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Douglas MacArthur's communique said. after the bombers and fighters swept over the port at minimum altitude. Six Japanese seaplanes anchor ed in the harbor were destroyed and a 1000-ton vessel, two small freighters and a barge were set afire A lugger and two small craft also were destroyed in the Am- boina-Ceram area, together with land installations and oil storage tanks at Boela in two separate attacks by Mitchell medium bombers and patrol planes. Other Mitchells again hit Cele bes island, 200 miles south of Mindanao, concentrating on fuel storage areas, bivouacs,' supply dumps and warehouses near Lan goan an Menado airfields. Nearby Halmahera island also was raided by fighter-bombers, Salt Lake Man Victim of Crash SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 10 (U.R) Fred Nydeggar, 53, died in the Holy Cross hospital here today as tne result of a two-car autcmo bile pile-up in the southern, part of the city last Thursday eve' ning. Nydeggar and his 50-year-old wife, were pinned inside the automobile auto-mobile in which they were riding after, it collided with 'a pickup truck. Others injured in the wreck-were Melvin Pherson, 51, Glen B. Thatcher, 17, and Bruce Holeman, 17. tacks northeast of 'Aachen and sprung the trap by linking the northern and southern arms of the pincers now clamped on the city, and closing the last Nazi escape es-cape corridor of a little more a mile. The German garrison of 1,500 inside the city now is ringed by American artillery, with infantry poised for the final cleanup," United Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish reported in a dispatch dis-patch filed from the Forst suburb at 11 a.m. The Nazi high command claimed that the situation at Aachen had been stabilized by German counterattacks, but acknowledged ac-knowledged a penetration of the city by reporting that the "southern "south-ern border of the town has been fought free again." Frankish entered the Forst suburb su-burb after U. S. tanks and infant-try infant-try had cleaned it out, and found its siege-torn wreckage still aflame. The front line along the railroad rail-road was comparatively quiet this morning, but the scene was one of wholesale destruction. Frankish reported. The Germans were dug in only a few hundred feet away, but they were firing only when they spotted American Ameri-can units In action. Doughboys fought a house, to house battle in the cleanup of Forst. The tankmen would fire an armor-piercing shell into a pocket of resistance, then follow up with high explosive shells through the original hole. Phosphorus Phos-phorus shells also were used to smoke out the defenders. Win Two Heights A pre-dawn attack at 4 a. m. won strategic heights two miles north of Aachen, while other forces were battling into the southeastern outskirts of the city. In the Netherlands, Canadian troops drove inland as much as two miles from twin beachheads seized on the south bank of the Schelde - estuary, southeast- of Flushing, yesterday in .leapfrjog landings behind the enemy lines. A dispatch sent at noon from 21st army group headquarters (Con tinned on Pare Two) ;ia Wins Major Point at Dumbarton Oaks Meet phinjCV comprising' a uth- quar- ern pent ter of Greece. . British forward troops are in Corinth and met no opposition." a communique of the Balkan air force said. "Our forces now are in control of many key points and communications centers on the Peloponnesus. Operations continue." Coincident with the official announcement, an-nouncement, United Press Cor respondent Robert Vermillion in a dispatch from Corinth said the British and Greek forces moved in on the heels of "the last Germans Ger-mans to flee the Peloponnesus." "Yesterday and today the city rang with victory shouts," Vermillion Ver-million said, "and for the first time in three years the Greeks were singing and church bells were ringing." A British jeep made the formal entry of Corinth over roads strewn with flowers and colored mats. The city's normal population popula-tion of 5,000 was swollen by an influx of persons celebrating tho liberation. About 250 members of the Greek "security battalion" the pro-Nazi force left behind by tho Germans surrendered at Corinth. Cor-inth. The Germans themselves did not even put up a token fight for the gateway to the heart of Greee. To the west, today's communique communi-que revealed, British troops of the land forces of the Adriatic were storming Sarande, port at the southwestern tip of Albania. The assault forces penetrated tho western outskirts of Sarande yesterday. RD . orresponde$i t. 10 (U.R) major point jOaks confer- tian acknow-the acknow-the big four ve the pro of Nations n special air gent military V's originally ence with a 1 right Inter-ich Inter-ich could be 'to any part rage a nation ion. in plan was 'ai draft of V organiza- jterday, re-powers re-powers had 1 that would Under the comnromlse. mem-' bers of the new organization to be known as "The United Na tions" would be obligated to hold national air force contingents "immediately available ... for combined international enforcement enforce-ment action" by the international atthority. ' A high official serving as spokesman on the overall peace nlan was ask! in exnlain whv a special section had been made on the air force units since the general obligation to support ine new organization by "armed forces" more or less covered allocation allo-cation of air forces. "It certainly is no secret," the spokesman said, "that Russia pro- nnuH ciirh in Mm T( 1 an es pecially advanced Idea nd the delegates. thourt '"x'it sineslarlv. lie rejected In the final analysis without disrupting the main section sec-tion on the use of force. The spokesman also revealed that Secretary of State Cordell Hull has not reached agreement with the bipartisan congressional groups on the special arrangements arrange-ments that would be made for the nse of ' American forces on the call of the new organization's security council. The present proposals, except for the air force section, go not much farther- than .the Connally resolution that was passed last year committing a member na tion to support the organization by the use of force, if necessary. That is a general obligation and the' specific one In the y is that members would y to negotiate . separate at on the number and tyr,' War In Brief Western Front American 1st army forces narrow German escape es-cape corridor from Aachen to little more than mile in fierce fighting, after beating off three more enemy counterattacks. Russia Soviet armored forces close in on large Baltic port of Memel and may be storming outskirts, out-skirts, virtually completing entrapment en-trapment of 100,000 or mora Germans. Italy American troops of 5th army drive slowly through mud to within less than 10 miles of Po valley. Air War Strong forces of British Halifax bombers attack rail and industrial center of Bo-chum Bo-chum in Ruhr valley, and other targets in western Germany. . .Pacific American ground forces seize ninth enemy base in southern Palaus, as Allied bombers bomb-ers attack widespread targets in Pacific. , How Far Berlin? By UNITED PRESS The shortest distances to Berlin, from advanced Allied' lines today: to-day: Western front 296 miles (from point near Nijmegen. Gain of mile in week.) yn3i vtiej (from War- in V i.: I he effect as it tary forces and how ,be called, into action. |