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A GENERAL MacARTHUR’S
HEADQUARTERS, Philip-
pines, Dec. 13.—(AP)—More
thousands of Japanese troops
were drowned off western
„Leyte Monday and Tuesday
Philippines inland seas
diers, spilled to their death
from bomb-blasted reinforce-
ment convoys.
The latest losses occurred as
2 American planes, attacking for
36 hours, accounted for five
transports and four destroyers
of an 11-ship convoy despite the
terrific battle put up by cover-
a Ing Nipponese fighter aircraft.
• Night - prowling patrol-torpedo
boats blasted a sixth transport,
leaving only a destroyer of the
convoy to get away unscathed.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, whose
previous communique accounts of
devastation wrought on eight
other convoys estimated at least 30,-
000 enemy soldiers perished, said to-
day concerning the ninth convoy:
"Enemy troop losses by drown-
ing are believed to have been
a heavy."
The six transports and five des-
troyers were spotted Monday at
dawn off northwest Leyte.
During the day. Army and Marine
planes, boring through swarms of
@Nipponese fighters over the convoy,
"sank three destroyers, a transport
of 10.000 tons, a second of 5,000 tons
and a third of 4,000 tons.
That night, two patrol-torpedo
boats, commanded by Lt. John
M. McElfresh, of Olean, N. Y.,
% and Lt. Melvin W. Haines, of
Evanston, Ill., sent down a 5,-
000 ton transport of the convoy
at anchor at Palompon.
Palompon, connected by a poor,
winding trail to the Ormoc corri-
dor, is the supply port of last resort
Bor the Japanese since the loss of
Ormoc port, 16 miles to the south-
east.
Tuesday at Palompon, Yank
planes so severely blasted a fourth
destroyer and two freight-trans-
ports that all probably sank.
/ “Fifty enemy planes were destroy-
ed in combat with five additional
probable,” today’s communique said.
"We lost eight fighters."
Japan has lost well over 1.000
planes In the fight fur Leyte.
The reinforcement convoy losses
P to date total 39 transports and
3g escorting warships.
Still plagued by rains, Yank ground
forces on west Leyte maintained
pressure on Lt, Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita's defenders below Limon
on the north sector of the Ormoc
corridor. At the south end, captors
of Ormoc port organized the base
“for further operations." *
Even if the Japanese succeeded in
getting troops and equipment over
to the Ormoc corridor from Palom-
ppon, they would face the same peril
of the troops already there—en-
trapment between the 33d Infantry
division southbound from Limon
and the 77th and seven. In position
to strike north from Ormoc.
Jobs tor
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(Apply to War Manpower
Commission, 1141 North 2nd).
Veterans placed since
Sept. 1 243
“ Veterans placed yesterday 9
Interviewed yesterday 24
Referred yesterday ... 23
Routed to other
agencies yesterday.....1
7 Jobs listed 167
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Associated Press (AP)
United Press (UP.) PRICE FIVE CENTS
Supers Strike Inf-lammable
Mighty Squadron of TOKYO FANS JAPS’ fighting
wo fl By The Associated Press tary value—has been "com- of
Tokyo radio fanned the fires of
propaganda today in a rather obvi-
ous attempt to whip up the home-
land's fighting spirit.
B-29s Strew Bombs
21ST BOMBER COMMAND, Saipan, Dec. 13.—(AP)-
Nagoya,‘one of Japan’s most inflammable targets, was bomb-
ed at midafternoon today by a force of B29s equalling or ex-
ceeding the largest group yet to hit Japan.
Upsetting enemy defenses, the Superforts made a feint
toward Tokyo and then cut northwest to Nagoya, withdraw-
. ag over Nagoya bay after making their bombing runs.
(Radio reports from Tokyo, picked up by FCC, said"about
80” Superforts participated in strikes against the Tokyo-
Yokohama vicinity, Nagoya and Hamamatsu, on Honshu is-
land, Shikoku island south of the Inland sea, and Korea. The
Nippon Domei agency said damage was slight and that Japa-
nese interceptors were “believed to have caused heavy losses
to the enemy.”)
Where bombing runs on Tokyo were made with the wind
at great speed over the target, today’s Superforts went into
action in the face of a westerly wind, slowing their speed
and probably increasing the accuracy of their bombing.
The planes also flew 3,000 to 4,000 feet lower than they
did in the Tokyo raids, flying under the cirrus cloud layer
to avoid leaving vapor trails.
As Gen. Jimmy Doolittle’s daring raids did more than
two years ago, the B29s employed the great Nagoya castle
on the city’s highest ground about seven miles north of the
docks area as a landmark.
Without any Allied confirmation,
It said:
The emperor's palace grounds
have been bombed by B-29s.
The emperor has visited a
famed shrine to pray for vic-
tory.
An island in the Philippines—
tiny and of questionable mill-
Downtown Nagoya’s
World Price on
commercial district has few build.
Cotton Favored
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—()-
William L. Clayton told senators to-
day he favors a world price for
American cotton, with inducement
payments to domestic growers who
change to other crops.
The 64-year-old Houston, Tex,
cotton broker, nominated for assist-
ant secretary of state, was ques-
tioned before the senate foreign
relations committee in its second
day inquiry into six department
appointments (Background story on
Page 5).
Chairman Connally (D-Tex)
said the group had decided to
recall Archibald MacLeish, one
•f those nominated for assistant
secretary.
In response to questions by Sen-
ator LaFollette (Prog-Wis), Clayton
endorsed a proposal he said had
been made by Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wickard that American cotton
be permitted to seek its world price
level. Clayton said he thought, dom-
estic price supports without sub-
sidies would increase cotton pro-
duction elsewhere In the world.
His idea, the gray haired witness
said, was to provide income pay-
ments to domestic cecton producers
to aid them in changing over to
some other crop.
Sergeant Slightly
Wounded on Leyte
Sgt Silas A. Sheek has been
slightly wounded in action, his wife,
the former Billie Ruth Thurman,
1051 South 4th has been notified by
the War department
The telegram received by Mrs.
Sheek said the sergeant was injur-
ed Oct. 34 on Leyte. A letter from
him earlier had stated he was shot
in the leg. but the wound was not
serious.
ings higher than two or three
stories except the. eight and
nine story government of-
fices, banks and stores.
In 1938 the city had 315,402
wood and plaster buildings and
only 662 of concrete or brick.
It was large clusters of factories
on the waterfront and on the
northwest and northeast sub-
urbs. The central commercial
district. Just south-southeast of
the castle's eastern side is con-
fined mostly to residential dis-
tricts.
Nagoya is served by four trunk
railways which handled more
through freight cars in 1336 and
1937 than any other Japanese rail
terminal.
In peacetime it was Japan’s fourth
busiest seaport.
Nagoya’s wealth of industrial tar-
geta includes aircraft factories, ar-
senals. electric plants, electrochem-
ical plants, machinery, machinery
tool factories, explosives and Iron
works.
The city also fits perhaps bet-
ter than any other big city this
description—it is Inflammable.
It has densely crowded resi-
dential districts and mushroom-
ing. congested industrial sec-
tions whose narrow streets are
crowded with small wood en
shacks even in the city's heart.
This provides a great fire haz-
ard.
Unlike Tokyo and other major
cities, no earthquake or fire dis-
aster in the last 50 years has
cleaned up Nakoya.
Several B-29s made night recon-
naissance flights over the Nagoya
area the past few days. A plane
commanded by Lleut Col. Frank L.
Davis of Cornwall, N. Y. found It
blacked out, with no searchlights,
ack-ack or interception.
Armour Named
Envoy to Spain
WASHINGTON, Dec 13.—(—=
The White House announced today
the resignation of Carlton Hayes
as ambassador to Spain and the
nomination of Norman Armour to
replace him.
Armour now is acting director of
the State department's office of
American republic affairs. At the
Sergeant Sheek is serving in a
medical unit of the 96th division.
He has been overseas since July, time of the appointment of Secre-
landing first In Hawaii and later
sent to the Philippine campaign.
Before entering the Army, he was
employed at a wholesale grocery
here His father is Jess Sheek, route
four. .
tary of State Stettinius and the re-
shuffling of the top level of de-
partment positions, President
Roosevelt announced he would give
Armour an important new position
East Shivering
By UNITED PRESS
Near aero temperatures were pre-
dicted for some sections of the
East today, following in the wake
of the season’s first major snow-
storm. which blanketed most of the
nation as far south as Georgia and
westward Into Nebraska and the
mountain states
pletely occupied.”
These broadcasts were made at
a time when
military disaster
threatens the forces of Japan's hero
of Singapore, Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita, on west Leyte.
* * *
The most popular figure the
Japanese could use in a time of
stress is the slightly built emperor,
Hirohito. Knowing that, directors
of the Superfortress raids have
been supplied B-29 pilots with maps
LEYTE CASUALTIES REMOVED TO HOSPITAL SHIP-
Two American fighting men, wounded in the bitter action on
Leyte Island in the Philippines, are removed by Coast
Guardsmen for eventual transfer to a hospital ship. (AP
Wirephoto from Coast Guard).
Nagoya
SPIRIT WITH PALACE BOMBING STORY
J. Tokyo and instructed them to
scrupulously avoid dropping bombs
on the palace.
A Tokyo home broadcast.
recorded in Melbourne and re-
ported from London, claimed
that B-29 bombs had damaged
a manor house on the palace
grounds.
It is interesting to note this is
a broadcast for homeland consump-
tion—and that the Japanese man
on the street has to believe what
he hears inasmuch as the enclosed
palace grounds are not open to
sightseers. 3
The broadcast account of the
emperor's visit to the famed shrine
of Ise at Ujiyamada significantly
coupled with it an exhortation to
the Japanese people to "relieve the
great thoughts of his imperial maj-
esty by crushing the enemies, Am-
erica and Britain."
• • •
Another broadcast directed to
North America, said Japanese
troops had occupied Ponson is-
land in the Camotes sea below
American-won Ormoc and "frus-
trated enemy plans to use that
Island as a base for his torpedo
boats."
There has been no Allied report
that American troops were on Pon-
son Island which can be effective-
ly neutralized by Yank planes and
naval units. And there are several
places on west Leyte easily usable
as PT bases, including Ormoc it-
self.
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SEVENTH AND THIRD ARMIES GAIN—Arrows indicate U. S. Seventh and Third army
drives. The Seventh pushed to Seltz Tuesday in a drive toward Karlsruhe, German Rhine-
land city. The Third was engaged in heavy fighting in the Dillingen area north of Saar-
lautern and took Pliesbruck near Sarreguemines. (AP Wirephoto Map).
E's Suggested
As Yule Gifts
Facing a Saturday night dead-
line, Taylor county today was $67,-
258.40 away from Ito Series E bond
goal of $1,055,000 for the Sixth
War Loan.
As the close of the campaign
neared. County Chairman C. M.
Caldwell issued greetings to Taylor
countians with a plea that bonds
be used for Christmas gifts.
"I am wishing for all of you a
pleasant Christmas, and while I
understand these words may seem
just a little empty, still I believe
that we should go on as nearly as
we can with a normal life, leaving
off some of our frivolities and es-
pecially some of our wasteful hab-
its,” he said
“I believe that at this season
when oar dollars which we put
In bonda erant so much in re-
Inforring our young men and
women in the service, and at
the same time furnishing us s
neat egg for the future, we
should think In terms of bonds
In remembering our friends
these Christmas holidays.
"You will pardon me for stating
that I believe eighty percent of
my Christmas to other, will be
bonds I wish that each citizen
would take this to heart this week
and let us finish this $1,055,000. We
are within $67,258.40 of the E bond
goal, and the government has asked
us to finish it by Saturday night;
so I am earnestly soliciting every
citizen now to think in terms of
the E bonds.”
Coleman county added another
334.000 in Sixth War Loan Bond
purchases to its mounting total last
night at a rally featuring the Abi-
lene Army Air base show.
GREEK REBELS FIGHT AS
LEADERS DEBATE TRUCE
ATHENS, Dec. 13.-UP)— ELAS
troops staged strong but unsuccess-
ful attacks against the center of
Athens during the night even while
their leaders were debating British
orders to cease fighting.
The strongest assault was aimed
at a British barracks northeast of
the heart of the capital on the Ki-
fissia road.
Nazis Hurl Panzers
Into Cologne
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By United Press
Blue network broadcasts from the First army front said today
that the Americans advanced a mile and one-half in their new at-
tack south of Duren and cleared the towns of Marliaweiler, Derich-
weiler and Hoven on the approaches of Duren.
By the Associated Press
The southern wing of the U. S. First army jumped off
today below Duren in a new attack pointed toward the
Rhine river city of Bonn, and advanced more than a mile
within three hours, penetrating Rollesbroich, 35 miles west
of Bonn.
At the same time the American right flank on the
western front hammered out new gains close to the Reich
frontier in a wheeling movement pivoted on captured Sar-
reguemines. U. S. Seventh army artillery was trained on
large sections of Nazi defenses inside the German Palatinate.
The new First army advance, between the Hurtgen and
Monschau forests, was 4 1-2 miles east of captured Rotgen.
To the north where the naw German Fifth tank army has
been thrown in on the Duren front, the First army stabbed
to within a half mile of Duren and massed on a 1,000-yard
front along the west bank of the Roer 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 commander is Gen. Hasso
Eckardt von Manteuffel. 47, veteran of the siege of Bizerte
which have claimed far in ex- --------------------------------------------
SENATORS HEAR FAG SHORTAGE
TO BE MORE ACUTE NEXT YEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13- ()-
Senators heard today that the cic-
aret shortage may become more
acute in IMS.
Col Fred C. Foy, director of pur-
chases for the Army service forces,
told the senate war investigating
committee that anticipated Army
purchases "point to a demand on
the cigaret industry in excess of
that being placed upon it current-
ly."
The committee, trying to find out
what has become of history's great-
est supply of smokes, was told by
Foy that the current shortage "may
flow in part" from increased Army
procurement.
While cigarets have been either
scarce or unobtainable in many poet
exchanges in the European theater,
the witness said, "this is a direct
result" of limited facilities for un-
loading ships. Food, gasoline, and
heavy artillery take precedence, he
explained
He estimated that the Army will
have taken approximately 68,000,-
000.000 cigarete out of a total 1944
production of 330.000.000.000 al-
though it could use 77,000,000,000.
He laid the heavy overseas drain
to two major causes: heavier re-
quisitions from European and Paci-
fic commanders as offensive cam-
paigns intensified and the purchase
st home of large numbers of car-
tons for shipment to soldiers in
Christmas packages. :
Hole Ripped in
Budapest Line
MOSCOW, Dec. 13.—(P)—Russian
assault forces pointed toward Bud-
apest today from newly-captured
Godollo, 10 1-3 miles to the north-
east,” while artillery drew up in
close formation at the northern and
southern outskirts of the Hunga-
rian capital
Despite the close approach of the
Red army siege semi-circle no front
dispatches mentioned anything
about the fall of the Hungarian
capital being "Imminent "
The city’s inhabitants have
fled westward by the thousands
and the German garrison was
said to have dug in apparently
determined to hold out until
full destruction of the metrop-
offs.
From the Russian position
many fires courd be observed inside
the city.
The fall of Godollo ripped a wide
gap in the enemy’s defense lines
northeast of Budapest An impor-
tant rail junction it was the last
major enemy bastion controlling the
approaches from that direction A
Soviet communique said the Ger-
mans lost 400 killed in its fall yes-
terday.
The Moscow communique also
announced capture of Sajoszentpet-
er, 10 miles north of Miskolc, and
ten other towns in the central Slo-
vakia border area.
A British communique broad-
cast from Athens said further
British reinforcements had gone
into action, that some progress
had been made against the ELAS
75-millimeter gun firing on cen-
tral Athens.)
Maj.-Gen. Ronald M Scoble.
British commander in Greece, still
awaited a reply to his cease-fire
terms to the ELAS, and there were
indications the leftist leaders were
wavering in the right to force the
resignation ot Premier George Pa-
pandreou.
Strong. Intiltrating ELAS forces
scaled walls In darkness and pene-
trated the British barracks com-
pound containing gasoline, ammu-
nition. field artillery, and armor. By
sunrise they had been driven into
a corner after suffering heavy loss
of life, but this battle continued.
Scobie’s terms were presented
yesterday to Miltiades Porphyroge-
nls. representative ot the EAM (Na-
tional Liberation Front) and for-
mer minister of labor in Parandre-
cess of 30,000 Nipponese sol-
in North Africa. His army in-
cludes armored units, regular
infantry and Volksgrenadier
. troops.
Americans of the Third army
pressed 6 1-2 miles east of Sar-
reguemines, reaching Obergeil-
bach, a half mile from the Reich
frontier. The Seventh advanced
beyond the Maginot line and
within sight of Germany on the
Rhine valley invasion route.
In advances of more than eight
miles the Seventh surged to points
four miles south of the German
Palatinate and 11 1-3 miles north of
captured Haguenau, reaching Beltz,
13 miles from Karlsruhe, a major
German city. The drive seemed aim-
ed at Lauterborg on the frontier,
key to the Rhineland industrial
area of Ludwigshafen and Mann-
helm, 40 miles away.
Third army units in the western
Baar basin threw back counter-
attacks in the Dillingen area above
Saarlaugern and fought fiercely In
nearby Fraulautern.
In the north German defenses
west of the Roer virtually col-
lapsed. The Germans seemed to
have withdrawn their main
forces across the river to pre-
pared positions at and behind
shattered Duren.
On the southern sector of the
western front French First army
ou’s cabinet, who was brought to
British headquarters in a British
army vehicle, laid down bv forces on the Alsatian plain seized
The terms laid down by Scoble several towns west of Mulhouse and
ground out gains in the Vosges foot-
Attica province—which includes
Athens—must lay down their arms
at once and that elsewhere in
Greece the ELAS must undertake
to obey British orders They were
announced after Scobie had con-
ferred with Field Marshal Sir Har-
old Alexander, Allied Mediterra-
bills.
In the air war, RAF bombers
dropped firebombs on Essen, arma-
ment center, during the night.
bringing operations against Ger-
many In * 24-hour period to four
. major attack* on. eight cities by 4,000
nean commander, who had hastened British and American planes. The
here to seek a speedy end to the
hostilities.
The Weather
British lost 13 bombers, the Ameri-
FLOATING BALL
NAZI WEAPON
PARIS, Dec. 13—(PP)—As the
Allied armies ground rat now
gains on the western front to-
day, the Germans were dis-
closed to have thrown a new
‘device” into the war—mysteri-
ous silvery balls which float
in the air.
Pilots report seeing these
objects, both individually and
In clusters, during raids ever
the Reich.
(The purpose of the floaters
was not immediately evident.
It is possibly that they repre-
sent a new anti-aircraft de-
fense instrument or weapon.
(This dispatch was heavily
censored at supreme headquar-
ters.!
592.50 Is Added to
Goodfellow Fund
The Goodfellow fund bad reach-
ed $843 this morning with an ad-
dition of $92.50. Still far in the dis-
tance is the $2,000 goal set by the
committee to supply Abilene's needy
families with Christmas essentials.
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Plan Review of
Job Deferments
AUSTIN. Dec 13.—(UP)—A re-
view of draft classification* of men
holding jobs unessential to the war
effort was being planned here to-
day by Brig Gen J Watt Page,
state selective service director.
Page said his action was in line
with the James F Byrnes' man-
power directive, which poses an in-
direct coercion to keep workers on
the jobs in s last effort—short of
a national labor draft—to lick the
biggest bottleneck in the critical
war production program, the man-
power problem.
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY—Fair this
afternoon, tonight and Thursday Aft-
ernoon temperatures today in the 50‛s.
Lowest reading Thursday morning 35
EAST TEXAS Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Thursday: warmer south
portion tonight temperatures 36 40
north and 40-46 south portion tonight
WEST TEXAS Fair this afternoon
tonight and Thursday: warmer tonight
with lowest temperatures 34-38 Panhan-
dle South Plains and east of the Pe
cos river. 28-32 Pecos river westward
Maximum temperature last 24 hours
54
Minimum temperature last 11 hours.
TEMPERATURES
Wed-Tue Tue-Mon
A.M Hour P.M
41 41— 1-48 36
41 30— 2— 51 39
40 29— 3, 53 42
40 29— 4 54 43
39 29- 5 53 43
39 28— 6-50 41
37 29— 7— 47 40
SAVE
10 39
11- 39
Sunrise this morning
Sunset tonight
cans, 11 bombers and nine fighters.
In the four attacks. |
36th Division With
French First Army
DALLAS. Dec. 13 — VP) - Wick
Fowler, staff correspondent of the
Dallas Morning News, in a story
datelined With the First French
Army in France," says this French
army now has the 36th" (Texas)
division under its command.
The French army broke German
defenses In the southern Vosges
mountains.
"Fighting alongside the Ameri-
cans are the picturesquely uniform-
ed French colonial troops, the
Bpahis and Goums," says Fowler.
"Since regular French army troops
wear American uniforms it is dif-
ficult otherwise to distinguish be-
tween the men of the 36th and their
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Jap Minister Dies
By The Associated Press
Minister Kamesaburo Yamashita,
76 . president of the Yamashita
Steamship company and a member
of Premier Gen Kuniaki Kolso’s
12-man cabinet advisory board, died
today of pneumonia at his villa in
Kanagswa prefecture, Japanese
Domei news agency said.
Allies. t
"Whether the transfer of com-
mand from the American Seventh is
only temporary was not announced,
but the shift was made in order to
6.36 facilitate tactical movements.”
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