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HBST THE MORN THE WEATHER Snow today; much colder tonight. Minimum temperature yesterday, 26; maximum, 30. Lehigh Vhtley Greatest Newspaper VOL. 109, NO. 138 ALLENTOWN, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1944 gntr 8eon4-elM Mattat Fui Ofllea.

All.ntewB. r. INGLE COPT Feat CeaU DAILY I I IS Cni Wh I DA TIT A irSDAT tl C.nta WMk ING GALL Yanks Seize Jap Supply Port Greatest Bomber Fleet of War Hits uenm and Sarreguemines I A Mo Jo StAIUTt MIIIS tctta -n v. ti. Captured by 3rd 7th.

Armies Reds Reach Of Flaming Budapest CE3 Bey nt imorT. L'I-i ii l. "'T. -A a Tacloban Xi BUf ur yDv19 1 7i Diviiion U.S. 1st Army Driving Germans Across Roer By JAMES F.

McGLINCY PARIS, Dec. 11. (UP)-Tho U. S. Third army seized the Saar factory, center of Sarreguemines Monday while the Seventh army captured Haguenau in a powerful coordinate drive to the east and swept on eight miles beyond that Alsatian road hub in two columns, threatening to tear loose the German left flank for the second time in a month.

Teaming in an ail-American offensive on a 275-mile front, the U. S. First army smashed to the Roer river at a point only 21 miles from Cologne and shoved all but a few last-ditch garrisons beyond that Rhine buffer line. Lieutenant General George S. Patton's Third army immediately opened an artillery barrage against Zwei-brucken, fortress city in the inner ring of the Siegfried chain 16 miles east of Sarreguemines, as the end of resistance in Sarreguemines opened the way for an outflanking drive around the stubborn Saar defenses to th west.

American 77th Division troops have captured Ormoc, Japanese supply port on Leyte island in tb Philippines, four days after a landing south of the town. On the southeast 7th Division men press toward a Juncture with the 77th Division. Zwiebrucken Shelled Yanks Wipe Out Entire Jap Garrison at Ormoc i "is enemy forces were "destroyed" when they were caught by the junction Monday of the 77th and Major Gen eral Archibald V. Arnold's 7th divi sion Infantry which advanced northward along the eastern shores of the bay toward Ormoc. American victories in the area have eliminated the southern segment of the Yamashita defense line, MacArthur said, and troops of the American 32nd infantry division are hammering at its northern section stretch-me up through western Leyte from Ormoc.

MacArthur announced Monday that the troops caught southeast of Ormoc were "many thousands" strong, and while details are lacking, it was believed that a very considerable number was destroyed between the 77th, pushing southward from its beach-Continued on Page 7, Column 8 House Rejects Jackson Hole National Park WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (AV The House rebuked President Roosevelt today and voted 178 to 107 to abolish the huge Jackson Hole national monument In Wyoming which he created last year by executive order. Rep. Mott (R-Ore) told the House the vote corrects "one of the greatest usurpations of legislative authority by the executive." The resolution to outlaw the project now goes to the Senate.

President Roosevelt set aside 221,610 Wyoming acres by executive order on March 15, 1943, and designated it the Jackson Hole national monument. The order specified that the huge tract be administered by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Opponents of the Jackson Hole monument contended it deprived Wyoming of thousands of acres of taxable property. Jackson Hole is in the northwestern corner of Wyoming and the monument adjoins the Grand Teton National park.

Much of the land embraced in the monument, according to a House committee which investigated the project, "is made up of cultivated farms, ranches, meadows and reservoir water surface." Should the monument stand the state will lose a land tax revenue which in 1942 amounted to $18,500. Opponents of the monument claimed it was set up by presidential order after Congress twice refused to do so. tn the event the Senate concurs in the House action the land would revert to its previous holders. Most of it was public land, grating or forest acreage. Part was owned by John D.

Rockefeller and part was private land. Submarined Crew Saved from Sharks By U. S. Flying Boats COLOMBO. CEYLON.

Dec. 11. (UP) Diving their Catalina flying boats almost into the sea in order to frighten man-eating sharks, the crews of three Ceylon-based flying boats were credited today with saving the lives of 23 American merchant seamen whose vessel had been torpedoed by Japanese submarine. When the submarine sank the ship, the Japanese ordered the seamen aboard from their lifeboats. But as one Catalina approached and sounded a ulren.

the submarine submerged, leaving the seamen drifting helplessly. Flight Lieutenant Stead McKinney of Woodstock, Ontario, spotted the American vessel burning and the seamen in the water. Unable to land because of heavy seas, he kept circling throughout the night dropping life-preservers, rafts and food, and scaring off the sharks. In the morning two other Catalinas appeared and kept watch until a naval sloop arrived and rescued the seamen. LONDON.

Tuesday. Dec. 12. (A)- The Russians captured two more vil lages near Northeastern Budapest yesterday, gaining three miles in raging battles that Moscow said left the ap proaches to the city littered with hundreds of dead. The Germans hurled fresh Nazi armored forces ino the defense of the bombed and flaming Hungarian cap ital.

Far to the north of Budapest the Red army extended its front along the central Slovak border to almost 30 miles in thrusts up to seven miles. Soviet spearheads pointed toward Bratislava and Vienna on tne west and also menaced the rear communi Today's Hitler Story ZURICH. Dec. 11. (UP) Adolf Hitler is peacefully and blissfully insane, acts as if the war is over and is busy on reconstruction plana for destroyed German cities, a high per sonage arriving from the Reich said today.

The official said a large engineering staff had been assigned to work with Hitler on the reconstruction plans at his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden. A special edition of the newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, containing no war news, is prepared for Hitler every day, the official asserted. Greek -American Delegation Asks U. S. Mediation WASHTNOTON TCP.

11. (P) A ftrffplr. American dplpeation today asked the State Department to mediate in the battle between British forces and Greek resistance groups. Thn rioloirirt.ii-m atari nrotested to the British embassy, calling upon London its hlnnriv nttemnt to shackle the Greek people once more with dictatorship, stplos Pistolakis. former member of tVia rjrpelr nnrllnmpnf was SDokes- man for the group.

Now president of the areex-Amencan uommum iw National Unity, he said ne was expelled from-his country In 1939. He said he Is a member of the Liberal party -v in a. memorandum presented to the State Department, the delegation' expressed its full support of Secretary of State Btettinlus statement last week backing the principle of nonintervention in lnterpal politics in liberated countries. Th. rrnun aisitpri the state Depart ment "to implement America's active interest in Greek independence until the present crisis wnicn is huui nh Hanerer fnn the rnmmnn cause niui of the united Nations is resolved in the interests of Greek democracy and Allied unity." Britain's frenzied attack upon the National Liberation front of Greece helps no one oui uie rasna, the memorandum said.

Tt rnrrnrin the fabric Of the United Nations; it prolongs the war; it jeopardizes the peace." In the protest to British Ambassador Lord Halifax, the group protested Prime Minister Churchill's description of the Greek ELAS. "Gangsterism ana attempts at aic-tatorship do not stem from the EAM (political group heading the ELAS ormori fnrrPKi thpv stem from armed foreign intervention which backs a small group of native Fascists, reactionaries and Quisling collabora- toThe delegation said London vetoed an attempt by Themistocles Sophou-lis, aged Liberal party leader, to form a coalition government. In turn, tne protesi saia ooynuima turned down a British request that he support Prime Minister Papan-dreou "declaring if he did it would mean supporting a dictatorship." Lady, Keep Your Feathers Within Limit of Four Inches xwiRwiKfiTON Dec. 11. CP) Take a ruler along, ladies, when you buy the featner ior mat cnapeau.

minht rpt. nnp three and a VI half inches long and be aiding the enemy. Up til now, uncie sam nas osiuj tvip iica nn women's hats of eoose and duck, body feathers up to three inches in lengtn. The order nas oeen amenaea trephine" the feathers up to four inches in length. The newest government neea is ior pillows in military and government nospiiais.

The supply is short because huge quantities of waterfowl feathers ro into servicemen's sleeping bags and fly ing suits. The order applies to "new" feathers only. If vou have an old one lying around, it's all right to use It. And the old man will appreciate saving a ja tnai 10 ducks or so ior a new uu. German Targets Over Wide Area By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN' -wtwm rvw 1 1 The (treat et bomber fleet ever assembled more than 1.600 American ronren- and Liberators pounciea urrmwi rati nctwera in ue -with S.00O tons of explosive today a part of a masfclve air assault by moi i inn II vurnlanci.

iriohth force heavies, forming sky train 300 miles long, was escorted Dy more TPrrn ho oneration 12 bomb- era and two fighters were missing to- force of 16.800 AIIM m.n than are in an entire combat division of infantry- vat a record low lor a rau oi magnitude. Chun Fitht The German air force kept clear the mighty U. S. armaaa moBcrpr But heavy billowy clouds caused the bombers to drop tneir explores ments and obscured the damage done at Frankfurt. Hanaa i mues In a simultaneous attack from tne south, more than 500 U.

S. bombers and 350 fiRhters strucx invo nu in TtalV- unior' rtnmain under two directional assault, strong formations of Liberators. Fortresses and Fighters the 15th Air lorcc nmro Moosbierbaum refinery 22 miles nortn- n.nra frvish. vards ana tne south ordnance depot in Vienna, and rail targets at Graz in Austria. ri, inipn flak and a i lie smoke screen at the refinery, believed to produce aviation gasoune.

RAF Hits Ruhr aurlipr' nrobablV 500 1 1 IUMJ I RAF Lancasters and Mosquito from r4 Hf MB- BriUln herded oy pmn Tangs had begun the mighty assault inHuKtriai Ruhr. The BriUsh force attacked a freight yard and benzol piani at ether benzol plants at Heidench and Bruckhausen. t.v At dusk another big fleet of British heavyweights with escort of Spitfires and Mustangs was seen crossing the channel enroute home from what probably was the third big raid on Germany in seven hours. The aerial offensive apparently was continuing after dcik. Berlin radio reported bombers over, the Hanover and Brunswick area.

Most of the fighter guardians of the 1600 bombers, finding the air free the Luftwaffe, dropped to telephone pole level to strafe Nazi trucks and trains making a dash from Frankfurt to the Saarbmcken battle zone 120 miles southwest. One fighter group ranging as Tar as Kassel 125 miles northeast of Frankfurt, destroyed eight locomotives. Blast Tanks on Train In the Duren area before Cologne. Thunderbolts blasted a train 25 flat cars loaded with 50 Tiiter tanks being rushed to reinforce the front under attack by the First and Ninth "AJlthree rail target attacked by the Eighth air force are on main lines between the principal industrial centers of northwest and central Germany and the Nazi defense facing the First and Third armies. The greatest single bomber raid previously was on July 25 when 1.500 American heavies lent tactical support on the Normandy front.

Array Court Fines German Civilians for Wandering WITH THE TJ. S. THIRD ARMY, ii op) in the first announced summary court martial action against German civilians in the Third army area four persons were convicted today of leaving their communities without permission and were fined $30 The hearing was held In the Fifth divisions sector, with two men and six women accused of illegal wandering. Four were acquitted. Telegraphic News Briefs WITH THE U.

5. THIRD ARMY Dec 11 Uf Since Berlin Juggled the Franco-German border in 1940 to embrace Alsace-Lorraine, there are no markers along the frontier where the Third army has been crossing. So. the Army put up little signs saying: "You are now entering enemy territory. Remain alert." But along me ruau Division fought on the way to Saarlautern there is a much larger sign.

It says: You are now entering Germany through the courtesy of the 95th Division." KANSAS CITY. Dec. 1. J-Would the lady buy an bond, the Sixth War Loan solicitor asked. Sure, replied the grocery shopper who forthwith produced S450 from packets pinned here and there in her clothing.

Then the bond buyer ducked behind the unmanned meat counter for a few minutes, came up with $300 more, and received a receipt for a $1,000 bond. INDEPENDENCE. Dec. 11. The highway was icy and Roscoe Hilburn wasn't surprised when a motorist hailed htm.

It was the qumuon that made him stop. Do you want to sell that hen? the stranger aked. Hilburn investigated, found a plump sample of his flock perched on the rear bumper. Biddy made the remainder of the trip inside Hiibum's car. JEFFERSON CITY.

Dec. 11. 0) For three days, completion of Missouri's official vote canvass has awaited receipt of amended returns from Worth county. First reports larfeinsr in three election races. Today Secretary of State Gregory Stockard received me amenoea returns.

They listed the missing offices all right, gave the candidates' names but the column for the total votes was blank. CHICAGO. Dec. 11. OP Mrs.

Edith Martin testified in Superior court today that: Her husband. Alvin. never would hpr rpari a npwfDaDer because it was a "man's habit;" he woke her In the middle of the night to hear him read Scripture and play the violin: she could have no visitors because they had to listen to Martin read religious literature: and he MfnuH mriiral air! for her. savine If she had not sinned she would not be sick. So Judge Joseph Sabath granted her divorce on grounds of desertion.

Retreating Nazis Filled Haguenau With Mines WITH TKB U.S. SEVENTH ARMY IN ALSACE, Dec. 11. (P) Mud-stained Doughboys cleared all but a few snipers today from the northern Alsatian city of Haguenau, whose fall leaves the Germans without any sizeable town on which to hinge a defense against the Seventh army's steady push toward the Reich frontier 15 miles to the north. The Americans had driven into the southwestern suburbs yesterday, and the Germans appeared to have pulled out during the night.

As the 79th infantry division occupied the old French garrison city of 16,000 population, there were indications the Germans were retreating to the Maginot and Siegfried line all along tne seventh's front. The Germans left the badly damaged city loaded with mines. Even church steeple and a children's swing in the park were booby-trapped. The absence of any or mortar fire from the thick Haguenau forest just north of the city may sup port the belief that the Germans have no intention of manning the Maginot line forts very strongly. Sizeable quantities of guns and other material were abandoned by the Germans in their flight from Haguenau over the Moder river, nine of whose bridges in and around the city they blew up.

Apparently, they had planned to evacuate troops in a tram which was caught by our fire. One car alone con tained 28 German dead. Twenty-five Germans walked into the post of Major Herbert Spon- heln, San Diego, and sur rendered. The American entry liberated 200 women political prisoners who were scheduled to be killed by the Ger mans for such acts as offering food to Allied prisoners. Meanwhile, far south on the Alsa tian plain, fighting was making slow progress around both eolmar and Mulhouse.

It was permitted to reveal that the U. S. 36th infantry division now Is under the French First army, The French finally cleared the west bank of the Rhine from Kembs eight miles south to the Swiss Advances between the Thur and Doller rivers over-ran Lelmbach, 10 miles northeast of Mulhouse. The flooded III river, a mile over its banks around Selestat, slowed the French drive south toward Colmar. Japs Driven Out Of Kweichow CHUNGKING, Dec.

11, VP) The Chinese high command announced tonight that all Japanese forces had been driven out of Kweichow prov ince, easing China's perilous military situation at least temporarily. The communiaue said the rein forced Chinese counteroffensive had forced two Japanese columns which penetrated deep into Kweichow back into Kwangsl province, had recaptured Liuchai, Just over the border, and had advanced 17 miles beyond. The twin Japanese drives which were aimed at Kweiyang, Kweichow capital and strategic Burma road city, had at one time penetrated to a point 70 miles inside the province. Capture of Kweiyang would have put the Japanese in a position to strike either toward' 200 miles to the northwest, or at Kunming, 300 miles southwest. The Japanese retreat has given the Chinese valuable time in which to organize against any new strong offensive; and eased the strain on Chungking's war nerves.

Chinese sources which formerly were pessimistic over the nation's military situation now believe China might be able to withstand any full-scale invasion of Kweichow and some predict the Japanese chance to take Kweiyang or Kunming has been lost. Von Ribbentrop Says Germany and Japan Will Never Give In' LONDON. Dec. 11. (UP) German Foreign Minister uoacnun vuu mu-bentrop asserted tonight that the Germans and Japanese never would give in though the war might cost "the blood of our best and bravest" and said that some day the Gecman-Japanese-Italian Fascist Axis would nrtn tVlA WOP A VAAV TV Broadcasting a speech, recorded nere irom uerman ramus, third anniversary of the Axis military aliianna admitted the heavy Allied pressure with men and materials.

(Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu. in a speech recorded by the Federal Communications commLiMon. said: "lliere is no doubt that the war will turn in our favor. There is not an inkling of doubt in my mind that Hitler and Mussolini will save "We shall never give in." Ribben trop said. "Every German soldier at the front ana every ueraian at nome knows it.

"We have only one thought to fight and strike blows at the enemy until he has had enough and realizes he can never defeat the tri-partite powers." Fatal Beating of Patient Charged to Hospital Keeper SCRANTON. Dec. 11. (JP) A charge of manslaughter was lodged today against Harry Allspaugh, 65. 'teeper at the Clarks Summit State Hospital for the Insane, in the fatal jeating of a 76-year old patient, John McNally.

Meanwhile District Attorney James Brady accused some hospital offi-. ials of attempting to "destroy cer-iln documentary evidence" and sub-titute for it "evidence of a false and -misleading character." Brady did not name the officials, sserting that any punitive action ould have to be taken by the State Jppartment of Public Welfare. McNally died at the hospital last Tuesday. He had been beaten so that his chest was crushed. Outskirts cations of Germans fighting in Eastern filovakia.

Report Reds In Capital In the drive on Budapest Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukraine army captured Veresegyhas, and Seada, both 84 miles from the capital's northeastern suburbs. The Paris and Algiers radio reported Malinovsky's vanguards had penetrated the capital, but this was not confirmed by either the Russians or the Germans. Yesterday's communique reported the capture of only 14 populated places in Hungary, six north and northeast of Budapest nd eight north Continued on Page 7, Column 6 Fighting Flares Again All Over Athens ATHENS, Tuesday, Dec. 12.

(UP) Anti-government ELAS troops early today spasmodically shelled and mortared the center of Athens as retaliation against RAF fighter-bombers which Monday bombed and strafed leftist positions in the eastern outskirts of Athens. As fighting flared up again all over, the city, it was disclosed that a Greek brigade had taken 200 ELAS prisoners and wiped out the rest of a battalion after British tanks and armored cars secretly thew a cordon around the ELAS forces and the Greeks attacked from the front. The Greek regulars then went on to occupy a home for the aged. 4,000 yards northeast of the Acropolis. Meanwhile, a Greek officer reaching Athens from Solonika reported Salonika was ruled by a "dictatorship" of proletariats, and that the Com-munists and EAM were in complete control.

He said 2,000 EAM civil guards patrol the streets there and that from 3,000 to 4,000 others were held in reserve. A government communique said there had been some progress in Piraeus, but the general situation was unchanged. Additional rebel forces have been infiltrating into parts of Athens, the communique said, also disclosing that during Sunday afternoon a concentration of troops formed up for an attack on East Athens was dispersed by RAF planes whjch inflicted some casualties. There was nq change in the situation elsewhere in Greece although a British patrol moving south from Volos was ambushed by rebel troops and suffered some casualties, the communique said. The ELAS forces, after a day in which sporadic mortar and artillery exchanges flared up throughout the city, early today dropped explosives near Greek regular army headquar ters and within 100 yards or tne American embassy.

German 'Snorf U-boats Already in Service, London Paper Reports LONDON, Dec. 11. (UP) The News Chronicle's naval correspondent, Vernon Brown, reported today that the new "snort" German submarines, probably already at sea, were equipped with special alrshafts emerging from the water like a periscope to let the submarine "breathe." Brown said the Germans call the device "scnorkel spirall." It is reported to be an extensive airshaft projecting ahove the surface and divided into two sections, one of which is the air intake, and the other for expulsion of exhaust gases. The "snort" is supposed to allow submarines to recharge batteries under water. Brown said the Germans claim the submarine is now able to stay under water from 20 to 30 days.

Clare Luce Thinks Army Nurses Deserve More Credit PARIS. Dec. 11. C4) Congress-woman Clare Boothe Luce said today on her return here from a tour of the western battlefront that the American people can feel "very lucky" in their military leaders. The Connecticut representative and 16 male members of the House Military Affairs committee leave tomorrow for the Mediterranean theater.

Mrs. Luce said she felt some of the troops were not getting enough credit. "I don't think the nurses get the break they deserve," she declared. "Some have been lieutenants for years. They should get higher promotions and more often.

"If the people back home only knew what tough lives the WACS are leading and how bndlv they are needed and how every commander asked me. could you get us more WACS? Then perhaps more women would join up." New York and Chicago, will be cancelled. It will be the first time that the Twentieth Centuray, which started operating on June 15, 1902, has missed a trip since the first World War. The New York Central said that other regularly scheduled trains, which stop at more points, will adequately accommodate the light holiday eve travel. The Pennsylvania railroad's Broadway Limited will make its run as usual Christmas eve, spokesman for tha company said.

Airline spokesmen said holiday bookings on their runs were at capacity, the wartime "normal," but that holiday space was sold farther ir advance than regular travel. Railroad companies said that thci campaigns urging civilians to stay home so that servicemen can trav on holiday furloughs appear to i helping some. One spokesman esf mated that servicemen now constitut 40 to 50 per cent of the passenge volume. Zwiebrucken was being shelled from a range of about 13 miles as Patton's 35th division reached the German border along the Blies river three miles northeast of Sarreguemines and Joined the Seventh army in a swinging advance northward on a 50-mil front stretching to the Rhine. The Third army's "Long Toms also were pounding the Siegfried strong point of St.

Ingbert, five miles northeast of Saarbmcken and seven miiea inside Germany. The left wing of Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army captured Petit Rederchin 10 miles southeast of Sarreguemines, but the day's most spectacular advances were registered on the east flank following the abrupt fall of the Haguenaa bolt, 15 miles north of Strasbourg. 22 Miles from Karlshuhe One column of the U. S.

79th division, racing out eight miles east of the city, drove through Camp D'Ober-hoffen, Schirrheim and Schirrhoffea and reached Soufflenheim, four miles from the Rhine and 22 miles from the great German fortress of Karlsruhe. A second column drove through Durrcnbach and Walbourg north of Haguenau and in conjunction with a Seventh army force moving- In from the west captured Woerth, eight miles above Haguenau. a similar distance from the Rhine Palatinate and 48 miles airline from the Rhine industrial center of Ludwlgshafen. Six other towns Eberbach. Tort-helm, Morsbronn.

Hegeney, Laubaeh and Eschbach all clustered at the northern edge of the Haguenau forest Just below Woerth, also fell as German resistance melted almost to the vanishing point In that sector. 3rd Reaches Upper Saar The Third army already had breached the Upper Saar line tn French territory and now was moving with the Seventh gainst the only sector of the main West Wall which was not reinforced by a major river barrier. Just as the French break-through in the Belfort gap collapsed the Vos-ges flank a month ago, the Seventh army's capture of Haguenau had dislodged the Germans' Rhine anchorage, although It did not sppear that the results this time would be so widespread. Tne Germans were falling back Into powerful Siegfried defenses near the Rhine Palatinate frontier. 15 miles north of Haguenau.

ihd were expected to defend them with aU their might, since beyond lies one of the richest areas of the Rhlneland. Hagenau was the "hlnRe' between the Rhine and the old French Maginot line, which had been Incorporated into the West Wall in Northern Alsace. The veteran 79th division of Lien-tenant General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army. Doughboys who fought at Cherbourg and Avranches.

broke into the town at 7 am. Monday after being pinned down on its outskirts for a week, and quickly occupied the city of 16,000 population which lies 15 miles above Strasbourg. The First Army, driving the main German defenders of Cologne behind the Roer on a 10-mile front, advanced another one and one-half miles Monday to within two miles of the Roer bastion of Duren and reached the Roer itself in the area of Merken, three miles northwest of Duren. Merken lies 21 miles west of Cologne and represents a penetration of almost 17 miles inside the Reich by Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges' doughboys.

Heavy fighting still was under way inside Merken as well as in or around the towns of Pier, Schophoven. Merode. Mariaweiler and Hoven. all clustered around the approaches of Duren, where the retreating enemy main forces had left rear guards to stand "to the last. The towns of Schlich.

two and one-half miles west of Duren, Dhorn. one-half mile north of Schlich. and Echtz, two miles northwest of Duren. were captured. Hodges troops were crowding up within a mile or less of the Roer all along their front and from their advance positions tank and artillery teams began laying down a smothering barrage on Duren and the three deep defense lines benlnd the Roer barrier.

To the north, the U. S. Ninth Army already stood poised on the west bank of the Roer along a 12-mile front, field dispatches reported, and was ready for its "next assignment" on the east side of the river tn what could be one of the decisive battles of the war. 22 Dead as First Show of Season Hits Midwest By the Associated Press The midwest, where 22 persons died in traffic accidents in the season's first snow-laden storm, is exporting its weather to the east where, the Chicago weather bureau said, rain will mix with the snow today (Tuesday). The storm produced by cold air from Canada mixing with moisture laden air from the south, spread snow over the midwest ranging up to 13 Inches in depth.

Monday night snow extended, as far south as Atlanta with subnormal temperatures reaching to Jacksonville, Fla. Dallas. reported a hard freeze covered the state from the Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico, with truck gardens and the citrus crop hard hit. AmarlUo reported the lowest temperature in the state, 16 degrees. The lowest temperature in the country was at Elko, where 22 below was recorded.

Yellowstone, had 19 below. Generally, however, the midwest reported clearing skies and rising temperatures. Slueh and snow froze on city streets, makintr driving hazardous. Airline schedules were cancelled in most of the midwest, and auto clubs warned motorists to drive slowly and to avoid country roads. The snow, whicn ranged from 13 Inches at Iowa City, la to only a trace in Northern Wisconsin, was responsible for most of the deaths.

Southern Wisconsin reported 12 inches of snow, and the mid-western average topped three inches. Colorado led. the states with 'nve traffic deaths. Next were Indiana and Missouri with four each. Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Nebrsaka reported two deaths Iowa had one snowstorm death: The snow and cold flipped deeply into Dixie.

Flurries of snow powdered parts of Mississippi, Arkansas. Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia. A few pellets of sleet were reported as far south as Tallahassee, Fla. Temperatures dropped below freezing, with lows of 20 degrees forecast at several places. Farther north the snowfall was heavier.

It measured thirteen incnes on Mt. Mitchell. N. from six to eight inches in the Bristol area of Virginia and three inches at Jasper in the Georgia mountains. HuntsviUe, reported iour inches of snow.

Some highways in North Alabama were sheathed in ice. The State highway department 6aid travel was dangerous. The weatner prevented several schools in county, in Northern Georgia, irom opening. Tokyo Admits Admiral Who Directed Attack On Pearl Harbor Killed By The Associated Press Tokvo finally got around to ad mitting Monday that the Japanese admiral who directed the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is dead. Dome! News agency, in announcing that Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, killed on Saipan last July 7, had been "commander in chief of the task force that led the attack on Pearl confirmed Admiral Chester w.

rvn itT' statement of Julv 13. Domei previously had announced Nagumo's death in a final suicide attack on Saipan, but did not identify him at the time as leader of the Pearl Harbor assault which plunged the United States into world war u. Admiral Nimitz, nowever, naa announced that Nagumo and a rear admiral identified only as Yano were ktiiy n.n Rninun nn Julv 7. and said N.oiimn was leader oi tne rrau w. Na.cni mo and six other aamirais ana ffpnprs! were civen posthumous decorations, said Domei in a Tokyo radio broadcast picKed up Dy mt ru rv.mrrmnW'n.tlonS commission.

This raised to 73 the number of Japanese admirals and to is tne num-ho- nr Minnnn cpnerals reported dead since last May. Domei disclosed that Nagumo had been posthumously pro moted to a full aamiraicy. Jackie Cooper Weds Actress June Home untt.vwnnn Dec. ll. (UP) Boy ish-faced Actor Jackie Cooper, now a nri married Dretty liaVBI QtBUlOM, brunet Actress June Home, the girl who stood by him tnrougn nis ini in South Bend, on a morals charge of which he was acquitted last month.

The couple got their marriage license cna lirpnso hiirpair a few Qb DAUva hours before the private double-rinR ceremony at Wiltkhire Methodist fihurcb weddinsr ci.apei oniy men families and a few close friends as guests. Affpr a. hripf southern California ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. PHIL IPPINES, Tuesday. Dec.

12. (UP) American 77th division troops wiped out the entire Japanese garrison of Ormoc in fighting of "a most desperate character." it was announced today, and have now joined with veteran 7th division infantry to destroy or cut off from the sea thousands more enemy troops southeast of the former enemy supply base. General Douglas MacArtnur's com munique did not estimate the number of enemy troops wiped out in ormoc. Front reports earner naa indicated that Jananese resistance around Or moc stiffened before the 77th division. veterans of Guam, took the town Sun day after a four-day drive from their beachhead on Ormoc gulf's eastern shore.

More Mps Destroyed MacArthur announced that more British Tommy Returns To Camp with Baby Daughter LONDON. Dec. 11. (UP) British Private John W. Wilson, wounded in France and on leave, was left with his five-months-old daughter when his wife was taken to the hospital.

Unable to find anyone to care for the infant, he took her to camp with him when his time was up. His leave was extended. Fish Raps Dewey In House Swan Song WASHINGTON. Dec, 11. (UP) Rep.

Hamilton Fish N. made a farewell speech in the House today and it developed into an ex coriation of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey who, he said, "ran the wrong way with the ball and scored a touchdown against his own side" in the recent presidential campaign. Beaten for reelection Nov.

7 alter 24 years in Congress, Fish attributed his own and Dewey's defeat to Dewey's repudiation of him; proposed that Republicans abandon their party name in 1948 and unite with "real Democrats" in a new party alignment, and predicted that Communism would engulf Europe and Asia "unless the democratic nations take a firm stand now." "It took most of the New Deal ad ministration, half of Moscow, and Gov. Dewey to defeat me," he said as he launched into a bitter tirade against the 1944 Republican presidential nominee. Borrowing one of Dewey's own campaign phrases, Fish said that Dewey asked lor it, and here it is. am convinced that his- stupid and colossal blunder, for selfish political purposes, was the direct cause of my defeat, as well as his own and may have kept the Republicans from electing a majority in the House of Representatives. By, his unprovoked attack on me he lost at least a million Democratic votes and a million Republican votes "Gov.

Dewey's political days are numbered. He had been weighed on the political scales and found want-tag. For the best interests of the Republican party and the Nation, he should be retired to his farm at Pawl ing and cease giving advice on national and international issues to Republicans in Congress and the Nation "If Gov. (John W. Bricker of Ohio had been the Republican nominee on an American platform he would have been elected.

We would then have had a veteran of World War 1 at the head (ft the ticket, who knew what war was. instead of a candidate who was of draft age and has never served a day in our armed forces." German V-bombs Kill 716 British Civilians During November LONDON. Dec. 11. W) Naii V-bombs killed- 716 civilians in the United Kingdom during November more than four times as many as in the previous month and more than double the combined total for Octo ber and September the Ministry of Home Security disclosed tonight.

Of those killed, 269 were men. 345 i women and 102 children under 16 years. It was during November that British officials first announced the Nazis were firing long-range rockets against these islands. But the November fatalities were down Bharply from August's 1.103 during the height of the flying bomb blitz. During November 1,611 sustained injuries requiring hospitalization and in August there were 921 such cases.

October's deaths totalled 172 and September's 170. Railroads and Airlines 'All Sold Out9 Of Holiday Travel Reserve Space NEW YORK. Dec 11. (UP) With Christmas still two weeks away, railroad and airline companies here today reported they had sold out all reserved space for holiday travel, leav ing the unprepared traveler slignt chance of anything better than squeezing into crowded coaches and juses or staying at home. Groaning under a December traffic oad which is said to have reached a ew wartime peak, railroad com--nies saw.

as a single cheering note, the fact that Christmas does not fall the middle of the week. Travel will be as much as 15 per heavier than last year, some nokesmen estimated, but it is to be spaced over the Thursday, rjday and Saturday preceding the londay holiday. Anticipating a decided slump in ilume by last Sunday, the New York 'sntral announced today that the iiristmas eve run of its Twentieth entury limited, crack train between The Call's Index Amusements Pate 23 Classified Pages 27-28 Comics Page 2 Deaths of a Day Paft 12 Editorial Pae 12 Financial Paget 26-27 Lawrence Page 12 News Behind the News Pare 12 Pumpernickle Bill Page 12 Radio Page 29 Sports Pagea 20-21 TkAse Days Page 12 Weather Par Woman's Pages 18-12 Sheriff Seeks Dog Suspected of Chewing Off Master's Head RAINIER. Dec. 11.

4) Sheriff's deputies beat through the backwoods near this Columbia rive: town today seeking a dog, of chewing off the head of his master. The decapitated body of Georgt Wroe, about- 60, was found in toman's isolated cabin three miles Iron here. His huge dog, described by near by farmers as vicious, fled to wooc' nearby at the approach of investiga tors. Sheriff R. Calhoun said the con dition of the body indicated the hep micht have been chewed away.

Calhoun said no definite clue to th cause of the man's death was found. Phone 4241 for Want Ads honeymoon, the couple will return to Chicago, where Cooper is in training at Great Lakes Naval station. A.