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Show Seasickness Heal Hazard In Modem Naval Warfare By ItUSSELL ANNABEL Pnlted FrtH BUTT Corrtipendent A NORTH PACIFIC BASE UJ! fFor the benefit of amateur naval strategists at home, and fandlubbers generally, X would like to point out that torpedoes, bombs and gunfire are not the only Important hazards incident to naval warfare, w There are also storm. And seasickness. sea-sickness. Especially seasickness. Having Just returned from a task force sweep in thecourse of . trfaich we were so unfortunate -as to run through what unquestionably unquestion-ably was the worst weather ever encountered on the planet, I feel lam now an authority on storms itnd seasickness. I don't know how strong the wind was, or how Jkigh the waves were, or how far the warship rolled when she furned into the trough, but I am Srtaln we were establishing reeds ree-ds for these matters faster than they could have been recorded. Ill and Oat Again tRear Adm. John L. McCrea, Washington, -D. C, former Presi-.elential Presi-.elential aide, gave me his cabin for the sweep, but the only memories mem-ories I have of it are nightmarish toes. I was thrown out of bed V r Announcement miL C. O. JENSEN l Will Be in His Office Again ' On and After January 2, 1945. Appointments May Be Had by CALLING 800-J mattress, bedding and all six times in one night I would have slept on the deck, but chairs, tables and other pieces of furniture furni-ture were wandering about in the darkness and they kept falling over me. A tall floor lamp tipped over while I was on the deck, ywUming me by inches. A moment later one of the bulbs, which had somehow come -unscrewed, rolled past my head and broke against the bulkhead six inches from my ear. I crawled back into bed. A wild lurch of the ship slung me out again. So I tied myself in with a sheet The sheet slipped down around my feet, so that when the ship Thade another shuddering plunge into the trough, the upper half of me sailed out of bed while the lower half remained lashed in place. It was the only time I ever got out of bed headfirst Deep In Glass-There Glass-There was a terrific crash in the next room, which had to be investigated. The ship was blacked out so I weaved into the darkened room, dodging chairs. Feeling something cold under my bare feet I lit a match.' The glass top of the admiral's desk had slid off and shattered against the bulkhead. I was standing ankle deep in broken glass. I went back to the bedroom, but couldn't find the bed in the darkness. dark-ness. It had slid across the room. I lit a match and Jumped for it position. As I was wearily trying to tie myself back into the bed, using two sheets this time, the ship's loud speaker sounded battle sta tions, so i naa to aress ana go topside. Bombs? Torpedoes? Gunfire? Hah! Storms are what you have to look out for. Believe me. CHRISTMAS At Penney's OPEN LATE Thursday - Friday - Saturday nAoa0siPoMo American Rally Against Germans On Belgian Front By JACK FRANKISn United Press War Correspondent WITH AMERICAN FIRST ARMY, Belgium, Dec. 20 (U.R The Americans are rallying along the northern flank of the German salient Jutting into Belgium Bel-gium tonight and long columns of men and equipment are moving mov-ing forward to meet the enemy's challenge. The German army has chosen to fight Marshal Kark von Run-stedt's Run-stedt's "hut great battle" here in the wooded 'hills of southern Belgium rather than on the Cologne Co-logne plain inside the Reich. Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' Am erican first army - troops have accepted the situation on that basis. For the past five days there has been a feeling that "this can't be happening to us," but now we have come to the real ization that it certainly is hap pening. The Germans have smashed farther into Belgium since Saturday morning than we were able to punch into the Rhlneland in three months, and there is grim determination in the attitude of every man in this army. Belgian civilians everywhere In this sector have taken new heart and some have returned to the roadsides to wave again to Yank troops rolling up to the front But there still Is tension In the air and soldiers and civilians alike are stopped frequently along the roads to identify themselves. them-selves. The Nazi panzers are loose over a considerable section of this rolling Belgian countryside. There is a low, soupy fog tonight and every time a Jeep rounds a curve there Is always a questino whether it Is going to meet a friendly convoy or an enemy tank. Big American convoys still are rolling in both directions as some supplies are moved back to a safer area to prevent the panzers from seizing them, while others are moved up with the troops to This incredible situation has all the dramatic accompaniments ofa motion picture, except for the background music but nobody no-body is singing. DAILY HERALD 10 FHOVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH THURSDAY, DECEMBER SI. 1B44 'Banana Girlr . . .. ..... ... . , mmmm. Six-year-old Lucille Tielsch. above, has been Pittsburgh's "banana girl" for the last four years, because she must eat from six to 10 pounds ot the fruit daily Those are. doctors" orders If Lucille, victim of rare coeliac disease, is to stay alive She can't digest fats, starches, or most sugars, but hard-to-get or most sugars, but hard-to-get bananas keep her weight normal, nor-mal, dont upset her digestion British Mutiny Seen in Greece LONDON. Dec. 21 OJJD Lord Faringdon told the house of lords today jthat mutiny might break out among British troops in Greece because of their mounting mount-ing unwillingness to fight the Greeks. Cries of "monstrous" came from the floor when Faringdon brought the word "mutiny" into a discussion discus-sion of the Greek crisis. "I should not be surprised.' he said, "If our commanders had not already met with, cases of men who show the greatest unwillingness un-willingness to fight the Greeks, and who may have refused to bomb Athens. "It may be that this will go fur ther, and we shall have mutiny among our men in Greece and refusal to fight the Greeks. Lord Samuel rebuked Farina- don for his reference to mutiny, saying that "such language ought not to be used in this house." In commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden tacitly rejected a suggestion for a Christmas truce in Greece. Leyte Campaign Reaches Mop-up Stage Today By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Frets War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Philippines, Dec. 21 (U.R) The Leyte campaign reached the mop-up mop-up stage today with three American Amer-ican divisions pursuing isolated and steadily weakening groups of Japanese ' into guerrilla-infested hills in the northwest corner of the island. The fall of Libongao, 11 miles north of Ormoc, and Kananga, i two miles - father north, to ( two converging-columns at last' re-! ports only a mile apart completed the destruction of the Yamashita line and smashed the enemy's last integrated, or organized, resistance. resist-ance. "The battle is rapidly drawing draw-ing to an end," Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur reported in a communique just twb months after American invasion forces first stormed ashore on the central Philippines island. On Mindoro, 300 miles northwest north-west of Leyte, combat-engineers completed the first of a series of oil-surfaced airstrips to cover the Sabang Raided by British Carriers Tokyo radio announced that formatidns of British carrier-based carrier-based planes raided Sabang, important im-portant Sumatra harbor and air base, Thursday night ("Japan tune). The broadcast was recorded re-corded by United Press, San Francisco. Sabang, with one of the world's finest natural harbors, is situated on the small island of Pulu Weh about 20 miles off the northern tip of Sumatra. It is about 600 miles from Singapore and 900 miles from Ceylon. Sabang has been raided heavily before. On April 20, 1944, Admiral Admir-al Lord Louis Mountbatten re ported that carrier-based Allied planes escorted by a task force had destroyed 22 planes on the ground and four ships in the narbor at Sabang. next phase in MacArthur's cam palgn to liberate the Philippines. The mile- and- a half long atrip was finished in the record time of four days. No sround ODDOsltlon yet baa hem encountered on MlndOI, MacArthur said, and air attacks continued light, nine enw planes were shot down by light. naval units and shore anu-aor-craf t batteries Tuesday, The 77th Division, which land ed at Ormoc only 12 days ago, captured the Leyte stronghold of Libongao in a four-mile advance fmm Valencia, while the FiTSW Cavalry division moved south tb'! within a mile of the Tiux aw seizing Kananga. The enemv abandoned 1,541 dead in his retreat Tuesday, Mac Arthur revealed. His cohesion is now completely t broke, he is no longer capable n (niacratert defense and. the small remnants of his forces di vided into isolated groups are awe to resist temporarily only at Independent Inde-pendent points," MacArthur as serted. 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CHOCOLATES . lb. $1.00 8 GLASSES IN TRAY WATER SET $1.59 Mystery Surrounds Nominations For State Department By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U.R) Sen. Claude Pepper, D , Fla., who yields to no man in loyalty to President Roosevelt, has the capital capi-tal worked up with his latest who-dun-it mystery involving recent re-cent nominations to high office in the state department. Pepper and a number of other oth-er normally 100 per cent Roosevelt Roose-velt senators chose to buck the White House on the nomination of an undersecretary and several assistant secretaries. They went down protesting this week when the president refused to budge. But in the process of trying to head off the nominations Pepper tilted the lid a fraction of an inch on a situation which if it really exists would make mighty interesting in-teresting reading. He made a speech on Monday containing a J couple of charges implying that Mr. Roosevelt has been imposed upon, not to say taken advantage of, or worse. Pepper told the senate that he did not believe Mr. Roosevelt initiated the nomination of Joseph Jo-seph C. Grew to be undersecretary undersecre-tary and other men to be assistant secretaries Further, Pepper said the nominations did not originate with the secretary of state. Not only that, but he asserted that Mr. Roosevelt merely had "acquiesced "acqui-esced in those nominations." "I have no Information from the White House pro or con," he continued, con-tinued, "I repeat I do not believe that the president initiated these nominations." Who-dun-it is Washington's natural na-tural reaction to any such statements state-ments as Pepper's but so far there is no answer. There was some mumbling around the senate sen-ate that Harry L. Hopkins, the president's confidant, had a hand in the state department reorganization. reorgani-zation. But none undertook to make any public claims nor to advance any reasons why Hopkins Hop-kins should not have given the president any advice sought. The plans of Pepper and his associates to delay a vote on confirmation con-firmation of the nominees until next session collapsed when Mr. Roosevelt put in a strong word for the whole slate Despite Pepper's Pep-per's confidence that the nominations nomina-tions some way were slipped over ov-er on the president, he finally confided to the senate: "The president told us that he needed men of experienece in the state department and felt that these men would conscientiously carry out his views in the discharge dis-charge of their duties." So Pepper and the others called off their potential filibuster, content con-tent merely to be in the minority that voted against confirmation. The capital continues to speculate specu-late on the whole performance. 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