America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

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Stokes: Looking back

By Thomas L. Stokes

New York –
It is trite to say it, but it is more true every time you experience it – the thrill that comes from going across the country and back again by train, as a number of us have done with Governor Dewey.

It gives you fresh enthusiasm and fresh energy for the plunge back into the selfish and self-confident East, which is not near so important as it thinks it is, and not half as human and thoughtful.

The experience makes you humble, almost reverent, wo see how much we have and how fine it is, and from what we started and what we have made of it.

It makes you understand why farm boys and city boys fight for it, and die for it. We massed them on this journey into America.

They will be back, the larger part of those boys, and they will grumble at what they find back home. That is as it should be. too, for that is what made us what we are, that continual discontent with things as they are. Some of them, too, will go to hospital beds, and some will lie there, disconsolate, watching the sands of life run out. And these, and so many others, will be disillusioned.

America is their sustenance and America cannot fail them again, as it did once before. Somehow, too, alter seeing America again, you have a faith that she will not fail them. We surely have learned much in the years between.

They will go back

They will go back to the places we have seen on this trip.

And they are good places, for the most part, except for those bleak tenements you see in the large cities. They are still there, though not so many as they once were.

The rolling prairie of Illinois, with the corn standing there in contentment, whispering to the wind. Iowa at dusk, a gracious country, with its comfortable farm houses and its big barns silhouetted against the horizon. The great stretches of Nebraska, now bare, now fruitful. The uplands of Wyoming and Montana where the sheep and cattle graze. And the mountains in the distance, with the cool and quiet refuge among the trees that you are conscious is there. and the jumping stream, hopping down the rocks, that the Indians knew and our children and our grandchildren shall know.

Suddenly, one morning, you raise the shade, and there are the Cascade Mountains, like long lines of furry bears, ambling off into the distance. Then you are riding down the Pacific Coast, through her lovely valleys so green and inviting, like the green pastures in the Psalms. There is San Francisco and that gorgeous harbor, and the people who live with a grace that New York cannot know. Los Angeles rises up like a great, luscious lady of pleasure, demanding her price always, a beautiful face and a cold heart.

It is a relief to strike the waste places again, desolate as they look from the train window, in Arizona and New Mexico, against the background of stark, lonely mountains for there at least is space, and some place to move around as an individual.

Good to remember people

Always, everywhere, are the small towns, lined up along the railroad track, where people still go to church on Sunday, where they grumble now at the restrictions somebody in Washington puts on them, and yet who give their boys unsparingly. To understand that, you have to know America.

It is good to remember the people as we saw them, so friendly to the stranger, so hospitable, so thoughtful, and yet apologetic, in a pioneer fashion, at what they offer to the visitor from the East who is so grateful for it all, and yet unable to say his thanks, self-conscious and humble in the realization of it.

And you remember, as you look back, the stout, dominating ladies of the GAR Auxiliary at Des Moines who were shepherding the handful of Civil War veterans about at their convention; the trainman and his wife who lived in a railroad car on the high plateau of the Cascades, sitting there watching the Dewey special train as it stopped for water; the four little Negro girls, neat and shining, who stood, hand in hand, along the street to watch the New York governor and his wife ride by in the parade at her home town of Sapulpa.

And the kids who run along the street and shout “Fooey for Dewey” and “We Want Roosevelt” and who, if the President should come along. Would probably invent some slogan that wouldn’t be complimentary to him.

For that’s the way American children are, and that’s why they fight for their rights when they get older.

And that’s the way their older brothers were who now are fighting in earnest somewhere.

It’s a great land – and it is still free.

Maj. Williams: U.S. airpower

By Maj. Al Williams

Auto industry unprepared for quick reconversion now

Sudden peace in Europe would mean six to nine months to make changeover
By Roger Budrow and John W. Love, Scripps-Howard staff writers


Sixth Bond Drive to start Nov. 20

Fortune poll: Businessmen support Ruml tax program

Favor elimination of corporate levies

Monahan: Since You Went Away comes to the Penn

Star-studded cast in touching drama about the home front
By Kaspar Monahan

Garrison: Sportswear prints are exciting as best Parisian styles

Colors and designs achieve newness in resort fashions for winter
By Maxine Garrison

Tigers top Nats, 5–2; Browns lead

Bengals edge close to flag with victory
By the United Press

Army still needs qualified nurses

Völkischer Beobachter (September 30, 1944)

Nachdenkliche Stimmen zum britischen Fiasko von Arnheim –
‚Das OKW spricht das letzte Wort‘

vb. Berlin, 29. September –
Wir haben in der letzten Zeit mehrfach feindliche Stimmen verzeichnet, aus denen hervorging, daß sich mit fortschreitender Stabilisierung der deutschen Westfront auch die Tonart der Gegenseite wandelte. Am dem voreiligen Siegesjubel wurde – wenigstens bei den als seriös geltenden Militärkritikern – eine nachdenkliche Betrachtungsart, die darauf hinwies, daß mit den vergrößerten Nachschubschwierigkeiten in der Zeit der Herbststürme, dem Fehlen von nahegelegenen Häfen und dem wachsenden Widerstand der deutschen Truppen der deutschen Führung die Möglichkeit gegeben werde, die Zeit zu gewinnen, die nötig sei, um die Westfront erstarren und deutsche Gegenmaßnahmen fruchtbar werden zu lassen. Der Wettlauf mit der Zeit, so betonen diese militärischen Kommentatoren, könne zugunsten Deutschlands ausgehen und das Bild des Krieges entscheidend ändern. Nach der Vernichtung der britischen Luftlandeeinheiten bei Arnheim hat diese Betrachtungsart der Kriegslage nun auch Eingang in die allgemeine Presse gefunden.

„Die Deutschen hatten seit Beginn der Invasion,“ so schreibt die Londoner Times zur Vernichtung der britischen Luftlandetruppen bei Arnheim, „ihren größten taktischen Erfolg.“

In einem Kommentar zur Lage in Holland bezeichnete der englische Korrespondent Frank Gillard das Unternehmen der britischen Luftlandetruppen bei Arnheim als einen „Versuch, der, wenn er gelungen wäre, den Krieg schneller beendet hätte, als es jemals ein Mensch habe Voraussagen können.“ Resigniert stellt Gillard jedoch fest, der Versuch sei an dem letzten von einem halben Dutzend Hindernissen in Gestalt von Wasserwegen gescheitert. Es sei ein „schmerzlicher Verlust.“ Ähnlich äußert sich ein amerikanischer Kommentar: „Es war ein tapferer Versuch mit guten Aussichten für einen vollen Erfolg. Aber er ist fehlgeschlagen.“

Die Meldung des deutschen Wehrmachtberichtes von Mittwoch über die endgültige Vernichtung der britischen Luftlandetruppen und die Gefangennahme von 6.450 Mann veranlasste einen englischen Kommentator zu folgender tiersinniger Betrachtung:

Diese feindliche Version muß als schwarze Seite des Bildes angesehen werden. Aber auch ohne diese feindliche Version wurde ein Versuch unternommen, den Ernst der Lage bei Arnheim abzuschwächen. Man gibt zu, daß die Kämpfe dort in einem kritischen Stadium stehen und mit Rücksicht auf die bestehende Möglichkeit, daß die feindliche Behauptung wahr sein könne, stellt man sich die Frage: Ist dies den Preis wert, ist es das Leben der Männer der 1. Luftlandedivision wert?

Neutrale Blätter ziehen aus den Ereignissen bei Arnheim die Erkenntnis, daß sich die Kriegslage zugunsten Deutschlands im Westen entwickelt habe.

„In Holland sind die alliierten Grundprinzipien dem besseren Soldaten zum Opfer gefallen,“ schreibt der militärische Mitarbeiter der Madrider Zeitung Informaciones.

Das deutsche Oberkommando habe in dieser Phase des Krieges, so schreibt der portugiesische Publizist Prof. Dr. Pimenta, das letzte Wort noch nicht gesprochen. „Dichte Nebelwolken umhüllen uns und noch dichtere Wolken aus Geschrei und Lüge. Das deutsche Heer ist nicht geschlagen, weder im Osten, noch im Süden, noch im Westen. Ein sich zurückziehendes Heer ist noch nicht besiegt. Der Sieger zieht sich des Öfteren zurück, bevor er den entscheidenden Sprung tut.“

Die gescheiterte Plan von Teheran –
Churchill dementiert sich selbst

Führer HQ (September 30, 1944)

Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht

In Holland setzte der Feind am 29. September seinen Druck gegen die beiden Eckpfeiler seines Einbruchsraumes fort. Gegen heftige Angriffe zur Bezwingung des Antwerpen-Turnhout-Kanals und zur Erweiterung des Brückenkopfes nordwestlich Turnhout stehen eigene Verbände in schweren Abwehr- und Angriffskämpfen. Stärkerer, bei Maeseyck angreifender Feind wurde im Gegenstoß zurückgeworfen.

Im Raum von Nimwegen und bei Metz kam es im Laufe des gestrigen Tages mehrfach zu erbittert gefühlten Luftkämpfen zwischen deutschen Jägern und feindlichen Jagdverbänden. Hierbei wurden 18 feindliche Flugzeuge abgeschossen. Im Frontabschnitt von Aachen bis Nancy beschränkten sich auch gestern die Kampfhandlungen auf einige örtliche Angriffe des Feindes und erfolgreiche eigene Gegenstöße.

Im Raum von Château-Salins und Lunéville gelang es dem Gegner, in erbitterten Kämpfen einige Höhenstellungen und Waldgebiete wieder zu nehmen. Die Abwehrschlacht in den Vorbergen der Westvogesen und nordwestlich Belfort dauert an. Um die Taleingänge kam es zu heftigen Kämpfen, in deren Verlauf an mehreren Stellen verlorenes Gelände im Gegenangriff wieder genommen wurde.

Die Festungen an der Kanalküste melden Artilleriefeuer und örtliche Kampftätigkeit. Vor Calais herrschte eine 24stündige Waffenruhe zur Evakuierung der noch in der Stadt verbliebenen Zivilbevölkerung. Die Besatzung von Gironde-Nord vernichtete feindliche Stoßtrupps und drang mit eigener Aufklärung wiederum tief in das feindliche Hintergelände ein.

Das „V1“- Störungsfeuer auf London wurde fortgesetzt.

Durch die in den Vortagen erlittenen Verluste geschwächt, hat der Feind seinen Großangriff in Mittelitalien zunächst nicht wieder aufgenommen. Nur am Monte Battiglia dauern die Kämpfe noch an. Auch an der Adriafront hat sich die 8. englische Armee auf den Kampf um Savignano und einzelne erfolglose örtliche Angriffe beschränkt.

Die Kämpfe in der Donauschleife beiderseits des Eisernen Tores, in die von beiden Seiten neu herangeführte Kräfte eingriffen, gehen weiter. Ein Stützpunkt an der Donau wurde den Sowjets wieder entrissen.

Deutsche und ungarische Verbände, von der deutschen Luftwaffe gut unterstützt, warfen östlich Szeged, bei Sarkad und im Raum von Großwardein die Bolschewisten und Rumänen wieder in Richtung auf die Grenze zurück. Die Stadt Großwardein ist wieder in eigener Hand. Beiderseits Torenburg und Sächsisch-Regen wurden heftige örtliche Angriffe des Gegners abgewiesen.

An dem zähen Widerstand unserer Divisionen sind auch gestern die gegen die Beskidenpässe auf breiter Front fortgesetzten Angriffe der Sowjets gescheitert.

Zwischen Düna und der Rigaer Bucht hat die Angriffstätigkeit des Feindes gestern nachgelassen. Unsere Truppen und lettische SS-Freiwilligenverbände schlugen alle Angriffe ab.

Während der Absetzbewegung im Nordabschnitt der Ostfront, über die gestern berichtet wurde, hat die Kriegsmarine wiederholt von See aus in die Kämpfe des Heeres eingegriffen und in kurzer Zeit starke Truppenverbände mit Waffen und Gerät, alle Verwundeten sowie Zehntausende von Zivilpersonen über See zurückgeführt.

Anglo-Amerikaner setzten am 29. September die Terrorisierung der westdeutschen Zivilbevölkerung mit Bomber- und Jagdverbänden fort. Durch wahllose Angriffe auf Ortschaften und Eisenbahnzüge entstanden vor allem im linksrheinischen Reichsgebiet Personenverluste. Britische Flugzeuge warfen in der Nacht Bomben auf das Gebiet von Karlsruhe.


Bei den schweren Kämpfen im Raum Nancy hat sich das Grenadierregiment 1120 unter Führung von Major Kopp besonders ausgezeichnet.

Die vor der französisch-belgischen Küste unter dem Befehl des Konteradmirals Breuning eingesetzten Sicherungsstreitkräfte der Kriegsmarine haben von Beginn der Invasion bis zum 30. September gegen eine drückende Luft- und Seeüberlegenheit in vorbildlichem Kampfgeist viele wertvolle Geleite durchgeführt und dabei fünf Zerstörer und 14 Schnellboote versenkt sowie zahlreiche weitere schwer beschädigt und 146 feindliche Flugzeuge abgeschossen. In der gleichen Zeit wurden – oftmals unter stärkster Feindeinwirkung – umfangreiche Minensperren geworfen und zahlreiche feindliche Minen geräumt.

In der Abwehrschlacht in Lettland hat sich die 19. Waffengrenadierdivision der SS (lettische Nr. 2) unter Führung von SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Streckenbach bei der Verteidigung ihres Heimatbodens hervorragend geschlagen.

Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (September 30, 1944)

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Communiqué No. 175

Enemy resistance in the Cap Gris-Nez area has ceased, and the long-range batteries there have been silenced.

At Calais, a truce has been arranged while the remaining civilians are evacuated from the city.

In the Scheldt Estuary, enemy movements were under attack last night by light bombers.

Our troops are advancing steadily on a six-mile front west of Turnhout in face of stubborn opposition. German counterattacks against our Nijmegen salient were repulsed north of Best and in the vicinity of Nijmegen. Allied forces advancing towards Hertogenbosch from the southeast are within four miles of the town.

Fighters and fighter-bombers closely supported our ground forces and attacked transportation targets in Holland. There was considerable opposition in the air and according to the reports so far received, 31 enemy aircraft were shot down by our fighters, four of which are missing.

Patrol activity continued from the Aachen area to the Luxembourg-German frontier, with enemy artillery fire on a slightly decreased scale.

Troop concentrations and strong points southeast of Aachen were attacked by medium and fighter bombers. Allied units made a local attack near Hürtgen, southeast of Stolberg. Further south, our troops made limited progress southeast of Prüm against enemy fortifications, eight of which were reduced in one attack.

In southeastern Luxembourg, we have liberated Mompach and Wasserbillig. Haute-Kontz, six miles south of Remich, has been freed.

West of Metz, an enemy thrust in the vicinity of Gravelotte was repulsed. Concentrated enemy artillery, mortar and small arms fire were later directed against our troops in this area. Two German counterattacks were repulsed near the Forêt de Gremecey, 14 miles northeast of Nancy.

In the Vosges foothills, the village of St-Gorgon, just south of the communications center of Rambervillers, was taken. Our positions west and northwest of Belfort were improved against intensified enemy resistance.

The offensive against the enemy’s railway system supplying the battle zones was continued. Medium and light bombers struck at railway targets at Geldern, Euskirchen, Prüm, Bitburg and Saarbrücken and rolling stock in the Rhineland was hit by fighte-bombers.

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The Pittsburgh Press (September 30, 1944)

200,000 NAZIS FACING TRAP
Yanks advance in two sectors

British menace escape of enemy in Holland; Calais truce ends
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer

Yanks invade more islands in Palau group

12 Jap ships blasted in Philippines, Indies

U.S. heavies raid three German cities


B-29 Pacific raid reported by Japs

By the United Press

americavotes1944

Vice President in city –
Wallace urges ‘cooperation’

Unity for prosperity termed U.S. need

Post-war prosperity will depend on the “utmost coordination and cooperation” between business, labor and industry, Vice President Henry Wallace declared here today.

This cooperation, he said, would include a matching of federal government efforts with those of cities and counties in setting up peacetime projects.

Praising this area as the “backbone of the war effort,” Mr. Wallace said:

The prosperity of Pittsburgh, like that of the rest of the nation in the post-war era, will depend on the utmost coordination and cooperation of all.

Confer with mayors

He made the statement at a press conference in the office of Mayor Cornelius D. Scully, where a few minutes earlier he had concluded a conference with the four mayors of the county’s first-class cities.

Speaking in rapid-fire fashion, Mr. Wallace said the mayors’ conference dealt with “grave” post-war municipal problems. He mentioned specifically Mayor Scully’s pet project, the improvement of the city’s water supply.

The Vice President said:

That’s quite a sizable project and will serve as a case in point, illustrating the necessity of coordinated effort between the county and municipality with the federal government matching their efforts.

Silent on plans

He was smilingly evasive on the question of his plans for his personal future.

“I have no plans for after Nov. 7,” he commented when asked if he expected to remain with the New Deal if President Roosevelt is reelected.

“That’s why he’s so interested in this unemployment question,” interjected Mayor Scully with a smile.

Mr. Wallace warned labor representatives at the Mayors’ conference that labor faces its biggest struggle – the problems of conquering unemployment and increasing labor’s purchasing power.

Mr. Wallace said:

As labor comes of age, and it is coming of age, it must concern itself with more things than just its fair slice out of the national pie.

He expressed the thought that labor, whose earning “represent more than two-thirds of the national income,” must inject itself more deeply into national problems.

‘Welfare of people’

Asked if it were true that “various interests” were seeking to control the New Deal, a thinly-veiled reference to the CIO’s Political Action Committee, Mr. Wallace retorted:

Various interests are always seeking to take over control of both parties. The main concern for the future should be the welfare of the people. It should not be a political concern.

The mayors’ conference was attended by Mayor Scully, McKeesport Mayor Frank Buchanan, Duquesne Mayor Elmer J. Maloy, Clairton Mayor John J. Mullen, County Commissioner John J. Kane, and representatives of the Independent Citizens Committee. Representatives of the United Mine Workers, the AFL, the CIO, the Railway Brotherhoods and Arthur Starr Brown (one of the two Negro electors from Pennsylvania) also attended.

Goes to Clairton

Bareheaded, Mr. Wallace strode from his room at the William Penn Hotel to the conference in the City-County Building so fast that his police escort almost had to run to keep up with him. He was apparently unrecognized on the street.

After the press conference, Mr. Wallace left for Clairton, where he spoke at an honor roll dedication at 11:45 a.m. A luncheon in McKeesport was followed by a visit to Duquesne.

He was to attend commissioning ceremonies of an LST at Dravo’s Shipyards, Neville Island, at 3:00 p.m., and will deliver a major speech at Carnegie Music Hall tonight at 8:30 p.m.

Speaking to a street audience of an estimated 3,500 persons in New Kensington late yesterday, Mr. Wallace said that his purpose in coming to Western Pennsylvania for a two-day speaking tour was plain: to urge the reelection of the President, and a great outpouring of voters.

He spoke in Johnstown, New Kensington and McKeesport yesterday.

He is jovial

If the Vice President bore any resentment over the party shuffle in which Senator Harry Truman replaced him as President Roosevelt’s running mate, it was not apparent yesterday.

His talk was jovial throughout, even when he referred to the refusal of the New Kensington School Board to permit him to speak in the High School Auditorium because he was to make a political address.

He said with a smile:

I’m glad it’s a nice day for the educational process can go on in the open air occasionally. Pennsylvania is truly a great state. One can find the most reactionary of reactionaries, and also the most liberals of liberals.

Record reviewed

In pleading for support for the President, and for “other party candidates,” Mr. Wallace reviewed Mr. Roosevelt’s record in both peace and war eras.

The Vice President contended:

He has done an outstanding job of a great which history will record. There may be some now who try to take credit for his work, but they will recover from that strange malady on Nov. 8.

Yet there isn’t so much actual difference between the Democratic and Republican parties, he said, for both are concerned with “men and dollars.” But he added:

Of course, the Republicans are concerned with the dollars first and the men second, and the Democrats usually put the men first and the dollars second.

‘Unions grow’

Mr. Wallace declared that as a result of the policies of the Roosevelt administration “there are five times as many, maybe seven times as many, dues paying members in unions as there were back in 1932.”

He continued:

When labor unions, with their own engineers, meet on equal terms with management in the formation of industrial policies there will be real democracy in the United States.

Immediately after the speaking program, Mr. Wallace left for Uniontown for a similar address.

Others to address tonight’s meeting in Carnegie Hall include CIO President Philip Murray, James L. McDevitt (president of the AFL, State Federation of Labor) and Congressman Francis J. Myers of Philadelphia (Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate).

Punitive plan demanded for Germany

Long-range program is also considered

Washington (UP) –
The State Department’s tentative plan for the treatment of Germany which the United States is likely to sponsor in Allied councils calls for punitive measures immediately after the war plus a long-range program for keeping German industry keyed to peacetime pursuits.

That is the broad outline of the State Department plan which have been in the process of formulation since the war started. President Roosevelt has now made plain that the policy for the control of Germany’s war-making power will be made “under the guidance of the Department of State.”

Confusion admitted

Mr. Roosevelt noted yesterday that there has been a lot of confusion between the long and short-range plans for Germany, and a high policy-making official emphasized there was a great difference between punishment of Germany and a long-range peace settlement.

The officials of all departments were said to be in general agreement on what to do with Germany immediately after she surrenders. Their short-range program is designed to drive home to the German people (1) that they have been decisively beaten on the field of battle and (2) that they must never again start another war.

Four major points

It includes four major points to be taken immediately after Germany collapses:

  • Complete destruction of the German military machine. This will be taken care of by the unconditional surrender terms of the armistice.

  • Eradication of all vestiges of Nazism – its institutions, laws, racial discrimination orders, leaders, and even its uniforms and symbols such as the Swastika.

  • Elimination of strictly war industries such as those which manufacture large guns and can serve no civilian purpose.

  • Prohibition of civilian as well as military aviation, and possibly the denial of any German to fly even a private plane for many years.

Program ‘harsh’

An official who has participated in most of the conferences on studies of Germany’s post-war treatment said there was virtually no opposition to the program’s general outline. It is considered “harsh” but no responsible government official has proposed that it should be other than that.

The long-range program for Germany, however, takes into account the fact that before the war she was the greatest industrial nation of Western Europe – a nation whose economy was closely intertwined with not only the rest of the continental nations but also with that of Great Britain.

Key industries involved

It will call for selective supervision or control of key industries which are needed to maintain German economy but which have also made it possible for Germany to wage war on a grand scale.

This program is closely related with the third point of the short-range program but involves industries that it is felt cannot be destroyed without disrupting the economy of a great part of Europe.

Details of the long-range plan have not been worked out. Many of them will depend upon what is left of German industry when the war ends.

But industries over which it is believed successful supervision or control could be maintained with a minimum of effort on the part of the Allies include the iron and steel industry, the aluminum and magnesium industries, the machine tool industry, the oil and chemical industries including manufacturers of hydrogen and nitrogen, and the railroad and electric power industries.

Control of the electric power industry in Germany offers the most intriguing possibilities, one official said. If control or strict supervision of the bulk of it could be maintained, it would be possible to control potential munitions makers by the flick of a switch.

It was emphasized that the details of the plans in the long-range program still remain to be worked out. Mr. Roosevelt urged the Foreign Economic Administration yesterday to accelerate the job.

Japs face retreat, Russian asserts

Reds ‘prepared’ public for ‘events’ in Pacific
By M. S. Handler, United Press staff writer

German traveler reports –
Astrologer saves Hitler from poisoned coffee

Visitor to Spain says Führer amuses self by tossing darts at Roosevelt, Churchill pictures

Donald Nelson quits WLB post