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BE THANKFUL YOU CAN GIVE TO THE UNITED CHEST CAMPAIGN en jpreserif Gain go 12 389 Tvetf advanced tional War and the Cheti aenty-four an leaders presents a giving i the paign. 191 reported i In those Eighty- to be re- pifts com- ided once giving is st year if SI 15.000 ear's goal aign was he higher because or a full immunit nds were for only as offici- with a 1 YMCA member unmittee or about submit- to cam- idvanced de with to bi- Frida I estcrda-. The Weather Fair and a little warmer cast portion; mostly cloudy west portion. The Cumberland News VOL. 37.

22 PAGES CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944 Direct Associated Press Sei vice HVk CENTS ERMANS FIRE ROCKET BOMBS AT II. S. ARMY it it it it PHONE STRIKE SPREADS TO WASHINGTON War Labor Board Warning Ignored By Union Heads Strike May Extend To Several States ALLIES RACING FOR RHINE mm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wJr GERMANY COLUMBUS, Nov. Gov. John W.

Bricker tonight declared "every patriotic citizen of Ohio is stunned at the defi- by the leaders of the Ohio federation of Telephone Workers of their government in the nidst of war." $25; mereiai i. Ank- J. nd Bv NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON. Nov. 22 Kional communicatious crisis de- tonight as Washington tcle- operators walked out in with Ohio's "hello girLs" Detroit workers prepared to iiow suit.

Despite a War Labor Board warning that interference with vital communications "at this critical P'-nod of the war can not be toler- sted," operators in the capital voted 10 strike and throw picket lines exchanges. The walkout was; under wav. curtailing; service. Mrs. Mary E.

Gannon, sident, said 2 700 operators in Washington and vicinity would be lnle, except tor an emergency force to handle only priority calls of top emergency. She said that ALONG HISTORIC CIO Celebrates Election of FDR And Cheers PAC NINTH ARMY TROOPS ADVANCING INTO GERMANY Plans To Continue Political Activity By HAROLD CHICAGO. Nov. 22 An exuberant CIO convention voted today. after a noisy celebration of Nov 7 election success to continue its Political Action committee indefinitely and rededicate it to win-) ning additional congressional seats 1946.

Wild ovation reminiscent of the political conventions last summer greeted Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIOs Political Action committee. and Philip Murray, CIO president, when they tried to talk CTO Leaders Speak Virtually a half-day was devoted to part in the recent cam- Saverne Taken By Allies in Alsace Drive Nazis Attempting To Protect Ruhr VI II HI VI Ml VH SINGLE FILE or. the double seek Ruhr UOt enemy Signal paign and its avowed role in the future speeches by Hillman, mngi.e file on I double a grt of Ameri Murray, and a dozen leaders of the Fuchen. Germany. These troops are members of The United States Ninth Army that went into unions in the Congress of Industrial the Aachen area after the whereabouts ol that force hac.

been hidden irom the Organizations. Radiophoto. Murray urged "now that over and we start out anew, forget the bitterness and hatreds thrust upon the people by the enemies of our movement and their castigation of the leaders of CIO artd The CIO leader cautioned against interpreting the conventions action on in PAC as a narrow We are associating ourselves with all right-thinking and progressive ROUTES of invasion into Germany. Allied forces 1,1 continuing addition to sympathizing with along the entire western front art carrying on the "big push the n' I I Ohio operators, her union had Rhine and beyond. Particularlv spectacular is the French First Belion Gap breakthrough to the River Rhine and the road to oV'ke the Ohio White BftVana- the north head toward Strasbourg and large count rv and better world away House for possible army interven- arrow possible lower Saar Basin route At Metz 'Ci organized out there, tion or a presidential appeal to the resistance is reported to have ceased to exist, while cupper large Our money and institutions shall workers.

Rejecting a WLB demand HI said Murray. "Its truly movement of the common man toward the attainment of his objectives Reviews Role in War Wartime Thanksgiving: Gl Joe and Jane Gel Most Turkey, But That's Okay with Homefolks AFL Threatens Labor Boycott In Two States The nation, prepared for traditional dinners with the exception in many cases the usual turkcv but was le rifle- I. was Dinari tank the unit com- loving nber- shell gave he hos- Eng- eived avice of- Pvt. xcel- com- entie arpe, rs in back to work, officials of Ohio Workers Union appealed for "act support" from forty-one affiliated unions throughout the country. The Ohio walkout threatened to 'end tomorrow to neighboring Michigan, Mrs.

Frances Smith, president of the Michigan Telephone Employes Federation, said 7 000 operators in war-vital Detroit, nuld leave their jobs at 6 a. 1 less "the government takes over Ohio strike situation' meanwhile. to Koblenz. Following the fall of the First and Ninth armies are beginning to bora deeper into Germany. Switch in Jap Leader Stresses Commanders Is National Scope Puzzle to China Of Phone Strike NEW ORLEANS.

Nov 22 The general counsel ot the Federation ol Labor todav hook Gen. Pattons forces appear bent on following the Moselle river be used to promote the welfare of Malessolemnly observed lacking Uurd wartime Thwnlfcsgtving today The gobblers had gone to war with thouglits of absent Turkeys gaiorc. with cranberry sauce a boycott bludgeon at Florida and family members in the armed forces and sweet potatoes, were a link Arkansas which adopted anti-closed be id their own cele- with loved ones for every GI Joe shop laws in the November 7 elec- bration? at the fighting fronts and and Jane in the European theater tion dreamed of home, ot operations. Joseph Padway. speaking at the When the shouting had died down by encouraging reports Thanksgiving day dinners were AFL national convention, said: meaaovn from the the homefrom ready for every mess in the United American and Nnth armies.

Heavv fi gl along the ni: re front the Nuit ivual, pat t-icularh on the apprex iches to Julich. but lori fains tv made bv Lt Gen ham Bi rnpsors for- It was the Freni li ond armored 11 vislon tue gap pti.snco in two -t reams and drove ir to the tow itself fiom north an southTins is attar hod to the United SeventhArmy As the Qernift pocket In othe doughbov: of Lt Gen eorge .8. tton Thiio my pa citv Uve dt smash and a formal vote was taken on continuing the committee, Murray turned to CIOs role in the war. reading a cable he sent to Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, commanding Allied forces in the European theater. in which he assured the military chief: CHUNGKING, Nov 22 i.T Re- BALTIMORE, Nov. rhe WLB addressed its warning mo vai of Field Marshal Shunroku, strike of telephone workers Ohio Our people will stay on the job until we have given you everything you need for final victory over the Nazis Washington telephone union Hata as commander-in-chief of the was termed tonight bv President nearing of the Ohio unions Japanese armies in China caused A. Bierne of the National "'r UfUP hatlon- surprise here todav as the Chinese at ion as "really a grievance of all Murray said he was responding him as a wily and telephone workers in the Bell ays- fcc Eisenhower's message to Amer- I lP un.tcc dangerous opponent. tern." and "national in scope." war workers.

-nf nf Ihl The JaPanese officers removal, Bierne. in a telephoned statement "Your call for more and still seventy I communications which was considered significant, from Las Angeles issued through more shells iiilKS Flying Fortress Goes 400 Miles Without a Crew Kingdom and on the continent, with generous helpings passed forward to men in the lines, Religious services were scheduled for every post. In London Ambassador John Winant read the Thanksgiving proclamation in Westminster Abbey For the folks back home, the weather bureau forecast fair weath- "It Arkansas and Florida attempt to enforce open-shop laws our answer will be that the pruiter.s will not print the bricklayers will not lay bricks and members of the other will down their tools rather than work with scabs the German Saar frontier at two new potnts west of in iightning ten-mile thrusts More than 100 miles to the south, French armored forcer plunging down the Rhine behind Nazis crumbling Vos yes mountain positions seized Mulhouse an important citv of nearly lOO.ooo popu- I rein Reach Colmar Padway announced that AFL law- ei for a major portion of the vers have filed suits with the nation. United States Supreme Court ques- (In Plymouth, scene of the tioning the constitutionality of what Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving a fes- he repeatedly referred to as anti- SIOUX CITY. Nov A five spirit prevailed although the union laws adopted number of plane which crashed near Isabella, names of 1620 men and women of adding that the high court seventy miles northeast ol the historic community are listed previously had upheld the union with military ----------significant from Los Angeles issued through more shells, artillery, trucks and Duluth, lias been tentatively identi- on the honor roll, a number coin- right not to work wu and nroduction centers hnluThnut caused 'Tokyo's de- the headquarters in Balti- other arms and supplies finds an fled as a B17 Flung Fortress which ciding strangely with the vear of non-union me countrv.

throughout sire for even quicker results than more, said that "the National Fed- acceptance in CIO's unequivocal re- flew on after its crew of ten aban- the Pilgrims' arrival. Long distance calls were accented he. has obtained in the China cam- of Telephone Workers can- newal of ius no-strike pledge and doned it near Marion, S. several Military police guarding German that closed ion tonight only on an emeriinc- paIgn' Chlnese here theorized. not order people to strike, neither in renewed dedication to still great- hours earlier, the public relations prisoners at Dunkirk.

were art kamas a'nC! war i us bisi- Local service au-om Hata Is Replaced can it order them not to do so." er effort and devotion in the job office at the Sioux City army an a Thanksgiving dinner pre- entirely safe" because affected 'Hata is to be replaced by Gen -fullv i War Operators leaving a union meet- Yasuji Okamura. formerly Japanese Ambers wi I See Plane rash 3 German Vfmon of pumpkin Bom will take jurisdiction and tell ISi Ilnterelv tSi tbfl Minnesou cr be thrown around telephone whUe Hata is to ht- rl SeV, in our generation, at time five hours after the I ree I Comm unica porten: F1! end tw piity -two to the gates juiK'tion 40 bourg.) As the Frei If in Fetiei i Mi a bi of like the and Am bai dispai we tomorrow Union leaders spector-general of military educa- real dtfficulties ta muh actioiis of the workers in hope of winning a decent'and' set the automatic pilot and drive cru-ai China the entire industry are problemati- during peace and Potomac Telephone Company appeared to be temporarily stalled. is exerted hm serving the Washington area said: the Japanese are A number of ojrerators are already out. how many we don't know yet. But enough supposed to be 011 duty are not there to affect things some and cause a partial slow-down oi services.

Maybe they've left to go to the regrouping and fresh advances. reorganizing for bailed positive identifica- ne as that which flew ould have "turned our country alone about 400 miles could not be cisions." from a course of collaboration and made until tomorrow at thp earliest The hieh command rennrtPri aoair, -statement said that un- friendship among nations to a 'he pro said, toniaht that was no factors oi Ohio stnke struggle for world domination, lead- The plane was from the Sioux in positions a lore the Kv.n*i Was the attltude of the com- mg inevitably to international con- base Crewmen reported they bailed ---------------chow railroad the main ft pany "in what they con- flict and a Third world war." out without injury, when they vvrrt Rv Ilf It a Ior sider -company policies' of long "Had these forces come to power, unable to "feather" the propeller of LONDON Thursday Nov 23 ctafirltno A tVio Avnli ipLaiv I. V. A rrti, 1 1 tu Russians Blast Budapest Road states attempted to enforce prohibiting closed shops law 1 Prisoners ol War Will Gel Presents a Japanese invasion of Kweichow. STOCKHOLM Nm 22 Red Cross announced today three ships would start shuttb traffic between Ooteborg and Ubeck 500 000 Christ- Ulied prisoners the few tv-m Bo swift 1 elivelopmen of th vrmv gene; along with prisoners One of blocks in tii power drive great indust moved with ditch Nazi resisi an an important com ter through whirl fighting had raged General Hodges fina! irresistible Nil more than (Hi biggest stumbling va ii of tiie Allied ard Cologne ancFtiie RhUM'land was re- crushing of lasts' in Eschwelier, tunications cen- for several days, troops opened a mash sight of in lhe nation fighting jn any other sector ini battle capital at this critical of the Kwangsi province, but.

on the Sal- war cannot be tolerated." ween front, the Chinese continued interested in forming a Third party, Word that a crewless plane was munications links to the because it "would only serve to through the midwest caused enemy front stretching northeast cut us off from large and unpor- state police in several states to send to Czechoslovakia. The trouble started in Dayton to make progress Tix 11 Rfoups. with which out alanns their radio net- development followed an- when workers walked out in pro- miles from the Bunni road town we have been so successfully allied. works QPninef 1 1 i-. vvifci Explains Position nt ot cuts wa.

rom the whole i i mire or four dav. aboard Uve Travancore Mangalore, bound fron phia. as packagrs expected with through the line down at tonight the had flickerec almost a Later the men! to what will happen to Ger- many towns and cities when thev the Siegfried A today and by st enemy opposition out Eschveiler was rum. another test against a company allowance of Chefang, twenty-eight road miV of $18 25 weekly in living cost from the Sino Burma border and nonuses to temporary operators the last important objective before fought in to augment the regular the town of Wanting on the border ton staff. it.sel 1 Wildcaf or No Farmer Send Youngsters to School union affiliates, has autonomy The statement added: Ohio federation has appealed to all telephone workers to consider the dispute in its true light.

The government agencies have seen fit to follow self-imposed regulations, which deny objective consideration of such serious matters. A few men, representing a board, would stifle justice. "The National Federation ot Telephone Workers has been in constant touch with the situation and its policy of 'hurt one of us and you hurt all of us' is most certainly applicable in this case." Non-partisan political action "with 1 Stations forward-looking members of both In Chicago, first believed to be partie.v' and in the mainstream of the city toward which the Fortress American polkical life, was the was flying, all fire stations were course he charted. alerted for possible emergency calls The convention will complete ac- and civil and military authorities tion on other tomorrow were notified to be on the lookout going through the Thanksgiving It was the third time in eighteen holiday but setting aside tomorrow months that a crewless bomber had night for a turkey banquet. At flown through the skv over Iowa the session on Friday, last day of In the two previous cases the plane.1 the convention, officers will be crashed several hours alter elected and Secretary of Interior crews had left them No fatalities Ickes is scheduled to talk resulted.

No Paper Friday The umberlanri News not be published tomorrow Friday, due to the Thanksgiving holiday, lhe next isMie of the paper will he published Saturday morning Nov 25 Bierne telephoned the statement ANCEBLRG. Nov. 2 2 t.Pi big cat set up housekeeping in his Superintendent Thomas district, he had "never been afeared wianri wrote a letter to Joseph of man npr todav, informing the 65- said that he had listened 'i nisi .1 Johnsons petition, "not because w'nv. wndcat oi i doubted the authenticity of the t0 Miss Fern Longenecker. business ua his three children must story, but because I wanted to see n)aiWpr of the tederation at the school not later than Nov the color of the eves of a Lewis Baltimore headquarters countian who would hesitate to fight a wildcat." The natives of the district sub- Four Troop-Laden Jap Freighters Sunk or Damaged Off Leyte Island During the additional week of vuce granted by the superintendent.

Miss Longenecker said the federation has about 150.000 members. even on a I nouncement in the regular eom- jmunique last night of the capture of Hevlz-Gyor. just south of the road and railway, as well as a half- dozen other communities forty and sixty miles northeast of Budapest. Nazi Attacks Fail The vital nature of the Soviet, blow ta indicated by the vigor of the enemy defense, Moscow rejvort- ing that twelve counterattacks were repulsed at Heviz-Gyor alone and that twenty-three German tanks, seven armored troop carriers and two self-propelled puns were captured bv the Russians at that spot Around forty miles from Budapest, the Russians announced gains and said thirteen German guns and an entire military supply tram were captured; while LONDON, Nov 22 T. More than Althmig: nt the other point of Soviet 600 bombers from the United rj.4, around F.gcr.

nine German tanks Fifteenth air forte in Italy struck were knocked out and men at rail lines in the Munich and Bn Poi the first time in some areas of Southern knowing the Soviets also mentioned East many today keeping the Allied an against Prussia and the area above Warsaw, attack going while thick weather were more are converted inti' for Ewfiiw filer Uurr-f fhieatened Welsweiler. two miles to the easy and nnhinzed lemv hne at that point, twenty-eight miles from Cologne The Germans still were fighting bfiterly. however, on a "shoulder southeast of Eschweiler, trying to keep then entire line from cmmbliny before the First army blows 600 Italy-Based Yank Bombers Blast Nazi Rail Line at Munich RAF bombe ssful Queens of thr John's story of the aid zueens distnct, a mountainous area mal miles west of here, would cash 11 on a $100 reward offered for the which the farmer said was big as a police dog Children awoke and cried at night hearing it, they added, and it every dog in the neighborhood d. The reward OT animo! ri ao Fowls, he said batr stand "plumb ulJls a i aaoed that until the peditions had been organized Johnson had pleaded that his chil- had 16 old- had bppIi tober because the was, versed in mess hails at this women 1 anima1' tetday by County Judge Taft Stone army cm they made hixW a meeUng with county officials row ook MERLIN SPENCER bitterly resisting forces HFADOUARTFRS 'pvm ft a the bloodv repulse of a grounded British-based bomber- a communique ThmSSv Sov AnS 1 tl "connoitering outfit in Rail at Villach 8 uthern I fighter planec tnmmenng at rained Last Prussia and combat by heavy Austria and the Ferrara rail bridge graphn recmiuib nine i.1 vl Jr tamed its pressuie agauist. the Jap- patroLs on both sides around thfyn Northern Italv also were at- verr t- battling around Polish town of Puitusk racked by the American Rhemu German Army 1 rapped their escort of 300 in nea: Han The same early-morning supple- and Mustangs i it, also was announce Th- usual procedure win be re- were Four luggers and fourteen barges made bv mud-caked, weather- Russian southwest of Jelgava, in Ifa Officers To Serve Enlisted Personnel meats from reaching Leyte island.

Limon, at the northern end of the destroyed or damaged four troop- corridor leading to Ormoc. the last i reftn FORT DES MOINES, Nov 32 (JP laden freighters oft Ormoc. head- Japanese port on the island. flowing to the battle rone mUs.ng Tue were made through heavv with5 sunk; beaten Americans in the period end- in Latvia, where a large German and results were not mnMi A will be first an designed Vo forestall close their vtee around encdrcled oT a oJS i two ammunition dumps. fiy fi Ja pa ne attempts to reinforce their Nipponese fon-s OlVtf tit opjxs-u ion and rn- ta aulii Tur by pi -wed tt nd at Har- lrnun rvdlv fir.

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