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SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1944 — EIGHT PAGES
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Associated Press (AP) United Press (U.P. PRICE FIVE CENTS
ies Barrier
Japs Say Forces
ands Gone
LONDON, Sept. 30.—(P)—Japanese imperial headquarters announced
in a Tokyo broadcast today that Japanese garrisons on Guam and Tinian
islands had been destroyed by Sept. 27 and that Japanese residents on
• the islands “seem to have shared the fate of the troops.”
The announcement was heard by The Associated Press listening post
here..
In a commentary on the communique the Japanese Information bu-
reau said that of the 15,000 civilians on Tinian 3,700 formed a voluntary
battalion and fell on the battlefield.
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“The aged, the women and the children committed suicide as soon
as the enemy had pierced the last defensive positions, the broadcast
said. “It was similar on the island of Guam.”
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced on Aug. 10 that organized
Japanese resistance had ceased on Guam. Mop-up operations contin-
ued after that date. Enemy resistance on Tinian island was wiped out
about 10 days earlier.
On Aug. 23 Nimitz estimated that Japanese defense of Guam, Tinian
and Saipan islands in the Marianas had cost the enemy 44,956 troops
killed.
THREE NEW PALAU ISLETS
OCCUPIED BY AMERICANS
By RUSSELL BRINES
A GERMAN TOWN AFTER THE BATTLE—Shelled and bombed buildings in the city of
Stolberg, Germany give some idea of the severity of the battle that took place between
Germans and American troops. (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from NEA Telephoto).
Associated Press War Editor
Three new Palau islets were in American hands today after swiftly
exploited landings designed to hasten the use of that western aerial
dagger aimed at the Philippines.
• Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced yesterday (Fri) that the First
U. S. Marines had pushed northward. from embattled Peleliu to secure
nearby Ngesebus islet and its 4,800 foot fighter strip, Kongauru and
a third unnamed sand dab.
This brought to nine the American-held islands in the southern
Palaus, where the Japanese death toll has risen to 9,772.
Tokyo radio, meanwhile, reported that “many residents” had begun
• to leave Manila, as a result of recent carrier plane raids, and a
“committee on evacuation” is giving “every possible aid.”
Japanese guns, however, became more menacing to major American
air bases in China, and observers reported that Chungking was in
one of its gloomiest moods with free predictions that the continental
campaign had lengthened the war by months. Fighting was reported
a near Hingan, railway town only 31 miles northeast of Kweilin, key
P provincial capital of Wwangsi province.
The Chinese also admitted the Nipponese had reached the U. s. air
center of Tanchuk, 90 miles northward, while street fighting continued
German Counterattacks Pinch
Off Bridgehead Near Rimini -
ROME, Sept. 30.—(PP)—Furious
German counterattacks have pinch-
ed out the small bridgehead won by
the British Eighth army across the
Fiumcino river eight miles north-
west of Rimini, but similar savage
efforts to west Monte Battaglia, 11
miles below Imola, from the Fifth
army have failed. Allied headquar-
Road to Berlin
By The Associated Press
1—Western Front: 305 miles
(from west of Kleve).
2—Russian Front: 310 miles
(from Warsaw).
3—Italian Front: 570 miles (from
south of Bologna). 70
in the important flank base of Paoching, 145 miles northeast of Kweilin. D e:I
Tokyo has claimed the capture of Tanchuk and Paoching A Genual
In Moscow, the official communist newspaper Pravda—often a
a barometer of Russo-Japanese relations—published its most pessi-
Y mistie picture of Japan’s chances for war victory. In a lengthy
story, based upon the Sept. 27 anniversary of the tripartite pact, the
newspaper Indleated the Japanese were in an almost hopeless sit-
uation, resulting from false faith in the blitzkrieg. No mention was
made of Japanese-Russian relations. *
Nimitz reported the Marines landed Wednesday on the three Palau
d.lets. under naval and aerial bombardment. Light resistance on
Ngesebus was overcome quickly. Scattered opposition on Kongauru was
subdued by Thursday. ,
The move pushed Japanese artillery beyond range of the American-
held Peleliu airstrip, now being prepared for land-based bomber at-
tacks against the Philippines, 515 miles westward.
°CCC Offers Its
Cotton Stocks
“For Sale Monday
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—(P) -
The Commodity Credit corporation
yesterday announced it would offer
“its own and pooled stocks of cotton
for sale Oct. 2 at 22.40 cents a
pound. (
„School Supervisor’s
Office Discontinued
The office of Taylor county
school supervisor is vacant this
school year for the first time since
oil was created in 1934. The county
school board has ruled it will be
temporarily discontinued as a war-
time conservation measure.
Mrs. Kate Causseaux had filled
that position from the 1936-37
aschool year through 1943-44.
Jobs tor
.Veterans
(Apply to War Manpower
Commission, 1141 North 2d)
Veterans placed since
• Sept. 1 ..............48
Veterans placed yesterday 2
Interviewed yesterday.. 3
Routed to other agencies
since Sept. 1 ........5
• Referred yesterday .... 2
Jobs listed ............178
(Sixth of a series of articles
on veterans’ benefits, ranging
from demobilization to jobs and
pensions will be found on the
editorial page. James Marlow,
in his daily article entitled
“Today on the Home Front,”
written for The Associated
Press, will deal with this sub-
ject each day for several days.)
The Weather
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU.
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Sun-
day. Showers and cooler late Sunday
with fresh winds.
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Sunday. Show-
ersand cooler in extreme northwest
portion late Sunday. Fresh winds in
north portion Sunday
WEST TEXAS Fair this afternoon
and tonight Sunday partly cloudy,
showers and cooler Panhandle and
South Plains in afternoon, fresh to
strong winds
TeMaximum temperature last 24 hours,
Minimum temperature last 12 hours.
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Pickup Sunday!
ters announced today.
Steadily rooting the enemy
from commanding heights over-
looking the roads into the Po
valley, both American and Brit-
ish forces of the Fifth army re-
ported moderate gains in the
central sector of the Italian
front.
The Americans captured Gi-
ugnola, and important highway
town seven and a half miles
northeast of Frienzuola, and
a half miles northeast of Frien-
zuola, and patrols forged ahead
into Belvedre, 18 miles south-
southeast of Bologna.
Other samerican units pushed
“more than three miles up highway
65 toward Bologna from La Ma-
zetta to Filigare.
From the west coast sector, where
the Brazilians and other units have
been advancing slowly, came only
a report that pressure was main-
tained on the enemy with aggres-
sive patrolling.
3d Army Gets
113 Tanks in
Couple Days
LONDON, Sept. 30.—(AP)
—Seventh Army troops push-
ed through rocket and mor-
tar fire into the first two pass-
es of the Vosges barrier to
the Rhine today, and the
armor-wrecking U. S. Third
army, beating .back German
counterblows in a hard slug-
ging fight, knocked out .at
least 113 enemy tanks in two
days.
In a coordinated attack far-
ther north, the U. S. First
army cut through eight Sieg-
fried line fortifications south-
west of Prum, below Aachen.
The baottle for Holland swept
toward a climax with the British
holding their Nijmegen bridge and
fighting for the ‘Arnhem crossing a
nine miles to the. north in a series Y
of toe-to-toe battles.
The whole front from the mist-
shrouded Belfort Gap menaced by
the Seventh army to the sodden
lowlands of Holland and rain-
splattered and slippery with mud.
In the coast, the battle for
Calais resumed shortly after |
noon, frontline reports said
after a 24-hour truce for evac-
uation of 20,000 civilians from
the siege-ringed port.
The German Colonel com-
manding at Calais was said to
have declared: "I have recelv-
ed orders from my fuehrer to
fight to the last man, and that
is what I intend to de.”
On the coast cape Cris Nez
had fallen to Canadian assault
and its cross-channel batterie s
that had made life touch-and-,
ge in Dover and Folkestone for
four mard yeart were Wienerd
The residents of the shattered
English southeast coast towns cele-
brated spontaneously, but warier
ones waited to learn if there were
other long-range guns still in Calais 1
which might take up the pounding
after noon, end of the 24-hour Cal-
als truce.
German troops who pushed
to the south bank of the Dutch
Rhine opposite Arnhem were
shoved back across the river
last night—and destroyed the
northern approaches to the 1
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FRANCE
Chest Workers
Map War Drive -
Opening Oct. 10
United War Chest fund drive of-
fficially opens here Oct. 10 with a
goal in Taylor county totaling $67,-
786—$44,786 for the War Chest of
Texas and $23,000 for four local or-
ganizations, the Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, YWCA and Salvation Army.
A meeting to decide further de-
tails in the campaign was held here
Friday with E. W. Berry, county
drive chairman, presiding. Quota
sheets were issued and detailed in-
structions prepared for workers.
Study of the budget for this
year shows that the War Chest ”
fund apportioned among 22 na-
tional and international war re-
lief and morale building agen-
cies amounts to $44,786. The Boy
Scout budget calls for $11,000,
Girl Scouts $2,500, YWCA $5,-
000 and Salvation Army $4,500.
Last year’s total was $60,940.-
92, but did not include the Boy
Scouts who had a separate drive.
Citizens of the county living out-
side Abilene are not to be asked
to contribute to the four Abilene or-
ganization unless they so choose.
The pledge cards permit designa-
tion of funds the subscriber wish-
es to support
Inclusion of the four local or-
ganizations in the annual War
Chest drive — which includes 22
organizations—will leave only two
other annual drives. They will be
Red Cross and Tuberculosis associ-
Chatilion
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TODAY’S WAR MAP—More than a dozen points along the
Siegfried line are under attack by British, Yank and French
troops. The Second Army is pushing north to flank the Sieg-
fried line from Nijmegen. The Seventh Army is going
through Belfort. The 1st and 3rd hit the line frontally. (NEA
Telemap).
REDS TIGHTEN PINCERS, 5
URGE HUNGARY TO QUIT
= By DANIEL DE LUCE
MOSCOW, Sept. 30—LP)—Russia opened up today with a strong
propaganda campaign urging Hungary to surrender as Red army troops
tightened a pincers offensive against Hitler’s last big Balkan vassal state.
Leaflets dropped over the Hungarian lines encouraged the enemy
troops to capitulate. Broadcasts informed the Hungarian people it
was not too late to desert Hitler and save themselves.
The Russian offensive against Hungary has cracked a 90-mile
stretch of frontier fortifications along the Czech-Polish border de-
fending the Ruthenian highlands, and is sweeping west through
northern Transylvania.
Gen. Ivan Petrov’s combined Russian-Czechoslovak forces, driving
a wedge into every important Ruthenian pass, extended their grip on
pre-war Czechoslovakia’s frontier to 160 miles.
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky scored a major success in the east-
ern Carpathians by capturing the Transylvania city of Targu-Mures and
crossing the Mures river line at a point within 50 miles east of Cluj,
the Hungarian-annexed Transylvanian capital.
Operations of Malinovsky’s forces on the Hungarian plain from wes-
tern Romania were not mentioned officially here.
Donald McKnight Home with 65
Sorties, 5 Nazi Planes to Credit •
Lt. Donald L. McKnight, 24, ar-1
rived in Abilene Friday afternoon
after 16 months in the European
theater of operations where he
was pilot of a B-26.
He had completed 65 missions
and holds the Distinguished
Flying Cross, the Air Medal
and 11 Oak Leaf clusters, and
the Presidential citation. He
has-been officially credited with
downing five German planes.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Mc-
Knight, 1641 Butternut, his wife is
a nurse in the air force, recently
accepted for overseas service. She
was formerly Teresa Denny of Mis-
souri.
Lieutenant McKnight was in Dal-
las today to attend the football
game between SMU and the North
Texas Aggies.
The airman was a 1937 graduate
of Abilene high school and later
Woman Injured in
Traffic Mishap
Mrs. Izola Johnson, route 1, Ab-
bridge in their desperation to
prevent a British crossing.
From both sides, east and west,
they hurled 8S troops into attacks
against the thin British corridor
through Nijmegen. In that battle
they risked at least 300 of their
fighters and fighterbombers in one
of the Luftwaffe’s biggest days of
General Donovan on
ation campaigns.
Present for the meeting besides
Berry and Co-Chairman Tom Epien
were O. P. Beebee, John Ray, Will _______
Minter, Morgan Jones Jr., C. M. Hlene, is being treated in St. Ann
Caldwell, E. A. Ungren, Charles hospital for injuries allegedly re-
Rutledge, Hank Jones, Fred C. celved when she was struck by a
Hughes, Nib Shaw, B. R. Blanken- 1
ship, Ed Stewart, Charles Langford. New Mexico, about 11 p m. at North
Claude Wright, J. R. Neeley and 2d and Pine, police said this ‘morn-
Horace Condley. Also present were *—
Fannie Winn and Lera Fleming as
proxies for E. M. Collier, absent
from the city.
Barkeley Inspection
A routine tospection of Camp
Barkeley was made Friday morning
car, driven by T. L. McCarrell of
New Mexico, about 11 p m. at North
ing.
concentrated close support since the
invasion.
British planes met them nead on,
destroyed 33, damaged 16, and kept .
them from getting into strafing
range of British ground forces at
any time in the fight. A single
British plane was lost.
American paratroops helped the
Tommies beat off the attacks with-
out yielding more than a couple of
orchards. The Germans, failing to
gain, were reported digging in for
an attempt to bog the battle down
into positional warfare.
Southwest of Nijmegen the
British widened their corridor
within four miles of the Dutch
communications center of ‘S
Hertogenbosch which the Ger-
mans fortified to hold an es-
cape corridor to the north
around the broad Maas estuary
for troops hemmed tightly in
western Holland.
Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges*
Doughboys were punching into
German defenses again all the
way from north of Aachen to
the southern tip of Luxem-
bourg.
They gained a mile northeast
by Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan,
commanding officer of Eighth
Service Command, Dallas.
Accompanying General Donovan
to Barkeley was Col. John Lee,
training officer of Eighth Service
Command. They were accompanied
on the inspection tour of the camp
by Col. George C. Neilson, camp
control officer and acting camp
commander, and by Maj. John
Wilson, camp executive officer
She suffered a laceration on the
right leg but was reported resting
well this morning.
McCarrell was en route to the
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attended McMurry college and Tex-
. as Tech. He was employed in the
si rate department of West Texas
61 Utilities company when mobilized
LT. DONALD MeKMIGHT
Baseball Weather . .
DETROIT, Sept. 30.—P) The rell, 825 Victoria, when the acci-
weather was cool and clear today dent occurred,______________
for the Detroit Tigers and Washing-
ton Senators game in the Ameri-
can baseball league, scheduled to
home of his brother, A. N McCar-
with the National Guard. He was
MARINES WATCH JAP AMMUNITION DUMP BURN-
Marines on Fuller ridge, Peleliu island of the Palaus, watch
a Jap ammunition dump burn in the distance, after it was hit
by Marine artillery. Enemy tanks strewn in the foreground
were knocked out during the battle for the ridge. (AP Wire-
photo from Marine Corps).
start at 2 p. m. (CWT).
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with the 112th cavalry before trans- —1 - __.__
ferring for air force training He chilly weather prevailed for the
received his wings at Lubbock Jan. third game of the New York Yan-
18, 1943 and went overseas some kees-St. Louis Browns series here
six months later, nh
BT. LOUIS, Sept. 30.—()—Damp,1
today, scheduled for 2 p. m. (CWT).
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Arrows indicate Japanese drives in China, which threaten YANKS BLAST JAPS AT MINDANAO—Three Jap cargo
American 14th Air Force forward bases at Kweilin, Liuchow vessels burn, and smoke billows from enemy military instal-
and Tanchuk. Japanese were reported only 35 miles from lations (upper right) after carrier-based planes from the
Kweilin, and Tokyo claimed capture of Tanchuk. To the U. S. Third Fleet bombed the enemy in the Philippines on
north Japanese entered Paoching. Black lines enclose areas September 8. White arrow-shaped figures are native fish
held by invaders. (AP Wirephoto). / . traps. (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy).
of Sittard on the Dutch-Ger-
man frontier 20 miles north of
Aachen and drove anew against
Hurtgen, fourteen miles south-
east of the besieged fortress
town.
They made only what the com-
muique called “limited progress”
in the Siegfried-denting attack
southwest of Prum, eight miles
inside the German border mid-
way between Aachen and Trier,
but knocked out eight strong-
points in a single attack and
were forging ahead.
The Doughboys liberated Mon-
pach and Wasserbillig on the Lux- 1
embourg border just six miles west
of Trier and captured Haute-
Conta six miles south of the bor- 1
der town of Remich which was won 1
the day before.
The seventh army was running 1
into heavy fire of German artillery
concentrations—a whole thunder- 2
ing arsenal from field guns to six-
barrelled rocket mortars.
But it kept up its gains mile by 1
mile.
The Germans for the first time
were taking the initiative in patrol 1
operations, however, probing Allied
lines for thin spots in every indica-
Vony of" fierce denting mana n one
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