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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Cooler 37TH YEAR, NO. 50—44 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS CLEAR CAUCASUS V ——^—-a—^^—.i—.— ^ ^^-^— U.S. Airmen Smash Deep Into Naziland 4 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 f In Today'it laaue (latailled Kdltorial .'^loviea Social Rperta ..._.._.._.._..„....._ lUdin OmUloor B—11 C—2 ......B—l A—14 pounds 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 nesday afternoo. ^*c wili begin consideration VVcd-jSenate debate aince the League e( 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^" _^, t-l-t-:
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Cooler
37TH YEAR, NO. 50—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943
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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
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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
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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-
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.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:« |
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