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THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL The lights 90 on again here tonight. Left hope it' joon all over the world. THE PALM BEACH POST TODAY'S WEATHER Question: Does that mean warmer this morning? Or does it mean no change this afternoon? VOL XXXV: No. 225 WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1943 6 PAGES TODAY PRICE 5 CENTS BW PARLEY HEWS EXPECTED DURING THE DAY HALIFAX IIS II COLLAPSE MIGHT EE Hi Yanks, Tommies Creep Forward In Italian Hills Allies Probing Defense Line Under Powerful Air Cover; Bombers Slashing At Enemy Supply Lines, Hit Genoa ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 31.

UP) The Allied Fifth and Eighth armies edged forward along the whole 90-mile length of the Italian front, gaining from yards to a few miles, and speared to within 11 miles of Venafro and Isernia, central buttresses of the Nazi mountain line, it was announced Sunday. Reds Within Six Miles Of Crimea Escape Railway Fate Of Tens Of Thousands Of Nazis Caught In Crimea Virtually Sealed By Sweeping Soviet Scythe; Germans Demoralized LONDON, Monday, Nov. 1. UP) The Red army smashed to within eight miles of the Germans' last escape railway from the Crimea yesterday, virtually sealing the fate today of tens of thousands of Germans trapped in the Crimea. Sweeping up 200 more villages and reconquering if 4 Sfe'-s 7 I 1 1 tiJ (1 nearly all the Nogaisk ALBANIANS LI LAST GOODBYE AT BUNA Australian digger kneels in silent tribute beside the grave of an American soldier who died in the battle for Buna, where U.

S. troops and Aussies fought shoulder to shoulder in the battle to drive the Japs from Southern New Guinea. Lady Oakes To Take Stand This Week At Nassau Trial By K. V. W.

JONES NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 31. (Pi Lady Oakes, the Australian beauty who befriended Sir Harry Oakes when he was a wandering prospector and who was claimed as a bride once he struck it rich, will testify this week against the son-in-law charged with the murder of her husband. Aged and broken since Sir Harry's beaten and burned body was found last July, she will take the witness stand in the Bahamas supreme court to tell of the ill fortune which pursued her family after dashing, twice-divorced Alfred de Mangny married the eldest Oakes I 1 Forty Five Nip Planes Destroyed In Second Bis Raid There ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Monday, Nov. 1.

(P) The important Japanese airbase at Rabaul on New Britain Island suffered another of General MacArthur's AP RABAU BASE sledgehammer blows on Friday. A 0( Nancy's marriage. They decided strong force of Liberators, escort-1 to make the best of ti and put on ed by Lightnings, knocked down I a bold front, she related. 45 enemy planes for certain against Then Nancy became gravely ill only four losses. jn Mexico and the parents rushed Meanwhile, American and New to her bedside, the witness con-Zealand troops ho i a tinued.

steppe, a Moscow bulletin announced, Gen. Feodor'Tol- bukhin's hard-riding Fourth Ukraine army captured Chaplinka, flanking the Per-ekop door to the Crimea 15 miles to the southeast, and reaching a point only eight miles from the railway itself, which leads to Kherson, on the lower Dnieper River. The Germans were expected to make a hard fight along the 60-miie track between Perekop and Kherson, but the line already has been rendered almost useless by the onrushing Soviet troops who are within easy artillery range of it, and who are moving over flat lands where no natural defenses exist. On the opposite side of the big Black Sea peninsular other floundering German forces were declared cut to pieces by General Tolbukhin's tank crews and Cossack cavalry which hurled them into a death corridor at the northeastern door to the Crimea. The Russians took Novo-Alexey-evka.

10 miles west of Genichesk, which fell Saturday, and held the village at the top of the corridor, 20 miles long and two miles wide, through which the Melitopol railway ihreads its way across the Sivash salt marshes and causeway into the Crimea. A midnight communique supplement recorded by the Soviet monitor said the Germans in that sector made a last futile stand before being "quickly rolled back," losing 1,000 men and 16 tanks as the Sot'ct wave washed over them. The Russians not only were swinging into position for the developing second battle of the Crimea, but also were hammering steadily closer to the lower Dnie- per Kakhovka and Nikopol. Soviet bombers and fighters were teported pounding the two Icorrk'ors leading into the Crimea i and the enemy's Dnieper crossings as the Germans abandoned even their personal arms in an attempt to escape. Fresh Russian gains southwest of Dnepropetrovsk inside the Dnieper bend by General Rodion Y.

Malinovsky's troops also were announced, but no specific mileage was givenv At Krivoi ROg the Germans still were putting up a terrific fight, Moscow acknowledged. The communique said that large enemy forces of tanks and infantry, still counterattacking, were beaten off. German radio commentators devoted most of their broadcasts to praise of the Axis stand at Krivoi Rog, and sought to minimize the disaster on the steppes below the Dnieper. Without acknowledging just where the Germans were on the Nogaisk plains, one of them, Major Otto Lehmann. commented: "The Russians, with their mass of human material available for this decisive struggle, are undoubtedly superior to the core of the German army." Some London newspapers said one Russian spearhead was only seven miles from Perekop on the east as the Russians fanned out over all the mainland area facing the Crimea.

German officers tried to whip their panicky remnants into some semblance of order, fighting on hastily-erected lines which the Red army promptly obliterated. Berlin radio utterances complained of the preponderant masses of Red army men hurled against stricken Axis legions. The exact number of German troops in the Crimea has not been disclosed, but estimates have raneed from tens of thousands to 500,000. ITALIANS EXECUTED STOCKHOLM. Oct.

31. UP) Ten Italian "communists" charged with attacking German soldiers in the streets of Rome have been executed, Berlin dispatches to Swedish newspapers said Sunday. WEATHER FORECAST Warmer North portion this mornlnir. Little change In temperature this afternoon and early niRht. Belief Grows That U.

S. And England Pledged To Spring Drive LONDON, Oct. 31 (P) Elation over the success of the three-power conference now being concluded in Moscow mounted in London Sunday while from Germany came a stream of propaganda predicting an Allied agreement "to permanently Bolshevize" Europe and an immediate and multiple invasion of the continent. The Kremlin conferees apparently have reached full agreement on the bulk of the agenda and a communique was expected soon possibly within the next 24 hours on the historic decisions believed to have been taken to Meld Allied unity on both war and post-war issues. President Roosevelt's statement that the conference had achieved tremendous success was still the most authoritative comment yet on the Moscow proceedings, but the feeling spread here that the world will learn the results through action unfolding on the battlefields.

In the absence of concrete information, political and military commentators ranged far and wide on speculation over what the agreement would embrace. The favorite theory was that Britain and the United States had agreed to establish a full-scale front in western Europe by early spring and to put both the Mediterranean arid Middle East forces into action in the south before the turn of the year. Some press commentators believed also that an agreement had been reached for extension of the Mediterranean Commission system (on which Britain, the United States and Russia are now represented) to all of occupied Europe, and for an early Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. There was obvious satisfaction in government circles over the tripartite conferences and the Russians' pleasure was apparent from the cordial atmosphere emanating from Moscow. These signs of Allied harmony caused the Berlin radio to switch from its harpings that Britain and the United States could never get together with the Russians, tif the thesis that the three powers might now have to agree but only on a "Stalin tak all" basis.

German attention was divided between accounts of Allied shipping and troop activity in southern England and stories of big-scale convoy movements in the Mediterranean. One Berlin broadcast said 350 Allied ships were observed Saturday passing Gibraltar, the majority of them coming from the Atlantic. 18 The dimout in which the Palm Beaches have been stumbling cheerfully since April 4, 1942, officially ended as of 1 a. m. this morning, but officials point out the continued necessity for conserving electricity on a "brownout" basis.

It also was pointed out that should necessity arise, the dimout will become again effective. In West Palm Beach. W. H. Hitt, commander of the Citizens Defense Corps Saturday issued orders repealing and revoking dim-out regulations issued at intervals during the past 18 months.

In Palm Beach, the same action has taken place and night traffic on Ocean Boulevard now is permitted. It also was understood from Gen. Blanding that all restrictions have been lifted from Federal Highway 1 facing the ocean. R. D.

Hill of the Florida Power Light Co. reported efforts will be made to restore Clematis St. lighting tonight, but that restoration in other portions of the city will necessarily come slowly. County Rd. in the resort will be the first thoroughfare there to be relighted.

ABOUT 'TAX REFUNDS' WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. UP) The House Ways and Means committee, winding up work on new tax legislation, was cautioned Sunday that public indignation over tax refunds to corporations might "dwarf even the experience" after the last war. The warning was contained in a letter Guv T. Helvering wrote Treasury Secretary Morgenthau as one of his last official acts as Internal Revenue commissioner before becoming a Federal judge.

Copies were distributed the committee. Helvering cited unofficial reports that the refunds might run from $15,000,000,000 to and said "it may not be unreasonable to think" that such rebates of previously collected taxes "will present a grave problem of national financing." GIRAL'D IS ALGIERS ALGIERS, Oct. 31. (P) General Henri Giraud has returned here after a three-day visit to the Italian front where he conferred with Lt. Gen.

Mark W. Clark, commander of the Fifth Army, and visited a sector held by a British unit engaged in hard fighting, a French communique announced Sunday. Says War Now At Point Where Anything Could And May Happen WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. UP) Lord Halifax, the British ambas sador, suggesting the possibility of a German collapse, said Sunday that the war in Europe has reach ed the point "where anything may nappen.

Just back from London conferences with the British government, the diplomat balanced this possibility with a caution that the Ger mans are tough and have been well organized and may be able to prolong the war indefinitely. But the tone of an hour-long press conference he held in a high-ceilinged room at the embassy here was openly and strongly optimistic about the prospects for a breakdown of enemy resistance in Europe. Halifax sketched a picture of a Germany beset on all sides by enemies, with growing unrest in con quered countries and with a home-front badly battered by Anglo- American bombings. In the circumstances, he said, Germany has two choices: She can either scrape up more manpower to police the troubled subjugated areas or she can pull back her armies and release in that way more men to do the constantly multiplying jobs which she must do. Neither task can be agreeable to the German high command said Halifax, although both meth ods probably will be used in some degree.

Meanwhile, he said, the German organization at home is, in his opinion, "brittle" and when one part of it gives way the whole thing is likely to go. He compared Germany to a juggler keeping many balls in the air and said that one slip-up means 'more is likely to go." The ambassador started his discussion of how the war is going by saying there are two possibilities: First, prolonged German resistance due to the fact that the Germans are tough fighters and have a rigid control of their civilian population, second, that "anything may happen." In explaining what he meant by that he declared that "the German civilian organization is a tight machine and in consequence probably brittle so that if one thing goes such as clothing, or transportation, or rehousing it might lead to very great results." He was asked whether the break might come within the armed forces of the enemy or in its civilian population. "All we can be sure about," he replied, "is that the strain on both civilians and army is a heavy one and will be increasingly heavy as we get into winter." if START II FIGHT WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. UP) President Roosevelt's message to Congress Monday on food is ex pected to spark a full scale renewal of the Congressional battle over farm policies in general and food subsidies in particular.

The fight over subsidy payments to keep down consuming food prices has flared sporadically on Capitol Hill for several days. The President has taken the position that subsidies are the most practical method of holding the line against Inflation. But the House Banking Committee has approved legislation prohibiting use of Commodity Credit Corporation funds for payment of subsidies. House Agriculture Committee opposition to subsidies has been plain. Rep.

Patman (D-Tex), chairman of the House Small Business Committee has taken the lead in the House in urging food price subsidies, declaring them to be the only device yet suggested which will prevent increases in the cost of living and "ruinous inflation." The Palm Beach County Resources Development Board will begin its official life this morning, when Ralph J. Blank, director, opens his office on the third floor of the First Federal Savings Loan 215 S. Olive Ave. F.levator service is expected to be available today, but telephones will not be connected until the end of the week. Hours will be from 9 a.

m. to 5 p. m. Miss Charlotte Lev is has been engaged as secretary. Local Labor Men Plan Educational Campaign Representatives of a number of local unions met last night at the Labor Temple to form a county organization to acquaint Palm Beach County residents of Labor's problems and position on educa tional and legislative matters, working in conjunction with Labor's Educational Protective Committee and other groups.

Otticers elected for the new or ganization were C. O. Pierce, Car penter's "819, chairman; Ed Lang, DM F1U, 6, vice-chairman; James Harper, Electrical Workers 323, secretary; Rodney Farr, Barbers, treasurer; C. J. Simonin, Plumbers 630, H.

N. Townsend, Typographical, and C. W. Putnam, Municipal Employees, trustees. Air and sea arms sprang to new activity, with Allied heavy bombers smashintr at industries on the Italian Ri viera and at Genoa, and U.

b. warships steaming into the Gulf of Gaeta in daylight to shell German communications again. Nazi motor torpedo boats, attempting to attack in the Bay of Naples and at Bastia in Corsica, were driven off. Some 20 more towns were enveloped by Allied infantrymen forging ahead in heavy rain and over the most difficult terrain. Fifth Army troops occupied 'Ai-lano, northwest of Raviscanina, and only 11 miles southeast of Venafro as menacing threats were developed against that important highway junction and equally strategic Isernia.

Eighth Army units driving northwest up the route from Boia-no to Isernia seized San Massino and San Elena. 11 miles southeast and 12 miles east respectively of Isernia. San Massino and San Elena, perched on hills 1,000 feet high, are on opposite sides of the Boiano-lsernia highway which the Germans are guarding with heavy forces to prevent a wedge from splitting their front. Isernia was threatened not only from the southeast by the British, but by the Fifth Army units taking Ailano, some 14 miles south of Isernia. Firm control of the Ailano area gave the Allies an excellent view over that part of the upper Volturno River Valley remaining in German hands.

But in the flat shelf of the Ran Salvo area near the Adriatic the Germans lashed out with a savage counterattack which compelled the British to yield ground. The British bridgehead over the Trigno there was reported still secure, however. Headquarters disclosed that total casualties suffered by the Fifth Army since the Salerno landing had been. divided almost equally between trie Americans and British. Allied officers stressed that the Italian campaign now has become mainly an infantry Job, with even the smallest advances often made only with the greatest difficulty and hardest fighting along a front running over hills, ridges, crags, valleys and ravines.

Striking for the first time at the Italian Riviera, U. S. Flying Fortresses raided steel works, warehouses, and a sulphur refinery at the port of Savona Saturday, and bombed railroads at Varazze, Im-peria, and Porto Maurizio. American Liberators at the same time blasted the Genoa freight yards and Ansaldo steel works in a heavy raid following up a Fortress assault the day before. The Fortresses escorted by P-38 Lightnings hit an oil jetty at Savona, 25 miles west of Genoa, damaged an oil tanker in the harbor, and struck heavily at iron and steel factories, jetties, and the sulphur works.

The Savona raid, from the standpoint of weather. was "the on," said roughest IVe ever been Bombardier Lt. Walter R. Parks, Oklahoma City, Okla veteran of Pacific war raids. All operations cost three Allied planes.

The American warships striking into the Gulf of Gaeta shelled roads, railroads and tunnels in the Scauri area at the northern end of the gulf, about 12 miles behind the Nazis' Massico Ridge positions. JAP OCTOBER PLANE LOSSES TOTAL 775 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 31. (P) Seven hundred and seventy-five Japanese planes have been destroyed in October in the Southwest Pacific to run enemy losses in four months to 2,292. The bulk of October's record bag was made in five powerful smashes at Rabaul.

New Britain, where nearly 700 tons of bombs were dropped. In addition to the 775 destroyed In the sector, 115 probably were destroyed and 105 damaged. Three hundred and three enemy planes were destroyed on the ground during the month, 36 probably destroyed and 78 damaged. War Ration Book 4 Disposal To Resume Residents of the Palm Beaches who neglected to obtain Ration Book 4 when they were issued at schools will have the opportunity today, Tuesday and Wednesday. In West Palm Beach, application should be made from 9 a.

m. to 5 p. m. at the American Legion Home, Datura where a special unit will be set up. In Palm Beach, application should be made from 10 m.

to 1 p. ration board office, 227 S. County Rd. All applicants are reminded to bring Ration Book 3 with them. Other ration boards will announce when Book 4 will be available in their respective areas CRISIS IN COAL Lewis Meets With Policy Board As 115,000 Men Stand Idle In Pits WASHINGTON, Oct.

31. UP) The turbulent coal controversy rushed toward a crisis Sunday with policy-forming leaders of more than 115,000 striking miners expected to make their decision within 24 hours. The number of idle threatened a major shutdown in the war-vital industry but capital speculation was that the United Mine Workers policy committee, meeting here Monday, would decide against any flat defiance of the government's back-to-work order. Any other choice would bring the "decisive action" which President Roosevelt promised in an ultimatum Fridav night. Such a step might include government seizure of the mines again and the invoking of penalties against both the union and individuals.

There is the possibility that even should the UMW committee comply with the government's command some local cases of defiance from striking miners might arise. Meantime, the deadline for a "truce" over the wage war between miners and operators expires at midnight. The time limit was set last June by UMW president John L. Lewis in ordering his men back to" work without a contract after the last coal stoppage. The picture has changed considerably since then, however.

And the policy committee Monday is expected to act on two decisions of the War Labor Board, one re jecting the proposed "model" tilt- nois contract for the soft coal in- dustry, and the other denying hard coal miners' demands for a $2-a- day wage increase. in the hard coal case, the board awarded a 32.2 cents a day in crease and other concessions amounting to 20 to 25 cents a day. The Illinois agreement, worked out by the union and Illinois operators, would have put all soft coal miners on an 8'4-hour day based on the time they entered the mines until they left. The proposed basic wage was $8.50 a day with overtime for more than 40 hours a week. VVLB said it would approve for an 8'i-hour portal-to- portal day.

The present scale is $7 for a 7-hour day with no allow ance for underground travel time as such. The President said he believed the board's offer would be accepted. But he aded that "if I am mistaken and the miners do not accept the board's proposals, I shall take decisive action to see that coal is mined." NAPLES, Oct. 30 (Delayed) UP) Premier Pietro Badoglio said Saturday he intends to ask Count Carlo Sforza to take some portfolio in a proposed coalition government representing all sections of political opinion including Communists. Si'orza, a former Italian foreign minister and anti-fascist leader vhe arrived in Italy recently from the United States, has the backing of the action party which advocates wide economic and social re forms.

He has not yet been asked to take the portfolio. Badoglio arrived in Naples this week with American Minister Robert Murphy and British Minister Harold MacMillan, who conferred with the foremost Italian political leaders. The premier told a press conference the new government would be pledged to continue the war until the Germans are ex pelled from all of Italy. SOVIET SUCCESSES ALARMING 10 NAZIS STOCKHOLM. Oct.

31. (IP) Alarmed over the overwhelming menace of the conquering Red armies, the Germans are rushing troop reinforcements to the Russian front from Italy and Norway and are intensifying work on new fortifications in a defense line, Swiss reports to Swedish newspapers said Sunday. At least ten German divisions are being transported from Genoa via Lyon, France, to the Russian front, said a dispatch from the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve. This reported troop movement may weaken the Germans' preparation for an eventual stand against Allied armies in Northern Italy. Saboteurs are aware of the movement and are hampering transport by blasting railway lines, the Swiss report added.

EXPECTED TODAY UP WITH SLAVS United Guerrilla Forces Oust Nazis From Town On Albanian Border LONDON, Oct. 31. (X) United by a common enemy, Albanian guerrillas fighting alongside the Yugoslav Partisans of Gen. Josip (Drug Tito) Broz have thrown the German invaders from the Yugo slav town of Debar, on the Drin River near the Albanian border, a national army of liberation com munique declared Sunday. Albania's resurgent mountain fighters were reported previously to have been offering fierce resistance to Nazi forces within their own border, but Tito's announcement Sunday was the first indication of coordination in the guerrilla offensives.

The victory was tempered, how ever, by Tito's acknowledgement that the town of Kicevo. 23 miles east of Debar, had been wrested from guerrilla control. Tito's communique charged that Chetnik forces of Yugoslav war minister Draja Mihailovic had assisted the German column in defeating his Partisans, a charge he has made numerous times before. fKicevo lies astride the rail line extending southeast from Skoplje in the Vardar Valley to Greece, and is in territory Hitler assigned to Bulgaria in the break-up of Yugoslavia. A description of guerrilla successes along the coast brought back to Cairo, by a British naval officer recently returned from the Yugoslav fighting zone said German garrisons in the large seaport towns were "beleaguered on all sides by land and sea." Writing in the army Middle East weekly.

"Parade." Lt. Lambton Burn of the Royal Navy said that although Nazi forces hold the larger towns along the Dalmatian coast, their garrisons are cut off and are forced to rely on planes and expensive armored columns for supplies. In the land between the German garrisons at Zara, Split and Du-brovnik "no enemy soldier is safe from the undying patriotism of the Yugoslav people," he wrote, adding: "Tiny Partisan artillery units have even carried the offensive into the heart of the enemy's terrain by bombarding Fiume. where the port area is said to be badly damaged by shcllfire." NEW YORK PREPARES TO TURN ON LIGHTS NEW YORK. Oct.

31. (Pi The are ing on BBut May6or here again. avor it. Lauuaraia ana Police Commissioner Lewis J. Val entine indicated Sunday, to con-j serve fuel the nocturnal brilliance of Times Square, the Great White! Way and other areas will remain more or less dormant.

Explaining regulations govern- i ing the "brownout" which Monday succeeds the dimout. the two city officials said that with the exception of outdoor display signs and other minor lighting, the present restrictions 'would be lifted to 90 per cent of normalcy in all but seaside sections of New York City. Browned out will be traffic, street, parkway, bridge and automobile lights. Cars, however, must continue to run with parking lights along the coastline. To conserve fuel, business establishments will be required in most instances to keep outside lighting as at present and in some instances to eliminate it completely in the daytime.

FIELD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers. Oct. 31. (P) Working under the dim light of a tented operating room and with a battle raging only a few miles away, a Fifth Army surgeon recently performed one of the most delicate operations ever done under field conditions complete removal of a human lung. The surgeon was Maj.

Paul Sampson, Oakland, and the patient was a German soldier so badly wounded by shell fragments in the chest that one lung had to be taken out to save his life. Today the patient is alive and doing well. "Although already performed many times in the United States and Britain, a total pneumonectomy under field and emergency conditions in a station hospital is a banner story for the annals of battlefield medicine," said an an nouncement by the Allied headquarters surgeons' office. daughter, Nancy. The widow is the most important of 12 crown witnesses remaining to be heard as the trial goes into the third week.

The defense probably will not have an opportunity to start combatting the evidence against De Marigny before Thursday or Friday. Lady Oakes appeared against De Marigny at a highly-emotional session of a preliminary hearing in magistrate's court. She encountered Nancy, who is firm in her faith in De Marigny's innocence, and both were weeping as the hearing opened. In sobbing tones, Lady Oakes told of the shock with which she and Sir Harry received the news There was a break between Sir Harry and De Marigny, Lady Oakes said, when Nancy became before she fully was recovered, and while she was facing a series of operations to cure a mouth infection. When De Marie- ny entered a hospital room next to that occupied by Nancy, the widow added.

Sir Harry threatened to "kick him out." Lady Oakes said she and Sir Harry were heart-broken because Nancy sided with her husband, thus causing a strain and "We al-vays had been a close family." The millionaire baronet changed his will as a result of his feeling against De Marigny, she testified. When the document was filed it developed that. Sir Harry had put his great fortune into a trust fund. Nancy received a full child's share. First to testify as court opens Monday will be Frank Conway, New York public identification expert, who will seek to nail down the fingerprint evidence which holds together the crown's case.

TO CHUNGKING, Oct. 31. UPS-Chinese artillery, nestled in the Kaolikung Mountains on the Sal-ween River front, has opened up on Japanese invaders seeking to control a big area west of the Sal-ween River in the Burma-Yunnan border area and has inflicted heavy casualties, the Chinese high command announced in a communique Sunday. American Liberators again went to the support of the embattled Chinese by blasting away at targets in Indo-China whence the Japanese are supplying their armies in Burma. A communique on this air action from Lt.

Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters said the Liberators flung 40 tons of bombs on a large zinc smelting plant at Quangyen, near Haiphong, Indo-China on Friday while medium bombers demolished an airdrome and administration at Fort Bayard in the former French-leased territory of Kwangchowan. Choiseul Island encountered some opposition in the Vagara-Voza region in their advance southeastward along the coast of that isle, only 30 miles from Japan's big Bougainville stronghold. Shortly after noon on Friday the Liberators unloaded 1.000- and 500-pound bombs on Vunakanau airdrome at Rabaul from a high altitude, dropping a total of 115 tons of explosives.

Twenty Japanese planes in dispersal areas were wiped out from the bombing, with an additional five planes claimed as probably destroyed. Before reaching their target, the Liberators were intercepted by 40 Japanese fighters. In fierce aerial duels the Liberators destroyed nine enemy planes while their Lightning escorts bagged 16. On the same night Australian-flown Beaufort medium bombers made several sorties over Tobera airdrome at Rabaul, hitting dispersal and supply dump areas. The raid announced today approached the intensity of the Oct.

25 assault on Rabaul when bombers dropped 151 tons of bombs, destroved 21 planes on the ground and shot down 37 in combat. Liberators on night patrol Saturday in the Vitu Island group north of New Britain Island sighted a convoy of war vessels escorting several small merchant ships northward. After shadowing the convoy, our bombers made a bombing run on some destroyers as they rode into Planet Harbor at Mttndua Island. Two direct hits were scored on one destroyer, which the communique claimed as probably sunk, and several near misses which inflicted some damage on another. Halifax Says People Are Behind Churchill WASHINGTON, Oct.

31. (IP) Lord Halifax, the British ambassador, believes that "the people in England are as solidly united as ever behind Mr. Churchill" and "greatly cheered" about the way the war is going. He included this observation Sunday in discussing his impressions of a visit home from which he just returned. WEATHKR TABLE (Oct.

31, 194SI Station Hiehest Lowest Atlanta 7S 52 Boston S2 41 Buffalo Sfi 3( ChicaR.l fw 45 Cincinnati 7fi 46 Cleveland 54 37 Detroit 47 40 Jacksonville 78 46 Key West 8.1 72 Miami 79 63 Minn. -St. Paul 44 38 New Orleans 80' 63 New York 57 44 Pnsacola 75 69 PlttsburKh 59 39 St. Louis 68 55 Tampa 85 54 Washington 64 West i'alm Bench 82 Post Cut To Save Needed Pope The Post today comes to you in six pages. It's the newsprint shortage.

Because of the newsprint situation, experiments are being made with a six-page paper on Saturday afternoons and Monday mornings. Since these two editions normally carry less advertising than any others, it is easier to reduce their size and still give the reader somewhere near his normal quota of news and features. In the face of rising circulation and government requests for much space for bond drives, salvage campaigns, point-price lists, and the like. The Post-Times has to get along on about 15 percent less newsprint than before, and may be cut another 15 percent or more in the not distant future. Paper can't be stretched, so something had to give.

Reluctantly we remove two pages from today's paper, after months of other trimming that most readers haven't even noticed reducing comic strips to four columns, Insetting the page headings, trimming news stories, resetting the classified page to eliminate indentations, and literally dozens of other small but important reductions that we won't waste good white space to describe further. But Just as long as they'll give us any newsprint at all, we'll see that you get the best paper we can give. Rainfall (to 7 p. none Barometer at mldnlRht 3018. Sunrise 7:30 a.

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