VOLUME III NO. 21 10 OCTOBER 1944 FRANCE; THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY HAS REDUCED THE ESCAPE GAP OUT OF AACHEN TO JUST OVER A MILE, FIRST ARMY TROOPS ARE DRIVING FOR A LINK UP JUST EAST OF THE CITY. THE GERMANS ARE BITTERLY CONTESTING THE AMERICAN ADVANCE AND TODAY 'THE YANKS WERE HELD TO RELATIVELY SMALL GAINS OF SEVERAL HUNDRED YARDS. , SOUTHEAST OF AACHEN, AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE PUSHED AHEAD FOR SLIGHT GAINS, CORRESPONDENTS SAID THIS EVENING THAT THE NAZIS HOLDING OUT IN AACHEN HAD BEEN GIVEN AN ULTIMATUM THAT IF THEY DIDN 'T SUR• RENDER BY MORNING THE CITY WOULD BE DESTROYED. GENERAL PATTON'S THIRD ARMY TROOPS HAS PUSHED AHEAD ANOTHER MILE BETWEEN NANCY AND AJETZ. TODAY, THIRD ARMY TROOPS ARE BATTLING FIERCELY AT THE APPROACHES TO METZ. THIRD ARMY TROOPS HAVE TAKEN BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR THOUSAND PRISONERS IN THE LAST FEW DAY'Si ALLIED SE'TENTH ARMY TROOPS HAVE TAKEN SEVERAL HUNDRED PRISONERS AT THE APPROACHES TO THE SELF CRT GAP. CANADIAN AND UNITED* KlN&DQii TROOPS YESTERDAY LANDED BEHIND • THE'-GERMANS ON THE SOliT^H SIDE''6P: THE" SCHELDT ESTUARY AND ALREADY^HAVE1 PUSHED INLAND ABOUT-5JjK>": " AND A-1'- • HALF- MELES-!! " $HESE-TROOPS"ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE"OP THE SCHELDT: P0CKET'-,AND''THE^ GERMANS "ARE:'-DEGPERATELY" TRYING TO' BEAT THEM EAC'K . ' THE' ENEMY ON'^ALkJHEREN:-ISLAN.0, IN THE SCHELDT ESTUARY AfiE'TN A CRITICAL" POSITION OWTNG"K> THE-FLOOD-CAUSED WW -Yy THE'RAF'BREACHED THE"SEAWALL ON THE ISLAND WITH HUGE BOMBS..- • - » <SrH si- .'•• CANADIAN FORCES ON"THE FAR'SIDE CF'THE LEOPOLD C*NAL- ARE MEETING PaNATie. GERMAN RESISTANCE:.... NAZIS*;ARE'DOING THEIR'BEST -TO PUS'H"THE CANADIANS-«BASK ACROSS THE - C^AL. '••YES'TERDAY THE GERMANS SUCCEEDED IN FORCING THE CANADIANS BACK TO THE B.;NK OF THE CANAL BUT TODAY THE C^NADIANS DROVE BACK FOR A QlLJtTER OF A MILE . THE GERMiJvS LEFT ON THE ISLANDS OF THE SCHELDT ESTUARY «ND ON THE MAINLAND OF HOLLAND ARE IN A VERY BiiD WAT AND THEY ARE THROWING EVERYTHING'""THEY ?OSSI8i5f CAN)T,AGA1N5T - - THE C iiNaDI AN AND BRITISH' TROOPS' SO-AS TO HOLD OUT AS 'LONG AS THSZf POSSIBLY GANV-'>^- X~ • :l .. •• 1. - • • 'A lv {" W "'• RUSSIA;*' • \- •>V'>Vs^ " •"'••' ilif" RUSSIAN FORCES RACING ACROSS WESTERN LITHUIANA'AT A'OLIP 0F?17^MILES : A~'DAY"" HAVE r REACHED- THE BALTIC' SEA ABOUT 20 M'lES-' BELOW- 'MEMEfc. "THE RUSSi ANST : ARE: NO W' ABOUT 'Wk "MILES FRjDM THE' EAST PRUSSIAN BORDER AT THIS POINT." "CORRESPONDENTS SJAY THAT'.-THE REDS ARE SHELLING MtLMEL." IN THE'LAST FOUR'DAYS, SOVIET FORCES HAVE?T'AKgNtTHAN 2000 TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN WESTERN LITHUlANAy : MOSCOW RJ^# iS 15* ": GERMAN DIVISIONS.^HAVE_:B^RATRAPPED BY THE NEW'RUSSIA^'DRLVEif IV: < 7;-:,-R :' *' IN HUNGARY,' FLYING RUSSIAN COLUMNS ARE DRIVING DEEP INTO THE CENTER OF THE COUNT- RY..,...THE'.;REDS WERE LAST REPORTED £5- MILES FROM BUDAPEST AND HEBE ADVANCING ON A HUNDRED-MlLE FRONT. 'YESTEI^Y^OT®" RUSSiAVs-'HEACHED THE TISZA RIVER ON A 15 MlIE FRONT;;!"*®* TISZA IS ^LA^T'MURAL' OBSTAClE'".QEFOR^SUDAPEST. OTHER RUSSIAN TROO?S»:ARE RAPIDLY 'cicBlNU-IK ON SZEGED MD'DEflKEcZEK THE SECOND AND THIRD LARGEST CITIES" >Eir HUNGARY. p. NORTH OF WARSAW IN POLAND, RUSSIAN FORCES .YESTERDAY, BEAT,OFF 20 .GERMAN COUNTER- ATTACKS.AGA^NST THE RUSSIAN^ BRIDGEHEAD OVER THE"!NIEMEN: RIVER»'<'• j <" I EN^LANDV '3 ' ' R. ' •« '• \J - i -.-. \ ' ; | YEST^ffAYflvOFll-.'TrHAN 1100 HEAVY AI/JERICAN BOMBEhS BLASTED SCHSffilNFURT ANU uOBLENZ I»7^Eqf5ff«:..-^AST NIGHT, RAF BOMBERS IN GREAT STRENGTH HEAVILY ATTACKED BOCHUM A BIG'RAIL Al'iD INDUSTRIAL CENTER CLOSE TO THE SIEGFRIED LINE. BOCHUM IS AN IMPORTANT SUPPLY,CENTER,.FOR-THE SIEGFRIED LINE. THE RAF' ALSO ATTACKED THE NAVAL BASE OF VjILHELMSHAVEIf'^A^T.JIGIIT, THE GERMANS SENT SOME FLYING BOMS AGAINST SOUTHERN ENG• LAND, JpR JT^E 'jffljjft pGHT'^FjUN^pS'^Riite THE' 'NIGHfT ITA&ffZZir>ZF".J^B** 'h H'T A-''•..' "'IfA '^' % *:. t'p. T.- |m%A^|?^J|^^ltEb dl3M'^MA^mSrW &ALY AGAIC" BRi:fisH''TR'00PsTN''' GREEg|;.HA^. imm^^CO^m ABBOT*1 '40ia££SIfK^'ATHENS. THE BRITI'SH" SAY THAT THE' GE^sfejifiE'PULLING OUT-'OF ATHENS'';" ""t'I':r'!' fSf " '' " ' r * TURN PAGE PACIFIC ; v- *.t w - •• • -• • •• •••••• * %: • • • - • v I.L AMERICAN FORCES HAVE LANDED ON- ANOTHER ISLAND TN THE"TF*ALAU-GROUP i • AMERICAN JOM'BERS RANGING FAR AND WIDE OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST PAOIFLC, HAVE RAIDED A TOW ON MINDANAO IN THE PHILLIP-DIES AND ALSO BOMBED CERAMJ AMBOINA, THE MALACCAS ' AND'THE 'HALMAHSRA GROUP. 'THE IT. Si NAVY HAS VERY HEAVILY SHELLED THE MARCUS IS- XiNDS 1135 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOKIO* J ' ' • • • 'jnr:»« ••" BRITISH'FOURTEENTH ARMY TROOPS ARE 1 IT BIN A FEW THOUSAND .YARDS-;OF THE;BIG JAP BASE OF TIDDIM IN "BURMA* '. ' 7 * j' ' •'' ~r .:-.,«.•...;•-•»'•. » •>. • • WORLD SERIESt .. ' :> *s—- • «:.: •• • •IT'~S"«LL OVER NOW: : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E • 0 , 1- 0 0 'o 0 ' 0 l" r..3. 0 •0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 0 BATTERY; • . ,-' ... !•'-•• TA.RDINALS: -MAX LANIER, '-TED WILKS• AND W. COOPER.•' ,. * • EKOWNSj ;. N. POTTER,. MUNGRIEF -} KRAMER AND HAYMORTH. WINNING*PITCHERt M. LANIER; LOSER; N. POTTER . • • • HIGHIIGHTS OF THE GAME;-- ••• -.Y T^,^, , . .THE ST LOUTS" 'BRIANS' SCORED THEIR -ONE AND < ONLY- RUN-OF THE GAME, IN- THE FIRST HALF I'fit THE*-SECOND TpING BY COUPLING A TRIPLE aND-A SINGLE.. CHST-LAABS BLASTED A. 422 -FOOT LINE ©RIVE TQ-'DEEP CENTER FIELD AND MADEflT TO .THIRD FOR ARTRIPLE.:".-MC QUINN THEN"SIGLED.:LAABS."HOME AND THE BROWNIES WERE THREW..SCORING RVNSi.FOR THE.DAY.-, . • 1 tiiE CARDS SCORED THEIR THREE RUNS IN THE LAST HALF OF THE FOURTH INNING, WITH ONE OUT, WALKER COOPER DREW A BASE ON BALLS . RAY SANDERS THEN SINGLED SENDING - BIG TALKER TO THIRD.. KUROWSKI WAS SAFE ON STEPHEN>S -ERROR; COOPER SCORED ON THE 'PLAY. MARIOH. FILED OUT FOR THE SECOND OUT.:-: VERBAH, - A--THORN IN\E SIDE-OF THE • 'BROWNS YESTERDAY,; SINGLED TO CENTER FIELD SCORING^SHNDERS, KURO"iSKI WENT..TO SECOND ON THE HIT. MAX LANIER SINGLED TO CENTER SCORING KUROWSKI FOR.THE, LAST CARDINAL RUN. v . -•'. • • ' •'•• •-. -• •' - • .,v/~'r- • H.T5 OFF TO;;. "- -r .-,' •, • • ":, '. ' • MAX LANIER WHO WON THE FINAL GAME FOR THE CARDS.. ALTHOUGH WILD AT THE BEGIN• NING OF THE SIXTH,,MAX PITCHED- A SPLENDID GAME AND ONE OF, HIS TWQ ,HITS SCORED A- RUN,W.-WALKER'COOPER, THE• OLD "ALWAYS DEPENDABLE" OF THE CARDS .. COOPER, GOT TWO- r-HITS' LAST NIGHT.., EMIL VERBAN OF THE CARDS.- THE ROOKIE BANGED OUT. THREE HITS TO LEAD THE CARDS LAST NIGHTV.-A TED WILKS CAIVE IN AT THE BEGINNING OF. THE SIXTH TO RELIEVE LivNIER WHO HAD DEVELOPED A WILD STREAK AND MR. WILKS DIDN'T. GIVE A-HIT FOR THE FOUR INNINGS. THhT- HE PITCHED... GEORGE MC QUINN WHO AGAIN STARRED AT THE .PLATE FOR" THE BROWNS.:. .'CHET LAABS WHO ALMOST HIT ONE FOR THE CIRCUIT. .