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Evening star., 1943-12-24
Allied Planes Rake
Jap Installations in
Vicinity Of New Guinea
Shoot Down at Leost
ID Enemy Aircraft in
Roid on Supply Lines

bS the Associated PreSS.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec.
24.-Allied planes struck right
and left up the narrow waterway
between New Britain and New
Guinea, doing heavy damage to
japanese supply facilities and
air bases and shooting down at
least IA enemy aircraft, the high
command said today.
The heaviest concentration of
enemy ships reported in the Mar
shalls was sighted by American
Army and Navy flyers, who attacked
the two atolls in the mid-Pacific
island group. Twenty ships were
counted at Kwajalein, indicating
japanese reinforcement against a
possible invasion strike.
Two transports and freighter
in the harbor at Wewak, on the
northeast coast of New Guinea, re-
ceived two direct bomb hits each
from Mitchell medium bombers that
scudded in low to also set fires in
Evening star., 1943-12-24

south, and now the encirclement
will be complete as great American
and British forces attack from other
points of the compass.
THE commander selected to lead
the combined attack from these
other points is Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower His performances in
Africa, Sicily and Italy have been
brilliant. He knows by practical
and successful experience the way
to coordinate air, sea and land
power All these will be under his
control. 1t. Gen. Carl D. Spaatz
will command the entire American
strategic bombing force operating
against Germany.
Gen. Eisenhower gives up his
command in the Mediterranean to a
British officer whose name is being
announced by Mr.. Churchill. We
now pledge that new commander
that our powerful ground. sea and
air forces in the vital Mediterranean
area will stand by his side until
every objective in that bitter theater
Is attained
New Blows at Japs Promised.
Both Of these new commanders
will have American and British sub
ordinate commanders whose names
will be announced in a few days"
In disclosing military appoint
ment vital to the conduct of the war
in Europe, Mr. Roosevelt did not
neglect an opportunity to note that
Japan, too, would feel the weight of
tremendous new blows.
In talks with Mr. Churchill and
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek of
China at Cairo, the Chief Executive
declared that "all the manifold mil
itary plans for striking at Japan
with decisive force from many di-
rections" were considered. He said
he believed the generalissimo had
gone back to his capital with pos
IitVe assurance of total victory over
our common enemy"
He referred to the visit which
Gen. Marshall had just completed
to the headquarters of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur in Australia and of Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz in Hawaii
and said the conferences there
spell plenty of bad news for the
| (see EISENHOWER, Page A-10J
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Submarine Gray|ing,
With 65-Man Crew,
Reported Missing
Navy Reports Vessel
Overdue and Presumed
Lost in Operations

Loss Of the American subma-
rine Grayling with its crew of IS
officers and men was reported by
the Navy Department today.
The Navy communique said
that the Grayling "is overdue
and must be presumed to be
lost.
The Grayling. one of the larger
fleet submarines. was launched Sep
tember 4, 1910. her sponsor being
Mrs. Herbert F. Leary of 1868 Co.
lumbia road NV. wife of Vice Ad-
miral Leary, who was director of
fleet training in the Office of Naval
Operations here at the time.
The Grayling Is the 10th sub
marine to be lost by the United
States since the Pearl Harbor at
tack.
The Navy has reported 13 sub
marines missing on patrol opera
tions. Two others were known to
be sunk and one was destroyed at
Cavite in the Philippines to prevent
capture by the Japanese when they
captured the islands.
Where the Grayling operated on
her last war patrol was not dis
closed, but the 1,475-ton sub pre-
sumably was one of those which
have been shattering japanese sup
ply lines. 81
The undersea attacks have re-
suited IN the sinking of 374 enemy
vessels, probably sinking of SO and
damaging of ia.
The loss Of the Grayling brought
to 1873 the number of American
warships sunk since December Z
1941.
The Grayling was commanded by
1t. Comdr. Robert Marion Brinker
Park Ridge, Ill. His wife, Mrs
Margaret L. Brinker, now lives in
Vallejo, Calf.
Comdr. Brinker was born in Chi
cago September IL, 1910, and was
graduated from the Naval Academy
in 1884. Except for short period
OF duty on the battleship California
practically all of his service since
has been on submarines. He holds
the American Defense Service
Medal With Fleet Clasp and the
Asiatic-P Pacific Area Campaign
Medal
The Grayling was commissioned
on March l, 1941. She was 200 feet
long, had q beam of a feet ano
mounted one 3-inch antiaircraft
gun.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Army Planes Garry Mail
From Spokane to Denver
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 24.-Army
Air Forces transport planes carried
more than two tons of airmail from
Spokane to Denver Wednesday
Postmaster Will w. Simpson has
disclosed.
Mr.. Simpson said it was "the first
time Army planes have handled
regular civilian airmails here since
the Army took over operation of
airmail routes for short period
about 10 years ago.
"A new Army regulation was
issued recently to permit the use
of Air Corps transport planes in
flying airmail when the mails Of
Ifered exceeded the capacity Of COM
mercial air lines"
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Validity Dates Announced
For Food Ration STAMPS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Office OF Price Administration to-
day announced validity dates for
additional sets of food ration stamps
In Ration Book 3, brown stamp v
for meats-fats will become. valid
January %, stamp w, January 80
and stamp x February s; all three
expire February 26. Stamp Y be-
comes good February 13 and STAMP
n, February 20; both are good
through March 20.
For buying processed foods, green
stamps G, H and j in Ration Book
4 become valid January l and are
good through February 20. Cur
rently valid green stamps D, E and
F are good for processed foods
through. January 20.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Russians Turn
Tide Of Battle
West Of Kiev
Retuke initiative
To Put Germans
In Defensive Spot
BIILLETJN

LONDON (Py. - The Red
Army today stormed into Co.
rodok in its advance toward
heavily fortified Vitebsk, 18
miles southeast. Marshal
Stain announced capture of
the city in an order of the day
broadcast by the Moscow
radio.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 24.-The Rus
slams have recaptured the in
itiative in the bulge west of Kiev
and the Germans today were on
the defensive over a large area
in this sector.
At no point in the bulge do the
Nazis currently hold the upper hand
In one OF the greatest accomplish
ments of this war. Russian artillery
has turned the tide of battle in the
great struggle which has ragged fol
weeks in the area IS to IS miles west
OF the Ukrainian capital.
For the last three days, Soviet big
guns, mobile cannon and tremend-
GUS squads of anti-tank rifles have
sapped and bled the ranks of the
German tank divisions, inflicting
one of the highest tank casualty
rates of the whole war.
Within the last 48 hours the Rus
slams have continued to gain ground
in the Korosten direction south O.
Malin and in the Zhitomir salient
Korosten and Zhitomir, both on the
Odessa-Leningrad Railway, were
high-water marks in the initial
Russian drive, and both towns were
|recaptured by the Germans in theil
counteroffensive.
Beaten back west of Kiev, the
Germans exerted great tank pres.
sure today in the White Russian
area southwest of Zhlobin, but dis.
patches from that front said the
Red Army was standing up to the
test
Evening star., 1943-12-24
1873 Million Deficiency
Measure Is Signed
Ry the Associated press

BY The Associated Press. y
President Roosevelt today signed
legislation appropriating s188, 1888, ,723
to meet current deficiencies in funds
of miscellaneous agencies and ex-
tending for 80 days from December
81 the 1943 farm labor program.
The latter measure was enacted to
extend the farm labor recruitment
program while Congress settles a
controversy over funds for next year.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Village Of vezzani
Falls 10 9Th Army:
0rtona Capture Near
Heavy Snow Retords
American Forces in
Aerial and Lund Drives
Hy the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Dec. 24-Fighting in snow
and rain, the 9th Army has
driven northward and captured
the village of VeZzani, three
miles southwest of Ortona, and
the Canadians are digging the
last Germans out of Ortona with
bayonets, it was announced to-
day.
The whole Italian front was
blanketed by wet, wintry weather
which handicapped operations both
aground and in the air.
American infantry of the 5th
Army plodded through the snow to
take one high point but was pushed
off another. Marauder bombers of
the 18th United States Air Force
pounded the railroad along the
French-Italian Riviera in three
places.
Fighting Violently.
The most violent fighting con-
tinued in the Ortona area where the
Germans battled desperately to re-
tain the eastern anchor of their
crumbling defense line.
A military commentator said that
the enemy still held one corner of
Ortona and that many of the Ger
mans were sticking to the death
rather than retreat. This had
turned the Canadians struggle for
the city into house to house cam
paign with bayonets and small arms.
An indication of the fierce de-
tense the Germans were waging was
seen in one roadside cemetery near
the town where there were more
than 100 German graves.
Other units of Gen. Sir Bernard
L, Montgomery's 9Th Army were
pressing relentlessly northward de-
spite the intolerable weather.
Vezzani, the village which the
British captured yesterday, is about
a mile north of the highway be-
tween Ortona and Orsogna.
On Outskirts of Villagrande.
Other British troops fought their
way into the outskirts of Villa
grande, two miles southwest OF
Ortona
Weather limited action on the 5th
Army front largely to patrolling and
in the only two decisive moves an
nounced in today's communique, the
American troops gained some high
ground a mile east of Acqua- -Fon-
dala and lost a hill half a mile
southeast of Viticuso which they
had captured previously.
Clouds and storms kept heavy
bombers arI most of the other all
forces on the ground, but American
Marauders struck simultaneously at
three different points on the Ger
man rail artery along the Riviera
in Southern France and Italy.
At Imperia, several miles east OF
the French Italian border, railroad
yards and bridges were bombed. AT
the frontier town of Ventimiglia
railroad yards and approaches also
were blasted. And at another, ir
France, short distance from
Cannes, the huge north viaduct and
approach was hit despite heavy fax
Only small number of fighter
and fighter-bomber sorties were
flown over the front and in these
two enemy planes were destroyed
Spitfires off the coast of Corsica shot
down q Junkers 88.
Evening star., 1943-12-24

for little children who have a right
to happiness.
Wartime restrictions for the Sec
ond year prevented lighting the tree.
Parking was restricted for blocks
around the White House and every
body-including officials who used to
get reserved parking spaces-had to
walk to the southeast and southwest
gates. No cameras were allowed
inside the grounds despite pleas OF
several amateur photographers, who
wanted picture of the decorations
contributed by school children
Girl Scout Shirley Sabin and
(See CHRISTMAS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Late Bulletin
Deferment Order Issued

Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey today or
dered all State draft directors
to delay the processing for in
duction into the armed forces
of all pre-Pearl Harbor ia
theirs in the Federal Govern
ment until instructions have
been drawn up granting Gov
eminent fathers the same
deferment treatment as that
given fathers in private in.
dustry.
Evening star., 1943-12-24

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. pa great
fleet of American Flying For
tresses and Liberators, guarded
by swarms of fighters, joined ir
possibly the Allies heaviest day
light assault of the war today fol
a Christmas eve attack on the
Pas de Calais "rocket-gun coast,
hard on the heels of the RAF's
seventh smashing night blow al
Berlin.
An all-day procession OF heavy
medium and light bombers, fighter
o. bombers and fighters roared across
the Channel for the fifth success
sive day of hammering at mystery
objectives on the French coast, pop
ularly thought to be installations
for shelling England.
This thunderous aerial parade be-
gan a few hours after the RAF
night fleet returned from battering
the Nazi capital with another 1,120
tons of explosives in an attack which
proved so deceptive that Berlin's S
weary fighter-plane defenses were
utterly foiled. This seventh major
bombardment of Berlin in five
weeks, likely rounding out the de-
struction of three-fourths of the
city. and other operations, cost the
Raj but II bombers.
Fires Visible 120 Miles.
The daylight caravans of Ameri-
can Marauder medium bombers, as
well as other light and heavy air.
craft, made late Christmas shop
pers in South England stop in theil
tracks and stare skyward.
Because the targets were in q
concentrated area close to the coast
the Pas de Calais operation took or
the appearance of an invasion re-
hearsal-the greatest since last Sep
tember when combined operations
exercises were held openly in the
Channel under the noses of the
Germans.
The night attack on Berlin with
4-ton blockbusters and other high
explosives turned whole sections o1
the battered city into a spoutine
volcano, returning flyers said, with
flames shooting high into the sky
and visible 100 miles away.
More Than 1000 Tons of Bombs.
Last nights bomb load of ovel
1000 long tons brought the tota
weight dropped on Berlin in sever
raids to approximately 1000 tons
about the weight 1oosed on devas-
tated Hamburg (The long ton used
IN Raj reckonings is 2,24O pounds.)
1t made the years total on the
capital about $4,000 tons.
The raid was the second big blow
on Berlin in eight nights and the
RATS second big operation Of the
week. On Monday it cascaded 2,O0C
tons on Frankfurt and Mannheim
Ludwigshafen.
The depleted power of the German
fighter force, shown in the Frankfurt
and Mannheim-Ludwigshafen raids
when many planes dashed ineffec-
tuaiIy back and forth between the
Two target areas, was underscoreo
In the low Raj casualties last night
little more than half of the De-
cember 16 raid on Berlin, when sc
planes were lost.
The casualties on the Berlin raiC
may have been even less than IT
since that figure Jumped losses from
simultaneous small attacks on un-
specified targets in Central anc
western Germany. Berlin said one
Of the targets was Aachen-ancien'
city of Aix-la Chapelle, industria
and rail center in Western Germany
More than 1000 long tons OF ex'
plosives were dropped on Berlin las
Evening star., 1943-12-24
American Heavy Bombers Join
Big Raid on Rocket Gun Coast; !;
RAF Leaves Berlin in Flames
Three-Fourths of
Nozi Capital Now
Believed in Ruins
BULLETIN.

LONDON (P.-More than
1900 aircraft of the 9th United
States Air Force were in the
task force which attacked
special military installations
in the Pas de Calais area of
France today, Army headquar-
ters announced tonight This
included the largest number
of heavy bombers ever dis
patched by the 9Th Air Force
on a single mission.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
EISENHOWER GIVEN SUPREME COMMAND
OF EUROPEAN SECOND-FRONT INVASION
Two Rail Unions
Call Off Strike,
; Stand Fast
Truinmen, Engineers
Place Dispute in
Presidents Hands

STEEL STRIKE FEARED Monday
over retroactive pay controversy.
Page AS
Evening star., 1943-12-24

(see RAILROADS, Page A-2J :
Evening star., 1943-12-24

(See CHRISTMAS, Page Az.
Evening star., 1943-12-24

(See POPE, Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Weather Forecast

Not quite SO cold, temperature near Ia
tonight. Fair, warmer Saturday.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspop
Evening star., 1943-12-24

(See RUSSIA, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1943-12-24

(See ROCKET GUNS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-12-24

(See PACIFIC, Page A-1O.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
.AII-Sfur


With the aid of Cap Muszynski's
big Gal total, the Acklin outfit
managed to take the Champion
Sparks for three games to go up
a notch in the standings.
With Frank Wekwert's 583 and
Caps good shooting, the Acklin
team collected a total of 1926
pins.
BY finishing with a rousing 1927
game, the Overland maulers again
topped the teams in pin gathering
with a neat 1868 total and three
game win over the Mather Springs.
The Auto-Lite shooting copped
two from the National Supply, as
the Spicer team sneaked in three
wins over the A. G. Kloppings. Ed
Polus and his 500 total and Leo
Strauss with well put-together
628 uprights helped the Willys-
Overland to accumulate the high
total.
One more session will finish the
third round with one more round
or seven weeks to end the season,
1t seems the Auto-Lite team will
really have to get hot to overhaul
the fast-stepping Willys-O Overland
outfit.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
THIS AND THAT

Louisiana hasn't anything on
Ohio when it comes to the intro
duction of muskrats as a war
food" much has been printed
lately regarding a Louisiana con-
gresham who invited the Vice
President to eat marsh rabbit"
and threw out the suggestion that
here was one of the answers to the
meat problem many Ohioans
have enjoyed marsh rabbits" and
some Ohio restaurants have often
had them on their menus, while
they served as the chief item on
the menu at a dinner given last
fall to members of the Outdoor
Writers of America and members
of the Brotherhood of Junglecock,
who were guests in the Lake Erie
area =. yes, they are really good
Under the Ohio law 'Brer
Grounding is now under the super
vision of the Division of Conserva-
ton, as game animal, but he
showed the Conservation Commits
sion on Feb. 2 that he wouldn't be
controlled on that day, at least
1t takes courage to start new
organization these days but new
sportsmen's clubs are being inau-
gurated here and there and there's
plenty of work for them to do, too
The closed season on red fox,
in the area Of the state where they
are protected for a part of the
year, expired February / the
"swapper's day" idea that has been
in vogue at gun club shoots and
some sportsmen's club meetings
ough to be an Al idea this year
it's a good way to get that
piece of fishing tackle you can't
buy these days in exchange for
some piece of equipment you don't
need.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12

You baseball fans who can't wait until they open at
Swayne Field hop bus to Athens Ohio after April l
where the old Mud Hens start training.
Victory No. 13 came to T. u. after trailing all the
way to tie the first half. The Rockets in the
stretch from the Fort Knox Army team Satur-
day night by 40 to 36 The stars of the game were
Dutch Garfnkel" of the Army and the Fleet Minor
of Toledo u
Two great undefeated teams of the Capitol
in the Ohio Conference and Indiana in the Big Ten
According to reports Larry Atkn the Fight Promoter
who put Cleveland top of the fight world will have some
attractive bouts soon the Ohio city which Toledo
fans will like to attend.
Baseball horse racing and football will comply with
rules of the and the public will be glad to patron
ze them and will not squawk about it.
Good authority has it that the Kentucky Derby at
Louisville may be called off this coming May.
The seventh annual Golden Gloves Boxing Show spon-
sored by the Old Newsboys Association will be held
and dates announced in this paper.
Babe Ruth just celebrated his 10Th birthday.
Mrs. Joe Louis presented the Brown Bomber with
baby girl
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
That Lou Tender and Nell Coogan lightweghts both
knocked each other in the first round at Philadelphia
in the early AS they out of their they
coded headon and the referee called the fight off they
were both out the floor.
That in California there two mddleweights called
the "Hoag Twins managed by old Tom jones' former Man
ager of Jess Willard you can't tell them apart unless
them both together
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
NEW FISHING LICENSES

New fishing licenses will be nee
essary on March /.
AS a result, the Accounting and
Budget Section of the Ohio Dlvi-
sion of Conservation and Natural
Resources is busily engaged in
packaging the new 1943 fishing
licenses for consignment to the Ii
cense dealers of the state. Ship
ments will be made to the dealers
very soon so that Ohio's anglers,
who, under a new law fixing the
date new licenses are effective,
may find it possible to purchase
them well in advance of March l..
With more fishing water avail
able in Ohio during the coming
season and the stress which is be-
ing placed on the slogan fish for
food" it is expected that there will
be a heavy sale of licenses this
spring.
Digests, giving resume of the
new fishing regulations, will be
furnished with each license. AL
though the complete orders affect
ing fishing and hunting are on file
in the Clerk of Courts office in
each county court house, so that
all may know the laws, these di-
gests offer the main points in the
law and are quite handy to tuck
into the tackle box.
Now is the time to check that
fishing tackle and make memo on
the calendar to visit the license
dealer as soon as the new 1943 Ii.
censes are on sale, so you will be
able to display the new license, as
required, on March !.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
Weekly Sports ReUieU
By JACK GREEN.

lost hair decision Beau Jack Madison Square Garden
last Friday evening he probably lost of his last important
bouts of his coorfu He says he will end fighting this
which entities him to the fame of Pittsburgh fighters
such Frank Moran, Harry Greb, Frank
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
Sport Quiz
By RED" BIALECKI

Try out your memory on this
sport quiz and see II you can get
100 per cent.
Count 10e6 for each question
answered correctly.
Watch your step. The quiz may
look easy but names are tricky
things TO remember. If you get
10 you're fair, so good, 80 very
good, and 100 perfect.
Give the first names Of the fol-
lowing ball players:
/. Babe Ruth
2. Flash Gordon
3. Schoolboy Rowe
4. Red Ruffing
5. Lou Gehrig
s. Mickey Cochran
7. Gabby Hartnet
s, Buck Newsom
3. Bucky Walters
10. Zeke Bonura
Answers will he found IN cgl, !,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12

A Fight Promoters award should be
voted Nick LOndos, Detroit, Mich. fight
promoter for the way he conducted the
fight last Friday evening to record sell
out crowd when Jake LamOtta decislvely
beat the famous Sugar Ray Robinson and
broke Sugars record of 130 straight VIC
tories amateur and professional. Detroit is
now definitely on the fighting map.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12

Honor roll-Csp Muszynski 232-2O2-2Ol
-6A, Ed Polus 244-629, Leo Strauss
233-2l6-62s, John Stein 244-6OO, Ed
Brug 235, Jim Zawodny 2l3, Frank
Wekwert 2ll-2l1, John Brug 2O4. Jake
Powell 2O3, Cap Piodja 225, Joe kurdys
2ll, Hank MaIkowski 200, Walt Rybka
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
WiIIys Five
Continues
Winning Way
Seven Straight Wins
Put Jeepmen
Out in Front

WHY'S Overland Local IL five
continued to march straight to-
ward the titles in the YMCA
Basketball National League cir
cult by defeating the DeVilbiss
five 50 to 80 last Thursday night.
By winning one more game out
of three remaining to be played
in the league, the WHY'S five can
clinch a tie for first place even
if it's nearest competitor, the
Toledo Valves, should win all three
of its games.
Play Libbey-Owens Ford
Next Thursdays game between
the Libbey- Owens-Ford and Willys
basketeers would give the Willys
team an assured tie for the Lib
bey-Owens- Ford team has been
playing indifferently all season
and has won but two out of seven
games played.
The Standings;
Won Iost Pct.