VOLUME III NO. 20 9 OCTOBER. 1944 FRANCE: AMERICAN FIRST ARMY TROOPS HAVE ALMOST COMPLETELY ENCIRCLED AACHEN AND THEY HAVE CUT THE MAIN RAILWAY FROM AACHEN TO COLOGNE. THE TROOPS ARE ALSO ASTRIDE THE MAIN ROADS LEADING EAST, NORTHEAST AND SOUTH OF AACHEN. THE ONLY GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE . IS UNDER HEAVY FIRE. THE GERMANS COUNTERATTACKED THREE TIMES IN THE AACHEN AREA TODAY BUT ALL THE COUNTERATTACKS WERE BEATEN BACK. ALL OF THE CITY OF AACHEN IS NOW WITHIN EASY RANGE OF AMERICAN ARTILLERY. GENERAL PATTON'S THIRD AMY TROOPS HAVE ADVANCED SIX MILES IN THEIR NEW DRIVE BETWEEN NANCY AND METZ. THE YANK TROOPS HAVE CLOSED TO WITHIN SIX MILES OF METZ FROM THE NORTH. THE INFANTRYMEN WERE GIVEN HEAVY SUPPORT FROM THE ARTILLERY DUR• ING THE ASSAULT. CANADIAN FORCES ARE BATTLING HARD TO EXTEND THEIR BRIDGEHEAD OVER THE LEOPOLD CANAL. CANADIAN FIRST ARMY TROOPS NOW CONTROL THE CAUSEWAY FROM THE SCHELDT IS• LANDS TO THE MAINLAND. THE CnUSBBAY LINKING THE ISLANDS OF THE SCHELDT WlfH THE MAINLAND IS THE ONLY LAND ESCAPE ROUTE LEFT TO THE NAZIS ON THE ISLANDS AND NOW . THAT THE CANADIANS CONTROL THIS CAUSEWAY THE GERMANS WILL H„VE TO GET AWAY BY SEA. THESE ISLaNDS OF THE SCHELDT ESTOKRY GU ARD THE „PPROi»CKES TO ANTWERP HND THE NAZIS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY PUT UP A STRONG FIGHT FOR THE ISLANDS FOR THEY W*NT TO DENY THE USE OF THE GREAT PORT OF ,.NTWERP TO THE -LUES. THE GERMANS ,,RE MASSING STRONG F ORMATIONS 01 TROOPS NORTH Of THE CMJSEWAY BUT ROCKET FIRING TYPHOONS DISPERSED THEM YESTERDAY. THERE IS STILL 18 UNEASY QULET ON THE SECOND ARMY FRONT IN HOLLAND •WHERE BOTH THE BRITISH *»ND THE GERMANS ARE BUILDING UP.SUPPLIES ^D TROOPS,i-t -THE, ' BRITISH- THREW BACK GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO CRDS3'"THE LOWER RHINE WEST OF ViRNHEM YESTER- -*.Dh¥.- vv.LilED FIGHTERS .^D FIGHTER BOMBERS YESTERDAY ATTACKED inQRE TH*N 2,0 AIRFIELDS IN WESTERN'GERM'.ANY. SIXTY'F OUR '(64)' GERMPJJANES WERE DESTROYEJJ .ptj THE.;GROUND,'ANfi .MJJY MORE' WERE'SERIOUSLY D/jkuGED. ' ' - ."»•• •X j-n >RUSSlu> - " ' • S ••V"- - '•• -. • iff-" - - • < V ;MDSCO,W R-.DIO H.>S-FINalLY.'LIFTED THE GZOriC OF SECRECY SURROUNDINQ. ,R.US§I^ avOVE- dENT5"H*'LITHUIANrt.'.HND• BOUNCED TOD'AY THAT SOVIET FORCES IN" WESTER.N^THJIAN^JH'..VE ,'SMASHED THROUGH THE GEHIi.jNT. LINES ON'A FRONT OF 180 MILES *AND HvtVE PUSHED ''60 MILES TOftoRD'THE SEA,-- *;THIS - NEH!T3RIVE: IS THREATENING TO CUT OFF THE GERMANS (IN, L«T^ VIAHESTIM:^TE"&^ST-I50,000V ONE'•ROSSIAN''tfEDGB IS LESS THAN 30 MILES THE PORT '" '.••OF' Ltf&lfMJf; NpRgHSBNi EAST'PRUSSIA AND ANOTHER RED SPEARHEAD IS 'WITHIN 50 MILES OF "^•-•3IG- i;.m"f PORT 'OF' LIB'.U. -'\t. • •"'• 'RUSSIAN;;TriNKS .-A&JDtCOSSACKS ,iRE'RACING" ACF£>SS"THE PLAINS OF HUNGARY. TO.^RDS 3UD- ~-APES1F;€W R^S~WEW1A3T REPORTED to 'BE ABOJT 70; MlllES 'FROM BUDAPEST'. RUSSIA 'SOURCES/BAY THuT THE SOVIET TROOPS HAVE T«KEN THE TOWN OF MSZOTUR AND OTHER RED FORCES HAVE CLOSELY''INVESTED THE' LARGE '"CITY OF' SZEGED. THE RUSSIANS SAY TH„T THE ' ENgMY'IS LEAVING HUGE AMOUNTS OF SUPPLY BEHIND IN THEIR FRANTIC RETREAT. THE GERMANS SAID TODAY THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE CROSSED THE TISZ* RIVER *T TWO POINTS N&-.R SZEGED iSND .JSQ REPORTS TH..T THEAREDS ^H;]VEUREACHED'POINT 35 MILES NORTH OF BELGRADE IN YUGOSI ,.VI,.. • I... 4- - • '. , ; ''MR. CHURCHILL u'ND Mft. EDEN 'H/.VEi HRRIVED-'IN MOSCOVf FOR CONFERENCES WITH MARSHALL ST;XlN/ir . "";>">?'" r ENGLAND: ....... "'.'-•••• IT.HE GERMANS SENT MORE FLYING BOMBS AG AISST SOUTHERN '^OL.lvD.,D.URIIvG THE -NIGHT... • iT.XYr.? . •• .: • U*M ." •' •;• •• - •; -; ;:v 1 *: *•• B,.D:WEATHER, DEEP-MUD *ND -fflftffc:ENEMY"F'lKE-'HAS"'NOT' Hi'.LTED THE'^EB%ICAN FIFTH ' »RMY .'DRIVE F OR 3CI0GNE (iND THE YANKS' WERE L^ST REPORTED 10 i«ILES FROM THE CxTY. LONG;;RANGE GUNS' ARE S'HSLUNG THE OUTSKIRTSXOF* LTHB1 yITY. ' ALLIEu TROOPS IN GREECE ".iiW.^W-ING CLOSER TO CORINTH. ONE ALUED CORRESPONDENT S^ID THAT THE WHOLE OF THE PELOPONESE H;S BEEN LIBERATED BY THE ALLIES. TURN PAGE PaCIFTC; " • ' . • - - -p ' '. • UNITS OF ADMIRAL HALSEY'S PACIFIC FLEET YESTERDAY HEAVILY BOMBARDED THE MABCUS ISLANDS'NORTHEASTIOF THE MARIANAS^ HMERIGAN HEAVY BOMBERS HAVE KiDE ANOTHER ATT- AQK ON RABAUL ON NEW BRITAIN ISLAND. OTHER AMERICAN HE«VY BOMBERS FLEW DEEP INTO JAPANESE HELD TERRITORY TO BLAST OIL REt INERIES ON B.XIK PAPAN ON DUTCH BORNEO,* WORLD SERIES; ' THE BATTLE OF THE HOME RUNS; ." :. ' 1 2 3 ,4 5 6 7 8 9 R -H' E CARDS' 0 0, 0 .0 0 I 1 0 X- 0 2 6 1 — 1- 1 BRSWNS 0 0 .0 .0 0 .1 0 0- 0 0 •• o;; BATTERY: / '.' , r"'. • - • * ' C .-JiDS: M* COOPER AND W. COOPER} BRO I'iNS: D. G^XEHOUSE AND HAIWGRTH. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GAME; . , . R •• • THE FIFTH GAME OF THE 1944.WORLD SERIES WAS SCORELESS UNTIL THE FIRST OF THE SIXTH"INNING.RAY SANDERS, CARD .FIRST BaSEMiiN, LIFTED ONE OF G.XEHCUSE'3vPITCHES OUT OF THE PARK FOR A HOME RUN* THE CARDS SCORED AGAIN IN THE FIRST OF THE EIGHT WHEN LiT:.HILEft THE FIRST MAN ' ' UP LINED "A HOME RUN INTO THE RIGHT FIELD ST.FilE FOR THE'SECOND AND'L^ST RUN OF THE GAME, ' / .'• j :•, • • •• " iviORTON" COOPER, THE WINNER, AND DENNY GiXEHOUSE, THE LOSER, GOT TOGETHER TO *• STRIKE OUT a TOT X OF 22 BATTERS FOR A NEW WORLD'S RECORD FOR STRIKEOUTS IN A rtORXD SERIES GAME, COOPER WHIFFED AN EVEN DOZEN ,JNu G/XEHOUSE ;fj»NNED .TEN. COOPER STRUCK OUT THREE PINCH HITTERS IN„THE LiiST OF THE NINTH INNING IN H GREAT SHOW OF PITCHING BRILLIAN3E. , ",;v-;' ; MAX LANIER WILL*MOST LIKELY. BE"ON. THE HILL FOR THE- CnRDINAlS- TODAY WITH NELSON POTTER HURLING FOR THE BROWNS. .