Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - December 8, 1944, Hamilton, Ohio Wit Stamps Sends will Chunk admitted ttf toe HAM I LTD N JOURNAL roar HAMILTON IN tt in tt tt HI DECEMBER 1944 302 PRICE FOUR WEATHER HAMILTON AND CLOUDY AND TO SATURDAY CLOUDY AND ORMOC LANDING CUTS YAMASHITA LINE S PATTONS MEN ADVANCE OVER MILE INTO SIEGFRIED LINE fc 8 f S 4 4 8 8 8 S 4 3 8 8 8 4 8 6AIH 8 MILES CHURCHILL DEFENDS BRITAINS STAND IN GREECE AND ITALY H KEY SAAR Across Saar River Are Merged THUR VALLEY Almost Cleared By French Germans Recapture Part Of The Third army bored a mile and a half into the Siegfried line lit points eight miles inside the under intense German fire today and steadily reduced and its steel mills long toms and heavy howit eers firing three miles or so from that The Ninetieth division advanc ing steadily past Dillingen knocked out a number of in the wooded area three miles north pf The Paris radio broadcast that Hie Third army had captured For rail city of three and n half miles southwest of Saar On the Third armys the Seventh army of Alexan der Sfc Patch rolled the Germans toward the Saar and Palatinate on 35mile front and advanced four and a half miles of V 1 Ripped f capital of the Saarland and center of ite indus was being ripped to pieces by artillery within sight of the burn ing city of for the ninth consecutive The Germans themselves were wrecking Saar lautern with their own Irving to hamper the American buildup of assault forces in the arsenal The Ninth army to the north reported new signs of enemy movement in little villages east of the east and southeast of Thunderbolts bombed two bridges on the Erft river and canal which the likely to defend outside Cologne and other Rhine land cities should the allies force the flooded The Seventh army captured four miles south of the Maginot stronghold of Bitche which was attacked by 75 Patch moved his center into a mile from the Rhine and eight northeast of It was wet and cold along the whole restricting Infantry of Courtney Hodges First army seized high ground between Inden and five northwest of the Roer river of They advanced onto a ridge commanding Schlich mid forced the Germans back for several hundred yards north of Y the Hurtgen forest village of South of that Ihe First army beat off two coun Useless Already the great blast fur Powerful Soviet Armored Wing Nearing Budapest The heavily armored right wing of the Russian Third Ukraine army was reported little more than 15 miles from Budapest today in the fiercely sustained drive to cut off the Hungarian capital from Austrian Field dispatches said the forces of Marshal Feodor were pounding a big wedge in the flank west of the but resistance of the nazis in creased as the battle surged to ward junction of six rail lines 36 miles southwest of was temporarily by passed by the Russians in their ac drive up the No Comment The soviet supreme command was still silent on what operations Marshal Rodion Second Ukraine army may be un to seal off Budapest from the Taking prisoners at the rate of a day also wid ened his grip along the Drava river within 70 miles of the Croa tion capital of through which German divisions in the Balkans hope to escape into Aus Croties partisans also were re ported to have stepped up guer illa Three new German divisions were identified as facing 44th and infantry from Italy and the 27lst infantry from the Western Dis patches said these had been On Pave JO 12 In Day Denies Breaking Any Agreement With Over Count Sforza BULLETIN The house of commons i ave the Churchill government a vote of confidence The vote wan 279 to To one day Ma William Horde of shot down 10 and destroyed two others on th ground as ron into of nail seeking to break up the American daylight raid on In addi shared another plane with a fellow American Presidential Veto Likely On Payroll Tax Freeze The while cer tain to get an extension of its war has hit stiff advocating a doubling of social security payroll The sen ate ready to act on both To Track Straying Workers A presidential veto is probable the senate follows house action in freezing social security taxes a one per Congress thrice has blocked the believing tha the social security reserve func is of most of of now are as good as useless to They drew heir iron ore almost entirely from which now is vir tually completely in allied The two greatest steel plants in the whole Saar valley are located jn the eastern Saarbrucken suburb of and the western sub urb of In the the allies jabbed Iowa the Alsace plain to within Jour miles of where front dispatches said the Germans were fighting a rear guard action to ward the Rhine rail bridge at 14 miles from United Seventh army French First army troops virtu ally cleared the long river valley through the north vest pf occupying and carrying the fight into the streets of T The War Manpower commission is preparing to track down stray ing war workers and lead them back to the war Plans are being laid at a meeting of regional di rectors to impose stern em ployment ceilings on night clube racetracks and other luxury establishments to squeeze ablebodied workers into militarily productive Favoring but not expecting leg such as that called for by Chairman Krug of the War Production board yesterday put more teeth into man power the agency was dis closed today to be intensifying its application of powers already possessed under its executive or der from President OHIOANS IN SERVICE VOTED A pop is 22 miles of the of chemical plants Tbe Seventh wf s fiercely engaged in miles northwest of the m total of Ohioans in service cast votes in the November 7 elec Secretary of State Edward Hummel reported He added that and that ballots were sent The Hummel ex was accounted for by du plicate A total of ballots was re too late to be TO OBT ADDITIONAL FLAW nations pinched for since the army dipped deeply into their may not have to wait lor the wars end to frt tU tiny Face Problem Belated To Foreign Policy Senators also face two prob lems possibly related to this na tions future foreign Some foreign relations committee mem bers want President Roosevelt to say publicly how he feels on a pending resolution calling for un restricted Jewish immigration into Chairman Connally called the committee to gether also to decide the time nature of hearings on four state department Cigarette Rationing Again Mentioned Should cigarettes be rationed at home Senators probing the smokes scarcity are considering this and the possibility of hiking Investigators of the senate war investigating commit tee found that adequate cigarettes have been earmarked for overseas fighting unload delivery problems have kept smokes from reaching the front Ambassador To Spain Mar Be The United States may recall ite ambassador to Carlton and replace him with Nor man chief of the state departments office of American republics FOOTHOLD ACROSS LAMONE and Polish troops driving on through fog and mud continued to enlarge their bridgehead over the southwest of Fa today and captured Castel and the allied com mand disclosed that the first Ca commanded by Charles is in action qn the Eighth front and scored the breakthrough in heavy fighting between the Lamone and which ww i Prime Minister Churchill staked the fate of his government today on a defense of British intervention in Greece and and declared all Britain wants in liberated countries is governments which will guarantee us the necessary security for our lines of Upholding the use of tanks nnd troops against leftwing forces in Churchill said acted to insure that gangsters did not descend from the mountains and install themselves with all their bloody terror and vigor in As for Count Carlo Churchill told commons Britain simply did not trust him nor would we put the slightest confidence in any gov eminent of which he is a dom inant A move to Sforza Italian foreign minister had brought Brit ish opposition and a blunt state ment from Secretary of State that the United States did riot oppose the long exiled count and wanted the Italians to determine the course their own Demands Vote In heated house of commons de Churchill denied his govern ment had broken any joint agree ments with the United States on and flung back at his chal lengers a demand for a vote of confidence in his f Churchill bluntly declared Brit not stand for a gang from the mountains over throwing constitutional authority violence in First Wac In Philippines First Coordinated Attack Made On Volcano Isles Asserting British troops had to fight leftwingers he chal If I am to blame for this ac tion I will gladly accept sal of the but if I am not make no mistake about we shall persist in this policy of clearing Athens and the Athens regions of all those who are rebels to the constituted authority of He repeated British objections to Sforza by declaring We do not trust the man nor would we put the slightest con in any government of which he is a dominant Series Of Intrigues When Sforza returned to Italy United States Chur chill he pledged support to the government of Premier Mar shal Pietro Badoglio for the dura tion of the armed struggle but im mediately began a series of in against The prime minister stood pat on British troops intervention in He said the troops under orders of Eisenhower M On ie REVOLT CONVICTS HELD five convicts who seized a build ing at the Atlanta federal peni and held four guards prisoner for three days remained in solitary confinement today awaiting trial in federal Attorney General Biddle an in Washington the men would be tried promptly on charges of violating prison secur ty regulations and would be se verely The revolt ended yesterday when the inmates yielded to an appeal by Morgan Atlanta Journal columnist who had pub grievances in his Central Pacific Naval Pearl 8 United States army and navy Liberators and bombarded Iwo Jima in the Vol cano islands 750 miles from Toky yesterday in the first such coord blasting of any base in the Pacific A substantial tonnage of bomb and shells were believed to havr been thrown at airfields and shor installations on little Volcano is land from which the Japanese have been making nuisance raids on the bases at Tinian am a little more than 70 miles Admiral Chester Nimitz communique reported heavy force of Liberators of the Seventh Army Airforce and Fleet One was escorted by Lightning fighters and surface units oi the Pacific fleet made a attack on Iwo Jima in co operation with a heavy attack by the Bomber com The Bomber com mand operates which have been blasting Tokyo regularly so it is assumed that the Superfort resses participated in this com Ledo Road Soon May Be Cleared t New Japanese withdrawals in Burma are on such a large scale that it appeared today the Ledo route to China would be cleared possibly within a week or ten but it was increasingly likely that it would be too Already the Japanese in China are in positions to threaten Kun which is a huge airline hub and the only really effective ter minus for the in the line of Japa nese advances in Kweichow and is move impor tant militarily even than the Chi provisional Chung The Japanese retreat in coupled with the advances in pointed to the reframing of the entire Japanese plan of de Japs Admit Quake Caused Tidal Some Damage Special To General Mac Arthurs Among the first Wacs to arrive in the Philippines following American landing there U Martha White of shown with two Filipino girls on Allies Seek ShortCut Through Turkish Waters By JOHN I The United Britain and Russia are working at top speed to get a shortcut route for lend lease supplies to the red armies through Turkish They want to shift from the long way around through Iran to the direct passage of the Dardan When this change is accom say responsible estimates it will mark the greatest improvement in supply shipping since was opened from Gibraltar to Suez the summer of The ships that pass through Suez loaded with planes and other equipment for the will save approximately 3500 land miles by going directly to Odessa or some other Russian Black sea They have been going through Suez and around Persian gull Land Too Also a land haul of possibly miles from the ports through ran and Southern to the red armys supply centers will be The total effect of savings in land and sea transport should mean a cut of many weeks the time required to deliver he production of British and American factories into the hands of allied fighting men on the across the Atlantic and Pacific to combat Undersecretary of War Patter son said yesterday at a news con ference that only the clearing of mines is necessary to permit the movement of allied convoys through the straits into the Black There is no legal barrier which Turkey could raise to prevent use of the even if she Turkey does not fully hold the passageway but merely holds it in a under a treaty known as the Mont reux re Eastern should ease the This in shipping pinch which now limits the amount of supplies which can be delivered Bong Outdistances Leading British Ace With 38 Radio Tokyo admitted today he earthquake yesterday caused tidal wave which covered bouses with started a landslide and damaged After almost a day of denials f major the Japanese admitted was shaken and that idal wave inundated The inter by the Federal said The seismic con hi nUr if t tof the he Tokyo The districts affected by the earthquake include Nagano and their vicin where some damage was caused to Houses In Shizuoka prefecture roughly 25 miles southwest of Tokyo tidal waves caused some houses to be while in Nagoya damage was with only window panes being In the damage was slight with practically no damage caused to our production facili No mention was made of dam yesterday was i age sustained by HI tilt of J few Richard age f now ranks first among ull British and American air races oi World War but the claim title to the ace of aces of thus who knocked down his and Japanese planes in a fierce air battle over Leyte in hus outdistanced the lead ing Wing Com mander Johnny an Englishman commanding a Canadian Spitfire squadron in the European who has 35 of kills in the air to his The Russians claim 59 enemy planes shot down in combat by Alexander age of August 21 and have credited Gregory and Nikolai with 53 Chinese Troops Retake Tushan Chinese field dispatches today counterattacking troops have recaptured important railroad town 75 miles southeast of in Kweichow There was no immediate con from the Chinese high but earlier a special communique announced Chinese troops had whittled down Jap anese forces fleeing southward from 31 miles northeast of Thus war bulletin said the Chinese had pushed on 12 miles after recapturing Sanho Fleeing Japanese troops were re ported intercepted northeast of 90 miles southeast of which is the capital of Kweichow and a Burma road AND BRITISH IN AGREEMENT ish Ambassador Halifax said to day that the United States and British governments had achieved understanding on the Greek and Italian political He spoke to reporters after a conference with Secretary Stet tinius at the state He did not define under standing or say whether there now is agreement between Wash ington and London on future of political issues in Italy and 8FA1H6B QUITS ff The French telegraph service in i broadcast today quoted the Paris newspaper Liberation as saying that the Spanish government had resigned the 19 JAP SHIPS New Invasion Takes Enemy By Complete Surprise LOSSES LIGHT 62 Planes Shot Down Two More Are Bagged By Major Bong Annotated General Mac Arthurs Head Veteran divi sion Yanks from daringly put ashore by the navy to the rear of more than trapped rolled rapidly north to day toward the west Leyte reinforcement port of less than three miles The surprise landing Thursday in Ormoc under the guns of Seventh fleet destroyers and swarms of fighter cut in half the heavily defended Yam ash ita defense This bold penetration of the Philippines inland seas to west made while Yanks on east Leyte were hunting down and killing the bulk of 200 Japanese paratroopers bent on caught the Nipponese strategists At the hour of a 13ship enemy reinforcement convoy bound for Ormoc was spotted and it was wiped to gether with the troops and equipment during the day by fighter Ends Stalemate The Leyte stalemated for more than a month by storms and Japanese reinforcements after swift conquest of its eastern roared into high gear on the hird anniversary of Pearl Harbor In 19 enemy including seven were sunk Thursday off Leyte in troop operations while plans elsewhere in the Philippines areas lasted nine cargo Sixtytwo Nipponese planes were shot down over and around jeyte at a cost of five United States planes whose pilots were Army Richard Bong of celebrating his award of the congressional medal of bagged two to run his score as Americas leading war in all theaters to The armys fighter plane group pushed its record toll of enemy aircraft above 600 by downing The clays outstanding ment was supplied by the navy and the troops of Andrew of and By Fleet Covered by guns of Rear destroyers after bold negotiation of narrow Sur the troops landed with practically no ground to days communique They thus sprang two traps on the re Tomo yuki has been pouring OH Leyte under orders to hold or die while at grips with fire other Yank divisions converging from south and One enemy force south of Or moc is caught in a sixmile area between the and Seventh division infantrymen who earlier in the week broke through the river line of Nippons veteran In between those two dismounted cavalrymen of ONeill Kane lauded Tuesday Tangos after a trip of thau 135 miles around Southern aboard amphibious Al Associated war by his description that was more a raid than Ait larger Japanese menaced by possible lop pf jfe backdoor to the even as it carries ridge fight to corridor north United Thirty 6ioo troops inching captured The ond ii 30
