Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 91, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 1944 Page: 1 of 6
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$3,956.25
Miesville National.___3,881.25
'ost Office
637.50
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managed to provide comfortably.
the bill originally passed
When
of the
war.
would
be necessary to carry out
Projects
waterway—Barroom bay
lingen.
nounced today.
$600,000; Sabine-Neches water-
As in eight other attempts, the
ordered for the retrial of Jim
by channel $27,000; Port Aransas-
set for January 8, in 106th district
The Weather
re
S. S. men and party members
dose followers have prepared for
warmer
one
by one.
that the last sale of American
West Texas: Fair this afternoon,
warmer
o
received a letter from a 69-year-
a Peruvian subsidiary of Ander-
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The
any more money.
American Right Flank
Hammers Out Gains in
unable to reach the Alpine strong-
holds would be assigned to direct-
ing partisan activities from such
me a deep love of America and
vivid sense of the contrast be-
in peace and in security. Always,
he blessed the day he set foot on
ready been or are in the process
of being transferred as individ-
Jeep Trips Give
Impetus to War
Bond Sales Here
Youngsters Turn Bond
Salesmen to Help Cooke
County Reach Its Goal
Promise of trips through the
downtown section of Gainesville
in jeeps, has inspired many gram-
mar, junior high and high school
students to turn War bond sales-
men this week, and issuing agen-
cies report a gratifying stimulus
to bond sales since announcement
of the jeep tours was made .in the
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press War Editor
Odd
In
vania, and, before long, became
a respected member of his com-
munity.
He never grew rich, but he
ground forces, the usefulness of
these soldiers had ceased in their
previous services and now exists
to a great degree in the ground
forces.
“It is estimated that the need
and unavoidable casualties in-
German army collapses.
This is the picture of Gestapo
Chieftain Heinrich Himmler’s
over to some other crop.
Senator Shipstead (R.-Minn.)
tonight with lowest temperatures
34 to 38 Panhandle, South Plains,
and east of the Pecos river, 28 to
32 Pecos river westward.
prior to Pearl Harbor.”
The last sale of any kind of cot-
Germans Use New Device
The Germans used a strange
new aerial device, silvery balls
floating in the air. Their purpose
was not immediately clear.
Swift advances by the U. S.
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The southern wing of the U. S. First army jumped off
today below Duren in a new attack pointed toward the Rhine
city of Bonn, and advanced more than a mile within three
hours, penetrating Rollesborich 35 miles west of Bonn.
sadkg •
The beacon, now to be known
as the Palmolive victory beacon,
will be relighted by one of Chi-
cago’s war mothers during an in-
fantry demonstration in connec-
tion with the Sixth War Loan
drive.
The navy granted permission to
relight the beacon, a 2 billion
candlepower beam.
Special Venire for
Retrial of Thomas
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THREE-TRAIN COLLISION LITTERS TRACKS—Cars and engines from two freights and a pas-
senger train, the Southern railway's Aiken-Augusta Special, litter tracks after a three-way collision
during a snowstorm just across the Potomac river in Virginia from Washington. _The engineer of the
Special was killed and several trainmen were hurt.—(AP Wirephoto).
grated to Amer-
ica. A penniless
boy of 21, know-
RIFE ing no word of
m-5 English, he set-
tled in a small town in Pennsly-
Wheeling Movement
St. Jeanne D’Arc, Last Fortress in Metz Area,
Has Surrendered^ 1,521 Germans Captured by
First and Third Armies in Tuesday Activities
Turns Down Increase
DES MOINES, la. (UP)—Mem-
bers of the Iowa board of social
welfare were amazed when they
of Life
and Country
A New Way
To Pay Old Debts
By ELMER RICE_____
Every time I buy a War Bond,
I think of my grandfather. Born
in Germany, in 1829, he took
msmssuasm part in the 1848
ships. Three destroyers and four
large transports were definitely
sunk while another destroyer and
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War Control Program
Sent to White House
WASHINGTON, Dec. 134 (P) Congress sent a $1,000,000,000
postwar flood control program to President Roosevelt today.
A conference report adjusting differences between the senate
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Clayton Favors World
Price for U. S. Cotton,
He Tells'Committee
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (A)— William L. Clayton told senators
today he favors a world price for American cotton, with induce-
ment payments to domestic growers who change to other crops.
The 64-year-old Houston, Tex.,--
and given the death penalty. He
was granted a new trial Sept. 22
by Judge C. D. Russell of 64th
district court after testimony that
court of Dawson county.
At the first trial at Plainview,
Texas, Thomas, a convict on pa-
Temperatures: High yesterday,
49; low last night, 32; noon today,
40; high for the year, 106; low
for the year, 9. •
East Texas: Fair this afternoon.
The Germans were thrown back
beyond the Fosso Vecchio o Can-
trigo, a small stream paralleling
the Lamone. More than 300 pris-
oners were taken and a number
producers goods, machinery and
technical knowledge. He declared
that if the United States does not
export such goods other coun-
tries will.
tween the harsh tyranny of his
native Germany and the free in-
stitutions of his adopted land.
I have often wondered what
would have become of us, his
descendants, if he had not felt
that urge to seek freedom here.
He lived to be 93 and to see his
children, his grandchildren and
his great-grandchildren grow up
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threat to German troops battling
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three torpedo boats in Philippine
waters. One destroyer and the
transports were reported to be
part of an American convoy at-
tacked off Baybay, south of Or-
moc.
Although their troops seem al-
mans during the night filtered
back into Derichweiler, Gey and
Mariawei|er, virtually suburbs of
Turen, and these were being
and have been holding it against
peated enemy counterattacks.
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three suburbs of Saarlautern—
Roden, Fraulautern and Endorf.
Close range fighting continued
also in Saarlautern itself.
In the Siegfried line penetra-
tion area at Dillengen, the 90th
division beat back repeated coun-
terattacks, usually made with 200
or so infantrymen supported by a
tank or two.
The general picture of the Roer
front, bending within 21 miles of
Cologne and the Rhine, was this:
The U. S. Ninth army had
cleaned up all pockets west of
the river in its sector and was:
poised on the river bank for j
eight miles between Julich and
schools Tuesday’ morning by
Chairman John S. Hardy and Lt.
Junius R. Fishburn, public rela-
tions officer at Camp Howze.
Sales in Gainesville Tuesday
totaled $9,581.25, by agencies as
follows:
show the steady but tremendous
change in the role of the ground
forces—the men who fight with
son-Clayton, he testified.
Dealings With Italy
Lafollette asked about Am
son-Clayton’s dealings with 1
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places as the Black forest or out
of the way villages. Himmler
academies now are training both
men and women in sabotage tac-
tics which would be employed by
partisan bands.
coach of the year by a vote of 138
football coaches. Widdoes, who
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Japanese paid heavily in men and feet season to the Big Ten cham-
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helm, received 75 first place votes
to 20 for CoL Earl Blaik, army
coach.
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American soil.
Clayton said that while he had
given up management of the com- tonight and Thursday; ___
pany coincident with his entry • south portion tonight; tempera-, Duren, L...------ _
into governmient, he had been in- tures 36 to 40 north and 40 to 46 blasted from the cold mud,
formed by officials of the firm south portion tonight. by one.
Tokyo area and Aichi and Shi-
zuoka prefectures, on Honshu,
where some damage was caused
“on the ground.”
Nagoya is in Aichi prefecture.
Another Japanese city reported
hit, Hamamatsu, is a Shizuoka
prefecture.
Jap Interceptors in Action
The Japanese claimed theft- in-
terceptors went into action and
are “believed to have caused
heavy losses to the enemy.”
Reports on the bombing of the
palace grounds with damage to a
most helplessly trapped on Leyte,
the Japanese appear willing to
sacrifice more men, ships and ma-
teriel in an effort to save their
tremendous stake as well as pres-
tige in the Philippines.
Convoy Caught Monday
The convoy, apparently loaded
with reinforcements and supplies,
was caught by American planes
and PT-boats off Leyte’s north-
program for the Trinity
Texas.
On the Fifth army front the
enemy made several attacks south
of Bologna but all were declared
turned back. In one of these as-
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guns and armor at Schophoven, a ' earliest childhood, he instilled in
mile west of the Roer. At Pom-1
mernich, a little to the south,
fighting was heavy.
First Army Nears Roer
was attacked Sunday and some
ships damaged. ___,_________
The Japanese radio claimed oc- to hold Faenza, for Eighth army
cupation of Ponson island, a mere forces previously had succeeded
dot of land in Ormoc bay, and i in winning a bridgehead across
the sinking of two destroyers, two 1 the Lamone below the city and
medium sized transports 3 houe heen heldi— it---“ —
est coast Monday and Tuesday,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-
The nominee said he favored power shift to balance the scales,
exportation by this country of by any means. It can be taken
instead, as an index that under
air forces heavily bombed Julich.
The First army at its northern
end was blocked by a German
concentration of self-propelled
and, from my
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channel $6,300; channel to Aran-
sas Pass $48,000; channel to Har-
cotton to Japan took place “in the tonight and Thursday;
latter part of 1940, about a year
underground strongholds and hos-
master plan for the struggle, as pitals in the Austrian, Bavarian
pieced together from information and Italian Alpine area and it is
now available from various1 the plan of nazi leaders to flee
sources: s | to that region when the German
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of armored vehicles were
knocked out
Below the new bridgehead line
to Faenza the allied positions
were unchanged as the flooded
Lamone provided an effective
barrier.
mitted to seek its world price lev-
el. Clayton said he thought do-
mestic price supports without
subsidies would increase cotton
production elsewhere in the
world.
His idea, the gray haired wit-
midafternoon today as the
Nipponese made claims that
bombs had fallen recently on
the grounds of the Imperial
palace in Tokyo.
Nagoya, which has the largest
concentration of airplane and air-
plane parts plants in Japan, is a
highly inflamable city which in
1940 had a population of 1,328,084.
Associated Press correspondent
Vern Haugland, writing from a
21st bomber command base on
Saipan in the Marianas, described
the raiding B29 force as a sizeable
force “equalling or exceeding the
largest group yet” hitting Japan.
There were indications that the
American raids were not con-
fined to the Nagoya area. The
Japanese radio said B29s hit the
home island of Shikoku as well
as Honshu and Japanese-occu-
pied Korea. They reported “about
Thomas, 50, charged with murder
in the slaying of Dr. Roy Hunt, y-ce, - p, „
Littlefield physician. The trial is j (Continued on Page Three)
ANY POSTAGE DUE
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 13 (P—
A postcard has arrived from
Athens with postage of 6,000,000,-
000 drachmas on it.
house passage.
100 Billion for Texas
The two measures include more
than $100,000,000 in projects for
Texas.
The rivers and harbors bill, like
the flood control measure, em-
braces provisions authorizing the
secretary of the interior to sell
surplus power at hydroelectric
dams, forbidding encroachment
on irrigation by navigation .works
in the west, and giving states the
right to review federal projects.
The bills call for postwar con-
struction of flood control, naviga-
tion, reclamation, irrigation, hy-
dro electric power and other
works throughout the country.
They are among the largest au-
thorizations of their kind on rec-
ord.
The flod control bill authorizes
a $32,000,000 soil erosion preven-
In order to hinder allied police
in running down party members
during the occupation Himmler
has in the past few months insti- ton to Japan made by his com-
tuted a widespread program to es- pany was in September, 1940, by
— tablish double identities for his " : - -d -f * d-
Th nazi party already 1135 co- asnshmgnea at enttzronrdsorso-
centrated food and munitions in vilians killed in air raids have
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. men and nazi
At Hoven, the First army was
within a quarter mile of the Roer
but at the Dure suburb of Maria-
weiler, fighting continued. The
Germans in-these fortified towns
clung to a defensive arc to hold
the Americans back from Duren
as long as possible. In the Der-
icksweiler and Gey area, troops
were some two miles from the
river.
It may now be disclosed that
the Germans have pitted their
new Fifth Panzer (tank) army
against the U. S. First army on
the Cologne plain. The command-
er is Gen. Hasso Eckardt von
Manteuffel, 47, veterans of the
siege of Bizerte in North Africa.
His army includes armored units,
regular infantry and Volksgrena-
dier troops.
The last infested cellars west
of the Roer were being cleared by
the U. S. Fifth army. A few Ger-
the work.
Texas
Seventh army in the Karlsruhe received a letter from a 69-year-
corner brought the German fron- old woman whose old age assist-
tier within sight at many points ance grant had been increased
and placed great sections of the from $17 to $19 a month. “I don’t
Siegfried line works within short, want it, because I don’t need it.”
artillery range. Vanguards were, she wrote. “I simply couldn’t use
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The senate approved it after re-
; jecting an amendment to author-
(ize the St. Lawrence seaway but
it goes to a conference committee
for-action on changes made since
me last two months of 1943 and will be allowed to
these plans now are being carried strongholds,
outinide Germany. —
re * The plans are threefold, em-___________ ____ ...
(T1S105 bracing(1) open warfare directed the Alpine area sufficient to carry I been given to S. S.
* from Hitler s mountain head- on for a long period. j women.
cotton broker, nominated for as-
sistant secretary of state, was
questioned before the senate for-
eign relations committee in its
second day inquiry into six de-
partment appointments.
The committee decided in a 45-
minute closed session before
Clayton began testifying that any
senator would be permitted to ask
questions of the witness. Ques-
tioning yesterday was confined to
committee members.
To Recall MacLeish
Chairman Connally (D.-Tex.)
said the group had decided* to re-
call Archibald MacLeish, one of
those nominated for assistant sec-
retary.
Clayton, scheduled to head the
state department’s foreign eco-
nomic division if his nomination
is confirmed, was examined close-
ly on his views about postwar in-
ternational trade.
In response tp questions by
Senator Lafollette (Prog.-Wis.)
the witness endorsed a proposal
he said had been made by Sec-
retary of Agriculture Wickard
that American cotton be per-
Linnich. Lt. Gen. William H. , for his family and for his old age.
Simpson’s troops have not yetH- 1:—• -- h- • --- -
made an effort to cross. Tactical
plans for underground
mi
saults, the Germans gained tem-
porary possession of Castel Nuova
on the right flank of the Fifth
army area.
Widdoes is Named
Grid Coach of Year
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. (P_The
New York World-Telegram an-
nounced today that Carroll Cur-
tis Widdoes, Ohio State university
coach, had been selected 1944
and the house was approved yesterday.
—• A companion bill authorizing
~ rivers and harbors works to cost
half a billion awaits final action.
via Arroyo - Colorado,
five years of underground war-
are against the allies after the
river.
The senate had reduced the au
the changed mission of the
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uprising against
the-despotic Ba-
va i a n govern- -
ment. The fAht
was lost, he was
taken prisoner
and, upon his re-
lease, he emi-
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Off Leyte
Another Attempt to
Reinforce Trapped
Men Proves Costly
By ELDON OTTEN HEIMER
Associated Press War Editor
American Superfortresses,
in force, smashed at vulner-
able and heavily industrial-
ized Nagoya on Japan’s main
not to be put into the hearing
record.
Lafollette began his new line
of questioning by asking what
Clayton meant yesterday when he
said his firm, Anderson, Clayton
& Co., had made no sales to Japan
“for some time prior to Pearl
Harbor.”
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First Army Advances Mile in Its Drive on Bonn
. ,____________ Hitler^s Followers Prepare for
role, was convicted of the slaying 4 •
5 Years of Underground Warfa
. Thanbeekprmdsunznn“nszur ^^o^o^from“S^ Eamaalsssapdsrathh S S men and pare
room. ______________________ many indicates that Adolf Hitler’s bands organized by districts, and
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ried on by some 200,000 nazi fol-
lowers in Europe and elsewhere.
Already picked S. S. (elite)
troops have been established in
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mddarcde
the house.
The authorization would permit
acquisition of land as recom-
mended by the Agriculture de-
partment. A later appropriation
How many would have been
ground ruthlessly to death, in the
-ervice of the German war ma-
chine? How many tortured to
death in German concentration
camps? And would the fate of
the survivors have been much
better: enslaved, terrorized,
robbed of their rights and lib-
erties, afraid to call their souls
their own?
I am grateful to my grandfath-
er for coming to America; and
grateful to the America that wel-
comed him and gave him a long
life and a happy old age. I like
to think that each War Bond I
buy discharges a tiny fraction of
that debt of gratitude.
Every American can discover,
in his own family record, some-
one who came to this land—twen-
ty years ago or two hundred
years—to find freedom and op-
portunity. No true American can
afford to neglect that' debt of
gratitude.
wanted to know if Clayton fa- , . ..
vored investing American capital uals to the army, ground forces,
in foreign countries for the pro- just as, an indication of the
duction of goods and crops that ground forces changed mission,
might compete with those pro- he said.
duced in this country. | “This is not a sudden man-
ciHiAMrsA, 100 men has been way- Beaumont turning basin,
ciai venire ° -- men has been $10,006; Port Arthur west turn-
ing basin $18,000; Beaumont Kir-
Canadians Set
Up Bridgeheads
Across Lamone
Span Italian River
And Shove Germans
Back Toward Lugo
ROME, Dec. 13 (P)—Canadian
troops have spanned the Lamore
river and established two bridge-
heads northeast of the highway
town of Faenza, shoving the Ger-
mans back two miles in the direc-
tion of Lugo, allied headquarters
announced today.
The bridgeheads, thrust across
the stream some nine miles from
Faenza, were joined in a continu-
ous front of 6,000 yards after 24
hours of stiff fighting.
The northern flank of the at-
tack pushed along the Ravenna-
Bologna • railway northwest of
- ....J Russi and the allied troops were
manor house came via Melbourne, . reported astride this route for
Australia, where it was recorded some distance. This railway first
from a J apanese broadcast was cut northeast of Russi sev-
beamed to the Nipponese home eral days ago.
islands. The report was probably
Shifted to U. S.
Army Ground Force
Manpower Obtained from
Air Force and Service
Units to Meet Needs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (P)_
Lt. Gen. Ben Lear said today a
radical change in the mission of
the army ground forces is result-
ing in their getting 65,000 in-
dividual soldiers from air and
service forces.
And still more may be, shifted.
Moreover, as part of this pro-
gressive changeover, units are be-
ing taken from no longer neces-
sary assignments and given new
fighting duties in the ground
forces, the forces’ commander
said. ,
The . general presented this in-
formation in an interview to
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laying the millitary collapse comes. Only
I warfare in true and tried party members
' enter the
“small formations” raided the
At the same time the Amer-®
ican right flank on the west-
ern front hammered out new
gains close to the reich fron-
tier in a wheeling movement
pivoted on captured Sarre-;
guemines. U. S. Seventh army
artillery was trained on large
sections of nazi defenses in-
side the German palatinate.
The new First army advance,
between the Hurtgen and Mons-
chau forests, was 412 miles east
of captured Rotgen. To the north
where the new German fifth tank <
army has been thrpwn in on the j
Duren front, the First army 1
Hesperian B&S Assn----1.106.25
Aditional sales in rural districts
of the county have been reported
to the Chamber of Commerce as
follows: Whaley Chapel $700;
Spring Grove $700; and Callis-
burg, additional, $975.
At Robert E. Lee school Tues-
day afternoon, war bonds and
stamps to th amount of $1,860.55
were sold, Principal L. C. Gee Kas
announced.
Similar rallies are being held
in alfithe schools this week, and
jeep rides will be given students
Thursday and Friday, starting at
the post office. Camp Howze is
furnishing the vehicles.
Chairman Hardy expressed
hope that enough people will vol-
untarily buy bonds this week to
reach the $550,000 E bond quota
by Saturday, closing day of the
Sixth War Loan Campaign.
LEYTE CASUALTIES REMOVED TO HOSPITAL SHIP—Two
American fighting men, wounded in the bitter action on Leyte is-
land in the Philippines, are removed by coast guardsmen for even-
tual transfer to a hospital ship.—(AP Wirephoto from Coast Guard).
Billion Dollar Post-
GOOD OLD DAYS
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13 (A)
.Railroad Conductor H. P. Kalin-
Wer walked into the depot to pur-
chase some cigarets.
He returned with a box of
them.
On the cover was a picture of
Lillian Russell, and the tax stamp
was dated March 1, 1900.
SAFE, UNSAFE, SAVED
FARRAGUT, Idaho, Dec. 13 (P)
Lt. (jg) C. G. Hatley, assistant
disbursing officer at Farragut
naval hospital, caught his neck-
tie in the door of the office safe
when he slammed it shut.
.Several sailors arrived to help.
♦ They all tugged. Finally the of-
ficer slipped the knot in his tie
down far enough to permit his es-
cape—ostrich fashion.
’ LIGHTS ON!
CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (A) — The
beacon atop the Palmolive build-
ing, claimed to be the world’s
most powerful navigation light, is
going to shine again after nearly
three years of darkness because
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EdihiE
propaganda for home consump-
tion. Superfort crews are under
explicit instructions to avoid
bombing the palace.
In the Philippines the Yanks
intercepted another enemy con-
voy of 11 ships, sinking or dam-
aging all but one and downing 50
protecting planes and five prob-
ably. American losses included ।
eight planes. An allied convoy
Lafollette Questions Clayton
Moving around to a seat near
Clayton’s elbow, Senator Lafol-
lette opened a big thick envelope
which he said contained restricted crease as a result of increasing
documents obtained from certain ‘ ground force action, an additional
federal agencies under an injunc- J number of men may be shifted
tion of secrecy. He explained that i from the surpluses of the air
the committee had ruled they, forces to the ground forces as
could be used as the basis for' time goes on."
his questions, although they were ____________________•_________<
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Among projects in the rivers
and ha rbors bill for Texas are the
following:
Neches and Angelina rivers $23,-
000,000 and $15,000,000 for the
Trinity river.
Louisiana and Texas intra-
rifle, artillery and tank — since
the United States moved from the
defensive to the offensive.
ness said, was to provide income . Forty thousand men from sur-
payments to domestic cotton pro- pluses of the army air forces and
ducers to aid them in changing 25,000 men from th surpluses of
1 the army service forces have al-
thorization to $27,348,000 but a
conference committee decided on
$32,000,000, the sum proposed
80” Superfortresses flying in
stabbed to within cf half mile of
Duren and massed on a 1,000-
yard front along the west bank
of the Roer river.
St. Jeanne D’Arc, last holdout
fortress in the Metz area 30 miles
behind the front, surrendered
during the day.
Between them, the First and
Third armies captured 1,521 Ger-
mans yesterday, swelling the total
of four American armies and one
French army in the current cam-
paign to 78,860. Since D-day,
nearly 765,000 have been cagedg
Offensive Front Doubled
The new drive by the southern
wing of the First army doubled
its offensive front to 20 miles. At
Rollesbroich, the Americans were
2% miles from the Roer. The riv-
er winds through western Ger-
many for 125 miles before joining
the Meuse at Roermond, opposite
which the British Second army
has held a front for several
weeks.
The U. S. Seventh army ad-
vanced to within three miles of
the German Palatinate border,
but its pace was slowed by deep
mud and blown up roads.
At Seitz, 15 miles southwest of
Karlsruhe, and at nearby Neider-
Roedern which also was reached,
the Germans blew bridges over
the deep and wide Seltzbach
river.
A small German force counter-
attacked from the French border
fortress of Wissembourg in the
area where Lt. Gen. Alexander
Patch’s forces are nearest the Pa-
latinate. The Americans killed 25.
Another division .drove into
Soultz, seven miles south of Wis-
sembourg, where the first impor-
tant battle of the Franco-Prussian
war of 1870 was fought.
Housefighting in Saarlautern
The Third army reported new
gains in house fighting in the
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