Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that, after eight days and nights of struggle, the British First Airborne attack on the north side of the Upper Rhine near Arnhem had failed and the troops were being evacuated to the south bank. Of the 7,000 to 8,000 "Red Devils" who had parachuted into the area and been trapped in the pocket, 2,000 had been transferred back over the Rhine and 1,200 wounded had been left behind to be tended by medical personnel risking capture. Germans broadcasts claimed 1,500 of the troops had been killed and 6,400 captured.

The evacuations were accomplished by night in groups of ten to twenty, simply walking through the German lines, feigning routine patrols. "Cheeky patrols," reports British correspondent Alan Wood, "went out earlier, tying bits of white parachute tape to trees to mark the way." The men had torn up blankets and wrapped the strands around their shoes to muffle the sound. The password was "John Bull". Each man in Mr. Wood's group held the tail of the parachutist's smock in front of him to guide the way through the darkness, resembling a children's game.

Meanwhile, a Second Army drive from Belgium into Holland had broadened its front to 50 miles east to west. These troops had entered Germany at two points, east of Nijmejen and west of Kleve.

British and Belgian troops reached the Maas River along a 40-mile front. A British column advanced to Boxmeer, 13 miles southeast of Nijmejen. The Belgians were between Wessem and Dilsen.

More than 1,100 American heavy bombers struck Cologne, Ludwigshafen, Kaseri, and Mainz in Western Germany. RAF bombers struck Karlsruhe and Frankfurt the previous night. In all, 6,000 tons of bombs were estimated to have been dropped in the combined raids.

Allied troops had landed in Albania and in some of the Dalmatian Islands off the coast of Yugoslavia.

The Russians were pursuing the desperately retreating Germans out of Riga in Latvia, as a western avenue of escape to East Prussia was being held open by the Nazis at all costs. The Russians continued toward Riga from three directions.

In the Pacific, the Marines on Peleliu's east coast in the Palaus were said to be nearing victory after dispatching during ten days of fighting more than 7,000 Japanese soldiers, suffering 5,500 casualties of their own, including 666 killed, 406 missing, and 4,400 wounded.

From Western Burma it was reported that Allied troops had penetrated behind the Japanese base at Tiddim in the area of Fort White twelve miles to the southeast of Tiddim. Tiddim had served as the launching pad for the Japanese push into India during the winter.

Berlin radio reported that on Monday a B-29 raid had taken place on Iwo Jima. This report had not yet been confirmed, however, by Allied headquarters.

The B-29's which had attacked Manchuria had all returned to base safely.

German Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop, Benito Mussolini, and Japan's Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, each gave speeches of continued solidarity to the Tripartite Pact on the fourth anniversary of its signing.

The marriage, however, in reality, had considerably soured from its original connubial bliss.

The Office of War Information reported that when the war in Europe would finally end, the war with Japan would likely take one and a half to two more years to complete, that Japan's fighting resolve would likely be heightened by the end of the war in Europe. B-29 raids capable of bombing the home islands of Japan could only be undertaken on intervals of every ten days. And Japan had ample industry at its disposal to sustain its war effort for some time to come.

From St. Paul, Minnesota, the Minnesota Attorney General issued a ruling that rural school teachers could not order pupils to sweep floors, carry water or coal, or to build fires, nor go on private errands for the teachers without their consent.

Hooray for Justice!

On the editorial page, "Going Up" reports of the increasing costs to run the hospital at Morganton for the mentally ill. The institution had lost two of its five staff doctors, presenting a desperate situation.

"____" is an editorial completely in the dark, save a part of its last sentence. It appears to look into the future of the armed forces and suggests that continued development of air power would be the call, even in a time when control of the seas remained an important factor.

"Rescuers" reminds that Charlotte had the recreational facilities of a city a quarter its size. The problem lay not with the Parks and Recreation Commission but with general apathy on the subject among the populace. Several of the local civic clubs had made substantial contributions to remedy the exiguity.

"Yes and No", dimmed out, discusses the relationship of Labor to the Democratic Party but is generally too difficult to determine precisely what it is suggesting.

Drew Pearson discusses the difference between the handling of the French civilian population since liberation from that of the bungled efforts in North Africa and Italy during the prior year. General De Gaulle was responsible for the improvement. Posters announced the suspension of all Vichy laws and restoration of the French Republic, that the Provisional Government would be in charge until elections could be held.

Samuel Grafton relates of the Russian-language weekly newspaper being published in Moscow, Britansky Sovusnik, as reported by Edmund Stevens in The Christian Science Monitor. The weekly told the Russians of the Britons. In contrast, America had no counterpart to tell the Soviets of life in the United States. It was not the fault of the Office of War Information but rather the opposition of Republican isolationists to dissemination of American propaganda in Russia, however nonsensical the premise.

Dorothy Thompson discusses the alarming report re the proposed post-war division of Germany, coming out of the just concluded Quebec Conference between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Germany was to be divided three ways, the eastern sector beyond the Lubeck-Elbe line, with Berlin still in limbo, to be occupied by the Russians, that west of the Elbe and northern Germany, including Bremen and Hamburg, to be occupied by the British, and Southern Germany to be occupied by the Americans. The French might also occupy the Rhinelands. Austria would be jointly occupied by the Big Three.

Marquis Childs finds, as had the News column, the Saturday night speech of President Roosevelt before the Teamsters in Washington to have been in form and moving, how express and admirable. Mr. Childs, sitting close to the President, had personally observed him back in his old form, the virtuoso, akin to Paderewski, managing to touch on notes both classical and boogie-woogie.

It had been awhile since he had appeared before such an enthusiastic audience. And the President had plainly enjoyed every minute of the electric response, turning repeatedly to AFL head William Green to acknowledge with a broad grin the approbation.

He had not donned the steel and leather braces on his legs which enabled him to stand, per the practice in earlier speeches on the campaign trail, but had instead remained seated during the entire speech. The braces had been cumbersome in the past, reports Mr. Childs, even causing the President during the 1936 campaign to fall flat on his face just before going on the air for a speech in Philadelphia. FDR, at age 62, was eschewing this illusory facade of normalcy, opting instead for comfort.

One of the reasons for the dry, failed delivery of the Bremerton Navy Yard speech in August upon his return from his Pacific tour, had been, said aides, the fact that he had stood during its delivery. Those close to the President, however, insisted that his health was just as good as anyone his age.

His delivery on Saturday night appeared to Mr. Childs to have signaled a renascence for the President, a return to the old fireside chat informality. Likely, he would, for the ensuing six weeks to election day, continue to assume the mantle of campaigner, a familiar and easy cloak for the three-term President to wear.

Sid Feder reports from Rome on September 25 that the play put on for the G.I.'s in various venues of Italy, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street", starring Katherine Cornell, had been a hit with the servicemen, not too eclectic or esoteric as was feared. They enjoyed themselves, some seeing for the first time a stage play.

Not so lucky was Frank Sinatra, says a news piece on the page, who had to flee for his life from young girls in Chicago, his kind of town, while he was en route from Hollywood to New York. He was followed to a restaurant, left surreptitiously via a rear door, but the girls caught up with him anyway, cornered him in an alley, ripped off his tie, tore his shirt, all to get the singer's autograph.