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WINTER THRUST
in FULL SWING
Mighty Attack Started Un-
der Greatest Air I'm
brella OF War

SUPREME HEADQUAR.
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Nov. 16.-R)-Two more
American armies, smashing
forward under one of the
greatest aerial and artillery
commandments of the war,
Joined the four Allied armies
already on the attack today
as the long Western front
famed into a general winter
offensive aimed at the heart
of Germany.
The long-hidden U. S. Ninth ar.
my, which slipped quietly into the
line north of Aachen weeks ago,
and the veteran American First
army launched simultaneous as
saults at midday inside the Reich
through the gaping hole already
torn in Hitler's Siegfried line
More than 1850 U. S. and Raj
heavy bombers based in Britain
delivered a series of blows at the
enemy directly in front of the at.
tack and headquarters of the First
army officially described the great.
est tactical air support of the war.
Both American armies registered
sizeable gains in the opening hours
of their offensive, overrunning nu-
merous small towns and villages.
The Ninth, taking it's place be-
tween the British Second and AM
erican First armies, lashed out
north of Aachen on a nine-mile
arc between Geilenkirchen and
Eschweiler and swept ahead 1000
yards to within four miles Of the
Poer river.
Resistance was heaviest In the
area of Settrick, about four miles
east of Ubach.
Associated Press Correspondent
Yves Gallagher, at the front, said
many detectives were taken ahead
of schedule. The little towns Of
Euchen, five miles northeast Of
Aachen, and Immendorf, Beggen.
dorf and Floverich, all from two to
three miles east of Geilenkirchen,
were captured in the first few
hours. Shocked German prisoners
were taken by the score as the
Americans broke through the crust
Of enemy defenses.
At the hour of assault the Eighth
Air force sent more than 1000
heavy bombers under $50 fighter
escort hammering across the skies
and loosening a storm of anti-per-
sonnet bombs on Duren and Esch.
weller, between Aachen and the
Rhine in a tactical assault com.
parable to that which touched off
Continued on Page Seven; Col. II
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}50OPlanes
Start Allied
Mass Attack
rIvE.MlLE PARADE
,,,,},;ed Line Installations
'' p'ouuded Along Wes-
tern Front

LYNDON, Nov. 16.-P-,
c, Ds', thousand heavy bomb o!1
mr WAL and almost as many 1lgnt-
a. y, ' snd mediums launched a
e els,s 1--WE new aerial assault on
n 'lss,, Germany today with
/ s 1900 Lancasters, Fortres IS
Nv s,yI 1iberators touching off a
sa i,r n winter offensive by
tSs American First and Ninth
armies. ..,.
isr Missing from 1900 Eighth air.
, ssls bombers ana $50 fighters that
s lasry I'j into the Aachen area for
puD- sour. unloosing 5000 tons OF
|thrlas rvalt bombs between Dur
IN and Aschweiler on the road TO
khe Rhine.
II was the first time since D-day
bar Al " beavyweights had struck in
[ireet support Of advancing Ameri'
! can troops
The Lancasters concentrated
tbsir approximately 5000 tons of
INT on buildings in vicinity OF
nuren, Julich and Heinsberg that
ID become storage depots for Ger
han ammunition and gasoline.
About $50 Mustangs and Spitfires
escorted the British heavy bomb
prs in their assault on enemy IN
ktsllation. and troops east of the
Holland panhandle.
The Raj announced that its big
peet was controlled throughout the
Bav by master borrbers, who claim
ID that all attacks were highly con-
,entrated.
This was the first time that the
erm master bomber" had been
Used officially, although 1t was no
Innovation. The master bonbers
kontrol every stage of the attack,
Identifying the targets and direct
| ng the subsequent attacks. They
Ire not necessarily connected with
HE pathfinder force which marks
|he way.
/ An armada Of 1900 Flying For
tesses and Liberators from Eng
land started a raging inferno IS
miles long between Duren and
Eschweiler, east and north of Aach-
b. pouring $4,000 augmentation
bombs into German positions in
'front.' Of American armies hammer
big on the front door to Berlin.
Fhe heavy bombers were escorted
BY $50 Mustangs and Thunderbolts.
Ninth air forca medium bombers
flso ripped into Siegfried line in
Etallations along the western front,
Rnd Raj typhoons raked roads and
NCOntinued on Page Ten: Col. 81
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SHORTAGE
REMEDY OFFERED

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.- Up -
Ehe National Association of To-
Pacco Distributors today recon-.
Ihended five steps designed to al
|eVate the cigaret shortage, one
d which suggested that "all Off.
FA government statements con-
Eefn'ng cigarets be issued from
PAe authoritative source in Wash
Fhs'on' thus avoiding a stream of
conflicting commandments"
Joseph Kalodny, the association S
Aeea'lVe secretary, said in an &C.
Ompanying statement that "the
Fasefness Of consumers to pur.
tnase cigarets. even at excessive
p'lces' from other than normal
OuIees could be traced to the
stolc reaction to this profusion
ss safeless or incorrect statements
M. W unfounded rumors::
Inc e, othe2 recommendations:
:, mat the War Manpower com.
s. saon classify production and
a. a'Dullon OF cigarets as an es-
bsa aal activity. iProducton of to.
Essentially 10 'iasSeu d.
Z, That the oPA take steps to
rSn.;.. e the extent ito which dis
bsss s1se services to retailers have
tas,, Suftalled or discontinued be-
6s,,ss,.. Of March, 1912, price
bris' yIVs, Wholesale and retail
fs rss Of cigarets were frozen in
bye,. mat manufacturers restudy
4, di, 4. methods of allotting quotas
tors; saloutors and revise them ac.
pt ~ 10 population shifts in and
tonr VI defense areas and army
Mar ' Fssi measures be taken by the
beusr+uus0 Administration and the
Crease H 1ei of Agriculture to in.
10 ensh, '0oacco acreage in 1s4s
Esh tba;' ! manufacturers to replen.
eigsre s'l a. depleted reserves of agee
iagton o ta5 announced in Wash
h to t tSoaa a. that proposals SINH
nsD ID tae first and second recon-
aevlvs'eusoons had been made by s
eonmi s+esfed tobacco wholesalers
|he cors but declined to releas,
|he gro, ,,,i,lttee's full statement OF
|lsgyd ' IL tn, that "oPA is no priv
which g, corn make public suggestion,
('''cern other agencies"
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the defeat of Germany. On the
other hand, there had been specu-
lation that! the President might
make the designations of Davis,
Taylor and Graham an occasion
for altering the War Labor board
form.
As presently constituted, the
WLB is a tripartite agency COM
posed of four representatives from
labor, four from industry and four
from the public. The four public
members usually have found them
selves casting the deciding votes
Continued on Page Seven; Col. y
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DONNELL WINS
SEAT in SENATE

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16.-LR-Gov.
Forrest c. DonneI clinched cleo.
ton as United States Senator from
Missouri tonight, repeating his
performance of four years ago as
the states only Republican winner
in an otherwise Democratic sweep.
He will succeed Sen. Bennett c.
Clark, Democrat, who was de-
feated for denomination.
Donnell's final unofficial margin
of around 1000 votes over his
Democratic opponent, Attorney
General Roy McKittrick, will be so
small that some richards may in
sist on seeing the official canvass
figures the secretary Of state will
issue in a few weeks, and McKit-
trick already has discussed the
possibility of contesting the result.
But McKittrick' last chance Of
overtaking the governor in a slow
motion count of 10000 absentee
ballots disappeared when the
counting ended in Democratic st.
Louis with Donneu still 1874 votes
in front.
There were only about 5000 votes
left to be counted and most of
them were in Republican St. Louis
county.
It was the second narrow tri-
umph for Donnell, who was elected
governor in 1910 by 3,613 votes and
then had to fight off a Democratic
contest of his election in the state
legislature.
McKittrick had \ part in that
contest. issuing an opinion used by
the Democratic legislature to hold
Donnen out of office for six weeks
before the supreme court over
ruled the attorney general.
It was an unprecedented ava
lanche of $1,000 soldier votes by
mail which delayed the decision OF
the senatorial race for nine days
after the election. Counting OF
those ballots did not get under
way until last Friday.
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sented to remain until the elimi-
nation of Germany from the war
or, at least, until such time as they
could leave without seriously at
fecting the work Of the organiza-
ton"
Similarly, the President persuad-
ed War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes, who had in
tended to retire this week, to stay
on until the European phase OF
the war is ended.
It is known that some Of the
Presidents advisers take the view
that any changes in wage controls
or other labor policy should await
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Recheck Discloses Three Enemy Ships
LostAboue Precious Accounting

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov.
6.LLR-Three warships were ad-
ded to Japan's sunken fleet today
when Adm. Chester w. Ninitz, an.
nouncing revised figures, reported
third fleet carrier planes sank a
cruiser, four destroyers and II car
60 vessels and oil tankers during
their Nov. IL raid on Manila.
The admiral in a communique
announced this revised list:
One light cruiser sunk lit pre-.
viously was reported badly dam
aged.
Four destroyers sunk (two had
been reported "exploded"
Eleven cargo vessels lad oilers
sunk (this same number was re-
ported sunk or set ablaze).
The Pacific commander also re-
ported that a navy search Liberia
tor probably scored a bomb hit
on a small Japanese cargo vessel
near limo lima and marine
Mitchell bomber possibly hit a
medium sized cargo ship at Haha
Jima.
Other U. S. Liberators bombed
airplane storage areas and other
installations on Two, in the volca-
no group, about $50 miles south OF
Tokyo. They also scored a near
miss on a medium cargo vessel.
Haha island is in the BONN
group, some $50 miles southeast of
Tokyo.
Other raids by land-based planes
conferred on the northern Palau
islands, where several barges and
other small craft were sunk and
ground installations heavily at.
tackled.
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He Is Only 8, But He
Tells War Office Hon
To Beat The Buzzbomh

LONDON, Nov. Is. - up -
Eight year old Roy Law, who
doesn't go to school yet, lived
through several robot attacks In
London before his evacuat ton.
He got an idea how to beat
the buzzbomb and wrote the
war office.
They replied, "you are to
be congratulated on the in
genuity displayed, which in =
boy Of your age, is quite re-
markable."
The idea is SO good that it's
= military secret now.
Roy's mother says that she
finds her sons mathematical
ability almost Tightening"
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MUSSOLINI MEETS
WITH HIS CABINET

LONDON, Nov. 16. - @ -
The German News agencies,
which are silent these days on
the movements and where
-abouts of Hitler, found space
today to report that Mussolini
met with his cabinet and dis
cussed the military and poll
teal situation"
An agreement was reached
on methods of strengthening the
value of Italian currency and
counteracting initiation, said
the Nazi Transocean Overseas
news agency.
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AIR CONFERENCE
NEARS DECISIONS

CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-The interna-
tional civil aviation conference
reached the threshold OF decision
tonight on postwar regulation OF air
craft operating across national bor-
ders.
Good progress" was reported by
C.. D. Howe, leader Of the Canadian
delegation, one Of the members OF
the big three committee which has
been trying since Sunday to distiu
the commercial aviation aspira-
tons of the 81 countries represent
ed at the conference.
The activity is almost literally a
distillation process. Positions Of the
leading delegations-Canada. Great
Britain and the United States-have
been modified first by separate
consultation with the other coun-
tries supporting each OF them and
then through their joint discussions
The final distillation is taking place
in the effort to put into formal
document a description Of the plan
which represents Cancellation Of the
three major proposals.
There. was some reason to be-
lieve this document would be plac-
ed before the conference in open
session some time Friday; certain
ly by Saturday, which is the dav
the technical group also hopes to
present it's final plan before full
committee.
Presumably this document W |
be acceptable to supporters it 1t is
acceptable to the major confereas
after its initial presentation. All
countries will have a day or two
to study the proposal before cast
ing their votes. .r. ~.
Agreement on h e compromise.
which is concerned only with the
establishment of p m a n n
world aviation authority, will leave
little if any difficulty in concluding
arrangements for regulations dur
ing the time required to ratlfy the
proposed treaty.
The final rounds Of the compro-
mise discussions revolve m o e
closely around the bald question OF
airline business than at any time
earlier in the conference.
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force. is rolling again. Through the
mud from weeks of rain and snow
tanks of this outfit - pro1ane
and superb one that never lost so
much as a single phase in any en-
gagement to the Germans - lung
ed forward at 1 p. m. to form the
steel fist of the U. S. First army 5
new attack.
They ground over terrain that
had lust been dashed and beaten
by the massive weight OF Amerl-
can bombs and artillery.
Within two hours the flrst ooJec-
tives had been reached and the
Sherman tanks still were lurchlng
forward through the half frozen
mire.
1t. Col. William B. Lovelady, OF
soddy, Tenn, who was in COM
mand when the first American
force of assault proportions broke
the German frontier and envelop-
ed Roetgen, 10 miles southeast OF
Continued on Page Ten; Col. ~
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 49, Up -
Three War Labor board members
today bowed to a request from
President Roosevelt and agreed
to withhold their designations I'M
til Germany falls.
Chairman William H. Davis,
George w. Taylor and Frank P.
Graham, three Of the four public
members Of the WLB, had asked
to be relieved in order to return
to private life.
The White House announced to-
day. however, that at President
Roosevelt's request they had con-
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16.-(R-
Bleary-eyed from week Of drink
ing and debauchery, Otto Steve
Wilson, 31-year-old janitor-walter'
signed confession today to
strangling and mutilating one wo-
man, going to a theatre to see 30
ris Karloff in 1.-The Walking
Dead" and then numbering an
other women for the thrill it gave
him.
Wilson said he didn't know why
he killed 26-year-old Virgie Lee
Griffin after taking her from a
bar to a hotel room, although
we had an argument over money,
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Mad Murderer Of Los Angeles Women
Declares He Is 'Emotionally Unstable

De Rivers said, left him insure
whether Wilson is a sadist, a sex
maniac, combination Of the two,
or some other type of psychotic or
neurotatic personality"
James E. Keller, chief Of police
at Anderson barracks, Terminal
island, where Wilson was employ
ed. told authorities the confessed
slayer was sullen, did not get
along with other workers, and
boosted: I'm the meanest man on
the West coast and if I ever meet
anybody more ornery than I am
I'll kill him."
Continued on Page Seven; Col. -
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GENERAL EASLEY
WOUNDED ON LEYTE

GENERAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP
PINES, Friday, Nov. 17.-RE
Brig. Gen. Claudius Easley, as
sistant commander Of the
American 96th division on
Leyte island. has been wound
ed by sniper fire, spokesman
announced today.
He Is the first general Off
Ger to be wounded 1 nthis CAM
paign.
The extent of the wound or
where it occurred we're not an
nounced. At last reports adj
vance elements of the seth were
punching westward across the
mountains in central Leyte.
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show were sitting around me and
not one of them knew I had killed
a person.
'.After I got out Of the show that
sort of kill lust came over me
again. I went to a bar and met
Mrs. Lillian johnson (38) and took
her to another hotel. We didn't
have any trouble at all. I hit her
with my fist. Then I cut her up
with a razor blade, washed and
left"
DR.. Paul J. De Rivers, police
psychiatrist, said Wilson told him
he killed Mrs. johnson "for pure
cussedness." His examination, Dr..
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Engineer Corps Has
$4,000 Civilian Jobs

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16.-R-
Colonel C. D. Baker, chief OF in
dustrial personnel branch OF the
office of the chief Of U. S. Engi-
neers, said here today that 1000
civilian construction workers are
urgently needed by the corps Of
engineers and that 5000 civilian
laborers and mechanics are being
recruited for work in Hawaii.
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and went out and got bottle
If ,,,hislex and a butcher knife. .

and l went out ana got pottle
of whiskey and a butcher knife. >
First, I strangled her." Will
sons confession related, "and
then I had the crazy idea that If
I cut up the body and dismembered
it l could dispose Of it. I sat up
all Tuesday night cutting the body
and drinking whisky. Early in the
morning I pushed the body in a
closet, went to the movie.
IA kind Of craze had gotten hold
Of me. don't know just how to
explain it. I sort of got a thrill
every time I thought about the
murder. ALI those people in the
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American Amor Units
Are On The Move Again

WITH AMERICAN ARA1ORED FORCE EAST OF AAcHEN Nov
e-Amercan the great weapon that broke the German
broke into the Reich in
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HURRY UP!

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. - Up
Christmas cards to soldiers over
seas should be sent at once to get
there in time, and must be in seal
ed envelopes, the army warned
today.
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Byrnes Warns Material
Shorta.-s Are Critical

WASHINGTON, Nov. Byrnes director of
and said today there shortage of
materie1 and proong
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,,.,,,,,,nston and Vicinity: Partly cloudy
md continued cool.
Temperatures yesterday
High 7l-Low So. .
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CONTINUED ON Page Ten; Col. a
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-10-27
Perry Howard
Says Truman Is
Indifferent to Race

Washington, D. G. - Senator
Harry s. Truman, the Democratic
nominee for vice president, has been
Indifferent to the national problems
of colored people, Perry W. Howard,
Republican National C Committeeman
for Mississippi, declared in a pre-
pared statement issued recently.
Mr.. Howard bases his charge on
the record of the special Senate
committee to investigate the ma
tional defense program, of which
Senator Truman is the chairman.
Mr.. Howard said:
"The resolution creating the spe-
cial committee to investigate the
national defense program was
broad enough for the committee to
inquire into any matter relating to
the national defense program.
"At the time the committee was
appointed with Senator Truman as
its chairman, the Committee on the
participation of Negroes in the Ma
tional Defense Program was quite
actively pressing for the inclusion
of colored men in the armed forces
and for the employment and train
ing of colored workers.
CDR. Rayford W. Logan Of How
ard University, and other members
of this latter committee petitioned
Senator Truman to investigate dis
elimination against colored people
both in the armed forces and in in
dustries having national defense
contracts.
"While the Truman committee in
vestigated war contracts, it COM
pletely ignored discrimination
against colored people in the armed
forces, in the vocational training
program, and in industries having
national defense contracts.
self it had made fortnight in
quiry into these matters at the
time the Committee on the Partici-
patton Of Negroes in the National
Defense Program petitioned him to
do so, certainly some of the bars
against colored mems serving in
various branches Of the armed
forces would have been dropped
sooner, and colored men would have
been better trained to serve their
country in this war; colored work.
ers would have received fuller adj
vantages of the vocational train
ing program and would have had
higher skills to offer employers at
the outbreak of war.
81 can find nothing in the entire
record of Senator Truman in the
nine years he has served in the
Senate which would commend him
to colored voters"
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Father of Edith
Bowman and Frank
Peery Dies in Iowa

l. E. Peery of st. Joseph, Mo-,
father of B. F. Peery, 1929 Fourth
Ave. &c., and Mrs. Earl Bowman,
1856 Fifth Ave. &c., Minneapolis,
died Oct. 8 in Des Moines, Ia, after
a brief illness.
Mr.. Peery, "a, attended the
Northwestern A. M. E. conference
in Minneapolis in September and
appeared to be in good health at
that time. He stopped in Des
Moines en- route to his home to visit
another daughter and succumbed
there after five days of complete ex-
haustion apparently due to natural
causes, chiefly his age. His body
was removed to st. Joseph. for
burial.
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ban against political action by ma.
tional officers.
In remarks prefacing an address
by Sidney Hillman, National Citi-
zens Political Action Committee
chairman, at the st. James Pres
byterian Church here, Granger
assaulted John W. Bricker, COP
vice presidential nominee, for
RECKLESS charges" against Hill
man.
He declared that the phrases
"Clear it with Sidney" and "pants-
presser from Lithuania," widely
used by Bricker and other Repub-
ican spokes SIN n, represented
"skillful" use of anti-Semitism
and batting of the foreign-bornD
eve who have knowledge of pref
udice should give the sternest kind
of rebuke to those who use appeals
to prejudice against Sidney Hill
man."
He called the National Citizens
PAC "the most important and
wholesome influence to appear in
American life in the last couple
of generations. It is a truly nom
partisan movement, including
Americans of all races, all walks
of life and all shades Of political
opinion,"