New York (UP) –
Earl Browder, president of the Communist Political Association, today withdrew from a radio debate with George E. Sokolsky, New York Sun columnist, scheduled for next Sunday, with the comment that he would not appear “due to conditions beyond my control.”
Browder was to have taken the negative on the question “Can Peace Be Won Without Roosevelt?” in the Wake Up, America! Forum sponsored by the American Economic Foundation.
Völkischer Beobachter (October 5, 1944)
Dr. Goebbels sprach in einer Kundgebung harter Kampfentschlossenheit
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Der Vatikan protestiert gegen Besatzungsgreuel
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Führer HQ (October 5, 1944)
An der belgisch-holländischen Grenze südwestlich Arnheim und an der Maas beiderseits Gennep dauern die heftigen Kämpfe mit sich verstärkenden kanadischen und englischen Verbänden an. Der Feind gewann nördlich Tumhout erneut Boden. Seine Versuche, nach Tilburg durchzustoßen, wurden unter Abschuß von 25 Panzern verhindert.
Nach massierten Angriffen beiderseits Geilenkirchen konnten die Nordamerikaner ihren Einbruch bei Ubach erweitern, verloren aber bei einem Gegenangriff unserer Grenadiere mehrere hundert Gefangene und einige Panzer. Im Kampfraum Metz kam es zu örtlichen Gefechten. Um eine Einbruchstelle wird noch gekämpft.
Im Parroywald und auf den Vorhöhen der Westvogesen behaupteten unsere Korps in schweren Kämpfen ihre Stellungen gegen zahlreiche Angriffe von Verbänden der 7. amerikanischen Armee und warfen in kraftvoll geführten Gegenangriffen eingebrochenen Gegner wieder zurück.
Unsere Stützpunkte am Atlantik bekämpften wirksam Ansammlungen des Feindes und wiesen Aufklärungsvorstöße ab.
In Mittelitalien liefen sich auch gestern wieder die starken Angriffe der 5. amerikanischen Armee an der von unseren Grenadieren und Fallschirmjägern zäh verteidigten Bergstellung des Etruskischen Apennin fest. An der adriatischen Küste scheiterten mehrere Vorstöße des Gegners.
Im großen Donaubogen sind bei und nördlich Zajecar schwere Kämpfe mit den weiter vordringenden Sowjetverbänden im Gange. Auch nordöstlich Belgrad wird erbittert gekämpft.
Im ungarisch-rumänischen Grenzgebiet erzielten ungarische Truppen bei Mako örtliche Fortschritte. Südlich Großwardein schlugen unsere Grenadiere feindliche Kräfte in schwungvollen Gegenstößen zurück. Der Gegner erlitt in diesen Kämpfen hohe blutige Verluste.
Weitere sowjetische Angriffe im Raum von Torenburg und im Szekler Zipfel wurden im Wesentlichen abgewiesen. Um eine Einbruchstelle wird noch gekämpft. In den Waldkarpaten blieben heftige Vorstöße der Bolschewisten in unserem Abwehrfeuer liegen.
Die Durchbruchsversuche neu herangeführter sowjetischer Divisionen an den Pässen der Ostbeskiden blieben auch gestern ohne Erfolg. Die feindlichen Angriffe brachen zum größten Teil bereits vor unseren Stellungen im Feuer unserer Artillerie zusammen.
Am Narew nördlich Warschau brachten einige örtliche Angriffe Erfolge. Ein sowjetischer Einbruch in unsere Stellungen nordwestlich Schaulen wurde abgeriegelt.
Am gestrigen Tage griffen nordamerikanische Terrorbomber das Stadtgebiet von München an. Es entstanden Schäden an Wohnhäusern, Kulturstätten und öffentlichen Gebäuden; unter anderem wurden mehrere Krankenhäuser und sieben Kirchen zerstört beziehungsweise schwer getroffen. Flakartillerie der Luftwaffe und Jäger schossen am gestrigen Tage 21 anglo-amerikanische Flugzeuge ab.
Bei den Abwehrkämpfen nordwestlich Metz und in Luxemburg haben sich in der Zeit vom 8. bis 11. September die Panzerbrigade „Feldherrnhalle“ und Verbände des LXXXII. Armeekorps besonders ausgezeichnet. In zweitägigen harten Kämpfen vereitelten sie durch Angriffe in die Bereitstellung des Feindes den Durchbruch von zwei amerikanischen Divisionen auf Trier und vernichteten dabei 142 Panzer und Panzerspähwagen, 40 Panzerabwehrgeschütze, eine große Anzahl gepanzerter Fahrzeuge und drei feindliche Jagdbomber.
Verbände des II. Jagdkorps unter Führung von Generalleutnant Bülowius erzielten über dem Westkampfraum seit Invasionsbeginn den 1.000 Luftsieg.
Bei den Kämpfen im Raum von Arnheim hat sich eine Flakkampfgruppe unter Oberst von Swoboda besonders hervorgetan. Bei den Kämpfen im Gebiet der baltischen Inseln haben sich norddeutsche Landungspioniereinheiten unter Führung des Ritterkreuzträgers Generalmajor Henke besonders ausgezeichnet.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (October 5, 1944)
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North of Antwerp, the enemy is being driven from the perimeter forts. Kappellen and Stabroek are in our hands.
Further progress has been made north and northwest of Turnhout and we are advancing north of Poppel and Barlé-Nassau. The capture of Hilvarenbeek has brought us to within five miles of Tilburg.
South of Arnhem our troops have gained some ground in heavy fighting. On the east of the salient in the area of Overloon, we are moving ahead slowly, hindered by marshy terrain and enemy mines.
Allied infantry, supported by armor, is making slow progress near Ubach-Palenberg, north of Aachen, against heavy opposition from enemy small arms, mortars, anti-tank guns and artillery. A German tank attack was repulsed by our infantry in the vicinity of Herbach.
Fighters and fighter-bombers supported ground forces during the day and went for transportation targets in western Germany. Night bombers attacked trains and barges in Holland and northwestern Germany.
Southwest of Metz, our troops fighting within Fort Driant are meeting stubborn resistance from the enemy, who is defending from dug-in positions and pillboxes.
Further south, an enemy counter-attack was repulsed in the vicinity of Sivry, north of Nancy. In the Épinal sector we made slight local gains southeast of Saint-Amé. Elsewhere, strong enemy resistance was encountered.
West of Belfort, a pocket of resistance has been mopped-up in the Ronchamp area where the enemy continued to fight stubbornly.
At Dunkerque, a truce has been arranged to allow the evacuation of civilians.
Heavy bombers, with fighter cover, attacked submarines and submarine pens under construction at Bergen in Norway yesterday. One bomber is missing.
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/s/U.S. Navy Department (October 5, 1944)
U.S. forces on Peleliu Island continued to apply heavy pressure to the remaining pocket of enemy resistance at Bloody Nose Ridge on October 4 (West Longitude Date). Several defensive positions and caves were cleaned out during the day. Mopping-up operations on Angaur Island are being continued.
During the operations in the Southern Palau Islands from September 25 to October 5 the following casualties were incurred:
| 1st Marine Division | 81st Infantry Division | |
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| KIA | 191 | 145 |
| WIA | 1,011 | 696 |
| MIA | 0 | 8 |
The total in the missing category for the 1st Marine Division has been revised downward from 401 to 267 for the entire campaign.
During the same period, an additional 2,618 enemy troops were eliminated on Peleliu and 137 were eliminated on Angaur.
Corsair fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, operating from the airfield at Peleliu, bombed Babelthuap Island on October 4, hitting the airstrips and strafing a concentration of motor vehicles. Warehouses at Koror were also bombed during the day.
Eleventh Air Force Liberators strafed a small cargo vessel near Onekotan in the Kuriles on October 3. On returning to their base the bombers were intercepted by two enemy fighters near Paramushiru but were not damaged.
Seventh Air Force Liberators on October 3 bombed a large cargo ship and a destroyer northwest of Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands. Anti-aircraft fire from the destroyer was meager. On the same day, Marcus Island was bombed by 7th Air Force Liberators.
Thunderbolt fighters of the 7th Air Force dropped bombs and rockets on gun positions and shore installations at Pagan Island on October 3. Other planes bombed barracks and communications facilities the same night.
Corsairs of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing dive‑bombed airfields and installations at Ponape Island on October 4. Anti-aircraft fire was inaccurate.
Corsairs of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing and search Venturas of Fleet Air Wing Two bombed enemy positions on Jaluit Atoll on October 4. One Corsair suffered minor damage from anti-aircraft fire.
Pacific and Far East.
U.S. submarines have reported the sinking of 11 vessels, including three combatant ships, as a result of operations against the enemy in these waters as follows:
These actions have not been announced in any previous Navy Department communiqué.
The Pittsburgh Press (October 5, 1944)
British launch new push toward Arnhem
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer
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Washington (UP) –
U.S. combat casualties in all theaters, as officially announced here, stood at 417,085 today, 16,325 more than two weeks ago when the last overall compilation was announced.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said at a news conference – his first in two weeks – that Army all-theater casualties totaled 351,293 through Sept, 21, as follows:
| Dead | 68,568 |
| Wounded | 185,921 |
| Prisoners | 51,316 |
| Missing | 45,488 |
Of the wounded, 84,379 have returned to duty, Mr. Stimson said.
Navy, Marine and Coast Guard casualties reported as of today totaled 65,792, as follows:
| Dead | 25,962 |
| Wounded | 25,588 |
| Prisoners | 4,480 |
| Missing | 9,761 |
Mr. Stimson said Army casualties in Italy, excluding the Air Forces, totaled 82,111 Sept. 25. Of these, 15,889 were listed as killed, 56,178 wounded, and 10,044 missing.
Huge registration, big service vote
By Robert Taylor, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Democrats to hold 90,000 meetings
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt steps out of his Commander-in-Chief role tonight in his second campaign speech of the 1944 campaign to urge Democratic Party workers to “get out the vote” Nov. 7.
The President’s speech will occupy the top spot in a 30-minute program arranged by Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan.
WJAS and WCAE will broadcast the program at 10:00 p.m. ET.
After brief introductory speeches by Mr. Hannegan and Mrs. Charles W. Tillett, assistant party chairman, the President will speak for 20 minutes beginning at 10:05.
Mr. Hannegan said last night that more than 90,000 meetings of party workers had been arranged all over the country to hear the President speak.
There is no way of predicting in advance the nature of the President’s address. Judging, however, by his announcement in the acceptance speech that he would “answer misrepresentations” and by the tack he took in his first “political” address to the AFL Teamsters Union here, Mr. Roosevelt will respond to various attack by his opponents on the present administration and its record.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey will have a chance to respond to tonight’s speech when he delivers his next formal campaign address in Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday.
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
I feel so sorry for the people standing in line to buy cigarettes. I guess I’m pretty lucky that I don’t smoke. All I have to do is stand in line for George’s cigarettes.
Anyway, we shouldn’t complain. It’s only right that our men in uniform get cigarettes first. They’re under a terrific nervous strain. When a soldier is thinking of his loved ones he naturally smokes a lot. I’ll bet Mickey Rooney has gone through a couple of cartons this week.
P.S. Here’s a red-hot tip on the World Series. I found out who’s going to win. Personally, I don’t believe in gambling, but those of you who are so inclined can clean up on this tip. Here it is: Bet everything you’ve got on St. Louis.
Lanier and Potter are moundsmen
Bulletin
Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis, Missouri –
The Cardinals went into the lead in the third inning when they scored one run with none out.
Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis, Missouri (UP) –
With the American League Browns leading, one game to none, the Browns and Cardinals went into the second battle of the World Series this afternoon before 38,000 fans.
In the third inning, the score was tied at 0–0.
Nelson Potter, the Brownies’ righthanded ace, faced Lefty Max Lanier on the mound.
Only one hit – a double by Catcher Walker Cooper in the second – had been made off either pitcher. The Browns had put two men on bases through walks, but Lanier was pitching magnificently in the pitches.
Lanier set down the Brownies in order in the first inning. He struck out Gutteridge on a high, fast pitch, Mike Kreevich rolled to Marty Marion, and Chet Laabs lifted a high fly to Johnny Hopp in right center.
Augie Bergamo, who replaced Danny Litwhiler in left field, led off for the Card against Nels Potter and fouled to Catcher Hayworth. Kreevich came in fast to make a nice catch of Hopp’s short fly, and the side was out when Stan Musial was retired, Gutteridge to McQuinn.
McQuinn walks
The Cards showed their respect for George McQuinn, whose home run won yesterday’s game, by giving him a base on balls in the top half of the second after Marion had tossed out Vernon Stephens. But he never got past first, for Lanier bore down and struck out both Mark Christman and Gene Moore.
Walker Cooper’s two-bagger to open the Redbird second put Potter in a tight spot, but the Browns’ righthander got out of it. He struck out Ray Sanders, faced Whitey Kurowski to ground to Stephens at short and Marion was the third out on a good stop and throw by Christman, leaving W. Cooper stranded.
Hayworth had popped to Marion and the latter had thrown out Potter in the Browns’ third when Gutteridge waited around for a base on balls, but he was forced by Kreevich, Marion to Verban.
Article links CIO-PAC, Hillman, New Deal
By Frederick Woltman, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Stimson denies any politics involved
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