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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-12-09
Stars and
Stripes

S SGT WALTER C EVANS,
S72 Columbus ave, is at an air
force service command station
somewhere in England and is
a member of the Combat Sup
port Wing, outfit at this bomb
depot which is unloading, re-
shipping and storing bombs for
special delivery to the Nazs.
] WHITFIELD JONES, Bos-
ton elocutionist is a member of
the cast Of the All Military Re-
view, somewhere in Italy. He
is a member of the 388ti1
Repl. o. and writes that he has
visited Rome and other famous
places in Italy.
Massachusetts recruits re-
Gently arriving at the U S Ma
val Training Center, Great
Lakes, Ill are: ROBERT S
GLOVER, and MATTHEW JEFF
FERSON, both from Boston;
FREDERICK THOMAS, Brock
ton; GEORGE PINTO, New
Bedford; JOHN J. MURRAY,
Roxbury; JAMES A. CARDOzO,
West Falmouth.
An Army-Nayy Disciplinary
Control Board, established by
the 1st Service Command and
the LIST Naval District, will
handle problems dealing with
servicemen in civilian areas
Civilians who wish to bring
unwholesonhe situations to the
attention of the board are in
vited to write to the President
Joint Army-Navy Disciplinary
Control Board, 8O8 Common.
wealth ave, Boston IS, Mass.
LIEUTENANT (junior grade)
IVAN GEORGE HUNTON
FRASER, 174 Alden st, Spring
field, Mass, who was sworn in.
to the Dental Corps of tht
U S Naval Training Center. D1
Fraser is a graduate of Virgins
Union College and Howard
University Dental School. III
served an internship at thu
Harlem Hospital in New Yors
City. 1t Fraser is the son o.
DR. and Mrs o L K Fraser o,
Springfield, Mass.
MASTER SGT RANDOLPH
WALKER, Jr., son of Mr. ane
Mrs Randolph Walker, 127 Har
ward ave, Medford is chief elec
trician with. a U S Army en-
gineer general service regi
ment in France. M/Sgt Walk
er'S regiment has been over
seas more than a year, in Eng
land and France. The regimen
is repairing damaged rail line
and bridges. M/Sgt Wake.
graduated from Medford Higl
School in 1899 and from vii
berforce University, Ohio
where he studied engineering
in 1912. His brother George i
a lieutenant in the Air Corps
CPL WILLIAM r GRAY, @
Newton, Mass, is an automo
bile mechanic of colored in
fantry regiment in Italy. Re
Gently he and other member
of the regiment installed a nev
bell in the steeple of a villag
church. He is a graduate
Newton Tech H S.
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Anti-Jdp Air
Forces Grow
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cisco, acknowledged that an aircraft
carrier, two tankers and 30 aircraft
had been lost, but claimed that tive
American carriers and g battleship
were sunk or damaged"0
The Japanese feet had been sent
out from It's home bases for the
FIRST time In nearly two years IN an
attempt to disrupt the American
invasion of the MarianaE, less than
1900 miles below Tokyo, and It's
retirement to the South China sea
was expected to speed the conquest
Of the islands and their air bases
within bombing range Of southern
Japan.
American planes already had be-
gun to use Asllto airdrome In south
ern Saipan and it was likely that
Liberators from the Central Pacific
Air Forces soon will be able to take
of from there for roundstrip raids
on the southern Japanese islands.
West Of Japan
West Of Japan, the Army's new
Boo Superfortresses already have
carried out the first Of their prom
Used bombardments Of the Japan.
csc homeland from bases In China.
The Navy department signih-
cantly noted that with the B-2os
striking from the west and task
force So hitting from the east. "the
once impregnable Japanese home
land has at last come within range
of Our strategic bombing forces"
Task Force SO alone, 1t said, was
capable Of launching more than
1000 planes at the very gates OF
Japan"
Although Task Force So has been
in operation for more than six
months, its existence never before
had been revealed. The Navy
summed up Its achievements thus:
I'm the first six months Of its
existence, 1t reversed the direction
Of traffic in the Pacific ocean,"
The force Is made up Of the latest
and swiftest carriers, battleships,
cruisers and destroyers in the feet
and under command of Vice Ad-
miral Marc A. Mitscher.
Spurred BY Defeat
Spurred by the defeat Of the Jap.
anese feet, American INVASION forces
on Saipan advanced more than q
mile along the eastern half Of their
front stretching across the island.
The advance along the east coast
carried to the town Laulau and
gave the Americans control OF al
most the entire rim of Magicienne
Bay. In the interior, the invaders
pushed a mile up Mt. Potchau. An
isolated enemy pocket at Nafutan
point on the southeast corner of the
island was reduced by half.
Admiral Chester w. Nirnitz, COM
mander of the Pacific fleet, said in
a communique last night that
heavy pressure" was being main
tanned night and day by American
planes, naval guns and land artil-
lery against enemy troop concen-
trationS and defense works.
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British Win
Indie Rood
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CThere has been no Official British
estimate of the size of the enemy
forces involved in the invasion, but
military spokesman last March des-
cribed the attack a sa series OF
'rajas.O
$4,000 Men
These sources said the enemy
forces around Imphal ana Kohtma
have been reduced to about $4,000
men, asserting the Japanese have
replaced only about half their cas-
ualties.
small.scale fighting was reported
continuing In ihe Bishenpur area
below Imphal ana along tho Tanld-
Palel road further east where Bril-
tish troops ambushed an enemy
patrol. Most Of the japanese were
killed and the survivors drowned
their own wounded In a nearby river
IN wild race 70 escape.
Allies troops on the northeTlI
Burma edged IN closer to both My
itkyina and Mogaung.
In Central China. an estimated
10000 japanese pressed thur OIL
fensiye southwark from captured
changsha. driving 10 within 81 miles
OF Hengyang on the Canton-Han-
kow railway. Chinese forces N the
western Yunnan front. foweyeI
pushed the enemy back 10 within
less than 10 miles north Of the Old
Burma road stronghold Of Tens.
chung.
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population. Five persons were killed
Is others were injured, and is hous-
es flattened when the storm struck
the southern part Of the town, Sher-
iff Homer L. Curry, Shullsburg, Wis,
said
Mrs. Glenn Hutchinson was killed
and her husband and infant son
were injured critically when they
were blown out of their house
three miles north of Cedarville.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fink were
killed and their daughter was in
jured critically when they were
blown out Of their home near Tru-
man, Wis, and carried betwene 800
and 400 feet by the wind.
Mrs. Gerald McKenna was killed
at her home, five miles southeast
Of Darlington, Wis, when she was
hit by flying plank while attempt
ing to seek shelter in her fruit Gel
lar.
The injured were taken to hos
pitfalls at Platteville and the st. Fran
els hospital at Freeport.
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bombs explode with the effect OF
q 20,OO0-pound blockbuster.
He derided the exaggerated Ger
man claims of Gripping damage in
fiicted by the pilotlesS planes and
asserted that fewer people were
killed in the first five nights of this
offensive than in the five nights Of
the "little blitz" staged by piloted
Nad bombers In mid February.
AS for the Berlin radio claim that
London had been evacuated because
Of the offensive. Morrison said;
well, here we are assembled in
Parliament"
He told Commons that fighter
planes and flax batteries have had
substantial" success in destroying
the robots before they could reach
their detectives and added that a
great deal has been done and is be-
ing done to improve these defenses.
He warned, however, that secrecy
on the specific effect of the raids
and on the measures being taken to
halt them was essential to the sue
cess Of the defensive campaign.
The Nazi offensive, he concluded,
has had mo material effect on the
war, and If the intention was to up
set the morale Of our people 1t has
signally failed"
Fantastic Propaganda
The German radio continued to
trumpet fantastic propag a n da
claims Of widespread havoc in
southern England, and the Nazi
DNB News Agency quoted propa-
ganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as
saying that new and stronger"
German weapons would be hurled
against the Allies at "the oppor-
tune moment"
One enemy broadcast said the
Germans still have used only a few
Of the robot launching bases pre-
pared for the bombardment Of Eng
land,
British observers insisted that the
blind bombing thus far has had lit
tie military effect other than to tie
down q number of Allied fighter
planes and to keep some British and
American bombers busy attacking
the Pas De Calais area, where the
bulk Of the enemy's launching
ramps are believed concentrated.
Curious Effect
One curious effect Of the cam
paign. however. was sharp decline
IN BFitain's dairy production. Dairy
farmers southern England re-
ported that their COWS. which ignor-
90 previous bombing raids and APP
psared impreyious to the sound OF
fanfire. were terrified by the robot
Bombs.
At the first sound OF the dying
korpedoes the cows were said 10 leap
70 their feet and begin racing Graz
~ around their pasture. The result
has been Q drop Of several pounds In
the ayerage milk yield.
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NNOtlbl1uCu 1EOIu rage ~
near Paris. Three Of the Junkers
were claimed by a 2l-year old Mos
quito fighter pilot, Flying Officer w
]. Grey.
Mosquitoes, that hit Lisieux, Dreuz
and Evreux, also bombed anc
raked railway targets at Falaise
Argentan and north Of Breteuil.
German road convoy was battered
near Evreux.
Strong forces Of Flying Fortresse:
and Liberators. escorted by fight
ers, in their second attack yester-
day bombed the robot plane launch.
ing platforms at Pas De Calais anc
variety Of military installations
from the coast to the Paris area
Ten bombers and nine fighters were
lost during the day.
Airdromes, bridges. rail work
shops and yards. transformer sta
tons and fuel tanks we're pounded
by the big bombers at Lille. France
and Client. Belgium.
The pilots reported meeting only
a few enemy planes. Three Ger
man planes were shot down by
fighters and three others by bomb
ers.
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power all leaders Of every grade to
shoot on sight anyone who leaves
his post because Of cowardice. The
hour q serious. Only will power,
readiness for fighting and heroism
TO the death can help"
The Germans we're expanding
their efforts on the defense Of am
munition dumps and suburban air
strips. The resistance was confined
largely to mortar, machine gun and
rife fire, since the nature Of the In
flghting precluded the use Of artil-
lery. -,
The Americans we're reported
making slow but steady progress
with bayonets, hand grenades and
tommy guns against bitterly-resist-
ing enemy survivors Of yesterdays
i.OOO-plane bombardment Of the all
ready doomed port and Its defenses.
1t appeared only a matter Of hours
before Cherbourg with its great har-
her facilities would be in American
hands.
The city already had been isolated
by twin drives to the sea on either
flank, but the defenders-estimated
AZ 10000 prior to yesterdays shat
tering aerial and artillery lombard
ment-were putting up a Sevastopol
defense against overwhelming odds.
Henry T. Gorrell, Unitel Press War
Correspondent, reported from the
front that vicious hand-to-hand
fighting was raging last night south
and southeast Of Cherbourg, espec-
tally in the vicinity Of Tollevast,
three miles below the port.
The invaders were fighting their
way through bomb-shattered Ger
man Notifications, concrete-lined
tunnels, anti-tank ditchers and ex-
tensive minefields, Gorrell said.
some Notifications had walls six
feet thick.
Another fierce battle was under
way at the airfield at Maupertus.
three and half miles east Of Cher
bourg, where the wide, flat expanse
enabled the Germans to sweep the
approaches to their defenses with
murderous machine-gun fire.
The Germans were resisting main
" with grenades, mortars and ma
chine-guns. The majority Of their
SS-millimeter guns appeared to have
been knocked out or abandoned IN
their dash up the Normandy PENN
sula and they apparently had been
unable to train their coastal and
railway guns southwark.
Plight Recognized
Virtually all Of the enemy forces
remaining on the peninsula now
were believed concentrated in the
narrowing arc in and around Cher
bourg, they having withdrawn their
eastern and western flanks prior to
the American push to the north
coast on either side Of the port.
But even the Germans recognized
they could not hold out long under
che about American assault. Ger
man broadcasts already were belit-
ting the Importance Of the port,
despite its excellent landing facili-
ties and railroad of double trunk
line to Paris.
1T will be possible for the Ger
man command to seal off the PEN
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A8fA%eANAeeAASeA
OF Germans In the Baltic countries.
A Russian offensive along the
Orsha- Warsaw highway also may be
coordinated with a new offensive
thrust from Soviet positions on the
approaches 10 Lwow In southern
Poland. on the main invasion
route TO both Warsaw and Berlin.
The German Transocean Agency
said especially fierce dghting was
raging today along a e3-mile front
between q point south OF Mogilev
and the area north OF Vitebsk.
German reconnaissance indicates
the offensive soon vii iextend north
and south" the Agency said. II
speculated that the Sovlets' strategic
objective appeared TO be q break into
the Baltic countries along the Dyina
river.
Another Transocean dispatch said
the Russians had been attacking
Vitehsk from two sides for the past
- hours. The Russians penetrated
into the outskirts OF Vitebsk last
December, but failed 10 capture the
city and presumably Withdrew At
the time 70 stronger positions few
miles outside.
A German coInmunique said grim
fighting" was ''still in progress" on
both sides Of Vitebsk this morning.
The fortress town Is protected BY q
thick belt Of forests. wateFWayE, ra-
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was accelerated by the military dis
asters at Stalingrad, FL Alemein
and Tunisia. Failure Of the fuehr-
er's "intuitive" military mind at
Stalingrad was believed to have
caused the Prussian military clique
to take over control Of the war front,
leaving Hitler the home front and
incidentally the blame for its COL
lapse If collapse must come.
May Be Banished
They believe 1t possible that Hit
Ter has been banished to his lair
at Obersalzberg. There has been
no effort to capitalize on his mystic
personality; the usual announce
ment that he had set up headquar-
tiers with his fighting men on the
western front was conspicuous by its
absence; there were none Of the ia
nous "fuehrer befehls" exhorting
the troops to stand or die"
Hitler has said absolutely MOTH
ing and If he still Is wearing the
famous military greatcoat he prom
ised never to take of until final
victory, he must be sweating 1t out
In extreme seclusion. He has made
no appearances in Germany's bad
ly bombed cities. His only pub
licized activities in recent months
have been a conference with Benito
Mussolini which even the German
radio propagandized half-heartedly
and few visits from satellite lead
ers like Hungary's Admiral Nicholas
Horthy.
Utter Silence
The German army, which is a
very realistic organization. has kept
its reserve in the great drum-beat-
ing for the robot planes. Party
men like Joseph Goebbkls have lux
uriated in descriptions" Of a pail
of smoke a!legedly blanketing Lon
don and the desperate evacuation"
of the city. Military commenta-
tors like Capt. Ludwig Sertorious
have pointed out to the joy-drunk
populace that this weapon Is not
going to win the war.
But from Hitler-utter silence.
Students OF Germany here be-
lieve his name may have lost its
mystic appeal for the men fighting
defensive battles on French, Italian
and Russian battlefields.
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RACES Furiously
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/ insula In such a way that even the
possession Of the restored port will
be Of very small use to the enemy"
O typical enemy broadcast said.
The final American assault on
Cherbourg began yesterday at 1910
.. m. with a two-hour lombard
ment Of the enemys defense posi-
tons by 1000 or more bombers and
fighter-bombers and hundreds Of
guns massed around the 20-odd-mile
perimeter of the German line.
Pistol Range Attack
Many of the planes attacked from
pistol range, blasting and STRAIT
ing enemy forts, pillboxes, aminuni-
ton dumps, oil stores and troops
concentrations at places only 500
yards from the American lines.
1t was the heaviest aerial bonn
bardment in direct support Of the
ground forces since D-Day, and a
British officer who had just arrived
from Italy said Casino was "child's
play compared to this"
Wehn the terrific bombardment
finally was Lifted. the infantry
charged forward and soon was en-
gaging the enemy at close range on
all sides all around the defense
perimeter.
Details of the progress Of the
ground fighting were lacking, since
all official reports released by head
quarters were IL to "a hours late,
but Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower
35th communicate at II a. m q a.
m. Ewt.) reported.
Operations against the fortress
of Cherbourg are proceeding salts
factorily. Offensive action and local
attacks have effectively pinned down
enemy formations in the eastern
sectors"
Warships Aid
Airmen who participated in the
bombardment Of Cherbourg reported
that Allied warships also were pour
ing broadsides into the port, but
this could not be confirmed. An
other flyer said naval battle had
been Joined In the English Chan
mel last evening, but this also lacked
COIlIlTIlhbAUtl.
Last evening, Thunderbolt dive
bombers switched their lombard
ment from Cherbourg to the Island
Of Attorney, eight miles west OF
Cap de La Hague, bombing and
strafing gun positions and bar
racks.
Some 20 miles south of Cherbourg
other American forces advanced
south and southeast from st. Sau-
veur-Le Vicomte and st. 10 DuOr-
vile toward lie Haye-Du Puts
communications center and former
German headquarters for the area
Minor Advance
British forces ran into German
tanks in a minor advance near Lon
grave, southwest Of lilly Sur Seul-
les, and found strong resistance
three miles east Of Caen.
The latest advances were revealed
to have enlarged the Allied beach
head to $50 square miles.
The weather improved somewhat
of the beach with the wind drop
ping to about IL miles per hour
enabling the Allies to step up Their
landing operations after bad weather
had curtailed them during the pre-
vious four days.
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the war is over, will be brought to
exemplary justice" the Foreign Sec
rotary said.
Eden told the House that Ger
man statement on the incident al
legged that several thousand Allied
prisoners in camps all over Ger.
many attempted a mass prison
break during March, at the insti-
cation OF the Allied general staff.
Attempted Escape
The attempted escape had both
military and political detectives and
hence especially severe orders
were given to deal with them, the
Naz explanation claimed.
That explanation, Eden said
scornfully, lis in fact confession
Of an odiops crime against the law;
and conventions of war;"
mo orders have at any time beer
given TO British prisoners Of war to
take Fart, in the event of their es-
cape, in any subvers;ve action, ss
the German government alleges" he
said.
Eden buttressed his charges BY
pointing out that not single flyer
involved in the attempted escape
from Etalag Luft third was wound
ed and that the Nazis have moi
given an account of the circum-
stances surrounding the death Of
any of the airmen.
He said the actual escape occur
red during the night of March 24-25
when some rs prisoners tunnelet
out of the camp. -Four others who
tried TO follow them were caught
Immediately and the 81 who vert
shot later were captured elsewhere.
Only one shot was fireo during
the escape, according to testimony
from repatriated prisoners who wit
, messed the incident. Eden said.
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vines ana concrete emplacements.
DNB reported that the offensive
was accompanied by reconnaissance
thrusts and pinntng- down attacks"
on the southern flank. None Of the
attacks south OF the main front.
however, was In more than battalion
strength. It was said.
Transocean asserted that Soviet
attacks northwest Of Tiraspol and
south Of the PFipet Marshes In Pa
land were repulsed. as we're strong
thrusts on the approaches 70 Po'
lotsk, northwest Of Vitebsk.
The SEnolensk- orsha- Minsk motor
road. which the Germans suggested
was the center 0f gravity o. the
new offensive. Is one Of the best
military roads In Russia and offers
9 direct supply route from Moseew.
A trunk railway runs parallel 70 the
highway.
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two and @ half miles from the
Murmansk rail line.
Extend BFldgehead
On the western end OF the TO-
mile front across the isthmus. Red
army troops extended their bridge
head on the northern bank Of the
evir to nine miles north Of Lodeinoe
Pole.
Striking swiftly through the
towns Of Nazarevskoye, staraya-
evirskaya Slobodo and Noyaya-
6virskaya Sloboda. the Russians
brought their lines within II miles
from Olonets. a timber producing
town on the highway running
noFtheact ofPetrozavodsk.
Marsha. Leonid A. 0ovorov's
Leningrad army also continued is
advance through the Karelian
isthmus and captured q flve-niile
section Of the Viipuri-S ortavala
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sion to the White House Of $1,000
100000 war agencies bill, the So
900, 100000 defense aid bill supplying
funds for Lend-Lease, the foreign
economic administration and United
States participation in the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, and the sos, 1000. 900
District of Columbia appropriation.
Earlier in the day Congress sent
to the White House a bill setting
the formula for terminating more
than 1000, 900, 900 in war con-
tracts. 1t also completed action on
the $562,l46,9l8 Agriculture De-
partment and $l,ll2y684.464 Labor
Federal Security Supply bills and
sent them off for the signature of
President Roosevelt.
A bevy of other less important
measures also was enacted and sent
to the Presidents desk.