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Tokyo Radio Says U. S. Bombers in All-Out Attack on Japan's ‘Pearl Harbor’; Claim 100 Aircraft Shot Down.

By UNITED PRESS : One thousand American planes, greatest air fleet

ever

massed in the Pacific, launched an all-out assault today against Japan's “Pearl Harbor” island fortress of Formosa

on the northern approaches ‘to reported,

the Philippines, Radio Tokyo

The attack on the island, Japan's largest naval base outside home waters and possible refuge of her elusive fleet,

began at 7 a. m. (Tokyo time)

and still was continuing eight

. hours later, an imperial headquarters communique said. It added that 100 American planes had been shot down in

the first six hours alone..

The communique was recorded by United Press at San

Francisco.

A later Tokyo broadcast heard by N. B. C. monitors at 8 a. m. Indianapolis time (10 p. m. Tokyo time) said the

attack was continuing at that

time, 15 hours after it began.

Planes Range Far and Wide : The huge forces of bombers and fighters apparently centered their raid on Formosa’s railway system, but Tokyo said the planes also “ranged far and wide over the island.” The stunning blow within 600 miles of Japan's home islands presumably was another step in the American offen-

. mive to neutralize Japanese bases preparatory to the prom-|

ised invasion of the Philippines. - | The island; approximately 250 miles long and 100 miles

wide, was the base for operations in which the Japanese |*

launched their assault on the Philippines in December, 1941, and ultimately through the entire Southwest Pacific. Railroad Is Chief Target Although the southern tip of Formosa is 225 miles from Luzon, the small islands at'the northern end of the Philippines archipelago are separated from Formosa by only the

wide Bashi channel.

. Tokyo said the “entire area” of Takao, Tainan and Tai«hu, key points on the railroad extending across the island,

was the principal target. Tainan is the principal city

of southern Formosa, Japan's

fortress base 100 miles off the China coast. Tokyo said the planes were assaulting the island from “both sides,” indicating that possibly land-based craft from

China bases have joined with carrier planes in the attack.

INDIANAPOLIS GETS — FIRST. OF FROSTS

Weather Bureau Promises Warmer Weather.

LABOR . , . By Fred W. Perkins

3 'Breaks’ That

Sway Votes

Run Against the President

‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—Four of the “breaks” that help swing

elections appear today on the labor Roosevelt.

front. All but one are against Mr.

1. The Petrillo case, in which the head of the American Federation of Musicians (A. F. of L.) leaves the President out on a limb by

rejecting an official but courteous the war labor board. 2. The Matthew Smith case, in which this leader of non-affiliated unions order, and then calls off a destructive strike today of 70,000 men in 87 vital war plants—which Republicans might have used as

evidence in their case against the |

administration's manner of handling labor problems. 3. Disclosure that heads of five rallway workers’ brotherhoods

request that he obey an order of

pressured, in some , to declare

were recently cases

for re-election of Mr, Roosevelt, .

TIMES INDEX

Jane Jordan ..81 Mauldin .....17

Amusements ,.22 Eddie Ash ....%

Barnaby © .....17| Ruth Millett ..17 Ned Brooks ve. 18 Movies vireveind 2 Comics aseiesdl) Obituaries ....13 EW «+.31! Ernie Pyle ....17 leg Editorials wi:18 sesssany - Fashions Senne 1 ' Financial .....24 Jances .18

Forum .......18 Wm P/Simms 18

grew that by the week-end

Plea for Terms Rumored En Route to Churchill

And Stalin.

By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Oct. 12.—Hungary appeared ready today to quit the war, and the prospect

Germany may stand in Europe without an ally.

garian delegation already has gone

dickering for terms with Marshal Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill,

Churchill and his party arrived. Allied circles were generally optimistic. Russians are good actors but they are seldom able to con-

Fast Action Follows Stalin-Churchill Meet

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—First

There were rumors that a Hun]

to Moscow and may already be}

Events have moved rapidly since} 2

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1944

AACHEN

, Ba ey Ge RE Rata of burning Aachen today, and had taken two sections of the city,

YS STORM INTO BLAZING ‘AS NAZIS DESPERATELY DEFEND COMMANDING HEIGHT

} |stormed into blazing Aachen

TWO AREAS OF WRECKED CITY ARE CAPTURED

German Counter - Attack. Fails to Hold Hodges’ Men.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY ! United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Paris, Oct. 12—~American doughboys

under cover of dive-bombers and artillery’blasts today and drove steadily forward through rubble-strewn streets toward Observatory hill, which commands the

ments of equal or greater significance will follow shortly. Churchill and his party were received in an atmosphere of unprecedented Anglo-Russian cordiality

for success of the negotiations. The importance of Stalin's acceptance of a banquet invitation at the British embassy last night was difficult to over-emphasize. This gesture, which might be regarded as routine in other countries, was absolutely without precedent in Moscow and its significance was increased by the fact Stalin has made virtually no public appearances since the war,

Results of Parley

Tangible developments thus far were:

be administered by an Anglo-Amer-ican-Russian group under a Soviet chairman,

2. Arrival of a London Polish delegation headed by Premier Stanislaw Mikolaczyk and a Lublin Polish delegation headed by its

LOCAL NAVY PLANT CHIEF 1S PRONOTED

Capt. Gladding Announces _. Base Here Permanent.

Warren Gladding, U. 8. N., com= manding officer of the Naval Ordnance plant, 21st st. and Arlington ‘ave, today was raised to the rank of captain and announced. that the plant will be part of the permanent navy shore establishment at the war’s end. Tt

In which was seen important signs|in

HOOSIER HEROES— ace ty Gerth, Miles and Proll Listed Dead; Three Wounded

A member of the D-day invasion reported

Sgt. Theodore O. Gerth, R. R. 2, Box 548, in France. Pvt. Truman I. Miles, Greenwood,

France. Cpl. Robert Prall, 5448 ave, in Italy. MISSING : 8. Sgt. Donald William LaFata, 1240 N. Euclid ave, over Germany. WOUNDED It. Carl B. Lewis Jr, 2702 N. Talbot ave., in France. Pfc. James M. Kidwell, 1430 Blaine ave, in Italy. ; Lt. Claibourne Cooperider, 2239 N. Illinois st., in Holland.

(Details, Page 19)

NAZI RESERVES SLOW

Winthrop

~|YANK DRIVE IN ITALY

ROME, Oct. 12 (U, P.).—German troops, reportedly bolstered by reinforcements from northern Italy, waged an all-out defensive battle in the foothills of the Apennines today in a desperate attempt to halt three American columns driving toward Bologna and the Po valley.

less than 10 miles south of Bologna, all but halting the main American forces pushing northward on the main highway from Florence.

NOV. 7 DELAYS. 816.3 PARLEY

Wait Until Election Is Decided.

By ISAAC DON LEVINE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — Winston Churchill's present visit to Moscow was decided upon last month at Quebec, after Marshal Stalin had declined an invitation to join in another meeting of the Big Three with the American election still pending. This was only one of the situations that confronted President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at their recent Quebec meeting. In consequénce of several days exploration in American and foreign diplomatic circles here I have obtained many details of that most secret of conferences, where 150 press representatives were made painfully aware of the extent to which President Wilson's ideas of “open covenants, openly arrived at” have been junked. Cites Stalin Speech Marshal Stalin's objection to attending the conference, I am informed, was on the ground that if President Roosevelt failed of reelection, any decisions of the big three might have to be reviewed and confirmed. Stalin had paved the way for this view in his talk with Eric Johnston and Ambassador Harriman last July, in the course of which he indirectly yet pointedly referred to President Roosevelt as a “politician.” As re-

Ike Confident of

Victory, Warns Job Will Be Hard

By JAMES F. McGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. PF, PARIS, Oct. 12—Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed “complete confidence” today in the home and fighting fronts of the united nations “to see this war through to final victory,” but warned that while victory is certain, “we have a hard job ahead.” Eisenhower, looking fit and confident, discussed the entire war situation at a conference of more than 100 correspondents.

Gestapo Pistol at Backs

The supreme commander said the surrender-or-die ultimatum to the Aachen garrison should not be considered a precedent, but was the decision of the field commander who was left to his own devices as how best to kill the Germans. After saying that the people at home were going to see the war through to victory, he added that “as long as they will see it through, I know that all the soldiers, sailors and airmen possess the indominitable will to win.” . He emphasized that the hard fighting ahead would be made tougher by the ‘fact that the coercion methods of the Nazi hierarchy now are being used more than ever. If the gestapo pistol were not now being held at the back of the German people and soldiers, there would not be enough Germans resisting to prolong the war, he said. Eisenhower said a large portion of the German people want to throw in the sponge, but they are first inarticulate and second they don’t dare oppose the S. S. and gestapo

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SOVIET BIg GUNS RAKE E. PRUSSIA

Troops Blast Toward Reich Province and Race For Budapest.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 12—Russian artillery massed along a S50-mile stretch of the East Prussian frontier opened a powerful bombardment of Germany proper today and Soviet troops smashed westward in a frontal assault against the Reich's emsternmost home province, At the southern end of the fast shifting Eastern front, Red army mobile forces raced over.the Hungarian plain toward Budapest in a bid to knock Hungary out of the war and lay open the approaches to Austria. The Nazi-contiolled Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported from Berlin that the Russians had driven into the great Baltic port of Memel, and violent house to house fighting was going on.

Three-Way Drive

Hungary is on the verge of capitulation, United Press Correspondent Henry Shapiro reported by telephone from Moscow. Radio Moscow said the Red armies of the north had struck out in a three-way drive toward the Latvian port of Liepaja (Libau), Memel, and the * East Prussian stronghold of Tilsit. ! The Moscow newspaper Pravda reported from the front that Soviet troops going into action along the East Prussian front after a shattering artillery bombardment were

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By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

GREAT LEIGHS, ESSEX, Engburghers the Witch of

On the other hand the little man called Devish said: “Rubbish.” “What did you say?” he was asked. “I said rubbish,” Devish answered. “And.I mean rubbish. She won't stay down.” | “Why won't she stay down?” Warden W. J. Sykes, proprietor of the 774-year-old Ye Olde Queen Anne's Castle inn and leader of the nine, stout witch-layers,

(Continued on Page 3—Column 1)

Pin Witch Back Under Stone; Odds Are She'll Roam Again

- Keoninsth

Record Air Fleet Blasts Bologna

ROME, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—A great Fort-

city were tremendous. “I could see our doughboys ade vancing to seize the high observa tory ground which dominates the entire city,” Gorrell reported. There was a German counters thrust from the northwest in the Wurelen vicinity, but it had’ as little success as the others, The Nazis were employing a new

Aachen possibly for another couns ter-attack.

before final conquest of the town was completed. Predict Fight to Death One objective of the U, 8S. come

mand in attacking the slaughter of