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10 THE COURIER. JOURNAL. LOUISVILLE, Y. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1911. SECTION 1 War Reporters Demand All 6 Stettinius Aides Confirmed By Senate End to Blackout On News By JAMES F.

McGLlNCY. Allied Supreme Headquarters, Paris, Dec. 19 (UP) In an angry 45-minute session at tonight's regular "briefing" here, war correspondents demanded that Army public relations authorities release to the American public details of the German counteroffensive which has been going on LU 4sr x' -7 Bomhsiidit Firm Indicted By U. S. Jury Continued from First Pace tion, which failed to fulfill a contract to supply bombsisjhts to the Army Air Forces.

The War Department canceled the contract in July, 1943, and the Navy then contracted with the Norden firm, taking the sights which Cardanic had failed to deliver. The second Indictment said: Corrigan concealed his interests in his company, although purporting to have severed himself from it when he became a Navy civilian employe in May, 1942. $109,000 Payment Told. Using. his Navy position to procure private business, he received $109,000 from his firm after his purported resignation.

Corrigan, Weils and the survey firm conspired to force several manufacturing companies to employ the Corrigan concern under threats that adverse reports would be submitted to the Navy. Among those so coerced were Bell and Howell, Chicago; Downington Manufacturing Company, Downinton, Remington Hand, and Vickern. Waterbury tool division, Water-bury, Conn. for four days. Officials explained that securi ty considerations demanded that the news blackouts be continued.

The discussion began when Maj. James Hughes, S.HA.E.F. briefing officer, acting on instructions, turned aside queries on the situation on the First Army front, as officials here have done since Sunday when the news "blackout" began. Allen Mounts Rostrum. Hughes could not answer persistent questions whether First Army censors had passed news still unavailable here, and one correspondent shouted: Why don't you step down and let us hit at General Allen (Brig.

Gen. Frank Allen, S.H.A.E.F. chief publi-" relations officer)? It is his place to answer these question." Allen mounted the rostrum and said: "Shoot! Toliry Termed Stupid. Then he repeated that news of operations was being withheld to prevent the enemy from knowing the whereabouts of his forward elements. Speaking as a former armored combat command commander, he said that sometimes he had not known movements of his own units for 24 hours.

"May I say that S.H-A.E.F.'s policy on this matter is stupid and that's no reflection on you, sir," said George Lyons, S.H.A.E.F. representative of the Office of War Information, at thi: point. "Everybody across hell and 40 acres knows what's going on. The American people are entitled to know what's going on." After some correspondents had exhausted themselves trying to garner information, Drew Middle-ton of The New York times said: don't believe that security covers news of what happened last Sunday. Everybody knows that the Germans are good soldiers and they certainly know what happened then." Sources of Decision Given.

"You complain about complacency on the home front, but when there is bnd news you won't release it," said Joe Evans of "Why should the American and British peoples have to depend on the German radio for news of what's happening?" asked a British correspondent. Allen explained that the decision on the news blackout was not that of himself or his staff, but that It was a decision taken by the First Army and 12th Army Group with the full support of S.H.A.E.F. and G-2, which is Army Intelligence. AP Wlrephoto. GUNNING FOR JAPS Doughboys trudge along the beach south of Ormoc, Leyte Island, pulling a mortar in the landing December 7 designed to bisect the Japanese forces battling on the island.

In the background an American landing craft stands offshore. another 20 years we will be told to go to war again to keep Russia from ruling the world. The only way to keep out of World War 111 is to mind our own business." Russia Accused of Byplay. Reynolds charged that "just as we were about to deliver a knockout blow to Germany, Russia is engaged in consolidating gains in the Balkans and the British are engaged in fighting Greeks. The Russians are using their troops in the Balkans instead of driving straight to Berlin." "We have acquiesced in the enslavement of the Polish people," Reynolds said, "by one of our allies, Russia.

America has turned its back on the smaller nations of Europe. What are we fighting for now?" Wheeler told Reynolds he didn't believe there was any doubt that Stalin will drive through Poland to Berlin, hut said: "If he doesn't noon, we will have to revise our entire military policy in Europe." Barkley Defends Clayton. Much of the attack on Clayton came from cotton-state Senators. Richard Russell of Georgia attacked him because of his belief that cotton subsidies and all other subsidies should be stopped, and that cotton prices should drop to whatever the world price is in a free competitive market. Chandler joined in the attack on Clayton, saying that If he spent $10,000,000 encouraging South America to grow tobacco, as he encouraged it to grow cotton, Kentucky farmers would face economic ruin.

Barkley rose to defend Clayton as a man he has known all his life and whose wife was a college mate of Barkley's. Iloosier Opposes MacLeish. "I never heard anyone question Clayton's patriotism or integrity," Barkley said. Senator Overton of Louisiana was the only Democrat voting against confirmation of MacLeish. Senator Willis Ind.) voted against confirmation of Clayton and MacLeish but in favor of the other four nominees.

No vote or pair was recorded for Senator Jenner Ind.) on any cf the six roll calls. Corridor Town On Leyte said, showed nine cargo vessels were sunk instead of 10, as announced yesterday. Additional shipping wiped out was listed as one large oiler, one minelayer, seven small craft and five small vessels. In place of 10 cargo end 25 small ships damaged, the newest report said carrier planes damaged nine cargo ships and 17 small cargo-carriers. Damage to one large transport, one medium oiler, one small oiler and one coastal defense vessel was reported for the first time.

the enemy's main defense line in the Ormoc corridor. At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported the additional destruction of 14 ships and small craft in the carrier-plane sweeps over Luzon December 13, 14 and 15, raising to 41 the number of enemy vessels sunk in the tbrce-day attack. 9 Cargo Ships Sunk. The communique revised downward from 66 to 61 the number of vessels damaged.

U. S. combat losses were placed 'at 27 planes. Revised information, Nimitz Nazi Tanks Crack Line Along 70-Mile Front Nazis Drop Parachutists Into Center of France By G. H.

ARCHAMBAULT. By Wlrelesa to The New York Time and The Courier-Journal. Paris, Dec. 19. A number of enemy parachutists have been dropped in Central France by at least one plane.

The name of this locality is not given. The parachuting occurred at night, but peasants heard the noise of-the plane's motors, gave the alarm, and local security forces soon were scouring vision FOR I VICTORY Continued from First Page choices arose in part from their distress over the course of European politics. They expressed the fear that a group so heavily weighted with conservatives would take a Churchillian point of view toward popular uprisings such as the one which has occurred in Greece. Their anguish gave various Senate isolationists an opportunity to make "I-told-you-so-speeches." Such utterances came from Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, La Follette and from two who won't be back in the Senate chamber after today, Robert R.

Reynolds of North Carolina and Gerald Nye of North Dakota. Each of them said the Atlantic Charter is being kicked to pieces by Winston Churchill in Greece and Joseph Stalin in Poland. Srnator Listen Attentively, The Senators listened with unusually careful attention while La Follette attacked this nation's failure to maintain the Atlantic Charter. Events which are transpiring in Europe make it clear that the Atlantic Charter has become a mere scrap of paper," said "the Wisconsin Senator, whose father helped defeat Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. "The Government of the United States is satisfied to make pious declarations such as was made yesterday by the Secretary of State concerning the Polish situation.

There has been no answer to (Ernest) Bevin's statement that the President initialed at Cjuebec an agreement between Great Britain and Russia. The one hope of the survival of democracy in America is that we should have a just and lasting peace. The men who make up this team (of six nominees) are not calculated to strengthen those objectives." Nye Gets In Last Licks. Nye, who has an almost perfect record, of isolationism, pointed out that he voted against Lend-Lease, against lifting the arms embargo and other measures favoring war. He declared, with great satisfaction, thnt the "blank-che-k interventionists are riding for a fall." "If we get ourselves into this European mess after the war," Nye said, "there will be a demand from the people that we stay out which will be so strong that no President, no interventionist moneyed crowd of Easterners can stem the tide.

War to Stop Reds Warned. "What is transpiring now is laying the ground for a future isolationist policy. The people were given high-sounding reasons in the Atlantic Charter for going to war. Now they find we are engaged in a sordid business in Greece and in Poland. They find the Chinese being told to shut up about the return of Hongkong to them by the British Empire.

"There are dozens of disillusioning incidents which are making for as complete an American isolationism as George Washington advocated. Dumbarton Oaks is just a military alliance among three powers to rule the world. "We were told that the war was being fought to keep Hitler from seizing control of the world. I will leave it to history to say how great was the danger that Hitler might rule the world. In Hurry! ll 't "'-v 1 Continued from First Faze many of our planes are to have landed in France.

The dumped 1,000 tons of bombs on Trier alone. (Drew Middleton of The New York Times declared use of "strategical air power in a defensive tactical role, th2 first time it has been so used since the enemy attacked through Vil-lers Bocage last summer, is a significant indication of the grav- Himmler Reported Taking Over At Front With the Allied Sixth Army Group, Alsace, Dec. 19 Official quarters learned reliably tonight that Heinrich Himmler, German home-front dictator, had taken personal command of German forces holding a bridgehead on the west side of the Rhine in Southern Alsace. Himmler was said to have established headquarters on the east side of the river. Ity of the situation on the First Army As Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt's battering ram smashed into the deeply dented American lines south of Aachen, Allied headquarters imparted only the terse information that "the attack is continuing." This curtain of silence appeared to indicate that the enemy's forward momentum had not ben halted.

The Germans still were packing the roads with equipment and men. (The German High Command declared that Nazi tank forces "'have broken, through, smashed and dispersed units of the American First Army deep into the enemy rear." Other German reports said the First Army was cut "in two." Like the Allies, however, the Germans dealt only in generalities.) Despite the terrific enemy pressure against its right, the First Army sustained its pressure along the Roer River east of Aachen, sending patrols across the stream into the Nazi stronghold of Duren, 20 miles from Cologne. Fog rolled like gray surf along Dr. Frank Pearlman, Successor OPTOMETRISTS 672 Seuth 4th Opposite Brown Hotel JA 668 fOR CHRISTMAS CST THf 3S1 Mny-Bacfc Gi Open Till Midnight far DCDMAMCUTC Vri tninniiuii 2 Tinting fciah Cold Waves $10 to $20 9 Olkir prrman.nti. nrb a Wirel.

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It is pointed out that last week during the national convention of Liberation Committees, a representative from Western France 4 Wed to Fliers In Fake Marriage Plan No Action Alliance, Dec. 19 (JP) County Judge Penrose E. Romig said tonight no action is contemplated in the hoax perpetrated on four Alliance girls who thought they were marrying paratroops and later found the "nuptials" were performed by a soldier impersonating an Army chaplain. "The parents are reconciled to the fact something has been slipped over on them" and the girls have decided not to take any action in the matter, Judge Romig declared. The girls said the paratroops, now overseas, obtained blank marriage certificates which they had mimeographed and filled out.

The girls said they were taken to the air base where a soldier, posing as a chaplain, read the nuptial lines in a barracks the girls were led to believe was a chapel. U. S. Takes Planes Use Valencia Field Continued from First Page Mindoro is proceeding and American troops holding an invasion perimeter east of San Jose are meeting no Japanese ground resistance, the bulletin said. The American drive to Valencia cleared all but about six miles of Frankfort Plans Postwar Subdivision Continued from First Pace air, all of this might cost around $150,000.

5. Meanwhile, however, the commission would find 200 home builders willing to buy the first 200 lots at, say, $750 a lot, thereby, raising the $150,000 necessary to defray cost of the land and developments. 6. The remaining 100 lots then would become the common property of the owners of the first 200 lots. Upon sale of the remaining 100 lots, the proceeds, less added development costs, if any, would be pro rated among the owners of the first 200 lots.

Cost Would Be Equalized. 7. The plan of financing would be adjusted and compensated so that, in the end, all of the 300 home builders would bear the same proportionate cost of the land, plus developments. Besides the solid inducement of proximity to town and work, utilities, sewers and good streets, Harrod sees two other major enticements favorable to home builders in the proposed project. They are: 1.

The lots would be 100 feet wide and 200 feet deep, giving plenty of room for gardens, lawns, outbuildings, etc. 2. Several small areas would be set aside as parks or playgrounds. One of the parks would be developed around some old breastworks that have remained intact since the height was fortified during the Civil War. Not Looking: for Santa.

While Harrod believes the City can manage the project under its own steam, he does not discount the possibility that substantial help might be forthcoming from the Federal Government. "We are not looking for Santa Claus," he said, "but if Santa Claus comes along we don't want the chimney, plugged up." For example, Harrod has reason to believe the Federal Government might furnish engineers for the job, as well as help out on the access road that must be built to connect the proposed subdivision with the present network of city streets. "I have heard some people say the whole business is crazy, and it may be," Harrod said. "But maybe it's just crazy enough to work out." V-Bomb Ends Song Of Girls In Factory London, Dec. 20 (Wednesday) UP) Tragedy struck among singing girls in a southern England factory recently when a German V-bomb exploded in a workshopfH killing or injuring all but three, it was reported today.

Girls had just finished recess on the night shift and returned to their machines singing. "You Are My Sunshine," when the bomb struck. Chemist Kills Self After Gas Ration Is Cut Long Beach, Dec. 19 (U.R) Albert Williams, 56-year-old chemist, committed suicide today after his ration board cut his gasoline allotment. Toronto Gives Up Freak Law.

Toronto, Dec. 19 (JP) Toronto's pedestrian traffic law died an unmourned death today. The freak law, in force five days, provided such things as a $10 fine for pedestrians passing other pedestrians on the left instead of the right, and a ban on running to catch a streetcar. mm 6fi fiihwfmfi mentioned that the Germans were parachuting men into the Mayenne Department. MUUia Rumored Nucleus.

The "Brown Maquis" is rumored to- consist mostly of Vichy militia "Darnand's Black Birds" who were not able to flee to Germany, various other collaborationists and a number of German soldiers either parachuted or having succeeded in making their way from enemy pockets along the Atlantic coast. Because of this "Brown Maquis," the resistance groups are insisting once again on the necessity of retaining armed forces to counter Fifth Column activities. These forces used to be known as the Patriotic Militia, but last October 28 the Government decided to transform them into the Republican Civic Guard, with their arms kept in armories in care of the Mayor of each community. Copyright. 1944.

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Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army lines remained practically unchanged his gains dwindled to almost nothing after 41 days of steady Yesterday's prisoner count on the entire Saar front was only 53, by far the lowest since November 8. German observation planes ranged thickly over the Third Army front with every break in the weather, bombing and strafing American movements and obviously making a supreme effort to prevent any possible transfer of forces to the threatened First Army front.

The Seventh Army of Gen. Alexander Patch hacked at Siegfried defenses along a 20-mile front westward from the Rhine in the Bavarian Palatinate, but met savage opposition and regis-te Ad no gains of consequence. The Americans' every move was being furiously and accurately fired upon by Nazi artillery which was registered on every foot of terrain. Secret Nazi Weapon I Variant of V-2 Cleveland, Dec. 19 Ma J.

Gen. Levin H. Campbell, chief of Army Ordnance, disclosed today that the new secret German weapon used by the Nazis in their current western front offensive is a variant of the V-2 rocket which bombed London. At a press conference, Gen. Campbell described the new weapon, which he termed the "V-3 or V-4," as wingless, capable of speed greater than sound but smaller than the V-2.

The smaller size, he said, was because it was used at much shorter ranges than the V-2. 1 power punches carried forward several miles in the first day. Another was supposed to go through the sector where I am now. It was stopped cold last night and today, hour by hour, the Germans are finding the going harder. Curtiss-Wriglit Takes B-29 Contract Continued from First Page added, "the B-29 Boeing Superfortress modification project will gradually work into plant operations and, upon completion of the Commando contract, will absorb the entire facilities.

This plan will maintain our present employ level and, at the same time, will accomplish the change-over with minimum disruption to both production programs." Brandewiede explained that extensive training of personnel will be necessary. Technical Service Command officials said the Louisville plant was chosen because of arrangement of the factory which permits straight line modification with a minimum of changes to present facilities; adaptability of adjacent Standiford Field for Superfortresses and efficiency of Louisville plant employes. Louisvillians interested in postwar aviation foresaw in the change-over "a big step forward in keeping the plant in operation after the war" when modification will be necessary for peacetime use of various planes. teiwg Mm I "uunn'inrin'nnKHHinfninui'fTni i'- 1 iC jCTcr iff vVtv Say: "I'll Meet You" At Yanks Let Tanks Crush Tliem Rather Than Flee ffUL Steak Chicken Italian Dinners Served Until 1 A.M. Air-Conditioned Dining-Koom 448 S.

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The Germans took us prisoner but some of our boys counterattacked and we escaped into the woods. Nazi Plan Laid Cunningly. "We made our way back to our unit or what's left of it and the boys dug in again when we were attacked by big German tanks. "Some of the boys stood right In there fighting until the tanks ran over their foxholes and crushed them. "I got away with two wounded boys.

By keeping to the woods I was able to bring them into our lines. That's all, I guess." The front has been stabilized in this area by Americans going down roads until they met Germans and then slugging it out. The skirmishes are won by the men who shoot first and the straightest. Where the front has been stabilized it has been done on the spot in blood and steel. It is apparent that Field Marshal von Rundstedt's attack was cunningly conceived.

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