Show VAk4r4a-1- -- ' - 1 ) - 4 -- Iow46aoekgoadirft--- — Lidoembmoiasoo6km" - 0 I ' ' I 1 v 2 1 il Sin Wednesday iIt1Znk Zeibunt - n HLANEindhove NowN1 !''''2gT"''' v Yankees-Hal- t 4:Polif Dec20 Morning ' - il Feedilig - Allies (Official) By United Press LOINTON sDect 19—Slashing at lines behind the Gerraan ' enemy counteroffensive into Belgium and Luxembourg several hundred British heavy bombers andt S fighters joined this afternoon to attack the enemy rail cen- ter of Trier and over 300 U S heavy bombers hit road and rail area extendpoints along a to Gemund Trier north from ing AU bomber attacks were ' made heavy through heavy cloud Al' though fighters escorting Ameri- can bombers found some air corn' bat neither R A F nor American '''' heavy bombers met fighter oppo-sition From Italy heavy bombers pounded oil and rail installations in southern Germany Austria and the Bantam In the early evening German broadcasts said bombers : wereI over the central Baltic-headibg indicating possibly that tho ft A 1r was striking at German warships in Gdynia harbor for the second consecutive 0-- )- - - ' - - - - 4I 55-mi- ' I Ii ' le - ' 1 ' 4 : - night Light Opposition The Britain-base- d American heavies were escorted by a small force of Thunderbolts whose only Opposition came in the 190s form of 16 to 20 Focke-Wtieast of the Rine At least three enemy planes were believed shot air-bor- ne lf - down Store Is Full of General ' Our i ANTwERp 20d 1 I LIEGE BELGIU M Roe A 110 I )2 1 1 e0ognii - pine-covere- ARMY :k? 01i ql ''"IC:1 irstql metirii - VtVOUlerl sEDANI ' 46 Dillinon Thnvolla 111 : Diimst dliti - I‘ grase 4 MANNHEIM ed t0110PZ-- 4 -- 1f - - - ' ":'''aQ - t0- eZ't — --- 11 S1 1111 ) 3rd f) ISA ' -'- 30 ARMY NANCY 101111" '' STATUTI miLIS wive 4101 Landau LAAAURTERN ''' ' 1 - j s 4 - NlibserAii In the German counteroffensive on the western front (heavy line) enemy vehicles were re ported Tuesday 'west of Stavelot' in Belgium 7th ARmyl 411116 iiissiP i 1 - TRASBOURG It uc A AID 1 - 1 - 4 - 1 f 1 1 1 1 Desig n' : ? s1 feCtrIC l Veregrerri 4 G I ' IP : I I a ' - R Fetba k ) sAlh41 SA o FRANCE - 9 tank-support- (FIZANKFUR I MAINZ ) Rodisn - N -- or - -- 'oar hesed 'I' - il A — Chatena Ns---'- - Ns ' Ludwigshaf irn C 4 z- TRIER 411'A l 14 '''''‘ Wosbdri : T4 le'- nJ 104u-il- tiii ''- te st a wo s 3lr 4 41 witel Lti)y - tki ° 4 - ) 6111Echternach I - snow-covere- itNI 040'411 -- -- '04 CON AN '- Marburg Goisiom - A 'k :411 within azk -- s4 GERMANY - g t Frartisonbarg Sidtier! 13CsNN- 1 khuscheldJ ( Httc' id" ' i and the Rnoprtant road center of Bagnacavallo The enemy has concentrated much artillery as well as tanks and infantry in the bulge The main Eighth army flanking move !struck northward from Faenza but the armored counterthrust forced the British to draw back to the railway tracks skirting the northern sector of the of uwhich Sthe townd the capture command day The counterattack afforded the Germans only momentary relief however as another allied flanking move was developing six miles west of Faenza Allies (Official) By Associated Press ROME Dec 19—A savage counterattack mounted by the Germans in an effort to hold their positions on the west bank of the Lamone river northeast of Faenza against a British flanking drive has forced the Eighth army troops to fall back to the northern edge of the town the Allied action Monday nazi The grim defense appeared to indicate the Germans were having trouble extricating their- forces from a nine-mil- e wide salient !between Faenza f3- - —cc ri N 1 Civet - gs ÁACHEN40 ) Di flans At least six German counter- w strivildyil"6 - 0UcSSI )COLOGNE monschavr Kstrnich it 11101 Arrtskoi - RF t ut ich J 111: StatviPior attacks were smashed Farther to the south the situa- 11nic iotioioWc----(( i 64flerot 1 1 ‘' Ae r -- half-tracto- rs - :ik o - 41- - - - - 8 0 alLISIdali 7 - 1 by cl ' et Slit tie 1 e::It:caltbeolltireal ' c':ssiTyl4'1 0 I:Int oPe- 6YBPell: l)k -11 1 fei° 7 but both allled and German commands gave no details To the north thP U S: Ninth took Wurm and the First entered Duren Popvlat kodet le Asia rongod high? politior41 porfeemoono Adiustablo 'ono div trimittetot with bons or sir coo with Eloctric strongly wear Inexpensive to moinSain tituocootio::oodesoisos:rpC ompst7to hisndividsolly Conoordaidlsootorplorstito :" : - ' 1"s and light built lot long °die fkst -- lido? — ' ' I i?IsTEV?HONwto Nazis Drive for Break as Yanks Mass Forces - c? Sttcity (Continued from rage One) viding the impetus The press camp was evacuated to the rear Monday night Late Tuesday an emergency call brought a big force of U S Flying Fortresses and British from British fields to spread 2000 tons of fragmentation and high explosive bombs on rail and road junctions immediately behind the attacking nazi forces ' ' They were forced to g b om b thick ground-clinginthrough clouds and fog which shrouded the front and denied blazing d the doughboys the Invaluable support of fighters and PA zyt t - 1 ' 4:4 ir ' 77 i half-trac- ks '4 4 - le ''--- f hard-presse- - ) ' er Lan-caste- rs 60-mi- - 19th ARMY! N Na m ARMYj -- - 111 hy R log ) pt dbach m '' 1 el tDt w L German Attack Drives British To Outskirts of Faenza l'ettmund Isom iI A g 'southwest of Malmedy and 24 its control of two holdout forts A 4L H of on the outskirts of Bitche and 4 v Como in for particulars today! Lmilelgese 14 fought from wing to wing against the College of barricaded nazis in Lines iloi Bache ‘ area extendThe In one of the few fighter-bombt t Many Are New operations carried out Tuesday ing from the Vosges range to the 24 Thunderbolts sprayed two long Rhine between the vicinities of Different and in i 4 - ----''i -enemy convoys of tanks and guns Colmar and Mulhouse remained a i dam( to near Monschau the Sixth army group Zolpich and problem Great Demand ot ''41 All 41 aging at least five tanks Revised The Germans there reinforced U S Ninth air f or c e figures from east ofthe Rhine steadfast- g ' ee-- e 41 i'1(21'''''" claimed 112 German tanks ''''' ly prevented the French from i - t ti ': '1 ' and other vehicles destroyed cleaning up the plain and counter: attacked repeatedly or damaged Monday L- ' '' ' t4 d As weather permitted the Geri German observation lw planes 1 ' ' to continued hit man force over air Third the ranged thickly tiz Vr"'"°5' etor09--vback hard in support of the coun- army front with every break In ' ' -'4 a ' i so: was estimated the weather bombing and strafing and it teroffensive ! t 00604440Ka4 fighter-bomber- s the enemy was dipping into his American movements and obviousi 4 '144 I A1 I i 111 i 1— 11111 4 Continue Censorship gasoline reserves at the rate of ly making a supreme effort to i flit - le 0 630000 gallons a week An It A F prevent any possible transfer of 46p AN As Field Marshal Karl Gerd von officer indicated the enemy's fuel forces to the threatened First 171731:: 7''Ez:4c41:)is ' ram Rundstedt's t-acute was army front becoming battering ' smashed into the deeply dented shortage - ' the terrific -presenemy Despite "'"'American line south of Aachen al- sure against its right the First C t lied headquarters imparted only acmy sustained its pressure along 0 the terse information that "the at- the Roer river east of Aachen 4 ' 2 4Y" tack is continuing" This curtain sending patrols across the stream : 4 4 s 4 it: of silence appeared to indicate that into the nazi stronghold of Duren g t- '''‘ ' ' ' 0 PT k"' go k the enemy's forward momentum 20 miles from Cologne A o i ''''' r ' '' '' ' ' ' '- '1 i p: had not been halted The Germans 1 -:It: - '7 - ' 's 4' ' f :' ::z - vi N Covers Front 1 I Fog were with the roads N still I 1 packing I ' ''' i‘ t g equipment and men - '4' vi i ' ':' L N Fog rolled like- gray surf along r I ' ti ih t''' ' ((The German high command de'14 1 to ' i 'N': the l the Ninth 'A front i army"p'iN'' ('' t i1 just ' 14 1 k Is clared that nazi tank forces "have north while floods tq t '‘ ' 'atP '1' -I 5 1 ' 'ON: 4 ' ' t ' disfto ' ''40 and ' broken smashed 0 ' "3and In ' limited British Holland the k ' ' through 1 ' r '' ' 14 '' N't '' I 1 : ' ' 1 p I do Clouds : 1 persed units of the American First Canadians to patrolling " Nr'''A '' ‘ i 1 4 ' 4 into the ' ' rear" to t 1:" the ' enemy deep army ' treetops clung 4 i it0 Ifr'!4 N i Like the allies however the Gerstiffened German resistance A '1s$:-- - ' 5 ''' 17 ! : : 1 ) in ())1 mans dealt all the only alone generalities) Siegfried markedly -i tie r : t i :'Y'4 1Up to Tuesday night the only line from Luxembourg to Switzer1 i iibeek clue as to the extent of land and it was plain that the al: specific k rrP the German penetration was the lied winter offensive had been L' 1 ' I 5 ' f r ' ? e- - ' report that British Typhoons had fought to a temporary standstill 1:71 1 ' tI e :x Lt Gen George S Patton's attacked a score of enemy armored 1 4! '' lines remained practown of a Third vehicles "west Stavelot" V' ' i r- - e leo - ' I 22 miles by road from the reich tically army ft4 unchanged — his gains Ai T S c: A4 f 4 J to d frontier Stavelot is 41i miles dwindled to almost nothing after It '' ' 41 days of steady advances Mon'''''r' 1 ' tlic-1 tki :1' Pi ' 4y- - ' ' fe day's prisoner count on the entire '''f-''sSaar front was only 53 by far the t:' t1 I f' V I ( : 1 lowest since Nov 8 or kt t 4 t The Seventh army of Lt Gen 't 'agek ' '' ': ' ' ' 1 -- iY r I Patch hacked at SiegAlexander I te A 41 1) fried defenses along a I '' i t k ' ' 'I A I 14 i A 1 A--1 '''4V:: - ' front westward from the Rhine in -i' By Associated Press ' N ' the Bavarian Palatinate but met 208-21- 0 So Main St western The Ni front 1 1 Tuesday savage opposition and registered : 4 ) ': night: no gains of consequence The ' kt ' i' Canadian First and British Sec- Americans' every move was being i ' NK :If ond armies: Line unchanged :)' furiously and accurately fired upoil 4 States Ninth army: by nazi artillery which was regisUnited ' 141 ' '' ' Mopped up in Wurm and Mullen- - tered on every foot of terrain I clear Beeck northwest of Push Fort Battles dorf 1 iit1?::) 4 ' Gellenkirchen ' '''':' '' ' ' At the western extremity of the o :::N United States First army: Strove Seventh i' I army front the 100th into stabilize front as German coun1 4k division battled to complete WOOL SHIRTS—Plaids and checks The outstanding style '7Z–- — fantry : lines of ' teroffensive dented A k i: ' t: ) ''' 1 i '' ''' '''1 front inside Belgium and Luxem- taldnitosta oval ISO Oa fift OPOtt irtian kil f4' development of the winter sportswear season $9 and bourg sent patrols across Roer river at Duren $10 Plenty of other sport shirts too Vinland t fee"Drove Third dti:: 2 United States army: 't t I to east side of Dillingen gained in 4ty ::::1 ' ft SCARFS—Whites and patterns in wools and rayons for the Saarlautern suburbs ket":Apilis:165 A 11 United States Seventh army: ' khaki for army men 7 civilian regulation whites for I Olt 11140 3 ICaptured two villages in Palatif nate two miles inside Germany bILPLIL-s-11the aviator and the naval officer $250 to $10 1313‘ V otab41 ' t?:-fr French First army—Line uni Ott S changed NECKWEAR—The largest most attractive stock of ties we've ALL COLORS ALL STYLES ALL SIZES f U S divisions: )- Or 'z'''''' S 1 ' : S I '11:I 1 I Fourteenth armored (Seventh to show in the last week before Christmas ever been I i'S S olk stiff opposition army)—Battled ALL POPULAR MATERIALS $1 to $6 north of Wissembourg r II Thirty-fift- h (T hird infantry Al ' i' 1 4 army)—Made slight gains in Saar Artistic Metal Fern Stands : JEWELRY—New ideas in money clips tie chains cuff links 'IL basin Ilwith Jardiniere Forty-fift- h Infantry (Seventh to 78504 collar bars etc Itt Ferns always welcome gifts I —Met heavy pillbox fire two tBoston army) i miles inside reich Poinsettias upi $3 $4 $6 4 t i Seventh-nint- h :0 SPORT SOX pert wool sox belts handkerchiefs suspenders infantry (Seventh Seaaonable Coat army)—Probed beyond Berg eight Corsa ges miles from Karlsruhe or yes a hundred other items welcome to any man t& t Eighty-thir- d PASTEL AND DARK SHADES infantry (First iStar flower Bouquets apt army)—Sent patrols across Roer ti i iSeasonable Mantel or' river at Duren a gift I IAA Ninetieth infantry (Third army) r Center Pieces t tr 141 1 —Drove to east side of Dillingen 2 i:‘TN:1 ' is doubly Franki:v 4 Pine Tips with Cones 25c up Ninety-fift- h infantry (Third t army) --- Gained in Saarlautern '4: se 00 !Holly 1Vreaths I V suburb upi i t ot : b f71:1A One and third 'ks--'a' hundred of41 I infantry t Mixed Wreaths ''''' ( uPlti s 100 '' ' te ''1 lit JP (Seventh army)—Penetrated four kiltmiles inside Germany ''kt ' ' 4' ir 2 s'? i CUT FLOWERS CEDAR 4 C i's 4 i t L 1 ' ir ' 4 4 14 a HOLLY GIFTS ' ‘ BRUSSELS 2 tion remained fluid and obscure with deep German penetrations reported but in' this mountainous d area where millions d of evergreens stand like Christmas trees the Germans' elite guard tank columnsLL have been stopped and hurled backlvhile their flying bombs still thunder overhead Hold Foxholes How it was done is one of the I war's most ruminating battle stories Some gallant doughboys stood fast' in their foxholes and allowed tanks actually to run over them rather than retreat It was one of the most spectacularly courageous actions since a British Coldstream guard unit in Tunisia two years ago this month fought a German panzer attack outside Medjez El Bab untit the nazi tanks crushed them in their trenches An American hospital south of here was overrun by a German tank column which pushed on leaving some parachutists to load the nurses and wounded onto trucks for transfer to Germany Gibraltar Pigeon Flies Regain Hospital Lt Col:Charles Horner of Doyleston Pa an infantry battalion 1090 Miles Home commander o n reconnaissance LONDON Dee 18 (ITP)—:An dashed into the town in a leep RA F pigeon who decided he driven by Pvt William J Cazara preferred his home in Gillingham of Detroit Two American Kent and returned AWOL from followed Gibraltar-10- 90 The hospital was recaptured inmiles away—established what is believed to be tact in some fast that a world record flight for pigeons outdid any wild westgunplay thriller it was reported Tuesday "The cokonel sized up the situaThe pigeon called "Per Ardua" tion and started shooting and the part of the Ft A F motto "per parachutists ran for It" declared ardua ad astra" (through difficul- Maj William R Washington of ties to the stars) had been taken Crozet Va a member of the to Gibraltar for resettlement small battalion r vni)011 10 ? IN BELGIUM South of Monschau Dec 19 (XJ—Veteran American doughboys flung into one of the war's weirdest battles on a moment's notice brought the German attack on the northern flank re a bloody hilt The heand a tmen of wrecked tanks Bomber pilots reported the weather over Germany was "absolutely stinking” and said bombs were dropped through cloud cover Within 24 hours some 800 Britain-base- d been U S heavies thrown into the fight 'against the German drive but the Eighth air force fighter command has not been called upon to contribute sweeping forces to the front line It was felt that the U S Ninth air force fighter command and the British Second tactical air force have enough fighters to meet the situation ' R A 1r 'Lancaster's centered their attention upon Trier itself From this German city road and rail lines run southwest to Luxembourg city 23 miles away: south to Merzig and north to Belgiurn toward Malmedy lilt Rail yards The Italy-base- d stab by the U EL 15th air force was the fourth In as many days against German oil installations with Blechhammer In Silesia again the target Rail yards In Germany northern Yugoslavia the Vienna area and ebtewhere in Austria were bombed nearly all by instrument Rome dispatches said the Mediterranean allied air forces flew more than 1450 sorties Monday including tactical operations losing 24 planes and destroying four enemy craft 1 Duisburg r-----10- - - -- !J4JA 1944 Nazis on 'Yank Bombers Stimsh Lines North Flank 1 f ' i ' -- - -- -N-- ii - --k 1 r 7' 1 - 7 tilc31 4 :1-- y -- - I 1 -4- -- i - : t - q Vio) S: N ' L'4-- - 0 ''' C A 1 c 1 - - - ' C iN - ' ' e- -i - '- - - 'r -- 4 1 - -' ''1- 4 s3 ' ' 't- - - lAllied Positions Front - -- - - - i - 44'1 1 - - - f 1 - s -- 20-mi- le - - ''--- - A 4 '''' 1 c- - t Nie- - J - 1 44- 1 A World off Gifts at 111rthur Frank N - : I 1 L s -- eigti A ) : b A an 1 - - t s 1 - -- -- - ''' '4 z '1'1 0 1' : Z' i ''?: 'z't - - A I 1 :: 2 ever-increasi- -- - : 7' - ' k tk'1Z & ' - i " ''-- : i 1' 1! - -- ' ttIkt7:-:L:?:-1:::t:'11- : 5 '' 1440 f I '' a ' 4 ''! 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