Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 5, 1994 TAG: 9410050093
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Tokyo radio said that a civilian evacuation of Manila had begun following devastating raids by Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet and the smashing American invasion of the Paulau Islands on the southeastern edge of the Philippines.
J.A. Krug, the new chairman of the War Production Board, announced a plan for reconversion of major industries to a peacetime economy that would not include ``spoon feeding.''
The Republicans had a good chance of winning control of the House of Representatives in November, a new Gallup poll revealed.
The people of Dover and Folkstone, England, offered prayers of thanksgiving at the news that German long-range guns on the other side of the English Channel had been captured by the Allies. They celebrated their liberation from four years of shellfire.
A bomb-laden flying fortress flew unmanned across the breadth of Britain after one of its engines caught fire and the crew bailed out. The auto-pilot, ``George,'' had been set to take the plane over the North Sea, but for some reason it turned back over Britain. Fighters were sent to shoot it down, but it flew out over Liverpool and crashed into the Atlantic after running out of fuel.
Norfolk's one-month-old curfew was keeping those 16 and younger off the streets but was not touching the 16-18 age group that had caused the city's juvenile delinquency cases to jump 50 percent.
Canadian troops captured the bomb-torn port of Calais, France, along with its German commander, who was unable to rally his force for the last-man defense that had been ordered by Adolf Hitler.
A heavy bomber on a routine training flight from Lockbourne Air Base near Columbus, Ohio, crashed on top of a mountain near the Blue Ridge Parkway about two miles from the Meadows of Dan in Patrick County. None of the crew of six was seriously injured when they parachuted to earth shortly before the crash.
The St. Louis Browns won the American League championship with a 5-2 victory over the New York Yankees while the Washington Senators helped out with an upset of the Detroit Tigers who had been tied with St. Louis going into the day's action. It was the Browns' first championship in the 43 years of league history.
Roanoke doctors appointed a committee to consult with a national physicians group to ``see what can be done about this plague of socialized medicine.'' Dr. Linwood Keyser, incoming president of the Roanoke Academy of Medicine, said that unless the profession itself solves the need for medical care for everyone, the federal government will step in and solve the problem for it.
U.S. infantrymen had blasted a third breach through the Siegfried Line in a five-mile advance north of Aachen and were fanning out toward the Rhine Valley, barely 30 miles away.
Alfred E. Smith, the Happy Warrior with the Brown Derby, who rose from the sidewalks of Manhattan's East Side to the New York governor's office and the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination, died at the age of 70.
Allied bombers sank or damaged eight more Japanese ships in sweeps over the Dutch East Indies while other planes attacked airdromes on Halmahera Island.
The St. Louis Browns took a 2-1 World Series lead over the St. Louis Cardinals with a 6-2 victory in the last baseball action of the week. Jack Kramer was the winning pitcher.
by CNB