Show ' 44011100409KNZW4OU''' 4 '' ' - - ' F - 1 - d ran his hands through By Hal Boyle sobs into There and broke hair AN AMERICAN FRONT LINE as in were tears Summers' eyes STATION CLEARING Belgium' Dec 17 (Delayed) (H)—Weeping he went on: "Then they opened up on us with rage a handful of doughboy k from their armored cars with Gerroin survivors described how a We to tried chine hadn't maguns force ruthlessly poured chine gun fire into a group of run away or anything We were about 150 Americans who had been lust standing there with our hands disarmed and herded into a field up and they tried to murder us all in the opening hours of the present And they did murder a lot of us — "There was nothing to - do but nazi counteroffensive "We had to lie there and listen flop and play dead" "I never saw such slaughter beto German noncoms kill with pis- In this war" said Pvt Wilfore tols every one of our wounded men who groaned or tried to move" liam F Green of Elizabethtown said T5- William B Summers of ps "They were cutting us down Glenville W Va who escaped by like guinea pigs Then those Gerplayin g dead began walking The Americana were members man noncoms of an artillery observation battal- around knocking off our wounded ion ambushed and trapped at a I kept my head down but after road fork by a powerful German they had emptied their pistols I armored column of Tiger tanks could hear them click fresh in their hands while they heavy guns quickly shot up the two dozen American trucks tridges were reloading Then they went and lightly armored vehicles on for more of our fel- There were no heavy weapons lowslooking to shoot" In the American column and the entire observation unit quickly had 'Just Hoped and Prayed' ' to surrender "We and prayed "We were just moving up to while wejustlay hoped there listening to take over a position at the top them shoot every man that of a hill and as we got to the moved" said T5 Charles F AppToad intersection they opened up man Verona Pa on us" said Summers The survivors lay in tense "They had at least 15 tq 20 rigid silence in the freezing mud tanks They disarmed us and for an hour berore cautious then searched us for wristwatches glances showed all the Germans and anything else they wanted had moved' away except one Tiger "I guess we were lined up along tank the road for a full hour Then "It wasn't more than 100 yards they stood us all together in an away but we decided we had to open field I thought something make a break for:it then or never" was wrong As we were standing said T5 Harold W Billow of therg one German solijoier moving Mount Joy Pa "We jumped and past in a tank column less than scattered for the woods The 50 yards away pulled out a pistol tank opened up on us but I don't and emptied it on our fellow think they got many that time" Soldier Grimy A grimy soldier sitting in the they way back to the American little room here with Summers lines mud-cake- - - ma-tan- - - i I - - - - - - car-who- se t - 1 i - I' ' : Ct 1 1 1 If"? 13 4t 1:-- 4 ina rAt Ns- ::: - - At g I I MMENso M I 4 From Shapiro's - - 4 i i - t - i ' sh' t ' - --:- 6250 - t ll 95 to s35 - ! i IP 0 ' IR ‘ TRAVEL GOODS 150 South Main 1 1 Hz 1 F -- I i F D R Denies pe Win-the-w- ar one-side- I I I I I I thtld "tt N GIVE ' I - - ' - ' - - 0 :f"i ' ' '' '17 if ' e ' trs vit 44 - J1-- 1 ''' '1 - ' - :"'''t' - - r t tkr jebjetza a Ittrilig S anl 'Loan MAIN AT FlIIST SOUP P1'61'4141923 ' : irg" W' f kt -- x ' I' : : wit r""11 i st 110 r: i It rz os u 111 I : k ! airfield which they won on Sunday was intact and that artillery "spotter" planes already were taking off from it The 77th 'which had taken Ormoc on Dec 10 met light resistance in winning Valencia a n d MacArthur announced that its vet- eran troops continued pushing northward into the Yamashita line The First (dismounted) cavalry division from Texas swooping down from the mountains east of the Ormoc corridor highway split the Yamashita line by forging across the road at the town of Lonoy about eight miles north of Valencia That' drive put the Americans into the rear of enemy forces pinned down at the northern section of the line by the U S 32nd division driving down the highway That action enveloped the Japanese in the north because it cut off their southward escape road along the Ormoc highway to one branching off southwest to the west coast port of Palompon MacArthur announced that guerrilla ipatrols already had infiltrated the mountains to the west and begun mopping up isolated Japanese detachments attempting to flee to the coast It was permitted to be said that Japanese resistance was disintegrating rapidly and thatonthe end of organized resistance Leyte may soon be at hand Japanese prisoners Monday - i' - iha - '' ' ' ) i t14 ::!! &)4-0- - V : ' ' '''''7 :4'''sl':s'' r 1: ' M :' - ) ?1 ! 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v Rabbis See Hope vytertemo N ti1 For Germans ir ti ' t') :ht ) ''''' ti 1 3 his and the Second British armies" Prepare Blass Attack At the same time the German DNB news agency reported that British forces were preparing to hunch a mass attack on the Roer river front in collaboration with the left wing of the First American army The German withdrawal from their Siegfried line positions on the Alsatian frontier between the Rhine and the south Palatinate woods was admitted by Wolfgang nazi war corhohbell a front-lin- e respondent who said: "The enemy Is closely pressing on our heels 'with mobile and tank forces" The nazis still were cautious in predictions on the results of the The German counteroffensive army newspaper Front und Heimat said only: "Whatever the outcome of this offensive the aim of which is not known to ins perhaps it has shown us that things are moving We are about to make a return" -- corn-pose- been --- - 1:-- - white-thatche- bound 19 U S First army had been "cut in two" by the German counteroffensive employing "more than two divisions" on the western front and said that the attack was planned personally and was being directed by Hitler Although a news blackout on military developments was maintained by the Germans as it was by the allies Berlin broadcasts to listeners both within the retch and abroad said that strong German reserves were available to keep up the momentum of the drive despite "considerable losses in the last few months" "It is clear that more than two divisions have been flung into the attack" a nazi army broadcast said "but how big our reserves are and where they are placed is known only to the fuehrer and a few selected persons" Stabilize Front Without giving details another broadcast said that German armor had cut Lt Gen Courtney H Hodges' army in two and for the first time gave definite indication that the idea behind the offensive was to stabilize the entire western front by beating the allies to the punch The whole secret of Hitler's silence now is revealed a German armaouncer told German forces in the west "The fuehrer is excellent" he said "In all tranquillity we let the enemy guess lie and provoke because we didn't want to tell the world reason the fuehrer surrounded himself with a veil of silenee—beeause he planned and prepared the German offensive during these last days and weeks to the last detail" Capt Ludwig Sertorius German asserted military commentator that as a result of the nazi counterblows Gen Dwight D Eisenhower would have to use reserves he has been building up for "purely offensive purposes" and added: "Eisenhower the man who has been regarded is the prototype of methodical warfare has been coerced to take improvised methods of defense Necessarily he is prediction ) '' I 1 (Continued from Page One) old protege when she came to his Beverly Hills home with a pistol and reproached her for her threat to kill herself there after he had given her an opportunity at movie fame d The comedian smacked his palms down on the arm of the witness chair and turned emphatically toward the jury while his voice rose in dramatic tones as he related the scene Pressed by Joan's attorney who had called him to testify in her behalf as an adverse witness ' for her part of the conversation on the night of Dec 23 1942 Chaplin expostulated: "This is something I would rather forget I have got to take this story step by step Remember I have been verbally lynched inter-- l Dec LONDON American I i Chaplin Grows Germans Slash U First Army Experts Weigh Dramatic In Two Berlin Claims Nazi Thrust WASHINGTON Dec19 experts said Tuesday that In Testimony claimed Tuesday night that the armies toand weakendraw assault Military them the German western front among them the First Canadian fensive a and strip I ' S cs type Zipper - closing Q1 J brief cases in all sizes mei I ' ' BRIEF CASES NI 41it '': At - --)'' $595 to $25 41 ' - needs Zipper closing and snap models in genuine leather it fi ' I : Dr'essing Cases 4-- p 1 a e:x'1" ' t - - All fitted out for all his toiletry 00''' Nt- 't i1 ' I 1 -- - - - - 7 '' --- Billfolds 'from : - -- $' TODAY! I " -- V fz r7---1- ' :1 I Grew as a protest to the whole slate which Pepper said was "out of character" with Pres Roosevelt's policies They were joined in the opposition by Progressive La Follette of Wisconsin and Republicans Aiken of Vermont Langer of North Dakota and Johnson of California The Johnson dramatically halted the roll call to announce that while he held nothing personally against Grew he "would not vote to turn the state department over to the House of Morgan" There was little formal opposition to Rockefeller who will move his activities as coordinator of affairs to the state department t :th Opposes Clayton But the cotton south as rep- (Continued from Page One) in this case" by Sen Russell (D) rGeesengtied arose in protest against said that when he first took office The attorneys objected and said he intended to go a little Clayton millionaire cotton broker he Willis ordered the jury to Judge to center and that still the left of Russell arraigned what he called the witness' remark disregard The reporter remarked that Clayton's "dangerous" views on stood As the drasome the time had said president the farm problem Sen Chandler back that Dr New Deal had been matic incident Joan entered his (ID) Kentucky added his opposiThe room on the night in question and replaced by Dr tion to Clayton to "circled around" with a pistol in intended he But Sen O'Mahoney (D) Wyo- president repeated center and her hand a left little of go along one who was who of those ming "I asked her: What are you up led the fight which sent the nomi- that included winning the war was not he remarked much to?' " Chaplin testified nations of Clayton Grew Rocke- That "I am going to kill myself" he feller and Archibald Macleish back of an answer said she replied "but I aM going to the foreign relations committee Stettinius Nominations to kill in your house to previously voted for Clayton He "Would you call the state de- create' amyself scandal" said he was satisfied that the ofnominations left of ceni "I said: ficial was opposed to international partment Why that attitude ter?" a reporter put in Some when itol1 at le Idtriyeoduipupevanerya cartels wteaaychI of of the Edward selection critics Pres Roosevelt broke the back of R Stettinius Jr former head of could to act because believed in I you the senate opposition before the t U S Steel as secretary of state you? seemed The result voting began " Why do you now a foregone conclusion when he told and of his top aides have described conspire Sen Pepper in a telephone con- them as forming a "Millionaires' against me? Several times you have broken into my house" versation that if the senate de- club" Mr Roosevelt replied that he 'Lectured' Joan layed action now he would submit the same list of names in January caned himself left of center There "Just a minute" interposed A The president gave him assur- were lots of people in the governance Pepper told the senate that ment he remarked some tO the H Rime one of Joan's lawyers d "Was this a conversaIf any of the men involved failed right and some to the left to carry out the Roosevelt policies The Atlantic charter came up tion?" "Yes" Chaplin replied "1 leche would be removed promptly when a reporter asked: "Did Mr tured her" charAtlantic Churchill the sign Pepper Front Collapses Pressed for Miss Berry's side ter?" With that Pepper gave up the of the conversation Chaplin reNobody ever signed it the presi plied: ghost and organized opposition to "She seemed very inarticulate" the nominees collapsed But that dent replied "Where it it?" the reporter didn't keep the senate from talkIt was then that the witness asked made his plea that he be pering Sen La Follette was not willing Nobody has one the president mitted to tell the story in his own I I to I give up without making it clear said adding that the nearest thing way II l that he was unsatisfied with the to it probably was in the hands of i The comedian was II "team" of aids that Secy of State the radio operators on the cruiser wearing a dark blue suit with a Stettinius had picked Augusta and the British battleship blue and gray figured necktie Just before he mounted the Asserting that confirmation of Prince of Waleswas The charter released after stand and took the oath Miss the six would "tend to destroy the hope of the American people for a a sea meeting of the president and Berry's attorney Joseph Scott and democratic peace" La prime minister in the summer of told newsmen that Superior Judge just d Henry M Willie had denied Ma Follette took the state department 1941 Relating how it was Mr Roosevelt said it was motion that Carol Ann whom to task for "pious" statements rescribbled by various persons that Chaplin is accused of having cently issued favoring Sumner Welles then undersecre- - fathered 14 months ago be placed by peoples The events taking place in Eu- tary of state wrote part of It and In a high chair beside the comerope the Wisconsin senator said then the president's and the prime dian to permit the Jury to compare made it clear to him that the At- minister's aides were directed to their facial characteristics lantic charter had become nothing send it to the governments and Compare Chara-iteristithe press more than "a scrap of paper" Scott said the judge ruled howHe said there had been no AmerAmong the points in that charter ever that the child might be were: ican reply to British statements No territorial changes not in ac- placed in proximity to Chaplin for that Pres Roosevelt had initialed sufficiently long time so the jury at the Quebec conference an agree- - cord with the freely expressed acould make the comparison ment under which Russia and wishes of the peoples concerned During a coounrt tilieecesesndthoefbatnbye Britain proposed to settle the afRespect for the rights of all was placed fairs of eastern Europe peoples to choose their forms of counsel table where Chaplain was Sen Nye (R) North Dakota government with Charles talking a "Isn't it true" one of the severest congressional reporter per- T Millikan his attorney' critics of the administration's for- - sisted "that all the united nations Before Chaplin took the stand swan have signed the r:rinciples of the Joan's lawyer told the jury that Atlantic charter?" that in she made repeated visits to the another 20 years United Nations Sign comedian's Beverly Mills home in be go into another to apprise him of her condiThat was right the president re- 1942 European war to keep Russia from tion without result 1 1942 plied they signed Jan seizing control of the world" "There are lots of babies around Later Presidential Secy Ste- here" Sen Langer (R) North Dakota the Joseph Scott the only member who voted phen Early showed reporters the quoted the attorney haired white comedian document received by radio from as against the recent ' confirmation the sayings on one such occasion of Secy Stettinius declared he Augusta in August 1941 The about June of that year "confidently expected the state communication was signed simply In a conversation by the Chaplin department to be run by Wall sTruoocsteiovnesit0 but it boegarnwaistihng in- - swimming pool the attorney said a in his opening statement in Joan's Street and the House of Morgan Early I and the House of Rockefeller—and statement to the press and then suit she "poured her quoted the text of the statement paternity disappointed" out" and told him she was heart Itself That statemeht incorporated about to have a baby the Atlantic charter and it was "You say it is my baby?" he signed: "Franklin D Roosevelt" quoted Chaplin and "Winston S Churchill" "Yes Why don't you marry this ptreo smideeannt me?" she traelpkl sEtarclynnirnetneirpureatnedd the to rne about mar"Don't merely had signed a press release riage" Scott said the comedian of which the charter was a portion retirtedd'There are lots of babies but not the charter itself around here" 1E 1 Gifts of quality - Gifts he'll use Select them NOW at Shapiro's famous for quality for thirty years See our wide selection of brief cases dressing cases billfolds poker seta and many many others 'SHOP i au liT'VE sel 0 orpi(17ar 9 I - i NEW YORK Dec 19 (N Y News)—To nullify a "war rumor" current amongst the many followers of its comic character the New York News Tuesday made ready to print the following in Wednesday's paper: "Skeezix is not going to die You can rest easy You have Cartoonist Frank Kings word for it Flooded with protests at Skeezix's rumored death in action the creator of Gasoline Alley said Tuesday there wasn't a thing to it He blamed the rumor on the Japs "It's a lie" wired Frank' "Hirohito started it Do you think I'd kill the goose even if it sometimes just lays an egg? Satisfied?" If - Skeezix Will Survive War against - - -- A 1 Senate Okebs Nazi Tank Force Slaughters Appointees Session Ends (Continued from Page One) Disarmed Yank Battalion tana—cast their vttes - - ZaltCakt Zeit' unt1 She Wednesday Morning Dec 20 1944 4 - OIL - |