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international administration which has ruled that territory in the past and, in effect, taking lit over for Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The original oceupation of the international zone by Spain (with the obvious backing of the Axis) was not opposed by Britain in view of the conditions created by the defeat of France. Virtual seizure of the territory, however, emphasized persistent reports that the Axis powers were planning a. general Mediterranean offensive in connection with the invasion of Greece. In event of a general offensive, the seizure of Tangier by a nation that is actually if not {formally a partner of the Axis powers might be of considerably military importance. | Will Nazis Aid Italy? Berlin reported that German air
fleets continued their attacks on British tragets, including railroads
despite extremely low ¢louds and generally unfavorable |conditions. The results of the Greek operations, however, appeared for | the time being at least to be a set back for the Axis, chiefly due to the fighting of Greece, t= While the British-Greek forces appeared to be achieving) success in the Eastern Mediterranean for the time being, at least, and while British naval forces arri at more Greek ports, the pro-Axis Spanish Government went into action at the western end of the sea. |
There was speculation throughout the Balkans of the possibility of a German move to aid their Axis partner's bogged-down military machine. It was believed—although official confirmation was lacking — that Germany's Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Italy’s Foreign Minister, Count | Galeazzo Ciano and Germany's Ambassador to Turkey, Frank von Papen, were meeting secretly in a remote hunting lodge in southern Germany to discuss a new stroke of Axis strategy. Himmler in Rumania?
All sorts of guesses were offered as to the nature of the move. They ranged from an open German intervention in the Italo-Greek war, to steps to appease Turkey] and Russia and insure their non-belligerency in event of extension of Balkan hostilities. Heinrich Eimmler, chief of the
Rumania but there was no indication as to the purpose of his trip. There has been repeated speculation that Germany might thrust south from Rumania, across Bulgaria into Thrace in a drive for Istanbul, the Dardanelles and beyond. | - Neither Athens nor London nor Rome mentioned the naval battle.
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|. ITALIAN WARSHIP IS REPORTED SUNK
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At a Jugoslav frontier town, it was said that one Italian warship was believed to have gone down in flames after an hour-long battle in which the Greek Navy, perhaps aided by the British fleet, thwarted an attempt by Italian ships to enter Corfu channel and join Italian
planes bombarding the city of Corfu. |.
Reported in Budapest
In Budapest, Hungary, it was reported that an Italian warship was fleeing in flames up the Adriatic Sea after the battle. In land fighting near the southeast corner of Albania, one daring band of Greeks crossed Lake Prespa by night and attacked the Albanian town of Pustek. On the other front the Greeks claimed to have smashed a tankled Italian attack with hand grenades. Of 20 Italian tanks which participated. in the attack nine were said to have been knocked out by the Greeks. The Greeks were said .to have seized a commanding hill which dominates an important bridge on the Kalamas River and to have driven back Italian advance guards which crossed the river at some points. . Behind the front Greek irregulars and Albanian rebels were said to have destroyed several bridges, further impeding Italian columns attempting to push up toward the Greek province of Epirus and its capital, Janina.
British Land in Crete
Italy inferentially admitted the Greek victories by making no claims of specific advances. The Rome communique merely said that the Italians had made gains along the Kalibaki-Janina road some 12 to 15 miles inside Greece. ; The Greeks claimed to have shot down 4 out of 12 three-motored Italian bombers which bombed Salonica, leaving hardly a street undamaged. The British reported they were consolidating bases on the strategic island of Crete. Military and naval headquarters have been established in Athens and preparation of both air and naval bases was going ahead rapidly. °
Elsewhere in the Mediterranean |
African theater there was increased activity, The Italians claimed to have bombed the island of Perim in the Red Sea and to have attacked a British convoy in that region. London Sleep Undisturbed
London last night celebrated the first night in 58 on which not a single German plane came over %o disturb the peace. In the calm British attention turned to the U. S. elections and to the problem of halting looting from bombed Houses and shops. Berlin claimed to have sunk more British shipping. A submarine was said to have sunk the auxiliary cruisers Laurentic, 18,724-tons, and Patroclus, 11,314-tons. In addition a, 5376 ton freighter was said to have been sunk and the 19,141-ton Windsor Castle badly damaged by an airplane bomb attack.
ll War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON
Italy's’ conti
nued reluctance to engage in a
major offensive in Northern Greece points with increasing probability to lack of Italian co-ordination
with Germany's would seem that
strategy in southeastern Europe. It Mussolini has not yet concentrated
a “powerful striking force on the Greek-Albanian frontier and does not seek an immediately extensive
Mr, Mason The Italian
involvement there.
right wing trying to move south-
ward toward the Greek west coast, seems to be the stronger force of the invading Fascists. Its double purpose apparently is to safeguard southern Jtaly from bombings from the nearest Greek positions and also to cut
off Greek supplies being sent northward to the military base at Yanina. This movement, however, would not form the principal objective of the Italians if their Greek campaign were the beginning of a great Axis’ push to carry the war intejthe mid- | dle East. It would be a protective measure rather than an |offensive development. | Any Italian offensive in Greece designed in co-operation with German desires would consist of a powerful thrust eastward toward Sajonika, involving the left| wing of the invading army. Yet, this part of Mussolini's. forces seems to be the weakest. The Greeks have succeeded in penetrating: southeastern Albania at the sector where the Italians should have concentrated their most powerful push if they intended to move quickly against Salonika. The Italjan retreat in this region either ghows a serious defect im Italian strategy or else indicates that Mussolini and Hitler have nat agreed
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that the present is an opportune time to develop a great southeastward offensive. . Near the area where the Greek have pushed the Italians back was the starting place of the conquering armies of Alexander the Great in the Fourth Century, B. C. Alexander moved eastward through Macedonia toward the Dardanelles —then called, the Hellespont—and so began his subjugation of Asia Minor. Similar strategy has been reported as occupying the attention of Hitler and Mussolini, but it is impossible to reconcile any such plan at this time with the half-hearted operations of the Italians in northern Greece. The possibility remains that the Italians are merely feeling their way for the present, waiting until Germany is ready. More likely, if the Italian movement is a feeler, it is designed to test Balkan, Russian and Turkish reactions before a major offensive is agreed LS by Rome and Berlin.
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PLANE MISSING, 10 FEARED DEAD
Unreported in Heavy Snow After Preparing to Land At Salt Lake City.
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said that at the time it last reported the plan was 10 minutes overdue. Residents of Salt,Lake Valley reported they heard the sound of a plane’s motors as late as 6 a. m. Mr, Halberg believed this was the missing plane. It was possible Capt. Fey decided to fly on East, hoping to reach Denver, rather than hazard a landing on the Salt Lake airport, where runways were covered with several inches of snow. When in mid-morning no further word had come from the plane, Mr. Halberg conferred with United Air Lines officials in Chicago by telephone and organized a search. Flying weather was extremely difficult. Visibility in Salt Lake Valley was less than a mile. Temperatures at high altitudes were considerably below freezing. The plane carried enough gasoline to cruise until 11 a. m.,, but as that hour approached—and passed—airplane officials rapidly lost hope the ship was still in the air. Highway patrolmen, Davis County Sheriff's officers and CCC enrollees started along rural and mountain roads, talking to farmers. All residents of the locality along the eastern rim of Salt Lake Valley agred the plane was flying through the storm at a low altitude.
FEENEY SUES RAY FOR $100,000 LIBEL
Sheriff Al Feeney filed a $100,000 libel® suit in Circuit Court today against former Sheriff Otto Ray, charging Mr. Ray with a “lastminute attempt at character assassination.” The suit, which does not set out any specific instances of libel, declaring “they are too numerous to mention,” is based on advertisements placed in newspapers by Mr. Ray in which Mr. Ray asserted the Sheriff had not repaid Mr. Ray’s sister for campaign money allegedly loaned him in 1938. “This suit,” Sheriff Feeney said, “is my answer to last-minute political ads which not only are untruthful but damaging to both my personal and official reputation. It is time to ascertain whether a good name built up the hard way over a lifetime can be torn down for political purposes too late in a ‘campaign to protect one’s self.” A suit against Mr. Feeney filed by Mr. Ray’s sister, Miss Anna Ray, in Superior Court 3, asks $2800 which she alleges Mr. Feeney borrowed from her to finance his 1938 election campaign and vote recount. When Miss Ray's suit was filed, Sheriff Feeney termed it a “cheap political trick.” Mr. Ray issued the following statement when he learned of Mr. Feeney’s suit: “Instead of him paying his honest debts amounting to $2831.15 to my sister, which she paid for Feeney’s recount costs at his request and which is responsible for him now being Sheriff, he threw out another smoke screen and a further attempt to avoid paying his honest debts and to fool the public again as he has in the past.” Mr. Ray, an independent candidate for Sheriff, has withdrawn, asking his supporters to vote for Otto Petit, the Republican nominee.
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PRECEDENTS OF YEARS FALL AS ‘GIANTS BATTLE
Roosevelt Flouts Two-Term Tradition; Willkie ‘Buoyant Incorrigible.’
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—The nation chooses tomorrow between two compelling and glamorous figures, and it looks as if the last-minute verdicts of a large number of undecided voters may determine the outcome. President Roosevelt, a breaker of precedents in his seven and a half years in the White House, is now fAouting the two-term tradition. He argues the necessity of continuity in office in such a disturbed period as that through which we are passing. But there is also the desire to protect what he regards as a liberal political regime from a return to power of the Republican Party. Wendell Willkie also represents a departure from tradition. A few months ago he was a political unknown. The Republican Party, reluctantly, went beyond its own ranks and into the realms: of business to select him, a man with no political experience, a former Democrat. who voted for Mr. Roosevelt
Willkie Buoyant
Mr. Willkie was—and to some extent still is—an unwelcome guest with many old-school Republicans. He won his nomination against oldline Republican bosses and their machines in the most spectacular contest the party has seen in many a year.
Once nominated, he proved the enfant terrible, the buoyant incorrigible. He threw aside the dignified respectability of traditional Republican campaign methods and went barnstorming, stumping his toe: as he started, but gradually picking up such momentum that now Republicans, as they look forward hopefully to tomorrow night's returns, are willing to forgive and forget.
The diverse forces aligned behind the two candidates are as confused as the issues of the campaign. President Roosevelt still possesses the loyalty of labor and low-income groups and people on relief, who benefited by the “Roosevelt Revolution,” though apparently he has been deserted by many in the small-
who followed him- through two elections. He has also the support of some who have disagreed with him on fundamentals of domestic policy but who are strong for his foreign policy and are making that their yardstick this year.
Idealism Dimmed
Potent for him is the powerful political organization represented in groups which have been benefited by New Deal expenditures. Republicans have repeatedly charged the New Dealers with using undue political influence with these groups. Mr. Willkie also has made capital of the
New Deal alliance with corrupt bigcity bosses, a paradox that has dimmed the shining robes of idealism worn by New Dealers with such a righteous air.
The dominant business and financial interests which have fought the President so bitterly are lined up almost to a man behind Mr. Willkie, and are pouring their money into the campaign on a scale probably unequalled since Mark Hanna's day. But they still have misgivings as
maintenance of the Roosevelt reforms which they abhor.
Philosophies Confused
Mr. Willkie has broken noticeably into the small-business and whitecollar classes and won the support of John L. Lewis, who finds himself marching side by side with some of those industrial and financial leaders whom he has fought so bitterly —Ernest Weir, Tom-Girdler, Joseph N. Pew Jr., among others. Political, economic and social philosophies are all confused in this election. Mr. Willkie has support of the bulk of the newspapers and news magazines. Among the papers and magazines loaded onto his campaign train he seldom saw an adverse editorial comment; and from the windows he saw his picture on billboards much more often than Mr. Roosevelt's. It has been a battle of two giants,
on each side.
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30 BRITONS KILLED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT
LONDON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—About 30 persons were killed and many others injured when an express train bound from London for Penzance was derailed near Taunton early this morning. ' The train was packed with passengers, many of whom were soldiers. It was understood that the derailment was due to a faulty track. A railway official, asked if the accident were “the result of enemy action,” replied: “As far as I can tell'it was a straightforward railroad accident.”
FILM COMPANY HAS LOSS OF $1,075,611
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and wholly-owned subsidiaries (excluding Roxy Theatre, Inc.) today reported net loss of $1,075,611 for the 39 weeks ended Sept. 28 compared with profit of $3,152,595 in the corresponding 1939 period. Net loss for the latest 39 weeks was after provision of $2,200,000 for reserve against foreign assets. The purpose of the additions to special reserve against foreign assets is to exclude from current profits® those profits earned during the period in foreign currencies, principally sterling, which are not currently realizable in U. S. dollars and are therefore not available for use in the corporation’s operations in the United States, the report said.
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[t's Even Money on Election Eve—Choose Your Own Poll
Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—0On election eve, it's even money and take
your poll. Straw votes and public opinion surveys show a wide difference of opinion. Not since stormy 1916 have professional prophets approached their predictions with such misgivings. For instance, the Gallup Poll today gives President Roosevelt 52 per cent of the popular vote, and the Fortune Poll gives him 55.2 per cent. The Dunn survey predicts 334 electoral votes for Wendell Willkie in 27 states. Emil Hurja, Pathfinder publisher who aided James Farley in his accurate 1932 and 1936 predictions, gives Willkie 353 electoral votes. On the other hand, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. in Script Magazine gives Mr. Roosevelt 57.09 per cent of the popular vote and victory in 27 states. The Chicago Times gives the President 35 states and 353 jelectoral votes. The Chicago Tribune forecasts 280 electoral votes for Mr. Willkie, 182 for Roosevelt, and 69 doubtful. The Tribune gives Willkie an edge in the five Midwest states—Illinois, 50.8; Indiana, 54.3; Iowa, 54.3; Michigan, 50.6, and Wisconsin, 53.4. Well Street market men predict Mr. Willkie’s election with 281 electoral votes, but C. Woodruff Valentine, Wall Street betting commissioner, posted 7 to 5 odds favoring Roosevelt.
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The Scripps-Howard poll in Ohio showed Willkie leading there by 34,000 votes today. The New York
Daily News’ final figures today gave the President 50.068 per cent of that state’s votes, Mr. Willkie, 49.932.
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Secret Service to Take Up Posts if G. 0. P. Victory
Is Indicated.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U, P.).=— Secret Service operatives, whose duty requires them to guard a president-elect as well as the President, today prepared to praqtect Wendell L. Willkie in the event early returns indicate the possibility of a Republican victory. - Agents in such widely-scattered localities as Louisville, Des Moines, Chicago and Indianapolis, have arranged transportation to Rushville, Ind., should the G. O. P. naminee decide to await the election's out~ come in that city. ‘ Theoretically, the protection of a president-elect begins only when the results are definite and incontrovertible. But agents assigned as his bodyguards take up their posts as soon as a possibility of.election is indicated. Should the protection of Mr, Wills kie begin tomorrow night, the chances are that the nominee would be completely unaware of the agents’ presence.
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