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Denton citizen. Janet France
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ROME. Oct. 13—0^—Heavy fight-
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Be steadfast as a tower that doth
not bend its stately nputatt to the
tempest's shock—Daota.
DENTON RECORD-CHf
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41 NO. S3 DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1944
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^^.•zsrrsxi RUSSIANS STORM FRONTIER OF
EAST PRUSSIA; R
AUSTRIA 160 MH
eastern section of
. now are working
tidings ere aflame
to our right and
day before the Forama
^wtant tatand df the FMto-
were lacking. Fre-
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Opposition WPS I .
as the Doughboys enter
which had been bombed
for two days by hundrt
bombers and
of heavy art
by the thoug
structures.
The Americ
itself at ».»
time) along a
lery and me
and^’etarted routlta
bearded Oermansn
narrow streets which
withdebris. The f
gitorters. aomeumm
w«M from house to ta
MNM to street. kcM pi
Wery saoved into the d
^rt!e Americans toughFnear
in many parts of the old city.
Front dispatches early tonight
said the Americans had narrowed
the escape hatch east of Aachen to
a half mile and were closing the re-
maining gap. The terse dispatch
from Don Whitehead of the Asso-
ciated Press said artillery and air
power had been used to smash Oer-
- ’w •
Amodattal PtoM
"T-"", II, IM
Formosa Given
Blasting by Bom
increase, it added, will reeult
■■■■■^■^KjNatarn..
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forecast that thgjg»
and sheep to be
for winter and nita^iMMka*
- -- - ' ni ■naitarljj
7—.....
second time in thia
ta land tn Greece but X am
Otar WQt. ttt- \
1 -A yro*1
Athens and thjBRbg gr'
AttMOB radio WM In Allied hands.
Allied prcotamstlnns wore *
JtMAN.
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Friday, 13th,
Really Has Been
Unlucky to Some
By DANIEL DE LUCE
MOSCOW. Oct. 13-(AV-Russian
tanks and infantry stormed the cen-
turies-old Junkers lands of East
Prussia, barely nine miles northeast
of the important city of Tilsit to-
Ooy. while in doomed Hungary Ike
ing flared un in the HiH. .ion
♦ LONDON. Oct. 13— (A*) — ♦ .Florenc .-Bologna road today fi
♦ Marshal Stalin tonight an- ♦ling yesterdays massive air assault
♦ nounced the capture of Riga, ♦To«t’ German pocttlons and instalte-
♦ Latvian port and capital. ♦ tions south of Bologna, key oommu-
The East Prussian frontier was
cracked in the Memelland sector.
Hitler annexed this region from
Lith anla in 1039 thus recovering
territory which was held by Ger-
many for hundreds of years before
the First World War
Great offensives against the
northern and southern extremity
Wilken's broadcast tonight
)d an Allied landing ta force ,
miuent, eg contrasted to tbo
employed ta the
STEmmSm
McFUeitau die! last Sept
an accidentlal overdose'' oi
the
of
Bologna-Rim ini
iting to a point three
Savignano and cap-
turing three villages south of the
road.
Headquarters disclosed that the
three heavy bombers and 17 other
planes were missing from yester-
day's aerial operations in the Medit-
erranean sector, which included
strafing of airfields and other tar-
gets in Austria and Hungary Eigh-
teen enemy planes were shot down.
AUSTIN. Oct. 13—<4P>—Brig. Gen.
Arthur B. Knickerbocker, state ad-
jutant general, today announced
that a conference would be held
here Oct 35 under sponsorship of
the State Military Affairs Commit-
tee to study the question of univer-
sal mlUtary training
Gen. Knickerbocker especially in-
vited all members of the Ttatae de>
legation ta Congress to attend the
conferonoe
Ike State Military Affatre Oom-
M
By LVONAHM MHJUMAN
Asesctotad Frees Wkr HMer
formations of U. S. carrier planes sweeping
miles of the China coast destroyed 221 Jaj
__________.sank or damafedJi ships JL _ —.
from end to end, Admiral Chester W. Nimits announced to-
day.
The attack Wedneed
time) was the heaviest
series of deftag
along more than ----------
pan's inner defense line whisk In-
cluded new carrier raids on the
IIIIIIIMlilllilMIIIII
♦ WASHINGTON, Ort. IS-IF) <
OM. U-<F>-Tbe «
mgtol Atksnsart ♦-
an open city, aw . CT
Jgtah from Cairo ♦
♦ said today. ♦
tseessseeee so
of your ports and airfields, to har-
sag >Oa fetrw—-*» Ha aata tha SiHaa
wen also
Greece's L
Ute ta
forces lam
E. J. Headlee was 'parading'
around the square Friday morning,
taking in all sides of the square He
said. “This is such a pretty Denton
County morning that I Just couldn't
stay in the office—had to got out
and enjoy the day and see some vf-
the boys up town.” 1
•’ Thomas' ‘ffarold "scripture, Ffc,.
son of Mrs. C. F. Scripture of Den-
ton. who has been in the Armed
forces for four years, is now in
Bougainville He trained with the
Army at Brownwood and had joined
up txdor to Pearl Harbor in the ex-
pectation of getting his year off,
but along came the war before the
year of training had been com-
pleted.
n
prochM to the Belgian port at
Antwerp. Hanes spotted heavy
German traffic moving wort Horn
Tilburg toward Breda and destroy-
ed 31 vehicles.
Considerable movement was noted
on the western waterways, where
planes damaged 30 or more bargee.
BtattSh Move FsrwMd
British torose lunged a mile for-
ward tram the right flank of their
Dutrti oahent pointed toward Am-
hom and moved with ta ten miles of
the German border. Ttw advance
g gte^ eggtayiil Oror-
XMm Mge Q
wore'dtort
--T —— —■ • V— *
MM were shot
■
down over BaNkp
flghtsr moertui I
General Douglas
probably---
craofctag
the petal _
Exptastoos and Bros start moohe
curltag four mitoc tate the air.
Hghton, tn their ‘ ‘
Bonfinx mnde 1M0
♦ —American carrier
♦ basa'of Formoen for two
♦ has sunk or damaged 03
♦ and destroyod M0 enemy air- ♦
♦ airplanes. .
PhiUppinae and dertruotton of vital
oil rtainsriss ------
Tokyo
fleet i*___„
five days with a
over _ ________' .
time.)
The raids on the
moea, the Ryukyu 1
cus, sort the JkPk
(iMiroytGo w fan*
daiMOMle and
uitanoouSM alTfide^Mattered tar-
•oto. .
The Japanese ftort foiled to i
battle, wtastta saM no AgMti
Horta wore M AmtaloaA ptenes i
down over Formosa. *
Carrier Bunk
Mgp.lkatamy
rWff'IO sweep away aB
the Meader end, by MB*
__...___ ----
of rtoiptag wMi-----
"^IJIOtenson.
CM Ms retreat.** He said the AlUee
• returning to restore
administrative serviced
tamber. small Brtttak
-------- ta ths PeloponneSM
the largest southern peninsula of
the Greek mainland, and with .
Greek patriots cleared the Ger-
mans from most of that area cap-
tattag 'MltirMgBI and Corinth.
Ancient Oorinth Is but 10 miles
southMst of Athens, the Greek '
There may have bM
pie. who read the annta
Thursday's Record-Ota
Lewis Jennings, manad
Wiggly Orovery Btordl
his connection with thf
has been manager of'
Wiggly for a good ma|
and though Lewis Lee a
from its owners, effect
3, Lewis Jennings is ta
the same position as mi
said, “Lewis is sttH -1
Plggly-Wiggly, and I'm
my best to help him in tl
Corps and
adjutant gensinl’S cMee. n
named recently by Gov. Coke
was imminent
nttber small f
Allied Planes
Bomb Coast
wwa,<wtt« m Anted Maw
operating over the Greek coast in
elate eoepsration with land forces
of the Adriatie heavily bombed
largo nimeenirettune of small 4n-
wmy craft, and British Naval air-
craft sank a heavUy loaded enemy
landing craft. Allied headquarters
announoed today*
Tta» AlMed mnimunique made no
mention of land forces in Greece,
land reported holdtag Oorinth on
the road to Athena.
German divisions like driftwood in
a flood.
Hungary's admission of defeat
was expected hourly Russian col-
umns were converging on Budapest
along the main rail lines, approxi-
mately SO miles east of the capital
and reportedly leas than that on the
south. Al! major communications
between Hungary and Serbia were
reported in Russian hands.
No natural barriers stood in the
way of Marshal Rodion Y. NaUnov^
sky's four-pronged blitz on Buda-
pest across the Hungarian plains.
Near Hungarian Rail Lines
Russian farces were less than 15
miles from the only Hungarian rail
lines connecting Budapest with
Magyar troops at the Carpathian
passes in Ruthenia. The routed Ger-
man-Hungarian forces in northern
Transylvania were virtually cut off.
Southern Hungary was a race-
track for Russian armor. The Hun-
garians were reported resigned to
the immediste loss of Kecskemet,
rich provincial city famed for its
peach brandy, situated 49 miles
southeast of Budapest.
Wilting Hungarian resistance all
along the invasion front seemed
to substantate diplomatic hints that
the exhausted satellite nation was
about to cult Hitter.
While the campaign in Hungary
took on the appearance of a push-
over offensive, East Prussia and the
remainder of the German front of
the Baltic coast was a heavy slug-
ging match all the way. Raging as-
saults carried the Russians within
five miles of the eastern limits of
Riga and slashed into the stage de-
fensives of Memel on the Baltic
coastline.
. . Cracked Neal Tfikrt
The Bast Prusslsn line cracked
beyond the fronttar Jteww of Bar-
tinkal, 13 miles northeast Of Tilsit.
Punching south from Sartlnlnkai,
the Russians faced the Niemen
River—a watery shield for TUstL
Russian troops driving on Tilsit
from Staovikai ware confronted by
J. Holford Russell of ■
Russell Sons & Co. ■
Store left Thursday forJj
and other markets in thM
east. He will buy for boM
sell Btqre and for tike RtM
man Manufacturing CotnM
Yeah, another Rodeo p«
is on for this Saturday nil
ter 14th. Added attrata
peclally a new clown act, 1
added for thia show. No,*
saying whether this is the,
formance or not, but then
least one more, tomorrow
Edvard Pratt, Storekeeper V3-c,
son of Mrs Edward Pratt of Denton,
is stationed at Pear! Harbor. In a
letter to his mother, he tell* of how
beautiful that country is. and one
of the amazing things to nim is tne
’cotton tree.' Cotton there grows on
trees and not stalks as tn this coun-
try, and the trees live for several
years, requiring no re-planting.
LONDON, Oct 13—(A>—Powerful
forces of American heavy bombers
from Italy attacked the Vienna area
German Silesia and western Hun-
correspondent gary today while fleets from Brit-
irted surnrls- 1 ain and France pounded heavily at
Nazi front line positions on the
western front.
The heavy bombers from Italy at-
tacked Industrial objectives and
railroads over which the Germans
were supplying their troops tn the
swaying Ines in Hungary before the
Red Army march against Budapest.
Overnight, British - Mosquitos
from Britain bombed the German
port of Hamburg and unspecified
targets in western Germany.
One night plane was lost. A Ger-
man minesweeper was set afire off
the Dutch coast last night.
U. 8. medium and light bombers
based in France added their weight
to the siege of Aachen by attack-
sMe^t^Vrontler Prussian city.
The U. 8. Ninth Air Force yes-
terday flew more than 1,300 sorties,
1,000 of them by fighterbombers, ta
attacks on Aachen and German
communications in the Ruhr, where
03 locomotives were destroyed and
81 damaged. Railways were cut at
30 places and 307 railway care
knocked out. - »
Long-range British Mosquitos
yesterday sipped aU the way to
CkMhoslovakla and Yugoslavia and
destroyod 14 aircraft and damaged
d number of others on the ground.
A Oanadian wing reeked up
eight on two airfields 00 mites
south at Prague and another group
got six on two Holds near tagreb.
ta Yugoslavia, vur the latter out-
t r ■
sss=se=3ss_
vol. nn
i—-in-
Yanks"
Denton County anglers seam to
want to hold on to their fishing
tackle, since none has been turned
over to J B Price, manager of the
Lone Star Gas Company, who is
trying to get old and broken tackle
of ssiy kind. The purpose of the
collecting of the broken or uaused
tackle is to give it to tbs wounded
toldiers at Ashburn Hospital at Mc-
Kinney. The wounded soldiers take
the broken tackle and make |t over,
taking a part from one piece and
using it with other parts. If you do
liave any old rods and reels let
Price know about 'em, and he’ll see
y get to the wounded sol-
Ashbum Hospital.
than 30 prisoners tn the new assault
in the central Italion sector.
Aided by warm weather, American
forces pushed ahead in the wake of
yesterday's tremendous aerial at-
tacks and partly flanked the town
Of Livergnano. 10 miles south of
Bologna on Highway 65, the commu-
nique said.
’ The Doughboys again encountered
stiff German resistance. In de-
siribtng the heavy fighting astride
Highway 65 the communique said
"11b material advances have been
made.”
Foot troops reached the summit of
one hill only nine miles southwest
of Castel San Pietro on the Bo-
iogna-Rimlnl road, while other
forces captured Mount Delle For-
miche, two and a half miles east of
Livergnano where the fiercest fight-
ing seems to have centered.
Yesterday's pulverizing raids by
American planes in their greatest
blow yet in the north Italian cam-
paign were made in an attempt to
blast a pathway into the Po Val-
ley for Hfth Army forces which
have been virtually stalled south of
Bologna for tiro days by a Nazi
death stand
Meanwhile the Eighth Army found
itself on firmer ground and appear-
ed to be moving steadily forward
everywhere except in the immediate
Adriatic sector where a succession of
streams at short Intervals gave the
Germans a wide choice of defensive
positions. x
Eighth Army troops rolled
Germans off another segment
Highway 9—the ~ ‘
road—penetral
miles beyond
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netrate Aachen, Fight
New German Counterattacks RP
" ,-Arrr^ ■ • ■■ — ■ a 11 ■ ' n ■*?,
Shooting Aachen '^Today’s War Map
Results of the city drtvs in con-
nection with the Nstional War
Fund are somewhat disappointing
to date, according to M. D. Penry,
city chairman, in reporting ttto
totals received. Thursday at noon
three of the four zone* of the city
reported contributions totaling
•1.33831, distributed as follows:
Zone 1, *40830; Zone 3, no report
available; Zone 8, »«6.06; and
Zone 4, >44135 Additional figures
were not available Friday.
"The campaign in the county is
going splendidly—the best we have
ever done in any kind of county-
wide undertaking." Penry com-
mented. "but in the city of Den-
ton we have been slow in getting
started, and the response has not
as yet been up to expectations
All workers in the drive are going
to have to roll up their sleeves, go
on ths job, and pitch in with all
they are worth in order to get tbs
Job done. Well do it—Denton has
never failed yet. and helping, ev-
erybody working, and everybody
giving something,” Penry conclud-
ed.
I The National War Fund is a
Led by Presidio County, winner of
a state-wide contest, 16 Texas
counties reported their National
War Fund Drive “over the top” at
the end of the first day of the offi-
cial campaign. Wayland D Towner,
general manager of the United War
Chest of Texas announced.
Denton County is in the midst of
its campaign, and while it has not
as yet gone “over the too” it will be-
fore the close of the drive. Denton
County has gone “over the top" in
every one of its war-drives, and this
one will be no exception.
Some of the deer hunters Just
couldn't wait until the Texas seas-
on opens on November 16th„ so
they have taken off to furrin part*
in deep Colorado, where the season
is open. Too, scene of the hunters
are even more serious, a* it is un-
derstood that a group of them are
soon taking off for Montana to
shoot Elk. The dove and squirrel
boys are still having their fun close
to Denton. The dove season will
soon be over—October 30—and soon
after that the dnek end teere boys
will start their sport* November 3.
The young Second Lieutenant ap-
proached the young man tn the
neatly-fitting uniform, and asked:
“What to the eighth general or-
derr .
"I don't know,** said the other.
"Have you ever been on gttard
“Don't yo^lqyr enough to ear
W to an ortcert"
~ rtSai outfit are.jreu for*
"I'm the Ooca-Oolfi
221 Japanese Planes Destroyed, 35 Ships
Sunk or Damaged Ah Island Hit
From End to End, Nirnitz Announces,
r -
Frost ha* hit Denton County at
* rather early date this year, a*
several people reported frost Thurs-
day morning, and, with a one degree
lower temperature Friday morning,
at 42, there must have been more
frost Friday. The low of Thursday
was 43 with a high of 67 as compar-
ed with readings of 63 and 78 on the
same day last year.
were gaining slowly in
against spotty opposition,
place had German counterattacks
budged the staunch men of the U.
8. First Army.
Berlin asserted that the Ameri-
can* already has suffered 19.000
casualties in the battle of Aachen
including 5,000 dead, but nothing
from Allied quarters supported such
a claim.
The appearance of a fresh Ger-
man armored division. shtfj.ed from
the Arnhem sector in Holland, stirr-
ed expectation that a major tank
battle would soon be joined.
Aachen, a city of 165,000 and the
largest German town yet Invested,
was dissolving under the weight of
American shells and bombs.
To the northeast of the smoke-
hidden city where German emperors
e* the middle ages were crowned,
the Germans mounted a heavy
counterattack In the Bardenburg
area. Fighting Intensified, tod, at
Wurselen and Haaren, the tipa of
the Allied spearheads crowding the
thin escape hatch toward Cologne.
A Garman pocket wm destroyed at
Wurselen three miles north of
Aachen.
The end for Aachen seemed inevi-
table—but there was no telling how
long the battle would last.
Associated Press <
Don Whitehead reported surpris-
ingly little resistance in the out-
skirts of Aachen.
The Berlin radio gave conflicting
account*. One broadcast said the
American assault had slackened and
that the Aachen corridor had been
widened to four miles. Another said
huge U. 8. reinforcements had ar-
rived, indicating major operations
were contemplated well beyond the
city.
Better Holland Position
The Allies improved their posi-
tions in Holland. Signs appeared
that Field Marshal OeiT Von
Rundstedt was preparing a stiff
defense in »southwestern Holland,
despite report* of the destruction
of the Rotterdam dock*. Froht
correspondent* Mid the German*
were strengthening their forces
near the Schelde Estuary, poeelbly
for a major attack against the
C. F. Witt of Shreveport, son of
Ben Witt, is here for a vlzit with
relatives. He la associated with the
Amerada OU Company, with which
company he ha* been for the past
eight years. Prior to that connec-
tion he taught school for several
years. Wl»en a youth he was one
of the carrier bejys of the Record-
Chronicle.
Germany, Oct. 13 (3:15
’(—American infantrymen
us American division are
M| and shooting dirty and
MM German soldiers today out
Aachen, street by street, house
houM and block by block.
MM 6f us, American dive bomb-
er* still are screaming down against
the Germans holed up and in emne
ca*M trying to maneuver in the
parrow and debris-filled street*.
Thto outfit entered the city of
>Aacben proper at 6:30«a. m„ our
IB artillery and mortar* having cut
ROUND
fonnoea, q stopping atone to tbe
Philippines Sit Mito south ef
Japan. *n*yo broMtofiM^ IMMwl
tbe IMO attacking American
bombers and fightera, which R saM
included land-based ptanM from
China, outnumbered the defendM
sir force.
Nimita made no Mention of land
based planes. Hb said Vice-Admiral
Mare A. Mitachers renter ptame
concentrated on tbe soulkwwtarn
pines. Ttoey also htt the Tatobu
rail eentar near the middle of tbe
island and TMnsul on tbe nortlnrert
ceert. Thp Admiral reported “ex-
tensive dare---- —
dustrlal ten.
He doted MmfreaMpere sank
and 16 damaged. Of the pteree de-
stroyed on FormoM IM wore shot
down end dT wrecked on the fnrand.
“---------—_ j
More Cattle to Be
Fattened for Market
WASHINGTON, Ort. 13e-VT>-
There win be a moderate taeveaee
ever laat year ta the number of
aartte to be ted far marks* th** win-
I Agriculture Department said
‘ from Jiprettoas in tbe
« J
London, oct. is—<4>—The Ger- To Talk •
man radio said today that Aachen * w 1 UlK 1T1 Hilary
had been virtually flattened by “an
iinam|iri1 uted steam -rolled of _
dEOtact tbe mighty technical ap-
tbe American forces were
j against the city and a
narrow Nbab-beld corridor out of
the city the Germans have moved in
Tiger tanks and artillery, tbe broad-
cartretd.
"At BMUiy points of the Aachen
froffl, the opposing lines are M in-
tartaced that the Americans had to
can off their air support for fear
of hitting their own ground troops,”
tha radio sWR
•LUPING TAMM BLAMED IN
WOMAN’S DEATH
> OAHTANn OUif, Oct 13-urv-A
rstumsd a ver-
i Atawe Sample
—- 37 “from
NEW YORK, Oct. 13—(Fj-Of
course it's Just superstition that
Friday, or tbe 13th of the month, or
Friday the 13th, to unlucky.
It's Just an old wheeze like "IM-
day's a dry day" or—
Hmm. Oome to think of it tbe
country did go dry, or at least the
18th amendment went into effort,
on a Friday.
Pure coincidence, of coutm. *
Maybe Friday wasn't lucky, either,
for Solomon Grundy—“born- on
Monday . . . buried on Friday"—
or for the speculators who loot
their bibs and tuckers in Wall
Street* "blick Friday.”
But what does that prove about
the 19th?
Well, the record shows that an
earthquake in Ecuador killed 300 on
May 13, 1942, and a mine disaster
at Cherry, Ill., claimed 259 UvM on
Nov. 13. 1909
It was on Dec. 13, 1M1, that
Hungary and Bulgaria declared war
on the United States—an unlucky
day for Hungary and Bulgaria—
and on May 13. 1040, that tbe
Netherlands forces capitulated to
the Germans.
The first blood of the Ameican
revolution was shed at WMtmin-
ster. Vt„ on March 13, lT73,.and
the United States declared war on
Mexico on May IE 1646. Lnog be-
fore the 13th amendment aboltoho
slavery,, M slave* were put to death
in New York.
AU coincidence, of couree, with no
more meaning than the old Penn-
sylvania Dutch belief that ttortm
Invade your house on Fridays. *nmy
wont hurt you if you say. "a
blessing attend their departing
and traveling; thto day to Friday
and they will not hear us."
NobMy beltevm In that sort of
thing nowaday*, but thto being
Friday the 13th, and just to be on
the safe side, shall we repeat in
e^irtfcef1 Wough otfr lines
a while ago, I have not Seen a sin-
gle German civilian. Every civilian
man from 15 to 60 to being carefully
guarded, for the Americans do know
not how many of these ''civilians”
may have been wearing Jerry uni-
forms earlier.
When it is all over it will be sur-
prising if it to found as many as 10,-
■----i of 165,000 remained behind. -------- —-—
This city which refused an ultl- ' of the Reich rolled back maimed
The Natipnai War Fund to a
concerted nation-wide effort to
provide relief, recreation, and var-
ious tyr-a* of services to Americans
-i government service around the
world, as well as to America's Alltoa.
A special service which wiU benefit
from the fund to aid to prisoners
of war, for which the appropriation
for 1044-46 baa been increasda by
•2361,000 over the preceding year,
according to available information.
Few Towns Exceed Quota
Lake Dallas Thursday became the
fourth town in Denton County to
surpass its quota for the National
War Fund, according to Mrs. M.
M. Bradley, Lake Dallas cbalnnan.
With a quota of 6300, tbat com-
munity had reported a total of
•30g.lL and Mr*. Bradley stated
that the drive to to continue in an
effort to obtain many additional
contribution*.
Previously. Sanger. Krum
Justin had reported haring
ed their quotas for the
War Fund.
DMDON, Oct. 12.—(AP)
merican infantry gained
1y tonight inaide the
king ruina of Aachen
|r, narrowed the Nazi
pe Md to « half mile and,
tahelto and bomba, m
iron? German col
iltiff up for counterat-
• to relieve the battered
i farrieon.
• suburban Scblaohtof factory
ft of the northeast outskirts of
en was taken. The enemy had
Kurtartryd earlier in the Bar-
ug area after wheeling up one
tier’s finest tank divisions.
Tbe Nazis ioet 60 tanks in taro
day* fighting around Aachen, In-
cluding those knocked out in today’s
attempted counterttacks.
-------------1 surprisingly
n entered the
J and blasted
. hundreds of dlve-
an almost solid ring
Ulery plunging shells ■
pda into its ancient |
entered the city
A m. (central war
h blasted by i----
■. Tbe Yankew
16 rows of tracks
Ag out dirty and
> holed up in the
Ich were cluttered
fighting was cloM
_ ms w»n bayonets.
iMBStimM with smaU arms and it
* ----- * e, frotfl
efiad ar-
with the
"ararh
solving city and that the Americans I
■■■awa walninrr alrovlv I r» AanYlAVt ' —- - ■ ■ —w —
matum to going to provide an object
‘ lesso.i to ad Oermany.
Much of what had appeared from
the perimeter of the city to be still
standing is in fact standing only like
the bare bones of some flayed
animal.
Oerman prisoners are coming in
rapidly.
One company alone had taken 60
Ciermans by 1 p. m Our tank bust-
ers as yet have no German tank
target*
In all this our troops—the finest
I have ever seen in action—are go-
ing forward with a precise efficiency
that to beautiful to see. Nearly all
of them are old timers and thto
isn't exciting to them at all.
The Russians were reported fight- M7?tug„
Ing in the outskirts of the East
Prussian Baftte port of Mensel, -
northermost German city- O<*
dispatch placed ths HBd Ano “
in ten mitasof TUsft, 40 <rf__7
burg, and 03 of Konigsberg. the
East Prussian csqdtel.
(A Faris broadeast bsard by Reu-
ters said “Ute Russian* are reported
to have iwrtbsi the Bast Prussian
border at three dtOtetaf
Driving on jftMtapai
{SSNfiTwRs aeMde^at toart three
an wtonttiBi rosrta Bmtapert to vbr-
vme ft K»
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artillery and mortars having
out a lane ahead of u*.
The Americans had to cross 16
row* of railroad tracks to reach the
n>ain part of town.
Behind the infantry came self-
propelled guns which had found a
way to get across the tracks. They
were commanded by Lt. “Smoky”
Banders of Texas (home town not
given.)
We are encountering no artillery
fire as yet, but a few German ma-
chinegun
out cZZL
We are tn
tbe city and
our way in.
ahead of us and tc w
left, and the fharp crackle of ma-
chinegun and rifle fire resounds ta
them dseolato streeta
This outfit was the first actually
to snter Aacben proper, a)though
troops have been tn the suburbs for
urtH. days. What we found here to not
’ankre* really a city al all any more, but
.—i only a dirty derelict of what had
once been a city. Ruins are every-
where. Many of them go back to
past months of heavy bombing
Even the tram are stripped. Pooie of
water
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