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AMATEUR BASKET BALL.

AMATEUR BASKET BALL.
Marine Corps Headquarters team,
composed Of former college stars,
and Naiman Photo, q home grown
outfit, were the best amateur quints
here. The Marines won the District
tournament, which replaced the
usual Middle Atlantic event, while
Naiman won in the Heurich League,
best of several good amateur loops.
The Marines also won the Potomac
Naval Command loop title. Naval
Ordnance Lab took the crown In the
88-team District Recreation League,
while the YMCA team won 20
straight games to triumph In the "Y"
League. The game enjoyed its usual
big season in the Washington Boys
Club and Police Boys Club leagues,
while successful Christmas tour
ney was held by the Washington
Boys Club, with Central Branch
Celtics voted the outstanding I'VE.
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TABLE TENNIS

Thor Hazi was the best of Wash
ington's table tennis players, with
Carolyn Wilson ranked atop the
women. They won both the Ma
tional Capital open and the Dis
trict closed tournaments. Hazi in
addition took the Eastern cham
pionship and was runnerup to Bill
Holzrichter for the national crown.
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son.
SOFTBALL.
Garyin's Grill and Kavakos' Grill
emerged as the best softball teams.
Garvin's won the Middle Atlantic
title but lost Its two starts in the
national championships at Detroit,
while Kavakos won the District in
vitation tourney over strong field
HORSES.
Equestrian activities, curtailed to
the wartime pattern, flourished in
the Capital area despite several
ma jor events were Cancelled and
that the services took many top
riders, exhibitors and owners.
OF special note was the inaugural
of the Maryland Hunter Show, which
attracted the best horses in the sec
ton. Its two-day holding went far
toward making up for the holding
of the classical Upperville show
Though the Warrenton Hunter Show
was cut to one day, the receipts
amounted to as much as other
years.
Although the Washington show
and the Columbus spring and fall
events we're not held, almost every
week end brought keen competition
from small shows at the North End
grounds and the inaugural of other
programs in suburban sections.
Outstanding was the rivalry be-
tween Capt. Alvin 1. Kay's re-
juvenated Applejack, alternately rid
den by Gardner and Mrs. Hallman
and Jackie Warren's Yankee Doodle
ridden to a half dozen champion
ships by Mrs. Fred J. Hughes: For
consistency, top honors in the open
jumping field must go to Yankee
Doodle.
Tricolors in the local hunter divi-
sion were well divided among Capt
Kay's No Mistake, Angelina Cara
beln's Our Day, U. S. Randle's Gee
Ray Bee and Frances Crouse's
Hollejo.
Special mention is deserved fol-
the good work accomplished by the
Washington Bride Trails Associa-
ton, particularly in its fall show
which became the most important
horse event here this year.
OF course, Mrs. w. Haggin Perry's
national champion, Cornish Hills
winner of IL tricolors, was tops in
this section, but the Virginia horse
was not shown in the immediate
vicinity,
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AMATEUR WRESTLING

IHere was little amateur wrestling
University of Maryland dropped the
sport. Gallaudet continued and I'm
ished fourth In the Mason-Dixon
Conference tourney. won by Della
ware. st. Albans was seventh in
annual prep tourney at Lehigh Uni
verSity.
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SANDLOT FOOTBALL.

There were no unlimited sandlot
football teams here, although nu-
merous youngsters organized them
selves into elevens for independent
play or competition in the Boys
Clubs League and the Police Boys
Club loops.
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ICE HOCKEY.

Washington Lions Of the Ameri-
can Hockey League showed flashes
OF good playing, but trailed in the
loop and support was slim.
Wing Jimmy Jameson was about
the best of Washington's players
and finished 10th among the league
scorers. The Lions were unable to
gather enough players and did not
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HANDBALL,

Jack Schwartz won the District
AAU handball championship for
the eighth straight time and teamed
with Paul Pearlman for the doubles
crown.
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PRO WRESTLING.

Joe Turner continued as Washing
tons only rasslin' promoter after a
brief furry Of opposition from Goldie
Ahearn at Ulines.
Late in the year an attempt was
made to have wrestling put under
control Of the District Boxing Com
mission. Opposed by nearly every
one connected with the game here
this proposal has not reached a de-
ciSion.
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FIELD TRIALS.

National Capital Field Trials Club
conducted its spring and fall tests
with its usual success. Pointers
won top honors, Glenstone Bobbie,
owned by jeff Perna, taking the
shooting dog stake at the spring
meet and King JEFF, owned by Pres
King, jr., winning at the fall meet.
Marlboro Field Trials Club and
the Northern Virginia Club were
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NJ. Batting Averages, 1943
FINAL STANDING Of c1.rrns

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species about as usual. No bltie|
fish showed.
Fresh-water angling for trout and
bass was fair in nearby sections Of
Maryland and Virginia. High spot
was the discovery Of a new method
of catching species Of herring
which runs up the Potomac each
spring and anglers enjoyed three
weeks Of excellent sport.
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Name and club.

Name and club. B,
Musial. S: F St. Louis,
Herman. w j, Brooklyn i
Goodman. I. r.. Chicago
Cooper, W., st. Louis Il
Elliott, R. l., Pittsburgh
Witek. N. j.. New York
Waner. P. G., Brooklyn,
O'Brien, T. Pittsburgh II
Nicholson, w. B.. Chicago
vaughan. F. E, Brooklyn =,
Lombardi. E. N, New York ]
Mccarthy. j. j.. Boston
Mccormick, F. A.. Cine.
Walker. Fred, Brooklyn
Bordaearay, S. G., B'klyn
Rowe, L. T. Philadelphia !
Walker, H. w, ST. Louis
Lowrey. H. L.. Chicago
CaVarretta, P. j.. Chicago
Gustine, F. w, Pittsb sh--F
Hack, S. c.. Chicago
Dahlgren. E. T., Phila. II
Upton. Eric, Cincinnati
Klein, L. F., St. Louis F
kurowski, G. j., St. Louis
Galan, A. j.. Brooklyn Boil
Fletcher, E. P, Pittsb' gh
May. M. G., Philadelphia T
Sanders, R. F., st. Louis
Marion. M. W, st. Louis
Novikoff, l., Chicago II
Northey, R. j.. Phila. i
Medwick, j. M, Bkln. NY, /
Crabtree, E. c., Cine.
Rucker, J. j., New York;
Murtaugh. D. E.. Phila. II
Masi, Philip. Boston------T
Mesner. S. M. Cinci- II
Lltwhiler. D. W., Phi. -St.L. I
Holmes, T. F., Boston-l
Bartell. R., New York II
Farrell. M. K, Boston
Frey. L. R., Cincinnati -
Lopez, A. R., Pittsburgh---I
Haas, B., Cincinnati II
Wasdell, J. C., Pitts. -Phila. :
Mueller, r. c., Cincinnati
Triplett, H. c., st St.L.-Phila. i
Owen, A, M. Brooklyn /
Russell, ]. W. Pitt'gh-- Boil
Garms, D., st. Louis s--l
Merullo, l.. R., Chicago I
Livingston. T. O.. Phi. Chi. :
Adams. E. c.. St.L. -Phila. i
Gordon. S., New York /
Nieman, E., Boston -
workman. c., Boston Il
Di Magic, v. p, Pittsb 'gh j
Camilli. A., Brooklyn
Stanky. E, R., Chicago
Walker. G. H, Cinci. /
Coscarart, P, Pittsburgh
Mccullough. c. E., Chi
Marshall, M. M, Cinci. II
OFT, M. T., New York i
Barrett. J. J.. Iittsburxh =
Jurges, w. F.. New York i
Miller, E. r., Cincinnati---l i
Hopp, j. L., st. Louis s--l
Dallessandro, D., Chicago-,
Ross, c. j., Boston----l
Orengo, j., NY. Brooklyn !
Wietelmann, W.. Boston
Ryan, c. j., Boston
Stewart. G.. Philadeiphia i
MAYNARD, j. W., New York
Mancuso. A. R., New York !
Joost, E.. Boston
QloSSop. H., 8rooklyn-- Bot
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to substantiate this and no one was
penalized.
Lew Hanbury perhaps was the
best fighter developed locally and
defeated Danny Petro in the big
fight of the year between District
mittmen. Hanbury also made sew
eral Madison Square Garden ap-
pearances. About the best of nu-
merous good fights was a 10-round
heavyweight brawl at Ulines be-
tween Joe Baksi and Gus Dorazio,
with the former a narrow winner.
A number of name" boxers fought
locally, among them Armstrong,
Wilson, Beau Jack, Bob Montgom-
cry, Jimmy Bivins, Joey Archibald,
Harry Jeffra and Lulu Costantino.
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Interstate Academic Conference
championship.
One track record was set by Sal
Console Of Roosevelt with a discus
toss Of 124 feet 6 inches. Central and
Woodberry Forest tied for first place
in the annual &c" Club meet, while
Washington-Lee won the Northern
Virginia championship. Macfarland,
as usual, won the junior high title.
st. Adams nine was best in the
private schools around the District.
Keith Harder, Tech center, was
voted the outstanding player and re-
ceived the Naval Aviation Cadet
Trophy in The Star basket ball tour
nament.
Gonzaga won the Catholic League
basket title, while George Washing
ton High, which had the best record
of all teams around here, won the
Northern Virginia championship but
lost to Newport News in the SCI ni-
f1nA for the State title. Bethesda
Chevy Chase retained the Montgom-
cry County title, Mount Rainier won
in Prince Georges and st. Alban's S
was best of the private schools.
A junior varsity tournament was
held for the first time in the high
schools, with Western winning.
Landon won the Interstate Aca-
demic Conference soccer title.
Hardy Pearce, head of the De-
\ q Ut nf ~
Education, entered the Navy, and
Dallas Shirley was appointed acting
head.
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AMATEUR BOXING,


Charles Cooper, District colored
scrapper, led amateur boxers by
capturing the National AAU 147-
pound championship in the Boston
tournament. He was acclaimed the
Journeys outstanding fighter.
Successful and well-attended
Golden Gloves and District AAU
amateur Journeys were held, with the
st. Mary's Club of Alexandria,
coached by Naiman Massey, winning
the senior-team championship in
both. Washington had no winners in
the Eastern Golden Gloves cham
pionships, however Merrick Boys
Club won the junior Golden Gloves
tourney conducted by the Boys Club
OF Washington, while No. won the
Police Boys Club event.
SWIMMING.
High light of big year for SWIM
mers here was the first annual A.
Earle Weeks memorial swim, held
in August in memory of the former
president of the District AAU, who
died early In the year.
Girl and woman swimmers again
furnished most of the competition
here. Among the best during the
outdoor season were Jean Ort of
the Shoreham Club, winner of three
District AAU titles and who set
record in the 200-yard free style;
Leola Thomas. double winner and
record setter in the 150-yard indi-
vidual medley, and WAVE Ensign
Helen Perry of the Shoreham, who
also won two AAU titles.
District mermaids made a big
splash out of town. Leola Thomas
Of Ambassador set a junior ma
tional S00-meter record at Tarboro,
N. C. Betty Rowland, Shoreham,
won two events in the South At
lantic meet at Baltimore and En-
sign Perry turned in 50-yard breast
stroke record in the Baltimore Sun
meet.
Patsy Palmer. who regained her
indoor low board diving champion
ship, also won the Middle Atlantic
and South Atlantic diving cham
pionships this summer.
Miss Ort also was the biggest win
ner in indoor meets. Three more
District AAU titles went her way
as she set a 220-yard free style rec
ord and captured the junior national
50-yard free style championship
Miss Thomas won two indoor titles
with record in the 100-yard back
stroke, and Helen Poyner of Am
bassador also took two District
titles.
Among the men, Joe La Sale of
Ambassador led with two District
AAU outdoor championships, while
Gene Quincy of Ambassador cap
tured two indoor crowns. Bob Ben
son of the Washington Boys Club
won the Junior national 50-yard
free style race.
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return for the 1854 season. The
Curtis Bay Coast Guard Cutters
have played one exhibition here this
winter and plan several more.
Chet Adair's amateur team again
operated and was unbeaten in four
games for It's NTH undefeated sea
son.
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TRACK.

Hugh Short, GeorgetOWn's mid
dle-distance star, was outstanding
He equaled the world 600-yard in
door record of 1:102, set by John
Borican in the Millrose games at
New York. Among his other tri-
umphs was in the Hollis 900" in
the Boston AA games and the Buer-
myer 800" in the New York AC
meet. Short also ran anchor on the
Georgetown team that won the mile
relay at Boston.
The annual Catholic U. games at
Uline Arena was the only indoor
meet here. Greg Rice featured by
taking 9 seconds off his own world
record In the 21a mile race, doing
1928. Bill Vessie's high jump of
6 feet 7 inches and Gerald Karver's
win over favored Joe Nowicki in the
"Rector's 1000" were other high
lights.
Walter Makofske and Vince Cam
PAMELA were among the stars of an
other good track team turned out
at Catholic University by Coach
Dorsey Griffith. Johns Hopkins
took the Mason-Dixon champion
ship away from C. U. at the Penn
Relays, and followed two weeks later
by stripping the Cards of their con-
ference championship. Campanella
won three f1rsts in this meet. how
ever, while Makofske won two and
a second.
Mount St. Mary's relieved Gal
laudet of its Mason-Dixon cross
country title.
FISHING.
Transportation difficulties and
the ban against pleasure fishing In
Chesapeake Bay cut deep into
angling around here. Some Wash
ington anglers joined commercial
trips into the bay. Rock fishing was
good late In the season with other
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SHOOTING.

Shortages of ammunition pre-
cluded competitive rifle and pistol
craftsmanship competitions, but Si1e
National Rifle Association was ac-
tive IN giving pre-induction rife
training to approximately 1,400 In
and around Washington.
University Of Maryland and st.
Johns High School won Hearst Tro-
phies in their classes in the South
Atlantic area.
Missing were the annual District
trapshooting event and the North
South skeet championship. George
Deyoe of Washington again was
named to the all-America skeet
team.
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Michael Lerner, chairman of the
committee Of the International
Game Fish Association charged with
getting dShing tackle for service
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YACHTING.

This was a sailing year in the
Capital as gas rationing kept the
city's motorboat feet at the docks.
The ban also prevented all but a
handful of clubs on Chesapeake
Bay from staging regattas. Locally
it was one of the biggest sailing sea-
sons in history. Some so starters
were counted in one or more of the
Potomac River Sailing Association S
weekly series held off National Air
port and Hains Point. Upsets
marked some Of the racing, with
new names appearing in the comet,
Chesapeake 100" and handicap
classes, including Don Kanode,
Frank Howard and Frank Selwyn.
Fuel troubles might have kept
powermen from cruising, but it did
not halt shore activities, with all
local clubs continuing the business
and the Potomac River Power
Squadron conducting large classes
in plotting and navigation.
The year also saw the continued
growth of Coast Guard Auxiliary
flotillas and the enlistment of
yachtsmen in the temporary Coast
Guard Reserve.
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COLLEGES

Extremely successful basket ball
seasons enjoyed by Georgetown,
George Washington and Gallaudet
high lighted slim sports year
among the colleges, as baseball
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More (hitken-of Feathered Kind-- For Service Men

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Chick- en will soon appear less often in the home and on restaurant and hotel menus as substitute for ra- tioned meats.
 The War Food Administration last night ordered cold storage stocks of chickens in excess Of 3,O00 pounds to be held by dealers, res taurant and hotel operators, pro- cessors, wholesalers and retailers, to be set aside for the Armed Services and military hospitals.
 The War Shipping Administration and other agencies buying on gov ernment account for the Army, for months have been unable to obtain more than 20 percent of the re- quirements for the twice monthly Sunday chicken dinner for the men in service.
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EWLANDING,
 ITALIAN COAST .IS REPORTED
Germans Say Allied Am- phibious Forces Have
 By-pdssed Front

LONDON, Dec. 30.-DNB said in Berlin broadcast that the Allies have made a leapfrog landing on the Italian west coast near the mouth of the Garigliano River.
 The broadcast declared the Allied landing forces which were presum- ably of the Fifth Army, were inter- cepted on the beaches before reach ing the Appian Way, leading to Rome, and as result the action is localized. There has been no Allied confirmation; however, such an am- phibious operation could be one of the ways Gen. Mark Clark might seek to break the German front along the Gulf of Gaeta, where it was stabilized several weeks ago, in his effort to reach Rome.
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BERLIN I5 HIT HEAVY BLOW
 BY BRITISH
Estimate 75 Percent of City Now Lays in Total
 Ruin

LONDON, Dec. 30.--More than 2,400 tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs shook burned and shuddering Berlin last night and the blow may have finished the city as the working capital of Germany
 The engines of the mighty RAF aramda which dealt Berlin its eighth heavy blow since the cam paign of destruction began were hardly cold when large formations of heavy daylight bombers and fighters streaked at all heights in the direction of the bristling rocket gun coast of France, last pounded by a 1,300-plane American fleet on Christmas Eve.
 An extraordinary heavy force of British Lancasters and Halifaxes carried out the latest attack on Berlin, swarming over the city early in the evening under cover Of clouds. The armada contained the largest force of heavy bombers the Canadian Royal Air Force has sent cut
 The Air Ministry said the attack was very heavy" that smoke sp.r- aled upward for 16,000 feet from large fires.
 The raid was not without cost, however Twenty bombers were lost in all operations yesterday, includ- ing Mosquito bomber attacks on western and central Germany.
 It is estimated officially that the ruins have spread to take in at least 75 percent of the Nazi capi- tai. Last nights raid was the nine ty-ninth on Berlin of the war
 A terse German communique acknowledged heavy damage in several districts of the Reich capi- tai, particularly in residential dis tricts''
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ATTA BOY SHEEP, YOU
 ARE RIGHT
U. S. Must Maintain Post. war Navy Unsurpassed
 by Any Nation, Group

WASHINGTON. Dec. 30-Repre- sentative Harry R. Sheppard, of California, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Naval Expenditures, said today the United States must maintain a post war Navy unsurpassed by any other nation or combination of nations. They will never get my vote to scrap one peice of equipment of naval craft or anything else vital to this country's defense"
 Sheppard made the statement in an interview and his decided re- marks indicated that he meant just what he said Sheppard helped pilot through Congress the ship expansion bills totaling ninety-four billion dol lars during the past three years.
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EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS KEEP
 ADVANCING
Press on Toward Pestdrd from 0rtona Over
 Mined Road

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Dec. 30. = The Eighth Army troops pressed one mile up theN Adriatic coast from captured Ortona toward Pescara over heay- fly mined road.
 Flying Fortresses, Marauders and other bombers concentrated yester- day on blocking seaports and rail- roads suppling the German forces across the Peninsula. Heavy blows were struck especially at Rimini and Ferrara.
 Fifth Army troops stormed the 5000 foot Mount Cersauloa five miles east of Biagio after half mile advance.
 The Canadians who took Ortona last Tuesday found the town full of booby traps and time bombs.
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Nazis Facinq Worstperiodof 
Ukrainidn Front Is caying-|n Following
 HitIer's s BIunders
By EDDY GILMORE

Associated Press War Correspondent
 MOSCOW, Dec. 30 The German High Command appears to have lost control of it's forces, at least tem- porarily, on the Russian front. It is the blackest period for the Nazis since the invasion of the Soviet Union.
 It is as apparent as the face on the Kremlin clock that Hitler or his generals or both guessed wrong again and have been outwitted by the Red Army.
 The General Staff made one of the greatest blunders of the war, and now Marshal von Mannstein's whole Ukrainian front is caving in and his proud tank units are piling up in the snows, the garrisons are out of communication with the com mand and are being surrounded, and the Russians are retaking the ter ritory.
 Hitler's big blunder was the count er-offensive west of Kiev which drew large numbers of tanks and soldiers from other sections of the front and deep from the rear and threw them with great fury at General Vatutln's front, hoping to achieve break through. The great effort gave him two cities and lots of villages which are not important but cost him several thousand tanks and thous- ands of soldiers.
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! AMERICAN
 PLIERS SPOT
 NAzI FLEET
Flashed Come" Signals 10 British Ships Which
 Sank } DesiroyeTs

LONDON, Dec. 30.-Two Amer ican Navy fliers were the first to spot the German flotilla of Il de- stroyers on the Bay of Biscay and shadowed 1t for six hours, flashing signals which brought the British warships and cruisers speeding to the scene and which resulted in the sinking of three enemy destroyers on Tuesday
 The spotting pilots were Lieut. Stuart Johnston, of Upper Darby, Pa. and Ensign Hugh Greeley, of Boston. Mass. They were flying the patrol Liberator w for Victory"
 The Nazi destroyers apparently were the escort for loaded block ade runner from Argentina which was sunk by British plane.
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GLOUCESTER
 RESISTANCE
 5T|FFEN|NG
Nippons Throw Entire New Regiment Into Battle
 10 Hold Airdrome

ADVANCED ALLI E D HEAD QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Dec. 30. = Outnumbered, Marine force holding positions on the East ern flank, have overcome the sharp ly stiffer1ing Japanese resistance and have advanced a half mile in the direction of the vital Cape Gloucester airdrome. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique reported today.
 The Marines drove ahead under artillery and aerial support and used flame throwers to eliminate pillboxes and strong pockets of re- sistance a mile from the airstrip. At least 200 Japanese were killed in the action along the bank of a river, Major General William H. Rupertus, Marine Corps Command CT, reported. The river is not named.
 Regiment Of Japs
 Attacks against the Marines or the eastern line running along the inland shores of Borgen Bay were
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NAzI NAVY COMMANDER
 OUT, REPORT
Step Interpreted as Indi- eating an AII-out U-
 Boat Offensive

LONDON, Dec. 30.-As details of the Scharnhorst battle were dis closed, the Moscow radio reported that Admiral Karl Dienitz, German Navy Commander, has either re- signed or is expected to resign. He is 52 and is a submarine expert. He was made commander last January.
 The step is interpreted here as an all-out U-boat offensive.
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REDS DRIVE T0WARD0LD
 POLISH LINE
Continue Thrust After Breaking Last Diteh
 German Offensive

MOSCOW, Dec 30 General Vatutins First Ukraine Army, spear heading the great Soviet three-front winter offensive, rolled toward Rus sian's 1889 frontier across the flat frozen steppes containing few nat ural defense obstacles east of the Bug River, and toward Poland, 190 miles away.
 Red troops are less than AS miles from the rail and river town of Gorodnitza, old Polish Russian frontier town. Following the spec tacular capture of the rail hub of Korosten yesterday, the Soviets pushed impetuously on the heels of the bitterly resisting and exhausted Germans.
 The northern arm of General Vatutin's forces have rapidly ex- banded their 442- mile breach in the Leningrad- Odrcssa railway from Korosten south to Cherynakhov.
 On the southern front, General Malinovsky's Third Ukraine Army has struck out in new drive which 's secord in importance only to Vatutin's' offensive, and are pro- ceeding westward across the Dnieper River at Zaporshe. The nine-mile advance completely restored the great Dnieper Dam to Russian hands.
 On the third front, far to the north in White Russia, General Bagramian's Baltic Army continued the envelopment of Vitebsk, killing 1,700 Germans and liberating sev- eral more towns.