The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 5

All MAtTIN Tiler's wronc with our prosperity when 1 woman that goes dojratoVn t' buy a fall hat h-aie undecided. If A don't what he he fer it THE EMPORIA GAZETTE EIGHT PAGES EMPORIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1944 Crowd Out to Hear Good Evening Emporia proudly hailed Navy Day with flags flying a victory In Philippine 2:45 o'clock Mloltnum list night Maximum Thursday Minimum year MO Maximum year ago 71 35 degttei 74 10 Ferccut Santa Platform I Speech a Magnet For Lyon Republicans; College Band Plays The Kansas brand of October's bright blue weather was at its best today for the Emporia appearance of Gov, John W. Bricker, of Ohio, Republican vice presidential nominee. Governor' Bricker's 6-car special train was scheduled to arrive at 3:45 this afternoon at the Santa station for a 15-minute stop. Governor Bricker was scheduled'to speak from the rear car platform.

Today's fine increased interest in Governor Bricker's appearance. While no closing orders were A made for Eniporia stares and public offices, many employes and office workers were planning to leave their work to see and hear the Republican candidate for vice president. At Wellington Governor Bricker's Itinerary today 9 called ior a stop at Wellington this morning, and an auditorium appearance and a radio address at 12:30 o'clock at Wichita. Before arriving at Emporia, Bricker was scheduled for a platform appearance at the Santa Fe station in Newton. Congressman Ed.

H. Rees, of Emporia, was scheduled to introduce Governor Bricker at Emporia "and Newton. Other Republican in Wichita today to greet their party's vice presidential candidate included Gov. Andrew F. Schoeppel- U.

S. Senators Arthur Capper and Clyde M. Reed Harry Darby, of Kansas City. Republican national committeeman; Congressman Errett Scrivner, Frank Carlson, Thomas D. Winter and Clifford Hope; Alf M.

9 Landon, former governor; A. Harry Crane, Republican state chairman, and Mrs. J. C. McKinney, of Hartford, Republican state vice chairman.

Band Ta Play 41 The. Emporia State college band was to play at the Santa Fe station this afternoon for the Bricker appearance. The colleges here dismissed classes this afternoon to permit students to attend and the Emporia crowd was to be supplemented by delegations from county precincts and neighboring counties. Santa.Fe special llna lr 8 ht SMurdty; la temperature tonlshl lowest 40 to 45; slightly warmer la Saturday. Sunshine Sray Topeka, Oct.

27 (A 5 Mild aun- shlne gave Kansas above normal temperatures again today with no cold weather threatened. Weatherman S. D. Flora said It was almost as warm this morning in Montana as it- was in Kansas while topsy-turvey conditions gave Alabama. Mississippi and Tennessee colder weather than Eastern Kansas.

"But the calendar says it can't last forever." Flora reminded, "in past years we sometimes have had snow in Kansas during the of October, so enjoy this weather while you can." Temperatures in the seventies were forecast again for today Tonight a range of 34 to 42 was predicted for the west, with frost possible in spots, while 42 to 43 was state. Roosevelt Opens 2-Day Vote Drive President Appears In Philadelphia Tonight; Chicago Saturday Night By Howard Philadelphia. Oct. 27 Presi- a two-dav dent Roosevelt, off on campaign' thrust to the rived In Philadelphia for a naw day inspection Reds Beat Bock Counter-Attacks In East Prussia Reinforced Germans Strike in Defense Of Gumbinnen, Now Threatened by Soviets BULLETIN London, Oct. 27 iff) Russian troops advanced 15 miles hi Chechoslovakia, today and captured virtually completing the capture of the Carpatlio- TJkraine which Hungary seized from the republic.

VOLUME LV NUMBER 77 BUY MORE WAR BONDS Pvh Earl Watkms It Seriously Wounded Pvt. Earl C. Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.

Watkins, 113 Constitution, was seriously wounded in action in Prance, October 8. Private Watkins has been in the rrmy eight months. He is attached bo the infantry and has been overseas since August, His wife. Mrs. Watkins lives In Bartlesville, which was Private Watkins' home before entering the service.

By Daniel De Luce Moscow, Oct. 27 (jiV-Heavy counterattacks fay German armor and Infantry against the growing Rus- Reading Flier Missing Special to The Gazette: Reading, Oct Edwin P. Barnett has been missing in action in the Southwest Pacific area since October 10. according a War Department message received Thursday by his parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Barnett. Rt. 2, Reading. Sergeant Barnett was graduated from the Reading High school in He took his Air corps training at Greenville, S.

Sheppard field. Texas, and at fields in California and Piorida. He was wounded In action twice. U. S.

Navy Loses Six Warships in Battle Jap Fleet Loses 27 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged Nippon's Defeat Followed Desperate Effort to Oppose Leyte Invasion V. S. Pacific Hea.1. Hutcheson, Associated Press war correspondent. "Eight shells straddled us I was taking off." But the planes of those "jeep" carriers, supported only by destroyers and destroyer escorts, weathered 14 and 16 Inch shells to pitch in and force the bigger opposition to turn tail.

138TH NAZI GENERAL KILLED London, Oct. 27 (JFt A German transocean news agency broadcast today added the name of General THE WAR. TODAY Victory Success In By DeWitt Mackenzie Press Aoalyit They say It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, but the only comfort the Japanese can get out of the Yankee hurricane which they ran Into off the Philippine archipelago Is that their disaster was no worse. With more facts about this historic engagement at the story Is far from now can say with assurance that the Nipponese have suffered not only a major defeat but a decisive one. It's deceive in that it guarantees the Allies success in mat and difficult battle of the Philippines.

And since these Islands are (Continued on eight) "ffi sian salient in East Prussia were beaten back today by- Red army gunners who levelled their field artillery Into a deadly anti-tank screen. Despite the enemy's continual reinforcement. Gen. Ivan Chernia- khovsky secured control of a 15- mile stretch on the secondary rail line which runs northwest to Tilsit from the Junction on the main Konigsberg-Kaunas line, near Stal- lupoenen. Frontline dispatches said "dozens of new German batteries" were introduced In an effort to contain the Russian thrusts aimed at Gum- binnen.

from the northeast and southwest. Nazis Heavily Against one side of the Russian bulge the enemy launched five consecutive attacks employing as many as two battalions of infantry each time, supported by panther tanks and self-propelled guns. They "Sere His official party started boarding almost immediately for 1n otorcade tri through Phlla-! crete and steel fortifications which aeiphia and nearby Camden. N. J.

on Ge rmans for years have been tilG i HIT! TV I i Russian combat correspondents said the cannonading was unceasing night and day. Red troops have not yet completely traversed the zone of con- GEORGE WARK MISSING I SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY I Special fo Tho Gaiette: i Osage City, Oct. 27 Sgt. George 20, who has been with the U. Army infantry for the past 18 months, has been missing in action (in Germany since October 20, ac- 1 cording to news received by his' par- ients, Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Wark who live near Lyndon. I Still Need 55 More i Blood Plasma Donors I The Cross production office in the Civic auditorium, telephone 1174 and 3057. will remain open until 6 o'clock tonight to receive names of those who wish to register for the i-blood donor unit here next week' the office closed Thursday night. 55 more Emporia donors were needed to complete the registration.

Cnase county, icith 12C donors Mb.non with 24, and Peabody with 24, sent in completed registrations Thursday. "EZ TCl In the Gumbinncn area East quarters, Pearl Harbor, Oct. Prussia, to the 138 Nazi 27 (AP) Pacific re killed In the present war. lost six M-arships, the navy announced today, in scoring Us i historic victory over the Jap. Philippine an ese navy in ualers this week.

The Nipponese navy lost 27 more warships sunk or damaged, approaching the 35- ship tragedy it suffered in 1942 off Guadalcanal. The American losses were: The light aircraft carrier Princeton, previously announced. Two unidentified escort carriers, Two unidentified destroyers. One unidentified destroyer escort. iv.

were ri to the navy buildin to protect the home of jard the Cramp shipyard and a sig- Junkerdom. depot. The battle for East Prussia lost here iro 1 Wu fluidifc a nd became a stubborn of and reserves. crowd which came out in raw. to see the chief executive vote in America this year speak- powerfully for the Owens and 01 organ- orpemocracy all over th World "he Ized tins, morning to handle traffic said in with a buckle at the end pared address: and, the if Governor Bricker Is scheduled for a major address in Kansas" Citv dealing with the record of President Roosevelt in, international affairs and national defense.

-The speech will be broadcast (NBC) at 9:30 o'clock tonight. Farm Talk At Wichita. Oct. 27 his attention to this bread basket of the United States, GOT. John W.

Bricker asserted today that New Deal promises to the farmers had been 1 "shamefully broken." The Republican nominee for yice president said that those who toll to the nation's food. had been deprived, of what he called sufficient labor, machinery and supplies, vexed by government shortages of feed grains. "Tcfc," he continued.in a prepared "I won't urge you to vote earlv and if did mi -t go to In Chicajo Saturday New advances were scored at extremities the gargantuan east- end were- promoted; "KyriH- Afansie- vich Meretskov was promoted to marshal of the Soviet union after his Karelian army Invaded Norway, capturing Kirkenes. Ivan Yefimovich Petrov. commander the Fourth Ukrainian army group in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, KTAfruj.

vLAj After his Philadelphia speech to- was elevated to a i'uli general while night the President will turn west nis tro struck in two directions vT Iatform appearance Fort Wayne, and the closing speecn of the trip In Chicago's huge Soldier field Saturday night school dismissed classes Chester en route to Philadel- 1 1611 poured out of the building just in time to watch the presidential train slowly move past The train broke Its speed at inost' wav her There was tfarou8h on as moved but the weather rain Roosevelt a constant threat of President's Mr. th speech release by his campaign York a week ago through New Oil Production The Russians announced that 25 managers, "the American farmer In Wilmington, the President naid refiner ies had resumed operation lias continued to establish new pro- tribute to local labor for its part in in the TOsno-Rezezow oil fields of because of the I he said "have i Southwest Poland and that these New Deal but In spite of the New Ku mightily to the virtortn-; now are linkpd toward Ungvar. last important town held by the foe In the Garpatho- Ukraine sector for Czechoslovakia Truman to Ask Defeat of Taft By Ernest B. Vaccaro With Truman Enroute To Akron Oct. 27 Harry Truman invaded Ohio today to ask" the defeat of Republican Sen.

Robert Taft in another lap of a transcontinental campaign tour into which, he says, "a reactionary, isolationist press" has sought to'inject a false" Ku KIux Klan issue. The Democratic vice-president nominee reiterated to reporters that 5 iever was am not and never will be" a member.of the Ku Klux Klan. and added "nobody that knows me and my record knows how i fought and helped defeat Kla candidates In Missouri" Meanwhile members of Truman's gn group compiled data they said would be used later 7 t0 a 5t0ry a PP aring In newspapers quoting affidavit i continued on se twoi Leyte invasion Front Extended To Forty Miles Report Resistance Increases as Yanks Drive Inland; Jap Positions Encircled Voters Can Register Until 10 Tonight British Cut Main Nazi The deadline to In the No- vcmber 7 election in Emporia is 10 o'clock tonight at the office of Ted Newcomer city clerk. Thursday's registration totaled 208 the highest for any day and evening since Newcomer started beeping the city clerk's office open at nights 10 days Trap in Holland Made More Certain By 3-Mile Gain By Dempsey's Men By William Frye London, Oct. 27 (AP) Lt.

Gen. Miles Dcmpgey'rt five-day Britiah offensive purged toward the Maas today in a three-mile advance which undercut the doomed enemy citadel of Tilhurg In Holland. Dempsey's armor knifrd forward to Loon Op jfour miles north Tilhurg. i cutting the Onium's main cutting crs flocked to the office during the evening. The big registration here during the past three weeks does not nec- cssarily mean more Emporia voters than in previous presidential elections city Clerk Newcomer said todny.

He estimated that 2000 persons hnve registered most of them previous voters who did not vote in 1942 or who moved since then. Churchill Claims MacArlhur's Headquarters, Leyte. Philippines Oct 27 Fast moving American -Joughboys I have carved out a solid II The names of tnc unidentified invasion front on Leyte island and jUCCCSS 111 TflItfC ships xvill not be disclosed until deeper Inland to free im wwvw of kin of casualties have been nrf- additional 15 eoinmunlMrx: t. nm vised. munique reported today.

Personnel of 3.9<K). The general advance continued The six ships probably carried a des it increasing Japanese resist- totni of about 3.900 men. At least nc west oi Pnl Jl1 the norui-cen- one-third of these were aboard the Sector and a courUer-attnck Princeton. A previous announce- Was re ul on Damar island Ampnrnrx; gvms and planes wi Liicoi' rtDUillu tni Princeton. A previous announcement by Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz said more than 1,300 officers and ton. Each of the carrier escorts carried probably 1.000 men. Each had a squadron of at least 21 planes. Destroyers normally carry a iu plement of about 200 men and destroyer escorts about 160.

The American navy now has made known the loss of 170 warships since the war started. -et 76 Japanoie aircraft during "intermittent harassing raid" on the Invasion armada. The Americans secured control of eastern Held at Moscow Reports a Working Agreement Effected Balkans; "Missed Roosevelt" By Alex H. London. Oct.

27 Mln- naval-air -engagements in Philippine waters stemmed from the enemy's desperate gamble to oppose the American reconquest of Leyte island in the Central pines The Japanese losses, offlcl- uypassea ally confirmed, included three car- fts strong defences, was riers and 20 battleships SU nk or red nfter sev fighting fc nn Heports Muleacevo from newly captured (pop: 26,000) said Hungarian forces were still fighting alongside the Germans. Fetrov seized 60 settlements and several thousand prisoners for a bag of 11,230 from October 20-26. improved roads and Kansas Round-Up in Emporia Tonight fa Kansas 8 Cl ck tae Civic auditorium with a score of popular entertainers 10 attract cash customers for Jump Town Em poria's teen-age center. All pro of the will go to Jump will In rails from the Ukraine through "the Admission will be 50 cents a tax included. PurcnesearsP will be permitted to remain watch the dance on'the below.

Czecho-Slovak passes to his divisions driving westward on the south sile of the Carpathians. i jjy Lnc division forces punching up the valley's north-south highway They vpreviously took the Burl airfield and advanced several miles along the the captured road highway from Continued on closed tighter by tank-led who captured two key towns in a double-pronged drive thut overran several communities of the main highways. Burl, previouslv bypassed because riers and 20 "sunk re nfter everc Ihc damaged. Remnants of the once proud imperial fleet which, it now can be disclosed, actually penetrated Leyte gulf and attacked transports engaged in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's landings, still were under relentless air pursuit.

MacArthur announced today his landbased Liberators have filrU damaged an enemy light cruiser in Oins the Mindanao sea. May 35 Ships. But. without the continuing em nt5 the alread accom-! pUshed blows promise to lift Japan's i lasses beyond the 35 warships sunk fn or damaged off Guadalcanal in No Till vember, 1942 I 0 broadcast, recorded by the Several enemy destroyers are 10 01 of American-held Tanauan. miles below Tacloban.

Trap Closed Tijjhler i Simultaneously, the southern end I for1ts to end the Russian-Polish d'ls- of the valley trap was beiniil rlmc objective of hU mis-'- 10 the problems erf southeaste-n Europe, but acknowledged his ef- over hadly armed German Field Marshal Gen. Von Model forces "face ihr- pect of a sequel to tJie Pa In i so gap debacle that resulted in rhe annihilation of Von Kluge's German Seventh army in the Normandy campaign" said Associnted Correspondent Rogfr D. Greene in a dispatch from the front. While long columns of British armor, and men surged through the mud in the westward push past 'sHertouenbosch and behind Tilburg, Canadian forces farther wc.st put ire-sli momentum into their campaign on both sides of the Schelde In the drive to open Antwerp to Allied supplies. Swarm Across Schelde Thousands of British troops in thr first American amphibious tanks employed in numbers on the front swarmed across the three to five-mile wide rcheldo in a fog- shrouded dawn Thursday and established a seven mile square beachhead on south Veveiand island guarding the north side of the river.

The Germans said second landing attempt hnd been made today at a point which would vault the north-south Beveland canal, a potential defense llr.p already reached by Canadian forces fighting through. mud end hip-deep water Into the Liberate Russian in Slave Market London, Oct. 27 Moscow ful. Moscow, had not proved 5ucces to a wandering diplomacy he and President iv should confer with Marsha! the ycnr But he dc- i-'-vio. mu ne ac- dared that "nil solid, sure and eotmd among the three Allies The Prime Minister summed'up of his conferences with Stalin as "highly satisfactory" and underscored the necessity for dispersing- misunderstandings and Blpj Three Must Meet am quite sure." he added.

that no final result cnn be nt of Uie three nn New Deal but In spite of the New Introdcced By Schoeppel. The vice presidential nominee paraded the union station to the Arcadia municipal theater, packed by a noon-day crowd V.UÍ1H1UUI— to the victories we have 1 11015 of Wil mington," he said. hiTe made quite a lot of (Continued cm tiro) METHODISTS 100 people, Gov. Andrew Schocppel. trf the white-haired Ohio chief executive, called him a "great American." He told the cheering throng trend is on.

That trend is going to continue" until election day when, he said, "we're to change things." Schoeppel added there Is "no lack of Interest in the campaign." He Joined Sen. Clyde M. Hssd Parsons and Rep. Ed Rees of Emporia. who preceded him.

in urging support of the Dewey-Bricker ticket. I Tarn Against New Deal The Ohio governor declared farmer had turned against the Topeka. Oct. 27 Methodist Ieaders to Mfcrch 4 1945. Kansas-Nebraska a two-day planning con- a church i.

The financial cam- December 1944 now are linked solidly by rail with the fronts In Czechoslovakia. Hungary and Yugoslavia. Reports from the Norwegian front said Kirkenes was In flames when (Continued on Sbci HULL IN HOSPITAL Washington. Oct. 27 Secretary of State Stettinius said today that Secretary Hull, whb is in Belhesda Naval hospital, had two infected teeth pulled yesterday and is making favorable progress.

Hull went to the hospital last week for 3 checkup after suffering with a throat ailment. not included in the 0 1 vice Adm. Thoma7c Kin- TO DESTROY THE HAGUE aia tt hose outnumbered Seventh New York Oct. 27 Brit- l' 6 V. rned tne tide from threat- U5h radio said today the German tc 5 lnto history-making commander at The Hague had in- Lri mn formed the bourgomeister there that ail public buildings were and would be blown up by the retreating Germans.

All civilians have been evacuated from the city it added. NBC recorded the broadcast. Deal because he had been subjected to 'arbitrary control, often by-bureaucrats who have no conception of his problems and processes -He recalls," Bricker continued, "promises the New Deal has made 4 on his that were fbamefuUy. broken. He wonders ofcer promises have been made that he does not know about, what future New Deal and international controls are in store for land." AS an example for what he described as misconception of the problems and mismanagement of the agricultural program, the vice presidential nominee said that "htmdrads of thousands of farmers 'all over the country unable to get the machinery needed In 1944." Machinery Unused WhiIe they continued to hold Radio Reporter Tells of Last Flight By Hartford Pilot Now Reported Killed Lt.

(Jg) Paul Wilson, 22, or Mr. and Mrs. C. Lewis, of Hartford, reported missing- lii the Pacific been re- according to an Associated Prew report received by The Gazette. uated from the Hartford High school, entered the naval flying sec- vice in February, 1941, graduating a pilot.

According to an Augusti radio broadcast by Dan McGuire. United Press correspondent, lieutenant 'Wilion was lost tn the Central Pacific on June 20 while participating in an action from an aircraft carrier. An excerpt from McGuirels account says, "Among the fighter pi- who quickly noted the estimat- 1 IAAC nma.1,*- their worn out machinery together position of the enemy then raced as best they could," ha sdded, "great! or their trim Hellcats on the night quantities of machinery were being was Lt. (jg) Paul Junior Wfl- (CoEti Luck Margarine at yoor you don't see It ask for It 'We're piad we Insured with Fred Scott Agency." TT11 TrpeTrriter repair and supplies at -Ku him an n's. Phone Hi.

son. of Kan. Prom the catwalks It was easy to spot Wilson whan he taxied his plane into position for the Hartford boy made si perfect tekeoff behind his division leader, with whoim that on returning he would have to make a night landing. "While and other fighter pilots searched for the harking Zeros. dive bombers and torpedo planes made accurate attacks on a large carrier, a battleship and a heavy cruiser, scoring numerous hits.

"Then the fighter division went into a strafing run against a widely- circling Some of the bullets which started fires on this destroyer undoubtedly were fired by Wilson Completing the mission the planes started back. Pinaiiy, after agonizing hours, they saw the red lights of American task much logued officially. to be cata- GOERING'S LODGE SEIZED Moscow Oct. 27 sna. Herman Goering's favorite hunting lodge in the Rominten Heide of East Prussia was captured virtually Jntact with its wine cellar well stocked with French champagne the army newspaper Red Star reported tcday.

Heaps of topograpnical maps were found on Goerings desk in the study and they 3 re scribbled with notations, believed to be his handwriting. fWf fo Kinkaid ho spilt up his fleet took on two enemy warship converging on the Leyte in- i vastan scene and trounced both submarines and warships and Aam. William F. and dealt mortal blows on flattopsr attempting a sneak irom Formosa waters Only 20 Ships Retired. Today Kinkald told Dean Sched- Associated Press war corre- in the that Japanese risked from 39 to 48 warships in the two ba Lej-te and only 20 rctitd eral that dcc con- thnt the President was not Ina of the Kur.sk region was quoted assaying; "The German landlords looked us over, felt oiir muscles.

looked at our as if we were not people but norscs I was not bought for a long time because I was tiiin from the hardship of the journey. A rcstau- not confirmed by raprc-me headquarters or field dispatches. The Germans said American prisoners had been taken on the west Holland front, the first report that any Americans were fighting in this sector. Counter-Blows Fail Despcrnteiy attempting i the blob's menacing his forces in Western Holland. Von Model struck out with a counter-attack along a 10-mile front agatnst the eastern side of the British Nijinegen salient.

between Venlo and Rocnnond. but field dispatches said the Allied iront was not displaced. Berlin accounts said this bridgehead was "several kilometers deep- arid was in the of Hoedekenskerke, mlle.s ahead of Canadian spearheads driving Into the Island from the cost. A second attempt to land several thousand troops in American ampht- bian tanks and landing craft at to the cast, o' this Mr. Avereil i.

the accomplished am- of the United States In rcptiblic." of hter shortest reports he a major con- canal Just alii.id of the Canadian spearhead broken up this morning, the Germans declared. (Continued on au- rant keeper then bought me and I had a terrible time" WALLACE CASTS BALLOT Detroit. Oct. 27 Vice Pre.tl- niw force At some point between the time the task force was sighted and the first planes began landing, Paul Wilson disappeared. One minute he was flying down through the clouds and the next he was not there.

"The kiss of this good-natured happy-go-lucky boy threw a pall of sorrow over the ship's elation on sinking the enemy. Comdr. William Collins, squadron commander, described him 'one of the finest pilots we The attack was I5th combat mission Lieutenant Wilson is survived bv his mother, a siste- Mrs. Richard and two not between GREEK PATRIOT SHOT rr A en OCL 7 A 20-year-old wunsn a stone's throw of a build- ing which British foreign secretarv i Element of Surprise Works Against in War's Historic Naval Battle Name Election Boards For the Lyon County Precincts Outside City Trie personnel or election board officials Jr. rural Lyon county indi- ior the I u-ork in hand by day.

NovernbtT 7. Or! election than women nave bren ccrJf.ert by the townslilp whirh indicates farmers will not b-- to attend tn election day Out-skJe of in EmpcrSa tho p--: open at 8 o'clock in arid will close at fi In to's-rjship. 1 North Side and Sr-uth pre-" i cincts, the poiJ-s wsll at 7 o'clock tn the morning ar.ij at 6 o'clock. Irom Introducing today an nguage broadcast with -bi extra- Hash from Tokyo" radio claime and a third carrier nif5crs unconfirmed Siren cth Weak. latest trio of naval fc vo have cut quite thin a available she husbanded for critical In the Philippines itself surprised by alprt u.

S. carrier and thus received a stinging setback. i aircraft spotted the i carriers, part of a Japan- naval stab, and roared tn sth i such ferocity the enemy couM put or.ly weak defense. Thai the vital surprise worked in reverse for the Japanese this wefk's historic navai and air Suiu toward 1 POLITIC VI. BROADCASTS bat may have been from Singa- aV been detached Central war Tonipht 00 CRS or may have been detached vei from frcm the Imperial tR.sk force which Mm ior weeks to meet the i 3:3 John W.

forcr off Porrrirtsa This from Rroup eventually reached Ltyie gulf I before It turrved back. The third Armada was A carrier task force comprising the bulk of the Imperial fleet. Incl'idlng at uiy was at raixge and thome, Calif RATTLE decision Vice Tlicrnas C. KincaM (above) to diride hfe Seventh Fleet in the naval battle was rited In dfepatcbe5 as a. major trifmtinr factor to U- S.

victory. (Aif wirephoto fnnn U. S. N'ary.) the group which go strait a for i BiSttt Americans in LeyU the closest call, thVre ThLi how the battle developed- Se The Ja anese Whll on Adm William Hftlsej 51 nwt ly- ea 0f PW a on ice Thomas C. KinkaJd'a en Dou8ta 11 30 rrs Tiernas S.

three four i recl vrrs- or six cruisers and 15 de- south of Formosa. mit tec 3: Admiral Habev otxSered full Former carrtw Meantime, he detacheS a carrier force from his Sml and NBC A.VÍ bv I.Vrr. vrr TV-; S. For McCartv. New Let or SOi Coal..