the 'Volturno in force, captured the road Junction of Caserta, seven miles southeast of fallen Capua, and It was an¬ nounced that the German 16th Panzer Division had lost IS of its 30 tanks In futile counter-attacks against the Eighth Army around Termoli,
Winging out from Italian bases in a new phase of the Mediter ranean aerial warfare, planes of th. Northwest Africa Air Force hammered alr fields on Crete and Greece and began patrol operations over the Aegean, supplementing th. work of the Middle East Alr Force.
(A Cairo communique announced that heavy bombera from the Mid¬ dl. East heavily attacked Herak- Hon on Crete Tliursday night and Calato en Rhodes last niglit.) Flghttnic Abeve Voitumo
OffUial dispatchea aald that sharp encounters were occurring on the north bank of the Volturno. 20 miles above Naples, as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark'a vanguard poured across on pontoon bridges which the Germans did not have tlm. to
Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Oct. 9. (UP)—The British hoapltal ship Newfoundland, carrying among others a detach- titer.ioi At?\cticfc>'. tiu'.tiss bc:«<l|^ ing te a fleld hoapltal to be land¬ ed at Salerno, was sunk Sept, IS by German bombers.
U.S. LIBERATORS-
Raid Made Few Hours Before Navy Battle Wednesday; Japs Clear Out of Central Solomons
Army of 350,000 How free Por Attion Against Crimea; Pour Across fhe Dnieper
¦m. IM.i>—iiPWMipi^ a      iimt. .   .
By ROBERT S. MUSEL
London, Sunday, Oct. 10 (UP)—Soviet troops under thtl command of Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko cleared th»| riddled remnants of Germany's Caucasus armies from thi Taman Peninsula yesterday while other Red Army unit swarmed across the Dnieper at scores of new ciossinirs and«| to the north, swept within 18 miles of Germany's defenssj line in White Russia.
Witll the Soviet advance in full swing on all fronts from! Leningrad to the Black Sea, the Soviet Army new.spaper,] Red Star, said in a triumphant editorial: 'The initiative j now is entirely with the Red Army,
Premier-JIarshal Josef Stalin announced in an order off the day that tne last vestige of the enemy's Kuban bridge-! hesd, which "assured them defense of the Crimea," had been wiped out after   several    days   of   stubborn
her safety.   Her needs presumably
Include Finnish  Karelia up  to the! destroy   after   wrecking   the   main
1940 peace line a.s well as the naval bridges
base at Hangoe, the three bsltic states, Poland up to the Bug River the   demarcation   line   in   1939
believed to have anchored a major men   on   Thursday   also   attacked j ,„jj^I,pj ^^^ ^^^^ Dnieper when the ¦"<^   ^^'  Polish   Ugraine.   and  Ru- fsrt   of   his   navy,   including   the;.lupanese shipping off the coast "''conference    began     their    political •"*"'* ** '•"¦ " *-^' ''¦¦"' River. 2S.000-ton battleship Gneisenau. Chins, scoring three direct hits on^pg^^jp^   vis-a-vis   the   west   would'    Needless  to  say,  if the  occasion
Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson. |a 200-freighter which was left burn commander  of  the  Sth  \f.  S.  Alr-ling and listing heavily.) force   Bomber  Command,  said  thcl|{r»iiilanre Weak record   three-wsy   blow,   part   of  a j    j„ ^^arp  contra.st  to the Oct.  1
¦iv.  new aeries of assaults  on'
Oermany.
raid on Haiphong during which 50
.» .u u should mark the fmlshU^os Intercepted the American of the Hun. belief he can move bomber.s, a dczen Japanese fighters ouj. of  range of our bombers." ^  „,„,^ j„  ^^^^   „,^  raiders
Eighth     Airforce     reports     said Oerman  Fleet units at Gdynia.  In-
over the port yesterday and st lesst four   of   the   enemy   aircraft   were
rluding some niajor ships, tried loj,hot down
tske   cover   under   smoke   screens.
First    Lt.   Eugene    F.    Meyer   ofl    The virtual lack of enemy oppo¬
sition  In  the  two  raids  led Chen¬ nault to remark that "the Japanese
Eugene Bronx,   N.  Y.,   reported   the    Ger mans  sent  up  some    four-engined
planes among hundreds of inter- fighter force is pretty well shot," cepting aircraft that gave stiff o:i-l lhe commander of the Uth Air position. Force said.  "They hanK around the
Thc  other targets were  Marien-1'rliige of » bomber formation, wait- burg, rail junction in East Prussia
130 miles from Britain; Danzig Ihe former free port 800 miles from Britain, and Anklani. In northeast¬ ern Germany, 47 miles northwest of Stettin,
Besides the Gneisenau, the bat¬ tle cruisers Lutzow and Admiral Scheer, both of 10,000 to 12.000 tons: the heavy cruiser Print Eugen of 10.0(X) tons; the cruisers Nurnberg, Llepzig snd Emden. •om. 17 destroyers and several submarines wero believed to hh at (Continued on Page A-11)
He ndded ironically: "The Bushi- do i,iapanese chivalry! code ap- parontl.r has  safety  factor.s.  too."
TWO DIE IV PLANE CKAMH
Victoria. Tex.. Oct. 9 (UP>- Aviatlon Cadet James B. Shields, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Shields, .Niagara Falls, N. Y., wa.s killed yesterday In an accident irt- volving two Army planes, Aloe Field officers announced today. One other man was killed and two injured.
have been strong. If when it be- arose-and few in London think it ghis, the Red Army ik threatening wH^-the Red Army would in posl- to burst through to the borders of '""i to a-sscrt Russia's right to those Hitler's "Mittel Europa," with all ¦'"cas and it Ls difficult to see who the possibilities such a brenk-1 could dispute it, through would have, the Soviet political position will be almost un¬ assailable.
Seeond Front Vppemioet
The problems entailed In crea¬ tion of a second front are likely to over-shadow      post-war      political j TJ
fOAI. OrrPIT DOWN FROM PRE\-IOL'8 WEEK
Washington, Oct. 9. (UP>—Pro¬ duclion of Pennsylvania anthracite for the week ended Oct. 2 today was   estimated   by   the   Bureau   of
ines at 1.283.000 tons—16.000 tons
questions   at   the   coming   Moscow', ,_       .     .^ j. ,
„, ,.   „   .    .    ...     ^ '"¦"» .,     IcFs   than  in   the  preceding  week
Huge Flying Boat Has I Completed Test for Navy
Washington, Oct. 9. (UPI—The Martin Mars, th. world's largest flying boat, has completed a 4.A00- ti'le non-2top endurance flight pre pai atory to flnal acre]
bounded by Baltimore, Norfolk. Cape Cod, and New York, and covered a distan'-e equal to a non-1 ^yl,i^.l,  y,.\\\   be expected   to cooper
meetinjr, but either there or at the Stalin-Churchill-Roosevell confer¬ ence when and If It materializes
—the political and geographical questions must be settled.
The settlement that Ru.ssia will want is likely to clash with many ideas of the British and American publics, British diplomats do not believe the scarehead stories that Ruasia will attempt to communizc Europe immediately following peace. They insist that Russia's pri¬ mary consideration will bo the se¬ curity essential to enable her to build up her devastated countrj-- side,
Some AUies Will Be Hurt
But that security, according to the Russians, might involve con¬ cessions that will hurt some of Britain's nnd America's other friends, notably Poland, and which may be extremely unpalatable tn some of the smaller national grouiis in  the United States. i
Three   elements  are   Involved   inl Russia's    security:      Purely     geo-j graphic  considerations,   spheres   ol ] influence    and    types    of    govern¬ ments to be established  In Europe
but  4S,000  tons  more  than  during j tho corresponding week In 1942.
NELSON ARRIVES IN MOSCOW FOR TALKS
(BBC heard broadcasts by Radio France at Algiers and Cairo radio saying Fifth Army patrols crossed between Capua and the sea—a 17- mile stretch—and that the Germans were  bringing up reinforcements.
(Berlin radio, in a broadcast re¬ corded hy the United Press In New- York, described fighting between American troops and Germans along thc Guardla-Pontelandolfo road from three to l(^mill north of the Calore River In the Bene- vento sector.
(Berlin said "at least" one Amer¬ ican battalion was destroyed while In other localities nine American tanks were knocked out and Amer¬ ican losses ran nOO-dead in three days In one area.) Oppose Seven Divisions
Clark's main forces drove up to the Volturno with all their heavy equipment, transporting it across- the marshes below the river de¬ spite heovy gunflre from Immobil¬ ized German tanks serving as ar¬ tillery.   A   few   Nazi   rear   guards
By DON CASWELL
Allied Headquarters, Southwest "Pacific, Sunday, Oct. 10. (UP)— American Liberator bombera, at¬ tacking aa the Japaneae were in the last death-strewn atagea of their flight from the eentral Bole- mona, batt.red the enemy'a escape haven en Bour^nvlUe Island WednMday in a eoncentrated aa¬ aault on Kahili airdreme, it announeed today.
The raid, by four-engined planes awooping down upon the airfield at tree-top height, waa made a few houra before an outnumbered and outgunned U. 8. destroyer flotilla mauled and routed sr big enemy naval force that tried vainly to reach and take out Japaneae treops from their blasted Solomona held ings, Clesred From Area
Advices to headquartera indlcat ed th. Japanese had cleared out completely from the  central  Solo-
flghting.
CUdm Many Dead
Soviet communiques broadcut by Radio Moacow aaid 20,000 or more
Army was striking toward Vlteba from  the  northeast  and  southea In   a   wide   encircling   movemeni reminiscent  of  Stalingrad, Tremendous  artillery  duela  wer
Germans   were    killed    and   3.000 J being fought from opposite  banll
taken   prisoner   in  the   last   stages of   the   Dnieper.
of   the   campaign   that   ended   In {ported,    as    the
disaster   Adolf   Hitler's   ambitious;
drive   to   obtain   oil   for   his   war
machine from tha rich Caucasian
fields,
Germany aaid survivors ef its Caucaaua foreea had escaped by meana of an ingenieua wire rope railway across the narrow Ker chenski Strait, twe miles wide at ita broadest point, to the Crimea,
Speculation concerninit th. role being played by the colorful Timo¬ shenko in the smashing Red Army offensive was resolved dramatically when Radio Moscow disclosed thst he had been awarded the Order of Suvorov, first class, one of the Soviet Union's highest decorations
Axis   sources Soviets    "waga battles   for  the   widening  ot   the operational    zones    on    the    ril' bank of the {iver.'
The midnight communique sai4 Soviet forces wrecked er diaabM 2S of 70 enemy tanks that counter* attacked deaperately In one aeetor of tbe weatern hmnit mt 'tte Onie- per, killing more than 1,000 G«r« man troops and oceupyinc twi> reaiatance centera.
Light and heavy tanks were en> caging the main bulk of the Oer* man forces seeking to block the flanking maneuvers aimed at Kiev and artillery and heavily laden supply   trucks   were   pouring   int«
for his leadership In smashing the the   bridgeheads.    Soviet   antl-air« Nazis and their Rumanian satellites craft batteries were massed on tha
back into the Crimea.
The Soviet  midnight    communi que broadcast by Moscow said Red
.«mp.rvr,y   .r»m   ine   cenirai   BOio- j^ f ^    j^    through  In Ta-
^M    '.ITk'"',.'^."^ "?' »»"«•'"¦ man   Peninsula  to  drive  hundred.
a™.,.      '#•        '   \^^u"   between o,  Germans   into    Kerch    Strsits.
American forces and th. great base ,^,h,„    eight    troop-laden    barg.s
were  sunk.    Thousands   of   enemy dead  were   left  on   the   battlefield, the communique said,  and    much booty fell  Into Russian hsnds. Big Army Now Freed
With the Kuban cleared, an army of more than 350,000 Soviet veterans was freed to flght else¬ where, possibly on more northern fronts or in an asssult on the Crimea.
A sizable portion of the Ru.'.slsn Caucasus forcw was expected however, to be swung nortnwsrd to   the   Zaporozhe-Melitopol     srea.
at Rabaul, New Britain.
A atrang force of Liberators, es¬ corted by Lightning fighters, swept th. Kahili airdrome at dusk Wed¬ nesday, bombing and strafing park¬ ed airplanes. Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's communique said heavy damage was caused and that anti¬ aircraft positions near the air¬ drome wrt-e silenced. Three of the attacking planes were lost.
A 10,000-ton enemy transport part of a convoy of three trans¬ ports and three destroyers, was at¬ tacked and damaged by a Liberator
eaat bank to protect the operations on the opposite side against the hourly expanding Luftwaffe at* tacks.
EICHELBERGER BACK FROM PACIFIC FIGHTING
San Francisco, Oct. 9. (UP)—Gen. Robert L. Eihelijerge'r, the only one of a group of four American gen¬ erals not wounded in the battle ef Buna, arrived here tonight en emergency businesa leave carrjring a Samurai sword taken from ft dead Japanese officer.
Gen. Eichelberger led American snd Australian troops to victory over the Japanese at Buna and Sanananda,   New   Guinea.    It   wu
bomber Friday morning  near  Ka-|where,  by the sheer weight  of n»\^^  ,.„^   j^,p  ^^^^   ^^  ^^^  ^1^,^^
plngamsranga    Island.    280    mlleslnumbers   It  could  be '"P"^**'',,'" States   in   14  montha  of  duty,
the    main    communication  j__,. , ._ j,  ^^     ^
north  of the Jap base at Kavieng, I hreak
H*
Moscow, Oct. 9 lUP)—Donald M Nelson, chairman  of the U.S. War Production   Board,   arr after    Inspecting    the
battle field accompanied by repre-¦ sagging  central  front sentatlves  of the  Commissariat of Foreign Trade.
Embracing and kissing Gen. Bel- layev.    head    of    the    .Soviet    pur
New Ireland, the communiqu. alsoi "ne to the Crimea, 1 Southwest Pscific
command. |    While Red Army units along the °°"'^"""'- ^¦''"¦c
declined to discuss the war in the
captured    In    mop-up     operations
     turned out to be (rom the German: nounced   that   Wednesday
IviTh" tn<i«v 3'"'*  Tank  Division,   revealing that Ismail U.S. deatroyer task force'sank
'[Field  Marshal    Albert    Kcsselring I a  Jap  cruiser  and  two  destroyers
Stalingrad j had sent that outfit to bolster tho jln  turning bnck an enemy convoy
sagging  central  front.    Five  other:of   nine   wsrshlps   and   numerous
tank divisions and the 1st German | barges snd other small craft, head-
The   convoy   was  heading   north  '"'<'<11*     Dnieper    sent    reinforce- when  attacked and the destroyers ments   Into   the   three  msjor  west 200   DRIVERS  STRIKE. ntl-alrcraft  fire.        bank    bridgeheeads   at   scorea   o'     7^   ,,'',', ..'"''^•^'
offered fierce  an Saturday's  communique  had  an night  a
TIE UP BUS LINES
points,   according   to  front  reports reaching Moscow,  the White  Rus¬ sian forces smaslied withiii 18 miles     los  Angeles,  Oct.  9.  (UP)-Tw« of the rail line linking Orsha snd jj^^^^^j  atriking   bua  drivers   tied Vitebsk,   two   of   Germany's   four " '"   ""
parachutist division are now strung Ing^^ aouth. apparently t|kald In the across the Italy Une. I evacuation of the central Solomons.
Near thc Tj-rrhcnlan coast. Fifth IVoopa Enlarge Control
chasing mission to the United Army patrols were reported clear-1 j„ j^^ ,gj,j ^^.^^.^ against Jana- States,Nclson said he was happy ing out mines In Grazzanlse, on the n^,, ^ases above Finschhafen on the to come to Moscow, south   bank   of  the  Volturno   west i northeastern    New   Guinea    coast
"I came to visit and consult the of Capua, revealing for the first Rulbians on war production," ho time that town had been captured, said. (Continued on Page A-ID
major bases In that area.
Still farther north, th. Soviets fanned out from the vital rail junc¬ tion of Nevel, only 87 miles from the Latvian border, taking 24 towns and villages.
Chief    of    40    Inhabited    places
Troops Needed to Seat New Louisiana Sheriff
Naval Transport Service as ai trans-oceanic cargo carrier, thc Navy  announced   tonight.
The flight began at 7:19 a.m. Oct. 6 and ended at 3:36 p.m. the following day. The Navy said thc huge ship took off carrying almoat s carload of gasoline, leas than ca¬ pacity, and 22 persons, and landed with enough gas In Its tanka for several  more hours' flight.
The  Mars  flew   over    a    course
lie nigiii rrj- ^j.,     f.jji^^ Baltimore to Ber'ln
ptance by the;^|.    Baltimore    to    Honolulu.      lis
take-off weight was about 141.000'PORTUGAL REPORTED
SET TO FIGHT JAPS
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Will "Be Work Horse"
Originally designed as a patrol bomber, the Mars has been under¬ going structural and engine changes necessary for conversion lo service n.s a "work horse" In ferrying supplies between the United States and  outlying bases.
Before the Mars goes Into regular service, Ita record must he placed before the Navy trial board for verification of the performance fig¬ ures In  the endurance  te.st.
C, T. Robertson, civilian pilot. was at the controls for the takeoff. Representatives of the Xavy, thc Glenn L. Martin Co.. which buiit the craft, and the Wright Aero¬ nautical Corp. makers of it.s en¬ gines, were aboard. _^^
By IMTED PRESS
Tho Lcopoldville radio Satifrday night bioadcaat a /eport that "It is believed" Poitugal sent an 'ulti¬ matum" to Japan nnd that Portu¬ gal intends to "participate in the liberation of Portuguese islands occupied by Japanese forces in thc Pacific,"
The broadcast, which waa re¬ corded by thc United Press In New- York, quoted no source. It said lhat several shipa wrre reported to have arrived in Lisbon loaded with war raaterial.i anri that Lisbon has been strongly fortified with iinti-alrcraft defenses of ft "perma¬ nent character,'' .
and
Australian   forces   enlarging   their Ramu Valley positions worked inlo the Uria River Valley,  slightly to¬ ward the coast from their post at Threaten Vitebsk Dumpu.
up Santa Fe Trailways bus linat in flve states tonight, leaving hun* dreds of soldiers and sallora stranded during their week and leaves.
The    drivera,    members    ef    the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
      „ , , ihave  been   idle  two  days,   protaat*
taken In White Russia was Liozno. i„g against the dismissal of union a rsil snd highway town 2.1 miles chairman L. J. Pierce. However. southeast of Vitebsk on the Smo- grievance committeemen denied lensk railroad. .^hat  the   men  were    on    "strike."
They    said    that     Insubordination With  the capture of Liozno, the charges  against  Pierce  had    been A  headquarters  spokesman  said Soviet   intentions   in  White  Rusaia "trumped  up" and  as a reault thft this did not indicate a drive to the w-ere  somewhat  clarified   inasmuch drivers "were not in proper eondl-
coost. but that the forces were ex¬ panding the area held. The Aus¬ tralians are now 25 milea south of Bogadjim and 40 miles south of Madang.
Meanwhile, other aerial attacks by Corsairs and Alrcobraa were carried out against Jap positions on  Choiseul  Island, aouth  of  Bou-
as  tt  now  appeared   that  the  Red tion to go back to work.'
Poinle   a   la   Hacke,   La.,   Oct.   9i    Eleven   men   were   arrested (UP) — Louisiana,   State    Guards'; placed In a stockade, armed   with   machine   guns,   rifles j    fhe brick courthouse of Plaque^ and haiid grenades, rolled upoppos-!„,j„eg   Pariah   was   noiseless.     In¬ ed  down  the  deserted  main  strcet gj^e     aii    movable    orticlcs    were gain ville,   where   five   barges   were of   Pointc   a   la  Hache   today   and ,„issing  Permanent files and heavy strafed off the coast and an enemy installed  Walter  Blaize,  Gov.  Sam ^ furniture had been wrecked. Jones'    appointee    for    sheriff    of     out of the building walUfd Act- Plaqucmines Parish, in a wrcckcu. jng Sheriff Ben R. Slater.   I'l- had tenantless office, 1 remained, while Plaqueminc politi-
The thirty-one truckloads ofipai boss Lcander H. Perez and his guardsmen had been aent to en-i followers retreated by ferry across force martial law In this small i the placid Mississippi River. Soutli Louisiana parish and to put The shirt-sleev^ acting sheriff down what Jones had termed "in-1 fared the convoy, drawn up before aurrcction   and   open   r e b e 11 i on'the   courthouse   in   the   tniddle   of
Senate Will Receive Strong Peace Resolution
open against  law  ond   order.'
Instructions on behavior of In¬ habltanta of the parish given by the guards' Commander, Brig, CJen, Thomaa Porter, forbade gatherings of three or more people, and warn¬ ed that looting would be aummsu-ily dealt witlu ,^ .
town,   and   told   them   "the not over yet."
"Since w. can't ^et justice In a state court, we'll take our fight to Federal judges," Slater said.
Slater, who had been ordered from the courthouse,' was allowed then to leave and go home.
Unas Thursday night.
Eleven Jap bombers and 18 fight¬ ers raided Finschhafen Thursday fight's 1 night, causing few casualties. Over Vella Lavella Island, a heavily- outnumhered group of Coraairs In¬ tercepted a flight of 15 enemy n^liters Thursdsy morning and ahot down one.
In Wednesday night's midnight (Continued on Page A-ID
__ Washington,  Oct.  9.   (UP)—The approved Fulbright measure. Is ea*
medium  bombc^Vhot  down "wed-1^''"''^  ^°"'''"  ^^'^ '"   '°"'^''    °"   ^*   botteat
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A Liberator bomber attacked the "**''*>' of a post-war resolution Nations battle after the last war. airfield al Cape Gloucester, on the k''P*'^^^'' '° '^''" '°'' international Much material for the debate waft northwestern end of New Britain.ko"°P^''"^'°"- backed by force, to supplied t.iis week when five aena- Friday   afternoon.     Garove   Island *""'"'»'"   peace. tors recently returned from a tour
to the north was bombed by Cata-     Sen.  Walter  F.  George   (D.,  Ga.)  of  battle  theatres   reported to  tha
aaid tonight the po.st-war foreign Senate in secret session, relations subcommittrc—of whlchj Proposals were gaining ground he Is a member—will present a for an American policy of limited resolution to the lull committee imperialism to obtain outlying de* based on a draft by Chairman Tom'fense bases and secure sourcea'e( Connaliy iD.. Tex.', which is be-1 strategic material supplies. lleved to follow the policy line I George did not give details of tha recently laid down by Secretary | postwar reaolutlon. He said, how* of  Stale   Cordell   Hull. |ever. that  it vyss based on a draft
The new resolution, going beyond: by   Connaliy   which   the   sub-coob* the    generalities    ol    the    House-1 mittee  "changed and revuM^"     _^,
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