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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-23

|sImmiinent.
Berlin Says
10000 Red Troops
Thrown Against North
ern Sector

LONDON, Dec. 22.-(P-
The Germans announced that
Russian force of 270,00(
men had lashed out suddenly
in Latvia in a new offensive
aimed at crushing 80 Nazi di-
visions pinned against the
Baltic Sea, and also said a
grand Red Army winter of.
iensive was imminent on the
snowswept Eastern Front.
The northern strike was launched
Thursday at the same time that
Marshal Faodor I. Tolbukhin S
Third Ukraine Army in western
HungfA began new drive south
west oN3udapest in a double effort
10 surround the Hungarian capital
and crack open a direct invasion
route TO Vienna.
Russian troops already have stab
bed 10 within two miles of Sexes
tehervar. big bastion 80 miles
southwest Of Budapest and lis
miles southeast OF Vienna, Berlin
said. This would represent a four
mile advance from Soviet positions
two weeks ago. Er
Berlin also told of Soviet gains
northwest of Sally (Ipolysag), "a
miles northwest Of Budapest, where
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky' S
Second Ukraine Army is threaten
ing to break cut into the Bratis-
lava plain at point within IS miles
Of the Slovak capital and lis miles
due east of Vienna.
The two Red Army operations,
not yet confirmed by Moscow,
formed a great pincers aimed at
taking Budapest from the rear
and SCATTERING intermediate Ger
man formations on both sides of
the Danube between the Hungarian
capital and the Austrian frontier.
Far to the northeast of Budapest,
other units Of Malinovsky's army
were converging on the big Slo' ak
rail centers of Kassa and Losonc,
and were cleaning out the last
German formations clinging to the
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British Plan Yanks Fooled
New Draft OF Enemy Push,
$4,000 Men Leader Says
Germans Charged With U.s.
ing Every Treachery
In Drive

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
T1ONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Dec. 22.-(P)-Gallantly re-
sisting American troops al
ready have done much to foil
the Germans great gamble"
in Belgium and Luxembourg,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
declared today in a fighting
exhortation to his Allied arm
les to destroy the enemy on
the ground, in the air, every
where - but destroy him"
In his first order of the day
since the Nazis blasted through the
First Army's lines last weekend,
the Allied commander-in-chief told
his men that 1.-The enemy m a y
give us a chance to turn his great
gamble into his worst defeat"
He. charged the Germans with
using every treacherous trick to
deceive and kill you," and called
upon every Allied soldier to rise
now to new heights OF courage,
of resolution and OF effort" The
Allies, he declared, could not be
content merely with repulsing the
Nazi onslaught, but must crush
the enemy.
Following is the text of the or
der:
The enemy is making his SUI
preme effort to break out of the
desperate plight into which you
forced him by your brilliant vic
tories of the summer and fall.
HE is fighting savagely to take
back all that you have won and
is using every treacherous trick to
deceive and kill you. He is gam
bling everything, but already in
this battle your gallantry has done
much to foil his plans. In the face
of your proven bravery and for
titude, he will completely fail.
But we cannot be content with
his mere repulse.
"By rushing out from his fixed
defenses the enemy may give us
the chance to turn his great gam
BILE into his worst defeat.
so I call upon every man of
all the Allies to rise now to new
heights of courage, of resolution
and of effort. Let everyone hold
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All Services To Be Combed
For Replacement
Personnel

LONDON, Dec. 22.-P-
Britain tonight ordered a new
draft, plus transfers from
the Raj and the Navy and q
stricter comb-out of its "desk
soldiers to raise quickly
100000 more men for its
armies.
The new Gallup, which is in ad-
dition to the regular CONSUMPTION
schedule, was announced by Prime
Minister Churchills office as the
Berlin radio said Gen. Eisenhower
was drawing reinforcements from
the British army group to help the
Americans check the German Yves.
tern Front comprehensive.
An official announcement said
the move was being made in or.
der to sustain and nourish our ar
mics in the line in the coming
months.
The bulk of the new men will be
obtained by new draft of civil
ians, the announcement. said, but il
added that extra soldiers also
would be gained by tralafers tt
the army from the navy and the
Raj and by combing the admins
trative services and static forms
of Defense for still more.
1t was assumed that the RAFs
defensive forces could spare mer
now since beating the German all
force and the robot attacks, ane
that others would come from
ground defenses.
Spokesman would not say wha1
the Navy could spare, but its tasks
in European waters are known tt
have been lign4ened by defamation
of the Nazi surface fleet and by
progress of the Battle of the At
lantic.
When asked whether the new
Gallup was a direct result of this
weeks Western Front reverses a
military spokesman said it was 6
matter of considered government
policy" rather than an emergency
measure.
The spokesman later added: ITO
nights announcement is regarded
by the government as an importan
statement eloquent of Britain's res
olution in the prosecution Of the
war"
The civilian Gallup will be the
first big task for the new Director
General of Manpower, H. c. Elmer
son, whose appointment was an
nounced earlier tonight. The pos
had been vacant about a month
since the appointment OF Sir God
frey Ince as permanent secretary
to the Ministry Of Labor and Ma
! tional Service.
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NEW RED DRIVES
MAY TAKE WEEKS
TO HELP ALLIES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.ER-
Il may be weeks or months before
the promised Russian grand OF
fensive produces any effect on the
Western Front, military men sale
today
In their opinion, the German
High Command has ''budgeted
Its men and materials for each
Of its fronts-the Western, Eastern
and Italian-and would not shift
troops until a critical stage has
been reached"
Assuming that the projected
Russian offensive on the Eastern
Front succeeds in breaking through
The Nazi's line, this "critica
stage might be reached wher
he Russian forces roll up to the
border Of Germany proper.
If the Soviet armies strike from
ne Vistula river ir Poland, they
would have to advance westward
Almost 200 miles before hitting
NE German border.
Even then, it was said, the Ger
man High Command might hesi
late to shift forces from the Yves
Tern Front - assuming that the
western Front by that time is no
even more menacing than tht
Eastern. %
1t was pointed out that althoug:
troops had crossed the German
border at some points in the west
sefe is nothing to indicate tina
ue German command has pullet
any forces from the east, ever
iOF the big counterofensive nov
under way.
Speculation on the area Of tn
SOVIET offensive centers Target,
I'LL the Vistula front, where tn
broad broad Polish plains offer favor
sole ground for use of large mass
~ Of Russian cavalry and mech
sllzed equipment.
me Germans apparently hav
svSlaollshed strong defenses alon
Ie Vistula. Behind it, east c
-ooz, is a north-soutn line OF hlg
ground on which secondary de
"'aS NAV have been anchored
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|JAPS BELIEVED
FLEEING BURMA
Enemy May Fall Back For
Stand In Mandalay
Sector

CALCUTTA, Dec. 22.-R-As u.
S. 10th Air Force pilots wrecked
further enemy bridges, frontline
dispatches indicated today that the
Japanese had decided to give up
northwest Burma and fall back to
defense line around Mandalay.
Field reports offered mounting
evidence that the enemy was IN
general retreat from the town OF
Indaw in a quarter circl6 south
west to Gangaw, on the Myittha
river. Only rearguard pockets are
left for delaying action, said dis
patches received here at head
quarters of the Allied land forces
of southeast Asia.
In the northern combat area the
Burma Bridge Busters" - the
49Oth Medium Bomb group have
knocked out eight more japanese
bridges, five of them railraod
spans. Other formations of Ameri-
can planes streaked over the wild,
450-mile jungle stretch between
Lashio and Moulmein, plastering
Japanese troops, vehicles, supplies
and defense works almost without
opposition.
PAT pilots also accounted for a
railroad bridge, and several ferry
landings we're left burning fiercely
after raids on Japanese communi.
cations along the Irrawaddy river
north of Mandalay.
In the ground fighting, British
18th Army troops have struck
south from the captured town of
Wuntho on the Observation-Disclosures
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other lengthy discussion Of the
Atlantic Charter which the Pres
ldent disclosed earlier this week
was never drafted as a formal
document which he and Prime
Minister Churchill signed.
Today's was initiated by a re-
porter's request for comment on
what he said was feeling by
many people that I'VE are getting
away from the purposes" of the
Charter.
Mr.. Roosevelt said ne thought
the detectives of the Atlantic
Charter are as valid as when they
were announced in 194l" and lent
emphasis to this statement by
authorizing its direct quotation.
He went on to say that many
documents through the years have
affected public thinking and help
ed the world advance even when
their detectives were not fully
attained.
People don't live up to all the
Ten Commandments and the teach
ings of Christianity, he remarked,
but they are good things. He was
(Contiuued nm pava Tuo. Co1 ~
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PALOMP0N UNDER
YANK ARTILLERY
Americans Continue Min
doro Drive Without
Opposition

ERAL MACARTHUR's
EADQU ARTE R S, Philip
pines, Saturday, Dec. 23.-R)-The
U. S. 18th Infantry Division has
advanced three miles west OF the
Ormoc corridor on the mountain
road toward Palompon, escape
port for the embattled japanese
remaining on Leyte Island, Gen
eral Macarthur announced today.
Palompon, which is on the west
ern coast of the northwest Shout
der of the island, is under Yank
artillery fire. japanese remnants
fleeing from the corridor are try.
ing to. cut their way. through to
Palompon.;
hopping up continues in other
areas near the corridor, where the
door has been slammed shut on
the Nipponese after destruction OF
their, defense lines.
Another 1,546 enemy dead were
counted on Thursday, headquar-
tiers said.
The enemy airforce continued
its raids on American ground po-
sitions on Mindoro, far to t h e
northwest of Leyte, and lost sew
en- planes. Two American fighters
were lost in intercepting the at
tack. Enemy ground opposition
still had failed to develop on Min
doro. -s .-
Nipponese aerial activity has in
creased sharply since completion
Of, airfields on Mindoro, which is
within, 80 minutes flight of Manila
on Luzon to the north.
(faor<:,,,,xx.7s, n yrx rI q,
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Push Rolls Up
10 MilesFronl
FrenchBorder
Fierce Attack By Patton
Succeeds In Checking
Germans

PARIS, DEC. 22.-(AP)-
The violent German winter
offensive spent much OF its
force today after pounding 40
miles across Belgium in seven
days, bursting through Lux
embourg and rolling up near
Arlon, only 10 miles from the
French border 40 miles east
of Sedan.
Uate German broadcasts
said that a ''fierce" attack
from the south by 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third Ar
my today succeeded in slow
ing" the advance and that the
brunt of the fighting had
shifted to the flanks.)
Field dispatches reporting that
the enemy advance had slowed
down, said, however, the Germans
were believed snassing armor for
renewed blows and Gen. Eisen.
hover called on Allied armies to
turn the whole great gamble
into the enemy's worst defeat"
The Germans were hurt in
bloody battle of attrition which
cost them more than 200 tanks
in five days of battering around
Malmedy on the north flank along
the routes to the great port of
Antwerp and the Belgian capital
Of Brussels.
Supreme headquarters and field
dispatches gave this picture Of
the sweep of the German drive
from Tuesday noon when the
Germans were 80 miles inside
Belgium - to Wednesday noon,
keeping events of the last 48 hours
under security blackout:
The most powerful wedge of
Field Marshal Won Rundstedt's Of
fensive slashed through Luxem-
bourg and by late Wednesday had
cut major roads north, south and
east of the key road center of
Bastogne, inside Belgium four
miles west of Luxembourg's Dor
der.
This force then lanced on Is
miles northwest across the Ourthe
river to La Roche, 80 miles inside
Belgium and about Is miles south
of the northern flank west Of
Stavelot. Heavy fighting ragged
at La Roche.
German armor which by-passed
Bastogne headed on west for an
undisclosed distance
In the break through Luxerh-
bourg, an American force was en-
circled at Witt, in the northern
part of the Duchy nine miles east
OF Bastogne. The Americans still
held out inside the town. The Ger.
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General Of The Army
Insignia To Be Fiue
Stars Set In Circle

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. -.B-
The five-star insignia of the new.
ly created rank of General of the
Army is arranged in circle.
A War Department announce
ment today described the insignia
as follows:
Give silver five-pointed stars,
each star three eighths OF an inch
in diameter, fastened together in
a circle, the inner points touching.
The surface Of the stars to be plain,
raised, and grounded"
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FORECAST

Fair and continued cold today with
highest temperature about 3S degrees
Moderate northwest winds.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High. Slow, 36.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
Police Study Clues
in Dumping Of Safe
Recent BursIory
Coses Recalled

UTICA - Sheriffs investi-
gators, the Detroit Police safe
burglary detail and State Police
detectives today combined their
skills in an effort to probe the
circumstances behind the finding
of a large cmercantile safe in an
abandoned car on the 16-Mile
road Thursday.
Finding of the safe Is signifi-
cant, since il was abandoned in
an area now being secured by
officers for clues in a recent
series of burglaries.
1t was in the rear compart-
ment of a Detroit's car recently
reported stolen. The safe is said
to have belonged to a garage In
that city.
All available background on
the case, and fingerprints and
other marks on the safe itself,
are being studied by Chief
Deputy Thomas H. Kaltenbach,
of the Sheriff's Department;
bet. James Brockney, Detroit
police safe expert, and Lieut..
William Watkins, ace investi-
gator of the State Police.
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V-Gardens
CONTINUED from Page ID

scheme paid is not explained In
the report filed at the Sheriff's
Office by arresting officers.
The case was brought to the
attention of authorities when
Woodworking Victory Gardener
Joseph Drohomirecki, of 2l1
Nicke road, returned on several
occasions from his daytime war
plans~job in Detroit to tend his
garden during the evenings,
only TO find it taking on the
appearance of a picked chick
en-" according to the official re-
port.
Drohomirecki, incensed at
losing the fruits of his labors,
kept watch and finally halted
the two boys, Is and Is years
old, as they uprooted his vege-
tables.
In front of officers, the pair
admitted footing the complain
ants garden and also other veg
etable plots and said they sold
the produce on the highway.
They were turned over to the
Detroit Juvenile bet e ntion
Home and their case reported
to the Prosecutor and Probate
Judge.
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formed the justice that he would
discuss the matter with the sher-
ifs office prior to making any
recommendation concerning the
dropping of the charge.
Mitchell was arrested by Dep
uty Jarvis on the night of Aug.
first.
The Wac and her four girl
companions, whose car was al
legedly damaged by MitchelPs,
appeared In court the following
day. They appeared again on
Aug. 8 when the case was adj
journed and again yesterday
where it again developed that
no progress would be made.
II now stands postponed I'M
til Sept. z.
In the meantime Mitchell Is
still at large; on bond furnished
by his own agency.
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Retreat
Continued from Page ~.

(COntlnued from Page ID"
save Paris by stand along
the Somme.
1t would not surrender the
rocket coast around Pas-De-Ca-
lais,- but front line dispatches
said an end might be put to the
buzz-bomb terror for England
soon.
Almost forgotten, except by
military men, was the siege of
the great naval base of Brest in
Brittany. But it was brought
back into the news with disclos-
use that a nine-wave attack By
ninth air force bombers sent 800
planes winging over its fortifi-
cations this afternoon.
AS an inlet for supplies di-
rect from America and Britain,
Brest would be of greater inn
portance to the Allies than Paris
even.
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Pacific
CONTINUED from Page -

two Allied planes were downed.
This island has suffered two
previous fleet raids at Sabang.
Sumatra buttresses the Japanese
hold on Singapore Naval Base.
Gen. Joseph Stilwell mean
while offered a summary of his
North Burma operations this
year, reporting that 10000
square miles of territory were
retaken and more than 10000
japanese slain. He reckoned the
campaign as partial recompense
for the hell of beating" his
forces took in Burma in 1912.
BLASTED ANEW
Halmahera, steppingstone to
the Philippines, took its heavi-
est bombing Wednesday. Gen.
MacArthur's airmen unloaded
156 tons to good effect, destroy
ing buildings and setting fires.
Adm. Nimitz announced a
Sunday raid on ofthit Para
mushiro north of Japan.
The Chinese strengthened
their continuous counterattacks
against japanese trying to ex-
pand their Hengyang victory
Hankow-Canton railway.
Mountbatten, reviewing the
bitter, obscure Asia fighting,
said $4,000 japanese were killed
in the Burma campaign (Which
includes Stillwells offensive
and the Indian border fighting)
against 10000 Allied troops
slain.
He commented that the jap
anese Navy was now las afraid
to accept action lin the Indian
Ocean and the Bay of Bengal as
it is in the Pacific"
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Kitchen Helper
Makes Cleaning
i'm Single Night

ROSEVILLE- The manpow-
er shortage in non-essential Jobs
this week proved expensive for
a restaurant operator at a.
Mile road and MOI when he
hired a kitchen helper without
asking too many questions of
the new employee.
The man worked one night
and was gone with the dawn.
Also gone was check for
S52.94 and a gold wrist watch.
The report was made by Jo-
seph Daniels, of the Turkey Run
Inn. He described his one-night
employee as a foreign-appearing
man (of Latin race) age about
38; height five feet six inches,
and weight l40 pounds. He is
believed to be a Mount Clemens
resident.
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Bomber
Continued from Page u

name. 1t. Gaar declares emphat-
ically that he wouldn't trade his
crew for any other in combat
operation today.
But to get along with the melt
ing pot crew, Sgt. Edward Su-
towski is of Polish extraction;
Sgt. Hector Mcdonald is Scotch;
and Sgt. Bill Nye is from New
England, strengthening the Yam
kee phase of the melting pot;
Cpl. Wayne Mattila is Finnish.
The Jenny Rebel is attached
to an advanced Ninth Air Force
Fighter Base in France, and
still carries on her illustrious
career in spite of repeated gap
ing wounds thrown into her by
flying, bursting flax.
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Dgaeh Fading Trial
ri Armed hoIdup

VAN DYKE - Walter Drach,
70. Of 0065 Nine Mile road,
charged with robbery armed by
Detroit police In connection with
4 holdup in that city two weeks
ago, has been held for trial in the
Wayne Circuit Court.
Drach was bound over after
IN examination conducted be-
fore Recorders Judge John j..
Naher.
Drach's friend, Jack Dodd, OF
Warren Township, was shot and
killed by Detroit officers after a
chase on the night Of the crime.
Drach, who has a Macomb
County criminal record, has
been listed several times as
AWOL from the army.
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Pilots Eight-Em
But Ground Crews
Keep Them Flying

When the last word has been
written on the part the air force
has played in the war, that last
word may have something TO do
with the ground crews that have
kept the planes in condition and
in fighting trim. Among those
unsung, unheralded heroes we
feel sure will appear the name
of one Sgt. Raymond Betcher,
now attached to the Eighth Air
Force, somewhere in England.
Sgt. Betcher's wife resides at
100 Lincoln avenue, Mount
Clemens; his parents are Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Betcher and they
live in Roseville. They will be
proud to know that their hus-
band and son has been commend
ed by his Group Commanding
Officer for the outstanding main
tenance work that he and his
crew have done in keeping their
B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" fly
ing on her many missions.
These missions include 81 over
Germany, II to France, and two
into Belgium. They have struck
Berlin twice, while other mis-
Sions have taken them to Bruins
wick, Bremen, and Leipzig. Mill
tary installations in the Pas de
Calais area were also hit includ-
ing robot plane factories.
The witch" also figured
prominently in pre-invasion soft
ening-up blows which greatly
aided the ground forces. Yes,
there is more truth than trite-
ness in the saying, Keep 'em
flying" for Sgt. Beteher is just
one of the boys who really do.
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Bernard Fox

Funeral services will be held
Monday morning at $50 from
the LaCroix and Groesbeck fun
eral home, and at 8 from ST
Louis Catholic Church for
Bernard Fox, 33, who died at
Harper hospital, Detroit, early
this morning after a weeks ILL
ness. Prayers will be held al
the funeral home Saturday and
Sunday evenings at 8 o'clock
Mr.. Fox lived at 725 Ormsby
street.
He is survived by his wife,
Jeanne; a son, James 3; two
brothers, Wilbur and Gordon
and three sisters, Mrs. Russell
Copeland, Mrs. Donald Reilly
and Mrs. Earl Rosebury, all OF
Mount Clemens.
The body will be at LaCroix
and Groesbeck funeral home af-
ter 7 o'clock Saturday. Burial
will be in st. Peters Catholic
cemetery.
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Obituaries
Mrs. O'Brien

Funeral services will be held
Monday at 2 o'cloch@from the
Hubbard Funeral Home for
Mrs. Jeanette OBrien who
died at the Northwestern Grace
Hospital in Detroit early this
morning after a prolonged i'll
ness.
. Mrs. O'Brien, Sc years of age,
was born on Harsen's Island,
the daughter of George and
Eliza Fox. She resided in Mount
Clemens for some time before
marrying Owen O'Brien and
moving to Dearborn, Mich.
While in Mount Clemens she
was a member of the Presbyter-
ian Church choir.
Besides her husband, Owen.
she is survived by a brother, Is
aac Fox of Dearborn, and many
nieces and nephews.
Burial will be in the family
lot in Clinton Grove cemetery.