Chronicle-Telegram, The (Newspaper) - December 15, 1944, Elyria, Ohio SAVE o u n n i r i i tfr THE S A V F Founded July 3829 Bittern Pull Leased Wife of the United Press Tuff VT ii 1 ile By Cento YANKS HAKE THIRD INVASION Red Army Now At Gates Of Budapest I LONDON D i rale rui icy aid sodden fields slowed d w n Ihe Rd on pi fcS wire carrying ut a reign of Soviet til undertook I m ail vital sec tors where the le ot s hi vi le tin up lines beyond lhe Hun The roads through the nar I escape corridor out of were rep jam med with carts carrying thous ands of bewildered German rc appeared to have stalled I the Red army momentarily at the Sates of Budapest today but jittery Axis spokesmen admitted that Soviet was increasing and called on the Hun garian people lo their capi tal another as usual climactic of a great re silent on the progress ol Hie on Tne early morning centered on lhe lighting to the north and where converging Soviet I struck m lorce along the border in a bid to trap thousands of Germans in the mountains ot eatern lank and infan tr all Ihe arc extending twothirds of the around Budapest Horn the to the Tne said upwards ot and ops had been hurled into the battle for in a I gigantic effort to roll up the flunks above and j the aril lay open the invasion road to that the Budapest radio 9 had been by Russian bombs or shells were spiked last Paul secretary of the puppet Hungarian a delint prod mation that Budapest musi the Hungarian I Botu sides were reported Millerj my heavy casualties along lhe bank of the Ger counterattacks and a inle screen of ternj I blocked Marshal second Ukrainian through the uf Seven Nominated j t For New Ranks i By President j WASHINGTON President today signed legislation I new ranks of general j the Army and Admiral of he four j and three admirals to To bo Generals of the to Field of and other named George Army of Stafl Mac Supreme Allied Comman der ui tiie Southwest Pacific Supreme of Allied forces in Western and Henry Ar Commander of the Army Air To he Admirals of the to the same rank many includ niK named Admirals truest Commander in Chief of the Fleet and Chief of Nav al Cluster Commander in Chief of lhe Pacific and Pacific Ocean and Personal Chief of Staff to Awarded Purple Heart ppr Wounds Received In Year 1900 EAST Charles of the Sp figured to day that its belter lale than nev The War Department has just advised Craig he was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received 44 years while a seigeant in I me L I Craig was elit on the with i a and m the shoulder lhe insur in the Philippines in Elyria Nearing Success In Bond Drive in Dstr of Still MEN WRONG AGAIN in the Greenland where they These captives wire taken Guard watchful eyes of the Coast German prisoners captured I intended setting up a weather keep their hands aloft in sur preceding capture of the enemy trawler and i Coast Acme Athletic Awards Being Given Today seven boys and IO were scheduled receive School athletic awards this at a combined awards assembly and pep rally for to nights basketball Tlie include 18 football anil maii Hi reserve nine looms and who have lor or through their participation in the athletic The students receiving the a Varsity letters Dave Alex Sherwood Don Karl Neale Sut Tom Oncy Walter Jack Floyd Turn and Manager Albert letters Kenneth Lester Don lick Dart Joe Bor Wally Joe Joe Arthur Van John Kd Tnm Ted Leonard Managers Howard Chuck and Tennis Richard Joe Martin Frank Edward Joe Russell Robert and Charles Girls guards for accumulating IdOU points lieu and pins for accumulating 1300 Lila Jean Marge Georgette Jean Flood Dorothy Gills letters for accumulating yOll June Ann Alice Flor ence Dorothy Wy ona June Sue Dorothy Mary Jo and Shirley er OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA Sunny and warmer Cloudy nut quite so but windy Saturday flurries snu rather FOUND IWO British Troops Pour Into Athens ATHENS Strong British rein forcements Mill were pouring into Athens today ws sm ill scale fighting continued and cial secrecy shrouded any peace ELAS units stabbed al the peri meter of British and Greek government positions in central but the attacks v ere light and apparently designed to test the The KLAS forces last night car ried out a small attack in the area of Square and tried to a road block with German Teller were repelled by the British who were clearing the mines The Hi it clean d two more square blocks of the Peninsula m the Piraeus Rejoins Unit After Being Reported Missing Word has been received by Laura Men of 13 South Logan street that her husband Seve Anthony who was reported missing on November rejoined his unit on November No details were the son of and Sieve Mezlak of Pearl has four brothers in serv one with Ihe Army Air Corps overseas and three with Ihe TO DO LANDSCAPING Fifth Service Command announced today that German prisoners of war will be employed common laborers in connection with a landscap ing project at Crile General Army Hospital here because of the dif m obtaining la On Cutter Which Captured Nazi Trawler An armed German the with its crew of i re captured recently in the Greenland area the Germans were setting up a weather report ing The capture was made by a United States Coast Guard The was in today that i third i Robert of son of and Con ell avenue and Harold Rice of North were members of the Coast Guard cullers The Nazi trawler was trapped by Greenland ice H was only a few hundred miles from the North Piles of ammunition and olh er supplies were seized by the Directing operations was Commodore Earl formerly I j executive officer of the Cleveland i J Coast Guard district and now Com mander of the Greenland Aerial Blitz On Reich Resumed ViO 1 A Fortresses al lacked HIH rail in the and of cr in a resumption of I aerial j mill sup ply hues to lhe Tile Were es as they iil to til for t Wei by bail over the I Legion Post Rebuked By Stimson HOOD Members of the Hood River American Le Pott today faced nationwide a rebuke from Secretary of War Henry Stimi for removing the names of 16 soldiers from the Hosts roll of I said the ac tion was wholly with lhe American idea of and a New York City Post said he action v as a reflection on the en lire Hood River Post Commander refused to comment on the American Mother Of 1939 Dies In Her 85th Year Comp chosen as Ihe American mother of by the Golden Rule died here She was the widow of Klias Coinp dean of the College of Woos ter for many Surviving aie three Karl president of Institute of Technology Arthur Holly i for his cosmic ray at and Wil son president of Wash ington state college She also is survived by a dauh C of Alla habad college of i li who now is home on J gen eral counsel for the Republic Steel since has been elected a vice president and coun sel for the board chair man Tom Girdler announced Luzon May Be Next In The Invasion Path Hy A devastating preinvasion air on Luzon that may point the way to the next phase of the battle of the Philippines was announced today as Douglas forces on Leyte rushed into its final stage a campaign thai in 55 days has the Japanese more than American tresses from continued their daily forays against central Japan this The enemy radio described the attacks as nuisance fire raids on Tokyo and recon flights over the cities of Kobe and The district is prob ably the important industrial target in and the observa cilies are likely to be visited in furce by the Carrier planes of the Pacific fleet spearheaded the new strike on Luzon pounding Japan and airfield instal lations on the island and destroying at leaM 91 enemy Sink Freighters bombers joined in the ing the Le sinking three ton Japanese freighters off the Is lands southwest and harrass ing shipping in Manila Bay with unannounced The double blow was regarded as another major step in the soften inglip ol i Limn as troops wound the battle of t Burn i is that m Hie daya of Ihe invasion bodies li ilio others remained in the jungles or were by the were have been drowned in convoy and bei n Those losses were than eight times Ihe total casualties on includ ing and 2S7 Warmer Weather In Sight In Midwest By United Press weather was in to day throughout the with the exception of while eastern were warned to expect continued cd another 12 an change in A moderate cold originating in Canada and by snow wa due nit Min extending the south and cast the bureau In the where during the night hovered m the yesterdays w to A warming tendency was however Higher temperatures dunug day were for the deep followed by a return r Mib readings during the Body Of Actress Still Unclaimed HOLLYWOOD The Lupe 34yearold Mex film lay d IM ilu Forest Lawn rial k Mort uary Miss died yesterday in htr from an overdose of seda leaving notes she Whs prompted to suicide by approach ing Attendants 4 the m said sine one to claim the and funeral E s War Mend army was with in of Us Wat Loan Iliac as the cam its That which for thiee and weeks had be a IOUK way w a neater as Ihe total or date up 11 And that left still to be raised tu tlu Since the campaign is scheduled In i the local volunteer Workers were hopeful of goal by that Todays report was a big one that made a lot if difference m the campaign out Yesterday morning the work ers si ill nettled more than a mil lion In leach the To day they needed less than The number of sales made yesler in todays was only but the average per sale was high enough to make the days report by far the largest single day report of the campaign to The figure for Kales to represents Ihe total amount nf 11 sales in since the opener on November Individual Sulrs Lax le that is more than ill pei cent of the citys total campaign le to Army jeep sett inn out on reconnais sance mission has sides to protect Its occupants fiom scene is in The driver is Allen of Arthur Sandbank of Brooklyn at the Run and id Kennedy of Antes Fort PH holds the REICH Seventh Army Slashes Across German Border PARIS Alexander Patchs Seventh Army slashed the German border from Alsace to the Rhenish Palatinate west of Karlsruhe today in the wars third invasion of the Reich by United States Patchs veterans ot the drive across France from the ean plunged their first spearhead into and few up in the border region on a 10mile front In a push that threatened to turn the line at its Karlsruhe The first frontier crossing WM made In the area of 19 miles west of Karlsruhe and 10 miles west of the extreme north eastern tip of Three Springboards The new invasion of Germany Have Dwight American armies three n the holy soil of the great bridgehead carved out went of Cologne by the and day w its quota for individual sales by Sales in this were has been the case in most throughout the and were 4ro i make a effort to the individual sales total as much Russian Plan Has Britains Says Churchill LONDON Prime Minister Win ston Churchill today endorsed the Soviet Inions claim to a buffer state carved out of east ern Poland and tacitly invited the j Slates to make public its land on the explosive ih In a farreaching definition of lhe British policy on postwar Eur Churchill told the House of Common thai will support M he pence conference in lei i concessions from Poland in Ihe In the greater part of Fast would be to Poj he also that there would bo no objection or Ruia if Hie Poles pushed nut borders into Germany j The Churchill envisages the virtual extirpation of the Prussian I with lhe forced removal from their homeland of of the j junkers who have i been the heart and of the Geri man military The Plume Minister he ted Slates is fully jre of cement reached and on the Polish nnd that to date i voiced any objection I He that the has come for a statement on the and j announced lhal he would we come a confi rence with Roosevelt and Pr f at Ihe and preferably in Reports For Induction Joseph i y R D 3 to the d ores I n station in Cli IM d lo iay after giving the Si lie live a n of Ins to re p l1 for a 10 days When no word d 1 him a lice to for He at the office the scheduled time and he ed m n He is an Ten Schools In County System Still Closed Six more county village and rut nl this afler beniK closed three lavs because of Ilie but two of them i nl noon as a result of low This lell III m the county Mill closed tins with the number of Casualty List For Elyria And Vicinity for and vicinity wrrc to the l as follows SMITH Merle Smith was serious ly wounded in acton in reported that bv u the system I bein session in will be how as a result of the closing this All in Ihe count v except the Grafton village and Avon LaKe were closed j Tuesday because buses not yet through roads The and Vincent i school and the Kaat Middle and Ridye i reopened i Schools today were South Ami Markley anil Lake Makr The Township school made their morn picking up as many children as wore lo KO to but many had not 1 ecu his and Smith of Grafton for some school Christmas j After completing his basic train ing nl Camp he attend ed Western Maryland program was he was sent to an infantry division at Camp He has been overseas since He was employed by the Standard Oil at the time hr entered Ihe JOHNSON North Russell who entered the service in and wont overseas last April was wounded November IS ac cording lo word received by his and Eugene John son of Stearns road He is with the field Stanley son nf and 4H7 ready because they West Rivir was Killed in ac informed that in France according would be out As a result the Markley and Lake Ave nue schools weie doted al noon and the were sent back In their since the attendance was not considered laine enough to justify continuing Pupils in these two town ship schools weie today lake their and play re school with them as dress sals are planned for the Christmas plays Christmas has post poned Wednesday m of Monday as scheduled The avenue pi however ed Wednesday as School officials alo thai Monday will be day at both War At A Glance In a war department telegram j reived by his parents I The entered the i Army on and left for m service last He j ed with an it was i j h s a to I ivcs costumes to j Seventh Army in Ger paining up powerful half lo one mile upper Mid d d six in dims tn flintier Cer stall Hcd ily at Budapest but prcs and calU fif n people n another re rt 1vo nnie on an I for fu ture vita war production r in aica wreck IT g of thiee Japanese Jl UK in soft en ig up air hur new assault guns and own f pee nl ainst beachhead over Lamone west of Chinese troops continue advance through Province Japanese raiding within 1HU miles f cap nd American base at Liu Ohio Highways Glare Of Ice l By United Press t The state highway department predicted Friday lhal all eif highways will passable by nightfall but urged motorists to Highway officials said Mondays heavy snow which blan Ihe with a layer nl snow ranting I mm 5 to 12 inches liaci turned highways into a glare of Many of the secondary leads still were as highway handicapped by a if heavy equipment and from long uninterrupted of to clearing Warm Wave In of school children an unexpected vacation week because of the snow returned to classes but school officials in areas probably be resumed until next turns and airlines were back on of for lhe time since Mon the weatherman said a warm wave was m from Indiana and Temperatures in the stale n ranged to 20 Highway department officials said a thaw was needed to form a crust on thesnow and prevent further Ninth the foothold in the Saarland won by the Third and now the Sevenths leisure eif the Palatinate Only on the Seventh army front were the Americans engaged in war of movement against the Nat The First army was massing on lhe west bank of the and lum down Nazi resistance in the outskirts of while stiff Ger man resistance had virtually stalled the Third army push into the 8aar Four months lo the day after splashing ashore in southern Seventh Army units smashed through the Dump Vosges foothills into A German frontier sign marked the border where the first troops of the Seventh stepped onto German at The Siegfried Itself lies about a mile from the bor der in that Ifp The Rhine The 77th Division was camped last night at the border town of two from the Rhine in the comer of spearing up the Whine Valley north of SclU reach ed during the night i and were attacking near Lauter bourg at i Strung out to the west were vari ous Seventh Army spearheads or bulges comprising a virtually solid front near the their forward elements ready to dash north and exploit any weakness in the Sieg fried defenses which the explora tory might Patchs left flank was active near transport and defense hub 18 miles east of In that area the Germans were fight ing from a ring of forla like those girdling At last report the American vanguard waa 1ss ihan five miles below the bor der in that To Patchs left on Lt George Pattons Third Army doughboys battled street by street through the easier suburb of The 379ih regiment of lhe 95th division now held onefourth of northern suburb of where the Third Army won iu first bridgehead across the Saar German artillery in the fortifications east of tern was laying down a heavy bom on the American posi The 35th Division was mopping up in three cf the river in Farther Courtney H Hodges First Army reduced the last German strong point west of Ihp Roer and north of The 104th Divisions infantry stormed seized just blan ff in a night The 83rd Division outside the gatia cf Duren beat off two man tank attacks aimed at the of Birgel and two miles southwest of Armor of the Division lured hamlet of Bonn below and drove forward to occupy high near four nulls south of the Roer river hold and a mile from the AT Fire department today investigated a fire AUTO TIPS OVER BUT Stanley 1412 West said full i fortunately escaped personal injury ould 1101 shortly before noon today when bit car skidded on Oberlin road near 18th street and tipped cording to a police The side of the car was Arrives Home From South Pacific Area James S 1 with the Navy surprised his and James Justen of La Grange road Saturday evening destroyed a large Great when he arrived at his hoine with and Pacific Tea store lout for a 21 day leave here last an estimated alter having been overseas in the of South Pacific for the past 17 lhe fire started from an explosion I Seaman Justen has been in in a gas beating lice two years WHEELING WOMAN RETRIEVES MEMENTO It wasnt the money and the persona papers that mattered tu a it was the fact that her lost with its fine ing and exquisite had been made as gilt for her by hex son shortly bj fore he fell in battle on Guad She placed 9 Lost in the Wheeling and two days it WM re turned to her by 9 soldiers The value of not to be measured io ol treasure it lor and order Lost
