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THE OWENSBORO RIDAY DECEMBER 1 1944 REAGHIOODED MIL YARDS IS ROERRIVERRLDNC GERMANY ME HIT MILE STRETCH i Continued linm i'liye One BUT ANOTHER JM CONVOY DEE LEYTE (Continued from Page One) THE BEST VALUE IN TOWN SHOES NEW ARM SURPLUS GOVERNMENT $50 against SOLES CHOICE LEATHER OR RUBBER RECONDITIONED ARMY SHOES $395 (NO STAMP NEEDED) American prisoners mined side of NEW SOLES AND HEELS ALL SIZES By 1941 Liberia was producing four times tlic amount of rubber it produced in 1930 WILL OUTWEAR THREE PAIRS ORDINARY SHOES normally produce about 90 out) tons of fuel a a force of RA Mosquitos and another of Lancas ters escorted by Spitfires uombed three gasoline plants in the Ruhr Ciitical fuel for Nazi armor op posing the irst and Ninth Armies and lite British Second was turned into a flaming mass at a big distillation works in tire Melde rich district of Duisburg Wednesday more than 2000 Amer ican warplanes pounded the rail hub of Hamm and the natural oil plant at Misburg British Mosquitos struck Hannover with two ton blockbusters in a night attack and later another group bombed Duisburg in the first day light Mosquito operation in a year our engined Lancasters dumped tons of explosives on Essen and Neuss in tlie Ruhr and another force of the RA heavies later bombed Dortmund also in Hie Ruhr The Eighth orce alone sent its ortresses and Liberators on 13900 trips during November making it the biggest operational winter month of tlie war On nineteen ojieratlons more than tlie combined total for Novem ber 1943 and Britain based heavies scattered an estimated 41800 tons of bombs on Nazi tar gets HEAR DR GOULD At Nazarene church riday afternoon 2 and OOT ORM LAST PRE WAR i LEATHER SIZES 5 TO 11 V2 (RATION STAMP REQUIRED) a vard without lighting for it mid few surrendered before they had fired their last cartridge Even aft er tlie most eonicntratcd barrages by Allied guns and planes each blackened village still was defended by German troops who somehow survived or days after a town Is flattened and overrun the ruins continue to yield groups of snipers American Doughboys were light ing grimly to keep their grip on a few houses al the Western outskirt of Merode to which they had been driven by repeated and furious enemy counter attacks after once having driven well inside the vil lage A front dispatch said the Ger mans under direct orders from Hit ler had turned each town village and hamlet evi each farm house onlv into a strongpoint but in to a position which gives support ing fire to otliers nearby (Continuer tnnii 'age One maintained tluir pressure on all fronts Roaring in at masthead height American dive bomber pilots hit every ship in tlie enemy convoy with the exception of a small freighter which was sunk by a night patrol plane Part of the convoy was caught off Masbate island part off Cebu and one small freighter off Min doro The vessels were loaded with men" the communique said The enemy submarine destroyed in Ormoc bay was discovered by American destroyers which shelled Ormoc Monday night in the first daring penetration oi tne enemy waters on the west Leyte Aerial action continued enemy bases on other Islands in tlie Archipelago and against Japanese shipping to the soutli of the Phil ippines A small freighter was sunk off the northeast coast of Bor neo and a large vessel hit The destruction of two or more Japanese divisions before they could reach Leyte promised to speed the battle for that island once the trop ical rains let up and ground action could be resumed on a large scale or a fortnight tlie enemy has been making desperate efforts to bolster his position on Leyte Vir tually every attempt has been brok en up by fighter planes based on Leyte before the ships could clis gorge their cargoes of men and sup plies countcr altack On the extreme right men smashed eastward from captured Huitgen io within about a mile and a half of the Roer river cutting an important road between Kleinhau and Brandenberg Yanks Lose Ground The irst Army alone bagged more than 6000 prisoners during the day of ceaseless lighting on the muddy Cologne plain and the count of dead and wounded Nazis ran very liigb Yank troops fighting inside the village of Merode three and a half miles from the big road center of Duren lost ground to determined enemy counter attacks "Tills is first of above any objective of river or hill a battle to kill or imprison said Associated Press Correspondent Wil liam White in a front dispatch "The first Army is having to pay for all this and German resistance lias not weakened anywhere" (A German military spokesman announced that seventy Allied di perhaps 850000 now were slashing at the western de fenses of the Reich The German high command claimed Hint seven ty four Allied tanks had been knock ed out in the last two days) In almost every sector from Hol land to Switzerland the Germans were counter attacking frequently and hard This stiffening resistance slowed the previously spectacular ad vance of Lt Gen George Pat Third Army on the Saar front limiting its gains to an average of about a mile Patton's 95th Infantry Division alone hurled back ten German coun ter attacks in twenty four hours but pushed on a mile to within three miles of Saarlautem midway be tween Merzig and Saarbrucken Other Third Army troops were fighting forward near elsberg three miles southwest of Saarlautern at L'Hopital on tlie German frontier thirteen miles southwest of Saar brucken: and on high ground over looking Saarc Union where street fighting was reported Troops of Lt Gen Alexander Seventh Army driving toward the German border north of Strasbourg approached within a mile and a half of the important rench city of Hagenaii apd threat ened it with a flanking push on the west Hagenau is 14 i miles from the German frontier The German radio reported that Nazi troops were withdrawing from Hagenau but a dispatch from tlie AP's Thoburn Wlant on that front Thursday night declared the Nazis still were resisting bitterly the report is he added "because it now seems that the Germans are reconciled to wifh drawal under pressure to the Sieg friend Rhine line where they will try to last out the (A Swiss dispatch said rench troops had readied the Rhine Just north of Basel thwarting a possible attempt by the German garrison of Huningue on the rench side of the river to escape into Switzerland) Northwest of Hagenau a Yank col umn was nearing a town only nine miles from the German frontier A field dispatch Thursday night told of the sudden death whicli over took tlie German defenders of Beeck when tlie Nintli Army loosed its at tack on that village early Wednes day Most of the Nazis were out of their dug ln tanks and cellars and wandering about the streets when American artillery began raining shells into their midst prisoners said As the surviving Germans began withdrawing along the road to Wurm a mile to the north another Yank barrage bracketed them Only frantic remnants reached Wurm un der bombing and strafing by Thun derbolts Even German 60 ton Tiger tames were smasned by eight inch shells some taken in Lindern said American troops who captured Koslar a mile west of Julich pushed on to the banks of the flooded Roer river across from the northern out skirts of Julich The Nazis had open ed flood gates of Roer river dams Inundating its valley to widths of nearly a mile ighting cast of the forest town of Hurtgen was described as "every bit as relentless grim and bloody every bit as primitive as the last war battles of Argonne forest and Bellcau The Nazis were not conceding a planes from reaching tlie bomber formations however lak over the rail yards which were bombed by instruments was officially described as ranging from meager to moderate These blows topped a 36 hour aerial offensive which left the Reich erupting from an average of ten tons of bombs a minute 22000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped Nearly 22000 tons of explosives were spread over Germany in tlie day an a lialf scourging by 11000 planes which flew on seven major missions and some 4000 sorties in support of the six Allied Armies ad vancing on the Western iront Tlie wind up blows made Novem ber tlie greatest operational winter month of the war Almost 1300 ortresses and Lib erators of the Eighth Air orce herded by 1000 fighters Thursday hurled 4000 tons of bombs at the synthetic oil plants at Boh len Zeitz Merseburg and Lutzken dorl all in the Jxupzig area wu miles' southwest of Berlin While tlie American armada 'vas7DA visiting the four oil which Jv ARMY SALVAGE STORES 210 rederica 1014 East 4th 8SSaSSS8SSS II 1 III! 1 1 tri 1 1' U4 4'4 I' I If You Need I a LOAN Come in for a prompt pri vote interview Explain your need and we will offer pion to meet it You will be assured of the most courteous and considerate attention We sincerely wont to serve you You will find our repayment terms spread out over period of months to fit into your budget You will like the confiden tiol manner in which the loan transaction 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LUCKETT lorist 309 ST ANN PHONE 2740 GREEN REELECTED PRESIDENT DE BEL EOR 21ST TIME (Continued from Hngr One Railway Carmen Edward lore Hotel and Restaurant Workers Harvey Brown Machinists Birthright Barbers and Doherty Letter Carriers Tlie convention began two weeks ago with a strong appeal from the powerful executive council to the CIO and to John United Mine Workers to return to the AL Lewis founder of the CIO led it away from the federation in 1937 Later he walked out of the CIO too leaving Philip Murray In com mand of that group The unity theme was carried through by the AL delegates who voted tills week to make every ef fort possible to bring Lewis and Murray back to the fold with their respective organizations The convention closed witli an Invitation to free trade unions throughout tlie world to Join in a struggle against despotism "We want complete freedom to live as men should who are able to discriminate between tlie things whicli contribute to the comforts of living and life itself" the conven tion delegates said in a formal dec laration "We believe that the way to build a better world lies first in a united effort to revive and strengthen the free trade union movement of the world" Thereupon the convention adopted the rallying call to "free workers" to unite in free trade unions and to free trade unions to unite "to main tain lasting peace with The delegates likewise concurred in placing a request before the International ederation of Trade Union to hold a world wide con ference in this country the ear liest possible date" Underlying this international unity move was the AL's clash with the British Trade Union Coun cil over attendance at its world wide conference in London now sched uled for ebruary The AL only American representative on the ITU declined to go to tlie London parley after invitations also had been extended to Soviet trade unions and tlie CIO neither of which are members of ITU The AL thought the invitation should' have come from the ITU The first kindergarten was cstab lished in 1837 at Blankcnburg Ger ornto unoes authositv of the coca coia company ir It's fb OWENSBORO COCA COLA BOTTLING CO Incorporated OPEN RIDAY The Basement Store NIGHT TILL 830! 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