Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

DELIVERY SERVICE Call your Tribune boy dealer by telephone, if you miss your paper. If you cannot reach him, telephone TE-6000 and everything possible will be done to correct your service. vrnt EDITION IXCLWIIVE ASSOCIATED WIREPHOT0.7.WIDE WORLD UNIT ED PRESS VOL. CXXXIX 5c DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1943 15c SUNDAY NO.oI Roosevelt HUGE-LIQUOR I ha Asks Probe of stock r.

in viaira; Lonaon iexr Delays Draff STORED, bard Police SOLONS TOLD orces oom auru Civilian Of Fathers McNutt Power Cut; Hershey Given Full Control by Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (It). Lutkey Deplores Order Yanks Crack Truk Bastion To Evacuate Families; Senate committee heard. todajr that there are 117,000,000 "gallons of Storm Damage Mounts whisky from four to eight years old in bonded warehouses that could be TAKE FROM JAPS AUSSIES WAREO FLEEING tapped to relieve a thirsty market Oakland Fre Chief William G.

President Lauds Island Defense WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (IP) Blasted, Other if the Government would cut tax Lutkey today demanded an- immediate investigation of the auxiliary exempt storage time to four years, This figure was given a Senate President Roosevelt has approved the father draft bill, designed to delay induction of pre-war into the armed services. Judiciary subcommittee investigat police situation here as Northern California dug out from the worst ing the current liquor shortage by Stewart Berkshire, deputy commis windstorm in recent history. Nazi Defense Line in Italy Important Strategic Gain Achieved; 8th Army Drives Ahead The action was announced by the sioner of internal revenue, under The fire chief asked City Mana White House today.

The place at questioning by Senator Ferguson SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED ger Charles Schwanenberg to find Bases Raided Carrier Force Attacks Key Bomber Sinks Four Jap Vessels which the Chief Executive acted Ferguson insisted that out who ordered the auxiliary offi the Government was losing revenue was not disclosed. HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 10. (IP) Allied forces striving, to clear the Japanese from the Huon Peninsula, under the present-system of permit The President had been urged by cers to evacuate areas of the city during the big hill fire Wednesday U.S. to Stand With Allies After War to Make Victory Worth While, Executive Jells Group as He Presents Illuminated Scroll ting distillers to store spirits up to War Manpower Commissioner Paul eight years without levying on them potential jumping off place for the right.

V. McNutt to veto the legislation A 42 per cent decline whisky invasion of New Britain, have cap Women were- made hysterical withdrawals from warehouses in The President's approval raised Lutkey said, and the civilian police the period from May through Sep question as to whether McNutt PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 10. (IP) even told persons to leave their tember was attributed by Senator By the Associated Press would resign his position. homes on Howe Street, miles from tured the important strong point of Wareo.

The triumph was achieved- by Australians who thus blasted the enemy from their hub of supply Van Nuys Ind.) to 'hoarding' Nauru, phosphate producing jsland 500 miles' west of the newly-won TheJegislatiQn removes from" Mc ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, ALGIERS, Dec. 10. fl) The Fifth Army has eracked German defenses on both sides of the Via Casilina at Mignano in a nine-day offensive the fare. by distillers, wholesalers and retail, ers in" an effort to obtain higher VALLETTA, Malta, Dec. 10.

Traveling by plane, President Roosevelt visited this bomb-marked British Mediter-. ranean base on Wednesday, presented its people an illumi Nutt authority over administration Lutkey; said the unauthorized ef- Gilberts, was bombed, by planes of of the selective service system, prices. and defense lines in the New Guinea The authority, vested in Mai. Gen United States aircraft carrier task forces and shelled by guns of war Van Nuys, chairman of the Senate What Happened brought to a smashing- climax by Lewis B. Hershey, the selective jungles 12 miles northwest of coastal Judiciary subcommittee investigat nated scroll on behalf of the American people, and declared the United States will stand staunchly with the British Empire and other Allies after the war to make "it a victory service director, came under Mo ing the liquor shortage, told report- Finschhafen.

American troops who seized Mt. Samucro in "the battle of the Nutt's directives previously. At the samel'ime, American air How extensively the act will de ers that testimony by Berkshire substantiated his belief that there is a definite widening of the liquor clouds," Allied headquarters an lay the induction of pre-Pearl Har bor fathers remains to be seen, offi oiacK market. men struggled through bad weather to keep up their raids on New Britain, which already has felt the explosive weight of more than 1300 tons of bombs in the past two weeks. ships on Wednesday, Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz reported last night. Admiral Nimitz also announced small scale air attacks Wednesday on Mili and Jaluit, enemy air bases in the southern Marshalls. At Jaluit, a single Liberator sank a patrol boat and probably sank a medium freighter and two small vessels. ONLY BRIEF DETAILS "Hundreds and hundreds of indi cials said.

SAYS MILLION NEEDED viduals many of them persons who never drink a drop have bought Russ Capture Rail Center nounced today. Canadians, infantry and tanks, spearheading the Eighth Army along the Adriatic, are smashing forward on an eight-mile front after forcing a second crossing of the Moro River, the communique said. Fighting against the strongest Hershey is reported to have told a New Britain lies only 70 miles worth while. En route from the series of epic conferences in which he and Prime Minister Churchill -engaged in the Middle East, the President arrived in a huge C-54 Douglas four-engine troop transport with an escort of 20 Lightning and Spitfire fighters. (The London Daily Herald yesterday reported "strong feeling" in up wnisKy as an investment." Van Nuys asserted.

across the Vitiaz Straits from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces on New BERKELEY, Dec. 10. Do you want to know the scientific explanation of the wind storm? Well, here it is, as given by Sidney Serebreny of the University of California meteorology staff: "The cause of this wind was a low, centered a little to the south, with a steep pressure gradient and a high center to the north of us. "This made for a very steep gradient and.

the cold swept around the top side of the low2 and the bottom side of the us a very, very strong wind." a 'And there you are. closed meeting of the National Association 'of Manufacturers in New York City yesterday that about Asked how they intended to make profit under price ceilines. he As was the case immediately after Guinea: It lies astride the sea lanes 1,000,000 pre-Pearl Harbor fathers leading to the Philippines, from the announcement of the SaiUiuay would have to be inducted by June attack on the Marshalls, there were replied that he was satisfied that many were selling on the "black man-made defenses and toughest natural obstacles yet encountered in 30, 1944, in order to meet present market at very high prices. schedules. Italy, Lieut.

Gen. Mark W. Clark's veteran British and American troops He said he suspected also that where American forces were driven early in the war and to which Mac-Arthur has vowed he will return. The capture of Wareo, announced by. MaCArthur permits the Allied forces in New Guinea to straighten their lines and continue only brief details on the Nauru assault supplied in the first communique.

"Strong forces of the Pacific Fleet" delivered it. fact that the warships could The expressed intent of the pres- London that President Roosevelt might visit fhere before American troops leave these shores" and participate in a final roundup of plans have wiped out the German moun some have hopes that the legal ceil ent legislation is to prevent the in ings win crack and that retail prices tain line on both sides of the main road to Rome and are stabbingtnto win go up. move within shelling range of for the invasion of Europe from the duction of any of this group of fathers until all available physically fit single men and non-fathers have secondary defenses in the direction "The distillers charge more for west.) -1 -i Nauru, which has been bombed in the past from the air. was cionstdered ciKi'i-year-oia wnisKy man they dp The scroll, which eventually will been put into uniform. of Cassino.

MILITARY ACHIEVEMENT ior iour-year-oid, don they?" Fer significant. Nauru, 1100 miles south Foil of Znomenka Perils Entire German Position on Dnieper By EDWARD D. BALL LONDON, Dec. The Red Army has captured Znamenka, hub of a system of railroads linking the Dnieper River 'bend, with the area south of Kiev, Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin announced today irf a The law provides, however, that east of Japan's big naval base of Measured in miles, their advance the of this principle be cast in bronze and placed in Valletta's main square, saluted Malta and its defenders for "valorous service far above and beyond guson asked. When Berkshire replied that was true, Ferguson said he thought that the Government has not great since General within the discretion of the selective Truk, is 700 miles away from bases of Adm.

William F. Halsey's fleet service chief need not disrupt the doesn't get the benefit, but the the call of duty" during the dark orderly calling of men for service, Clark gave the word for the onslaught, and they still are faced by a formidable network bf forti-tifications covering the hillsides as distilleries do," when whisky is left forts of the auxiliary police complicated the work of the fire department, which answered 85 alarms between midnight Wednesday and noon yesterday. The principal fire of this area, which started near the head of Broadway Terrace and Skyline Boulevard, was put out finally at 2:30 a.m. today. Firemen were called back into the hill district at 8 a.m.

when a tree was found burning, but managed to extinguish, the period while Axis aircraft kept th island under a virtual constant alert. DISAGREE ON EFFECT their dogged fight to clear the Huon Peninsula for a possible New Britain invasion attempt. Wareo is a steeply-sloped natural stronghold rising 1000 feet from the jungle lowlands. Without stopping at Wareo, the Aussies pushed on northward and re-established contact with the retreating enemy. Other Allied forces moved northward along the coast from Bonga.

Cape Gloucester, site of a Japanese air base on New Britain's western tip nearest the Huon Peninsula ground front, was attacked for the 10th straight day, this time by Lib-j in the lower Solomons, but is more than 2000 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Last Saturday," more than 700 miles to the northeast of Nauru, a in Darreis ior eight years. Berkshire pointed out, however, that the Members of Congress disagreed as Roosevelt spent three hours on far as Cassino, and beyond. to the practical effect of the legisla Malta, departing for an un The deepest penetration of the Continued Page 2, Col. 1 tion, but Senator Johnson Colo.) special order of the day.

offensive has been only about three announced destination. FOLLOWS CHURCHILL member of-the conference drafting The Soviet column that smashed miles. big task force, including several carriers, sent out planes which leveled defenses at Kwajalein and Wotje in the heart of the Marshalls, sank two enemy cruisers, an oil committee, estimated it would postpone the induction of some fathers But by the yardstick of military intd the town was one of several driving through crumbling Nazi de blaze before it spread. Musfering-Ouf for "two or three months." achievement their success is one of the greatest pf the Mediterranean theater, for Ihey have smashed in a The legislation sets up a "national fenses in the Dnieper bend and fan erator reconnaissance bombers. A fire broke out late yesterday at the Lake Merritt Hotel and did $1000 damage before it was extin -tanker and three cargo ships and The President's plane touched on the world's most bombed airdrome at 9:50 a.m..

Wednesday, after appearing over the island out of a brilliant blue, cloud-flecked sky. Roosevelt was accompanied by poor plan for selective service, di downed 72 planes. little over a week what the enemy ectmg that fathers of children born Between November 18 and 24, hODed would stand as an impreg before September 15, 1942, be placed ning out from the Kremenchug bridgehead. The capture of the heavily fortified German bastion cut the last of Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhowerf Adm. many of these same carriers- sent planes out on repeated raids, first William D. Leahy, the President's nable line for many months, and they have overcome terrain and fortifications substantially more dif- at the bottom of the, draft list and that none of them be called so long as non-fathers are available for call chief of staff; Harry Hopkins, Lieut. to soften up, then to support the ground forces which successfully in Pay Bill Ok'd Sliding Scale Will Give $200 to $500 -To Discharged Men four rail lmes centering in that town and broughfine weight of the Gen. Carl A.

Spaatz, commander of in th Nation. guished. The blaze was confined to the roof garden, but sparks flew cross the street and ignited the roof of a home at 145 Lake Street. AH available firemen were rushed to the scene as officials feared that a general downtown conflagration might ensue from the blaze. The wind at that time was whipping downtown buildings with unusual vaded the Gilberts' on November 2,0.

dicult than those in Tunisia which stalled the Allied attack for a whole Russian Dnieper bend offensive di OTHER PROVISIONS Winter. rectly against Kirovograd. the next Germans Fear Invasion Near 750,000 Allied Troops Poised for Drive Across Channel, Claim Through its other main provisions the Northwest African Air Rear Adm. Ross T. Mclntire, the President's personal physician; Maj.

John -J3oettiger. and Maj. Gen. ter B. Smith.

chief of The American engagement con stronghold in the path of Red Army the measure: forces threatening to outflank Krivoi sisted of hand-to-hand fighting with the Germans in mists which hugged 1 Withdraws supervisory pow Rog. LIVE IP TO NAME Now naval authorities have disclosed that the Hellcat fighters on one of the carriers in the Marshalls raid Saturday were the same gallant group which on November 11 near Rabaul, New Britain, shot down 67 out of 70 Japanese planes in suc WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. ers over selective service granted to staff. the top of the 3000-foot high Legislation to give all members of The loss of Znamenka to Soviet lury.

Elsewhere in California, the unusual windstorm did millions of dol- the armed services mustering-out forces left the whole of the German Manpower Chairman McNutt by an executive order of the President on December 5,. 1942, and directs that The unprecedented visit followed one by Prime Minister Churchill who had called at Malta en route The Canadians were said to be pay ranging from $200 to $500 was firmlv established in their Moro recommended unanimously today to the Cairo conferences. River bridgehead, the second such full draft authority be placed In the hands of the director of selective cessfully protecting a big flat top. Not a Hellcat was lost that day LONDON, Dec. 10..

(IP' Berlin GUARD OF HONOR I foothold that Eighth Army troops have gained across the stream. broadcasts today reflected Ger service. in a dramatic battle more than 1400 More on storm damage, Page 18; Pictures on Pages 30 and 31. A guard honor; including 'an 2 By cancelling occupational in- miles to the southwest of the Mar In the nine-day -battle the Ameri uctions, nullifies the "work or cans, with their British allies, have fight" order of the manpower commission which designated certain R.A.F. unit, 50 British Marines, 50 Royal Navy men, -and 100 United Slates and Maltese troops, lined up on the airfield with a Royal Artillery band to welcome Roosevelt, first President of the United State many's fear of a possible Allied in-, vpsion from the west with an official disclosure that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had inspected Gorman defenses in Denmark and a forecast by Capt.

Ludwig Sertorius, Nazi military commentator, that a British-American cross channel attack would coincide with an expected driven the Germans from the entire mountain mass of Camino and Mag-giore in the Mignano vicinity, thereby ripping a giant hole in the enemy line blocking the road to position west of the lower Dnieper in dire threat. CONTROL RAILROADS The town, some 60 miles northwest of the iron ore city of Krivoi Rog, actually fell yesterday, Stalin's announcement said. With the new victory th' Russians now control railroads running northwest to Smyela and Fastov, somh to Nikolaev and east to Dnepropetrovsk. Tank and infantry forces which had closed in from three sides were aided in the final assault by airborne troops. GERMANS "CHECKED occupations as non-deferrable and directed that workers in those occu damage, with roofs blown off homes and business buildings, fires started everywhere, and power and communications lines downed.

Some shalls. In all these operations, the Navy has reported the loss of one escort carrier, the Liscome Bay, in the Gilberts. Now it has been disclosed that the cost of the recent Marshalls' attack was superficial torpedo damage to one carrier an9 the loss of less than 10 planes. by the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The.

sliding scale of payments would give higher discharge pay to veterans who served overseas than to those who remained in the United States. The plan was inserted by the committee in a bill byiSen'ator Barkley which would have provided a flat $300 payment to all honorably discharged service men. Republican Senators Austin of Vermont and Bridges of New Hampshire were authors of the graduated pay plan, but their bill was incorporated in -its entirety in' the pations among them tavern and ever to visit the island. race track employees be inducted areas of Oakland and Contra Costa First to greet the President was without regard to family 78 straight-line miles distant. LAST VILLAGE FALLS County still are without power to Field Marshal Lord Gort, commander-in-chief of Malta.

Russian Winter offensive. day, 48 hours' after the lights first 3 Orders a review of Army. Navy went off. Others presented to the Presi Falling in the Allied sweep was "It is safe to suppose," said Ser-lorious in a broadcasrrecofeded by the Associated Press, "that the Rus- and MarineCorps physical and men Probably the worst wind damage in the State was done at Monterey, NEW NIGHT RAID tal standards by a five-member the last German-held village in the Mignano vicinity, Rocca d'Evan- dent on the field were Monsignor Miehele Gohzi. bishop of Gozo, rep- resenting the archbishop who is ill; sianrwi1l a grand medical commission to be appointed where a million dollars, worth of by the President, to determine if The Russians declared the great Chief Justice Sir George Borg; Vice purse seining fish boats were washed dro; en-the- northwest slope of Mt.i Camino.

In as fierce an action as ever was; they can be lowered to admit some FOLLOWS DAYLIGHT uerman counter-attack west or Kiev Adm. Louis Henry Keppel Hamil ashore and ruined. The nets they Winter offensive and that they have insisted that the British and Americans attack in tha-west at the same time. in the Zhitomir and Korosten bulge ton, flag officer in charge; Gen. Barkley measure.

VETERAN IS HEARD A 21-year-old war veteran who men now deferred from service. 4 Requires occupational defer use were destroyed and authorities said it might cripple the California fish industry for this The nets has been checked after three days in which 350 German tanks and 5000 fought by American troops, the veterans of Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark crept up Samucro and fell ments, such as those of so-called 750,000 MEN Reginald Oxley.

general officer commanding; and Air Vice Marshal Sir Kenneth Rodney Park, air officer commanding. lost his left leg in a commando action in Tunisia told the committee enemy troops were destroyed. The essential workers in war plants, to Forces for this invasion are German communique, however, as ATTACK ON REICH LONDON, Dec- 10. (P) Berlin radio stations went off the air tonight, indicating niht raiders were known to- be ready with an esti There will be another march for a be reviewed by draft appeal boards in the areas where the registrants serted that the Nazis "gained further My boy has told me about are irreplaceable in war time. Meteorologists said the high wind, trongest recorded here in 50 years, was caused by an increase of air pressure'in the Great Plateau region upon the Germans in the clouds before they were aware of the Yankees' presence.

Wiping out all opposition in grim battle with rifles ui-itolj, lmiveo ground in spite of stiff enemy resist-1 the President said in a chat with bonus" unless "adequate legislation" is enacted to provide benefits for are employed rather than by appeal boards in their place of residence. Bichop tionaii but he failed to say durhargad jarvict- men which one of his boys. between the Cascades and tfte Rocky over the Reich, in a quick sequel to daylight raids on railway and trans Lemuel Hendricks, of Action Will Not Affect California Inductions and grenades, the Americans installed themselves in the strategic high position overlooking the strongly fortified villages of San Council Bluffs, Iowa, last witness to testify, said that men in foxholes mated 50 divisions or more concentrated in Britain iTne United Press qutuutl thw German Transocean agency as estimating the Allied invasion force of 50 divisions in Britain as 750,000 men, including infantry, tank and airborne divisions.) "If no Russian offensive materializes this Winter one can conclude that the Allies have not completed their arrangements. In that ar.oo. The Germans said they stormed an important height in the Crimea near Kerch and were increasing pressure -on-, the- Russian beachhead northeast of the port" city.

Field Marshal Fritz von Mann-stein's combined tank, infantry and air onslaught against Russian po Mountains. They said it would continue during the night for the rest of the week, but could not predict whether it would increase or diminish. The gale literally blew "the roof are beginning to "wonder what they port targets in Northwest Germany by R.A.F. Mosquitos. Today's low-level assault on Nazi transport and communication was a complete reversal of the tactics SACRAMENTO, Dec.

10. (U.R) Vittore and San are fighting for and if it is worth These villages are only six and it" Col. Kenneth H.Leitch, State director of Selective Service, today declared seven miles, respectively, southeast 'I know what they need and wha RIDES IN JEEP With Lord Gort, the President stepped into a jeep named "Husky" which belongs to Air Vice Marshal Park "and is one of three presented to Gort by General Eisenhower when Sicily was invaded. As the jeep came to a stop in front of the guard of honor, the band struck up "The Star Banner." The President took the Continued Page 2, Col. 2 that a bill signed by President Continned Face 2, Col.

4 they want," he said, "They are con of Cassino, and the way was opened for a smash toward that strategic gateway to Rome, now that the cerned about their future and what sitions northeast of Chernyakhov in the Kiev bulge was checked yesterday as the Red Army carved Fascists Arrested case the invasion will begin in the Spring," Sertorius added. Roosevelt delaying induction of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers until other eligible men have been called, would make no change in the rate of induction of fathers in Cali German hold on Mignano Pass has Congress is doing for them." METHOD OF PAYING Under the Senate bill, the muster out new gains to threaten the key been broken. BARCELONA, Dec. 10. (IP) The southern front, Sertorius sug Forty-five Italian Fascists, includ gested, will "play a junior role at previously by the R.A.F.

in using the fleet two-engined bombers almost exclusively as night raiders over German territory. Two ofthe Mosquitos were missing from the afternoon attacks, which also included channel patrol activity in which a JU-88 was shot down off Norway. 1 Nazi raiders qpickly struck back at Britain, setting off London's sirens tonight for the first time since December 1. Continned Page 2, Col. 5 fornia.

the beginning, but when the big Ing Gino Barbi, the party chief in Rome, have been arrested for "dis He explained that fathers already ing-out pay would go to all enlisted men and officers below the Army rank of colonel and comparable 3300 CASES OF turbing public order by acts of thing starts th'e Allied the south will-increase." FRENCH RESERVES are at the bottom of the eligible list under State headquarters directives. DRIVE -AGAINST JAPAN IS NEAR, SAYS ranks in other services, oil the fol lowing basis: indiscipline, according to a December 6 Rome dispatch to the Although the number of fathers WATER-ALCOHOL Sertorius estimated that there are I Five hundred dollars for those French press which was received drafted so far in California has not been revealed, it was believed to CHINESE LEADER; NIPPON AWAITS RAIDS who served 18 months or more out here today. 26 divisions in the south available to, the Allies. be'very low in relation to total State side the Continental United States; Bad weather over the continent has kept the R.A.F.'s heavy night forces grounded since the big raid quotas in -reeent -months. -rr $400 for those serving one year to 18 CHUNGKING, Dec, 10.

IP) Gen. WEATHER TALK months overseas: $300 for overseas 'WHISKY' SEIZED LOS ANGELES. Dec. OP) State officials have revealed the seizure here and in other California (Transocean agency specified the 26 divisions in the south as 20 Anglo-American and six French divisions, kept in reserve in North Af Liu Wei-Chsmg, the Chinese strate- service of less than one year; $300 for service in the United States for on Berlin on December .2 Mosquitos attacked Western Germany the night of December 4. gistsaid-today-'ia- counter-offensive By Earle Ennis San Carlos Kennels Burn; 10 Dogs Die mainland," and the Japanese "are getting ready to encounter the enemy air force." "The situation in China has become more confused and more serious," the spokesman was quoted as "and therefore is receiving greater attention.

one year or over, and $200 for serv rica for use in Italy or in the Balkans, in addition to forces in Middle East.) ice in the United States of less than against Japan: has been decided upon bj) the Allied high commands, and the time for its launching is near at cities of 3300 cases of holiday cheer labeled as whisky with "exquisite "The Boss must be off on a remarked Casey the Weather SAN CARLOS, Dec. 10. At least one year. Nazis Say Bombs Kill The payments would be made by 10 dogs were burned to death by Bureau Cat. taste" but consisting, they declared, of -water and alcohol.

the Government in three install fire which destroyed 200 kennels of 'What gives you that impres- ments one-third at the time of dis the war dog reception and training The disclosure followed the filing Hon? asked Gimmick the Mouse. 300 British Prisoners charge and the balance in equal in center near here. yesterday of a suit by the State attorney general's office to condemn Boy Bitten by Snake Has Recovery Chance Pictlure on Page 30 RED BANK, N.J., Dec. 10. (flV- "Don't you notice how quiet it Is? And they always sajf it's quieter stallments one and two months later A brush fire ignited the kennels during yesterday's wind storm, ac By the Associated Press cording to Edwin Millard of the San Carlos Police Department.

He said and destroy a boxcar load of 998 cases on the ground that it fails to meet the 90-proof test claimed on the labels. Deputy Attorney Gen The German radio said today 300 British prisoners of war lost their Churchill Is Still Conferring in Cairo Hospital authorities said today the chance of recovery for Fred Wege, that two unidentified soldiers risked following a big blow, chuckled Casey. Just then the Weatherman stuck his head through the door. 1 "'Quit that loafing," he growled, "and post this forecast." It was FAIR AND COOLER. hand." General Liu, who is a high official of the National Military Council, added that the -Chinese victory at Changteh would have "an important bearing on future Chinese resistance and the impending.

Allied counter-offensive." LONDON, Dec, 10. (IP) Japanese air. forces are preparing Ior an expected American air attack on the Japanese mainland from- bases irt China, the Berlin radio said today. The D.N.B. broadcast the Associated Press quoted a spokesman at Japanese headquarters in lives Wednesday when two forma their lives and were badly burned tions bf American Mitchell bombers 13, bitten in school by a deadly eral Bayard Rhone said the liquid was a mixture of alcohol and water.

tryinr to release dogs locked in CAIRO, Dec. 10. (IP) Prime kennels. Defendants named in the suit are Minister Churchill is still in Cairo. WHERE TO FIND IT Classified Advertising 24 Comics 22 Crossword Puzzle 20 Editorials and Columns 36 Finance i 35 Gardens 20 Geraldine 20 Mackenzie 36 Magazine Features 20 Needleart i 20 Radio Schedule 22 Rationing Timetables 31 Society and.

Clubs 21 Sports 32 ttiburban News 6 Theaters. Wood Soanes 34 Cncle Wiggily 20 attacked "a city in Central Italy" apparently Aquila, 55 miles northeast of Rome. The German account, unverified A number of dogs were success conferring with Middle East officia's coral snake, was "100 per cent better" than it had been before injection of a second dose of serum at midnight, but the boy still was on the danger list. Robert J. and "John Doe" Schloss berg, doing business as the Castle fully released, but about 20 were in what is believed to be jbl survey of the entire Middle Eastern situation, in the light of decisions reached town Liquor Distributors, and from any other source, said the first missing, according to Millard.

He believed half of them escaped to the hills. others. He was bitten while at school wave dropped' bombs on a transport yesterday after uncapping one of He said almost all the dogs were at the recent Turkish conferences. The British- Prime Minister has conferred with King Farouk of Egypt, King George of Greece and Milton P. Duffy, chief of the State Food and Drug Inspection Bureau, quarantined the shipment six days ago as being mislabeled, contrary to State law.

train ready to leave the station and several cars were hit and caught fire. The second wave added to the havoc, the broadcast said, trapping many British in the burning cars. China as declaring the American fliers were "getting orders to bomb the Japanese mainland and communications- between Japan and the loyal to their training and followed soldiers through the flames without two jars in which he brought a pair of the beautiful but venomous southern snakes to show his biology class. various Britons, any signs of fright..