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vl I I I I i Gopd Morning Weather Forecast imAUD) The dty political pot simmering now will toon be boiling Rain Friday ending Friday night mild temperature Saturday partly cloudy and windy VOL XLVIH NO 291 HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND FRIDAY DECEMBER 8 1944 i Meant Aaaoclated Pres SINGLE COPY 4 CENTS Fairchild Cargo Plane in Flight ADDITIONAL SUM VOTED BY SOLONS i Outer Defense At Ormoc Bv or ks Shakin Forces Of Wuhlngten Dec 7 (JP)r-The House voted today to allow its members $3OOC more yearly for clerical help Backers of the plan pushed it through the House and on to the Senate by a roil call vote of 202 to 88 Sponsors said the from $6500 to $9500 Is needed to provide more assistance in keeping up with wartime duties Rep Smith (R-Ohio) told the House however "I would be ashamed to face any returning soldiers if we vote ourselves more funds" Another proposal to boost salaries of the members themselves from $10000 to $12500 yearly apparently was laid aside Third Army Tank Assaults Made on Outpost of For-bach Seventh Army Joins Drive on Saar Sensational Landing at Enemy Held Port Japanese Ccivoy of Thirteen Ships Destroyed and ParatrooyerrWfptd Oat vi i '3 By AUSTIN BEALMEAR Paris Dec 7 The outer defense works of Germany's arsenal of Saarbrucken shook today from Third Army tank assaults on the outpost of Foirbach threo and a half miles and the Seventh Army joined the drive on the Saar Basin with attacks along a 35-mlle front The Third Army forging ahead despite the mud and rain welded its Saarlautern bridgehead solidly with one on the south while a third bridgehead on the north was extended into the woods of Pactener-Buch-wald slashing across the railway from Saarlautern to the fortress of' By YATES MCDANIEL Mac Headquarters Philippines Dec 8 (Friday) (P) American forces in three sensational moves seized the center of the Japanese Yamashita Line on the Leyte west coast wiped out a 13-ship Nippon convoy Inflicting heavy loss of life and stopped a spectacular enemy paratroop threat headquarters announced today An amphibious force composed of the Yank 77 th Infantry Division supported by Navy and Marine elements sailed around the south end of Leyte Island and landed Dec 7 three miles south of Ormoc In the enemy's rear SUBSIDIES HIT BY MASTER OF GRANGE -v st Albert Gpss Sounds Cull for Prosperity of Abundance a Killed in Action SENATE WILL OPEN CIGARET INQUIRY (ff) Washington Dee 7 This is the first published picture of the Fairchild C-82 "Packet" plane which will be produced in great' quantities A call for building a prosperity Of abundance based on a twoiprice system for marketing of prod-uqts and farmer ability to "dothelr work iir a cooperative manner with- opt befog taxed to- death" was sounded last night by Albert Goss national master df theNa-) tiopal Grange speaking 'at the uwiai (AUgDi epcaitU5 ai tuts 6 BOYS 18 NOW SENT TO BATTLE FRONTS Planes To Be Produced-In Two Plants 4 I Am i- I iWor Dep UttlCial ayS I Maryland State Grange meeting at This wedge into the Siegfried Line defenses hammered out by tee 90th Division was eight miles inside Germany the deepest penetration into the Reich by Third Army forces ABSIE the American broadcast? Ing station in Europer heard by the Blue Network said the Third was 15 miles inside Germany at this point Lines Broadened The Seventh Army coming up hard on -the Third's right flank broadened its battle lines in north? ern Lorraine to 35 miles Advance forces entered Enchenberg seven miles from tee Saar border southeast of Saarbrucken and close to the old Maginot fortifications As the winter first month ended with 700 square miles of Germany in Allied hands the Army sent patrols stabbing to the formidable Cologne plain barrier of the Roer river in the fore Policy Changed Due to Urgency North American Aviation Corp to Join Forces With Local Fairchild Plant in Army Asks for Quantities Chairman Mead (D-NY) disclosed today the opening of a full-fledged Into the clg-aret shortage by the Senate War investigating Committee He set a public hearing for next Wednesday for the questioning of representatives of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors the War Department manufacturers the Manpower Commission and the War Food Administration Reporting on a preliminary checkup by staff investigators Mead said their findings indicated that more cigarets are being manufactured than ever before but the armed forces requirements have almost doubled since last year This has resulted in shortages in the civilian supply he said w'ilch may be expected to 'tinue GEORGE (BUD) ENGLISH a Hotel Alexander last night National Master Goss addressed an audience of more titan four hundred persons who packed the ballroom for the opeq session concluding a full -day that was replete with addresses by-national and state leaders in agriculture and allied fields Today the Grange sessions' come to a close "Creating shortages to force up the prices of agricultural products has never worked anywhere any r- iV A Washington December 7 (p) Eighteen-year-old soldiers are now being sent to the battle fronts because of "urgent military requirements" the Army disclosed today Under Secretary of War Patterson said at a news conference that the Army has departed from its policy of not sending men under 19 added indication of the urgent need on worldwide battlefronts for Fairchild Aircraft Division's huge air freighter the C-82 "Packet" came date yesterday with the disclosure that the Army Air Forces have called upon North American Aviation Corporation of Inglewood Calif to join forces with Hagerstown plant in order to produce the new cargo-carrying airplane in the great quantities required by the Army The announcement was made by PRIVATE ENGLISH KILLED IN ACTION The landing force just beat an enemy convoy into Ormoc principal Japanese port on Leyte Americah forces promptly turned upon it and sank all 13 vessels Including four large loaded transports The Americans also brought down 62 enemy planes Within a- few hours the Japanese in desperate diversionary attempt loosed 200 paratroopers in an area between two American airfields on the 'eastern side of the Island scene of the original TJ landings The enemy sky troops accomplished Borne sabotage but most of them were killed Center Is Seized By the Ormoc landings General Douglas MacArthur said "we have seized the center of the Yama-shita Line from the rear and have split the forces in two" MacArthur said the Ormoc landings caught the Japanese unawares and drove a wedge between his forces' north' and 'south of Ormoc The Japanese had been committed MacArthur said to meeting the American threats from the east north and south Now they are menaced also by a TJ force to the west Reslstaiye Light Ground resistance at Ormoc was light MacArthur Reported but enemy planes which had been flying cover for the JL3-ship convoy pnt up a desperatq $ght when attached by Yank airmpn First the American fliers waded Into the convoy Besides the four big transports they got two medium freight transports and seven destroyers and destroyer escorts All the enemy ships were sunk before reaching Ormoc MacArthur esti- 3 Mi years overseas for infantry or i i armored forte duty He gave these declared cvltlciz-1 Local Youth LOSBS Lite front of three new attacks on: the DELUDE EI1ES 10 SUCCEED HIMSELF reasons: The tempo of operations been stepped up greatly The bulk of the Army is in action and accordingly the need irig policies' -that just before the w4r plowing' under and slaughtering When tem-poraijy abundances exist the problem becomes one of marketing not of consumption he said and this stream's defenses 1 There were indications the Ger? trance -1 mans may be preparing to fall back almost to the Rhine lor a new standi Word from Uw War Department Ut ttey apparently were flooding bas been received by Mrs A the Roer by breaching dams soma Carlton Ward president of Fair-child Engine and Airplane Corporation- He further stated teat all available facilities in Hagerstown! will continue to be utilized by toe company in C-82 production fiVT-H1gh Rated by the AAF ai one of the three most important airplanes of First Ward Counciiinoil Is I replacements has increased VIOtERI TREMORS marketing difficulty now represents Goodwin 706 Sunset-avenueHhatj where upstream to make any drive I hap IfAtl Dyi riAAIIFA DollAVf I Pfc George Robert "Bud First Republican to Announce The supply of replacements from the pool of men 19 and over has decreased because the percentage of inductees in that- age group has fallen off I WMI MMQ MIMAWM VM domestic economy's number one problemt Subsidies Denounced The speaker denounced hersqn English 19 was killed in France on Nov 181 during the' invasion of France A letter was received by Mrs Goodwin from her son last month NAT YET LOCATED year to will now be BrB 'produced: in quantity by the joint i of Fairchild and North Am-Earthquake Strikes in a-1 erican to' provide for many of tee finn VieSnSfv Record I vital materiel-carrying tasks of the Army pan Vicinity First Ward Councilman Jl (Jack) Hellane filed last night his certificate of candidacy for renomi- across the swollen river even more difficult American Intruder pilots saw floodlights blazing for the second straight night on roads and field near the Erft river five to eight miles from the Rhine suggesting that the enemy realized the Roer defenses were about to crack aud was building new ones farther back Lt Gen George Patton's Third I His discussion of the use of 18-1 dies claiming that vthe more we year-olds came shortly after he I a8 the Government to give us the nation EUbject to the Republican 1 had Tep0rted in a weekly war re-1 more control we shall be forced to I telling of his being in France with municipal primary next month Mr yew United States 'Army undergo at the hands of tee -Gov- the infantry forces He was a Recordings Show North American Aviation has im-mense facilities in its large mod-1 em plants at Dallas Texas and Hellane is the first Republican to either announce or file for munici- eminent" I member of the Third Army of Gen- He reviewed teh principal points eral Patton 95th Division Kansas City Kansas where tee Private English went dverseas in de- of the National Grange policy as laid down at its recent sessions in Winston-Salem and concluded with an appeal for each member 1 of the Grange to do his part in rate-! casualties since Pearl Harbor now total 474898 Referring to the un precedented scale of battle on the western front Patterson said: "We are suffering severe casualties and are facing the grim prospect of more to come "The enemy however is suffering even August of this year He was in-1 Army tanks in a two and a half-ducted into the Army fo September mile advance probed into the 1943 He received training at Fort French city of Forbach and kept reputa-1 the fact oni1iy JB Councilman Hellane who has established an enviable record' Bennlng Ga and studied at Randolph Macon Academy -under the! (By The Aiiociittd Preu) A violent earthquake described by observers as "catastrophic" struck in tee vicinity of Japan yes-mated 4000 Nipponese troops went I tcriay (Thursday) third anniver-down making 30000 lqyst In recent sary 0f peari Harbor JbaSS-10 rUU 4trct I three afferent type of warplanes Tho Aflri(in milt for I Seismograph p5 TWnotnnp- the BSK Mlt The Amencan assault force com-1 tiong around the world recorded a xnanded by Rear Admiral A I prolonged earthquake of terrific in-Stmble ot the 77th Division com- tensity conceivably centered on manded by Maj Gen Andrew tee Nipponese mainland Brace ashore quickly and the The shocks were reported by doughboys cinched'a beachhead and scientists in England Switzerland 082 will he built In substantial numbers' The company has al- ready established a wide tee P-51 Mustang the B-25 Mitchell and the AT-6 Texan and engineers of Fairchild Aircraft will! furnish design and engineering required to get North American into the earliest possible busy factories under artillery fire for the eighth consecutive day Smoke could be seen boiling up over Saarbrucken Other forces fought to expand three bridgeheads across the Saar ing -the standards- and Increasing the' membership of the organiza-1 Army Special Training Program I To some extent the effectives I tlon I until he -was sent to Indian Town lost through casualties are replaced I More than 300 delegates alter-1 Gap Pa before going overseas by the return to duty of wounded I natives guests aud notables at-1 The local soldier graduated from publican in the City Council has been largely responsible for the beautiful Reservoir Park the Knot Hole Gang at municipal stadium and smoke abatement in the west end Declaring the suggestions and criticisms of the citizens have been welcome and helpful 'Councilman Hellane said' in a statement: "In the exercise of your citizen- men Of 268099 Army men wound- tended sessions it was hhe Hagerstown High School in at Saarlautern where some street repre-1 1943 In his sophomore year he I fighting still was in progress and won a prize for being the best all ed since Pearl Harbor 126440 have estimated last night gone back to duty This does not mean that all of them were able to (Continued on Page 16) started moving northward The enemy paratroopers were States Sanded near San Pafclo about half Each observatory said the trem- ship it should be remembered that ri LI' I way between Dulag and Burauen ors were "extremely violent" ito dnHn of i OnmeDniB edl ElSCtlOII OT LOCOl airstrips from which AVmMrfwmjwst nwwwWirii Ralstnnl- Fairchild-designed aircraft Since leadership especially in a growing States ogist Shaw said "toe whple I continned 21 'city such a8 for 68 Wovr earth" had vibrated nearly six' hours after the shock They the Cbundl is to the municipality what the General Assembly is to The Army casualty total cover-ling reports made through Novem- her 22 was an increase of 13840 in week! Workers Certified Washington Dec 7 (ff) around student and having the I highest average He was active in the Boy Scouts and had the rank of Life Scout and was assistant I scoutmaster of Troop 4 of SL Methodist Church He was formerly employed by the store of I Musey Evans this city He was BAM IS CLEARED BY SOVIET FORCES The I one The figure covers casualties on all fronts but by far I the largest number presumably were on the western front The Navy total now stands at I a member of St Methodist Troops More to Within tee State what Congress is to the Nation it is the Council that fixes 1 the tax rate makes the approprla bflYISIUncUltiohs enacts ordinances for tee good of the city There is also a Baltimore Dec 7 dkl of planning be done REVOLT IM PRISON ISWiSiWSBallW Flight BROKEN BY WRITER Time (12:48 a Eastern War Time) declared that wind tremors Pawic mn runs National Labor Relations Board certified today tee United Shoe Workers of America (CIO) as tee bargaining representative of the Maintenance and Production Em- (Continued on Page 16) 41 Miles of Austrian Border obscured tracing the direction but said it was likely they centered the Aleutians the Japan" Kuriles Kuriles or to 77120 giving an overal! figure for Asher EHelmfln WOttIdTbe BbIe fHit this city is to be in a position services-toe Army Navy 5 C(ieman IS BalUmore to London and Parts in t0 gtrtng int0 action with needed Marines and Coast Guard-of 552- Inc" WminripH In Arfinn a -J about half a day If a proposed Po I public improvements when our vie 1 018 oh In an election ordered by the Convicts Surrender After Story of Columnist Is Read By HERCHER London Friday Dec Russian troops completely cleared the south bank of strategic Lake Balaton in western Hungary yesterday rolling to within 41 miles of gram announced today toy the Pan-1 torious troops come marching home lou KIRK IS CONFIRMED board on Nov 29 47 of the 85 eli-1 Mr and Mrs Asher Edelman gible workers cast ballots for the I Broadway received word from the union and 35 against The one War Department last evening that The Swiss radio reporting servatlona at Zorich and Nuribnrg a CoiiittUonl aid It the -quake took place to lrom the war end to joha" poken elender man with stooped I populated region the conienuence A company official Mid that the honed to he Airway Intend to Kieddl Awarded To hy the bold type ot his newepaper-a in New York City the Her Jo- bt the $25000000 to llnan- 1 front page today quelled a three-seph Lynch Fordham University eto approved By directors tU 'Maj Richard Washington Dec (IP) The Senate confirmed today tee noml-1 challenged ballot was insufficient 1 their son Sgt Asher Edelman I Styria and cutting direct rail com- ore-rich province of to affect 4he results of the election the NLRB said nation of Alexander Kirk of Illinois as Ambassador to Italy BOIIQ week to purchase a number of 108- purchase a numb day mutiny of 25 convicts at the Seismologist said two very severe Atlanta Federal prison The man was Morgan Blake edi earthquakes were recorded at a (EWT) and at 12:53 passenger planes to fly 'from Balti Washington Dec' 7 Award Hagerstoaian About Italy more to London in 13 hours and I me Congressional Medal of- Hon- munications between Budapest and Axis -fronts in Crotia and northern Italy Hurling the enemy back on a 135-mile front and advancing up to nine miles Marshal Feodor I Toi-bukhln's Third Ukraine Army drove to within 67 miles of Zagreb capital of the Axis puppet Croat government in northern Yugoslavia and to within 22 miles south of Budapest in an encircling movement Jr had been wounded in action in France on November 21 Earlier this week' Mr and Mrs idelraan- received a letter from their son stating that he had been wounded by shrapnel in both legs and was recuperating at a hospital in France Young Edelman who secured his basic training at Fort Benningf Ga was a machine gunner In the Infantry and has been overseas about three months a He estimated they occurred about 7500 miles away in the general direction oi Japan possibly in the southern part from this city to Parirta 14 hour or t0 Major Richard I Bon lead- rTe PUrn CnlrKowc There would be tour acheduled1ng combat pilot ot the Anuy Air JttCtliniCQ WS txlVC k5Ol(1101 Overseas Homefront The Poplar Wise flier has shot Curfew Law To Be Placed in Effect I down 36 Japaneoe planes more than any other fighter and was the first to break the Wdrld War I 1 record of Capt Rickeo- backer the department said AGREEMENT SIGNED Chicago Dee 7 At least a score of nations Including the United- States were prepared to open their skies wide for coxnmer- -By CPL A VERNON' DAVIS IN ITALY We guys over here are getting a lot of reports about you folks back home these days torial columnist for the Atlanta Journal and Sutfday School teacher who carried out with streamer headlines his promise to publicize the convicts' grievances if they in turn would surrender themselves and four hostages without violence The prisoners who overpowered the four guards and shut themselves up in the prison's segregation building along with nearly 100 cither prisoners Monday nightread story carefully listened to the persuasive voice and then surrendered the keys to the building Prison officials said five of convicts admitted they were the rihg leaders along the west bank of tho Danube We are not making this up just I I unofficial Moscow dispatches said giving a verbatim report from an ICnrP in SgIGCmOII units already had overseas vetyrqn who just dropped swept around the southwestern end in on the home front He wrote Qf (Zjfc 11 TOGO of Lake Balaton to within 40 milep further not trying to brag I of Austria and less than 110 miles but just telling yqu the 'pitfallq a I Careful choice and selection of I from Vienna tho capital single guy has to worry about in Christmas gifts was yesterday! Berlin meanwhile said that an The medal was given for "con- cialalr transport under an agree- spicuous gallantry and intrepidity Some are good: Some are distract-ment signed today at the closing 1 ia action above and beyond the call Some art of duty in the Southwest Pacific area from October 10 to Nov 15 1944' session of the International Civil Aviation Conference Several othef offered freedom of tee air limited to the right to cross and make stops without charging or picking up traffic Yes a true of the home front and the people that make it up is at last coming this CHARGES DROPPED by means Los Angeles Dec 7 Supe- lctters en8 rior Court dismissed today felo-1 written by that ntaus assault charges against Tom-1 Bow dribble of my Dorsey band-leader hia pi-1 soldiers wending TW i i 4 Charles Town Va Dec 7 (p) Parents of unaccompanied children under sixteen who the streets here after 10 will be fined $50 before the Mayor's Court for each violation under the terms of an ordinance to be invoked and enforced the next few days the City Council said today Civilian defense sirens will" be sounded to indicate tee curfew and two special pMice have been designated to enforce the law Council members said that reports of petty thievery and malicious mischief were responsible for the curfew enforcement orders CANADIANS ADVANCE I) jr I -vy "SL Prompt Trial Promised Washington Dec 7 General Biddle said today that the 25 prisoners involved in the At- Premier of Itply To Form Cabinet these ragged United States On my urge4 by the Hagerstown Retailers other Soviet Army In a new of-last thfee-day pass I got two very Bureau in an open letter that fenrive spurt beyond fallen Hat-strong hints froAi two different points out that exchanges may this vaq northeast of Budapest had girls So: if that happens a (year be made difficult or impossible broken through German lines on few hours just think of the dan-1 by merchandise shortages a 10-mile front and reached points gersi on a whole I The retailers in an effort to only 19 miles northeast of Buda- One returning with a avoid disappointments on thq part pest Hungarian government-offl-reportorial sort of set aside I of buyers point out -that stocks clais wo reportcd ml2? part of his recent letter to friends after December 25 may be exhaust- Imperilled Map ar capital and mov over here to tee "Don't Expect De- ed In certain styles varieties col- ing to the Reich partment" Among other things he ors and sizes and teat exchange jj1 troops Jokingly penned expect: ot Chrirtmoe pruento alter Christ- todayudd Totoukhto ttoor to know what your ribbons Day may be a hard Job had badty maulwi ttree irqsa uer A 7aiiiiMn I An advertisement appearing in man infantry divisions the Jill mrVhvThadn'bem thl morning- Herald urges early 71t and 271st which had beta iereo eslectton ot the trnstercdjccentl fronorlhent of-ohZ wheeled8 end coior nretorence the persons to receive Christmas gltts yea casually mention Iva addition khoppln to the mom- (Continued on Page TO) ing-hours is asked effort to hold the Russians All three outfits "already have suffersd losswii" tbev bulletin said lantn penitentiary rerott hare been placed -in-solltary-conftfcnment and quant actress-wife Pat Dane' and I their weary ways their friend Alien1 Smiley bringing I back to the Unit-to an end the screwiest hodge- ed States under Rome Dec '7 Premier podge of this city the Rotation Plan Ivanoe Bonomi assured of the sup-1 ji ever seen I that has been so port of the Communists and 'three I Imuch publicized other parUes said tonight he would I SERIOUSLY INJURED "It really saf these days to form a new cablneL I pfc Wallace Stump was serf- take out a girl" writes one Gl just On the twelfth day of the govern-j ously injured In Germany Novem-1 returned to the states after two will be tried promptly and severely Biddle told reporters at news conference that he and James Bennett Federal director of prisons believed that the principal intent of the men was tq'bring about "a general insurrection Cf toe pent- Rome Dec 7 (P) Canadian troops who captured tM Adriatic city of Ravenna two days agoad vanced six miles northwest up the Ravenna -Ferrara highway and seized the Important railway junction of Mezzano on the Lamone river it was announced today -considerable ment crisis the Communists agreed her 13 according to a tejegram re- years in England Africa and Italy to participate with the Liberals ceived by his parents Mr and Mrs to give a gal that pre-war Cbristian-Democrals and Labor- Earnest Stump formerly of tilsrline' is risking a lot They believe Democrats-in a new cabinet I city you these days" (Continued on Page 3) 11.