Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Vol. 1 no. 134 thursday november 4, 1943 one franc doily newspaper for u. S. Armed forces germans flee Saaf Downs 1,261 Ploss in october London nov. 3 a heavy bombers of the 8th . Air Force destroyed 1,261 German fighter planes during october for a new monthly rec cd it was disclosed today. In nine maj raids on Germany during the last month the Raf bomber command dropped More than. 13,000 tons of bombs and  the sane per lad american bombers dropped 4,698 tens on All German targets attacked from England. A Saaf marauders loosed Mere than 3,835 tons of bombs in five Days of operations against German tied airfields in France. The germans bombed Britain 22 nights and one Day during october and 24 of the enemy planes were St. Down. Nazi italian defense take ska Dovsky resistance melts under russian juggernaut London nov. 3�?russian forces today were pursuing thousands of Retro air a germans across the no amp ask Steppes toward Kherson at the Estuary of the Dnieper River. Two russian claws were reaching for this major River City from the North and South and it appeared that thousands of nazis would be Cut off before they could Cross the Dnieper and escape from the Crimea. The soviets pincers gained new strength last  with the capture of ski Dovsky Halfway Between be Rekort and Kherson m the South and a Kovka 40 Miles North of the Mouth of the River. The capture of a Kovka represented a gain of 88 Miles in four Days one of the fastest advances recorded during the current War. While the German Hela area East of the Dnieper melted away under the soviet pressure. Cess Ark cavalry and russian tar s were meeting increased Nail opposition As they fanned out in the Northern Crimea. Wehrmacht forces described As Quot considerable were said to be making Strong efforts to break through the ring of. Soviet tanks and guns in the per Kop isthmus where the red army has sealed off the Crimea to Gentian c . Although the russians Nave rot yet crossed the Dnieper below Rakhva. The Battle spotlight was already turning on the i  rail Junction of Nikolaev 30 Miles Northwest of Kherson and 50 Miles West of a Kovka in the Dnieper Bend. Every Railroad in the vast area from Kriwoi Rog South to the Black sea goes through in Kniasev where the Yards Are jammed with trains filled with retreating troops. Soviet bombers have begun w Pound the railways leading to Nikolaev taking a heavy toll of men and equipment. At Kriwoi Rog the Battle it r control of the Central part of the Dnieper Bend continued to rage unabated. The germans were throwing a steady Stream of reinforcements into the rail and mining Center and were counter attacking vigorously Moscow rus patches reported. The nazi s attempts to relieve Treasury islands Allied forces the soviet pressure he been be which landed last week continued pulsed but have succeeded in hold their Advance yesterday. Ing off the russians before one a. -.�?, City. Collapse under Allied drive he got his photos atop a splits Senate on Connally Dill Washington nov. 3 a the declaration of Moscow though hailed Here As an a All out Victory for the allies has ironically set to trap japs on Bougainville Allied South Pacific Headquarters nov. 3-Rameri-can marines who forced a Landing monday on the West coast of Bougainville Island last japanese stronghold in the Solomons fanned out through Mountain and Jung e trails yesterday in an Effort to trap 25,000 japs reported on the Southern half of the Island. The first mention of enemy resistance to the Landing operation was contained in Toavs Allied communique which reported that the naval task Force was attacked by enemy planes and that it had engaged and dispersed units of the japanese Fleet. A Light Force of enemy Ruris and destroyers was encountered monday night near the Landing Point in Empress Augusta Bay. But the japanese flotilla was reported to have been Quot Dis grouped and  the subsequent air attack was broken up with Only Miner damage to the Allied vessels the communique said. The Landing on Bougainville was made after a tremendous battering of the islands Aird Romes by air and from the sea As a result the actual Landing of the american troops was accomplished with no enemy interference from the air. Southeast of Bougainville at Choiseul and Southwest in the off an explosion in the us. Scute. While the great majority of senators have nothing but Praise for the declaration signed by foreign Secretary Cordell Hull foreign commissar Vyacheslav m. Molotov and foreign Secretary Anthony Eden the declaration has split the Senate into two warring  seeking to substitute the declaration for the pending Connally postwar cooperation Resolution and the other opposed to changing the Connally Resolution in any Way. The controversy began when 85-year-old sen. Carter Glass d., a declared that the declaration a a plainly proposed a league to maintain peace after the War and that the Senate shoud Back it up. Sen. Tom Connally d., Texas author of the pending Resolution said that the Moscow declaration merely confirmed and approved the postwar pledge he wrote. Observers think that the Connally Resolution will be adopted As written tut net without Strong opposition from senators who regard the Moscow declaration As a stronger statement. The wording of the Senate Resolution May be an academic matter in any Case since the state department said today that under Intel tonal Law the Moscow declaration has the full Force of a a treaty although senatorial ratification is not required. When the head of the state department or. Hull returns from Moscow the capital will receive him it is predicted a a almost like a. Conquering  a reports reaching Here via Switzerland say that the Moscow declaration has had an extraordinary effect in Austria whose Freedom the allies promised to restore anti nazi riots have broken out not Viennia and other cities and a a revolt has been growing steadily a a Berne correspondent reported. Ress Washington nov. 3�?tii War department disclosed today that an enlisted photo graph or assigned to the Regensburg raid August 18 climbed out on top of his flying fortress during the height of try Battle Over the target to  pictures of attacking German fighter plane tactics. The photographer sgt. Carlton a k. Browning Bradenton. -fla., found he was unable to get the pictures he wanted from inside the plane so he crawled topside and in a Hail of flak and fighter plane bullct3 Leek some of the wars most valuable a tactical photos. Just How he managed to hang on to the top of Hie fortress was net explained. We must invade Japan Buckner gop candidates win a three Eastern states Messerschmidt Plant blasted in Best raid Allied Force Headquarters nov. 3�?at least 33 enemy fighters were shot Down during yesterdays raid by heavy bombers of the nov 15th air Force in the Messerschmidt Plant at Weiner Neustadt Austria it was revealed today As staff officers called the attack one of the most successful and destructive of the Mcd terran Eari War. Preliminary reports showed that a hornets nest of Luftwaffe fighters was stirred up with 75 to 100 enemy planes swarming up to engage the liberators Arti flying forts in spectacular dogfights. So far six Allied bombers Are missing Complete results Are not yet available but it is definitely known that a heavy concentration of bombs much greater than in the three previous raids certainly damaged the plane factory severely and May have destroyed it. All Assembly hangars and other briefed pin Points were Well hit and great explosion were observed in a Cluster of buildings. A nearby  and a locomotive tender least the Western position of the a a _ a or Quot Wrt Fri numb Lac  a a a poll h r a a m. ��.�%. Pm Plant were also pounded. 5th gains despite stiff resistance Quot on right flank Allied Force Headquarters nov. 3�?the German defense line along the 5th army front already pierced in two vital sectors virtually collapsed yesterday under relentless pressure by Allied troops. British and american forces plunged through the _ gaps to reach the highest Points of the enemy a mountainous defences and the battered wehrmacht on lower ground below. The Allied hold on the Western sector was secured by a two pronged Advance. Along the coast British units of the 5th army moved up from the lower slopes to the Tup of it. Massico while the 5th left flank gained five Miles from Tea no to penetrate the Summit of it san Croce to the Northeast. The occupation of both Massico and san Croce assured fac allies eventual Mastery of the orig Chuio River Valley and it is Only a question of time before the germans Are forced Back to the River. Tire captured areas Are completely mountainous and contain no inhabited centers. The kind of desperate Apps Tion met in this sector can be imagined when it is realized the Irmy Hud  to prepare his defences. Furthermore he knew that once the Mountain crests were taken his position would be corp untenable. He battled stubbornly but or a successfully but yesterday ire was carrying out an orderly withdrawal Down the opposite sides of the slopes. Tire Garigliano River is a winding Stream about seven Miles from it Massico. In the intervening area lie canal lands something like those North of the Volturno but not As impassable As Well As an abandoned portion of the famous App Tan was. Beyond the River be More Heigh s on which the germans Are expected to establish a secondary defense line. Oft the right flank of the 5th army the wehrmacht put up even a stiffer fight throwing tanks into the Battle to Stop the american troops of it. Oen. Mark w. Clark. But in a three mile hop the yanks climbed to the Crest of the my Tele Ridge capturing the towns of Srstella and Gallo. The advances brought control of inks alaskan three Eastern states capturing the 0 iwo Civ 7i1. W4t in Quot i for nov. 3-Japan it senator Hanley s Victory might of i Ioui o be occupied by office of lieutenant governor of feet the status of or. Dewey and to Sously new York nov. 3�? Republic and president Roosevelt cans yesterday won elections in York state. In new he Gooij arters department self will have to be occupied land troops to make the japanese realize what War is it. O4n. Simon b. Buckner jr., commanding the alaskan department said yesterday Quot you be got to March into a country to make them realize the a Complete defeat. We did no to crush Germany by actual invasion in the last War As be feral Pershing and marshal Foch wished a general Buckner said. Quot if we had invaded then Hitler would never have been Able to make the Pepple who were children when the War. Ended believe Germany was not actually Defeated. Quot loss of a few thousand men in invading Japan would be insurance against the loss of millions in a next War a he asserted a and Well some observers believed that new York governor of new Jersey and mayor of Philadelphia. Democrats asserted that the elections did not reflect any National political trend but Many rep Ubu Wendell Willkie As contenders for the gop presidential nomination next year. Draft Dewey there was talk that Quot Antl we cans jubilantly claimed that the Klee forces among National re pub victories especially in new York a jeans would begin a Quot draft Dewey would prove their significance in 194%. New yorkers cast an overwhelming majority for state senator Joe Hanley gop candidate for lieutenant governor. The Defeated democratic nominee was Gen. William h. Haskell democratic nominee who had the backing of the National administration James a. Farley and state labor leaders. Supporters of gov. Thomas a. Dewey hailed the Victory As a vote be better friends with the japanese of Confidence in his political record afterwards.  respect us As and said the election was a test of they understand  popularity Between governor Dewey movement for 1944 despite Dewey soft repeated statements that he will not run. Three hours after the polls closed last night Haskell conceded the election and sent senator Hanley his congratulations. With 801 of new Yorkus 8,987 districts tabulated the vote late last night was Hanley 1,700 164,-Haskell. T,411,600. Or. Willkie himself had campaigned for senator Hanley declaring that the election of a democratic candidate would give Man Roosevelt a a toe hold in Albany continued on a pc 4 one of the most graphic descriptions of the historic raid was Given by a sgt. J. I. Hiter of Cyriana  a Ball Turret gunner who reported Quot it was one of the wildest raids i Ever had the privilege of going fought fighters and flak con Over the target and barely had time to see what was going on below. The enemy fighters were very aggressive coming in from every Angle trying to keep us away from the Plant that built them. Quot when i finally did get a Chance to look i saw factories folding up in huge Clouds of smoke dust and flame. It was mass destruction on a huge  the clearest weather in some time permitted  wide scale operations by other strategic and tactical aircraft that yesterdays raids brought More Allied planes into the sky than at any other time since the Salerno landings the offensive against enemy railroads was kept up by the 12th . Air Force As Mitchells hit the Ancona marshal tag Yards on the Northeast coast while marauders smashed the marshalling Railroad Ridge and doomed Venafro an enemy Strong Point across the upper Volturo. As the remaining part of it. My Tese is overrun the americans will reach High ground dominating the enemy communications Center of Isernia Jed the strategic Road below it. Better weather on the 8th army front allowed the men of Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery to strengthen their position on the Trigno River. British and a acadian troops fought their Way Over the River to set up another Bridgehead. Engineers restore Power to Naples Naples nov. 3�?american and British engineers have succeeded in restoring electric Power to the City of Naples a Reuters correspondent reported today. Because it had been feared that the nazis might have connected Booby traps to Homes and buildings timed to go off with the res t oration of Power a half million citizens left their Homes Lor viaduct in Central Italy As Well As the Day and waited outside of the the Harbor at Civitavecchi on the. City w his a engineers threw the West coast. Main switches