> ... Iron Ring Is Being Drawn About Aachen Man Spricht Deutsck fci On Parte Frangais Raumen Sie die S trass*. THE S Combien est-ce J> Roymea Zee dee StraJtm. CombYAN ess. Get oft the street. toMf tbrmpsptt ef UJ. Armed in th« European Theater of Operatlsas How much is It T Vol. 1—No. 83 New York—PARIS — Londton Monday, Oct. 9, 1944 Wendell Willkie Is Dead Mud Pulls His Rank on Tanks All Clocles Now Agree YanksNear —And It's About Time Republican The French pushed their Link;Third clocks back one hour at 0001 Leader, 52, hours yesterday, ending the dou- ble time standard which had prevailed in Europe for several 111 a Month In New Stab weeks, ever since the U.S. Army switched from British Double Summer Time to British Sum- NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Wen- i, First TJ.S. Army forces mer Time. thrusting north from the area Among other things, the dell Lewis Willkie, 52, 1940 of Eilendorf and south from change makes it possible for Republican Presidential can- newly-captured Alsdorf in a GIs date French mademoi- didate and America's "global selles without having to tax citizen," died in his sleep at, bid to encircle the German their limited vocabularies t* city of Aachen and its gar- make sure whether the hour of Lenox Hill Hospital at 2:20 rison of picked SS troops meeting is "French" or "Army" AM today of coronary throm- were only four miles apart time. bosis. last night. Death came to the "para- As Lt. Gen. Courtney H. dox of American politics" one Hodges' troops, with the Rhine B26s and A20s month after he entered the hos- pital for a physical checkup, and apparently their next major goal, drove forward on a six-mile front one day after between Geilenkirchen, and Als- Blast Bridges his physician, dorf, the Third U.S. Army, launch- Dr. Benjamih ing an offensive on a 20-mile front And Nazi Front Salzer, had ex- between Nancy and Metz, cleared pressed hope the crisis had pass- eight small towns of Germans and Striking at the enemy along a at some points advanced six miles. ed. Dr. Salzer 250-mile front in Holland Ger- said a streptcn Speculate ori- "Breakthrough' many and France, approximately coccic infection 350 Ninth Air Force Marauders and Front-line reports, asserting that had affected Havocs yesterday bombed .four the drive tooisolate Aachen was bridges in the Rhineland, fortifi- Willkie's heart nearing completion, suggested that cations at Metz, two German towns muscles. the gradual American advance E^rly yester- U.S. troops (top) take advantage of dry period to free bogged tanks. near Aachen and pillboxes along eastward was a major break- day evening, Below, tanks churn deep mud in slow advance after recent rains. the Scheldt in Holland. through. However, commentators At the same time, Ninth fighters Wendell Willkie Willkie suffered at Supreme Allied Headquarters, stpafed German troop concentra- a heart attack although granting that the Yanks tions, guns and airfields along the and was placed had made a considerable penetra- Allied Thrusts Bombers Drop Western Front. under an oxygen tent. Ai 10 PM tion of the West Wall, were hesi- Bridges hit by the B26s all span he suffered another attack, and tant to describe it as a break- tributaries of the Rhine and cons- physicians said his condition was through. Peril Corinth Coats to Yanks titute important links in the Rhi- critical. A third and mortal attack Even as Lt. Gen. George S. Pat- neland communications system came at 2 AM. ton's Third Army stormed forward ROME, Oct. 8.—Allied troops In SHAEF, Oct. S (AP).— American which has been under constant Willkie loaves his wife, a son. under cover of a heavy artillery Greece moved toward the outskirts strategic bombers which paved the attack by Ninth aircraft for the Ensign Philip Willkie, and a brot- way for the Invasion of Hitler's barrage and smoke, inside Port of Corinth. today after the sur- last there weeks. ' . her, Col. Robert Willkie, now in Driant doughboys still were fighting European fortress are taking a mar render of the port of Nauplicn, Simultaneously, forces of A20s France! against tremendous odds. Amer- jor role in a terrific battle of sup- blasted the towns of Julich and Grandson of German immigrants icans who penetrated the southwest about 40 miles from Corinth and plies now being waged in France, Linnich, road and rail junctions who fled Europe after the revolu- corner of the fortress guarding 85 past captured Rion. Belgium and Holland. northeast of' Aachen, now virtually tion of 1848, Willkie was born at Instead of their bomb bays car- Metz were thrown back 50 yards. Capture of Corinth, on the encircled by the First Army., Elwood, Ind., Feb. 18, 1892. He Dispatches from the "front. said rying high explosives they are now Yesterday's offensive followed a worked his way through the Uni- isthmus which connects the Pelo- filled with overcoats and uniforms that the bastion's defenders were ponnesus with northern Greece, day in which Ninth aircraft flew versity of Indiana and became a operating from pillboxes raised and for thousands of shivering Amer- would seal off German troops still nearly 2,000 sorties. lawyer. lowered by hydraulic lifts. Often ican troops. After World War I, m which he left in southern Greece. In a 1,000-mile tour of the battle the Yanks passed completely over- No fighting was mentioned in the served as a captain of field artil- the intrenchments, only to be at- fronts stretching from the Swiss German Spy Nabbed Allied communique^ indicating aban- lery, Willkie took a job in the legal tacked from the rear. frontier to Holland, it is apparent departmenl of the Firestone Tira donment of strategic points by the that Gen. Eisenhower's biggest pro- By Yanks Is Hanged Nazis Using 'Mystery' Guns Germans or ^ineffectual resistance and Rubber Co. at Akron. In eight blem is not the Germans strength months be doubled his salary of The new Third Army push, which by small croups of Nazis. An enemy agent was executed by but a race of supplies to contend hanging Saturday night by the $2,500. He married Edith Wilk, netted about 5C0 prisoners in its with the coming winter. assistant librarian at Rushville, first *3ur hours, came after a day RAILROAD HEAD DIES Army, Communications Zone Head- quarters announced yesterday. - Ind In which German long-range "mys- TWO HARBORS, Minn!, Oct. 8.— PLAGUE AT ALGIERS In 1929, Willkie left the Middle tery" guns, believed to be mounted Thomas J. Oatena, 88-year-old re- ALGIERS, Oct 8.—Due to an The agent, a German soldier clad in civilian clothes, was found West and became a partner in a on railroad cars, gave the army tired vice-president of the Duluth, outbreak of bubonic plague, the New York law firm and general what was probably the heaviest Missabe and Iron Range railroad, city of Algiers was closed today to behind the Allied lines Aug. 10 by the Second Armored Division. counsel to Commonwealth and shelling of the war. died here yesterday. Allied military traffic. Southern Corp. Four years later In Holland, American airborne he became Commonwealth's presi-" soldiers, who are operating with dent and fought a furious losing (Continued on Page 8) battle against the New Deal's Homers Win 5th Tilt for Cards, 2-0 Tennessee Valley Authority. Troops Told to Give Up When, late in 1939, Willkie was mentioned as a possible GOP By Charlie Kiley swatted a home run with Gene flourish, fanning three pinch hit- English - German Books (Continued on Page 8) Star* and Stripes Staff Wrltsr. Moore aboard. ters in the last half of the ninth. The combined strikeout totals of Both pitchers had plenty of speed SPORTSMAN'S PARK, ST. PARIS, Oct. 8 (Reuter).—More Cooper . and Galehouse shattered during the first three innings, FDR Tribute to Willkie: than a million handy English-Ger- LOUIS, Oct. 8.—Home runs by Ray the former World Series record of although Galehouse yielded four man phrase books are being with- Sanders in the sixth and Danny 21 in one game. To cement the new hits, including doubles by Musial 'Great Citizen' Is Lost drawn from general issue to troops mark, Cooper finished with a and Litwhiler, during that period. in a move to prevent fraterniza- Litwhiler in the eighth carried The Browns, meanwhile, were Mort Cooper and the Cardinals to WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Reuter). tion with the enemy. English con- checked with one hit, a double to —President Roosevelt, paying tri- tent of the German booklet is a 2-0 victory over the Browns here today in the fifth game of the '44 left by Kreevich in the third bute to Wendell Willkie, said virtually the same as that of the In the first three frames, Gale- today that "in this hour of grave French-English primer. World Series. The triumph gave the Cards a house chalked up five strikeout crisis our country loses a great The order recalling the phrase 3-2 lead in games and makes it ■victims, while Cooper slipped third citizen through his untimely book was issued by Supreme Allied possible for the-National Leaguers strikes past four Brownie batters. passing." Headquarters, and 60,000 copies are to clinch the world title tomorow Three of Galehouse's strikeouts The President declared : "The being withdrawn from the Ameri- when the sixth game is played. came in the first inning after ,Lit- nation will long remember Wend.ll can First Army alone. The gam# was a pitchers' duel .whiler had opened proceedings with Willkie as a forthright American.