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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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37TH YEAR, NO. 46—52 PAGtiS
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1943
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SALAMAUA LINE CRACKE
REVEAL ARMISTICE TERM
Rome Fights Nazis-^ltalian Fleet at Malta
RedsNearing More Sfringent
Than Germans Cave to France
Dnieper
And Kiev
'Report Germans 'Ree in Disorder'; Last Fortress East Of Hiver Doomed
Br BOBEBT a. MtSEl.
London, Sunday, Sept. 13. (UPt— German troopt arc flealng in dis¬ order before a Rtd Army advance on PavJograd, only 34 milei eaat of the Dnieper River, w-liile Ruuian ferret reached to within 94 milei of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, a RuMian communique reported to¬ day.
The Rtd Army, carrying the battle for the latt atrip of German- held Ruiiian toil eaat. of the Dnieper Into iti clii^atic phaic, regiatered general advancri on a 4A0-mlla front and regained nearly 200 tewna and village!, Soviet com- muniquei broadcait by Radio Moa- cow aald. Clote ii» 4,000 German llv«e were talcen yeaterday in the Rtd Army'a machine-like drive to the wett.
Seventy Inhabited placet were taken in the Pavlograd area, where tho Ruttlina cloitd in ittadlly on tht key comniunlcationa center 9!> milea loutheaat of the German atrong point at Poltava. VUI of Poltava Attored
"Our mobile unita, advancing and atrlking at the German flanki, are dealing determined hlowt to the enemy who, under threat of en¬ circlement, is retrcRtinK in dij- order", the Soviet midnight bulletin aald.
The deep and continued Ruxtian saint in the Pailograd area were regarded aa aealing the fate of Poltavt, where powerful German forcet have been entrenched.
Poltava, military expertii here pointed out, la the latt pottible fortroM where the Germane might hope to hold out east of the Dnie¬ per, It was the itarting place for tht German counterattack that atopped lart winter's Russian offen. aive.
Rolling up new gains on every key lector from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Russians cnp- tured the town of Plitkl, on the Klev-Konotop railroad 94 miles northeast of Kiev and only 24 miles abort of the Nezhin junction on the last German-held railroad eust of the Dnieper. BaUalion Hacrlfleed
The Germans fought fiercely for the   rail   town,   tacrifiring   a   full battalion of infantry in a eountrr- (Continued on Page A-11)
Advanced Allied HtmttpmiiM*, MeCiterrmnran Theater. Sept. 11. (UP)—The *^meoMditloiial aurrender" terma Imposed on Itnly gave the United NaMant free rein over hoth her people and peaeeealona ¦Hd <i«re even more aweeplng than theaf Impoaed on France by Oermanjr and Italy, • teat of the nimlatlce revealed tonight.
'Hm terma Impoaed by the repretentativea of Oen. Dwight D. Elaonhowvr, nctlng for the United Statteo, the United Kingdom nnd Rtusia, gave the AlHra free uwe of all N|y nnd port fncilltlea, Indudlng Coralon and tiie Oodeoanete Itianda, and reaerved the right ta Impoao mlUtnrjr law whenever It ahould he deemed necea- aary.
An Italian merchant ablpping siat made available for whatever uao the AlUea might wHh. and tho Italian fleet waa hound to bo ttmnafenod to any point deaignated by the Allied commander-in- chief.
INaarfiament 4etalla also ««ro to be preecrlbed hy tho Allied commander-in-chief.
Allied war priaonera in tho haadt of the Itallant were to be freed and all Itaiiaa armed forces weic to be withdraw* from every tiMater of war.
la addition, the ItaHana homd themaelvea to "deny Oermaaa facUMea that might he n«e« agAlMt tlM United KaUena."
TIM Mallni gavatmnant gnataatead that It would "employ all ' aviUlaMa atmc< forcee to Inauro prompt and eaact compUaaae with an piavltlaaa a( tha amdaMea."
illia<ialliW tka tabl 4efMt af the Hallana and the accordingly maeh moto aMagent tanaa o( tka anMtaUce, H waa recalled that the rreach wroiw aMa to retatai llMtr fleet and territorlet outaMo t'laace, aad even nominally weaa allowed to maintain their own government outside militarlied nprth Franco aad the Fieneh AttanMe eeaat.
Tho teat of tho armlatice fellowat
1.—Immediate eeaaaUon of aU hoatlla acUvity by ItalUn armed foreea.
"t.—Italy will ate Ita beat endeavera to deny to tho Oermana farillMes that might be used againat tho United Natlona.
"•.—All priaanora or Internees of the United Natlona to ImnMdl- (Continued on Page A-ll>
Battling In Streets Of Capital
Refutes Germans' Capitulation Claim; Taking North Italy, Allies Winning-So'jth
Jungle Fighters Have Japanese In Full Retreat
Abandoning Even Artillery; Lae Also in a Nutcracker; Down 33 Planes at Kahili
By DONTaSWELL By JOSEPH w. GRIGO Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Sunday, Sept. 12
London, Sept. 11 (UP)-German (f P)—A spokesman for General Douglas MacArthur an- and Italian troops are locked In nounccd today that the fall of Salamaua, Japanese stronghold bitterttreet fighting in Rome, mill-1 on the southern side of Huon Gulf in New Guinea, was "^Z 'T.Z'L:^ 'Z'^:' thVt""S! imminent after American and Australian jungle troops had
cracked its defenses and had driven the enemy into "faU retreat."
The Allied announcement stated that the Japanese Una had been smashed Saturday and "our troops are prcsaiac the fleeing cncny." The Japaaesa kft awBjr hiuMifAi ^- dead before SalaauMW uid ataBdaaai Brack a^Bipaiwrt*
The spokesman said Japanese troops had been clearad from the territory  south of the  Fi-ancisco River belovr Salamaua peninsula. The Japanese were routed from Sc( Rid(re, Scout Camp, Nuknuk and Kennedy's Crossing.
Tlie Australians were exertinfr pressure along Kila Ridg* a mile west of Salamaua, while coastal forces had advanced to the mouth of the Francisco River,
Allied foixes broke through the heavily fortified line just outside Salamaua a week after MacArthur personally had
opened .i companion drive against
Nazi propaganda claims that the city had capitulated and the great¬ er part of the Italian peninsula was In German hands.
Prom facts, claims and counter- claima It appeared that the Allies were tightening a'three-way grip on South Italy while th* Oermaaa were .taking aver In tho north.
Premier-Marshal Pietro BadogUo, King Victor Emmanuel and Crown Prince Umberto were believed to be at Allied headquarters In Sicily. Benito Mussolini atlU was unac¬ counted for. Reports ranged from speculation that he waa about to bt turned over to the Alliet for trial aa a war criminal to a Berlin guest that he was in North Africa. SUft Resistance In Rome
Spokesmen here said that the Italtana were putting up atiff re- (Contlnued on  Page A-2)
ARGENTINA DENIES REVOLT REPORT
Buncos Aires, Sept. 11. (UP)—The I tion this very day had reiterated government of President Gen. Ped- their absolute solidarity with the ro Ramires tonight officially denied | national    govei^ment,"    the    an-
Bulgar Government Quits, London Saya
London, Sept. 11. (UP)—The Bulgarian government resigned today after the Council of Regenta had assembled.
Interior Minister Peler Gab- ro>vski was appointed provisional premier and foreign minister pending the designation of a new premier. Other members of the government were retaining their posts for the time being.
Hnrihy Calls Ministers
Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Re¬ gent of Hungary, has called a "most Important conference" of former prime ministers and for¬ eign ministers, the British radio aaid Saturday in a broadcast heard by CBS at New York. The broadcast also reported that Hun¬ gary had appointed a minister to Denmark for the first time In what BBC called "an emphatic demonstration of sympathy With the Danes."
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rumors circulated abroad" that it had been overthrown by a mlliury movement, and a presidential proc¬ lamation stated that the regime born of a revolution last June would act according to the demands of the nstion's "dignity and inter¬ ests".
(A dispatch from Santiago, Chile. quoted a highly authoritative source that the government of Argentina had been overthrown by a military movement.)
The Argentine government press office announced late tonight that Lieut. Col. Hector Ladvocat, chief of th4 office of Information and the press, had made a categorical de¬ nial of tho reports of a new revolt. Army Solid
"Contraril.v, Ladvocat pointed out led    at    former that the  armed  forces  of  the  ns- Segundo Storni,
nouncement stated,
Ramirei earlier had announced his intention of continuing his gov¬ ernment's present policies, presum¬ ably including neutrality, after 50 high army and navy officers had pledged confidence In his leader¬ ship. The press office also re¬ leased a proclamation signed by Ramirez . and addressed to the Argentine people.
"The historic tradition of a na¬ tion which haa since its birth been a free country on the road of peace, work and justice, a trilogy of vir¬ tues which made it deserving, can¬ not be deceived nor blurred by con¬ fidential expressions of any high official,"   the   proclamation   began.
The reference was believed point- Foreign Minister who resigned  last
Thursday after publication of an exchange of letters between Storni and U, S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull had stirred a controversy In Argentina. Hull had rebuked Ar¬ gentina severely for its policy in regard to the war,
Ramires declared that hit gov¬ ernment had taken upon Itself "the ineicapable responsibility of lead¬ ing the country by the road of its great destinies In order to dense the Internal order and restore the empire to Justice." Feel of Sacrifice
"The sentiments of American solidarity which Induced our le¬ gions to sacrifice their lives in be¬ half of the Independence of sister nations, later galvanlied by the unbreakable friendship which they cultivated impelled by a common ideal for peace and increasing cul¬ ture, is more than sufficient to (Continued on Page A-11)
What Really Hurts     By Raymond Clapper
Washington.—Yqu who are figuring how much money you can invest in War Bonds, have you, I wonder, thought of some of the same thinga that haunt me since I came back from Africa and Sicily?
In the last few days I have »e»-:i some advertis¬ ing for the Third War Loan Drive which empha¬ sizes the tneme that "thi.i one's going to hurl!"
No matter how many bonds you buy you won't suffer like the soldiers I saw on the stretchers in ambulance airplanes being flown from Sicily to hos¬ pitals back in Africa.
And it is not only the physical suffering. In fact, the casualties so far, thank God, have been relatively few. What hurts over there la something else.
Every time I think of the war over there I see the eyes of men who have wrung my hand and asked me when I arrived back home to telephone to a wife or mother in America.
I am haunted by the memory of a young soldier on the next cot. When they woke him up he leaped to his feet with a moan that I shall never forget. He apologized and explained that he was dreaming that he was holding on hiy lap his six- months-old baby boy whom he had never seen.
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An incident like that almost makes one ashamed to come back home to his family and to the un¬ believable luxury and comfort of living in America.
If you knew how those men crave just a plain American hamburger sandwich, how weary they become of eating canned rations, how they dream of stepping up to a soda fountain in the corner drug.'itore, you couldn't possibly he seriously think¬ ing that you could buy bonds until it really hurt.
It seemed to me over there that the pervading agony of this war is not the pain of wounds and not the physical danger. It is the agony of home¬ sickness, of separation—indefinite separation   from
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parents and aweethearts, from wives and children. Ch'er there I aaw men who will not be home to aee their families, I fear, for a long time to come. Some of them are men who have held very prominent positiona in the life of their communities. Who of US can give until It hurta as it must hurt those men at timet?
I talked with men In Iceland who had been on that barren(, cheerless, lonely station for two years. I talked wHh fathers In Sicily who were soon to be grandfathers. Thia is not only a war of young men. It seems to have pulled In an amazing number of middle-aged men who had long ago become rooted with their famillea in communities all over the United States.
Naturally, since I came home I think back a great deal about those four months In Europe and Africa. You don't think back much about the danger and the casualties. That U a relatively small part of the war to most men over there. Of the hundreds of thousands In our forces, relatively few are lost or wounded.
Thousands and thousands of men In Africa and even in Sicily have been in less danger than thev were driving automobilea on crowded week-end roads in America.
For most of our men abroad it la not danger but boredom, loneliness, homesicknesa for famil.v, for American movies, for apple pie with cheese on it. for that bungalow and the garden to dig in, and the jig aaw and the cellar to work In of a rainy Sunday morning.
As John Steinbeck said In England. American wives never will be so lovely and so perfect as they are now—as they live in the dreams of their hus¬ bands far away.
Do you think abou^ those things as you  figure
Clark's Sth Army Scores Victory in Italy
Captures Salerno After Landing As Planes Pin Down Germans; Britisli Spreading Out in South
By DOXALD COB
Allied Headquarters, North Af¬ rica, Bept. 11. (UP)—The heaviest fighting of the Italian campaign raged In the Naples area tonight, with the American 6th Army scor¬ ing Its first victory by capturing the rail and port city of Salerno at Allied warships and planet joined the big offensive.
On -the other two fronts the British 8th Army pushed ahead 15 miles in 24 houri to reach the 21- mile wide Calabrlan bottleneck and other British troops who took the Taranto naval base on Friday were reported fanning out in three direc¬ tions up the Italian "heel" after occupying several airdromes.
Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Am¬ ericans, who pushed ashore below Naples Thursday morning, smashed forward approximately 10 miles to reach Salerno, their first objective, well ahead of schedule. A United Prets correspondent with naval forces which supported the land¬ ing said the Sth Army, in Its first action of the war. went ashore 40 miles below Naples, which Is SO miles up the coast from Salerno. Planes Hailed Oemiant
The American and British troops, who followed them ashore, were reported  beating down  fierce  Ger¬
man counter attaclct and driving tteadlly Inland under tho cover of a vast aerial umbrella. British and American bombera and fighters, operating night and day, punished a dozen key communication points along   a  wide  are   around   Naples.
the Japanese air field and kept up constant pressure from both lahd and sky.
The Allied offeniive against tha Japanese strongholds in the cen- tral sector of Northeastern New Guinea began about July 1 and coincided   with   a   major  offensiva
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sector   for   the   final
Lae, major Japanese base opposite Salamaua, with a twin amphibious , landing  and   paratroop   operations , from the east and west.
The Japanese, in their haste to give   up   the  hopeless   position  at Salamaua, even left their artillery,! the cnnimunique said.   The enemy's I
defenses of the area had consisted I 	
of a .series of strongly-prepared ij" ,«:'"r ^^e enemy from the (Ten- positions on precipitous spurs and f,"" Solomon Islands. During July knolls ••      f ¦- .the   Japanese   forces   were   forced
"Our losses in the attack, which I ""dually from their positions south- was made after heavy artillery pre-1 «••»'»' ^""T? Z"t ? h"^II1 paration, and during the entire |'heyJ)egan a last ditch stand just Salamaua operation, were light," !'>"'«'''• '"• '°wn, the Allied announcement said, and | On Aug. 21 the Japanese wera were only a small fraction of those: reported "in full retreat" to Bala- inflicted upon the enemy. mauat  inner  defentet.
The collapse of the defenses at! Allied air reconnaissance unita Salamaua was regarded as a major ranging over the Vitiaz Strait area step toward driving the Japanese of New Guinea at night strafed from the entire Lae-Salamaua area'installations on Long Island and of Northeastern New Guinea.   The,attacked   barges  at coastal   poiatg
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to  the
push   againat the trapped enemy garrison. Apparently air operations were at By tTflTED PRESS
by     the ^ minimum.   The communique said than    48 adverse weather had hampered ail
roada zone.
Salerno, a town of t4,129 persons from which railroada radiate In all directions,     was     taken Amerlcant    Friday,    less
hours   after  going   Into   their  first aerial  activity. "»'''• Steady Driving
Taking  Prisonera |    .p^,    ^,„jg    ^^^    ^^^    driving
The Amerlcant already have steadily on Salamaua for several taken 200 German prisoners In the 1 weeks from the rocky, difficult Naples fighting and got another 9llrldget forming a natural protective In  capturing  Ventotone   Island,   40 Une,    Australians   and   Americans
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aiileif west of Naples.
Tho Germane defending the Naples sector were reported fight¬ ing stubbornly—they counter-at¬ tacked several times Friday be¬ fore Salerno fell—but apparently were holding back some reserves In anticipation of new Allied land¬ ings.
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Non-Stop Bombing Raids Of Europe Resumed
had   pierced   to  within  a  mile  of;
The Italians still hold Come, on the Swiss border, and "soma thousands of British, French and Greek prisoners" who escaped from concentration camps at Ber¬ gamo swnrm through the streeti, the Swiss radio at Schwarsen- berg said Saturday in a broad* cast recorded by U. S. govern* ment  monitors.
22 Italian Warships Join Allies at Malta
4 or 5 Battleships Among Units Which Escaped Germans
Spitfire and l^phoon fighters, blasted enemy shipbuilding yards and airfields In northern France today, resuming the daylight air offcn.sive against Europe after a one-day lull following Thursday's round-the-clock pounding involv¬ ing more than 3.000 planes.
American Marauder bombers en¬ countered the strongest enemy air opposition over Letrait near Rouen where   they    bombed   shipbuilding
here. Allied headquarters confirm* ed German.v's claim of having sunk one battleship between Corsica and Sardinia.
(A Swiss   radio  broadcast  heard'
  I in London reported thnt fifth Ital*
By FREDERICK HI'DSON ian battleship, of the 35.000-ton Ut«
Valletta, Malta, Sept. 11. (UP)-;torio class, had arrived In Malta. Twenty-two warships of the Italian The broadcast wa^ heard by Ex- fleet, including most of the battle-1 change Telegraph Agency.
London,   Sept.   11.    (UP)—Allied     A   formation  of  U.S.   marauders,"hips   still   afloat,   have   arrived   at      (The   Swiss   broadcast   identified   ' bombers,   escorted   by   swarms   oflgnd a Royal Netherlands squadron"^" British naval base after escap- the battleship as the Vittorio Veno*
, -,,. .   „ .      . ... iing the Germans at La Spezia and! to >
of Mitchell bombers raided an a.r-,Ta„nto nnd more were expectcd| ,The London Evening Standard field at Beaumont-le-Roger for the momentarily here and at other reported from Palma de Mallorca fourth raid on that city. One enemy Allied portrf. | in the Spanish Balearic Islands that
fighter was destroyed in this opera- | The Italian warcraft. with an 12 units of the Itallon fleet had ar* lion. lescort of battle-stained British  de-1 rived there.)
Typhoon bombers, escorted byrStro.vers that stood out in vivid The arrival of the fleet at Malta typhoon fighters, blasted an air- contrast, steamed slowly ,up the! raised to 30 the number of major field in the wooded hills near Malta channel late yesterday and Italian naval units known to hava Beauvais, approximately 54 miles today while thousands of MallrsOscaped the Nazis. In addition ta northwest of Paris, jammed the shoreline, watching thej the   vessels   here,   dispatches   from
Returning   pilots   reported   good parade of Italy s naval might  now La    Linca,    Spain,    reported    twa
yards.  Polish and Norwegian fight-; bombing results on all targets and surrendered  unconditionally to  the'cruisers    two   destroyers   and   twa
erpilots. however, shot down seven; all    U^     planes    returned    safely. | Allies. I auxiliary  craft,  apparently  aircraft
Focke-Wulf    190s   and    a    BritishjFour  RAF   and Dominion  fighters. Four Battleships 'carriers   had  arrived  at Gibraltar
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•n"! 11 destroyers gained lanctuary I        (Continued  on Page A-S)
Mn fierce combata.
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