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NUMBER 58 DOTHAN ALABAMA MONDAY ATERNOON NOVEMBER 27 194 1 AP Leased Wire Planning 29 Blow At Japs AGAIN HITS TOKYO of and the Aircraft Carrier Hodges' first 1 Slo (Ko of Geilcnklr the thick de the Maas in Chinese Announce Hochih's Capture meting out punish rcsponslble for war Heavy ighting Continues In Aachen Sector ielson Predicts Double Production both bea Congress Erupts With Demands or Still Punishment i AH )N a al the by ar ot Ot ex a 4j it ba Muscovite Units Lash rom Hatvan ED1 Chi an 95 in both Senate and House measured call for peace severe enough to keep the from ever again committing the OPA To Determine If Pay Boosts Would Increase Steel Costs Armv Air orce generals map Twenty first Bomber Mad operations agaiusv ux ucoa eto the Marianas Left to right: Brig General Emmett (Rosy) Af Jamaica who led the Thanksgiving Day strike KJL Lt General Millard Harmon Twentieth Air orce deputy Larder and Brig General Hansell Jrof Atlanta Ga hd at the Twenty first Bomber Command Army Air orce RA Lancasters Hit Munich In Pre Dawn Attack Early Today Maximum Buying Of Bonds Urged By Committee Sales In Houston Below Expectations Programs Planned With the Sixth War Loan drive still in its early stages and a Bond sales in Houston County re ported far below expectations county Chairman Pat Poyner of the War inance Committee to day urged that every man wom en and child buy not the minimum but the maximum in bonds in or der that the quotas might be met is none of us here at home who can afford to say that we can't buy War he asserted very least that ail of us can do is to dig deep into our reserves and buy bonds so that our fighting men can be sup plied with the materials for total victory and those who have return ed home wounded and broken can find health and happiness again through proper Calls or Cooperation If the county is to meet its quota and Victory quota he said there must be a generous response from the public when workers call tor investment in War Bonds Pointing to the minimum quota of $2 189 WOO the chairman declar (Turn To No 2 On Page 2) ttinius Nominated ByRpr Position for the Congres was a 5000 word l' WASHINGTON AP) The fice of Price Administration nects to determine in about month whether pay increases awarded CIO steelworkers would necessitate higher steel prices OPA officials said today that a study will begin at once on this question The War Labor Board an nounced Saturday night a it awards principally on shift dif ferentials that are expected to average around 5 cents an hour for 400000 steelworkers The WLB made the awards on the basis of eliminating inequities OLCVi in Jlving Miss Your Paper? 1 If you miss your copy ol Tha Eagle telephone 1600 before pm weekdays and am on Sunday and a copy will be delivered to you CHUNGKING 'AP) Donald Nelson said today his goal was to double China's war production within the next six months The former chairman of the War Production Board who arrived here Nov 16 said he had pot struck a single snag so far ive steel men and an alcohol expert who came here with Nelson returned to Chungking today after an initial survey in which they found that Chinese steel plants are working only one shift six days a week They declared production could be increased substantially The alcohol expert Eugene Stall ings former WPB distilling con sultant at Louisiville Ky said he saw one plant where most of the distilling equipment was made from gasoline drums and milk cans The steel men said inflation transportation problems and lack of demand had badly hit China email steel industry without altering the Little ormula which limits pay rnmnensating for cost gains to 15 per cent above Jan 1 1941 levels Would Crack Celling The union's principal demand for a 17 cents hourly increase that (Turn to No 4 on Page 2) Cruiser Destroyer Included In Toll Claimed By Yanks PACIIC LEET HEAD QUARTERS PEARL HARBORAP) A Japanese heavy cruis er a destroyer 14 other ships and 72' planes were wiped out as American carrier aircraft hit the Manila area and its vicinity ri day Adm Chester Nimitz yester day announced the results of this fjfth raid of the month on Luzon Island Nimitz said that In addition to the ships and planes destroyed around Manila two luggers were sunk and four cargo ships and one oiler were damaged Shipping Losses Heavy The attack increased to more than 250 the number of enemy ships immobilized around Luzon Island alone in the 11 raids since Sept 20 carried out by carrier planes of Adm William Hal Third leet This does not in clude the 59 warships sunk or damaged in the recent Philippines sea battles The raid extended from Santa Cruz about 75 miles northwest of Manila to Tayabas Bay at tie 4 iv a tTi pfiH fit Luzon Island Ships sunk included a heavy cruiser of the Kumano class which nreviously had been repeated dam aged one destroyer nine cargo ships four transports and a small oiler Meanwhile Infantsymen of the 32nd Division continued their southward push on Leyte Island as a communique noted that Jap anese resistance is de in vital Ormoc corri dor Incessant Rains Though incessant rains quag mire roads and stubborn Japanese resistance prevented any consider able American advance In the Li mon sector an element of the 32nd Division was attempting to cross hills to the left of the Ormoc road Associated Press correspondent red Hampson reported Around Limon the American troops continued to dig in and 1 make preparations to resume their drive south against the ene my forces in the Ormoc corridor I (Tara To We On JTage I) Sixteen More Jap Vessels Sunk By At least three offices in Dotnan were burglarized sometime last night and reports indicated that the thefts were the work of skilled thieves when it was disclosed that all three places were entered with out smashing any locks or doors Various sums of money ranging from S87 to I30 were retried leoted from the offices officials of the three companies reported The thefts were not discovered until this morning when the of fices were opened by employes Screws on a grill window in the (Turn To No 13 Page 2) LONDON' (AP) Am eric heavy bombers and fighters must 1 306 of them got into frontline battle for Germany again today with raids on railway yards at Offenburg and Bingen and widespread strafing sweeps over the northwestern corner of the Reich Headquarters of Strategic Air orces in Europe said 5 0 0 ortresses andJJberators bombed the rail yards at Offenburg 10 miles southeast of Strasbourg and at Bingen 15 miles west of Mainz Both Rhine Valley rail centers (c peiavio eatapcu early yesterday Hing the American Third and bex I at tZirci Armies way collision enin ana me riaiui I caATtr 1 HP on me otviv Gen Clark Elevated To Group Commander LONDON 'AP) Elevation of Lt Gen Mark Clark from com mand of the ifth Army to Ccmmander in Chicf of the Allied 15th Army Group in Italy was an nounced last night as part of a general rhift of the Allied leader ship in the Mediterranean In other changes Gen Sir Har old Alexander who has been Al lied Commander in Italy be comes Supreme Commander id the Mediterranean succeeding Gen Sir Henry Maitland Wilson who in turn takes the place of the late Marshal Sir John Dill as 1 cnief of the British joint staff mission in Washington Who Is to replace Clark as ifth Army Commander was not Im 1 mediately disclosed it wa announced that Alex ander had been made a ield Marshal effective June 4 1944 the date of the capture of Rome ifteen Injured In Bus and Truck Mishap Near Napier BY DOUGLAS it CORNELL WASHINGTON (AP) Con gress erupted today with demands for relentless punishment of Ger mans guilty of what a cabinet com mittee calls the systematic mur der of millions of innocent Euro pean civilians There was no angry talk of re tiiliation in kind of eye fov nn eye retribution But arose terms Nazis crimes of atrocity and for death penalty for those tried and found guilty of them In this war Should Be Punished Chairman Bloom (D Y) of the House oreign Affairs Corn in'ttee and Senator Johnson Colo declared that Germany snouldn't be allowed to keerj a dngle gun And they said the peace machinery should include the means of merit to Nazis murders Responsible siomil clamor report released yesterday by the War ICetuge noarri nauieo President Roosevelt to try to wia rhe rescue of victims etemy persecution Us members are Secretary of State Hull Trea iry Secretary Morgcnthau and Secretary of War Stimson Is a fact beyond denial" they said In a statement accont mying the document the I rinrmniw have deliberately and systematically murdered millions ol innocent civilians Jews and Christians alike all over Europe I Terror Unprecedented campaign of ternrr and butality which is unprecedented in all history and which eve (Turn to No 13 Page 2) Superforts ly rom Bases In Saipan And India Washington ap The 29 Superfortresses went on the warpath again today hitting To kyo for the second time In four davs and striking also at the viu my's Installations in Thailand (Si am) 1 Ike a boxer crossing up his toe with a right and a left to vulner able spots the big bombers struck Die enemy capital from Saipan In one blow and then in another came across simultaneously from India bases to hit Thailand "Strategic Industrial 11 Tokyo and in Thailand were Ute goal irst the War Department In telling of a mission from Saipan in the Marianas Islands tinder the leadership of Brig Gen Haywood Hansell hitting Tokyo from the same spot Ute 29s operated ri day sdhl: liuluxtrial Targets Hansells 2ist bomber command returned to Tokyo again today Nov 27 for another daylight bombing attack upon strategic In dustrial targets "The mission was mounted from bases on Saipan In the Marianas' 1 Then about an hour later it told of this attack under Maj Gen ('intis Lemay from basis in in dm: substantial force of 29 air craft from Gen Lemary's 20th Humber Command today (Nov 27 Tokyo Time) conducted a daylight bombing mlssloitligalnst strategic targets Ih the BJfikok area of Jap tincsu occupied Thlaland Gen II Arnold In his capacity ns Comm nding General of the 20th Airforce announced at the Wai partment 'Separate Attacks operation from India bases 1 1 sei ir ite nttadk front ths Mrilunaa base strike against the Tokyo area width took place simultaneously" These jointly timed attacks dem oruitraled forcefully the growing lower of tho 29s And 'its a lot ot weight they can throw these woild's biggest bombers can carry as much as ten tons of ex plonivep each In the original announcement there was no estimate of tlx: num Ix of Superfortresses returning to Tokyo today Lust con tfrgent was described as a "large task force" Two of the bombers were lost In the riday ruid the first on the enemy capital since Jimmy Doo little's little squad of medium bombers hit there on April 18 1912 flying from a carrier The Japanese as Is their habit reported that visitation bv the 29s resulted only in "slight damage to non military facili The Tokyo radio reported the raid was at high and under weather con ditions that prevented "accurate bombing of Important targets" Japs On Air The Japanese first took to the radio today to say that nf'er one o'clock this afternoon enemy planes Invaded the Tokyo area The Japanese fighters arc now engaging in aerial combo' with the invading Tokyo said about 40 Superfoi tresses raided Tokyo and other ureas on Central Honshu Island fat an hour and a half Simultaneously Domcl new: agency reported that long rang Japanese planes counterattacked the 29 base on Saipan Island setting to several of the glam bombers on the ground The Imperial communique re porter that superforts attacking Ilia main island of Japan earn' out "blind bombing from above thick clouds over the Kanto kaldo and the southern part of th Kinki Clockwork Precision Associated Press Correspond Vent Haughland reported tor Sal pan that the great silvered plan stood in line along taxiways ano roared down the mile and a hall long paved runways at one minute intervals with even greater clock work precisio than on last ri day's initial raid He reported that comparatively few fliers In today's raid took part in riday's strike Tbit mission was led by Cot Walter Sweeney Jr 35 Wheel ing Va son of Maj Gen Sweeney San rancisco Cal Sweeney rode in a 2 com manded by Maj Robert Sewc Jr San Antonio Tex Brig Gen Emmett Q'Donncll J'ifiia ra who led 1 iiday attack remained at thi Saipan base today A 29 BASE SOMEWHERE L' INDIA AP) Superbombcr roared across the Bay of Benes 'early this morning to smash Ban sue Bangkok Thailand which i the heart of the enemy rad sys tarn radiating to Singapore Bur ma and Indo China The substantial force took an vantage of perfect weather to lay heavy loads of demolition bomb squarely on rail repair shops at the north end of the yards ware houses at the south end of the yards and Intricate trackage be tween Officially the results of the (Turn To No 14 On Page i) CHUNGKING 'AP The nese High Command tonight rtl nil (if IlOChlh miles west of LJuchow in Kwangsi Province Southern China in the Japanese sweep toward Kcichow Province Hochih is but 20 miles from the Kweichow border and 120 lies southeast of Kweiyang Burma Road town in Kweichow whence the invaders would be in position to strike at Chungking Loss of Hochih was announced shortly after it was disclosed that the last forward American air base in South China a fighter Held at Nanning had been abandoned and destroyed by the 14th Air orce There was general acceptance 01 the Japanese claim to the capture of Nanning although the 1 Command still made no mention of the enemy drive southward toward Indo China The communique said the Japa nese by passed Hawalyuanchen a railroad town 43 miles west of Lu chow to reach Hochih and at tacked Chinese positions five miles west of Hochih Nanning was the seventh Ameri can air base lost in the twin Japa nese northward and southward thrusts which for all practical purposes had split China in two Burglars Make Hauls rom Three Offices continue south as resistance tSfirnv Ormoc corridor irst tass of Hurtgen diVe toward (S Bin and British See ly of Aachen Third spearhead insida dj Seventh spreads along H12and rench irst Strasbourg RONT: Double Rus lkl'(LVeZ0s against Buda RONT: British ut closes in on aenza a yermans dig in for flense ifth pi? ott counterattack sa 1 Amiericans 1 orward airbase in in face of advancing Thirty six bombers and six Ameri can fighters were lost in the Sun day fight irst reports said 50 uit nnn hnmhpr and am yesterday while the bus was seven fighters later turned up safe returning a group to Dothan from at frjentQy bares Napier ield where they had at ghe Air Ministry said the 15 tended a special program he said minute attack on Munich this The inspector said the investiga 1 mornjng resulted in fire over a tion had not been completed but I ide aea One the British it was iSbrned that one of the I vomhers was lost 1 non Ando Amer litfle I after colliding with the bus and a I fighters and bombers roved JltLXC I CJ ClrtP I VP 1 U1C 4 1 cf the bus near the drivers seat fighters working exclusively on Condition Not Serious Names of those injured in the rontline targets yesterday LJ 1 wvu QI UXC AldVdl 1 hf Bethesda Md for 1 officials of the Airport Bus Com suffering from a throat ail 1 pany were not available for com jHis illness was not de 1 ment Pw ts serious but as requir British orces Pmight hold off appointing a Outflank aenza ln the that) KreCUPCrate ROME (AP) British hhav I outflanking the Po valley to aenza have reached the Ml UCpdi UUtUlb X501 t0 that Bologna Rimini rwamze the world for neace I ij 4 uro a point in the war when rong noiu a dc wnu 1 asainsi a new 13 1 I VtlAClI 1 British units moving TrfO reached Albereto between Routine and Lamone Rivers On the VL lorces repulsed several counterattacks ygATHER ALABAMA 'AND LORIDA: air rL ionighi and Tuesday this afteniocn Yank Third Hammers Gains Toward Saar Americans Say The Dothan Eagle 1 ftor I Heard Them Say 'Lei Us Go To Dothan Genesis 37:17 BY WILLIAM RYE TONDON In a storm hard and bloody fighting irst Army Americans stormed today into the center of Langerwehe 24 1 2 miles from Cologne and last major German road center west of the flooded Roer River At Dusk the infantry was slugging it out with ttic Nazis there house to house To the south Lt Gen George Patton's Third Army infantry drove through the iench Lorraine road center of St Avoid Their advance two miles east of St St Avoid placed them within 17 miles of sprawling Saiibrucken one of Germany's great coal steel and rail centers '47ie Germans had fought stub bornly for the important communi cations town 18 miles wcst of Sar reguemincs but withdrew Sunday niglit allowing the foot sloggers to enter unonposmi Third widens ront The Third Army widened front Inside the German Saar tin mllM The first army burst finally Into the forest battlefield town of llurt geii also and captured rcnz 24 miles from Cologne langirwelie is 15 miles east of the German frontier renz Is 14 miles Inside Ger many and north of the highway i leading through threatened Duren to the great Rhineland city Troops stood within four miles of Duren 'ii Thin Armv wii tenets its front In the Saar basin to 19 miles and poured tanks guns and in fantry through breaches aimed at Saarlnucken already within siege gun range Wade In River Ninth Army infantry battling in the outer defenses of the ravaged Roer river forties of Jullch fought toward the churning stream some times wading in water above their knees The boggy ground limited the use of tanks Heavy infantry battles named around Barmen 4000 yards north of Juiich Koslar 3000 yards west and Kirchberg 4000 yards due south lood waters of the Doer flowed through the Barmen streets hampering the Americans but forcing the Germans from cellars in the village Hundreds of shells blasted (lie town German artillery replied in kind bombarding the Ninth Army from high ground east of the Roer Spur Is Rlalibrd The 8 Seventh Army stabbed a spur 2 miles north from Stras bourg at the Rhine toward Karls ruhe in Germany lying weather deteriorated again The British Second Army In the exit erne north moved up 500 yards ironing out a bow in their line near Tripsrath northeast chen They probed fr nses of Bcnlo on Holland It Gen Courtney Army also thrust into the outskirts of Langerwehe five miles from Duren whose 19000 population make it the largest place between Aachen and Cologne Langerwehe is 15 miles east of the German frontier and 25 miles from Co logne German resistance how ever was strong Lt Gen George Patton's 5111 rd Army fought through Magl ot line fortresses on a sector southeast of the new penetration into Germany moving within tour miles of the Saar border Seventh Army trwis broadened the Strasbourg corridor to almost 15 miles and spilled through the Sanies pass to open a new route to the rench city at the Rhine They were within eight miles of rtdl another clean break through the Vosges mountains In the Ste Mirio uass east of St Die Heavy fighting continued In the A a sector where assault team of the irst and Ninth Armies closed in yard by yard upon the Germans' Roer River line from Juiich to Duren nine miles to the southeast Improving weather permitted air support irst Arrays Goal One goal of the irst Army Is to break clear of the Hurtgen orest and drive into more maneuverable country where their tanks will be able to give the infantry close support The Americans have al most reached the edge of the for est but are not yet clear of kit tn their drive toward the In dustrial Saar basin Third Army trrxips captured 10 forts in the Maginot Line and outflanked an other A fresh breach in the line was scored today At Uic northern end of the 400 tnile western front the British Second Army probed Into the ible western defenses ol the Dutch border city of Venlo a gate way 'to Germany's Ruhr The Nazis' once dangerou salient west of the Maa River had been cut to three or four isolated pocket of troop Gain 500 YardS Other British troop on nnrthem flank of the battle are beyond Aachen gained a 500 yard stretch of high ground overlooking the Wurm valley north of GaUen 1 (Turn to No IS I 2) Russians Nearing Losice Ajnd Presov BY DANIEL DELUCE i MOSCOW (AP) Russian arm ored units lashed out from cap tured Hatvan toward the Danube north of Budapest today while directly downstream from the Hungarian capital another Red formation was reported to have reized a foothold on narrow Csepel Island Hatvan 25 miles northeast of Budapest fell yesterday after a 10 day struggle With its capture Marshal Rodion Malinovsky was able to maneuver his second Ukranian Army for doublesided at tacks to outflank Budapest Berlin Reports (Berlin said Rpd Army units fought their way into the north ern tip of Csepl Island in the Danube river five miles south of the municipal boundary but had been repulsed in an at tempt to cross into Western Hun gary take Budapest from the Meanwhile troops of Gen Ivan Petrov's fourth Ukraipian army shattered a main 60 mile defense line across Eastern Slovakia by capturing the key rail and road hub of Michalovce and Humenne in a 12 mile advance northwest cf Ungvar This thrust brought the Russian within 28 miles ot tne two vakian strongholds of Kossa rice! and The battle for Hatvan cost the Russians and Germans vlly )n tanks and men Cm Grave Concern Move to drive across the DaiV with the island that splits the river for 30 miles south of the capital as i supporting span admittedly were causing the Germans grave concern The Soviet communique ma not confirm German announcements that Soviet troops had broken into towns of Eger and Miskolc 60 and 85 miles northeast of Budapest passes Pravda reported the Russians had sealed of along the Baltic one fifth of all German divisions on the Eastern ront nienecretary nii Nod OverWallace jgnN'GTON (AP) Pres i KMsevelt nominated Un Ktdsry Edward Stetti Jr to be Secretary of Lui half hour' after ac A scor more Persons escaPed are i I springs tniurv cue resignaion oi aecre i I mormnff in a three jljwcnuu ucvMuac iu 7 1 nnsMn voilfto urr fh nf lift tttbe President sent the Wnctrn ront tf8tetUnlu to the Senate on the Montgomery Ihghway M1Ilaneg escort sneeessor when an Airport Bus Company More than 250 Mustang escort bl President earlier lunched vehicle crashed with two Army cd the ktettiniu and also confer trucks the Alabama State Highway Mu st a nf an 1 sift Chairman Conally (D I Patrol said today ranged over the Ruhr with ma the Senate oreign Rela I Most of the injured according to I chineguns blazing Committee and Senator Col Charles Daly command 1 The American attacks followed a He (D Ga) ranking commit ing officer at Napier ield were pre dawn assault by RA Lancast iwmber enlisted men from Camp Rucker ers on Munich and a big air bai Kosse veil had disclosed and Napier ield and their wives tie yesterday in which approxtma Hull's resignation would be The Napier ield public rela tely 450 German fKhter rose toe effective upon the appoint tions office said the majority of I fight off 1800 Arne a successor the injured were treated for minor and fighters assaulting the Nazi cuts and bruises and "one or two" natura? has show MNGTON (AP) Backers others received painful injuries in a campaign which ha she ten Byrnes Henry A Some 15 persons were injured ered 1 nearly 7 000 tons of bombsjin won iody U' Mooay State Highway Patrol at Dothan bombers and six Ameri i uiLicii uuu i Qai(j office not learn oi uie for reasons of bad health collision untii yesterday afternoon KSosed last night by a high Th ash occurred about 12:30 ffnTTiribnf nffimnl I ft sews was made momentous high place Hull has won in I therm of Americans and of I rorld official reporting the resig would not be quoted by sam me vj year oia sec 5nn dich hrosigned only because Ahe and a Whe cod reto) to active cond truck crashed into the side during 4he week end 2 Ron' cf the bus near the drivers seat I fighters working exclusively on Condition Not Serious Names of those Injured in the rontline targets yesterday pitas been at the Naval Hos mishap were not revealed and other Targets Hit Other targets nammereu jeoie I doy were a four lane rail via duct at and railyards at Hamm 15 miles farther northeast 1 The viaduct a link between the I rnt rat Germany was I 1XU11A attacked Nov 2 but reconnais I sance had shown traffic still mov ing over it I Over tne weekend nearly 4390 I ctinrslv troops Allied planes oiabixu xkj town of lines destroying or severely dam amone aeing at least 56 locomotives 248 to have the department southwest of oil cars and 40 motor vehicles the dst nf hi reiver mite pressing I 1 DIau Dlannin1 war wneii i new mam uermau I 8V itiear beCOming laying position Allied Headquar blobai looperanorr Northeast of the town still other fAp) plans for tan I British units moving rtbai moneration to put order in ika Vl I from Eda occupied I Scaldino and global crisis to nc World reached Albereto between the aeae issue on the table 1 I Routine and Lamone Rivers day witn me On the Eifth Army fron south fo5e lies in conflicting i 7 OUQ I of Bologna Amencan and British British proposais for rorces repulsed several German America iflhfreedom of I counterattacks the skies a United States con telnlC r0NT: Superforts ception growing out of discussions gjWo and Thailand in un AI A A nJ Csnla falK here which means the PnvfeKe I rs'tu double strike other UA AHO 31113 VlOUi dne nation to carry air tr report 30 Japanese I 1 between two other countne TTe Mrihu ln scattcred 'areas U'kffLIn lfanfl I problem concerns complex eco I If I ft HullU IH nomics which exienas other phases of the overall propo in rE'i fort to keep prices of toys naflonal civil aviation conference reach of families w)tb moderate nation vjy the feeling that incomes Col the extent of success will be de District Director Dr A Co grained before the day is ended lins said OPA early for I by tomorrow night at the lat taolished maximum price ror cr vy many new Christmas toys and tne est problem is toy price staff in Washington Las 8 intermediate traffic recently been tripled to take I whern a passenger be care of new items appear ng Rome Bnd Athens riding on the market Although a schedule between London rad for maximum prices have be 1 should be carried merely ai riving in the Washington ag calual business in space avail mTre than twice the rate oOat the aUotment for Lon yearthe increased staff has been don Calro traffic as the rBritira to clear all tiled properly demand or whether it should be Dr Calins said Slered in establishing the tor staffs of OPA have been instru taui (Turn to No 3 on age the i 11 I L'l I I JI tal A 'H 9B tl 7 I jff II If II I 1 1 tl I iB Il I 9 5 1 1 a I i mi i 1 i Br 5 i 1 4: 1 Il 1 a 'hiS2 (LES 1 mm i 'Y I HU I ng 'nJ 1 8 i PHnl tl 1 'M 3 i i 13 i ihv'ii'ji MrlM Mtei 1 hlr'Al A rd qt MJ Htefa rf: ilS it twr teh ils.