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THE WEATHER Columbus area: Cooler Tuesday
The News Unbiased and Unbossed
OHIO STATE JOURNAL
GREEN LATEST SPORTS FINAL MARKETS
VOL CXXXIIL No. 256
Entered as Second-Class Matter, Postoffice, Columbus, Ohio
COLUMBUS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1943
TELEPHONE: ADams 8151
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Slavs Capture Montenegro Harbor
TRAP GRIPS MILLION NAZIS
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FRILLS FOR RODEO COWGIRLS
TAKE TIME OFF FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Lilian Cowan (l.) and Nita Boyd, both Texans, go shopping
RALLY OPENS $1,487,000 WAR CHEST DRIVE HERE
Parade Canceled Due to Rain; All Ceremonies Held in Memorial Hall
Although rain forced cancellation of the scheduled parade and made it necessary to move the pageant planned for the statehouse yard to Memorial Hall, Franklin County's War Chest campaign to raise $1,487,000 for 88 agencies got off to an enthusiastic start last night in spite of the bad weather.
China's No. 1 aviatrix - Miss Lee Ya-ching - was the principal speaker at the opening ceremonies. Herbert N. Lape, sr., campaign chairman, and A. M. Miller, president of the War Chest board of trustees, were other headline speakers. The entire program was held in Memorial Hall.
The 3500 volunteer workers who will canvass the county to meet the campaign goal were among those who attended.
Representatives of the city and county's various military installations were among those on the speakers' platform.
First report luncheon in the campaign which ends Nov. 8 with a victory dinner, is scheduled for Wednesday at the Southern Hotel.
--BUY WAR BONDS--
17th Tin Round Begins Today
Seventeenth round of the city's tin can salvage program will be started today with collection in district one, bounded by Whittier St., Parsons Ave. and south and west city limits.
Wednesday's collection will be in district two, bounded by Columbus and Forest Sts., Parsons Ave. and south and east city limits.
--BUY WAR STAMPS--
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Seed Peas
DISHMAN, Wash., Oct. 25. - (AP) - Six million pounds of recently harvested seed peas were destroyed last night by fire in the Morrison Brothers Seed Co. warehouse. Loss was $1,000,000.
Edwards' Body Found in Lake
Lat of the bodies of six victims of a speedboat accident Oct. 17 at Buckeye Lake was recovered Monday afternoon.
The body of Harry Edwards, 40, Moores & Ross salesman of 1452 W. Sixth Ave., was recovered by searchers at 2:30 p. m. about 50 feet from the spot where the body of Dr. Francis Keck, 39-year-old dentist with offices at 167 E. State St., was recovered Sunday afternoon.
Edwards' body was found about half a mile from shore in front of the Lake Yacht Club. All had been attending the club's annual outing when the tragedy occurred. Bodies of the four other victims were recovered shortly after the speed boat upset.
Edwards' body was returned to Columbus by the Egan-Ryan Co.
--BUY WAR BONDS--
Gable Arrives From England
NEW YORK, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Capt. Clark Gable, motion picture star now in the U. S. Army Air Force, arrived here today by airplane from Great Britain, it was learned.
Neither the Army transport command at La Guardia Field nor Army officials in Washington would comment.
Gable went on five bombing missions and also supervised the taking of motion pictures while in Great Britain.
Chows and Poodles Classed 4-F in Army's K-9 Corps
General Gregory Lists 18 Breeds Acceptable for Military Training
NEW YORK, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Issuing canine 4-F classifications to chows, setters, pointers, poodles and many other would-be war dogs, the Army has pared to a scant 18 the number of dog breeds acceptable for service in the K-9 corps.
Dogs for Defense, Inc., official recruiting agency, announced yesterday it had received the "doggier" list from May. Gen. Edmund G. Gregory, Army quartermaster general.
Approved breeds include Airedale terrier, Alaskan malamute, Belgian and German shepherd, boxer, bull mastiff, farm-type collie, Dalmatian, doberman pinscher, Eskimo and Siberian huskies, giant schnauzer, Irish water spaniel, mastiff and curly-coated Chesapeake Bay, flat coated and Labrador retriever.
"Chows have been found to be unreliable," said Mrs. Charles Baiter of Madison, N.J., New Jersey agency director, who added:
"Setters are out because they have been bred for bird dogs too consistently and even after Army training still go after birds. Great Danes are too big to handle.
Collies were omitted because they "have the brains bred out of them," she said, declaring that French sheepdogs are too "dumb" to make for good soldiers.
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Chetniks Oust Nazi Defenders
Kotor May Play Role in Allied Balkan Invasion
LONDON, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Kotor, Montenegro, with its landlocked harbor big enough to accommodate the entire Allied Mediterranean fleet, has been wrested from the Germans by the forces of Gen. Draja Mihailovic, war minister, the Yugoslav government at Cairo announced today.
Also claiming new successes against the Nazis in Yugoslavia, Gen. Josip Broz known as Tito, asserted in a communique that his Yugoslav partisans were locked in desperate combat with Gen. Mihailovic's Chetniks in the Montenegrin hills.
ACROSS FROM BARI
As internecine strife reached a new pitch of intensity, reports grew that Hitler was shaping new moves to control the seething Balkan peninsula.
Allied control of Kotor could be significant. The port is only 120 miles across the Adriatic from Allied-held Bari, Italy, and it may yet play a big role in Balkan operations.
Tito in his communique reported the capture of Ivanic, near Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, as well as two German strongholds in western Bosnia and declared his men had captured 2000 Germans, the largest number yet.
WRECK RAIL LINES
Both Tito's men and Mihailovic's army were credited in seperate accounts with continuing effectiveness in wrecking German rail lines.
Tito again insistently charged he was having to fight Mihailovic's forces as well as Germans in the Montenegro-Albania border area.
The success of the guerrilla campaign, however, was said by the Swiss radio to have irked Hitler to the point where he was planning to slice off one portion of Yugoslavia and add it to the Reich, giving Hungary another lump-probably as a bribe to keep a faltering satellite in the war,
Meantime Allied aviation took a hand in the Balkan war by bombing Tirana, capital of Albania, and the Allied Middle East command disclosed Syros Island, southeast of Athens, was raided early Sunday morning.
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Democrats Revive Rail-Light Deal
The proposal for the city to buy the $90,000,000 properties of the Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co., which council had before last February and then suddenly dropped, was to be revived at Mon-day night's session of council, ac-cording to reports.
A resolution was drawn at orders of the Democratic majority, accord-ing to the reports, to authorize the president of the council to appoint a committee of three councilmen, who, with the assistance of the city attorney, would investigate the "feasibility" of purchasing the com-pany.
The proposal to purchase the company was first placed before the council earlier this year by the Democratic majority, with a New York fiscal agent to be the negotiator at a 1.171 per cent com-mission, estimated to amount to between $600,000 and $1,000,000.
This proposal was dropped after Republican Councilman Joseph R. Jones offered the bid of Otis & Co., Cleveland, to negotiate for a com-mission of theree-eights of 1 per cent.
--BUY WAR STAMPS--
Two Suspects Sought IN Zoot-Suit Holdup
FARRELL, Pa., Oct. 25. -(AP)- Police today sought two zoot-suited youths who shot and wounded a grocery store proprietor and a girl clerk in an attempted holdup late Saturday.
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Nazis May Be Driven In Pocket By Yanks
Late Bulletins
Allies Destroy 123 Jap Planes
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC, Oct. 26. - (Tuesday) - (AP) - Allied airmen have destroyed 123 Japanese planes at Rabaul, New Britain, it was announced today.
Rommel Inspects Upper Italy
LONDON, Oct. 25. - (AP) - The Berlin radio said that Field Marshall Gen. Erwin Rommel was inspecting "the German military in upper Italy busily at work taking steps to prevent an Allied landing."
Morgenthau Reaches Cairo
CAIRO, Oct. 25. - (AP) - U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., arrived here today on his tour of Mediterranean battlefronts.
Bulgars Enter Yugoslavia
ANKARA, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Yugoslav reports to Turkey said today that Bulgaria, apparently yielding to German pressure for reinforcements, was moving troops into Yugoslavia where guerrilla forces are fight-ing Nazi occupation forces over a wide area.
Chinese Report Massacres
CHUNGKING, Oct. 25. - (AP) - The Chinese high command announced tonight that Chinese troops which recaptured Potien and Wangchenan southern Anhwei province near Kwangtech found all the homes burned and many civilians massacred by the Japanese.
Claim Allied Destroyer Sunk
LONDON, Oct. 25. - (AP) - The German high command said in a broadcast communique today that an Allied destroyer was sunk and another damaged in the eastern Mediterranean Thursday night by Nazi planes.
Reds Honor Woman Sniper
LONDON, Oct. 25. - (AP) - The famous woman sniper, Lt. Ludmila Pavliuchenko, who is credited with killing 309 Nazis, has been awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union," together with the order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal, the Moscow radio said tonight
Burns on De Marigny Described by Detective
Shirt He Wore Night of Oakes Slaying Is Missing, Miami Sleuth Tells Jury
NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 25. - (AP) - From the lips of an American detective, a Bahamas supreme court jury heard today the story of the singed hairs and missing shirt offered by the crown as damning testimony that Alfred de Marigny beat and burned to death his young wife's father, Sir Harry Oakes. Speaking with the assurance gained from hundreds of appearances on the witness stand, Capt. E. W. Melchen of the Miami police also laid the groundwork for the introduction of a fingerprint with which Attorney General Eric Halli-man will seek to show that de Ma-rigny was in his father-in-law's bedroom at the time of the slaying the night of July 7-8.
CALLED IN BY DUKE
The prosecution rolled out its biggest guns for the start of the second week of de Marigny's trial for murder, and Melchen was called to testify only after Dr. William Y. Sayad had quoted a threat by the accused man last spring to "corck the head of Sir Harry."
Still unconcerned after hearing the unfolding of the case against him, de Marigny met Dr. Sayad while leaving the courtroom for a recess, slapped him on the back and shook hands cordially. The rest of the day he fidgeted in the prisoner's cell-like dock, sometimes yawning and once winking at a girl reporter.
Melchen told of being called to Nassau, along with Capt. James O. Barker of the Miami police, by the duke of Windsor, governor of the Bahamas, who was anxious that the slaying of one of the world's richest men be solved.
He questioned de Marigny the night of July 8, the day the body was discovered by Harold G. Chris-tie, a house guest at the Oakes estate known as Westbourne. De Marigny agreed to an examination of his body with a microscope, Melchen said, adding:
"I found burned hairs on his forearms and backs of both hands. There were visible burned hairs on the left side of his beard, a few on his mustache and on his left eyebrow."
Discomposed? Not Li'l David
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Four floors up, David Jones, 3, peered through the marble railing of the state capital rotunda for a look-see, but there he got stuck.
A fire department rescue squad greased David's head, chipped marble for an hour, then pulled him out. David was asleep.
Capital Combats Rabies Spread
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Eight more persons in the Wash-ington area were suffering from dog bites today after authorities ordered all stray dags muzzles in an effort to prevent any spread of rabies.
Dr. James Cumming of the district's bureau of communicable diseases reported that 74 of the 200 rabid dogs found in the Washing-ton area since the epidemic began last April, were in the District of Columbia.
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$31,500 RING HUNTED
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 - (AP) - Police today were, investigating the disappearance of a 14-carat diamond ring, valued at $31,500, from a hotel suite occupied by Mrs. Virginia Tucker Kent Catherwood, daughter of A. Atwater Kent, radio manufacturer, of Ardmore, Pa.
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Fifth Army is 93 Miles From Rome; Progress Steady
ALLIED HEADQUAR-TERS, Algiers, Oct. 25. - (AP) - Driving three miles against determined resistance and repelling four violent counterattacks within 24 hours, Fifth Army troops have captured the important road and rail junction of Sparanise in the mountainous western sector of the Italian front 93 airline miles from Rome, a head-quarters communique announced today.
Fall of the town, 13 miles from the Mediterranean end of the battle line, raised a severe threat to German forces between that pint and the sea. An allied commentator declared:
"If the don't get out they will be caught in a pocket."
Sparanise is about seven miles north of the Volturno River near the center of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army front, and is four miles due west of Pignataro, which was captured several days ago.
WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD
The advance placed Clark's troops across the strongly defended Regia Canal and, if continued, would split the Nazis' Mas-sico Ridge line.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British, Canadian and Indian forces of the Eighth Army enlarged their bridgehead across the Trigno River in the eastern sector in stern fighting against German forma-tions which have dug themselves into the mountainous terrain in a determined effort to block any "back door" entrance to Rome. An Allied announcement said:
"Steady progress continues to be made along the whole front. Active and extensive patrolling continues on the Fifth Army fronts, with small advances in certain sectors."
In crossing the Trigno River Montgomery's fighters carried the invasion of the peninsula from southern into central Italy, the river in this area being considered the dividing line. The stiffest fight-ing is in progress in Chisti Prov-ince.
RAID AUSTRIA, ALBANIA
In front of the Eight Army rise mountains up to 2200 feet. Behind these tower still higher ridges, and farther northward is the Gran Sasso, or great rock of Italy, towering over 9500 feet high, the high-est point of the peninsula south of the Alps.
Air warfare rose to a new tempo as American heavy bombers protected by Italy-based fighter squadrons plunged explosives on southern Austria and a German airfield at Tirana, Albania, and the Nazi air force threw at least 60 of its own fighters into the conflict.
Fifteen German planes were destroyed, mainly in combats over Italy, and four Allied craft were missing. Three Nazi bombers were shot down in an attempted raid on Naples.
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Accused Sister Slayer Trial Set
DELAWARW, O., Oct. 25. - (AP) - Forest Riley, 39-year-old farm la-borer, pleaded not guilty today to the Oct. 12 slaying of his wife and sister-in-law at a farmhouse seven miles east of here.
Riley was arraigned before Com-mon Please Judge Fred R. Wick-ham on the first and second degree murder charges in the fatal shoot-ing of his estranged wife, Josephine Rileyy, and her sister, Mrs. Mary White, during a family quarrel. Trial was set for Nov. 16.
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94 War Wounded Arrive at Cambridge
Cambridge, )., Oct. 25. - (AP) - Ninety-four Mediterranean and South Pacific war casualties, most of them from Ohio, arrived today at the U.S. Army's Fletcher General Hospital. Forty-one of the patients came from Valley Forge Hospital, Phoenixville, Pa., and 53 from Hoff Hospital at Santa Barbara, Calif.
STANDOUT
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CHERYL WALKER
Miss Walker, who signed a contract with a Hollywood film studio, used to be a "stand-in." She is one of few to graduate from such work to featured parts.
2 Warships Lost in Battle
British Cruiser,
Destroyer Sunk
London, oct. 25.-(AP)- The British Cruiser Charybdis was sunk and a destroyer Limbourne was damaged and had to be sunk during a channel naval battle Saturday, the admiralty announced today.
The Charybdis and the Limbourne were a part of a part of a British force engaged on an offensive sweep off the north coast between Ushant and the Channel Islands. Both vessels were struck by torpedoes.
The Berlin radio announced Saturday that a Btitish force had clashed during the night with a German force protecting a convoy. The German announcement said that fire form their vessels was so effective that the British force "did not even get near."
It claimed at least two torpedo hits "on a large enemy unit."
H. M. S. Charybdis, a 5450-ton vessel, was built in 1940. She carried 10 five and a quarter-inch guns and six torpedo tubes. The destroer Limbourne was laid doen in 1939 and completed in 1940. the 904-ton vessel carried four four-inch guns.
The British announcement did not give the number of casualties.
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Cooler Forecast After Day's Rain
After a rainy day in which the temperature stayed within a two-degree range, the weather buteau last noght forcast sooler weather for today. The rain was expected to end last night.
Highest temperature yesterday was 44, a reading which the thermometer maintained steadily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Low was 42 at 6 a.m. The day's mean was eight degrees below normal.
Rainfall of .25 of an inch left the month's deficiency at 1.09 of an inch and the year's at .40.
River Bend Defenses Crushed
Plight of Germans Approaches Debacle In Southern Russia
London, Oct. 25.-(AP)-
Two powerful Red armies crushed the Germans' Dnieper River bend defenses today, capturing "the hoghly important" industrial centers of Dnepropetrovsk and Dneprodzerzhinsk in the northeast corner of the loop and further imperilling 1,000,000 Axis troops in southern Russia.
