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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07
Steel Workers Back

Answering an appeal of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, 10000 striking
steel workers trooped back to the
nations mills after three-day
walkout, in protest over the War
Labor Boards refusal to promise
payment of new wage raises back
to the date the old contracts ex-
pried.
In appealing to the CLOS United
Steel Workers of America, FDR
did so on the understanding that
any new pay boosts would date
back to the time the old pacts
ended. If any such back payments
chewed into steel company finances
FDR promised price revisions.
The steel workers demanded a II
cents an hour raise over the pres
ent 70 cents an hour rate. If grant
ed, the increase would crack the
War Baor Boards Little Steel"
formula, limiting pay boosts to 10
per cent over the January, l94l,
levels.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07

j Zawodny, ZIG F. MCCrosky, 2l4, Jack
Lhher, 2l9; John Klofta. 2l4. Al Krall
222 Gus Vossberg, 202; John Brug, 200 :
Del Bordner, 2l3; Leo Strugarek, 2S6 :
Charles Urbansh 257 Joe Kurdys, 2O4
Cap Pioida, eli; Van Meyer. 2i0; Walter
Sluk. 2O0 Larry LefeNer 226.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07
INVASION:
Eisenhower Chief

"We will win the European war
in 1914"
With these words Gen. Wright
D. Eisenhower assumed command
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07
YXYIX>HH
Local IL Tournament
Slated For BowI-O-Drome
By Ed Mandy

First annual handicap tournament will be held at the
Conpwood Bowl Friday Saturday and Sunday, JAM 2S
schedules have been arranged to enable all war
workers the opportunity their bowling.
Entry fees tourney will be $3.50 team plus $500 per
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07

Axis from North
Africa and Sicily
and in invading
Italy.
AS his deputy,
General E i S e n
hover has Brit
ish Air Chief
Marshal Arthur
Tedder. To U. :.
Lieut.. Gen. Carl
Spaatz has gone
the task of stra-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Allied Chiefs Map Invasion Srategl
AS Axis Staggers From Heavy Blow
American Troops Tighten Jap Moose
By Occupation of New Britain Island
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Released by Western Newspaper Union
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-07

~ l. NAAS ~ ~
forces for the ii,-
vasion o f t h e
western gate of
Hitler's Fortress
Europe.
AS Eisenhower
went to work In
preparation f or
the k n o c k IN
blow he was
e d b y a S t
w h i c h asst
him in drivi1
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
STATE TO EXECUTE
EIGHT IN. One DAY
Supreme Court Decision
To Set Record For
Gas Chamber

RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. 13.-tR--
The State Supreme Court upheld
the death sentences of five defend
ants today, thus automatically set
ting December % as the date OF
execution of eight persons-a num-
Der which the parole office said set
a record.
Three Mecklenburg Negroes. al
ready granted one stay, are sche-
du1ed to die that day on conviction
of charges of Staying a Charlotte
taxieab driver after robbing him.
Two of the trio are women.
The court handed down % opin-
ions. in which it found no error
in three capital cases, two Of them
from Guilford county, and ordered
a new trial for Cletus Rowell, con-
victed in Union on charges Of muir
der
One of the Guilford cases, in
which Elmer Hardie Biggs, Jr.,
William Dalton Biggs and John Ed
gar Messer were sentenced to death
was before the Supreme Court for
the second time. The trio was
granted new trial when the court
at previous term held there was
an error in the admission of evil
dence of certain confessions which
were held involuntary.
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to the south. Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur said today.
The 77th Division, which captur-
ed Ormoc Sunday and later was
Joined by the Seventh coming up
from the south has been regroup-
ing its units and sending patrols
north to probe enemy strength to
the rear of the Yamashita defense
line.
Deprived of Ormoc, port through
which the Japanese received most
OF their supplies, the Nipponese are
being pressed into the mountains
to the northwest also under attack
by the Sind U. S. Division coming
down from the Carigara bay coast
and the First Cavalry Division driv-
ing in from the northeast.
Macarthur said the japanese
caught by the juncture of the Sew.
enth and 77th Divisions were sui
tering extraordinarily heavy loss
es in their desperate effort to es.
cape over the mountain trails.
Three small japanese transports
loaded with troops were sunk in
Ormoc harbor Tuesday night by
American shore guns. The Nippo-
nese apparently were unaware that
the Yanks held the town when the
craft slipped into the harbor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
MISTS OF WINTER
BLOCK ALLIED AIR
ATTACK ON ENEMY

LONDON, Dec. IS. --(P)- The
mists and clouds of Europe's win
ter stifled the Allied air offensive
against Germany today, holding
the heavy bombers away from en-
envy targets which in the two pre-
vious days had been rocked by
10000 tons of explosives from some
5000 planes.
Bad weather closed in after a
strong force of Raj Lancasters
and Halifaxes, plus night fighters
and Mosquitoes, completed the Sec
ond day of around-the-clock as
sault on enemy transportation and
oil refineries with a shattering
blow at Essen and smaller strike
at Osnabruck late last night.
Even the close support of the
Western Front ground operations
by medium and fighter bombers
was cut to minimum by weather.
Heavy bombing of the citadel in
Julich ahead of the Ninth Arny's
front northeast of Aachen, was
carried out by planes of the 18th
Tactical Air Command, and
Polish squadron of the Raj cut
railway line between Utrecht
and Seiden farther north.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
MISSING PAPER
BATTLES SENATE
Quiz OF Appointees Delay.
ed By Search For State
Document

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.- R -
Senators turned from cotton and
poetry to a search for mysteri-
ously missing diplomatic docu.
ment tonight as they DELAYED final
committee action on six State De.
partment appointments.
The Foreign Relations Commit
tee, meeting behind closed doors,
decided to hold an executive SEES
sion tomorrow morning to delve
into a question raised at public
hearings today by Senator Guffey
D-Pa).
Guffey told his colleagues that
he had been to the State Depart
ment trying to find report he
was informed had been made by
Claude Bowers, then ambassador
to Madrid. during the Spanish Civ
Ill War. The Pennsylvania senator
said he was told this report was
favorable to the anti-Franco
forces.
But Guffey added that as far as
he could learn, the Bowers report
never h d reached President
Roosevelt or the Secretary OF
State.
Chairman Connally D-Tex) said
that James c. Dunn, who has been
a State Department official + o r
years, would be available for ques-
tioning about the matter tomorrow.
Dunn was one of five nominated
for assistant Secretary of State.
Connally said Guffey also ex-
pressed a desire to ask a question
or two of Nelson Rockefeller, alsD
nominated for an assistants post,
and Rockefeller would be on hand.
The committee temporarily end
ed it's public hearings earlier af-
ter it had spent the morning learn
ing about the plight of the Ameri.
can cotton farmer from Will L.
Clay on. In the afternoon it lis
tened. often amused, while Sena-
tor Clark D-Mo) questioned Ar
chibald Macleish about poetry
Macleish had written.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
KISALAC TAKEN
BY RED TROOPS
Russian Artillery Pound
ing Budapest
Approaches

LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 14.-(R
- Red Army armored columns,
smashing through strong Nazi de-
lenses northeast of Budapest yes.
terday, captured Kisalag, sever
miles from the Hungarian capital,
Moscow announced.
In addition they seized the rail
way town of Isaszeg, 10 miles di-
rectly east of Budapest, as the Rus.
slams increased t h e i pressure
from that direction and hammer
ed the northeast and southeast en-
frances to the city with artillery
and aerial blows.
Isaszeg was captured in five
mile push south from Godollo,
which fell Tuesday.
The broadcast Moscow communi-
que also announced the capture OF
seven other towns farther northeast
of Budapest, including Szurdok-
Puspoki, IL miles north of the Rus
sian occupied rail junction OF Hat
van and on the rail line leading
north from Hatvan to Losonc in
Slovaka.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
ELIAS REPORTED
SENDING ENVOY
TO TALK PEACE

ATHENS. Dec. 13.-tR-ks calm
descended tonight on Athens for
first time in a strife torn week,
it was reported in Leftist quarters
that an ernissary of FT'AS would
call on Maj. Gen. Ronald M. SEQ
bic tomorrow to announce accept
ance of British terms to end the
civil war.
This report was contrary to the
announcement made earlier today
by ELIAS town criers who roamed
the streets with megaphones. say
ing the terms offered by Scobie.
British commander in Greece, had
been refused and 1--WE shall fight
on if it means smashing Athens. :"
According to the information
from the Leftists, ELIAS will ask
in reutrn for their acceptance of the
British conditions that they not be
prosecuted as party and h a t
Scobie accept new national gov
eminent headed by someone other
than Premier George Papandreou.
The offer will be made to Scobie
by Alexander Svolos, former fl
nance minister in Papandreou's
cabinet, it was said.
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to have caused heavy losses to the
enemy"
The Washington report, based on
from the 21st bomber command on
preliminary information received
Saipan, said losses, if any, would
be announced after crew reports
were tabulated.
Moderate antiaircraft fire and
slight fighter opposition were re.
ported by the crews OF the far
ranging Superfortresses.
Nagoya, third largest city in ia
pan, is the country's largest air.
craft manufacturing center. In adj
dition- it has arsenals, electric
plants, electrochemical factories,
machinery and tool plants, explos-
ives and iron works. Unlike Tokyo
and other major cities whose
buildings have been modernized
after earthquakes or fires, Nagoya
has half century's accumulation
of inflammable structures.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
U. S., CANADIAN
|, WEATHER DEATH
TOLL HITS 81
Bv The Associated Press

Clearing weather moved slowly
eastward across the Nation last
night, gradually dissipating snow
storm that had erveloped wide
area and caused 81 deaths in the
United States and sou Aheastern Can
ada since Sunday.
Snow flurries in the Great Lakes.
Ohio Valley, and Northeastern
states will subside largely by to-
night. the Weather B'rea'' Hredic!-
ed. and a somewhat warmer air
mass now west of the Mississippi
river will move in.
In the eastern part of the Cont
nent. where the storms aftermath
of snowdrfts and ice-sheathed high
ways still left discomfort and haz-
ardous traffic conditions today, the
weather probably will continue coo'
for several days, the forecast indi-
Gated
Sixty seven deaths attributable
to the storm were recorded in the
United States and an addition" 2O
in Canada. Pennsylvania had the
highest state toll with Is, Ohio was
second with IL, and Colorado, Mis-
souri,, and New York ranked third
with five each.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
Canadians Drive
Three-Mile Wedge
In Italian Front

ROME, Dec. 10. -IR Canadian
units of the British Eighth Army
quickly took advantage OF newly
won Lamone river bridgeheads
northeast of the northern Italian
highway town of Faenza today to
drive a wedge nearly three miles
deep into German defenses.
Establishing their bridgeheads
across the rain-swollen stream
about nine miles from Faenza the
Canadians Strengthened their lines
along a continuous front OF 5000
yards.
Following a heavy artillery bar
rage and "a hours of fierce fight
ing, they caught the enemy by sur
prise and stormed across the So
foot river at two points simultan-
eously on Sunday night, it was dis
closed.
On the northern flank, the at
tack moved along t h Ravenna-
Bologna railway northwest of Rus
81. This route, first cut northeast
of Russi several days ago, was
reported straddled by Allied troops
for some distance.
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State Department Shakeup Expected
To Extend Into U.S.. Foreign Service

changes. There was apparent, rath-
err, a feeling that the new Secretary
of State was entitled to deal with
the representatives he wants in for
eign capitals.
Liberation of additional countries
will, of course, call for re examin-
alton of the diplomatic links
maintained with eXiled govern
ments in: wartime. Some OF them
may need strengthening.
Talk of new ambassadors to Rus
STA and Britain has been in the
gossip stage for some time. Neither
w. Averen Hartman, who has been
in Moscow IA months, nor John G.
Winant, who has served in London
since 1941, is a career man.
There has been speculation that
Winant might replace Labor Sec.
rotary Perkins in the cabinet.
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Allied
| Incur
Of Congress
Loud And Angry Debate
RACES Over British,
Red Plans

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
P)-Congress rang with loud
and angry debate over crltl-
cism of Britain and Russia to-
day, with administration sup
porters accusing the critics Of
"careless talk which might
prolong the war.
On the House side, a razor-edg-
ed exchange was touched off by
a Pennsylvania Congressman's at
tack on Prime Minister Churchill
and British draft policies.
Churchill" declared Rep. Cav
in (R-Pa), ''seems content to let
us throw thousands of our boys
into action to carry on the fight,
hundreds of whom are iquidated
every day.
Up leaped Rep. Luther A. john
son, Texas Democrat, shouting
1.-THE gentleman has rendered
disservice to his country and to
the Allies
Statements like Gavin's "should
be suppressed" johnson declared,
adding that ''they are calculated
to promote disunity, prolong the
war and encourage Hitler"
In the ensuing general debate,
Democrats accused Republicans of
nagging at the war effort and Re-
publicans said Democrats spurn
"constructive criticism for politi-
cal reasons.
During the height OF the House
argument, Senator Brooks GRID
took the floor in the Senate to
criticize both Britain and Russia
for current political clashes in Eur
ope.
America is sending her sons TO
push the Germans back, Brooks
said, while both Britain and Rus
STA are engaging in race for
the future balance Of power ON the
European continent"
Brooks declared Russia intends
to extend her philosophy through
out the Balkans and Britain wants
to set up puppet governments in,
Italy, Greece, Belgium and
France. He demanded immediate
Qualification Of the United States
foreign policy.
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laps Retreating
Toward Wanting;
Shegwyin Entered

CHUNGKING, Dec. 13-1P)-The
retreat of Japanese units toward
the border town of Wanting, where
the Burma road cuts into China,
was reported tonieht by the Chi
nese high command.
An enemy withdrawal began aft
er an artillery duel in the Manpang
region northeast of Wanting. tree
days ago. Chinese forces have cap
tured high position about II miles
north of Wanting, west of the Lung
chwan river, the high command
said.
Wanting is so miles east of
Bhanno and 200 miles northeast of
Mandalay. Previously there have
been indications of japanese with
drawal in the northern Burma area
as far south as Mandalay.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
Three Suits, Totaling
100000, Filed Against
ACL After Wreck Deaths

BOSTON, Dec. 49, Up Three
civil action suits totaling $500, 900
were filed today against the Allan
tic Coast Line Railroad in Federal
court.
The suits were filed by the ad-
ministrators of the estates of Sgt.
Nelson J. Vaillancourt, his wife,
Mary T., and the couples dalgh-
ter, Catherine Mary, formerly of
Lowell, all of whom died of in
juries suffered in a passenger train
wreck near Lumberton, N. c., De-
cember Is, 1913.
The suits alleged negligence,
carelessness and failure to observe
due caution on the part of the
railroad.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
CHINESE PLANS
High Command Prepares To
Take War Initiative

CHUNGKING Dec. 10. - (R -
AS Chinese troops scored still fur
Their gains in Kwangsi province,
Cabinet Spokesman P. H. Chang
announced today that the High
Command was considering how to
meet possible new emergencies and
plans for making the best use of
every opportunity to take the mill
tary initiative.
The recent favorable turn OF
events in the Kwangsi-KwichoW
region plus Allied successes in
Burma, the intensified U. S. bomb
ing of Japan and the forthcoming
concentration of British naval
strength in the Pacific could yield
no comfort to the enemy, Chang
said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
PACIFIC CHIEFS
HOLD CONFERENCE
Talks On New Attacks On
Japs Conducted By
Nimitz

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, D e c.
13.-tREAmerican Army and Navy
commanders of the Central Paci-
fic and Aleutian war areas have
Just concluded secret conferences
with Adm. Chester w. Nimitz,
commander of the Pacific ocean
areas, dealing with future opera
tons against Japan.
Disclosure today of the meetings
and names of the participants dl-
rected attention toward the Aleu-
ian and Alaska theaters, from
which planes and warships have
been operating in strikes against
the Kuriles, island chain linking
Hokkaido. the principal northern
island of Japan with Kamchatka,
Russian peninsula.
From the northern war front
came 1t. Gen. Delos c. Emmons,
commander of the Alaskan de-
partment, and Vice Adm. Frank
J. Fletcher, commander OF e
North Pacific. 1t Gen. Simon Boil
var Buckner, former commander
of the Alaskan Department, also
attended.
Others at the conferences includ-
ed Adm. Raymond A. Spruance,
commander of h U. S. Fifth
Fleet, who with Vice Adm. Marc
A. Mitscher, commander of car
rier Task Force So, chased the
japanese fleet home in the first
battle of the Philippine Sea; Vice
Adm. C. H. McMorris, chief OF
staff to Nimitz, and Rear Adm.
Forrest p. Sherman, deputy CHIEF
of staff in charge of operations.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, Up -
t"o major shifts in European dip
s Su,anc assignments augured to-
. .asn' possible extension into the
n ~'esh service of a shake up now
m n'uef way in h State Depart
~. 1ney gave impetus to conjectures
u" m'elAer Secretary of State Stettini-
W. Nllght want to work with new
sna IN such key spots as London
and ID Moscow.
iot one OF the days moves on the
to,'e'iiahonal checkerboard pointed
NJ broad revision of the pattern
.uplomacy in the Balkans. 1t was
g. suLprlse transfer for Laurence A.
ep' ' ambassador to Turkey.
- leSloent Roosevelt nominated him
e AZ We ambassador to the Czech gov
'"''leht operating from London.
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Bntain!s Labor Party Gives Support
To ChurchuPs Policy 7oward Greece

LONDON, Dec. 49, Up Labor
ministers in Pri me Minister
Churchilps coalition government
threw their whole support solidly
behind British policy in Greece to-
day after their spokesman asserted
Russia and President Roosevelt had
agreed that 1--WE Britain) under
take the main problem of Greece"
Bulky Ernest Bevin, minister of
Labor and head of Britain big
gest union, took the stump at a
stormy Labor party convention to
defend Tory Prime Minister and
shouted:
'The steps which have been TAX
en- in Greece are not the decisions
of Winston Churchill They are the
decisions OF the Cabinet.
IT took part with my Labor col
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The second job shift had been
forecast. Carlton Hayes resigned
as ambassador to Spain, presum-
ablv to resume a history professor
ship at Columbia university.
> Norman Armour, acting director
of the State Departments Ameri-
can Republics office, was appoint
ed to the Madrid post. Armour was
ambassador to Argentina until
American relations with that South
American neighbor fell apart some
months ago.
Named to fill the vacancy left n
the embassy in Costa Rica by the
death of Fay Desportes was Halle,t
johnson, a foreign service officer.
No disposition was evident, eth
err at the State Department or
White House, to discount the pos
sibility of additional Diplomatic
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leagues in the whole of these de-
cisions. Looking back, I cannot
bring tito my conscvience that any
one of the decisions was wrong"
Bevin said, 81 shall reconsider
my position in the Cabinet as to
first steps tina: shall be taken waen
we enter other peoples territory in
order to get stability and feed the
people who are in such bad condi-
ton"
He did not elaborate, but accused
the Left-Wing ELIAS Of breaking
a promise made by all Greek par
ties to cooperate until a pleb;scite
could be held to decide whether
the country wanted a monarchy or
republic.
By an overwhelming card vote;
based on union membership, the L.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
First Army Opens Push
Against Nazis At Roer;
Patch's Drive Checked
Over 100 Supertonresses
Strike Mqgoya Industries

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, Up -
Perhaps the mightiest armada OF
Superfortresses y ct flung against
Japan, kindled hugh fires and set
off heavy bomb blasts today in
the manufacturing area of Nagoya.
More than 100 B-29's, it was in
dictated, composed the force which
struck at the home of the Mitsub-
ishi aircraft plant and one of ia
pans four principal manufacturing
centers.
A communique from Goth A r
Force headquarters here said the
Saipan-based raiders reported they
were able to observe the results
of their visual bombing and that
heavy explosions and large fires
were seen in the target area.
Tokyo radio, tardily confirming
the first War Department an
nouncement of the raid, acknow-
lodged someSdamage and said Jap
anese interceptors were ''believed
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LOCAL YANK GIVES
PHONE SERVICE ON
LEYTE UNDER FIRE

North and South Carolina men
served with heroism during the
opening of the Philippine cam
paign on Leyte island, according
10 an Associated Press dispatch
last night and especially mentioned
was Cp'. George C. Baltzegar, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G.. c. Baltze-
gar Of Wilmington.
According 10 the report from
Fred Hampson. Associated Press
var correspondent with the Oath
Division Heaquarters on Leyte, Cpl.
Baltzegar, strung telephone wire
across valley under almost con-
STAN Jap sniper fire after his
landing barge was shelled coming
ashore.
Before being indicted into the
Signal Corps Cpl. Baltzegar was
employed by the Southern Bell
Telephone Co.. and stationed at
Spartanburg, S. c. His father. has
been employed by the Wilmington
telephone office for IS years, and
Is in charge Of the maintenance
division
Cpl. Baltzegar graduated froS
New Hanover High school in 1886,
went with the telephone company
at Columbia. S. c., and then
Charleston. before he was moved
70 Spartanburg. He is married to
me former Margaret Layton, OF
Spartanburg.
Cpl Baltzagar received preli-
mlnary training at the Signal Corps
school at Camp Crowder, Mo-. be-
fOre being sent to the Hawaiian
Islands, and later he was assigned
10 the Signal Corps under the
command Of General Macarthur
IN Australia. He was in the initial
assault of the Philippines.
Sgt. Joe C. Estes, Rutherford
college, and her Signal Corps man,
shared Baltzegar's experiences as
olu sgt. Eugene ]. Grub, of East
spencer, N C.