Debris still searched for blast victims
Death toll now 112 and may reach 200
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Shapiro: A Belgian and a Yank become brothers in death
American ideal of chivalry, duty exhibited
By L. S. B. Shapiro, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Col. Palmer: Philippine push helps isolate Jap armies
Enemy overextended in Pacific conquests
By Col. Frederick Palmer, North American Newspaper Alliance
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No Santa Claus here!
‘Meanest men’ operating black market in toys
Exploitation of usual Christmas spirit reported widespread throughout nation
By the United Press
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Justice for all urged by Wallace
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Millett: ‘Junior’ and soldier daddy will face some problems
Pop may be jealous of his own baby who monopolizes mom’s time
By Ruth Millett
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Best Paris tailoring quite dull
Spanish ideas monotonous
By Judy Barden, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Steeler-Cards face victory drought
Passer-less locals drop fourth straight as Giants win, 23–0
By Carl Hughes
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Threat to go AWOL in body laid to over 100 WACs
Women reportedly ‘griping’ about methods used by their commanding officer
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B-25 output resumed as walkout ends
Picket lines ‘raided’ by servicemen
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Völkischer Beobachter (October 24, 1944)
Politische Anarchie in Frankreich –
‚Obskure junge Leute regieren‘
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Roosevelt und Morgenthau auf Agitationsfahrt
Genf, 23. Oktober –
Wie Reuters aus Neuyork meldet, traf Roosevelt auf einer Agitationsfahrt dort in Begleitung des Juden Morgenthau ein. Der Präsident hielt eine Rede, die in der Forderung gipfelte, daß die Vereinigten Staaten „entsprechend ihrer moralischen, politischen, wirtschaftlichen und militärischen Macht“ die Führung „in der Gemeinschaft der Nationen“ übernehmen müßten.
Führer HQ (October 24, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Der Schwerpunkt der Kämpfe im Westen liegt seit einigen Tagen auf dem rechten deutschen Flügel in Holland. Unsere Divisionen verhinderten im Raum nördlich Antwerpen und östlich Herzogenbusch die konzentrisch geführten schweren Durchbruchsversuche der Kanadier und Engländer. Die Masse der an wenigen Stellen eingebrochenen feindlichen Panzer wurde vernichtet.
Östlich Lunéville und Im Abschnitt von Bruyères stießen eigene Gegenangriffe auf heftigen feindlichen Widerstand. In dem schwierigen Waldgelände wird von beiden Seiten mit größter Erbitterung gekämpft.
London lag von neuem unter dem Feuer unserer „V1.“
In Mittelitalien nur schwächere, im ganzen ergebnislose Angriffe. Erst gegen Abend lebten dort die Kämpfe auf. Die Versuche des Gegners, aus dem Brückenkopf Cesena mit stärkeren Kräften herauszutreten, scheiterten.
Unterseebootjäger vernichteten in der Adria bei geringen eigenen Schäden sechs britische Schnellboote, schossen eines in Brand und beschädigten zwei weitere schwer.
Unsere Bewegungen in Nordgriechenland verlaufen wie vorgesehen. In Serbien sind heftige Kämpfe mit Banden, Bulgaren und Bolschewisten im Gange.
Die harten Kämpfe östlich Szolnok dauern an. Im Raum Debrecen und nördlich Nyíregyháza halten die sehr beweglich geführten Kämpfe an, ohne daß es bisher zu einer Entscheidung gekommen ist.
In einzelnen Abschnitten der Ostbeskiden griffen die angeschlagenen sowjetischen Verbände nur schwächer und ohne Erfolg an.
Truppen des Heeres und der Waffen-SS führten im Raum Seroc schwungvolle Gegenstöße und brachten dem Feind hohe blutige Verluste bei.
Die Schlacht im ostpreußischen Grenzgebiet dauert mit äußerster Heftigkeit an, wobei eigene Schlachtflieger besonders wirkungsvoll eingriffen. Feindliche Vorhuten wurden abgeschnitten und von rückwärts angegriffen. Auch bei Goldap und südlich Gumbinnen wurden die Bolschewisten in Gegenangriffen zurückgeworfen. In den übrigen Kampfabschnitten wurden neue Durchbruchsversuche sowjetischer Verstärkungen abgewehrt oder aufgefangen, die Sowjets verloren gestern in Ostpreußen insgesamt 176 Panzer, 61 davon wurden durch ein einziges unserer Armeekorps vernichtet.
Vor Memel wurde der Feind wirkungsvoll von deutscher Schiffsartillerie bekämpft. Im Nordabschnitt herrschte nur geringe Gefechtstätigkeit. Von leichten Seestreitkräften und Kampffähren unterstützt, wehrten die Verteidiger der Halbinsel Sworbe auch gestern bolschewistische Angriffe ab.
Über der kurländischen Küste schoss Marineflak sieben sowjetische Bomber ab. Damit verloren die Sowjets in den beiden letzten Tagen 80 Flugzeuge.
In Nordfinnland hält der starke Druck des Feindes von Süden und Osten in Richtung Kirkenes an. Eine Anzahl feindlicher Panzer wurde abgeschossen.
Nordamerikanische Terrorflieger griffen bei einer für die Abwehr ungünstigen Wetterlage am Tage Augsburg, Regensburg und weitere Orte in Süd- und Südostdeutschland an. In den frühen Abendstunden war Essen das Ziel eines britischen Terrorangriffs. Weitere feindliche Flugzeuge warfen Bomben auf die Reichshauptstadt. 31 Flugzeuge, darunter 22 viermotorige Bomber, wurden vernichtet.
Feldwebel Winter in einem Füsilierbataillon an der italienischen Front, der vorübergehend in Gefangenschaft geraten war, nahm unter Ausnutzung eines eigenen Angriffes die gesamte Besatzung einer am Vortage verlorengegangenen Höhe gefangen und unterstützte dadurch entscheidend die Wiedergewinnung der gesamten, für die weitere Kampfführung wichtigen Felsenstellung.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (October 24, 1944)
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In the area south of Breskens, Allied troops continued to make progress in spite of waterlogged country. We are within a mile of the village of Groede. North of Antwerp, gains were made west of the Roosendaal–Antwerp railway, and a fresh advance into Holland was made in this area. West of Woensdrecht, we have again crossed the road and railway leading to Beveland and Walcheren. Weather restricted air operations yesterday, but during the afternoon, heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked gun emplacements on the Walcheren Island. Four bombers are missing. Allied forces have reached the edge of s’Hertogenbosch. South of the town, we have reached Sint-Michielsgestel and are within a mile of Boxtel.
There have been no major changes along our front from Aachen to the upper Moselle River Valley. In Maizières-les-Metz, house-to-house fighting continues, with the enemy holding approximately one-fourth of the town. Northeast of Lunéville, our forces are consolidating gains made in a push to the immediate vicinity of Moncourt. Several tank-supported counterattacks were repulsed by our units in the Lunéville sector. Northeast of Brouvelieures, our forward elements forced crossings of the Mortagne River at several points and continued to push eastward. Slight gains were made in the Vosges Mountains against stiff resistance. Last night, heavy bombers in great strength attacked Essen.
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 164
On October 23 (West Longitude Date), enemy forces including battleships and cruisers were sighted moving eastward through the Sibuyan Sea and Sulu Sea in the Philippines and were attacked by carrier aircraft of the Third Fleet. Further details are not yet available.
The Pittsburgh Press (October 24, 1944)
3,000 Japs slain on Leyte; Yanks over 7 miles inland
U.S. tanks reported landing on nearby island of Samar
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Torture, murder, pillage are Jap gifts to Filipinos
Guerilla leaders disclose terrorism by oppressors during two-year occupation
By Ralph Teatsorth, United Press staff writer
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British troops storm key transport center on Dutch front
By J. Edward Murray, United Press staff writer
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On foreign policy –
Dewey to fill ‘gaps left by Roosevelt’
Address to be on air at 10:30 tonight
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
Minneapolis, Minnesota –
A speech in which Governor Thomas E. Dewey will haul the history books up to the microphones to propound some of the questions left untouched by President Roosevelt in his Saturday night foreign policy address is on tap here tonight.
Mr. Dewey’s address tonight will be broadcast over KDKA and KQV at 10:30 p.m. EWT.
The Republican presidential nominee tucked away in his suitcase the farm speech he had prepared for his Minnesota audience and announced he would “fill in the gaps” in certain large areas of recent history where, he said, Mr. Roosevelt’s memory “seems to fail him.”
Declines comment on Ball
Governor Dewey arrived in this city, confronted with the fact that one of the state’s two Republican Senators, Joseph H. Ball, is openly supporting President Roosevelt for reelection.
The news reached Governor Dewey last night in Cleveland but he declined to comment. Mr. Ball told a press conference in Washington yesterday that he would “vote for and support” President Roosevelt because his views on foreign affairs, go further into the field of international collaboration than those of the Republican nominee.
Possible Dewey attack
A chief point on which Governor Dewey is expected to rake the Roosevelt administration over the coals tonight is its pre-war policy of sending scrap iron and oil to Japan – a policy continued as late as 1940 and denounced as “appeasement” in the past by other critics of recent foreign policy.
Another point on which Governor Dewey may attack was Mr. Roosevelt’s mention of isolationist obstruction of his attempt to lift the arms embargo, but his failure to mention that the embargo was part of the Neutrality Act – passed earlier by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by Mr. Roosevelt.
Mr. Roosevelt, in his Saturday speech, said the embargo “tied our hands against selling arms to European democracies for defense against Hitler,” and charged that after it had become plain to Hitler that the embargo would not be lifted, the Nazis attacked Poland.
Dewey on offensive
Carrying the fight to Mr. Roosevelt, the Republican candidate is emphasizing again his refusal to stay on the defensive and his determination to give back, if he can, blow for blow, or better.
The big talking point of Mr. Dewey’s campaign has been the Roosevelt “fumbling” on the home front. The President has been rated strong on foreign policy, and the GOP candidate could have pulled away from this subject and turned again to his emphasis on Washington “bickering and bungling” and his charge of the administration’s inability to provide jobs at the war’s end.
But Tom Dewey didn’t choose to turn away. Again, he will go to the record and meet Mr. Roosevelt on his own grounds – the field of foreign affairs.
Mr. Roosevelt’s Saturday night speech chided Mr. Dewey for using quotations in his speeches which were out of context and, it is claimed, presented a distorted picture.
“Mr. Roosevelt, I’m afraid, took his history out of context in that speech of last Saturday night,” Mr. Dewey told reporters.
“His memory seems to fail him on large areas of recent history, so I’ll fill in the gaps in my Minneapolis speech tonight.” He said he was delaying his farm speech to “fill in the context which Mr. Roosevelt forgot.”
Roosevelt adds Chicago to tour
President may speak there next Saturday
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt will make a campaign speech in Chicago, the White House announced today, and although there was no official word on its time, previous scheduling of a Democratic rally at Soldiers’ Field there next Saturday led to belief he would speak then.
White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said the President was starting work today on both the Chicago speech and the address he is to deliver Friday night in Philadelphia.
Only one caller – W. Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, who flew back with reports on the Churchill-Stalin conferences in Moscow – was scheduled for the Chief Executive today.
Mr. Early would not discuss plans for any other campaign talks. Mr. Roosevelt will speak at Boston Nov. 4 and there have been repeated reports from Democratic sources that he will speak in Cleveland and Detroit.