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MOBERLY MONITOR-INDEX and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT six PAGES VOLUME 26 ASSOCIATED PKEB8 WItME TVOBU FVIJ. XEASED V.TKK SERVICE MISSOURI, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11,1944 DEMOCRAT. MI. tin NUMBER 113 INTO LEYTE RATION GAINS Big, Crucial Battle Is Starting Nips Land 10,000 More Men at Cost of 3 Transports and 7 Destroyers LONG BATTLED WITH 19-SHIP CONVOY More Than 100,000 Men Now Involved in Land Action on Philippines Bv C. YATES McDAXIKL A MacARTBUK'S HE Philippines! Sov 11.

"Tiger ot Malaya," whose do-or-die stand on Ovtp has flamed into a savage involving more than 100,000 poured thousands ol iresh Nipponese against the Yanks today, after landing them from a 19- ship convoy at a cost 01 three transports and seven destroyers. Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita, taking great risk! with Japan's dwindling reserves of cargo vessels ana escort warships, got reinforcements to Ormoc despite determined attacks spaced over a 24-hour- period by American planes and patrol torpedo boats-. A heavy rain squall, prolonging a previous -over of darkness, favored the. gamble. The reinforcements, which reasonably might exceed 10,000 buttressed 35,000 other enemy troops of three moved on Western Leyte to replace 35,000 casualties already inflicted by.

lour American Big Battle Developing The biggest and most crucial land engagement since Gen. Doug- Truman, Wallace Meei Returning President Hot Shells lushed to Donnell's Lead Fast War Fronts Dwindling Demand So Great That McKittrick Headed for Vic- Shipment Begins Before tory If Present Pace Is Maintained King George and Allied Generals They Are Cooled ARMIES ARE AHEAD. OF THEIR SCHEDULE Now Using War Supplies Not Scheduled for Production 'Until Next March COLUMBIA, S. Nov. 11 AP --Demand for artillery ammunition is so great that hot shells are being loaded into freight cars for oversea? shipment as soon as ST.

LOUIS VOTE NOT YET TABULATED the TNT inside them hardens. Mobilization Director Byrnes i said today. I He made this disclosure in an address- prepared for Jackson County About 3 to 1 for McKittrick Vote Generally Democratic BULLETIN Late this afternoon a canvassing correction of Greene County figures upped Donnell's previous unofficial lead on civilian home votes TJpon his return to Washington. President Roosevelt is met at Station by Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman (center) and Vice President Henry A.

Wallace (right) for parade through flag-decked streets to the White House. Day. "We must not slightly, giving him an 8,455 margin without counting absentees. The new home vote figure was Donnnell 735,227. McKittrick Armistice wjt a Qnly 9 rec ncts lacking Few Present to Pay Homage McKittrick and Lozier Climb to War Dead in This County i Again Men Give Lives for Justice and Right, Says Rev.

R. W. Leazer In the midst of World War. Moberly citizens and patriotic organizations gathered in scant numbers on this Armistice Day er JJ1U1J las jiacArthur to the Philippines Oct. jiO ns Both sides-are-well equipped and backed by heavy artillery, The enemy convoy of four ton transports and 15 destroyers-the Japanese frequently use the swift destroyers for troop-carrying as well as escort duty--was spotted by U- S.

airmen Thursday afternoon as it entered Ormoc Bay. Lightning fighters divebomDed with i.aOO-pound explosives. Mitchell medium bombers went at low level. Ships' guns dotted the skies with bursting ack ack. The Yank fliers were in small force, but left a transport smoking before breaking off the engagement.

PT Boats Attack Thursday night, patrol torpedo boats darted in and out of destroyer searchlight paths, by geysers churned up by five-inch guns and succeeded in sinking a warship At dawn Friday, Mitchells force took the air. But a rain squall blotted out the newly-arrived convoy. When.that cleared, the "Japanese billowed a oke screen over the ships. A Japanese air cover of more than 20 planes was routed. At least 16 were shot down, possibly five more.

By noon, the Mitchells got to work. They sank three transports and six destroyers. The enemy had achieved sizeable landings, but his. work wasn't all done. The action ended late yesterday when the convoy remnants fled west toward G.ebu.

The attack cost four bombers and four fighters. Yamashita, shifted in an emergency from Malaya to the Philippines, committed his reinforcements to a sector of Leyte covered by mountain ridges and crossed by a single, narrow winding- roaC from American-held Pmamopoan south to Japanese-held Ormoc. Yanks Move Up Yanks moved north, south anil west against these Japanese Eastern Leyte whose ports, airfields and highway net-work were wrested swiftly from Yamashitas ill-fated predecessor, Lt. Gen. Slug-on cri -Kuroda.

Moving south. from Cangara Bay. dismounted First Cavalry Division troops of Maj. Verne D. Mudge gained five miles yesterday in ridge cousfcy on one Hank of "tile Pinamopoan-Ormoc Road.

Down the road and in bordering high ground, the 24th Infantry Division of Maj. Gen. Frederick A. Irvinv encountered urj.gh going. 1525, they hurled back Japanese counterattacks, inflicting (Continued on Page WEATHER MISSOURI--Generally fair ana warmer today and Sunday: highest temperatures today 70 in west to 60 northeast and 55 southeast.

Local Weather Data Temperature at this morning, 45. Minimum yesterday, 43. Maximum yesterday, 48. morning at the Junior High School Democrats Gain 460 for Senator, 482 for Congress, on Absentee Votes Attorney General Roy McKittrick, Democratic candidate for United States senatr, and Maj. Lue C.

Lozier, for congressman, gained 460 votes and 482 votes respective. in the count of absentee laid down their lives in the present struggle. A few members of Theodore Bazan Post No. 6. American Legion, gathered at the Legion Kail at 10 o'clock and marched to the school auditorium, where they were met by a few other citizens and representatives of other patriotic organizations in the city.

The ceremonies were in charge of Post Commander Bert Crumrine. Dr. Allen Duncan, pastor of Presbyterian Coates Church, delivered the invocation. Led by Ernest W. Barker, supervisor of elementary schools, the audience joined in singing one verse of "America' 1 and Mr.

Bark- McKittrick received 307 service votes and 314 civilian absentee votes, while his opponent, Gov. F. C. Donnnell, received 117 service votes and 44 civilian absentee votes. The totals of these ballpts were McKittrick 621 and Donnell 161.

In the race for Congress, Lozier received 315 service votes ana 3Ib civilian votes for a total of 631, while his opponent. Congressman Max Schwabe, was receiving 1 10Y soldiers and 42 civilian votes lor a total of 149. Roosevelt Gains The absentee vote for president "ave Roosevelt 299 service bai- TT--I by Miss vv inna i let pride in our accomplishments blind us to the magnitude of our needs." Byrnes cautioned, explaining that "our present military shortages are not a product of our failure or our failure or our mistakes. "They are a product of our successes," he added. "We are rtm- months ahead of our-military timetable.

As result we must obtain from our war factories material that was not scheduled for production until next March." Greatly Needed The armed forces need heavy artillery and mortar ammunition especially, the South CaroUman related. General Eisenhower's troops are currently drawing upon their reserve supplies, he said, and in the Pacific General MacArthur's forces will use as much 105 millimeter ammunition this month--'as''they did in all year. "To meet these demands irpm 'the official tabulation. This change along with a few more absentee reports brought up to 4,374 votes. ST.

LOUIS, Nov. 11 CAP) -Gov. Forrest C. Donnell's lead faded to a mere 3,959 votes today as Attorney General Roy McKittrick grabbed off a lion's share of the absentee ballots in last Tuesday's election for United States senator. In the first 45 counties to report their absentee count, McKittrick received 16,525 votes and Donnell 12,245, trimming 4,280 off Donnell's home-vote margin- of 8,239, and leaving'the-Republican governor only 3,959 in front.

With an estimated 85,000 absentees, of which about cast by servicemen, the count was only about one half finished--and won't be completed until next But McKittrick was. getting about 60 per cent of the absentee vote, a pace which would for 600 Tanks Battering Netz Area But Rain, Minefields and Stubborn Resistance Keep Yanks at Slow Pace NAZI RAIL LINE VIRTUALLY CUT Nine-Mile Advance On a 75- Mile Front Carries Close to Saar Border King George VI (lower left) cliats with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, of Abilene. supreme allied commander in European theater, during a tour of the battle fronts In France.

In the rear are, left to right: U. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, of Moberly, and Lt. Gen.

Courtney H. Hodges. (AP photo.) One-Day Bond Huge Rockets Drive Again to Be Made Here him if it continued throughout the count. Donnell's lead on the civilian home vote counted Tuesday night to Dewey's 123, while the ci- 4 Our Reid at the piano, san an all-Moberly composi tion with words by Hartley Estill. Roosevelt music by Dr.

T. S. Fleming, and arrangement by Elton Payne. The Rev. R.

W. Leazer, pastor voted 313 for Roosevelt to Dewey. The totals of these ballots -ave Roosevelt 612 to 16S for of the First Baptist Church, declared in a brief address: "We stand here at this time, with peculiar emotions. Twenty-six years The official canvass or tne aD- entee ballots was completed abouc 1:30 o'clock this morning. As to.

day was a holiday, the judges decided to complete their work at a single session rather than wait un- agcTtoday The War had ended -and The to tai of both the service and the armistice had been signed, civilian absentee ballots on tne Men had given their lives in the tate races: War to End Wars and we jr or governor: Bradshaw, 147: Bather here this morning in the Donnelly, 634. midst of another world war with For iieutenant.governor: Elaine, the sons of the soldiers of the first now falling where their fathers fell then. "We come first to pay honor and the front hot shells are being loaded into freight cars at factories in this country as soon as the TNT inside them solidities. They move direct from the fact port on an 'expedite- basis," Byrnes said. publican "with a chance-to win a "Hourly reports 111 1 abouts of each car are telegraphed to the headquarters ot the 4-rmy Transportation Corps in Washington so that there will be no delay in spotting- any tie- of state: Miller, 136; tribute to those who gave their lives in all American wars." Mr.

Leazer declared." and secondly to 14S: Davis, 630. For secretary 136: Bell, 641. For state auditor. Metzgel Smith. 645.

For state treasurer: Compton, 137: Winn. 641. For attorney-general: Miller. any tie ups Income cases special trains of thirty cars or more are used and these trains have the right of way over everything else on the rails. Rushed Overseas "In a few cases destroyers have been used to move top priority items across the ocean.

Air transport is frequently utilized for the shipment of rockets or mortal- ammunition, and as many as twenty planes have been assigned lor a single shipment." Byrnes, who also is director of reconversion, said in addition to ammunition, other urgently needed items, are tanks, heavy trucks, cotton duck and radar equipment "Ml of these things are needed to bring the war -to an earlier end he commented. "Within a week." Byrnes revealed, "Antwerp will be ready i for the unloading of ships. XXX I We will resume the march to i Berlin And when the Russians i reach Hitler's capital, I nominate for chairman of the welcoming 1 committee our own General Eisen- The governor was the only Re- election. The Democratic flavor of the absentee votes widened Democrat Phil M. Donnelly's safe lead for governor and boosted President Roosevelt's majority.

Still to be tabulated was big absentee vote in St. Louif, which went strongly Democratic, and in St. Louis county, which went slightly Republican. Democratic Jackson County W. C.

Qrscheln, city chairman ol the 6th War Loan drive today the campaign in Moberly will be similar to the plan used for the fifth War Loan drive, when. Moberly went -the" top on the first day of the drive. The first, day of the drive is Monday, Nov. 20. It is the hope Of the' committee that Moberly again will exceed its quota of on.

this day and the prospects are very good if the' necessary workers can be obtained. There will be ten induction centers in six elementary schools, the post office, the two banks, and the First Savings and Loan Association. The citizens are requested to go to one of these centers and make their subsnription for war bonds. hours will be from 3:30 to 8:30 p. m- Whistles and sirens Will be used as a signal to announce the opening- of the campaign.

Mr. Orsc'heln held a meeting late yesterday afternoon with the prin- 17 Are Fired Into a One U. S. Sector WITH AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE. Nov.

11. A 3 --The Germans have been firing rockets estimated to tons into an American sector of tne west- BY WILLIAM FRYE: LONDON, Novell ((AP)--TT. Si tanks and "infantry, slugging well: beyond the 1918 Armistice lay battle line.deepened a broad wedge southeast of Metz today, and all but sliced the. Metz-Sarrebourff railroad in fighting advances wita. in 20 miles of Germany's Saar border.

George Patton's Third" Army had thrust as deep as miles in three dayes, and Berlin asserted 600 tanks engagett- in the offensive now in its fourttt. day ol earth.shaking battle. Fourth Division armored units reached Lucy, 17 miles southeast of and two miles from tne Sarrebourg denying its use by the Germans. These units had advanced 5 1-2 miles be. yond Delme Ridge in 24 hours.

Six miles to the northwest, -men. of the Sixth Armored Division', entered Luppy, three miles from the rail 20 Miles From Saar Other doughboys drove nearly seven miles north, of captured. Choteau SaUns to Haboudang. miles southeast of Metz and 20- miles from the Saar. North-of another.

Third east gave McKittrick a margin of about I cipals of tae various grade schools three to two on its absentee vote. Nearly every county was stronger for McKittrick in its absentees than in its home vote. Gains By Lozier Do Not Appear Large Enough those who their strength and lives in this, that justice and 1-19; Taylor, 631. illicit be strengthened in 20 Ballots Rejected 'the world and that it shall be 1 Twenty absentee ballots determined that what all these have fought and died for shall live." After the retirement of the colors adjournment was made to rejected, of them on account of failure to find names on registra. tion books in Moberly.

Some other absentees failed to sign their to declarations, one ab- IOPA CHECKS UP ON CIGARETTES ors, aajouiwmcjii. f1 TanneMll Park where the flag was sentee voter at the 3 IT-I rlior! QTlr lowered to half mast, and remainder of the program carried out. Plaque Is Unveiled W. C. Orscheln, president polls the Tuesday, one had died, and there was I were other technical reasons.

The totals of the service men's I of Moberly chapter No. 59. American War Dads, placed a wreath on the cv til ri J. 11U UW showed 273 straight Democratic ballots. 6S straight Repub, lican ballots and So split ballots.

Of the civilians. 308 cast straight II as it was unveiled for the first time today. Commander Crumrine placed a wreath on the memorial to the dead of World War I. The ceremonies were closed witn lots. Yet to be completed in the ficial canvass is a re-check of the returns from the various voting pvecincts of last Tuesday.

It maybe Tuesday or Wednesday beiurs No Reason for an to discuss campaign plans. A meeting of retailers has been called by William Soutter. chairman of the city retailers committee for the bond drive, for Tuesday morning- to discuss their participation in the drive. CJ.1J f. A number of these devastating new vengeance weapons fell in one American sector alone in less than two days, and the rate has been increased at various intervals since.

There is no official estimate ot the total number of rockets the Germans, have managed to senfi over the U- S. lines since they were put in The projectile is believed to be about 46 feet Ion Its overall weight of i3 tons includes fuel which itself weighs nine tons. The warhead contains almost a ton of explosives. DEWEY- XO GEORGIA N. Nov.

11. -Governor Dewey left Albany today en route to Sea Island. for a two or three weeks rest away from politics. Monitor-Index Want 'Ads are telling of opportunity from day to day--and alert readers are fincL opportunities they ing in them seek. Yanks Near Netz This Armistice -A- of overtak of oveitakin PARIS.

Nov. 11. Lt. Gen. George S.

Patton's tank-riding m- Lozier's chances I fantry swept on today toward Schwabe in Metz.alreadv well beyond the line overtak n- A a a of oveitakin the where Gen. John J. Perslnng their race tor Congre were Wounded Seriously Walter J. CKi) Harris, son of W. Harris, south of Hur.tsville, has been seriously wounded in action, according to word received by his father.

He was wounded in action in France October 24. Harris has been wounded twice before but not seriously. SGT G. H. "MITCHELL.

JR GOES TO -EVV Mitchell, has recently' been moved to New Guinea according to word received by his wife, the former Miss Helen Se- Mitchell left the United States in May of this year and was stationed at'New Caledonia and Guadalcanal. He has been tne service two years, and received training at Miami, and in North "Carolina. He is with the Army Air Corps. Acute Shortage, Says Chief Enforcement Official WASHINGTON. Nov.

11. There is no good reason for an acute cigarette shortage at this this time, says Thomas I. son enforcement chief of the fice of Price Admin'-stration. Emerson attributes the present cigarette shortage to two slDI causes- An increase in smoton and hoarding by the bll While production of cigarette- this year for domestic consump- less than in 1943. it greater than in 1942.

he says. Expressing concern over what he termed a -growing black market in Emerson said that OPA field officers have oeen instructed to take immediate action to meet the situation. Without naming specific area, Emerson claimed that in some cities "racketeer-type the sale of cigarettes have Dee- appearing. Ke said the flow ot cigarettes into regular trade channels has been diminishing, and some places sales; are now on a bootleg "oasis, second congressional district appeared not so good today as those of Attorney-General Roy MCKit- trick in his senatorial race with Governor Forrest Donnell. In four counties on which the results of absentee balloting Had been received at mid-afternoon, the Democratic congressional candidate had gamed 484 votes on the Republican incumbent, who led by 1525 in Tuesday's civilian voting.

McKittrick Vote In six other counties in the district the-absentee vote on the senatorial candidates is known, but the congressional vote has ot been reported. In these counties McKittrick gained 149 votes. Lozier's gain has been somewhat greater than McKittrick's in the counties irom which both votes have been reported. Assuming that this would hold true in the six counties referred to. JLozier would be increased to at least 633 This however, would leave Schwabe still with 892 of the Io2o- vote margin he had after the counting, of Tuesday's votes, ana there are only five other counties from which nothing has yet been on the results of absentee voting.

Three of them were carried by Schwabe. Counties Reported The four counties in which the congressional absentee ballots have been reported are foot slogg in Doughboys were poised for a similar attack on the fortress city when armistice came in 1918. For the new American forces, this was i.he first armistice day on the Western- front, but the ns- iiio- power of Patton's assault gave promise that before another rolls around thev will have the Randolph Moniteau Hickory Chariton Schwabe Lozier 531 34 381 Totals 149 141 155 146 591 1075 (Continued on Page JS), battlefields of Europe. In their muddy trenches before Metz the Doughboys of the last war were preparing on Nov. 11, 1918, for just such an offensive as Patton has uncorked.

Then, Lt. Gen R. L. Bullard's American Second Army was scheduled to "We just stopped marching then and there," recalled Staff Sgt. Paul TSf.

Hill, of Horton, back now'where 26 years ago he was a 19-year old mortarman. History Repeats Now a mes sergeant of Company same regiment, same division, he-tood at almost the spot as in 1918--and he is just one of the many for whom history is repeating itself. Elsewhere all similarity to the positions then and now ceases. Then the Americans' -total, front amounted to 83 miles. Today the Third Army alone is on the offensive along "a front nearly that ion There is an American Army in and another in the Nov.

14. The old push off just three days later--on second was lined up along the right Hank of the First Army en mucji the same front as the one Patton's Third Army has now broken across. Reduction of the old St. Mini el valient had put Eullard-'s Army in position some 15 miles southwest of Metz and along a line which crossed the north. This time the Allies have already given the Wehrmaclit a worse beating than it took in the first world war.

Germany has fewer troops engaged in and bacK- 'ing the line in the west than in its hour of collapse in- November 1918. But thi time the Germans are fighting grimly on to the death. A home front crackup like 1918's has not yet in the doomed Reich of 1944. All the way from just north 11IJC i i i -Moselle River near Pont-A-Mous- Nancy to middle Holland the 1944 son and extended northeast of Allied onslaught has folded the Nancy Today they are about nine Germans back beyond their 191S miles south of Metz. Down the road to Metz on this day a generation ago marched the 137th infantry Regiment under orders to assault the fortress city, which never had been taken by direct attack.

Suddenly the word swept down the line, man to man, at first in an unbelieving undertone, and then --when somebody said it was oi- ficial--the undertone developed into a. yell: "Armistice! Armistice:" surrender line, which cut through Southwestern Belgium. The Allies today have what they didn't have in the- last war- a fighting foothold inside Germany in the penetration beyond Aachen on the route to Cologne where -the Third Army of the first world stood its. post-armistice watch- on the Rhine. In paris, American Army ana Navy detachments will participate today in a parade of French, and Allied -troops ward from Maziefiea.

occupying a woods about four miles; above: Metz. It-was about 16 miles from the nearest column battered into the German flank southeast of that fortress city. Still farther north, Third, Army troops had establishad three bridgeheads over the Moselle River neai- Luxembourg on a curving battlefront that waes as close as 10 miles to the frontier of the industrial Saar. Stubborn Resistance Rain, minefields and stubborn resistance slowed progress along the 75-mile Metz front. Two Ger.

man counter-attacks were beaten; off near Mazieres and macher on the Moselle.sectors.' Elements of the Sixth Division which took Luppy and fought astride the road from Ponta-Mousson to Falquemont split German forces of undisclosed Some of the enemy retreated- northwest toward Metz and some fell tack eastward. On this 26th anniversary of the armistice of the First World War and Patton's 59th birthday at least six U. S. infantry divisions- and two armored divisions were engaged along the line above and- below Metz. were advancing in two wings divided by the German defensive positions bulg-, ing out just west of Metz.

The German Transocean News Agency, broadcast a report that tanks- were engaged in the Allied offensive and. said that "the earth fLorraine is shaking from a hundredfold thunder of countless heavy guns." Despite these enemy reports or." the mounting intensity of the battle one claimed the recapture by the Germans of the strategically important Delme Ridge the Allied communique said the Americans had advanced "against light to. moderate resistance." Allied Gains Gains south and east of Koen-' igsmacher in the Moselle bridgehead 19 miles north of Metz were reported bv 'the aue, as well small advances in the area of Maizieres-Les-Metz. miles north of Metz. In the Aachen sector inside Germany, where infantry of the American First Army has been trying to breach the approaches to Cologne with a limited attack in the Hurtgen Forest area, a.

Ger- 'man counterattack was thrown back. Extensive minefields were encountered by the Yanks attempt-' ing to drive the fiercely resisting Germans out of their due-in positions around Hutrgen. West of Schmidt, however, limited progress was reported as the Americans up enemy pfll-' boxes. Patton's Third-Army troops had advanced to miles north and-little more than eight miles southeast of Metz itself. On the U.

S. Seventh Army- front, south the Third Army. battle zone, the Germans brought up reinforcements to forward po- apparently fearing the of- (Cpntinued on 5),.