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Somerset Daily American (Newspaper) - November 29, 1944, Somerset, Pennsylvania A s if ser be i tic Luh three great services associated press a features Central press Somerset volume sixteen number 130. Morning messenger from the american roof Garden of Pennsylvania Somerset pa., wednesday november 29. 1944. Stettinius to streamline state dept. New Secretary is expected to follow Sec a. Hulls policies As to Trade barriers. Three cents or. Hull am his successor brings in colleagues by Flora Lewis washes i on nov. 28�? up a now that he s about to be Secretary of state Edward r. Stettinius jr., is expected to ush ahead reorganization of the stat. Department especially toward meshing economic and political affairs. Colleagues done to think Stettinius will make any spectacular policy or shakeup when he formally takes Over the reins. But he is sure to want Niue progressive streamlining of the department they say. Stettinius appointment comes before the Senate foreign relations commute tomorrow and is Likely to be confirmed by the Senate this week. His first Job when he came to the derailment As under Secretary last year was to tighten up on administration. Stettinius has said that work remains to be done on that Job. Main goal would be to gear together political divisions and economic sections working on similar problems. One favored plan which May eventually a adopted would be to eliminate the present division set up and have geographical offices comprising both economic and political experts. Another Likely move would be development of a group of special Advisee around Stettinius. His executive technique which he used in business As Well As in the lend lease adminis to Atren is to gather a team of trusted colleagues about him and give them wide responsibility. Stettinius has already brought some of his earlier assistants to the state Cepar Anent. He May appoint others As Well As select men from the department to form a sort of Cabinet. A confirmed internationalist Stettinius is considered sure to follow Cordell hulls footsteps in trying to organize the world for peace and to Cut Down Trade barriers. Statistics of Aerial Blitz Britain Arl Over Germany for 72 hours very grim after five years of total War 733,030 casualties 130,115 of them civilians. Jlko Anikij but Aiu Bis picking up in county Pittsburgh nov. 28�? up a sixth War loan sales nosedive sharply today with Allegheny county setting a new Low reporting Only $194,800 in a be a Bond sales. The 19-county fort Pitt area purchased $5$11,200 in a be a Bonds. Individual sales including a be a Bonds were also far below the daily average with Only $927,200 sold in Allegheny county and $2,288,600 throughout the area the War finance committee said. Total sales to Date show Allegheny county with $18,388,900 in Bonds and the entire fort Pitt area with $29,-9j4,8u0. 2 i Tea Axis i rum a alcohol Philadelphia nov. 28- up Fhil Adelphia detectives reported that Wood alcohol caused the deaths of a Marine Ana an sex Soldier Here today. A iwo other men and a woman Are critically ill from drinking toe alcohol Gnu tree others were treated at a Hospital and discharged. goo rut and Thomas Lennon said me read were x x w. Kesae Jaunty 23, who died in the Philadelphia naval Hospital rn., ice. In. A returned to duty at the Marine Barracks at the Navy Yard and Robert Smith 34, lunchroom owner Ana at the Temple University dental school. Smith who was discharged rom the army in january according to detectives was found unconscious in a bedroom Over his lunchroom and died shortly it ter Ward. Secretary of state Cordell Hull left is Here pictured with undersecretary Edward r. Stettinius at an earlier Date As they discussed a Mission from which or. Stettinius had just then returned. Acting in the place of or. Hull until the latter was compelled by illness to resign or. Stettinius has now been nominated by president Roosevelt to succeed his former chief As Secretary of state. International butter meat Hose House probe workers of of acc shut Berlin area counsel quit hold dinner cries of a a scandal Ani a a Whitewash Pollow a Hon of committee two members protesting violently Sale of station Mca Washington Nev. 28�? up a amid cries of a a scandal and a a Whitewash the House committee investigating the Federal communications commission decided today to conduct future hearings behind closed doors. As a result its counsel resigned and two of its members publicly protested. Rep. Wigglesworth a mass who voted against the termination of Public hearings As did chairman Lead Cali asserted that the action Quot might Well create a National Lea a termed tile decision of the five Man committee a unfortunate unwise and a the decision came As the committee dealt specifically with Sale of Ladio station Mca new York to Edward a Noble former undersecretary of Commerce by Donald Flamm. One witness Leslie Evan Roberts former Republic relations director of the station has testified that he participated in what he termed a a a conspiracy to a scare Flamm into Selling the thirty five inc leding speakers and guests meet at Holt y w Ooi hear wounded Soldier. Live up to heritage by Mary Hause a dinner meeting of the War Bond committee of the Berlin area was held tuesday evening at Hollywood in near Berlin when the program was outlined for 35 area workers and chairmen by or. Guy n. Hartman comity chairman. In a Short talk to the workers when he passed out the Campaign kit he said a do not say you Are too tired to go Back if you have been to a House and found no one at Home. Just remember our boys have to give up doing whatever they were doing to go overseas to fight this great War of oms. Regardless of what you think of this War there is still a great Job to be done for our boys overseas who Are daily giving their lives that we May live in safety and Comfort. Go out and do your Best. Set that a a bests example by first buying a Bond your if you have already bought your self and then when you Are asked share you can answer a yes and i intend buying More before this drive is introducing the guest speaker of off ssh i1? mass we sec., Lieut. Eugene Lew 26-year-old infantryman irom 1940 for $850,000 and subsequently sold it to Nathan Straus new York City financier for $1,255,000. Noble issued a statement today declaring he wanted no Whitewash. He accused the committees chief counsel John j. Sirica of using his official position a to try a private lawsuit w hich Flamm has brought against immediately following the committees decision to close the hearings to the Public Sirica tendered his resignation declaring a there is great Public interest in this Case. I done to want it on my conscience that i submitted to a Whitewash. Therefore i am tendering my resignation effective at once Robert Barker assistant counsel was named Bis successor. Graham wins a in 25th District Beaver Falls nov 28- up incumbent Republican rep. Louis e. Graham was declared the Winner today in the 25th congressional District in his bid for reelection Over Samuel g. Neff of Ellwood City. The final vote including Soldier and civilian from the three counties Butler and Lawrence showed Graham 61,538, Neff 60,478�?a majority of 1,060. Neff is president of the c i of United steelworkers local at Ellwood City. Beaver county went strongly for Neff but Butler and Lawrence counties swung the balance firmly into grahams column. Strike threat Eads car tagging protest claims at p. Amp r. Hearing Philadelphia nov. 28�? in a the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company and a Philadelphia committee for refunding bondholders protested today during a hearing before Federal judge William h. I re at Rick two claims for services rendered during the company a reorganization under bankruptcy Laws. Archibald Palmer new York actor Nev for a debenture holders group asked $75,000 for his services and n. R. Caine new York accountant claimed $15,000 for advice Given palmers group. Arthur Littleton counsel for the company said Palmer was a More a hindrance than a help during reorganization proceedings. Harriman. Tours West front London nov. 28�? up a a. Averell Harriman United states ambassador to Russia toured the Western front yesterday and inspected third army installations with it. Gen. George s. Patton it was announced today. Announcing Bett it Hare Humberson returns next week after 2-year absence from town and will be pleased to Greet her old friends Here. Vanity Beauty Shoppe West main St. Pittsburgh nov. 28- up mayor Cornelius d. Scully today told police to Stop a special Cheek of traffic violations by Street car operators in order to Avert a threatened trolley strike. The investigation was called off the mayor said because the Motorman through their leaders in the a Al amalgamated association of Street car and electrical railway employees promised to observe traffic regulations. He also said he asked the Union to give him any specific instances of men Behig threatened with discharge if they were unable to keep up with their trolley travel schedules. Police began a a tagging Motorman for speeding and other violations after a collision of Street cars which killed six persons three weeks ago. $86,148.tiawar Bonds Solf in a. Philadelphia nov. 26�? up a pennsylvanians had purchased $86.-148,118 in War Bonds in the sixth War loan drive by late monday j. Ruhland Rebmann jr., state chairman said today. This figure represents 23 per cent. Olathe states $370,000,000 quota Rebmann said. Of the total $8,023,810 represents a be a Bond sales bringing the a be a Bond total to 27 per cent of the $180,000.-000 state quota. Mondays a be a Bond sales totalled $3,392,807. Cloisters funds in escrow Harrisburg. Nov. 28�? up a pres diet judge William m. Hargest today ordered that the sum of $22,059, undistributed assets of the Ephrata Cloisters be placed in escrow with the Dauphin county court until final disposition has been made of the Money. Milwaukee who Foi the past year has been a patient in the Deshon general Hospital at Butler who fought with the infantry through the vicious tunisian Campaign unscathed Only to fall in Battle in Sicily told of a few highlights of what he called a fighting on a two mile Battle the night of july 15, 1943, the 26th infantry took the Little town of Mazarine in Sicily. In six Days the outfit had had but two hours sleep living on c and k rations or a bit of chocolate with very Little water to drink. An order was issued at to p. In. To take a Small town. One Side of the Highway leading to the town was a Plain two to three Miles wide and the other Side Hills six to eight Hundred feet High. The germans had the advantage they knew every stick and Stone Iii the entire area and even though they had retreated were waiting for their victims whom they knew would have to travel that Road to reach the town. Carry own guns already tired almost beyond endurance the men carried on. They carried their own machine guns heavy affairs which did not increase the Speed of their March. With the infantry were the tank and artillery companies. Near the town in a shallow Valley with High Hills on every Side the watchful germans sighted the tanks and half tracks moving off to the left and let Loose a barrage of artillery fire. Those who could escaped and the first battalion with which Lieut. Lew fought was left to carry on the attack. The hour of to a. In. Had been set for the attack but the company was trapped like rats Between the High Hills while the German artillery mowed them Down. There was no Means of Retreat Only move on to take a Hill on which the enemy was stationed. It was a superhuman task but the deed was accomplished and at noon when the Xxiii fell to the americans there were Only two Rifle and two machine gun companies left. About 400 men. Lieut. Lew said there were but 50 men in the entire outfit who had not been hit not once but two and three times. Lieut Lew was shot through both legs and the right foot. He Lay on the Battlefield six hours before help could reach him and remove him to a Field Hospital where blood plasma was administered in an Effort to save his life. He was officially reported killed in action and not for weeks after Ward did his Lainily know he was alive. He has received countless skin grafts and one Bone graft the latter unsuccessful. Because of this he must remain a Hospital patient until doctors decide Vinat More can be done for him. Strong in his feeling against the continued on Page two by Wiiliam Frye London nov. 28�? up a the Cost of Britain s five years of total War a the Normal life of the nation obliterated 1.5 per cent of the whole population casualties the riches stored up by past generations dissipated was described to the world today in a government White paper. Grim statistics told the Story of the United kingdoms War contribution total casualties of 733,030, including 136,115 civilians killed and wounded and 29,629 merchant Seaman killed the Export Trade basis of Britain a wealth and Power virtually abandoned overseas Gold reserves spent on War materials one Home in three damaged and one in 30 destroyed More than 5,500 factories damaged monotonous diet strictly rationed clothing High taxes. Treasures gone a we have sacrificed most of our victorian inheritance a said minister of information Brendan Bracken in a press conference after the release of the document. A what was the treasure of our grandfathers has gone and it has been Well and gladly Britain he said gave up her Export business at the Start of the War and converted the whole of her manpower to the making Ana using of War goods her workers since have produced More than 102,000 planes. 25,000 tanks 35,000 guns 5,700 ships. In five years her people have paid approximately $15,900,000,000 in income tax and other taxes and have turned Over to the government approximately $19,248,000,000 in personal savings. The White paper titled a statistics relating to the War Effort of the United kingdom a disclosed that Britain has mustered 59 per cent of All her men Between 18 and 40 in the armed forces and has called up 55 per cent of her women of the same Ages for the military services or for munitions work. Britain a armed forces now number 4,500,000 men and 500,000 women. The number of persons in her munitions industries Rose from 3,00u,000 in 1939 to 5.000,000 in 1944. Britain a total population is about 47,000,000. 11,500,000 Gross tons covering statistically almost every aspect of the nation at War the White paper disclosed that by the end of 1943 enemy submarines and other weapons had 3unk 11,500.000 Gross tons of British shipping two thirds of the tonnage with which Britain began the War. To save shipping space. Britain was compelled to Cut Hei imports from a pre War average of 55,000,000 tons a year to 23,000,000 tons in 1942 and 26,000,000 tons in 1943. Imports of finished goods were confined almost exclusively to munitions. The average British civilian who consumed 7.63 ounces of butter a week before the War got Only 2 34 ounces in 1943. Meat is rationed at about one Pound a week. A Man can buy a pair of shoes once in 13 months and a woman once in eight months. The British woman gets five or six pairs of stockings a year compared with 14 pairs before the War. By Britain based planes ripping transportation and Oil target with 15,000 tons of bombs. Seventh month by Chaples Chamberlain London nov. 28- up Noueri Berg was bombed by the strongest Force of Mosquito Ever dispatched to Germany to attack a single target the air ministry announced . Kept British based heavy bombers on the ground the Mesquite dashed deep into Germany to Pound nazi Dom Shine which also is an important Industrial City. First reports said the bombing was a extremely accurate and that soon after the first tombs went Down in a tight concentration there was a tremendous explosion and a Glare Whlon lit up the Mosquito flying at a great height. Actual size of the formation was not disclosed. An almost unbroken 72-hour Aerial Blitz against Germany by Britain based warplanes which ripped nazi transportation and Oil targets with some 15,060 terns of tombs and destroyed 240 enemy fighters was slowed today by the weather. Before the weather closed in this morning at last 1,000. Rap heavy bombers in pre Dawn raids hurled More than 4,000 tons of explosives on Neuss and Freiburg German Supply centers just Back of the Western front. Freiburg is just behind the French first and the u. S. Seventh armies front on the Western Bank of the Rhine Neuss is far to the North in the Dusseldorf area and is a Junction Point for rail lines feeding the nazis before Aachen Cologne and Gladbach. Where the British second army and the . First and ninth armies Are engaged. The three Day concentration of air might climaxed the biggest Winter operational month of the War. Since nov. I the . Eighth air Force alone has sent its flying fortresses and liberators on 11,600 sorties and slashed Germany with 34,800 tons of explosives. Out of 17 operations More than the combined total for november 1943 and 1942�?ll were aimed at Germany s main Oil refineries carrying the Campaign of draining the lire blood of the enemy a War machine into its seventh month. Third army Breaks into Saar Basin on new 7 mile front Cross Lamone in threat to Faenza by Lynn Heinzerling Rome nov. 28�? Ziv British troops have cleared til Lamont River s cast Batik tor live Milos Northeast of Faenza and have sent patrols prancing across the Stream on the Southwest Iii a gathering Threa to that strategic Highway City it the Edge of the to Plain Allied Headquarters announced today. The patrols crossed the River where they were but three Miles from the City yesterday and established Contact with the germans deployed on High ground before Faenza the communique said. The British eighth army extended its control of the Lam tic s East Bank to the arca of Aibe Reto five Mil a Northeast of Faenza where a fierce engagement was in Progress i the germans were entrenched in Faenza itself and were facing the British just across Lamont to tile East. Italy s autumn Rains which have plagued Alliet. Operations for weeks fell continuously in the last 24 hours deepening the mud which has made footing Uncertain. Tile remainder of the front including the . Fifth army a sector South of Balogna was quiet except for patrols which were Active on both sides the Allied communique said. Driven Desir oyers near bombard Keichow a Roc port i Lightens Boom of past sweep into Camo food Sale amp Bazaar saturday do. I Quot of i noon amp Een a try Baumans bakery Gibbs bldg. All k Nils of fancy Tvorik. Home made cookies end vegetable soup. Willing workers Cass. Grace evangelical Church Eisenhower sends men to Tell Story Washington nov. 28�? up a general Eisenhower has pulled 27 or his Battle Wise veterans out of combat to Send them Back Home with their own stories of How the ammunition shortage is hurting. The men split into five groups will visit plants contributing to Shell pro auction in 75 cities in the next six weeks hoping As under Secretary of War Patterson put it to inspire a the extra spurt a we need a Heck of a lot More ammunition a declared tech. Sgt. Alvin j. Jankowske Chicago a mortar Man a the Point is we Are i a against the Siegfried we could fire twice the amount and do three times the damage a estimated staff sgt. Edward r. Bearden Waco Texas. A if we had it to fire it would be a lot easier on the infantry and give us More Bearden recalled that after beating off one counter attack on the Normandy beachhead his outfit had to Lay off firing for three Days due to the shortage. The germans Are throwing More ammunition than the invaders encountered in the sweep up to the Siegfried line the men said. The 27 were chosen according to the amount of action they had seen. They came from the first infantry division the ninth infantry division and the third armoured division. Kane a first Bear Kane nov. 28�? in a Ralph William. Sackett Elk county was the first local area Hunter to bag a Bear this season. Williams killed a 125 Pounder near his Home yesterday. Hunters were reported to have brought in ten bears in the Kane area yesterday in spite of the bad weather. No a a illegal kills were reported. Leroy Crispin Rimersburg. Clarion county killed a 200-Pound Bear near Kinzua. British have ammunition says Premier Days As enemy endeavoured to Cut China in half. Many refugees by Spencer Moosa chunking nov. 28�? up a the chinese High command declared that the japanese had been driven Back in their push toward Keichow province s Burma Road capital of Kwe Lyang. A local Success in contrast to the Days of gloom As the enemy was splitting China in half with his March through Kwangsik province on the South was claimed at Tasha Tang a big Mountain Nail about 138 Miles Southwest of Weiyang. Les sea West of Leyte u. S. Battleships attacked by japs. Report losses by Ray Cronin associated press War editor a daring sweep by american destroyers into one of the inner seas of the Philippines their first Westward penetration from the Pacific was reported by Gen. Douglas Macarthur today. The speedy yank greyhounds of the Navy skirted Leyte Island boldly entered the dangerous Waters of the capote sea West of Leyte and heavily bombarded japanese positions at the port of Oroc the port is the chief japanese Avenue of escape on Here seven Miles North of newly-1 wes7ernleyte fallen Pochih the japanese were at the same time the general Dis. London nov. 28- a pome min today thuhck11, m commons today that Britain s armies have All the necessary to Light their Battiest and promised a More vigorous attack on Japan after Germany a defeat. His statement on ammunition attracted attention because it came so soon after president Roosevelt a declaration that Shell shortages were costing the lives of american soldiers. In Good humor after a recess which followed Assurance of a tenth and probably final session of the fourth longest parliament in history questions. A nine months ago a he said a we opened up our Shell filling and Shell making plants again on a Large scale on account of impending operations. The immense piling up of reserves which had occurred earlier had led to a temporary dampening Down. Since then further important expansions have been made. A i am prepared to say that provided factory workers maintain and they May even improve upon the present planned output there is no reason to support that the British armies will be Short of the necessary ammunition to fight their his statement on Japan came during a Brief debate on Britain a postwar army. There was some disruption after the last War he conceded but continued a in this Case the change Over will not be so violent because there is another War which will open with greater vigor at the other end of the world when this present one is pianese checked and Lent retreating southward a Brief communique said. The War bulletin contained no confirmation of reports that the Japa Nese had crossed the Border into Keichow province in this area which would put them about 115 Miles South of the provincial capital. The japanese asserted in a Tokio broadcast that their forces had jabbed eight Miles into Keichow province arrivals Here from Keichow said All accommodations there were crowded with refugees from the danger zones. All american and British nationals have been ordered to evacuate the province. Death toll from blast exceeds 160 a special a month end clearance presses 8 Coats Polly Jane shop a Turkey dinner a sewing unit methodist Church Somerset thursday december 7, 1944 hours 5 to 7 ticket $1.00 losses for allies heavy Washington. Nov. 28�? up a nov. 28�? up a now that the tide has turned and new construction is outstripping losses Britain disclosed today that the United nations and neutrals lost 22,161,000 Gross tons of shipping through 1943. Simultaneously the War shipping administration reported that this country lost 753 shots aggregating 3.-311,000 tons from the beginning of the War through last year. While no figures were announced on losses in 1944, indications Are that the highly favourable ratio of new construction Over losses established last year is continuing. Britain alone lost 2,921 vessels aggregating 11,643,000 Gross tons roughly hone third More than the entire United states merchant Marine before the War. J other losses were divided As follows allies including this country1,937 sips 8 491.000 tons neutrals 900 ships 2,027,000 tons. By Ruhs Del Landstrom Lurfon-on-1 rent. Eng., nov. 28�? up a the death toll from explosion of an Raf underground bomb depot which devas ted the Countryside yesterday will be Mere than 160, the British press association estimated . Rescue workers who so far have extricated 23 bodies from the debris indicated that More than too still i were buried in the ruins of the depot while 31 were known to have been entombed in an adjoining plaster works and offices. Six bodies have been recovered there already. The Bratislava radio in a German Lan 3uage broadcast said flatly that Quot yesterdays explosion in Derbyshire was caused by a German earlier unofficial reports speculated that the number of dead would reach perhaps More than 250, but an air minister spokesman said Quot it is not Likely that the number of killed will exceed the 20 or so known dead a id the 22 to 25 now missing who May be an additional 30 or More persons Are missing but it is believed most of these May of alive. The British press association said Only a few persons were known to have been injured seriously. Policemen on the scene said that the task of compiling a list of casualties was complicated by a scores of people who simply have the tremendous blast heaving up soil. Buildings and livestock Over a wide radius and making craters 250 yarns across shocked the people of nearby villages As if an earthquake or a great bombardment had hit them. Many ran for air raid shelters. Or huddled against Brick blast Walls. Closed a heavy japanese Aerial attack against american warships guarding yank liberation forces on Leyte. Some of the u. S. Men of War were damaged and casualties were suffered when the Nippon airmen attacked the Pacific Fleet units in Leyte Gulf monday Philippines time. The vessels under attack included a battleship ack ack gunners of the warships bagged 13 japanese planes. Yank fliers shot Down two. Ground action on Leyte was at a standstill As heavy tropical Rains continued. American planes were out however bombing japanese airfields West of Leyte and hitting shipping Over a wide area. Meanwhile radio Tokio reported that three american transports ant two warships were damaged in left it Gulf by japanese airmen last Friday night. It made no mention of the later raid reported by general Macarthur japs Bald Saipan base by the associated press japanese planes executed a a fierce bombing of the american super fortress base at Saipan a from the night of nov. 28 to the Early Dawn of nov. 29�?� Tokio time the enemy a Tokio radio said today in a broadcast recorded by the Federal communications commission. The unconfirmed enemy broadcast said it was the third raid in As Many Days on the base from which the b-29s twice have raided Tokio. The new raid caused a heavy damage Quot Tokio claimed. American Headquarters on Saipan have confirmed that the enemy carried out two raids nov. 27 u. S. Time a nov. 28 Tokio time during which 13 raiders were downed. Put Bullet in his heart Altoona nov. 28�?up a Joseph John Batkiewicz. 25, was found dead today of a self inflicted Bullet wound in the heart Coroner Daniel m. Replogle reported. Too mixers at Jeanes Ille out Hazleton nov. 28�? up a a walkout of 400 miners at the Payne Coal company s Janesville Colliery which United mine workers officials said had not been referred to them continued today with no negotiations in Progress. Miners said the walkout resulted from the company a refusal to replace a non Union a monthly Many in charge of a breaker Cones with a Union member. The company declined comment. Saipan Marianas islands nov. 27�? delayed a up a americans big base from which super fortresses have struck at Tokio was raided twice today by japanese planes. At a Cost of 13 planes the enemy bombed and strafed the area causing unspecified damage. Two or three Low flying planes made a Brief raid shortly after Midnight sending yanks on the ground to rarely used shelters. At noon More than a dozen enemy planes swung in As Low As 30o feet. Seven raiders fell before anti aircraft gunners. Six others were downed by p38s and p47s which pursued the survivors almost to the Volcano islands. Chiang Kai seeks have separated full scale Battle at Sieg lied line appears imminent As three fortress cities Are brought within american artillery Range seize three towns along Roer. By Austin Bealmear sur pm e h k Ai q i Art ers Allied expeditionary Force Paris nov. 28�? apr the u. S. Third army broke into the Saar Basin along a new seven mile front today and a full scale Battle at the Siegfried line appeared near As three main fortress cities of Saa Brucken Saa Lautem and Merzig were brought within american artillery Range. To the North the u. S. Ninth army seized three towns on the West Banks of the flooded Roer and inde Rivers closing in on the stronghold of Julich from three directions while the it. S. First army squeezed closer to Duren another Barrier to the Cologne Plain. It. Gen. George s. Patton s i Bird army in gains totalling seven Miles lengthened its holding inside Germany to a front of 26 Miles. The newest gains placed third army troops within three and a half Miles of Saar Lauters and within eight and a half Miles of Saa Brucken. They previously were reported w within two Miles of Merzig. It was the fast rolling 95th division which lunged across the German Frontier As far As Duren ten Miles South of Merzig Ami Bents three Miles farther Southeast. Both Are a mile inside the Border. At the same time the 90th division moved up to the Baar Border at a new Quarter beyond be rustling eight Miles Southwest of Merzig. On the Alsace front in the South the u. S seventh and French first armies were Clearing the remaining germans from the Vosges mountains and alsatian Plain and strengthening their Northern flank after widening the save me Strasbourg corridor to 20 Miles from North to South the continuing heavy offensive against Germany brought these developments the ninth army Cornu ated capture of Kirchberg on the West Bank of the flooded Roer less than a mile from Julich which is on the East Bank. They also took Barmen North of Julich and Altdorf on the South. Rosier and Merze Hausen were being cleaned out despite fierce German tank counterattacks. The doughboy in Kirchberg and Barmen had to Wade through knee deep water from the flooded Roer. They captured an entire German battalion and its Headquarters in the outskirts of mermen Hausen. American artillery virtually wiped out another entire German battalion which tried to counterattack in the Early morning Moonlight along highways the fighting was along and on both sides of one of hitlers super High was leading almost due East to Cologne. 24 airline Miles Distant. A half dozen Miles South the u. S. First army doughboy pushed East astride another of the nazis prize motor routes fighting their Way into Jur Gersdorf Only four Miles from Duren. In a three pronged assault the Ca tied another mile and a Quarter a a a the Roer River defences where the germans Are making an All out stand. Fir army troops also slugged into or Den or he inde River three Miles from the racer and Midway Between Duren and Julich. They were closing in on lame Rusdorf on the inde Between Inden and newly captured Frenz in Hurtgen Forest Southwest of Duren the yanks were fighting bitterly to oust the germans from positions in the bomb rubbed remains of the town of Hurtgen two thirds of which was in american hands. North of Hurtgen american artillery continued methodically to soften the enemy defenders of Grosshaus. The third army continued to score notable advances. Its 95th division continued on Page two Somerset weather reported daily by David Grove u. S. Weather observer temperature for the 24-hour period from 5 30 . Sunday until 5 30 . Monday maximum 45 minimum 35 temperature a year ago maximum. 35 minimum 16 London nov. 29- up the London daily Midi said today that Generalissimo and mrs Chiang Kai Shek have separated and that she May make her Home in Miami. Fla. Mrs. Chiang. Who is in the United states for medical treatment is a Al Kelv to carry out a lecture tour on the chinese political situation which is bound to create a sensation a the a i said. Governor cabinets guest Harrisburg. Nov. 28�?gov., Martin was honoured by his Cabinet at a Post election dinner Quot in appreciation of his leadership during the recent Wpm apr Maryland fair but continued rather cold wednesday thursday some cloudiness and a Little warmer occasional ram West portion. Eastern Pennsylvania rather Cloudy and continued cold wednesday thursday Cloudy and not quite so cold. Western Pennsylvania and West Virgin mostly Cloudy and continued cold wednesday and thursday intermittent Snow thursday. Wooler elsewhere up a Tho it. S. Weather Bureau reported the following High and Low temperature for nov 28 to on Chicago a a Cleveland Denver Miami new York Philadelphia Pittsburgh _ St. Louis Washington 53 40 34 26 44 38 39 18 76 69 52 44 52 43 43 38 38 27 52 44

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