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New uin Spread WEATHER: Fair and Colder ermans Abrupt Flight dv Prom Gomel Area 300,000 Of Week VOL. XLVIIL-No. 323. A Member of The Associated Press PRICE 5 1Q NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, Sunday Morning, November 28, 1943 in Den aid 5th EIGHTH ARMY Navy Grid Team Pursuing Reds Beat Them Back 9 Miles; Escape Threatened Huge Fires Guide Bombers; U. S.

Aids With Bremen Raid BLOODY 800 YARDS GAINED AT AUGUSTA Great Lakes Win Over Notre Dame Stuns Grid World Major Development Of War Expected In Field Of Diplomacy Hints Pile Up From Abroad That Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt And Chiang Kai-Shek In Conference To Push War's End LONDON. Nov. 27. (JPi RAP heavy bombers spread fresh ruin with steel and fire through stricken last night, in 20 minutes jiurling down "much more than 1,000 tons" of bombs in the third michty assault this week in the CARVES DEEPER INTO NAZI LINES German Guns Pour Destructive Fire At Sangro Positions ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 27.

W-The Eighth campaign to obliterate that heart of Nazidom. Other bombers hammered Stuttgart. 300 miles southwest, simultaneously. Thirty-two big planes were lost, but the air ministry today paid un usual tribute to the crusher Ameri can blow at Bremen Friday and said the Americain drain on German air strength had contributed greatly to ithe success of the RAF's long hop President Roosevelt Prime Minister army has sliced deeper into theiast 30 seconds of play which gave elaborate German defense system I the Sailors a 19-14 triumph before Un clear weather to Berlin. Guided by fires still blazing in the German capital, the RAF.

gouged great new wounds and set com lagra tions visible for 200 miles, their whistling bombs spiraling to 14,000 leng tons the total weight of explosive heaped on Berlin in 1943, and boosting the total for little more than a week to some 6,000. It was the fifth straight night of raids counting two lighter Mos quito stabs on sleepless, doomed Berlin, and wholesale evacuation of the city seemed ever more likely 500,000 Homeless Stockholm newspaper said the new attack was concentrated in the west and central sectors, with huge fires In the Charlottenburg area, and that 500,000 Berliners were homeless. Unconfirmed Stockholm reports said that war workers had been forbidden to leave Berlin, but that about 100,000 "escaped" without registering their movements with the police. The Germans' failure to break up the attack was a "signal victory" for the U. S.

air force, which knocked down 56 Nazi fighters Fri day over Bremen and did "much to take the edge off the enemy's counterattack" at Berlin, the air ministry declared. The Americans' whittling of Nazi strength was especially appreciated because, due to clear weather, the RAF bombers were open to attack by German fighters all the way across Germany. Allied losses Friday, however, Indicated that the Germans were stiffening their defenses. Berlin claimed 39 British planes had been downed, and that the Allies had lost 93 planes, mostly four-engmea Turns On Power To Defeat Army By Whitney Martin WEST N. Nov.

27. P) Navy's football machine, stymied completely by an alert, aggressive Army team for two periods, turned on its power today in the first half of a bruising, bitter contest to steamroller the Cadets, 13 to 0, in the semi-privac of Michie stadium The defeat marked the fifth conse cutive year the Middies have turn' ed the trick. An estimated 15,000 spectators, residing within the iO-mile limit, saw a football snow wnicn Kepi them in various stages of hysteria throughout most of the afternoon, from the moment the Cadet corps swung on to the field, to the joyful yelps of Melissa, the Navy dog good-luck charm. For two violent periods it was the kind of ball game that was a masterpiece of midfield offensives, featured by savage blocking, violent tackling and dogged all-around play which kept either team from presenting a robust threat. There was a feeling of expectancy among the fans between as the rival cheering sections, both Army, 'strove to outdo each other and sent yells swelling out to clash in midfield and then retire to the echoing backdiop of the rugged hills to growl out their argument.

A break was oound to come, and it came midway in the third period. Hal Hamberg, a stocky chunk of rubber, and not synthetic, who bounced off and on all afternoon, sent a punt to Glenn Davis on the Army six, and Davis stepped out side as he caught it. Davis was caught back on the three a moment later, and Max Maxon's punt was runback by Hamberg 10 yards to the Army 43. Here the long -throttled Navy pow er began to unction, and, with a Hamberg-Hillis-Hume lateral pass play good for 25 yards, the big fac- Continue on Page 13-B; Col 2) RESIST CHANGE INWAR BALLOT Due For Battering In Senate Monday WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.

(TV- Senator Lucas (D-Ill) co-author of a bill to provide men and women in the armed services with a war bal lot for next pear's election, said today he would resist any further attempts to alter the measure due for an amendment battering when it comes up on the senate floor Monday. "None of the proposals is accept able to us," said Lucas who, with Sen. Green (D-RI) wrote the plan for battle-front voting for the armed services and their civilian employes in 1944. Some Republican support developed late in the week behind a substitute by three southern Dem ocrats which would kill the war ballot and put in its stead a simple directive to the states calling on them to make arrangements for absent voters in the service. Senator Danaher (R-Conn) proposed knocking out the war ballot and substituting it with a plan whereby personnel could designate any friend or relative at home to cast their votes by proxy In next year's presidential election.

Originally Green and Luvas would also have given the vote to all civil workers abroad but that provision was dropped several weeks- ago. Also stricken from the original bill was a requirement that the States chief Justice name a "Judicial umpire" to settle disputes that might arise over the military voting. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone notified the senate he wouldn't make the ap- ointment because of possible "po litical By Charles Chamberlain GREAT LAKES, 111., Nov. 27 fp The Great 'Lakes bluejackets came in on an arm and a prayer today to make a myth of Notre Dame's invincibility.

Big Steve Lach, the former Duke university and Chicago Cardinal star, looned a fantastic desperation Dass 46 yards into the arms of Paul Anderson for a touchdown in the screaming crowd of 23,000 trainees. It was the first defeat this year for Notre Dame and ruined the Irish chance for their first unbeat en, untied season since 1930. Anderson, ex-Western Reserve gridder, hugged the spiraling ball on the goal line and stepped into the end zone without an opponent within 15 yards of him. The dramatic finish was of the va riety which will be talked about as long as football Is played. For the Fighting Irish had Just ended a 75 yard scoring march in a duel with the clock to go ahead 14 to 12 with a minute remaining in the game.

Notre Dame's klckoff went out on the 39. Lach then pitched 15 yards to Cecil Pirkey to reach the Irish 46. On the next play Lach faded back and with end Paul Li-mont virtually hanging around his shoulders like a necklace, he shook free and catapulted the ball to who was hovering around the goal line with his motor run ning. Anderson's perfect catch and Steve Juzwik's subsequent placekick (Continued 1 Page 13-B; CoL 1) COLOMBIA ACTS AGAINST NAZIS Sinking Brings Belligerency State BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 27.

IIP) Colombia, aroused over sinking of a second vessel by a German sub marine, today recognized a "state of belligerency" as existing between Colombia and Germany, and acting President Dario Echandia immediately began considering defense measures. While the government made It clear it was not asking an actual declaration of war against the reich.j Foreign Minister Carlos Lozano and Minister of government Alberto Lleras Camargo indicated Colombia's participation at the side of the United Nations would be active rather than passive. Recognition of a state of belligerency followed last night's announce, ment that the schooner Ruby had been sunk with three lives lost in the Caribbean Nov. 17 by a Nazi submarine, the second Colombian ship sunk In a year. Six lives were last in the sinking of the schooner Resolute, also in the Caribbean.

The spnate today approved the government's stand on a state of belligerency, and Lozano said Colombia did not Intend to send troops or naval fortes abroad. Colombia's position, he added, was similar to Brazil's in respect to belligerency status. Lozano declared the Ruby had been attacked at midnight and that the submarine had machine-gunned crewmen and passengers in lifeboats. He said Colombia would protest to Germany, as she did in the case of the resolute, but again expected no answer and therefore had decided to take measures to protect the national dignity. The senate was so aroused that a large bloc of the liberal majority was ready to pass a resolution "direct ing" Echandia to declare war, but during lengthy debate, Lozano and ucras explained tnat the govern- ment preferred to act slowly.

7Vambers, in the last 24 hours over Losses Heavy On Both Sides; Planes Harass Japanese By Robert Eunson SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, Nov. 28 IP) American marines and sol diers have driven 800 yards to the northeast during bitter fighting to extend their beachhead at Empress Augusta bay stepping stone on the west-central coast of Bougainville in the northern Solomons leading toward Rabaul. A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, In announcing the advance today, said strong enemy op position was overcome and, "fel though no count has been made, Japanese losses were heavy." More details were supplied from the South Pacific headquarters of Admr. William F.

Halsey, where It was aeported thrt the fight opened Monday, requiring four days to gain the precious yardage. Halsey 's headquarters said both sides sus tained considerable casualties. (The enemy fuoght from well pre pared positions. They used machine guns and mortars. (The Japs appeared to be mov ing overland behind the beachhead from the Jaba river on the south side of the American positions to attack on the northeast.

An American naval blockade has prevented the Japanese from moving barges down the west coast from Buka to supply punch for such an attack.) Australians Cut Trail On the Huon peninsula of north eastern New Guinea, jungle-fight ing Australians, who wrested the plateau stronghold of Sattelberg from the Japanese, moved along the enemy's line of retreat and cut the Bonga-Wareo trail on the north. The Aussies also captured Pino Hill, a large Irregular height dominating the northeastern half of the Important jungle trail. Above the peninsula, the next im portant Japanese base is Madang, on Thich other Australian forces have been moving from along the Ramu valley. The spokesman said there had been no advance in the valley the past few days but that Aussie patrols still operated on the lower part of a good road which leads to Bogadjim, Madang's defense outpost. Allied alrforces were active on both the Solomons and New Guinea fronts.

North of Finschhafen, Mitchell and Marauder medium bombers, escorted by Lightnings, dropped 49 tons of bombs on supply dumps In the Sio a'rea and attacked a Japanese barge base Friday. P-47S and P-40S strafed trucks and other targets in the Madang vicinity. Two waves of Liberators, with Australian fliers manning the escorting P-40S, delivered the fifth (Continued on Page Col. 1) SUBSIDY HOPES HANG ON TRUCE Would Limit Cost, Program Duration WASHINGTON, Nov. 57.

(IP) Any senate consent to continuation of food subsidy payments apparently hung today on efforts of a small Democratic b.oc to split strong opposition ranks with a compromise that would permit outlay of the funds for a limited period and a restricted amount. While administration lieutenants fanned that faint hope vigorously, Majority LeaJei Barkley (D-Ky.) called for a public airing of the controversy "so the people will get the full story." Farm bloc leaders confident of outright defeat of President Roose velt price subsidy program press ba" Kovernment Pay Ljermany and western hurope LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 23. Approximately 300,000 Germans were forced into hasty retreat from Gomel today, abandoning equip ment and stores, as Soviet guerrillas Infiltrated to set mines and road traps In their rear and a pursuing Red army regular force beat them back frontally nine miles in 2 hours. Other Soviet columns pounded at the sides of the Nazis' 50-mile-wide escape corridor, as they ran a gant let extending northwest from Gomel through Zhlobin and Bobruisk toward Minsk.

This picture was presented by the Soviet midnight communique, re corded by the Soviet monitor, which also told of gains that punched out a new salient along the lower Berezina river and of successful defense against the German counterattack in the Kiev bulge which was reported reinforced with eight tank divisions some of them from Italy, Greece and Norway. The Russians Indicated that fleeing Nazi forces who lost Gomel Fri-day were in desperate straits. "Hastily retreating under blows by Red army troops, the enemy is abandoning heavy equipment and stores with military equipment and ammunition in the area of Uvarov-ichi," the bulletin aid. Uvaravichl is 17 miles northwest of Gomel and only a few miles from the railroad along which the Germans- ewre falling back. Many trucks full of Germans were captured in one sector and in another 19 guns, 86 machineguns and numerous stroes of equipment fell to the Russians.

A total of more than 80 towns and hamlets fell to the Russians in this area. Guerrillas Hit Hard Guerrillas, who played an Import ant role in breaking the Dnieper river line this lall by leading regular troops through secret forest paths to outflank German defenses, were playing a dramatic role in this newest bid for a major German dis aster. The communique said several guerrilla detachments operating in the Gomel region mined the road of the retreating German troops and set traps on tne road. "In one sector Soviet patriots organized road blocks and for three days and nights fought engagements with a German mortar column in-flictim? heavy losses to the enemy," the communique said. "Qnly a small number, of German trucks succeeded in getting through the road block and crossing the mined section of the ioad." More than 60 German trucks were wiped out and 400 Germans killed in this operation.

Some of the retreating German divisions may have moved up to the north, where tne Russians, who have been driving on the upper Dnieper river in a week-old offensive that has enveloped Propolsk, indicated stronger GermaD resistance. "The enemy brought up reserves and offered stubborn resistance to our attacking troops," the communique said, recording the capture of only a few populated places in contrast to the 180 towns and hamlets taten in the first three days of the offensive. The Germans coun-; ter-attacked in this area but more than 800 were killed and some Russian progress was made. Military booty and prisoners were also taken in this area. The entire Gomel region, along about 100 miles of front, seethed with movement as the Germans fell back and rushed reserves to plug gaps In their crumbling lines.

The Russians sent at least three columns wheeling in various directions from various areas. One Russian movement was building a bulge along the Berezina river between Kalinkovichl and Zhlobin, pushing northwestward toward Bobruisk. It was flanking the last. German natural defease line short of the pre-war Polish frontier by cutting in back of the German Orsha-Mogilev line on'the Dnieper. Another Soviet spearhead was less than 15 miles south of Zhlobin as it moved north between the Dnieper and Sozh rivers.

Still other (Continued on Pare CoL 7) technically fall within the scope of White House orders against airing of controversies betweea government agency heads. The OWI memorandum followed complaints from the War Agencies' Correspondents association, in which this group of newsmen protested against lack of information on WMC actions. Davis' note to McNutt stated that the agency's policies, combined wl'-h the complexity of manpower problems, might "easily lead to an interpretation that you have a 'no news' policy." While OWI did not make the memorandum public, McNutt freely acknpwledged receiving it and met the press late today to discuss it. He toldtle assembled reporters that his agency had no policy of news suppression but was "seriously short of help in our information division not because we haven't asked for more, but because we just haven't the money." His Information director, Philip Broughton, rgreed to meet a committee of correspondents Tuesday, to attempt to work out remedies. "As a service we are seriously (Continued on Page 16-B; Col.

7) LONDON, Nov. 27. (JP) Mount- ing evidence of information from abroad strengthened belief in Lon- don tonight that one of the major developments of the war is expect able momentarily in the rather than the military field closely related to Allied worldwide victory strategy. The nature and full implications of such an important break could obviously relate directly to the flashing of a go-signal for the final crushing blows which leaders of the United Nations fighting alliance have promised Germany and Japan. When it comes, a development of this significance probably can be expected to serve as a final warning to those waging the war of evermore-certain doom under Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito.

Certainly the rumored move will find Russia taking a full place alongside the United States and Britain under the determined pur pose and the clearly-expressed accord of the Moscow conference. Meanwhile -reports from abroad gave a new turn to the recent welter of foreign accounts of the possible meeting of. the Allied "big three" by suggesting a fourth big Allied power also might be represented by its leader at such a conference. This is based on the likelihood that any such talks would be of such broad purpose that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek might sit in with PATT0N MUST PROVE HIMSELF Senate Defers General's Promotion WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.

(-Pi-Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, will have to prove by future good conduct that ne deserves advancement before the senate military committee approve his promotion to the permanent rank of major general, members said today. Upverified eports reached the capitol that President Roosevelt may withdraw Patton's nomination because ol his intemperate upbraiding of two soldiers in Sicily, but most senators thought the chief executive would stand behind Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to let Pat-ton off with a dressing down and hLs apologies to the Seventh army. There was strong evidence that a majority of the military committee also would like to mark the case closed but doesn't know how to let go. of it gracefully. The members have been subjected to a veritable landslide of telegrams and letters from parents expressing concern that their sons may be subjected to the sort of treatment Patton dealt out to the two victims of battle nerves, one of whom was cuffed so hard his nelmet rolled off.

For this reason, the committee is expected to proceed slowly in its handling of the President's recommendation that Patton be promoted from his permanent rank of cavalry colonel. In addition, Patton's name is on a list with 13 other promotions being held up by the committee until it learns who is to succeed Gen. George C. Marsr.all as chief of staff when he takes over the Allied European command. Chairman Reynolds (DN.

said the committee will meet next week to coasider Eisenhower's report on the Patton affair It may also have at that time the war department's reply to the embarrassing question as to why an equivocal statement of the Patton case, amounting to a denial, was issued originally from Allied headquarters in Algiers. The committee also wants to know if Patton was Involved In additional, similar incidents, and if there is anything in the actions of other American generals, somof whom have been transferred abrup Xrom one command to another, about. Republicans appearel just as will- (Continued on Page 10-B; CoL 4)' Nazi Armistice Talk Credited At UNRRA Meet LONDON, Nov. 27. UP The British news service Reuters said today in a dispatch from Atlantic City, N.

that reports the Oer-mans have taken, or are about to take preliminary steps for an armLstice are given "considerable credence' by European members of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. Representatives of the United Natioas relief and rehabilitation administration are now conferring I in the American city. Churchill and Premier Stalin. one of the 'vystery men of the conference ma be Eduard Benes, president of the Provisional Czechoslovak government, who left London for Moscow where his arrival never has been repoi ted with the an nounced purpose of concluding a mutual assistance agreement with Russia There were some rumors Benes would be present when and if the "big three" or "big four" meet to map the last p.ase of the war and the first moves of peace. His presence would be no surprise in London, where he is known as an astute political observer and an eloquent spokesman for the rights of small nations as well as having useful knowledge of central European affairs and postwar hopes.

The latest Btrn reports that two of the "big three" leaders of Allied governments engaged in the European war might already have conferred in advance of any larger meeting were heard with Interest in London. Bern heard that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden aiso would accompany Churchill to any full conference of United Nations leaders. The Vichy radio commented this week that 'Jhurchill was absent (Continued on Page Col. 5) TURKEY COMES NEARER TO WAR Significance Laid To Cairo Parley ANKARA, Nov. 26.

(Delayed) In what may be a part of a campaign to prepare the Turkish public for war at the side of the Allies, the newspaper Tanin said editorially today that the Cairo conference had greatly increased the possibility of Turkey's entry Into the war. Referring to the recently-con cluded talks between British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden and Turkish Minister Numan Menemen-cioglu, Husein Yalchln, prominent pro-democratic journalist, wrote in Tanln: If It could be said that before the Cairo talks the possibility of Turkey's not entering the war was predominant, that situation Is now reversed after the Cairo talks." Despite Turkey's increasing co operation in the form of sub rosa assistance to the Allied armed forces, the man in the street has not been prepared for war and a campaign to that end has been con sidered a necessary step. (The German-controlled Vichy radio quoted Turkish newspapers Saturday as saying that Istanbul's municipal authorities were preparing "to black out the city." The broadcast, picked up by CBS, added that the measure did not imply Turkey's immediate entry into the war.) No Time Predicted Yalchln made no attempt to predict when Turkey might be ex pected to drop her neutral status. "The precise conditioas under which Turkey would enter the war are not apparent at this time," he wrote. "When and where are still qucstioas to be decided." Meanwhile, Istanbul dispatches reported a flurry of diplomatic activity.

The Anatolian news agency correspondent at Budapest said that the Turkish ambassador to Rome, Rushed Unaydin, had arrived in Budapest from Rome with his entire staff. The correspondent said also that Franz von Papen, Hitler's ace diplomat and ambassador to Turkey, had arrived in Budapest en route back to Turkey after a trip to Berlin. In the Tanln editorial Yalchln went on to point out that, under the terms of the Turkish-British treaty of 1939 it was not necessary for Turkey to be attacked directly to necessitate her entry into the war." Turkish action In accordance with (Continued on Page 10-B; CoL 4) INDEX To Today'i Press SECTION Page 1-5 ...6 8 8-13 14 I4s 15 General News Kdilorial Page Hilton News Hampton Section Williamsburg Church Notf Classified Ads SECTION Society General Sports 12-13 Amusement- Radio 14-15 northwest of the swollen Sangro river under cover of one of the war's most intensive "bomb barrages," Allied headquarters announced today. The exact extent of the gains made yesterday in a drive toward enemy hill positions was not disclosed. From these high strong points German guns poured a destructive fire into the Eighth army's hard-won bridgehead across the river.

Flooded by more than a two-foot rise, the river now is 1,000 feet wide in some places. On the other end of the Germans winter line across Italy, the American Fifth army smashed two counterattacks against their footholds in the mountains west of Venafro, from which it threatens a broad valley leading toward Cas-sino and Rome. The American forces were favored by somewhat better weather, but the Eighth's operations were carried out in continued rains which made the going aground extremely diffi cult and aerial attacks unusually hazardous. Coordinated Attack The Eighth army's attacks followed the technique of remarkably close coordination of air and ground forces developed in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. Waves of medium and light bombers as well as fighter-bombers swept over the German trenches, machinegun posts and artillery positions, scattering hundreds of bombs.

While the tombs were exploding, driving the enemy troops to cover, the British troops moved farward behind an aerial version of the "creeping barrage," of artillery fire. The Eighth army's bridgehead, which extended for more than five miles along the lower Sangro, originally was reported to be nearly a mile and a half deep, with ad vances of another mile or two miles necessary in some places to reach the hills where the Germans have established more formidable defenses. Obviously alarmed over $he fact that the troops of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery have been able to crack the outer crust of their winter defense line along the Sangro, the Nazis are feverishly building strong new gun positions and other defense works around Mlgnano to the west-key point on the Fifth army front guarding the main road to Rome and erecting other strong points (Continued on Page Col.

2) CHINESE NET TIGHT AT HUNAN Circle Jap Forces In Fierce Fighting CHUNGKING, Not. 27 m-The Chinese declared tonight that they were tightening their net around Invading Japanese forces In northern Hunan province and that nearly 10,000 enemy troops had been killed in fierce fighting for the rice bowl city of Changteh. The Chinese have estmated the Japanese have approximately troops fighting in the northern Hunan area, but a communique announcing the encircling of enemy forces in that area did not specify the number of Japanese caught in the trap. The Japanese, though suffering heavy casualties, were reported to be fighting fiercely. The Chinese said that a force of some 1,000 invaders broke through the north gate of Changteh, stronghold guarding the approaches to Changsha, capital of Hunan province, but that the defenders wiped them out in a bloody battle.

Other Japanese forces swept around and stormed throueh the south gate but suffered nearly 3.300 in casualties Thursday and Friday. Previously the Chinese had an- nounced over 5,000 Japanese cas ualties. Another Japanese column attempting to by-pass Changteh on the east was attacked by Chinese forces west and southwest of Han-show where heavy losses were inflicted on the Japanese. Other Chinese troops made "further progress" on both sides of the Yangtze river In Hupeh province. Diversionary attacks in northern and central Hupeh an dsouthern Honan were reported.

The Chinese said these attacks prevented the Japanese from reinforcing their hard-pressed troops in northern Hunan. A Thanksgiving day assault on the big Japanese air base at Shin-chiku, Formosa, by U. S. Mitchell bombers and Chinese American planes from China bases was hailed by the Chinese p-ess as "the opening of an Allied air offensive based on China." The raiders destroyed at least 31 Japanese planes without a loss to the Americans. Swedish dispatches already had reported one-quarter of Berlin was destroyed.

Latest reports from the German frontier told of Berliners walking In a daze as big steamrollers tried to open lanes through the debris In the streets thinking mainly of escaping to places like Holland and Bavaria where reception centers are being prepared. From Switzerland came word, possibly 'exaggerated, that Berlin's dead totaled 13,000 more than a quarter of Britain's air raid toll In the entire war. But there was only a smattering of such reports today. A tight German censorship clamped down upon neutral correspondents and even upon home circulation reflected the aerlous Impact of last night's assault, which the conservative RAF described as "most effective." The bombers "in very great thundered across the English coast for three-quarters of an hour to hit Berlin and the great Industrial and transport center of Stuttgart. With the Thursday night raid on Frankfurt-Am-Main and the record American attack by nearly 1,000 planes upon Bremen by daylight Friday, the air offensive probably broke the 24-hour record for bomb weight ped on German objec tives.

record was 4.000 tons set Nov. 3 with blows at Wilhelms- haven. Duesseldorf and northern France. The of 32 bombers was six more 1 'the cost of the big raid Monda and 12 more than O.ere lost Tuesday night. Coupled with the loss of 29 American bombers over Bremen yes terday compared with 15 lost there reTp (Continued on Page Col.

3) Suppression, Evasion Of News Laid To WMC In Memo By 0WI Conquest Of Gilberts Seen As Forerunner Of Tougher Battles they could pick off the wading In- however, for a quick vote on the vaders until they themselves Were'housc-aPProvet bl11 hicn' fter picked off. Moreover, the attacking forces WASHINGTON, Nov. nf nilhprt aftpr the toughest fight in marine may be the forerunner of eveni tougher and costlier battles in the; central Pacific. 1 1 uuw" CL" iUUUjthat the public ought to know literally had no foot fold. They No Ceiling Set Meantime, the group of Demo- Secretary of the Navy Knox hasfformations with edges so sharp senators were striving to win WASHINGTON, Nov.

27. (j The war manpower commission was accused by the office of war information today of withholding and concealing news. A memorandum, delivered personally by OWI Director Einier Davis to WMC Chairman Paul V. McNutt, described the situation as so grave as to "seriously handicap" WMC's work in the war effort. A score of complainU cited -as illustrative of grievances Include: 1.

Responsibility for unnecessary confusion in the public mind about the fathers draft 2. An asserted WMC tendency to deal with newspapermen "on a rather hostile basis." 3. Failure to Issue releases on certain policies of public interest even when requested. 4. Maintaining an "unworkable" practice of withholding announcements in Washington until they reach the field.

5. Giving WMC's information division a low rank In the agency, so that the information staff thus Is not "adequately informed of what is Davis declined to make public his memorandum, reputedly nine and thus it apparently would not cnargmg snorewara over inosecorai they slash off a man's leg if makes a misstep, Too; the Japanese, in addition to fortifications constructed on the beaches of Betio principal island of the Tarawa Atoll might have blasted out defense positions in the hard coral Itself to protect them while they turned guns on Invaders. Just now heavy the casualties were at Betio has not been announced and no disclosure has been made of the number of men involved in the But the statement by Col. Mer-ritt A. Edson, chief of staff of the Second Marine division in the Gil berts, that "this is the toughest fight in marine history" gives some indication of their extent.

The heaviest previous toll among the marines was at Soissons, France, in the first World war. In that engagement 70 per cent of the marines were killed, Injured, or missing in action. declared the Japanese mast be driven from the mandated islands of which the Gilberts are only a relatively small part. And almostt as treacherous and dangerous as the Japs, themselves, are the coral reefs that cover approaches to many of the enemy-held Atoll bases. It was such reefs and total lack of natural cover, military observers here believe, that must have caused a greater part of the heavy casualties on Tarawa, for more than 2,000 tons of shells had plastered the Island base before invasion waves went ashore.

Certainly that bombardment, plus aome 700 tons of aerial bombs, killed or wounded very many of the enemy garrison estimated at 4.000 men. But, because of the terrain. ven a handful of survivors could have caused such heavy damage to the attacking marines. Hidden in pill boxes, behind bar- jjrades pill boxes and barricades over larm uiuc spokesmen wie compromise proposal althugh no specific subsidy ceiling or time limit for the program had been decided. Administration contentions that food prices would soar If congress prohibits subsidies sounded to Senator Aiken (R-Vt.) "like a threat to let consumer prices skyrocket and then to blame congress." The President told congress a month ago that of the $300,000,000 subsidy cost tris year, $350,000,000 was for maintaining support prices to farm -'I and remainder to roll back or stabilize retail prices of cer tain commodities such as meat, but ter, bread and milk.

"Ther is no general demand for an increase au larm prices, Aiken asserted. Chairman Wagner (D-NY) of the senate banking committee, said subsidy opronenu had proposed that (Continued on Page 4-B; Col. 2) V.attered by the bombardment.