I The Weather Colder; Snow Flurries (Details of the Weather on Page 16) WEEKLY IN 1824: DAILY IN 1844: SUNDAY IN 1878 ESTABLISHED BY SAMU EL BOWLES SPRINGFIELD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1943 -TWENTY-TWO PAGES 1 Allies Plan to Land Giant Behind Enemy Lines In Italy, Nazi Says At VESSELS BEING ASSEMBLED AND 4. MINES CLEARED Capt Ludwig Sertorious Adds 8th Army Massing mous Quantities of Artillery Yanks Repel Three Sharp Counterattacks (By the Associated Press) A large concentration of allied vessels in Naples harbor and active British mine-sweeping operations in Gaeta gulf indicates the allies are preparing to make an amphibious landing behind the German lines on the Tyrrhenian sea coast of Italy, Capt Ludwig Sertorious, Nazi military commentator, declared in a broadcast last night. 8th Army Massing Artillery "Between Dignano and the river mouth. the left the has 5th United for about States a army week," Paraly, said in a Berlin broadcast recorded by Associated Press. "It is qulte possible that this inactivity caused by the not new yet allied concluded landing preparations enterprise." for Sertorious said Gen Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's 8th army was massing enormous quantities of artillery along the Sangro riverfront near the Adriare, and that as soon as these preparadions were complete, "a mass attack against Sangro sector must be reckoned with." Three Counterattacks Repelled by Americans Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov. 15-(AP)-American troops in the mountains near Mignano have hurled back three sharp counterattacks by refreshed Nazi troops making determined stabs wipe out the allied threat to their "winter line" in Italy, (Continued on Sixteenth Page) Bern. Nov. 13-(AP) --Influential military leaders at Bucharest have urged the withdrawal of German and satellite troops to the Bug-river line for a stronger defense against Soviet armies, private advices from the Rumanian capital said today. Some Rumanians fear Russian invasion of their territory may be only a matter of days.
While these reports through a diplomatic channel came in part by of Budapest and therefore were suhject to cautious appraisal, there was no doubt that extreme nervousness existed in the Rumanian capital. The advices pictured this Heavily Guarded The Rumanian royal palace has been placed under heavy guard by political police to prevent opposition parties from getting the ear of young King Mihai. organized evacuation of Rumanians from Transnistria-the territory across the Dniester, prewar frontier, which Germany allotted to Rumania from her 1911 conquestshas extended to Bessarabia which (Continued on Sixteenth Page) RUMANIANS URGE NAZI WITHDRAWAL TO THE BUG RIVER Some Fear Russian Invasion Only Matter of Days-Extreme Nervousness Reported at the Capital HOWARD HARVEY SAVED FROM DEATH IN FIRE Wife Drags Him From ing, Overturned Car Booked by Police Westhampton. Nov. 15 Through the prompt action of his wife, Howard R.
Harvey of Iluntington rond, Westhampton, manager of the Hampden On company, probably was saved from death by burning in his car when it turned over at about 10.40 last off the Russellville road. According to the police report, Harvey was operating his car and his wife was following him in another car to see that he got home. Russellville road opposite the Walter S. Warren home, Harvey lost control of the cur and it left the highway, struck a stone wall, hurtled the wall, overturned, and burst into flames. Mrs Harvey stopped her car, ran to the burning car.
kicked in the windshield with her feet and pulled her husband out. A call was to the police and Cruising Officers George Sathory and Edward Moore responded. Fire department apparatus was called, but was too late to save the car from destruction by the flames. Harvey suffered only 3. few miner! bruises and cuts.
He was taken into custody by the police and charged with drunkenness, operating while under the influence of liquor and operating so as to endanger the lives and safety of the public. He will be arraigned tomorrow morning. All the News and the Truth About It NINE DOLLARS A YEAR PRICE THREE CENTS. YEAR OF DAILY: NUMBER 201 ONE HUNDREDTH Reported in Explosion Mine Depot End of U. S.
Destroyer That Sank Two Subs Somewhere in the Atlantic- dramatic picture just before she was sent to a glorious grave by the Card. This was the climax to the Borie's top of the second sub, then fired all her guns had to be abandoned, ALBANIA QUITS WAR, DECLARES AUSTRIAN PAPER Puppet Regime Said to Be Acting. With. Nazis by Accepting Decrees Issued at Berlin Bern, Nov. 15-(AP)-The Austrian newspaper Donau Zeitung said in its November 6 edition, which reached a here tonight, that Albania had withdrawn from the war and proclaimed a "nonbelligerent country." The newspaper said the was accomplished by the new puppet government with the Nazis' consent under decrees described The dethroning 'of Italian King Vittorio Emanuele as emperor.
2. The repeal of the war declaration under which Albania entered the conflict against all nations at war with Italy. The newspaper, whose report remained still to be tried for authenticity, said the decrees were issued after the deposition of Benito Mussolini as premier. A defensive alliance between bania and Italy was signed November 22, 1927. and was to last 20 years, but on April 7, 1939, Italian troops invaded and conquered the tiny country.
A week later Italian cahinet approved a bill under which the king of Italy also became ruler of Albania. Corregidor's Last Days Told As Epic of Human Courage Dazed and Sick Men and Women Spent Weeks in Tunnels of Manila Bay 'Rock' Sudden Quiet After Armistice Cured Shell-Shock Cases Editor's notes Russell Brines, Manila and Tohio before the war, days in the following article. Brines aboard erchange ship Gripsholm. at Manila and Shanghai. Rio de By Janeiro, RUSSELL, Nov.
BRINES 15-(AP)-A A picture of men and women dazed and sick but courageous to the end was sketched today by American repatriates, of relating American the story occupancy of the of Corregidor fortress in the Philippines. When the Japanese finally seize "The Rock" in Manila bay American soldiers and nurses emerged, wan and nervous, from the tunnels in which they had been refuged for weeks during almost continual aerial and land bombardment. Deep in the tunnels, said survivors, you could hear the continual thunder of guns and bombs and feel the earth quivering. The cessation of the bombardment with an armistice was 60 potent an emotion in itself that many badly shell-shocked soldiers in tunnel hospitals who previnusly were completely unbalanced suddenly benormal. Some 50 army nurses as well as troops remained in Corregidor for(Continued on Sixteenth Page) Should Be Recorded Super-Grand Larceny Belgian Medical Unit Off' to War London, Nov.
15 (AP) The Belgians are sending a motorized medical detachment from the Belgian Congo to the southeast Asia theater and will arm it for defensive fighting alongside the allies in the coming offensive there, the Belgian press bureau today. Eighteen Europeans and 250 natives in the detachment provide tie outfit able to care for 500 AMERICAN FLIERS BLAST NAZI RAILS THROUGH BULGARIA Assault On Sofia Bottleneck Aimed at Cutting Nazi Transportation to Entire Balkan Area Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov. 15-(AP)-Two waves of Americar. medium bombers escorted by fighters smashed railway yards in the heart of Sofia, Bulgaria, yesterday in what an official allied announcement termed the "successful opening of the Balkan offensive." Official reports of the assault on Sofia -the first direct blow at Bulgaria since that country declared war on United States December 13, 1941-described the bombing as "extremely accurate," with the Mitchells laying thousands of pounds of explosives squarely on locomotive repair shops, car assembly shops, a main line depot and acres of trackage. To Block Rail Bottleneck Italy-based bombers and their Lightning escorts shot down nine of approximately 24 Nazi fighters that engaged them in a fierce battle over the target.
The raid on the Bulgarian capital came as all the available Germans Were reported using rail routes to rush men and supplies south for fighting in the Dodecanese islands. rail center. German- supplies "Through this immensely important the islands of the Aegean a and also to transported to Greece and down into the western Balkans, allied announcement said. "The Sofia railway yards link up with rail routes through Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, and congestion at Sofia would have effect of dislocating traffic over the whole Balkan rail system." (The Germans, evidently stung by the midday attack, broadcast a threat of dire reprisals upon Britain for what they called a "naked and undis. guished terror raid" on Sofia, in which many persons were reported killed.) The blow at Sofia, entailing a round trip of some 700.
miles, followed by a few hours a "blockbuster" assault RAF Wellington bombers from this theater on a railway bridge between the resort towns of Cannes and Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, and a damaging raid by RAF Bostons on port instalations and 9 chemical works at Civitavecchia, northwest of Rome. Pilots returning from the latter raid reported an explosion that could be seen for 40 miles. Only One Plane Lost all the allied day and night air operations, including fighter sweeps battle areas in Italy and Yugoslavia and fighter-bomber attacks on enemy camps and motor transport, only one plane was reported missing (Continued on Nixteenth Page) Omaha, Nov. 15-(AP)-Police would have understood if H. B.
McWilliams had sobbed when he reported this theft from his parked pound of butter, two pounds of roasting bacon, and two two pounds pairs of of beef women's for silk stockings. Virginia Nov. 15--(AP)-Winning USO La Junta, Army Air Field, quiz contest was a snap for WAC Pic Lillian Hamilton Red Springs, N. C. But Lillian is stumped by what to du with the prize, considered by the donor to be just the thing for.
a soldier. It's a fancy shavIng kit. GOMEL ISOLATED BY FLYING REDS; TRAP FORMING Lucky WAC Is Winner Of Fancy Prize at USO Spearhead Within 35 Miles of Old Polish Border White Russia London, Nov. 16-(AP)-The red Victory Said Near army isolated the big German garrison day, at sent an armored spearhead to Gomel in White Russia yesterwithin striking distance of the prewar Polish border, and converged on the northern Ukraine rail bastion of Korosten, whose fall is expected momentarily. Berlin said nearly 500,000 Russians had punched out initial gains near Krivoi Rog, in the Dnieper bend, an effort to break through to Black sea and trap enormous German forces.
The Nazi high command German counterattack had stemmed the Russians, but Moscow remained silent for the second day about this fight, entering its third day. 14 Villages Captured Successfully outflanking Gomel, the Russians killed 3000 Germans to seize 11 villages, including the rail station of Demekhi, 34 miles west of Gomel, and only eight miles est of Rechitsa, said a midnight Moscow broadcast bulletin recorded by the Soviet monitor. This action cut the. Gomel-Kalinkovichi railway and highway, leaving the Germans only one perilous avenue of escape by railway, from Gomel, the line running northwest to Zhlobin. But that line already is under red artillery fire by Russian troops drawn up north and south of Gomel.
verge Gomel of itself falling, appeared as Moscow to the be on dispatches Russians he the said late last night, sought to eliminate any major German counterattack in White Russia on the flank of the big offensive westward through the Ukraine. Near Polish Border Gen Nikolai Vatutin'g forces alwere within 35 miles of the old Polish border with the seizure of Baranovka, which is 20 miles south of Novograd Volinsk, and only 30 miles northeast of the rail junction of within 115 miles of the Rumanian Shepetovka. This column also was border to the south. Turning south from Zhitomir, some of Gen Vatutin's cavalry and tank formations threatened the flank of the German army battling near Fastov, 30 miles to the southeast. These troops were reported within 21 miles of Berdichev, another junction on the Leningrad-Odessa line.
Not until today did the Germans acknowledge the fall of Zhitomir, which the Russians seized early Saturday after an all-night fight. They said axis troops had been withdrawn (Continued on Sixteenth Page) Nancy Oakes Balks at Plan To 'Remarry' Her Husband Protestant Girl Taken by Surprise at de Marigny's Arrangements for Catholic 'Validation' of Marriage -Husband 'Invited' to Leave Bahamas AVEYARD TAKES SCREENING TEST Father Relents, Satisfied Boy Will Get Square Deal, and Permits Son to Take First Draft Steps (International News Photos) made from the escort carrier Card, showing the half-sunk United States destroyer Borie, right, guns of the United States destroyer Barry and by depth charges dropped by planes from the with two Nazi submarines which ended when the Borie rammed and remained on until she blew up. The collision of ramming split the Borie's seams and she thrilling battle into the U-boat her survivors being transferred 1 to the Card from the rescuing destroyer. Japanese Cruiser Bombed Near Rabaul, New Britain Half.Ton Missile Cuts Armor and Bursts Inside- Warship Possibly Sunk -Merchant Vessel Hit Amid-. ships-51 Tons Dropped on Buka Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters, Nov.
16-(AP)-A Japanese cruiser--latest in a series of cruisers to be smashed by allied planes -has been directly hit and severely damaged by Catalinas off Rabaul, New Britain. 4. Merchant Ship Also Hit Headquarters, 'n reporting the air action today, also reported a large merchantman bombed by the Catalinas. The cruiser was hit on the stern hy a 1000-pound bomb. A 500- pounder hit the merchantman amidships.
At Empress Augusta bay, the American beachhead on the central coast of Bougainville island in the northern Solomons, the ma- MANY NAZIS I DIE TRYING TO 'CHUTE TO LEROS ISLAND Planes Shot Down, Also by Allied Ack-Ack German Landing Craft MachineGunned, Bombarded By MARSLAND GANDER by the Associated Leros Island, Nov. 14-(Delayed) German parachute troops who landed on this Dodecanese island's rocky hillsides yesterday were reinforced at dawn today by others who dropped through the furious fire of many machine guns. The Nazis suffered many casualties. I saw a Junkers transport hit squarely by Bofors fire and fall into the sea. German landing craft, creeping Into Alinda bay in the halt-light of morning, were heavily machine-gunned and bombarded from the overlooking hight.
The air WAS filled with the red streamers of tracers. One craft blew un in a great, mushroomed explosion. Allied Fliers The German plan was for the parachute troops to cut the island in half, (Continued on Sixteenth Page) Federal Funds Withdrawn For Testing House Dr John Granrud, superintendent of schools, received word yesterday that the federal government has withdrawn its financial support of construction of an engine testing house at the Trade school. Delay of the city property committee in awarding the contract was indicated as one of the reasons for abandoning project. South American students at Trade who were to work in the testhouse will be transferred to a community where such a building is already in existence.
The city property committee opened bids on the contract a week ago yesterday and Councilmen J. Albert voted to award it second Greenaway and Edgar. V. Moquin est bidder, rather than the lowest. Alderman William S.
Lowe dissented. This award caused Councilman Wendell P. Chamberlain at the city council meeting later in the evening to hold up an order for an additional (Continued on Sixteenth Page) 8 Norfolk, Nov. 16-(AP)-An explosion which the navy and Virginia state police said was at the Yorktown (Va.) naval mine depot rocked the lower Virginia peninsula and Hampton Roads at 12.30 a. m.
today. Windows Break In Norfolk Windows were broken in Norfolk and Portsmouth, which are at least 20 miles by. line from the depot on the York river. Citizens of Norfolk were shaken in their beds by the rumbling explosions which appeared to continue for 8 to 10 seconds. The 5th naval district public relations office said a first report that the explosion had occurred at the Norfolk naval air station arose from false fire alarm at the station a few seconds after the Yorktown blast.
Officers at the depot later confirmed that the explosion had been there, but declined to give newsmen any report on casualties, if any, and on property damage. 28 Killed at Norfolk men were killed or fatally injured and approximately 245 others injured in an explosion of anmunition at the naval air station here on September 17. The air station is located approximately 10 riles from Norfolk and citizens said the force of the Yorktown blast was felt as plainly in this city as was th September 17 explosion. Persons on Norfolk streets said the flash of the explosion resembled huge rocket. The layout of the mine depot is a closely guarded naval secret, but It is generally understood in.
Virginia that the depot itself has precautions against the contingency of explosion. BIG FLASH SEEN AT YORKTOWN NAVAL STATION Windows Break 20 Miles Away at Norfolk--No Details Revealed -Base Said to Have Protection From Blasts MACDONALD WARNS AGAINST INCREASING FEDERAL CONTROL Taxpayers' Director Charges Bureaucrats by Giving Something Assault Rights and soldiers have clashed. with Japanese patrols on the A American Seven enemy positions planes at night, attacked caus- the ing minor casualties. Allied planes, attacking Japanese air bases at Buka, on Bougainville's northern tip, dropped 51 tons of bombs and destroyed four Zeros on the ground. Many Warships Hit Since a 350-ton bombing attack on Rabaul on October 12 touched off the current operations in Bougainville-New Britain sector, two cruisers have been sunk and more than 10 damaged by allied planes at Rabaul.
on Sixteenth Page) GEN CATROUX SENT TO MAKE PEACE IN SEETHING LEBANON French Trouble-Shooter Is Now in Beirut Told by British to Settle Dispute and Do It Quickly Cairo, Nov. 15-(AP) Gen Georges Catroux, ace trouble-shooter for the Fighting French, arrived in Beirut tonight empowered to make peace with the Lebanese in the name of the French Committee of National Liberation after being bluntly told by the British to settle the dispute quickly. While the French kept protesting that the situation was exaggerated, the British made it clear that they regarded the flare-up as serious in an area militarily strategic and politically important in view of the Arab situation. Britain Means Business Emile Eddeh, former Lebanese president. was variously reported to have formed a temporary government, but the Arab news agency at Cairo said he had failed in such an attempt.
(A Reuters dispatch from Haifa said the Palestine-Lebanese frontier had been closed to all except military traffic. (The London press adopted the attitude that Britain had no desire to enter formally into the dispute. but would not hesitate if Catroux did not act immediately. Catroux, who played an important part in bringing Gens Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud together, is highly regarded in London both as an administrator and as a person well acquainted with the Moslem world.) Expressions of fear that the outbreak in Lebanon might spread to ad(Continued on Sixteenth Page) Washington, Nov. 15 (AP) The War Food administration announced tonight that up to 5,000,000 pounds of butter will be released to hospitals from stocky of the Food Distribution administration.
This butter is intended to supply hospitals during the period from vember through March. Ration coupons will be required for purchases. 10 CHILDREN ORPHANED Troy, N. Nov. 15 (AP) Ten children, including eight-year-old triplets, were orphaned tonight when their mother, Mrs Frank Niskey, 36, of Troy.
died 24 hours after her husI band's death. FDA Will Release Butter for Hospitals of the States West Springfield, Nov. 15-Speaking before members of the West Springfield Taxpayers' association and a scattering of townspeople, Norman McDonald, executive director of the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers, tonight warned against increasing federal control over state and municipal government. "By the insidious business of givpre present something, age assault the the bureaucrats rights of the the states and attempt destroy their function," Mr MacDonald said. ing the example of federal old-age assistance subsidies, he illustrated the process of "undermining" state and local control over old-age assistance laws.
Illustrates "Dictation" The federal government. he pointed out, agrees to finance such assistance up to $20 per case, provided state laws are framed in a manner acceptable to it. Thus the dictates of the federal government must be followed by the states as well as the towns in the administration of every Individual (Continued on Sixteenth Page) West Springfield, 15-Draft board officials said this afternoon that Robert G. Aveyard, 18, took his screening test today as scheduled and will be classified at an early date. "I think very highly of this said Whitfield Reid, chairman of the draft board.
"I know he wants to do the right thing and we can count on his doing it. The hour for the examination was changed for the convenience of the boy in order that he might avoid unnecessary At his home George F. Aveyard, Robert's father, was satisfled that the board would give him a fair deal. He hopes that it can be arranged to have Robert Anish his first semester at college, which closes January. The elder Aveyard had clared last week he would not permit his son to be subjected to the draft.
LIEUT JOSEPH NASON REPORTED AS MISSING Pittsfield, Nov. 15-Lieut (jg) Joseph Nason, son of Mr and Mrs Noah Nason of Westboro, a nephew of Mira Melvin H. Walker, who has visited this city. many times, is reported missing in action at Bougainville. He was a pilot on a dive bomber work: ing from a plane carrier.
A BILL IS APPROVED TO PERMIT VOTING BY ARMED FORCES Merchant Marine Included in Measure Favored by Senate Committee Would Be Run by Commission Washington, Nov. 15 (AP) A bill providing a uniform method for members of the armed forces and the merchant marine to vote their choice for President next year waS. approved by the Senate elections committee, 12 to 2. The legislation. sponsored by tors Green (D-RI) and Lucas (D-111), was reported out over the objection of two Republicans-Senators Revercomb of West Virginia and Moore of Oklahoma-that it would interfere with Atates' rights to conduct elections.
Stripped of some features found ohjectionable by committee members, tho by the President, to supervise army bill would set up a bipartisan war ballot commission of four, appointed and navy administration of absenteo voting by. members of the armed forces. In case of the 3. tie United vote. States tho chief justice of would name all associate justice to cast the deciding vote on the commission.
If the bill becomes law, it will permit soldiers, sailors and others in foreign battle areas, as well as thoso serving in this country but outside their own state, to mark an absentee ballot for President, Senate and the House of Representatives. They could write in the name of euch candidate or merely designate his political party, Special postcards also would be provided to members of the armed forces who wished to obtain from they their could state for' state officers, if their state officials ballots on which vote permits absentee balloting. Ag approved by the committee, the bill would abolish for period and so far as federal races are concerned all state requirements for vot(Continued on Sixteenth Page) Associated Press staff correspondent at gives the story of Corregidor's last reached Rio de Janeiro yesterday lIe spent BV months in internment Washington, Nov. 15-(AP)-Testimony that the House naval affairs chairman complained to President Roosevelt more than a year ago that the activities of Chairman James Fly of the Federal Communications commission retarded the war effort was presented today to a House subcommittee investigating the FCC The investigating committee's lawyer produced a letter to the President on March 7, 1942, by Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the Housefing naval affairs committee in which Vinson said Fly "must share In the circ*mstances surrounding Pearl bor." "His activities in connection with television and frequency modulation." Vinson write, "seriously delayed put- ting these into service. and in turn deprived the armed services of the technival advances which would have accrued from these new types of services." Vinson complained that for months (Continued on Sixteenth Page) CRITICISM OF FLY TOLD AT HEARING Vinson Complained Year Ago That FCC Head's Activities Had Been 'Retarding War Effort' Nassau, Bahamas, Nov.
15-(AP)Alfred de Marigny announced today that he would remarry his wife, the former Nancy Oakes, but the couple failed to appear at the Francis Xavier Catholic church where a priest waited to perform the ceremony. "There will be no wedding today," announced Father Bonaventure telephone after for the wedding. "He said he is ill." more than an a hour after the time set talking with de Marigny by But friends of his wife, who is a Protestant, indicated that she was taken by surprise by the marriage plans and wanted more time to think lover the idea. The handsome de Marigny, acquitted last week of the murder of Nancy's father, Sir larry Oakes, made his announcement while he was discussing an oflicial order inviting him to get out of the Bahamas. The jury (Continued on Sixteenth Page) UTAH ORDNANCE PLANT TO CLOSE NEXT MONTH Salt Lake City, Nov.
15-(AP)-The Utah ordnance plant, approxmately 8000 employes, will be closed on or before December 31, army officials disclosed today. Maj Richard J. Smith. of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, toid reporters that the workers would be "an orderly manner" to released them to obtain employment in other war work. An abundance of small caliber ammunition was responsible for the decision to close, Smith said.
and added that the plant had produced more gmall caliber bullets than were turned out in the entire United States during World war CIVILIANS WILL GET PENICILLIN BY JUNE Army Expects It Will Have Sufficient Supply of New Drug by February Washington, Nov. 15-(AP) -An army medical corps drug, expectation penicil- that lin, will be sufficient by February to production of the new meet all military needs and by June to supply civilian demands, was relayed to. the House today by Representative lahon The bulk of penicillin, used principall" for bone infections, gonorrhea, general infections such as stream ailments, has been going to the meningitis and blood armed forces. To date the army hag used it in 2000 cases, Mahon reported. Navy 11se has not been disclosed, but its allocation of drug produced under direction the War Production board, has been one-third that of the army It has been used in 794 civilian cases..
