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Show Weather Forecast Temperatures - High ibw New York 48. 44 32 51 . . i . . . . Portland - 44 San Francisco ... 60 44 ,50 Washington, D. C. 49 High Low .57. 39 Atlanta . . . . :. Chicago Denver Los Angeles . . 42 68 - Clear this afternoon and tonight, Increasing cloudiness tomorrow; cooler tomorrow morning. Yesterdays max., 42; ipin., 30; mean, 36; norm., 35. Sunset tonight, 6:02; sunrse tomorrow 6:32. . 35 26 18 I Japs Raid Base On Saipan Island T t" - - - An eyewitness account of the launching of a Nazi V-robot bomb was given today by a special London Daily Sketch correspond. , ent with the British Second Army. The correspondent said: 'I've seen the Germans launch a V-- rocketiprobably against Britain, and although I wa$ some thousands of yards from the launching site, my head stilLachesjand myJiands still tremble from the terrific force of the LONDON (INS) 2 2 By Associated Press -Americans and British were ordered to evacuate the central China provinces of Kweichow and Hunan today in the face of columns Japanese menacing driving deeper into ' China. Chinese nigh command said one Japanese drive from Liuchow had enveloped Hochih in advancing to less than 140 irnle!!southeast of Kweiyang while another enemy column was pressing toward the provincial capial from Paoching in Hunan.The -- evacuation ..order .affected missionaries, Red Cross work- -ers and representatives of various civilian agencies. - Most Americans were report- ed to have escaped from eastern China, now cut off by the link in- ing of Japanese forces which vaded Kwangsi province from Hunan and Kwangtung. Fall of Kweiyang would en- able the Japanese to stab at---Chungking, 200 miles to the northwest. Revenge - seeking Japanese aew StaBMjswsssstf fighter planes made two bomb-on and strafing attacks ing V-- 2 These .pictures of the wreckage of the latest GERMAN FIRST PICTURES OF BOMB - Saipan, Marianas Island base examines motive power of robot which fell in soldier show: Nazi (Left) vengeance weapon 9 Superforts from which at is is On left fuel sent pump; right liquid air pump with distributor in right fore against Belgium. have twice been Tokyo. Thirteen Zeros weredisshot down. Front-lin- e patches indicated this was close to the entire force making the second strike in broad day-- , -- B-2- Heres How light r- - Meanwhile, revised - from Admiral Chester added two more Japanese ships sunk and 23 damaged to the toll taken by carrier planes striking last Saturday (Philippines time) at the Manila Bay area. The total ed 48 surface craft at least temporarily knocked out in thatraid included a cruiser, three de- - stroyers, a destroyer escort, 13 ... mother ships and two Ruggers def- - -- initely sunk. Japanese planes were destroyed. So Eighty-seve- rt far this month carrier planes have knocked out ; I ; C enemy vessels in the Manila area. To the "south, Gen. Douglas heaviest MacArthur reported bombingraids yet on Japanese airfields on Cebu,-Negr- . t j, ,, ' ' and was from Sai- pan and India striking simul- taneously yesterday at Tokyos by m: 151 os Mindanao islands. Little opposition It Feels To Raid Tokyo it figures W. Nimitz B-2- 9s industrial waterfront and Bangkoks important railway feels to bomb (This is how to as his wife by told Tokyo, -- the pilot of - the first Superfortress to bomb the Japanese capital.)" B-BASE SAIPAN, Marianas Islands (via Navy Radio) (AP) Maj. Robert K.4 Morgan, Dauntless Dotty whose B-was the first to bomb Tokyo, had big news to Tell the folks "back homei But there are no telephone or telegraph facilities here, and aiij mail might take a week or more. So the Associated Press is transmitting this letter to his wife, Dorothy, of Weaverville Road, Asheville, N. C. Morgan, who won fame piloting the Flying Fortress Misin Jfie sion Belle European theater, wrote it in pencil on a ruled paper pad as he was returning from his second trip to Tokyo this afternoon and handed it to the Associated press on his arrival at this base, Here it is: 29 29 yards, Heavy clouds forced Ameri can airmen to use precision bombing over Tokyo and pre- vented observation of results. No superforts were lost on either flight. In the Leyte battle no Amer- -, lean advances were reported by Gen. MacArthur, who said also Nov. 27, 1944 that the storm had retarded air After Leaving Tokyo operations over the island Sun TMy'Dearest Darling day. L am" writing this after having just left the coastline of Japan behind. The target again today was Tokyo. Only 72 hours ago I was coastline, (Dauntless Dotty has done a wonderful job. Your namesake is living up to her name.) ' Fridag I led the whole flights (AP) The NEW ORLEANS a thrill that comes once in a of Labor American Federation lifetime. You remember that voted here today to ignore the was my one ambition, to lead rebuff from the CIO and the the first 9 raid on Tokyo. United Mine Workers and to reI led just one element, new AFL efforts to bring the butToday even it was nearly as big two organizations back into the a thrill asjo before. John (Maj. federation. parent Carroll,. Fredericktown, action was John.-The 'convention flew as my deputy leader taken by the 600 delegates after Penn.) in the first raid. Captain Cox to offered had Green William Cox of Tulsa, Okla.) presidency, if (Leonard resign The toAFL restore labor soli- - flew as my deputy today. I had necessary, Maj. Joe Baird of Tempe, Ariz.f - - darity. If it becomes necessary for with me in the plane today and, me to leave (the AFL presi- as you know, General ODonnell dency) to restore unity, Green (Brig. Gen.N. Emmett ODonnell of Y.) was with me on told the AFL convention, Lam Jamacia, the first one. willing to go. The first raid was for you, . The delegates decided to extend the olive branch again to darling. Todays was for our San the CIO and to John L. Lewis daughter, and his United Mine Workers, dra Lea. All those raids to 'overriding a protest madeAFL-by- come will be for you both and the things you stand for. the Progressive Miners, the - owned coal workers union. You know all about my trips Lewis formed the CIO in 1935, over Germany-an- d so the best took it out of the AFL in 1937, way to describe todays mission and then led his miners out of is to compare it with those raids the CIO alter the 1940 election, over Germany. when he supported Republican The trip to the target Is a Wendell Willkie. See LETTER On Page 3 Vice President Matthew Woll argued for labor unity despite the rebuffs to prior overtures Military and asked delegates - to forget Turns Up In Britain personalities. Woll asked the 600 delegates , LONDON (AP) Still unto view this question from the der security wraps, the House and of organization standpoint committee from Washmilitary of the that personalnot from turned up tojay at a big ities of UMWA President John ington depot "somewhere jn supply nd CIO President Lf" Lewie a England for a firsthand check.Philip Murray. up on how industry is meeting the armys materiel "needs. Banana Price Cut One of the committees objects is to determine whether there WASHINGTON (AP) Housewives will pay about one are any unnecessary surpluses in cent less a pound for bananas. the thousands of articles necesThe OPA said today, as the re- I sary to maintain modern fight- suit of a reduction ordered in ing forces, as well as to learn what the deficiencies are. the import price celling. . AFL Head Offers B-2- . Committee 1 inside the 'An officer and I had gone on patrol into to when Reich. We crawled a riveFbank suddenly a great gust of smoke accompanied by a great jet ot flame shot straight into the air from a woods ahead of us. "Then a wave of sound and air came rolling across the river, inta our: ears and faces with one long, hissing roar that made our heads' rock and felt as though someone had turned a powerful hose upon us.' LONDON Amerl-cans(AP) drenched the Cologne plain reached the RoerRiver today and drove up to a mile into intricate German defenses along the flooded stream while Army infantry of the Third advanced within ten miles of Saarbrucken, arsenal capital of 1 the on ' Saar.- - .(J Surging forward in Pte-dablackness, First Army infantry of Lt. Gen. Court- "ney H. Hodges fought into the streets of Inden and Jugers-do- rf and close to Lamersdorf, The' U. S. . Njjith - Army reached the Roer at Kirch bergr- - 23 - mile from . Cologne and less than a mile across the muddy Roer from the citadel of Jullch. First Army- troops won two thirds of Langerwehe, last important enemy communications Gerpoint west of the Roer. man defenses in that village five miles from Duren appeared to ' at- be breaking up. Planes tacked the eastern exits while infantry fought through. Other men of the First Army fought in the streets of Grosshau and to guard for the last third of the forest ground. In center is turbine and at front center is mixture line wrapped in asbestos Engine is at left. (Right) Peroxide battlefield town of Hutgen. against varying temperatures. (Center) Wreckage of V-- Fairly - clear skies- - allowed tank of rocket bomb is inspected by British soldier. (AP Wirephotos.) planes to attack tanks and artillery positions all along the critical front before OK-Se-en Cologne between Linnlch and Duren. They struck farther back on the Cologne plain, trains and fortified up shooting was when it munition WASHINGTON ( AP) badly houses. The town of Pier was enlisted men who I needed. Twenty-seve- n set afire. 1 WASHINGTON TAP) We could fire twice the saw-the- ir The battle aim of Gen. artillery ammunition Quick Senate confirmation was rationed in the front lines have amount and do three times the Eisenhower was the destrucamount of tion of the German army Sgt predicted today for the appoint- been brought back from western Edward T.damage, asserted Bearden, 29, Waco; and his counterpart, Marshal ment of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Europe to inspire more produc-tio- n Tex., who was von Rundstedt, was forced to chief of section at homer as secretary of state. Field commit new reserves in the . the Fifth in First Artillery, General Eisenhower sent them . Speed was Indicated not only one After Division. Infantry past 24 hours. Probably eight as special emissaries," the War was withstood on or., nine tank divisions are' -by - the general acclaim which Department said today, and Told counter-attac- k bracing the enemy lines in greeted President Roosevelts them before they left the com- the Normandy beachhead, he rechoice of a successor to Cordell bat tone last week to go back called, we couldnt fire for this sector. Hull but also by the urgency of home and tell simply and frank- three dayg due to shortage Of Below Strasbourg, the Seventh and French First Armies were pending international problems, ly just what you were up ammunition. We are sending over against headed by the need to complete consolidating and cleaning out more ammunition the Vosges mountains and Alsace the Dumbarton Oaks plan for against." The men, divided into five the Germans we are Taking, despite the world .security. plain. Maj. Gen,RaIph Royce,.. groups, each under an offtcer Jhan need for more, said Sgt. Richcommander of the U. S. First (D.Connallr Chairman with. combat experience, will vis. VanderbToemen, 247De-itwTactical Air Force, safd28 Rhine Texas) summoned the Senate mroughout-- th plants our accu bridges were available to the foreign relations committee to country during the next six racy is very good. The sergeant Germans between Strasbourg and Vice meet tomorrow and weeks. was chief of section in a batSwitzerland, and that at teast 10 President Wallace said he is Undersecretary of War Patter105-mwere pontoons which" could be artillery. the Senate ' will son told a news conference that tery of confident The point is we are up replaced in 24 hours. This reammunition is being turned out support the presidents choice against the Siegfried line com- futed recent army Intelligence as fast as we can, but we by . confirming him unanireports that, only three perma the extra spurt needed will mented Tech, Sgt.Alvin F. mously. 25v Chicago, who de- nent- - bridges were available at 44. the state the when--- these -- men be At furnished department -scribed as this his "line mortars. We Strasbourg, along with three MUSSOLINI .SAYS GOODBYE Caption accompanying year-ol- d . Stettinius, who has are heard. are shooting more than we used more pontoons between there British official photo.taken from a captured German newsreel, been acting secretary since H,ull Plants are running fud blast to Jerry is dug in pretty and Basel. describes it as showing Benito Mussolini bidding farewell to entered the Naval Hospital at and there are no reserves in good. He is sitting comfortably Lt. Gen. George S. Pattons Bethesda, Md buckled down to this country, Patterson deAdolph Hitler after visiting the Nazi leader following the bombin his concrete pillboxes and Third Army advanced two to - confronting ' " enormous the on clared. Hitlers are Shells job life." hustled off (AP Wirephoto.) ing attempt us mad. We need a heck four miles more, broadening its to the fighting zones as fast making him, in guiding American foreign of a lot more ammunition. battle positions close to the Gerinternew fields of into policy 'as they are loaded. Pfe. Vincent J. Romano, 25, man frontier. His Ninety-fift- h national cooperation. Brig. Gen. R. E. Hardy, chief Brooklyn, gunner on a Merten near infantry A of With the ammunition division of howitzer crew, said at one time than a mile from the closed less boundary dethe ordnance and Industrial serv- this group was limited to 80 and overran the towns of meeting indefinitely Alzlng, layed by the prolonged war in ice, said, however, that not all rounds per gun a day. Oberdorff, Holling, Brettenach, Europe, it is likely that the plants are operating up to their A Remelfang, Tromborn and Rem-erimechanical limits. Some, he said, president will turr over to Stetle front along a A DIVISION COMMANDPOST (AP) A doctotjold a tinius the job of completing the can speed up and work longer which reached within five miles either Oaks "fUumbarton to his dying lie up In the jungle about which he will be happy j.hours, plan of Saarlautern. The men, 19 of whom have through diplomatic channels or Germans between the Saar coal day. to the cheerful for lad in a conference with the foreign, been more than two years over- keep canal near Saar Union and the There was this boy with a 1 Russia-anT T was L. rt 10 he isolated days while CflQC d ministers, of Britain, uuu reporters n ' B y3.ssocTale H " Frs Rhine, sontheast-of-agenau; are- ltit ictt patrol of the'Twenty - fourth to have to hold down on am- living on half and sometimes China. the German military retreating, division, which hacLiought iar ting Tokyo Stettinius" himrTf is anxious quarter rations. commentator Ludwig Sertorious behind the Japanese lines beSeclow Limon in the Ormoc cor- said tonight." Then," when'the patrol" to reach agreementjwith the other big powers on voting proSoldier German rear guards are saferetary of State Hull quoted the ridor, who got a peppering of "pulled out oveif the mountains in of to the cedure proposed world Leyte rejoin the regiment, Asahi as saying re- guarding the withdrawal of the fragments from a mortar shell newspaper 23 essencouncil. This is the sightless boy insisted on security Liquidates in his face. lations between Hull and Pres- German troops against the right ON LEYTE of the Third Army and the walking and he was led by his tial if a United Nations conferHis face wounds were super"(AP) ident Roosevelt had long been wing ence to set up .the organization Pfc, Johnny Freeman - of buddies. left wing of the Seventh' Amerficial, but both eyeballs were is to be held early next year. cant Springdale, Ark., "estranged and "at last hit a ican Army," the enemy commenAt one point in their ad punctured. carves notch In his autotator said. Ifand when ruch a conference The . doctor bandaged both" vance a. Jap machine gun sur, snag matic rifle for every Japof his feyes and, knowing that approves the proposal it will be prised them. The column meltThe f reason real for Hulls anese There-ishas killed to Jie , the lad , could not be evacuStettinius, working with ed. into the jungle for cover. up was as Asahi room. resignation, quoted told-hithe ated for a long time, The blind lad was shot through president, toshelp put it Lt. Robert E. Rector of he'd regain his sight in one - the heart without ever knowsaying, must be traced to the through the Senate. Bluffton, Ind., says Free- ing that he would never see fact that Jiis relations with eye. man has killed 23 Japa- That assurance was enough again. President Roosevelt which have Silver Bill Approved , nese, , were -- laid so InFlight-planot been going smoothly for I got my biggest bag a Lake lieutenSalt WASHINGTON The by geniously (AP) when 15 came toward our many years, have at last hit a ant that he was able to take his Senate banking committee ap. position," Freeman recalled. snag, together with his failure Lightning only 50 feet above a proved today a bill extending I sort of warmed them for another year, until Dec. 31, Japanese airfield studded with In international situations.-Hup. 1945, the power of the president guns and come back, Total May Reach 250, Officials mess in of it made a the to One of the easiest was silto sell or lease treasury-hel- d his base with valuable pica foolish Jap. He took a esand American South policy, ver for manufacturing purposes. tures. He flew at 350 miles an BURTON-ON-TRENbath in a stream only a England (AP) Estimates of the Such silver may not be sold for pecially in the Argentine prob- hour. hundred death toll in yesterdays explosion of an RAF underground less than 71.11 away. yards cents per fine lem, and has of late been treatThe pilot was First Lt. Clarbomb dump still ranged from 20 to more than 250 today. A troy ounce. ed badly by Roosevelt. ence E. Williams, 23, 740 E. 3rd former British rmy officer declared enough bombs for hunS Stl, and the pictures he shot dreds of major raids on Germany were detonated in the blast. provided clues resulting in vlr- -, tual neutralization of the enemy Scores of persons simply stronghold. have disappeared and until we on the trip Williams To Yanks Between 2 Units On Leyte can check up on them we are was First Lt. Alfred S. Wooton unable to say whether they are Williams decided a of machine gun fire opened up P-- Arizona. The enemy also spotted By Spencer Davis in fast and could sneak dead or alive, a Burton policea SEVENTH of on WITH them. The spatter DIVISION, Blue, but instead of firing, low over Pagan and'bbtain phoWASHINGTON man said. The British Press As(AP) The LEYTE, P. I. (AP) An waved to him. Blue, who is Japanese Woodpecker sounded tos of enemy gun positions. sociation said the toll might administration got the promise American patrol, caught at from the rear and Blue found Wooton flew over short, stocky, deeply tanned Pagan on his himself being fired on from first and musdusk by enemy machine gun with a curly ot another fight In Congress tomount to 250 or more. sweep at 15,000 feet, acting He and from ahead rear. both he been had and fire front directly tache, figured One bomb burst and the rush day if it tries to hold' intact its as a decoy. During the distracto withdraw mistaken for a Japanese. He the rear, moved to the sideof air apparCntly acted as a de- vast war" powers over Industry tion, Williams flew into Pagan a from knoll and and beckoned Americans the filed The lines waved back, grassy swiftly above the waves. just -, tonator for all the bombs in the and private individuals. of two of ucross in watched the stream Japaup stream and out danger parties Japanese Williams Lieutenant wife, on a hillside. But the Japanese battle each other, through The House judiciary commit hope of capturing some prisdump, situated near Burton, This Thora, lives at 740 E. 3rd S St., contin-- at nese fire oners. machine the gun one-yenight, a wave tee exten underground approved detonating and his parents. Mr and Mrs. a furious rate. Second Lt. Daniel -- A. When the enemy patrol wa C. F. Williams, live in (Kankacaused the earthquake effect felt sion of the second war powers N. C., led a pla in midstream. some of Blues each enemy party Obviously kee, 111. several miles away, driving many act the authority for. most of toon of C Company of a Sev- -. an was men opened fire prematurely. other the .thought over to shelters. war raid the controls manufac25 At air American In Division enth the resulting exchange persons patrol. Infantry regidayjigjit DOW JONES A ERAGF.8 the firing stopped abruptly The village vanished as the turing and marketing but it ment over the rugged mounNipponese were killed. Five Furntehed bVj.J A Hoglo k Co, memCat-mand the Japanese melted away ber of New Jferk Stock Exehanje . tain trails skirting Mount . blast shook the entire countryescaped, to the act an adminispinned Ht?h Low Laet Chamr on a five day reconnaisinto the jungle after burying It was nearly night when side like an earthquake and sent 147 40 146 63 147 14 4- - .33 ImhmtnalB ' opposed amendment ... . . 43 61 43 46 43 64 4 03 sance. His party saw 30 JapaRails Blues platoon examined the their dead. bombs high Into the sky. They tration 25 58 35 31 35 46 4 .03 . Utilities At one point there were 35 nese encamped across a river bodies and dragged them to rained down like a large - scale making the war agencies subject . ... 103 53 4 .03 Bonds cover. so fresh shallow .. 01.09 bed. As courts. to did 34 ... bombardment the , CommockUea graves. enemy heavythey a jggRSS?'1 7 linth Army Advances To Roer River Launching Rocks Earth For 1000 Yards V-- 2 B-- 29 ! 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