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DEVELOPMENT OP NORTH ctotTKAL MONTANA 9 'X 1 1 i ADVERTISING IS THE VOICE PRICE IVE CENTS Vol XXXI No 126 AMERICAN TROOPS ARE NEARLY IN METZ 1 TLAST NATURAL DEENSE LINE 14 More Jap Ships Sunk and BEORE BIG ORTRESS STORMED Over ISO Planes Destroyed were inreuieuiug uu cuyviup oumc 35000 desperately resisting 1 anese troops in northwest Leyte DR Pays Tribute to Unknown Soldier '1 4 IN WASHINGTON Weather Ki (NEA Tuhphotof President Roosevelt stands before the tomb of Unknown Saldier on 26th commemoration of Armis tice Day as Maj Gen Edwin Watson carries the President's wreath Standing president are James i'orrestai secretary of the navy Henry sunisuu secretary Qf war mmt Aum Wuson jmuwo Roosevelt's naval aide Dereliction 15 Cases Are Now uehrer war and Pep 01 It for S3 "A troops had forged big anti tank ditch capital and claimed street fighting was and police began to doubt had spent a week inside S3 24 26 24 40 50 43 Mln 22 24 22 28 16 25 said quoting Eicken as once say the fuehrer feared a throat cancer and western water interests were present at the convention which opened today 24 Whereabouts Health Of Hitler Causes Much Press Conjecture 8:31 a Sound Policy for All Reclamation Projects Asked DENVER Nov 15 (UR) LONDON Nov 15 (UR) Rus sian storm troops drove' into the southern suburbs of Budapest to day and Moscow dispatches said the assault on the Hungarian cap ital appeared to have entered its final decisive stage Soviet front reports said Mar shal Rodion forc es were pushing in over the north ern and eastern approaches of Budapest to join in the siege and were in full control of the entire corridor betwedfi the Danube and Hisza south of the capital The Russians were reported swarming across the Danube be low Budapest to Invest the city from the west Moscow reported adding that "the days of Budapest again seem A front line dispatch relayed by Moscow reported the resump tion of violent fighting in East Prussia where "the earth is quaking from explosions and the sky is arther north the Soviet gov ernment newspaper Izvestia re ported the remnants of 30 Ger man divisions pinned against the Baltic in Latvia and Lithuania were being finished off rapidly Soviet accounts of the close in on Budapest said Cossacks of the Don and Kuban steppes hammer ed at the heels of routed enemy units chopping down the laggards with sabers and throwing the sur vivors into the Danube swollen with the bodies of hun dreds of Germans and Hungarians who sought to escape to the A siege line already was estab lished on the southern outskirts to the Danube where the Rus sians apparently held firm control of the east bank for the entire 268 miles to the liberated Yugoslav capital of Belgrade While main forces appeared to be concentrated on the eastern drive Berlin reported tnat soviet across the around the that heavy taking place in Pestszentlmre three miles southeast of Budapest stand each other end resolve their problems after the Eden said Soviet Troops Enter Southern Suburbs of Budapest Being Invested rom AU Sides Reclamation to Meet BOZEMAN Nov 15 (UR) Wes ley A D'Ewart president of the Montana Reclamation association has announced the organization would meet in Helena Dec 11 12 to hear full details of the pro posed Missouri valley authority A water development plan formulated by the army engineers and the bureau of reclamation for the Missouri river basin will also be discussed said Al though the program the tWo day meeting is Incomplete speak ers are expected to Include Gov ord Judge Clifford Stone of Denver and Hans meter extension conservationist at Montana State college Bulletin' prepared by the weather bureau office at Havre Nov 15 1944 Maximum yesterday 26 Minimum last night 16 Temperature at 1:00 to day 18 Precipitation for 24 hours end ing at 12:30 today trace Sunrise tomorrow Sunset today 5:39 HAVRE ORECAST Partly cloudy and continued cold tonight Thursday partly cloudy and warmer MONTANA ORECAST By United Press air little odder extreme east and over Missouri headwaters to night Low temperatures west of the continental divide 18 to 25 degrees and 15 to 20 degrees east of divide Thursday fair warmer ny only one mile south Other front reports the 3rd army had narrowed the Ger man escape corridor east of Metz to eight miles 9 Year Old Admits His Disappearance Was But a Ruse LONG BEACH Cal Nov (UR) Nine year old David Bour bonnais was a fallen hero today his story of having been locked in a narrow trailer trunk for sev en days without food or water an admitted hoax But the true story of how he spent the week "bumming was almost as Incredible as the fiction he invented about his or deal inside the trunk He spent the seven days in the vicinity of his home in the Los Cerritos trailer camp virtually under the nose of the Navy pat rols police and Boy Scouts who were searching for him he said In fact he recalled laughingly he once joined a group of boys searching for him in a rain filled slough thought maybe been he said at Seaside hos pital naval clinic where still living in the lap of luxury But his 48 hours of glory was over and juvenile authorities had only the problem of a reprimand David dwelt on this matter also and wondered if his father Sea man A Bourbonnais who was wounded by shrapnel at Tarawa was well enough to wield a razor strop Police admitted however that David had been a good actor But there was one flaw in his story He said he obtained water and air during his seven incar ceration through cracks in the door of the trunk An investigation revealed that 1 the trunk was "waterproof and alr tight David of it oups of the Pacific fleet blew up two destroyers severely damaged a cruiser and left 11 cargo vessels and oil tankers sinking or in flames Admiral Chester Nim itz announced Tokyo reported yesterday that carrier planes also attacked the Manila bay area Monday but this was not confirmed immediately fy Pacific fleet headquarters Meantime American ground forces 350 miles to the southwere threatening to envelop some with a pincers drive down both flanks of the corridor above the sea and air base of Ormoc One column thrusting down the west side of the Ormoc corridor already has sprung a trap on a Japanese regiment front dispatch es said while that east of the cor ridor has advanced within 11 miles of Ormoc at two places The carrier task force raid on the Manila bay area of Luzon was ByiPETER EDSON NEA Staff Correspondent The presidential executive order authorizing Air Transport Command and the Naval Air Transport Command and the Nav al Air Transport Service to carry civilian passengers for pay if their travel is in furtherance of the war effort" has stirred up some of the commercial airline people quite a bit Peace Will Last If Allies Work Together Says Eden LOAMING ToN icKshre England Nov 15 oreign Secretary Anthony Eden said to day that if America Britain Rus sia and rance can work togeth er a long period of peace may come out of this war "as it muse if all civilization is not to be de Eden speaking to his own con stituents said that if the allied lilrv fntio Tsnnn In olnoo fl MIK LUU1 UUU MCVU au Vivov i mony before the war the Germans "would never have been able to launch their offensive against the world and if we are together af terwards they will never be able to start this business again It is imperative for the Ameri cans British Russians and rench to work together under mV aVia mnzl roanlvft is now by the (Please Turn to Page Two Dem Leaders Say Electoral College Outworn WASHINGTON Nov 15 (UR) The present electoral college system of choosing the president was described today as and by two Democratic house leaders who moved to re vise it Reps Clarence Lea Cal and Chairman Eugene Worley Tex of the house presidential elections committee said the sys tem should be changed bv consti tutional amendment before the na tion chooses its next chief exe cutive They said the electoral college as it now exists does not reflect true public opinion as indicated by the popular vote and by fail ing to commit electors to party candidates may "result in dis franchisement of the Lea chairman of the powerful interstate commerce committee yesterday introduced legislation designed to compromise faults in the present system while still re taining the electoral college it self His plan would permit each state to retain its present num ber of electoral votes but would unlit the Votes between the can didates on the basis of the per centage of each popular vote within the state Thus if Oklahoma with 10 electoral votes gave 613 per cept of its popular vote to the Demo cratic candidate ans 387 per cent to the Republican nominee its electoral votes would be split 613 to 387 In case of a tie between candi dates which Lea pointed out would be much more improbable than under the present system the candidate with the highest popular vote would be elected Cigaret Rationing Is 1 WASHINGTON Nov 15 (UR) officials dismissing as "completely the rationing of clgarets today urged harried smokers to "buy and help assure more equitable distribution of short civilian sup plies OPA Chief Chester Bowles said LONDON Nov 15 The authoritative British press associ atlon said today that official cir cles in London are convinced Adolf Hitler is either ill or mad and Gestapo Chief Heinrich Him mler in effect has succeeded him is fuehrer of Gerthany assumption of dic tatorial powers over all phases of German military and civilian life has ruled out the possibility of surrender as in 1918 to preserve the reich from des truction rank King the diplomatic corerspondent said Officials who have sifted all reliable evidence reaching Britain from Germany see little or no chance of a revolution within the country and believe that the reich will fight "to the last des pite the destruction of her cities and towns King said The Allies can win the war now only by force of arms he asserted The whereabouts and health of Hitler were mystery' hut dispatch and European ad vices insisted he had relinquished voluntarily or otherwise most of his duties to Himmler and prob ably was under medlcaL care King said Hitler was suffering seriously from delayed concussion induced by the abortive bombing atempt on his life at his head quarters last July A London News Chronicle dispatch said Hit vocal cords had been affect ed bv an ear inflammation result ing from the bombing Other reports persisted that Dr Otto Von Eicken famed German throat specialist had operated on throat after a dangerous tumor developed throat (actually has been troubling him HAVRE MONTANA WEDNESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 15 1944 THE PRESENT NOT THE PAST What goes on here? they would like to know is the government starting an airline of its own to compete with the commercial air line companies? Is the war being used as an excuse to put over government ownership? Is the ad ministration preparing for a chosen international 'aviation policy and trying to put over a government owned airline as the chosen instrument? If ATC and NATS have more transport airplanes than i General Sherman You Were WRONG! biS QRlOAL MONTANA HELENA UKVlVlvKX DUI "cj 5 United States War Bvrtafi i Bonds and Stamps Americans Are So Close They Can Hear ive 4 actory Whistles Nazis ight Hard PARIS Nov 15 (UR American troops today stormed a piny ridge 2000 yards south of Metztho laat natoraL defense line the city and the Germans threw reinforcements into a action to stave off the fall of the maarive fortreaa aa long aa possible United Press Correspondent Collie ftnalL reported from outside Metz that the Americans were so close to Metz on the south thia evening that they could hear its five factory whistles The last mile to Metz however promised to be tough and bloody Small reported since truckloads of German troof rame out of Metz to the perimeter defenses under cover of a iwirling fog and ojined the showdown battle 2 After Lt Gen George Pat forces had seized three mbre major outposts of Metz and nar rowed the Nazi escape corridor to seven mllqs a 7:30 re port from the front said the sit uation was unchang To the north the British 2nd artny advanced five miles from its starting line in the new of' tensive in southeast Holland The British found only slight resis tance as the Germans fell back to the last canal line covering the approaches to the Maas and the German frontier At supreme headquarters it be gan to appear that Gen Dwight mounting winter offensive liad motivated a German withdrawal to the Siegfried de fense zone along a 200 mile front from Weert in Holland to the federal reclamation act should ap Vosges infantrv ply to supplemental water proj 1 Troops of the 10 th inf a try ects in areas where farm pattern reghnent Maj Gen Stafl £rd has long been established Irwin fifth division tangig Representatives of both eastern with the Germans on the ivcpivwvuww I44la Asa Ikan a TTIIIA nAlHW a libltv XUVJU IUM Metz The Germans were defend ing it from an intricate system of machine gup nests ort mange north of Meta surrendered unconditionally to the 05th division early this morning Temperatures: Station Max Billings1 32 Butte 41 Glasgow 35 Great alls 35 Helena 35 Kalispell 33 Lewistown 38 Livingston 34 Mlles City 30 Missoula 40 National? Bismarck 33 Chicago 66 Los Angeles 62 Minneapolis 54 New York 62 Seattle 46 the second this month Planes from Admiral William Third fleet destroyed 448 Japa nese planes and sank or damaged 30 ships in a two day strike Nov 4 5 Rear Admiral rederick Sherman commanded the task forces which carried out attacks In addition to sinking or damaging 14 ships the carrier planes torpedoed a floating dry dock and scored direct hits on many docks in Manila bay and at the Cavite navy yard Eighteen of 20 intercepting ene my planes were shot down over Luzon and 10 others in attempts to attack the task groups Another 130 to 140 single and twin engin ed enemy planes were destroyed or damaged in strafing attacks on Legaspi Manila and Clark air strips One American surface ship was damaged but aerial losses if any were not detailed in the an nouncement of the attacks Coming to Head Short Kimmel Will Either Be Cleared Soon or ace Changes WASHINGTON Nov 15 (UR) Rear Admiral Husband Kim mel and Maj Gen Walter Short either will be cleared of charges in connection with the Pearl Harbor disaster or ordered to face a court martial sometime before Dec 7 reliable congres sional sources said today Secretary of War Henry Stim son and Secretary of Navy James orestal already have received detailed reports from Army and Navy investigative boards and ac cording to authoritative informa tion will be ready to announce a decision in tie next few weeks The decision it was said either will order court martial trials for Kimmel and Short or clear them of any responsibility for failure to take proper precaution in the at tack which cost 3000 lives and severe losses to the American fleet' In either case it might be un necessary for congress to extend the time limitation under which the two officers who were in command at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck may be ord ered held for trial The present extension of the statute of limita tions in their carea expires Dec 7 and a renewal had been look ed upon as one of the piepes of legislation Ho be con sidered in the short congressional session opening yesterday Prior to adjournment in Sep tember Republican hjbuse mem bers charged on the floor that the administration' was afraid to make public the whole story of the disastrous attack because President Roosevelt was to blame They declared that Kimmel and Short either should be vindicated or tried Th A 13 th annual convention of the National Reclamation association here was asked today to estab lish a sound policy that would be to all recla mation projects throughout the The request was made by Hagie secretary manager of the association after he pointed out that a technical ques tion had developed on the central value reclamation project in Cali fornia Hagle told the convention that the question was whether the 160 acre land limitation clause of the I Mother Dies HELENA Nov 15 Mrs Mary Gilmore 81 mother of the Most Rev Joseph Gilmore bishop of Helena died yesterday at a local hospital uneral services will be con ducted tomorrow at St cathedral when the Most Rev Bishop Gilmore will offer a pon tifical mass or requiem Burial willbehere Kidnaper Sentenced LIVINGSTON Nov 15 Chester Valgamore was sen tenced yesterday to two years in the state prison on his plea of guilty to a charge of kidnaping a 10 year old Livingston girl (Valgamore arraigned before District Judge Benjamin Berg was charged with having taken the girl from Llvlngstoq to Bil lings last Aug 14 they know what to do with why don't 1 they give them to the commercial airlines and let them haul the passengers either as private busi ness or as contract carriers for the Army or Navy? and so forth These questions involve i not 'only operations of Pan American Airlines and American Export Airlines who wree in the interna tional air business before the war but also American Eastern Trans continental Northwestern North eastern United and other domestic airlines which have done contract flying for Army and Navy A close checkup with govern ment aviation seems to indicate that fears of the commercial air transport interests are ground less The presidential executive order authorizing the ATC and NATS to carry passengers for pay is made necessary by the present military situation and by existing law whlch controls licensing of commercial air carriers in in ternational service Take the military situation first Commercial airlines are not authorized to operate from most military air bases overseas or eign governments simply let them in'Difflctiltles of getting a commercial plane cleared for entry into many countries are tre mendous though military planes can come 1 right in and A second point is that the arm ed services feel they must keep control 'i' of all transport planes available for possible Emergency use This is a decision with which no civilian can argue A third military factor is that surface transportation systems of liberated countries like rance are completely wrecked rail' motor' Inland waterway Planes thus become the only system of transportatlonthat will work On the legal side tnere only one line authorized Nip Losses Include Two Destroyers American Pincers Threaten? Many Jap Troops on Leyte PEARL HARBOR Nov 15 (UR) Destruction or wrecking of 14 more Japanese ships and 158 to 168 planes in and around Manila bay by American carrier aircraft Sunday was hailed today as anoth er major preparatory step for an ultimate amphibious invasion of Luzon capital island of the Philippines ighters torpedo planes and dive bombers from carrier task Belief Rampant Himmler Is (Signai Conn photo from NEA) the moment war I tai from whai Gerjemi Sherman said was for Sergt Stanley IL StrurouaJ a Marlen Dietrich pucker up for a kiss over the door" of the makeshift theater where she performed for his less lucky pals of the 35th Jnfantry Di viilon 34th Regiment7 Travelers Say Germany is in Highly Nervous State ZURICH Nov 15 Trav elers from Germany said today that the Gestapo publicly hanged 21 pesons in Cologne yesterday after some inhabitants of the heavily bombed Rhineland city came out openly against Germany continuing the war Long pent up resentment against the ordeals they were undergoing erupted in the defiant declaration by the Cologne resi dents that they had enough of the war informants said The Gestapo and SS elite guards moved in fast however and halted the incipient revolt with public hangings including 21 "yesterday it was report ed Travelers said the entire Rhine land from Karlsruhe to the Ruhr was in a state of dangerous ten sion Its transport system was described as in Coal deliveries from the Ruhr had stopped and whole industrial areas had been paralyzed weeks a that tfl VAlAhlnr 4 that "scarce of shortages I aIarmlng proportions In many rather than an actual scarcity I tloM of the conntry were largely responsible for the British 8th Army Ttoods Reach aeiizR'aft ROME Nov 15 (U Briusn overrun by the Mth division troops of the 8th army battled aad Juwy through increasing German dne sitlon today Ho af and a half miles of aenza me Meta next important junction point on Thj gth dlviBlon tabbing thru the main highway to Bologna sonthern suburbs of Metz a captured Peltre two mites south both sides of the highway in a cJt proper and was converging drive on aenza and outskirts of Mag Germans were putting up sun re sistance as they backed toward the road junction 30 miles east of Bologna The southern British forces al so cleared Mount Poggiolo four miles southwest of orll and oc cupied the village of Villagrappa a milee to the north In the Adriatic sector Stharmy troops still were fighting in the pine woods southeast of Vital Statistics DEATH Mrs Herbert A White 34 of Inverness at Havre Nov 14 MABRIAGti LICENSE Cecil Junloi1 Baker 23 and' Blanche Elizabeth Heeter 21 both of Havre Not 14 BIRTHS: To Mrs Lloyd Estell Havre daughter Nov 8 zt the Deacon ess hospital' To Mr Chester Teigen Havre a son Nov 14 at the Deaconeu hospital To Mr rank'Bouzhle Box El der a daughter Nov 14 at the Sacred Heart hospital 1 I 'S 's 1 A vl 'd 1 si I I 'to: SSs 'f'k aa' a bxS A 'S zz s'tz z4? 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