Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1994 TAG: 9410140040
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Allied forces were erecting a great series of land, sea and air barriers to prevent Adolf Hitler from pulling back the divisions he had recklessly sent to far outposts in 1942. If Hitler were allowed to draw back the 38 divisions scattered from Norway to the Balkans, he would be able to double his fighting forces for the defense of Germany.
Swift Russian tank and cavalry forces crushed the entire Axis defense east of the Tisza river in southeastern Hungary, racing through 300 more towns and villages in a 28-mile advance.
American armor, striking behind an all-time record aerial barrage, scored a major breakthrough north of Aachen on the German-Belgium border and tore unchecked across the open plain for Cologne. The battle for Aachen, itself, raged on.
Two American commanders in the Pacific reported widespread aerial attacks against Nipponese Island bases ranging from the Kuriles in the far north to points south of the Equator.
The surplus war property administration decided to halt the sale of real estate and the big war plants until new officials from a congressionally created war surplus board took over. Officials predicted the transition would stall the sale of farm and other lands for at least a year.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate, accused President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Democratic administration of engaging in double talk by speaking on the one hand of government ownership of factories and at then disavowing communist supporters.
As the presidential race entered the home stretch, the latest Gallup poll showed President Roosevelt and Dewey running virtually neck-and-neck in the popular votes among civilians. The survey showed Dewey was the choice of college-trained voters and Roosevelt that of grammar school graduates.
Charles J. Smith of Salem, president of Roanoke College, told a meeting of the Virginia and Tennessee district bankers association in Bristol that the surest guarantee for world peace would be for Russia and the United States to work together.
Because of a critical labor shortage, only partially relieved by the help of prisoners of war, Roanoke County growers were faced with the loss of more than 40,000 bushels of apples.
Wendell L. Wilkie, 52, an Indiana-born lawyer who skyrocketed from an unknown to the 1940 Republican presidential nomination, died unexpectedly from coronary thrombosis brought on by a throat infection.
U.S. Fifth Army troops broadened their front below Bologna, a rail and road center in north central Italy, and on the western coastal sector Negro infantrymen of the 92nd Division seized two mountains north of Val Reggio.
Fire of undetermined origin completely destroyed the five-story feed mill of Roanoke City Mills resulting in a loss of $250,000.
The United States, Great Britain, Russia and China unveiled their master design for keeping the peace through an international organization backed by the armed might of all member nations.
The St. Louis Cardinals won the 1944 World Series with a 3-1 victory in the sixth game over the St. Louis Browns. The Browns, the hitless wonders who had won the American League title on defense, fell apart and gave away the series on unearned runs.
Captain Henry W. Brown of Arlington was America's newest top flying ace, credited with downing 30 German planes.
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