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IT JV mum mm mm Japs Report Ulnivasilnl Offensive auks Revei Toni3ht Tomorrow, Fair, Cold PHILIPPINES laoagjjjb statuti mius STATUTI MILES Four Allied Armies hi mg Belgian Bulge; Enemy Must Withdraw by Secondary Roads; French Reinforce Strasbourg By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS, Jan. 8 (AP) Tempestuous blows by four Allied armies compressed the Belgian bulge by three miles on the south and a mile on the north today through a blinding blizzard and the Germans began a retirement that may roll back all the way to St. Vith, four miles from the reich. The way out through the waist of the Bulge, now p3PpT LUZON 8TAANf3 yrr Lawn Bay AjS. narrowed to a width of ten ing secondary roads.

The main northern highway has been knocked out by the Allies along a 15-mile stretch. The equally vital southern, road was cut west of Bastogne by a three-mile Third army gain and was plastered by first MacArthur Ignores Enemy Announcement Tons of Explosives Blast Nip Airdromes On Luzon By RAY t'ROVIN Associated Tress Vmw Edit An American attempt to land a division of troops on Luzon. main Island of the Philippines, was reported Monday night by Tokyo radio In a vague broadcast which atd the Yanks "are still unable to secure even a foothold." The broadcast, lacking Allied confirmation in one breath of the Americans "attempting to and In the next boasted of "what awaits the anticipated landing operations." Actually it did not say the Americans had left the transports which earlier Tokyo broadcasts have described as being in Lin-1 gayen gulf, some 120 miles north of Manila, along with U. S. war- ships bombarding the coastline.

JAP CLAIMS The broadcast, picked up by the i federal communications commis-i sion, said the Americans were employing some 70 to 80 landing 1 barges, and that the defe tAraat- I ready have dealt a I blow" to forces engaged tempted Earlier the Japanese radio reported an American armada of some 450 transports steaming toward Luzon, where the enemy for two days has reported a bitter battle between a fleet of 70 U. S. warships and shoreline fortresses. There was no official confirmation of any of these reports. At Pearl Harbor it was disclosed that Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz had conferred in the Philippines with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, presumably to work on a timetable for the defept of Japan. For the third ciay in a tow Gen. MacArthur ignored the Jap- anese reports.

In his communique today (Tuesday) the general said Liburator and Mitchell bombers unloaded 125 tons of explosives ion Luzon- airdromes. Thy- hit 31aik field and Manila and Ba- tanfe'as airdromes, destroying 26 grounded planes and shooting down two out of six interceptors at Clalk' The Batansras airfields are lo- cated in the province ot the same, name immediately norm anu northwest of the American-invad-! ed islands of Mindoro and Mar-I induque. The Batangas area" of i Luzon, about 70 miles' south of i Manila, a possible Yank invasion point. I In the central Luzon area, southwest of Lingayen gulf, Am- erican bomber? destroyed or dam aged bridges and railway rolling stock. To the west of Leyte they blasted Ave airdromes on Negros and Cebu islands.

i i i I WHERE JAPS REPORT U. S. INVASION Linsaycn gulf, where the enemy says an American invasion fleet is attacking, is onr of the rr.cst iinpoiiant seaways on Luzon. Its mouth is 25 miles across and its length about 35 miles. Practicy'y the-entire suit an inner rim ot coral, but it does rot extend too far out to prevent the landing of an army, as the Japs proved in Dec, 1941.

Our headquaireis have ignored Jap announcements of the battle. Judge Walker To Preside At Wolfberg Trial Bribery Case Scheduled For Trial Tomorrow Before Centre Jurist Judge Ivan Walker of Centre county will try the case of Harry Wolfberg which will open to- morro'w morning at 9:30 o'clock. I Judge George G. Patterson an- nounced yesterday afternoon stating that he had decided to ask the supreme court to lend another judge to try the case, and i that Chief Justice Maxey had responded bv assigning Judge i Walker. 1 The supreme court in reply to I the petition of Wolfberg for change of venue informed the Blair court yesterday that before deciding the question raised by the Wolfberg petition, that "'the petition is referred to the i court below for its action there- on." i The cases of Wolfberg.

indict- ed on charges of bribery and embracery of jurors at the re-. cent mistrial of former Mayor Charles E. Rhodes: Bernard Wavne. accused of aiding and i abetting in the commission of embracery: and Rhodes, indict-! ed on charges of misbehavior in office, were previously scheduled to come to trial today. ASKS ANOTHER JUDGE Prior to the close of yester- i i day's session of court Judge Pat- terson announced: "The court has decided to ask the Supreme court to ask another judge to try the Wolfberg case.

i "I have talked with Chief Jus- tioe Maxey by telephone relative to the Supreme court's order to 'the petition of Wolfberg' and he nas assigned Judge Ivan Walker of Centre county to preside over the case of the commonwealth vs. 1 Wolfberg. "Judge Walker will be in Blair county Wednesday morning at 9:30. Therefore the" esses of Harry Wolfberg. Bernard Wayne and Charls E.

Rhodes will not be called to trial on Tuesday." The court then instructed the jur? to be present Wednesday V-mor-ing and.suid lhaifiourl woulj be recessed until that time and in- structed District Attorney J. CkI- vin Lang to notify the witnesses in these cases. WdlXD QUASH CHARGES Prior to the court's preceding announcement. District Attorney Lang petitioned the court to quash the indictment against Elmer Ells- 1 worth Funk, charged with in- voluntary manslaughter. "There is an inaictment by the i grand jury against Elmer Funk for involuntary manslaughter." the district attorney aid.

"but in my i opinion there is not sufficient evidence to support this charge. "Funk was driving a truck which struck a child, v. ho died as the result of the injuries, and c'natges were brought 'against him! by the Altoona police department. "He stopped within 70 feet of i the tragedy and talking with experts regarding the rate of 1 travel in proportion to the load carried. vehicle could not have stooped in less than 60-feet of the i tragedy.

Measurements showed that he came to a full stop with'n 70-fet of the "Therefore. I am petitioning the i court to nol pross this case." Attorney Samuel Jubelirer. coun- sel for Funk, and District Attorney Lang had consulted on the case end Attorney Jubelirer explained that Funk would be willing to pay the costs which amounted to some- thing over SlcO. in monthly pay- ments. He also explained that the petition was being presented 3t the present time so that the wit- r.esses in the case would not be callel in order to keep the costs a own The peiition was- accepted bv the court and Judge Patterson said he would dispose of the motion to nol pross the case Wed- 1 resdsy morning Funk had been exonerated of blame in the accident by a coro-, ner's jury in November man- slaughter charges were brought I against him later with Sgt.

Vaul Rouzer being the prosecutor in the name of the Altoona poiice bureau. The opening of the January criminal term of court yesterday was marked with eiht cases be-' in? disposed of in whirh none of the defendants elected a trial bv jury. A half dozen submission marked the morning session with two of the iefendint receiving' terms in the Western peni'enfiary. In the pfternoon two cases of raternity were established with cots being placed on the de-: fendants. i SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY Joseph Michael Curran of New York state was sentenced to undergo imprisonment by separate and solitary confinement in -the i i Western, penitentiary for term I of from one and one-half to three i when he eietered a plea o' do defence aiiii.si a ilia.

fe r.t Tr.e sentence s.lsc caiis for payment cf a fine cf $1 aii the costs cf prosecution. Attorney Charles M. Kurtz was Eppointed by th court to repre- sent Curran who va charged (Cantiiiaed Page ,7. fl. 3) WEATHER: Snow flurriej, Colder Vol.

89 No. 6 Tuesday, Three Count Men Added to Casualty List Previously listed as missing, ar. AHoonan and a Tyrone serviceman me reported killed in action, and a Ltkemont hoy niUsiing. all in- eomin? from the European theater. Pfo.

Clde O. Edleblute, 21. son of Mr. r.nd Mrs C. O.

Edelblute. 1106 Seventeenth street, is reported kil'et in action November 16 in France. Pfo. Charles -I. Vwrt.

ji sot; of Mr. and Mrs. Charge? J. Voet. Eat Tenth street.

Tyrone, is reported UillAi De-camber 13 in Germany. Pfc. Winfred Ketner. son o' M'-. Rnd Mrs.

George Ktr.er. U5 Baynton avenue. is listed as missin? since December 20. in Luxembourg. A teiejrrsm by Marie Edelblute.

First avenue, informed her that her husban. Pfc. Cly.ie O. Edelblute was reported killed No- ember 16 in Fiance. Pieviousiy' lis'ed -is missing No- ember 16 in a te'esram received Deceober 4.

the latent report arrived int ary 6. Pfo. Edelblute been oveiseas tinoe Oct 2J. IsM. alttlfrth hi? service in the army ie SnWL 10.

1SM3 and include! infpntry train-in? at Camp and Santa Kc v. as a gradu-rte of AHoon.i Hiirh school in 1942 Mid emoloyed whentfWuPtntaej Willi im F. Gable company department store here his biiie of six months is working now. 'They were nuu-ied on his last furlough July 16. 1944.

In his fras! lottei. Pfc. Eielblute mentioned on battlefields er hich hi fatber fougt in he last great v.ar an.i in to vns his ftthei saw inch'dins Marseilles Paris. Both he and his father fere members of James L. Nobie po-t.

V. F. W. In addition to his parents and wie. the young AHoonan is survive! by three sisters and a brother, it home.

Virginia. Barbara. Jeannette an! William- a half-hi other and sisfr. Clair Cree of Huntingdon an 1 Mrs. Luther of Philadelphia Pfc.

Charles J. Vogt. sin of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.

Vogt. 22o East Ten' street. Tvrone. who listed as missing dining the early part of December. i now reported killed as of the same date.

Pvt. Vogt. who ha.1 been our. ltd in action in Normandy. July 3.

1944. entered the service IVc. 16 1943 and went overseas in Jfebruary of 1944. He was hospitalized a secor.d time with frozen leet after the current winter cam-raign to break the walls o' Germany begiin. A hrother and two sisters are fclso in the service.

Robent. Nancy and Marv Vogt Pfc. Vogt was born in Tyrone where he was graduated from the local high school. At the time of his induction, he wps errpioyei by the Reliance Manufacturing company of hat town. Mr.

and M-s. George Xetner. 415 Eaynton avenue. L'kniont. word that their son.

Pfc. Wir.fred V. Ketner. was missing (Continued Pe 7, Col. IPlEriKS Well, well, rell.

good news this morning! g. I might sav. on the viewpoint that is. whether penguin, polar beia or unfortunately human. A new cold wave is on the way.

Yep. It's 'cold' fact. Get it? The middle west Jot a blizzard last, night, and we're due to get smacked in the te-h with it tonight. In the meantime, until the cold wave arrives tonight, we'll have snow flurries today. Boy.

where are we goin' to put any more snow uxries? The streets are all Cluttered up with "em now An' -I du meali cillttert-d up Wish I fc the-. nnt use 01 niy winrs. teuer put another sect of antifreeze in the radiator. The weatherman says, according to this here report, fair and QUITE cold Wednesday. Brother, when th- weather man says Quite cold this year he really means it.

"Brr-rr-r an no kiddinV Pacific Ocean CATANDUANES I Kurtz Finds Carey Has No Claim As Chief Declaring Mayor Brumbaugh and city council free to appoint hny member of the police force to the position of chief, City Solicitor J. Banks KurU yesterday handed his opinion to Councilman Jacob Weber in time or action by council- thia rooming at 9 o'clock. By reason of Mr. Kurtz's opinion, council will not be required today to reappoint Lt. Harry S.

Carey to the office of chief of police which he held for a number of years before the office was abolished in 1940. The opinion of Mr. Kurtz was asked recently by Councilman Weber who desired definite information on the status of Lt. Carey before he took any action" in council. Mayor Brumbaugh still has given no information as to the person he will suggest for the office of chief of police this morning in council.

The opinion of Mr. Kurtz, as submitted to Mr. Weber, follows: Must the mayor and council of the city of Altoona appoint Officer Carey to the newly created position of chief of police? "Some years ago Officer Carey, a regular member of the police force of the city of Altoona, wa3 appointed chief of police. Like all other members of the police force, it is assumed that he complied with the civil service requirements and passed the civil service examination. Since that time, he has never passed any further examination, either for chief of police or as a member of the force.

Subsequently, the office of chief of police was abolished by action of council and he was automatically reduced td his former position as a member of the police force, which position he still occupies. Recently, the city of Altoona has created the position of chief of police and the question which I am requested to answer is 'Must the mayor and council of the city of Altoona appoint Officer Carey to the newly created position of chief of "This question has been recently decided in the case of Petrillo, appellant, v. City of Farrell it al, by the supreme court of Pennsylvania, in 345 Pennsylvania state reports at Page 518. the above case Petrillo contended that he was demoted from the rank -of captain to that of patrolman on the police force of the city of Farrell, a city of the third class, such as is the city of Altoona, in violation of the terms of the civil service law applicable to that class of cities. Originally, the city of Farrell's police force had consisted of thirteen policemen of whom one was chief and two were captains and the remainder were patrolmen.

Petrillo had been a member of the force for thirteen years and had been captain for six years. I. E. Frankel had also been a captain, but only for four years. 'The city of Farrell then again fixed by ordinance the number of police officers at thirteen and provided that from that number tr.e council aca mayor snouid appoint a chief and captain to serve for a period of two years or until their successors were appointed and qualified.

On the same day by resolution of council all thiv-ntiiud ri 7. Col. January 9, 1945 Four Cents Teacher Tests Planned By School Board The Altoona school board last evening was largely teacher-conscious. The fact that the state bonus will be exhausted before the end -of the year unless new legislation assures it, was conveyed by a letter from Dr. Francis Hass, state superintendent of public instruction.

Only S2' per cent of the proposed teacher bonus is available now. As to the Altoona district, it was stated that it should receive "a larger slice of reimbursement." Another significant move by tha board was in the direction of changing the method of Inaking up the teacher eligibility Tests will be used and no fee for examination will be asked. The time would be considerably shortened, requiring only one day, hulf for tests and half for interview. Any person hoping to be elected in Altoona would have to taka the Altoona tests. College education, experience, pas record in the teaching field, would count more than correct answers in the sort of an examination that would be well executed by a person who might be a "purveyor of facts" but not necessarily make a good teacher.

One test would be enough, but each year the person would reed to r.iake application to stay on the list. No one over 50 could be elected from the list. TlTe tlle fcosrd, J. Foster Meek, was in charge of the meeting. The following testation was drawn in tribute Director William N.

Decker. The board of directors of the school distrivt of Altoona. in session Monday. January S. make record herewith on the death December 27, 19i4, of their fellow director.

William Dcker. "Elected a director in November. 1939. for a term of sis years, he remained in office until his death. As a director, he was faithful in attendance at meetings and took an active interest in all phases of the work and problems of school district.

Kis previous education, experience and iHiiger.t application as a teacher, principal and secretary' to the h.ol board made him extremely valuable in the interpretation of school law and finance. In considering curriculum and related activities, his first consideration was ahva; the stuuent. He wade the statement on om occasion. "The Child passes this way but onct. "In al! our relations we found him a careful and diligent- sen-ant of the interests entrusted to him.

by his city. He was genial and courteous, frank ad outspoken in his vittws, open minded and readv with his fellow di rectors to come to an amicable undemanding where the conditions of a situation proved the need for agreement in procedure "We hereby attest to the high quality of his services. We affirm cur own sense of loss because his presence and counsel will be missed in our meetings. "To his family' we express ou1-sincere sympathy in their be-reaement." The resignation of Grace Smelt-zer from the Altoona Senior High office force was accepted. Phyllis Peters was elected to serve on the office force.

The public schools during the Sixth War Loan drive sold ootids tor a tola! of S2S7.163.90. according to Dr. Kriner's report to the board. Permission was granted the Rothrock Machine company to use the turret lathe beginning January 4 Mrs Margaret Monahan was elected as a substitute teacher for the remainder of the presen' school year in the Jefferson building. Miss Mildred Ross ha? been transferred to the East End school to complete the in the second grade made vacant by Mrs.

Jean Aspinwall's leave of absence. Mr. Bartholomew. lepiesenting District 6 of the PIAA. received permission to have the Roosevelt boys gymnasium used on the afternoon of March 3 for the volleyball championship contests for district 6- His request was also granted to have it used for a gauie or games in the district 6 elimination tourna-aeni The diie a oases for the are net yet filed.

Miss Margaret Crissrr.an was granted a sabbatical leave of absence for one semester, effective 25 No one was elected to take Mr. Defher's place; the days of (Oaird Fife i. Cel. 4) miles, is mainly by meander 1 army artillery farther east. Near the waist, the U.

S. Third armored division's famed Hogan's task force seized a crossroads less than cijrht milts north of Field Marshal Karl von Rund-stent's central base at Houffalize. Five miles east of that tha Third armored also captured a village live and a half miles north of the enemy last good route ot retreat. A second German offensive was thrown into reverse In northeast France. The U.

S. Seventh army drove the German spearhead In the Vosges back two miles as It seized the Initiative, and blunted number of salients menacing the Frenrh city of Strasbourg on the Rhine. French troops were rushing- Into Strasbourg to reinforce the. garrison, and French (civilians who had fled were returning. American counter attacks wrested back part of the German bridgehead on the Rhine eight miles north of Strasbourg, the French stemmed the enemy push 16 miles south of the city, and to thi west in the Vosges doughboys recaptured Wingen, where the Nazi push had driven 15 miles into France.

(A Berlin broadcast declared the French front had been "cracked wide open" by a new bridgehead south of Strasbourg from which German forces overran six Rhine valley towns, including Kraft, only ten miles south of the city. The report was without Allied confirmation, i WIPE OCT BRIDGEHEAD British troops in eastern Holland, riding Canadian tanks, wiped out a German bridgehead on the west bank of the Maas river at Wanssum, 26 miles east of the Allied base at Eindhoven. More than 700 U. S. heavy bombers joined the battle in the Ardennes, plastering road and rail junctions inside the Belgian bulge and the same sort of targets far back into the Reich.

The First Airborne army was committed to the battle of Bel' gium and Luxembourg with the arrival of the British Sixth Airborne division. The S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions already were in action. The U. S.

First army plowing a mile or so through deep snow in the worst blizzard of the winter, overran five towns on the north, the British Second army gained more than a mile on the west, and the U. S. Third on the south in two-mile advances eight miles west of Bastogne severed Von Rundstedt's main southern lateral highway. LONDON, 8. (P) The German high command said tonight that Lt.

Gen. Alexander M. Patch's reinforced Seventh army counter-attacks had stalled the German threat to northern Alsace south of Bitche but claimed Nazi forces now had won a bridgehead south as well as north of Strasbourg. "A concentric attack on Strasbourg is developing," the Germans declared. On the- northern flank of the Belgian bulge, Berlin said, "a murderous strufgle of unimaginable fierceness" is raging with Gen.

Eisenhower using "no less than 34 divisions against the bulge." The Germans admitted the loss of Grand Halleux and several other places on the northern flank but claimed a heavy toll of Allied forces. On the Alsace front Gen. Patch I has succeeded in bringing about stationary righting on the Bitche flank bv moving un an American man Transocean agency said. Allies Fight Outbreak of Plague In CBI Theater KUNMING, China, Jan. 8.

Inoculation parties with hypodermic syringes, and rat-killing parties armed with poison gas and the powerful insecticide 'DDT" are working through the Burma-China border area in a battle to control a mild epidemic of Bubonic plague Breaking out iu territory inhabited by some 250,000 persons, the plague has been kept from spreading, and no cases have yet been reported among American personnel. There have been soma 30 about one-third fatai. General M-vArthur's command i corporal to get blood plasma and northward was considerably other medical supplies for botii strengthened as he disclosed the American and enemy wound-Australian troops have relieved ed. The medic was Sgt. Charles American torces in the Solo- Chevalier, 219 Stratford road, Says Casualties For Dec.

Will Total 100,000 (See Editorial On Page 4) CHICAGO, Jan. 8 tP American casualties on the European war front for December will total 100.0CO when the lists are completed, Lt. Col. K. D.

Pulcipher, Washington. D. C. of national selective service headquarters, said today. Addressing the National Auto Wreckers association, Col.

Pulcipher asserted that the casualty figures demonstrated the desperate manpower situation now-faced by the army and navy as well as on civilian fronts. He added: It will be surprising if the tasualty figures for December do not equal 100,000. what the future casualties will be is your guess as well as mine; they will not be small." "That is why, Col. Pulcipher continued, "we now face immediate for stPnneH-un palls for new me for the army and navy wnlch must be one-third higher per month than they were during the last six months of 1944." 'ailk atld German wit. Doctors Ol'k 1 Ogether WJTH AMERICAN TROOPS NEAR WINGEN, France, Jan.

jDoctors worked side by side with German doctors tending American and Nazi soldiers dur- ing three days in which the Ger-! mans were encircled in the little town of Wingen. The Germans "had captured an American first aid station. Dur-! ing the ordeal several hundred American infantrymen also were trapped in the town and technically were prisoners of the Germans. One of the American medical corpsmen made a dramatic trip back to our lines with a German oiiugepun, win, A joint check showed 30 enemy wounded and seven American wounded. "We were working on their men and they were working on ours too," the sergeant said.

Romanians Sentenced In Detroit DETROIT, Jan. 8 JP) Prison tentences and fines were imposed in federal court here today on three Romanians accused of failure to register as agents of former King Carol of Romania in a move- ment seeking to bring him into jthe United States and ultimately restore him to the throne. The three were the Rev. Glig- haeri Moraru of SS Peter and Fau! Romanian Orthodox church, Detroit, sentenced to five years and fined The Rev. Stephen Opreanu, dean of St.

George Ro- manian Orthodox Cathedral, De- troit. four years and $2,000 fine, nnd George Zamfir, publisher of "The Voice of Romania" two years and $500 fine. Meat Holiday' TI. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 JPy bution is scheduled to begin Wed- nesaay wnen sis ivosner ourcnr shops close their doors, a spokesman for th group, which supplies 250,000 customers.

said they "will rsnain closed un- adequate livestock prices are jxed." Clipper Crashes MIAMI. Jan. 9 OPt Pan American's Leopoldville clipper, which ieft here at 6 a. m. yesterday was reported to have crashed ia3t nisTit at' port of Soain.

Trinidad, by Jack Ciarke, Pan Amer- (fen miKllM MM. man. Clarke st-41 14 or 17 passengers wer believed to be aboard at the tlme of thr crash- 'hich h' gave as about 9:15 p. eastern war time. Five Blair Men Wounded In Action Five Blair county servicemen were wounded during the recent campaigns in Germany: Pfc.

Tuis Carol us. son of Mrs. Nora Carolus. H19 Twenty-fourth avenue. was wounded December 14 in Pvt Jacob C.

Walters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Walters. Claysburg.

was wounded October 2 in Ger-many. Pfc. Paul M. Germino, son of Mrs. Michael Germino, 2123 Lincoln 'avenue, Tyrone, was wounded December 10, in Germany.

Pfc. Harry LaPort. son of Mrs. Jesse LaPorte. West Fifteenth street, Tyrone, was wounded December 25 in Germany.

Pfc. Harry E. Biddle. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Biddle. R. D. 3. Tyrone, was wounded October id.

in Germany. Pfc. Carolus. 31. was wounded December 11 in Germany according to a telegram received by his mother.

Mrs. Nora Carolus. 1419 Twenty-fourth avenue. The information was contained in letter written Christmas day from an English hospital, and was followed by a war department telegram. It is understood that he was hit by a shell fragment from an 88 millimeter gun.

A graduate of the Altoona Catholic High school and a former employe of the Pennsylvania railroad, he was inducted into the service November 9, 1942. and went overseas last October. Pvt. Walters, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert R. Walters, Claysburg. who was wounded October 2 in Germany, is still in an army hospital in England. Pvt Walters has been in the service since October 1943, serving in the infantry. Pfc.

Germino. who was previously wounded last July, received a second wound December 10 in Germany. The information was contained in a war department telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael -Germino, 2123 Lincoln avenue.

Tyrone. He was awarded the Purple Heart. Pfc. Germino entered the service May 13. 1941.

when he was employed as a trackman for the Pennsylvania Railroad company middle division. A brother. Pfc. Nick Germino has been in the service since Jan-(CoatiHoed Page 7, Col. 3 Ked? Advance On Austrian HoruVr LONDON, Tuesday.

Jan. 9i.P. Red army units driving on Kom-arom in southern Czechoslovakia pushed within 50 miles of the Austrian border yesterday, while other forces of the Second and Third Ukraine armies farther south beat back undimished German counter-attacks and tightened their grip on the Nazi garrison trapped in Budapest, Moscow announced. The Soviet communique said the vKia r.ad reached iiarcieit.ia. a iitiie mere this seven c.iiej from Kcmarom, a communications center on the Danube about 40 miles northwest of Budapest, and that six other Slovakian towns had been captured during the day.

nions, New Britain and Kritisn Guinea. The Nippon agency Dornei said Monday that American planes from 10 converted aircraft car-I riets were relentlessly hammer-j ing the Lingayen gulf and Mani-j la areas. It added that Yank forces might attempt a landing at any minute and that "the mo-I ment is fast approaching vrhsn enemy from sneaking in planes under cover of darkness and re-(CoBtiniied en Page 7, Col. 2) Jittery Japs Duck U. S.

Blows At Luzon ABOARD VICE ADM. JOHN McCAIN'S FLAGSHIP OFF THE PHILIPPINES, Jan. 7. (Delayed) iJPi Carrier-based planea pound- ed Luzon island for the second straight day today as the jit- tery Japanese sent their ships fleeing to sea and hid most of their airforce. (This report the first one from any allied source of the second carrier blast at invasion- I menaced Luzon.

Adm. Chester W. The "meat holidny" threatened by 1 infantry division from southern Nimitz disclosed the previous Philadelphia butchers and slaugh- France and diverting two other day's assault in an official com-; terers in protest against govern-j divisions including a French arm-j ni unique Sunday.) mental price control and diatri- ored unit from Colmar, the Ger- American navy pianes round a ui ia65u, tai ii ing only 41 planes in the air throughout the first two days and nights of an around-the-clock at- tack- They shot down 19 in' the air with two more probables. Addi tionally they burned 74 on the ground, probably destroyed six more and damaged 86 making a total of 179 put out action. (Thei around-the-clock as- were first introduced by ice fleet iast month in support cf iiacArthurs invasion of Min doro.

fPl aml I ney cmyiuy nigiii-ugiiung a1 strategy as well as day-night 1 vigil in order to prevent the (Catiaued P4e 7. T.l. b) 119 ELEVENTH 1 i 'HEAR SIMMS DIAMONDS A N.D WEAR THE FINEST..