Roosevelt backs Hull on Argentina
Welles plea for recognition scorned
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Doctor’s wife testifies at socialite’s murder trial
Says phone call from Mrs. Andrews brought perspiration to farm boy’s view
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Poll: Public expects end of Jap war late in 1945
Drop in optimism shown in survey
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Airborne commander’s capture denied
SHAEF, London, England (UP) –
A German report that Lt. Gen. Frederick A. M. Browning, deputy commander of combined Allied airborne forces, had been captured at Arnhem was refuted today by an Allied headquarters announcement which reported him safe and unwounded.
Völkischer Beobachter (October 1, 1944)
Aufruf de Brinons an alle Franzosen –
Marschall Pétain Inhaber der legalen Macht
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Führer HQ (October 1, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
An der Westfront kam es gestern von Holland bis zur lothringischen Grenze bei zunehmendem Artilleriefeuer nur zu örtlich begrenzte Kämpfen. Die über den Antwerpen-Turnhout-Kanal vorgedrungenen Verbände der 1. kanadischen Armee konnten trotz unseres zähen Widerstandes die Gegend nordwestlich Turnhout erreichen, während starke englische Angriffe am Julianakanal bei Maeseyck scheiterten.
In den Wäldern westlich Château-Salins und im Raum nördlich Lunéville setzte der Feind seine starken Angriffe fort. Eigene Gegenangriffe führten zu heftigen Gefechten. Die Vorhöhen, Waldberge und Taleingänge der Westvogesen werden weiterhin erbittert umkämpft, überlegenen amerikanischen Panzerkräften gelang es im Laufe des gestrigen Tages in die Stadt Rambervillers einzudringen. Beiderseits Lure wurden alle Angriffe der 7. amerikanischen Armee in harten Kämpfen und in erfolgreichen Gegenangriffen abgewehrt. Starkes Feuer lag auch gestern auf unseren Festungen an der Kanal- und Atlantikküste. Vor Dünkirchen zerschlug unsere Artillerie feindliche Batterien. Eigene Vorstöße aus Gironde-Nord warfen den Gegner aus seinen Stellungen.
Sicherungsfahrzeuge eines deutschen Geleits versenkten in den heutigen Morgenstunden vor der niederländischen Küste vor Ymuiden ohne eigene Verluste vier britische Schnellboote und schossen ein weiteres in Brand.
In den Westalpen nahmen eigene Gebirgstruppen südlich des Monte Genevre eine stark ausgebaute und vom Feind zäh verteidigte Höhenstellung. In erbittertem Nahkampf wurde die Besatzung niedergekämpft, eine Anzahl von Bunkern und Geschützen zerstört. In Mittelitalien sind die Verbände der 5. amerikanischen und der 8. englischen Armee auch gestern nicht zum Großangriff angetreten. Der heißumstrittene Monte Battiglia im Etruskischen Apennin blieb nach wechselvollen Kämpfen in Feindeshand. An der Küste kam es zu örtlichen Gefechten am Rubikon.
Auf dem Balkan halten die Kämpfe im Donaubogen beiderseits des Eisernen Tores an. Im Raum von Großwardein brachen deutsche und ungarische Truppen im Gegenangriff den feindlichen Widerstand und sind weiter im Vordringen. Beiderseits Torenburg und an der Maros gehen die lebhaften Angriffs- und Abwehrkämpfe weiter. Hartnäckige Durchbruchsversuche frisch herangeführter sowjetischer Kräfte scheiterten an den Pässen der Ostbeskiden. In und westlich Warschau wurden weitere eingekesselte Bandengruppen zerschlagen. Die Reste dieser Gruppen kapitulierten bedingungslos. Zwischen Düna und Rigaer Bucht blieben feindliche Angriffe in unserem Feuer liegen. Die Insel Moon ging gegen überlegenen Feind verloren – Unsere Bewegungen in Finnland nahmen den vorgesehenen Verlauf.
Anglo-amerikanische Terrorbomber führten Angriffe gegen westdeutsche Städte, Besonders betroffen wurden die Wohnviertel von Bielefeld und Münster. In der Nacht warfen britische Flugzeuge Bomben auf Hamburg. 27 feindliche Flugzeuge, darunter 11 viermotorige Bomber, wurden abgeschossen.
Die Kriegsmarine versenkte im Monat September 17 Schiffe mit 84.000 BRT und beschädigte sechs weitere schwer. Ferner wurde ein Zerstörer, drei Fregatten, vier Schnellboote und ein Minensuchboot versenkt und ein Zerstörer beschädigt. Leichte deutsche Seestreitkräfte, Bordflak von Handelsschiffen und Marineflak schossen vom 1. bis 30. September 206 feindliche Flugzeuge ab.
Im nordwestrumänischen Raum haben sich die 1. ungarische Panzerdivision unter Führung von Oberstleutnant im Generalstab Deak und die 7. ungarische Sturmgeschützabteilung unter Führung von Hauptmann Török in Angriff und Abwehr hervorragend geschlagen – Bei der Niederwerfung des Aufstandes in Warschau haben sich die im Verband des SS-Obergruppenführers und Generals der Polizei von dem Bach unter Führung des Generalmajors Rohr kämpfenden Verbände des Heeres, der Waffen-SS und der Luftwaffe durch Härte und kühnes Draufgängertum besonders ausgezeichnet.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (October 1, 1944)
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Communiqué No. 176
Calais has been captured. The commander was taken prisoner last midnight and by early morning the main body of defenders had surrendered. Mopping-up of scattered elements continues.
The advance northwest of Turnhout continued to make progress.
In all sectors in Holland there was steady fighting during yesterday, with the situation generally unchanged. Fighters and fighter-bombers attacked railway wagons and other transportation targets. Enemy counterattacks on the west of our salient continued and northwest of Nijmegen there has been heavy fighting. Communications at Arnhem and near Goch, across the German frontier to the east, were attacked by escorted medium bombers. Trains, barges and motor transport in the Ruhr and northern Holland were attacked by light bombers during last night.
Yesterday, strongly escorted heavy bombers, in very great strength pounded the railway yards at Hamm, Munster, and Bielefeld in western Germany. Along the German frontier bordering southern Holland and Belgium, slight advances were made southeast of Roetgen and southwest of Prüm, where several pillboxes were destroyed and a number of prisoners taken.
Several small enemy counterattacks northeast of Nancy and at Jallaucourt were repulsed.
Northeast of Épinal, the town of Rambervillers has been reached by our forces against light resistance. Local gains were made east of the Moselle River in this sector. The enemy has been launching counterattacks and has intensified artillery fire.
Northwest of Belfort, a number of violent counterattacks were repulsed and our positions improved.
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 137
Isolated enemy forces resisting bitterly from caves situated on Bloody Nose Ridge at Peleliu Island were bombed by aircraft of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing on September 23 (West Longitude Date). Numerous 1,000-pound bombs were dropped to demolish remaining enemy fortifications on the ridge. With the exception of the resistance at Bloody Nose Ridge (Umurbrogol Hill) and in a small pocket on Angaur Island, the islands of Peleliu, Ngesebus, Kongauru, and Angaur are secured. Elimination of the remnants of the Japanese defenders continues. More than 10,000 enemy troops have been wiped out in the Southern Palau area since the invasion began.
On September 29, Liberators of the 11th Air Force bombed Shumushu Island in the Kurils. Moderate anti-aircraft fire was encountered. All of our planes returned.
The Pittsburgh Press (October 1, 1944)
Allies mass for knockout blow
Yanks near West Wall anchor; Allies pour into southern group
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Alfred E. Smith’s condition serious
New York (UP) – (Sept. 30)
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, 70, was in serious condition today at Rockefeller Institute Hospital, Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan, his physician, said.
“His condition is still hopeful. Last night, he did not respond to treatments as well as had been expected,” Dr. Sullivan said, without describing the nature of his illness. Mr. Smith’s family visited him at the hospital today, where it was said his condition was not critical.
Hobert Shot to Pieces of Wounded Knee shot
Washington (UP) – (Sept. 30)
Cpl. Hobert Shot to Pieces of Wounded Knee of South Dakota has been wounded, the War Department announced tonight.
Cpl. Hobert was serving in the European war theater when he became a casualty. He is the son of Charles Shot to Pieces of Wounded Knee.
Higher wages, security urged by Wallace
Vice President speaks at rally here
By Kermit McFarland
Higher post-war wages, a “broad” social security program, “full employment,” and great technological developments are the goals for America after the war is ended, Vice President Henry A. Wallace said in a speech at a fourth term campaign meeting in Carnegie Music Hall last night.
But these goals, Mr. Wallace said, will not be achieved if Governor Thomas E. Dewey is elected President.
The Vice President said:
I don’t say that Roosevelt alone will give you full employment, but he will come a lot closer to it than the other candidate. He will not de-pend, like the other candidate. on giving the green light to Wall Street.
The common folks will not vote for the man who puts Wall Street first and the people second, the man who is supported by Nye, the man who is supported by McCormick, the man who is supported by the whole motley crew of isolationists, the man representing the party which did so much to sabotage preparedness in 1940.
Opponents assailed
Mr. Wallace said the “financial misleadership” of the 1920s was responsible for the 1929 crash and the subsequent worldwide depression.
People who are skilled merely in handling dollars, pounds, francs and marks are not entitled either to national or to world leadership. Their roots do not go deep enough either in industry, in business, in labor or in agriculture.
Certain international monetary interests which are backing the Republican candidate are eagerly looking forward to his victory. They think it means their control not only of the United States but also, through their control of certain of the departments of government, a dominating position in world affairs.
Their goal is immediate power and profit.
Our goal is long-time health and productivity.
Murray, McDevitt speak
Speaking on the same program with Mr. Wallace were Philip Murray, president of the CIO, and James L. McDevitt of Philadelphia, president of the State Federation of Labor (AFL).
Mr. Murray said:
I should like to ask all labor friends here tonight to do a little more than attend meetings and pat their pretty hands. It seems to be the function of the great organization I represent [the CIO] to go out and get the voters this year.
It is the definite, God-given obligation on the part of all of us to render this particular service to our nation this year. This is more than a mere political fight to you of the mines and mills and the professional people. It’s a bread-and-butter fight. All of your eggs are in this basket, and you can’t take any chances.
Dewey’s security views hit
The Pittsburgh Press may denounce you. The Press and the Sun-Telegraph are doing a very good job of it now, blackguarding and creating hate and prejudice. The best job you can do to these sheets of the city of Pittsburgh is by getting out and voting.
Are you going to do it? Are you going to ring doorbells? You’ve got to do it. In the interest of your wives and your families and yourselves and your country, it’s your obligation.
Mr. McDevitt rapped Mr. Dewey on the ground that he had gone beyond New Deal security proposals at the same time his chief backers were blocking lesser measures.
“Oh, well,” he said, “they tell us to beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
The Vice President outlined three jobs which he said must be performed to give the country full production and full consumption:
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“To encourage both government and private business to complete the surveys, which they have already started, industry by industry and region by region, of just what is the capacity to produce in each area under conditions of full employment. This is a tremendous task, but some of the preliminary work has already been done by the Committee for Economic Development.”
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“We must complete the surveys which have already been started in nearly every city as to just what is needed in the way of public services. These surveys of public services mean little unless the federal government is prepared to cooperate with the local government in paying a considerable part of the cost… Generally speaking, the volume of public works in the blueprint stage is to infinitesimally small as to mean very little in terms of post-war employment.”
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“A third step involves a survey of export markets… This also means a survey of eventual willingness of the United States 10 or 15 years hence to accept a larger volume of imports.”
Saying that the nation must produce 50 percent more in peacetime goods than it ever produced, Mr. Wallace said two-thirds of the market for these goods is furnished, directly or indirectly, by labor.
High wages urged
He said:
If wages are cut, the market is cut. The surest say to bring on a depression and make it hard to carry the interest on the war debt is to cut the wages of labor.
When individual businessmen cut the wages of labor to make profits, they are initiating a movement which will inevitably cut their profits. It is vital to the profits of business that the wages of labor be increased at approximately the same rate as the efficiency of labor is improved by new inventions and superior management.
I do not say that all the fruits of efficiency should be passed on to labor because I recognize that some should be passed on to the public in the form of reduced prices and some should be reflected to increased profits of business, provided these profits are promptly declared out as dividends or used to expand plant facilities instead of being allowed to stagnate in the form of unnecessary corporate savings.
$2,000 a year minimum
Mr. Wallace said the post-war wage increases should come “after the danger of inflation has passed.” They should be adequate, he said, to bring about a 50 percent expansion in markets.
He fixed $2,000 a year as the minimum spending ability of an urban family with two or more children.
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