Defense may present case without calling socialite
Attorney says he’s confident prosecution has failed to prove murder charge
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The birth of a new France –
**French industry is at a standstill with immediate recovery unlikely
Electricity, gas and coal still lacking in Paris area
By Tom Wolf
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Simms: Paris Reds seek to cause French split with Allies
Communist paper in capital disregards U.S. help, plays up Russian role in war
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Planned economy program pledged by Gen. de Gaulle
French leader promises state control of all resources and condemns trusts
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
I’d like to have been at the White House the other day when Frank Sinatra had tea with President Roosevelt. They say Frankie really was proud.
Well, it isn’t everyone who can have tea with the President, and you can’t blame Frankie for wanting to throw out his chest. I’ll bet he never missed having one as much as he did that day.
I understand “The Voice” told the President how he makes the girls swoon. Of course, Mr. Roosevelt has a pretty exciting voice himself. At least the Republicans seem to get awfully excited when they hear his speeches.
Millett: Girls should choose own morals code, not be forced into organized goodness
‘Don’ts’ are worth less than nothing
By Ruth Millett
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Browns clinch All-St. Louis Series
Laabs’ two home runs beat Yankees while Nats subdue Tigers
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Billy was pulling for ‘em –
Southworth glad Browns won pennant but still expects tough battle to regain Series title
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Mike manners for candidates in book form
Broadcasters tell them how to talk
By Si Steinhauser
You’re going to hear some high-falutin’ political appeals from now on. The National Association of Broadcasters has just issued a book of instructions to candidates telling them how to talk on the radio, most impressive paragraph reminds candidates that people listen in their homes and that they are not addressing a convention where the “gang’s all here.” Simple, conversational language is recommended but throat-clearing isn’t.
Which will amuse anyone who has been around microphones. “Mikes don’t bite,” as a young lady titled a book about radio, but they have a way of taking a guy by the throat (by remote control) and choking him just about the time he is ready to take the air. His only way out is to clear his throat, and that is like saying to the listening audience, “Gee, I’m nervous, but I hope you’ll out up with me until I get this thing over with.” And no rule book will help the candidate. He’ll still be nervous.
In a convention hall, he knows everyone out front is his friend: even the guy who falls asleep and doesn’t hear a word he says is still for him. But the home folks have that little gadget called a “knob” which twists a dial when a candidate gets hard to listen to and “bingo” goes a house full of votes, the other way.
We still like the fellow who described radio as “a means of reaching so many without being reached.” That’s a lifesaver for a lot of candidates who can talk a lot but say nothing without being booed. And NAB books of directions won’t help, not even if the directions hanging on the microphone say, “Don’t shake before taking.”
Here’s a trip for candidates: Be yourself. If your throat gets dry, remember that the President once halted a broadcast and said, “Hand me that glass of water.”
Dick Powell’s radio earnings and part of his screen income launched the Powell Motor Scooter factory in California.
Christmas is coming department: Charles “Andy Brown” Correll has “just bought a 16mm movie film of Dickens’ Christmas Carol for his children.
Hey kids, Superman moves from 5:45 to 5:30 starting tonight.
Johnnie Johnston, Basin Street singer, is in the hospital and so is his appendix, but they’re not in the same room. The operator will cost him several thousand dollars in cancelled bookings.
Sunny Skylar wrote “A Little Bit South of North Carolina” with “hep yose’f” accent; then “Besame Mucho” which we’re told means “I Love You Very Much;” and now he is about to introduce a “Chinese Prayer” in song.
We’ll be glad when the election is over department: WCAE scheduled its customary Musical Parade at 10:15 tonight. MBS scheduled the acceptance speech of Darlington Hoopes, Reading Socialist candidate for the Vice Presidency, at 10:15. WCAE stuck to its Parade.
MBS scheduled a talk by Governor Warren of California for the GOP ticket at 10:15. WCAE changed its mind and detoured the Parade and promised you’d hear Governor Warren at 10:15. Now MBS has changed its mind and decided that Mr. Hoopes will go ahead and accept his nomination at 10:15 and Governor Warren will speak at 9:45. We give you their promises and if the schedules are wrong, WCAE’s phone number is Atlantic 6900.
The Democrats take up a new stunt tonight with five-minute broadcasts on the Blue Network at KQV. Senator Truman, running mate for the President, will speak over KQV from 9:55 to 10:00. And on Wednesday, DNC Chairman Robert Hannegan will speak from 9:25 to 9:30.
Edward G. Robinson stars in tonight’s Cavalcade of America version of the life of Tom Paine, if you remember your history lessons you’ll recall that Paine did some fiery writing in the days of the Revolution that produced swords and guns with which America was built.
Gladys Swarthout guests on tonight’s Telephone Tour.
Hedda Hopper launches her new quarter hour on WJAS at 7:15. Her program will be produced by Jack Meakin, remembered here as the husband of Patti Norman.
Robert Walker, Lorraine Day and Adolphe Menjou co-star in Shopworn Angel on tonight’s Screen Guild show.
Christopher Morely and “Esme of Paris,” ballerina, musician on five instruments, writer tumbler and newspaperwoman, born Esmeralda Consuelo Maria del Delgado de Holland sown in our native West Virginia (and there’s no Paris there) will join tonight’s Information, Please, “experts.”
Fritz Kreisler has chosen his program for his second broadcast on Monday, Oct. 9. He will play his own composition, “Schoen Rosmarin” and his arrangements of “Londonderry Air” and the first and second movements of Bruch’s “Concert No. 1 in G Minor.”
When Clark Gable returns to the business of acting, he will star on the Cavalcade of America as Cdr. Howard Gilmore, hero of “Take her down” fame who gave his life to save his crew.
Völkischer Beobachter (October 3, 1944)
Sie haben uns unterschätzt
Nüchterne Feindstimmen über den deutschen Widerstand
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Tokio über den Sieg von Arnheim
Tokio, 2. Oktober –
In einem Artikel über den deutschen Sieg bei Arnheim schreibt Nippon Times, alles deute darauf hin, daß die alliierte Hoffnung auf rasche Beendigung des Krieges vernichtet worden sei. Schon hätten die Alliierten eine Kehrtwendung gemacht und erwarteten nun einen schweren Winterfeldzug. Eines der wichtigsten Merkmale des deutschen Sieges bei Arnheim sei die Tatsache, daß er für die hohe Kampfmoral der deutschen Truppen auch nach den Rückzügen aus der Normandie und anderen Teilen Frankreichs Zeugnis ablege. Er beweise, daß die deutsche Kriegsmaschine entgegen den Behauptungen der Feinde keineswegs gelitten habe.
Führer HQ (October 3, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Die harten Kämpfe an den bisherigen Brennpunkten der Westfront halten unter verstärktem Einsatz der beiderseitigen Luftwaffen an. Die an einzelnen Stellen über den Antwerpen-Turnhout-Kanal vorgedrungenen kanadischen Verbände haben gegen zähen eigenen Widerstand Gelände gewonnen. Unsere Truppen verbesserten zwischen Niederrhein und Waal ihre am Vortage erreichten Stellungen und behaupteten sie gegen starke englische Gegenangriffe. Feindliche Panzerkräfte drücken weiter gegen unsere Front südlich Gennep, konnten aber nur zwei geringfügige Einbrüche erzielen.
Zwischen Maeseyck und Aachen nahm die Kampftätigkeit zu. Durch Gefangene festgestellte Verschiebung von amerikanischen Divisionen nach Norden kann als Anzeichen für einen bevorstehenden Angriff des Feindes in Nordholland und im Raum Aachen gewertet werden. Bei zahlreichen örtlichen Angriffen und vergeblichen Aufklärungsvorstößen des Gegners wurde eine Anzahl amerikanischer Panzer im Nahkampf vernichtet.
Eigene Angriffe entsetzten westlich Château-Salins eine vorübergehend eingeschlossene deutsche Kampfgruppe und gewannen mehrere Ortschaften. Im Parroywald wurde der erneut angreifende Feind abgewiesen und dann im Gegenstoß geworfen.
Versuche nordamerikanischer Regimenter, in unsere Höhenstellungen beiderseits der oberen Mortagne und östlich der oberen Mosel einzudringen, führten nur zu geringen örtlichen Erfolgen. Um einzelne Orte wird noch gekämpft.
Nach stärksten Luftangriffen des Feindes gingen auch die letzten Stützpunkte in Calais in erbittertem Kampf verloren. Dünkirchen und unsere Stützpunkte am Atlantik melden die erfolgreiche Abwehr feindlicher Angriffe.
Im Etruskischen Apennin hat die 5. amerikanische Armee ihre Angriffe von neuem aufgenommen. Unsere zäh kämpfenden Grenadiere schlugen sie nordwestlich Firenzuola zurück und fingen weiter östlich eingebrochenen Feind in der Tiefe des Hauptkampffeldes auf. An der Adria wurden englische Angriffe abgewiesen.
Südwestlich Temeschburg und im Donauabschnitt beiderseits des Eisernen Tores stehen unsere Truppen in heftigen Kämpfen mit angreifenden sowjetisch-rumänischen Verbänden. Stärkere sowjetische Kräfte sind in Weißkirchen an der serbisch-rumänischen Grenze eingedrungen. Westlich Arad, bei Großwardein und beiderseits Torenburg wurden bolschewistische Angriffe abgewiesen. An der Maros dauern die örtlichen Kämpfe an.
In den Ostbeskiden lag der Schwerpunkt der feindlichen Angriffe weiter im Raum südlich Dukla. Die Bolschewisten konnten nur wenig Boden gewinnen, erlitten aber hohe blutige Verluste.
Die Aufstandsbewegung in Warschau ist zusammengebrochen. Nach wochenlangen Kämpfen, die zur fast völligen Zerstörung der Stadt führten, haben die Reste der Aufständischen, von allen Seiten verlassen, den Widerstand eingestellt und kapituliert.
Von der übrigen Ostfront werden nur die Abwehr feindlicher Angriffe nordöstlich Warschau und erfolgreiche Angriffsunternehmen unserer Grenadiere östlich Mitau gemeldet.
Auf der Insel Dagö landeten, durch Tiefflieger unterstützt, starke feindliche Kräfte und stehen im Südteil der Insel mit unseren Besatzungen im Kampf.
Anglo-amerikanische Bomberverbände führten Terrorangriffe gegen Orte in West- und Mitteldeutschland. Vor allem wurden die Wohngebiete von Kassel und Hamm getroffen. In der vergangenen Nacht warfen britische Flugzeuge Bomben auf Braunschweig.
Über dem Reichsgebiet und dem Westkampfraum wurden 30 feindliche Flugzeuge abgeschossen.
Im Monat September wurden durch Jäger und Flakartillerie der Luftwaffe 1.307 anglo-amerikanische Flugzeuge, darunter 591 viermotorige Bomber, vernichtet. In dieser Zahl sind nicht eingeschlossen weit über 1.000 im holländischen Kampfraum abgeschossene Lastensegler. Truppen des Heeres und der Waffen-SS schossen in der gleichen Zeit 140 feindliche Flugzeuge und Lastensegler ab. An der Ostfront verloren die Sowjets 1.280 Flugzeuge.
Bei den Kämpfen im Raum südlich Château-Salins hat sich Leutnant Danowski, Kompanieführer in einem Panzergrenadierregiment, als Stoßtruppführer besonders ausgezeichnet.
Bei den Kämpfen westlich Château-Salins hat sich die 559. Volksgrenadierdivision hervorragend bewährt.
Im Nordabschnitt der Ostfront hat sich der Obergefreite Lawrenz in der 5. Kompanie eines Jägerregiments durch besonderen Schneid hervorgetan.
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Communiqué No. 178
Allied infantry and tanks have launched an attack in the area north of Aachen. Our troops have crossed the Würm River and the attack is meeting strong resistance from pillboxes and enemy artillery and mortar fire. In the area west of Hürtgen, an enemy counterattack was contained with no ground lost.
The attack across the Würm River followed an intensive air bombardment and artillery barrage. Escorted medium and fighter-bombers gave close support by attacking gun positions, troop concentrations and communications. Other fighter-bombers went for transportation targets in the Ruhr and in Holland, and approximately 1,200 escorted heavy bombers attacked industrial targets in the Kassel and Cologne areas and a railyard at Hamm. From these operations, 12 bombers and seven fighters are missing. Last night, light bombers continued attacks on transportation targets in northwestern Germany.
Our ground forces in the Dutch salient advanced several miles towards Meijel and other units freed Overloon in an advance against heavy resistance. Several enemy tanks and numerous anti-tank guns have been destroyed in the area and we are in contact with strong bodies of enemy.
Southeast of Arnhem, escorted medium bombers attacked strongpoints and fighters and fighter-bombers gave close support to ground troops.
On the west of the salient, we have extended our hold on the north bank of the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal west of Saint-Lenaarts. Progress was also made northwest of Turnhout.
In southeastern Luxembourg, our troops have reached the outskirts of Grevenmacher, on the Moselle River. Northeast of Nancy, the Forêt de Gremecey has been cleared.
Our troops have pushed ahead at a number of places in the Épinal sector, encountering stiff opposition.
Further south, Ronchamp, west of Belfort, was freed. German efforts to move reinforcements to advanced units were checked with heavy losses to the enemy.
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 139
During October 1 and 2 (West Longitude Date), continued progress was made toward eliminating the last enemy resistance at Bloody Nose Ridge on Peleliu Island, and mopping‑up operations proceeded on Angaur Island. The difficult work of rooting out enemy troops from nearly inaccessible caves continues. On the night of October 1, a single enemy plane dropped two bombs in a swamp near the airfield at Peleliu, which did no damage.
On October 1, 7th Air Force Liberators dropped 31 tons of bombs on the airfield at Dublon Island in the Truk Atoll. Two enemy planes attempted unsuccessful interception. Two Liberators were damaged by moderate antiaircraft fire.
The SS ELIHU THOMPSON, a Liberty ship operated by the War Shipping Administration and chartered by the Navy, struck a mine while entering a South Pacific port on September 25. Eleven Army personnel on board the vessel were killed by the resultant explosion and 22 are missing. No casualties were suffered by naval or Merchant Marine personnel. Survivors were removed from the THOMPSON by patrol craft and the ship’s own boats, and a Navy salvage unit took the vessel in tow and beached her. The ship can be restored to service. All next of kin of casualties have been notified.