Bela Lugosi has hard time living down Dracula role
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Super vaudeville circuit proposed for war plants
Hollywood café owner visions ‘name’ acts at popular prices on big scale
By Ben H. Cook, United Press staff writer
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Medical colleges asked to join veterans program
Government will pay school fees, buy books, pay pension for approved ex-servicemen
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West opposes plan to freeze war factories
Fair treatment in conversion demanded
By Robert C. Elliott, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Gallant Georgia Tech holds Navy on 1-foot line to triumph, 17–15
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Steeler-Cards still after first league triumph
New York seven-point favorites to reverse defeat in exhibition
By Carl Hughes
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Salzburger Zeitung (October 23, 1944)
Aachens Verteidiger sprachen für Deutschland
‚Es wird weitergekämpft‘
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Explosionskatastrophe in USA
Stockholm, 22. Oktober –
Wie aus Cleveland (Ohio) gemeldet wird, ereignete sich dort eine gewaltige Explosion in einem Laboratorium, in dem flüssiges Gas hergestellt wird. Es brach ein Brand aus, der, angefacht durch starken Sturm, rasch um sich griff und eins zweite sehr heftige und eins Reihe kleinerer Explosionen auslöste. Dabei wurden nach einer Reuters-Meldung 70 Personen getötet, 163 Personen werden vermisst und 235 wurden schwer verletzt. Etwa 3.600 Personen sind obdachlos. Weiters 10.000 mußten unbeschädigte Häuser räumen, weil die Gefahr neuer Explosionen besteht und die Gas-, Wasser- und Stromversorgung unterbrochen ist.
Oberdonau-Zeitung (October 23, 1944)
Atlantikhäfen sind eine verlorene Schlacht
Amerikanische Eingeständnisse – Der tapfere Kampf hat weitaus gelohnt
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Führer HQ (October 23, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Unsere Truppen brachten durch Gegenangriffe und zähen Widerstand die Angriffe der Kanadier im Raum nördlich und nordöstlich Antwerpen im Wesentlichen zum Scheitern. Auch die englischen Divisionen, die östlich Herzogenbusch zum Angriff antraten, konnten nur wenig Boden gewinnen.
Im Raum von Würselen halten harte Kämpfe in und um Bunkerstellungen an. Östlich Lunéville und im Raum von Bruyères kam es auch gestern zu heftigen örtlichen Gefechten. Eigene Gegenangriffe brachten den stellenweise vorgedrungenen Feind nach geringen Anfangserfolgen rasch wieder zum Stehen.
Im Etruskischen Apennin führten die Verbände der 5. amerikanischen Armee eine Reihe von Angriffen, die abgewiesen wurden. An der adriatischen Küste zerschlugen unsere Divisionen feindliche Angriffsgruppen, die den ganzen Tag über mit vermehrter Wucht gegen unsere Stellungen anstürmten. Nur nördlich Cesena konnte der Feind einen kleinen Brückenkopf über den Savio gewinnen.
Kampffähren der Kriegsmarine versenkten im Golf von Genua ohne eigene Schäden ein britisches Schnellboot und beschädigten ein weiteres schwer.
Auf dem Balkan kämpften sich unsere Truppen, nachdem sie sich tagelang im Raum von Nisch gegen die andringende feindliche Übermacht hatten behaupten können, von den gegnerischen Umfassungsversuchen frei und gewannen Anschluss an unsere Hauptkräfte.
In Südungarn hat sich der Druck des Gegners in Richtung auf die Donau verstärkt. Deutsche und ungarische Truppen schlugen nordwestlich Szeged wiederholte bolschewistische Angriffe ab.
Die Vernichtung der östlich Szolnok eingeschlossenen rumänischen und sowjetischen Divisionen geht weiter. Nach hartnäckiger, aber vergeblicher Gegenwehr wurden sie in einzelne Gruppen aufgesplittert. Nördlich Debrecen schnitten unsere Truppen die bis an die obere Theiß vorgedrungenen sowjetischen Verbände von ihren rückwärtigen Verbindungen ab und fügten ihnen hohe Verluste zu.
In den Ostbeskiden, wo der Feind westlich des Duklapasses wieder erfolglos angriff, warfen unsere Grenadiere die Bolschewisten aus einer am Vortage verbliebenen Einbruchsstelle zurück.
In mehrwöchigen harten Gebirgskämpfen in der Ostslowakei haben Truppen des Heeres und der Waffen-SS größere Bandengruppen zerschlagen und umfangreiche Beute sichergestellt. In der Mittelslowakei sind weitere Unternehmungen gegen die durch bolschewistische Fallschirmspringer verstärkten Banden im Gange.
Beiderseits Seroc stehen unsere Verbände in harten Abwehrkämpfen gegen die mit starken Kräften angreifenden feindlichen Divisionen.
Die Schlacht im ostpreußischen Grenzgebiet hat nach Süden bis in den Raum Augustow übergegriffen; zwischen Sudauen und Goldap gelangen den Bolschewisten tiefere Einbrüche. Nach schweren Straßenkämpfen ist Goldap in Feindeshand gefallen. Südlich Gumbinnen unterbrachen unsere Grenadiere im Rücken der vorgedrungenen Sowjets deren Nachschubstraßen. Durchbruchsversuche der Bolschewisten beiderseits Ebenrode sind blutig gescheitert. In die erbitterten Kämpfe im ostpreußischen Grenzgebiet griffen Schlachtflieger und Flakartillerie erfolgreich ein, zerschlugen sowjetische Angriffsspitzen und vernichteten zahlreiche Panzer. In der siebentägigen Schlacht in diesem Kampfraum wurden bisher 616 feindliche Panzer abgeschossen oder erbeutet.
Angriffe der Bolschewisten gegen den Brückenkopf Memel blieben erfolglos.
Auf der Landenge der Halbinsel Sworbe drängten unsere Grenadiere den eingebrochenen Feind wieder nach Norden zurück. Sie wurden dabei wirksam durch das Feuer leichter deutscher Seestreitkräfte und Kampffähren unterstützt.
Im hohen Norden setzte der Feind bei Kolosjoki und an der Eismeerstraße seine Angriffe unter starkem Schlachtfliegereinsatz fort. Grenadiere und Gebirgsjäger wiesen die sowjetischen Angriffe ab und vereitelten Umfassungsversuche des Feindes.
Anglo-amerikanische Terrorbomber griffen bei geschlossener Wolkendecke Hannover, Münster, Braunschweig, Neuß und Hamburg an und warfen vereinzelt Bomben in Westdeutschland.
Im ostpreußischen Grenzgebiet hat sich die Panzerabteilung 118 unter Führung von Major Grohe durch besonderen Angriffsschwung ausgezeichnet.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (October 23, 1944)
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Communiqué No. 198
Inside the Scheldt pocket, Allied forces have taken Breskens and Fort Fredrik Hendrik. We have also made progress from Aardenburg to the vicinity of Draaiburg. Units from the east have taken Schoondijke. North of Antwerp, the enemy has been cleared from Esschen. We have made gains on both sides of the railway to the southwest and along the roads from Wuustwezel and Achterbroek. Early yesterday morning, an allied attack was launched in the area east of s’Hertogenbosch. The attack is continuing and good progress is being made. Fighters and fighter bombers gave close support to our troops.
Our forces are clearing the enemy from areas of Germany, northeast of Aachen. In Aachen, we continued to search for stragglers. Approximately 1,600 prisoners were taken when fighting in the city ceased. Transportation targets were attacked by fighters and fighter-bombers in the Metz sector in immediate support of operations by our ground forces. West of the Rhine River, in this region, fighter-bombers cut rail tracks in many places. Fighting is still in progress in Maizières-lès-Metz. Further south, we have made gains in the area of Bezange, Coincourt and Emberménil, northeast and east of Lunéville. Northeast of Épinal, gains were made against heavy resistance. Brouvelieures was taken and Domfaing, Vervezelle and Belmont were entered by our forces.
East of Épinal, a concentration of enemy troops was hit by fighter-bombers. Heavy pressure was maintained by our forces against the enemy in the Vosges sector. Industrial targets and communications in the Hamm, Münster, Hanover, and Braunschweig areas were attacked in daylight by more than 1100 heavy bombers escorted by some 750 fighters. Other escorted heavy bombers, none of which is missing, made a heavy attack on the inland port and railway center of Neuss near Düsseldorf.
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Communiqué No. 549
The submarines USS HERRING (SS-233) and USS GOLET (SS-361) are overdue from patrol and presumed lost.
Next of kin of casualties have been notified.
CINCPAC Communiqué No. 163
Mopping-up operations on Angaur and Peleliu Islands in the Palau group continued on October 20 and 21 (West Longitude Date). Corsair fighters of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, in support of ground operations, dropped incendiary bombs on the holed‑up enemy. Corsairs also bombed a lighthouse and gun emplacements on Babelthuap Island on October 20.
Seventh Army Air Force Liberators bombed Yap Island on October 20 and 21. A single Navy Ventura search plane attacked the island also on October 21. Anti-aircraft fire was meager.
Liberators of the 7th Air Force loosed 49 tons of bombs on the airfield and installations at Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands on October 20. Eight intercepting enemy planes were encountered; three were shot down, one was probably destroyed and one damaged. One of our Liberators was lost.
A Navy search Liberator on October 21 bombed and strafed a small cargo ship west of Iwo Jima.
Corsairs and Dauntless dive bombers of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing continued neutralization raids in the Marshall Islands on October 20 and 21. One of the Corsairs was shot down but the pilot was rescued.
The Pittsburgh Press (October 23, 1944)
Yanks take Leyte highway
Jap forces retreat to hills and jungles from east coast
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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British close on road center in Netherlands
Nazi stand weakens near Hertogenbosch
By J. Edward Murray, United Press staff writer
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Republican Ball backs Roosevelt
Foreign policies cited in stand
Senator Ball
Washington (UP) –
Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) said today that on the basis of President Roosevelt’s stand on foreign policy “I shall vote for and support Mr. Roosevelt” in the Nov. 7 election.
Mr. Ball, a strong advocate of close international cooperation to maintain peace, had posed three questions concerning that issue and said the answers to them would determine whether he would vote for Mr. Roosevelt or for Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee.
Isolationists assailed
Mr. Ball said in a prepared statement:
President Roosevelt in his Saturday night speech capped this record [American leadership in the war] of action by meeting squarely and unequivocally the two vital and controversial issues on which the isolationists kept us out of the League of Nations and will fight our entry into the United Nations security organization.
He insisted that the United Nations organization be formed without delay, before hostilities cease, and that it be granted power to use military force against future aggressors without requiring individual approach of each member nation.
Governor Dewey has opposed delay but has not met squarely the second vital issue. He has spoken for a strong international security organization, but in each speech has so worded his commitment that both isolationists and internationalists could find comfort and support in what he said. A substantial part of his support is talking straight isolationist doctrine to the country.
‘Miraculous’ war record
Senator Ball said Mr. Roosevelt “is in a position to receive a clear and tremendously forceful mandate on this great issue from the American people,” but “Governor Dewey’s mandate would be confused and weak and his leadership hampered by a serious division among his own supporters.”
The “miraculous” American war record, he said, proved that the country is stronger than ever despite “changes in federal policy and administrative mistakes the past 12 years.”
Senator Ball said:
It can and will survive domestic blunders, but neither our enterprise system nor our democratic institutions will survive a Third World War. Therefore, the foreign policy which the American people choose for their government in this election becomes all important.
‘Efficiency needed’
Governor Dewey, he said, has not reversed or abandoned “any major objective or policy of the Roosevelt administration,” but promises more efficiency and a friendlier attitude toward business. Both are needed, he added, but the war is convincing proof that domestic issues cannot be separated from international issues, that “what America does at home has terrific repercussions abroad, and that the solutions reached for international problems will shape and limit our choices at home.”
Senator Ball said:
The Roosevelt administration, with some mistakes and timidity, has by its action reversed the isolationist foreign policy the United States followed for two decades. It has established American leadership of the United Nations in fighting this war and developing a world security organization to maintain peace.
Mr. Ball was said to have reached his decision after listening to the foreign policy speeches that the two candidates delivered last week – Governor Dewey before the New York Herald-Tribune Forum Wednesday and Mr. Roosevelt before the Foreign Policy Association in New York Saturday night.
Still a Republican
It was emphasized that Mr. Ball will not in any sense renounce his party – he is and will remain a Republican in principle and a foe of what he calls bureaucratic bungling on the home front by the Roosevelt administration.
But to him, a strong, forward-looking foreign policy, calling for vigorous U.S. participation in a world peace organization, transcends domestic issues in this election.
Three questions
Mr. Ball’s decision was based on a test that he proposed for both candidates – a test dealing solely with the proposed world organization and consisting of these three questions:
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Will you support the earliest possible formation of a United Nations security organization and U.S. entry therein before any final peace settlements in either Europe or Asia?
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Will you oppose any reservations to U.S. entry which would weaken the power of the organization to act to maintain peace and stop aggression?
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Should the vote of the U.S. delegate on the World Council commit an agreed upon quota of our military forces to stop aggression or should the delegate be compelled to get Congressional approval in each instance?
Both Governor Dewey and Mr. Roosevelt subsequently endorsed formation of the organization before hostilities end, but the President went beyond Mr. Dewey’s stand by urging that the American delegate be empowered to place U.S. forces in the path of future aggressors without getting Congressional sanction in each instance.
Grandmother gets war orphan baby
Normal life planned for 6-month-old baby
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United War Fund pledges, donations reach $944,632
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U.S. recognizes De Gaulle regime
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General’s son killed
Staunton, Virginia –
Mrs. Alexander M. Patch, wife of Lt. Gen. Alexnader M. Patch, commander of the U.S. 7th Army in France, has received a radio message from her husband that their son, Capt. Alexander M. Patch III, was killed in action in France yesterday.
I DARE SAY —
The last lap
By Florence Fisher Parry
The news photographers are overdoing their job of photographing public figures. While we all recognize the unfortunate necessity for this, it would take a lot of explaining to convince the public, and even more, the public figures photographed, that it is absolutely imperative for the cameramen so conspicuously to monopolize their subjects while they are speaking to their audiences.
The other night I sat very near Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce as she made her political address to the large audience at Syria Mosque. She is a woman of extraordinary poise; but I was close enough to observe that in spite of her admirable control and desperate effort to disregard the ordeal, her face flinched at the unremitting glare of the photographers’ flashbulbs in her face.
The interruptions sharply reduced the effectiveness of her address, and it was not until she was half through making it that the photographers retired.
Friday night at the Hunt Armory the Republican candidate for President was so surrounded by photographers during the early portion of his speech that it was difficult for many of those in the audience really to more than glimpse him for fully 10 minutes after his address began.
Reform needed
The present campaign has pointed up a number of other needs for reform. There are those in every audience who are hard of hearing, and who constantly complain that the public address system is not tuned loud enough for them to get the whole text of a speech. I have noticed in the theater, this tendency to play down the public address system. In some of the motion picture theaters, it is absolutely impossible for a hard of hearing person to catch all of the dialogue. It is quite evident that the volume of sound is geared to normal hearing.
I say there are too many hard of hearing people nowadays; and that in their interests, the volume should be greater.
Now it is being said that this presidential campaign is becoming “dirty.” Yet the record of past campaigns shows clearly that this one is being conducted in the usual American way, and I, for one, cannot deplore this completely American indulgence. The people of America, when they go out deliberately to become one of a great and cheering throng, do so because they love the circus of campaigning. If this were not so, they would stay at home and enjoy the effortless comfort of listening to the speeches on the radio.
But they go forth and congregate because they themselves want to participate. They want to clap and yell and stamp and boo and cheer.
Take, for example, the night of Governor Dewey’s speech here. Did that great throne weather the rain and fight through tangled transportation really to hear what their candidate had to say? No. They went because they wanted to be part of the rally. They didn’t just want to enjoy him. They wanted to enjoy themselves.
Compromise
For those who deplore this, we suggest this compromise.
Let the candidates, in an honest effort to lift the vital issues of this campaign to a level of serious and solemn dignity, address themselves to the people through the medium of radio at certain spaced and stated intervals throughout the campaign, with no listening audience except the unseen radio audience; and in these special broadcasts, from the quietude of their own separate retreats, advance with dignity and clarity, the issues of their platforms, thus providing those of us who would keep campaigns “clean” our own opportunity to reflect upon the issues.
Then when our candidates make their public appearances before great audiences, let them slug it out in the old American way.
Why could we not have, in future presidential campaigns, planned forums or debates, at which our candidates and their most eloquent supporters could participate in a serious, dignified exposition of their platforms?
Then when the candidates appear on party platforms before great audiences, let them cut loose with all that they have in the true, old-fashioned torchlight campaign American way!
Meantime, for the last stretch in this bitter campaign, let us beg for fewer flashbulbs, and loudspeakers that are tuned up loud!