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fl Volume XX Number 117. United Press Leased Wire McCOOK, NEBRASKA. MONDAY NOVEMBER 20. 1944 NEA Features and. Pletaies Price Five Cents U.S.

Forces Invade Njew IslandArea Back From China Command to ft i Labor Hopes For! Higher Pay 1 I i Metz 'JL' .11 To Rhine -I it Another Jap Warning Post i On Philippine Bombing Route' is Knocked Oil -v rfl Seven Barn to Death in Chicago as Blaze. Rages in' Apartments (CHICAGO. (UP) Seven persons were buriied to death and two others, Including a fireman, were injured critically early today when drhich officials said was of incendiary- origin, swept, through apartment building en the south side of the city. The -bodies of the dead, including five women and two me.i, (Were taken from the diap an hour after the fire was discovered. 'i Firemen carried more than a score of tenants, many of them in 'their nightclothes, to safety on ladders up the side of tho burning building.

Sixth! Loan Begun Yanks Advance Street By Street Into. Metz; Newsman Describes Scene as Historic Fort Broken (Sy Collie Small) METZ, France, (UP). American tanks and Doughboys fought street by street through Metz last night after crossing the Moselle river in assault boats Sunday afternoon to the northern part of the ancient fortress Other troops battled in me southern suburbs of the city, now completely encircled and Its garrison (rapped. I entered Metz shortly after noon Sunday and made my way to an island in the Moselle from where I watched the battle rage inside the smoke and fire-ringed city. i i Exactly at noon 12 assault boats pushed off from the north shore of the Moselle under cover Vinson Endorses Report Of Special Committee Opposing Raises Now WASHINGTON, (UP) Economic Stabilization Director Fred M.

yii-son delivered' anoter setback' to day to organised labors hopes for' an Immediate revision of the Little Steel formula to allow general increases in wages. -Declaring that the nation must continue wage and price po 1 1 cies that will guarantee Wartime economic stability 'and lead to flO.OOQ, -000 peacetime jobs, Viiuon gave his official endorsement to the weekend report by the presidents special Coat of living committee- a report generally Interpreted as unfavorable to labor demands'' for modification of present wage policies. i He hinted that any general wage Increase would have to wai; until Germany Is beaten. 'V The cost of -living commllt headed by War Labor Boatd Chairman William H. Davis, said In 1U report to President Roo a eft that living costa had Increased IP to 30 per cent between Jan.

l.w and 15, 1944, but that 1 earn- ings of inost. workers had also 1m- proved notably In that time. La- bor has based its demands ft general wage Increases on ground that living costs have gone up some 44' per cent. Vinson said the DavU report w-m a careful, thorough, and ested survey of 8uet lt wa supported by whelming weight impartlel and expert and that it confirmed the general belief that a good job has been done in stab- General Joseph W. Vinegar Joe" Stilwell and Mrs.

Stilwell look through scrap-book she kept for hiri during his service as commander of Chlna-Burma-India theater on lawn of the Carmel, home where he is enjoying a well-earned rest. (NA Telephoto) AU.IED HEADOUAhTEhS, hilippineX, (UP) America laqd-i''Uig completing occupation the Mapia Islands off northwest. Guinea, have jumped 2 15 miles to the west and invaded j.lhe Asia -group to knock off ano -i tlier Japanese warning post on the ploeS'he fouil-day conquest of the" ijoerlnias aid new landings In. the werp disclosed as other. forces.

on Leyte In the cen-ij tral Phlllppliies tightened their circlcment of the remnants of a l) Japanese force of 8,000 in the Ll- Imon pocket. American troops on Leyte, already had killed or wounded 000 Japanese on Leyte in the-first i month of 'their- campaign there at a cost of I 5,691 casualties of their Gen! Douglas MacArthur rail ported 'ini fils daily communique. i) (A Japanese communique said i Japanese 'blanes sank three Am-' erlcan transports Saturday nd da-maged and set afire four others I Friday and Saturday in actions in i the Leyte gulf.) q. Only slight resistance win en-q countered by the small American landing parties which pushed ashore Sunday in the Asia 1-lands, 130 ipllea' of northwest New 1 Guinea jand 800 miles sou LI-, nast of Leyte, a supplement to MacAr-1 thur's communique said. 4 A British warship was revealed to have commanded the naval for-(j ces which covered the.

American i landings in the Mapia group last Wednesday. Though there' were many pillboxes and other? fixed defenses on Pegun, first island yaqed, none was manned and on- light opposition was en-I countered. i The landing force want a mile Inland on. Pegun without a shot, a spokesman said. Then 13 Japanese suddenly appeared and .1 committed suicldo with grensdea a few yards in advance the I Americans without even, attempting resistance l( bombing jroute to the Philippines it was announced New Bond Drive Begun Today; Rally Tuesday Solicitation Starting Now; 'Big Torchlight Parade Tomorrow Night to be Followed By Rdlly at Junior College Auditorium Extensive preparations have at the time of'the Of a smoke screen after a short artillery Mortars and heavy machine guns played along, the smoky river as the Doughboys paddled furiously across 'the 400yard stretch oL.

Water but there were surpris- watch the men filing toward the ingly few casualties and they clambfered ashore and fought their jyay into the northeastern section of the city. As the German defenders fell slowly back, the battle in the northern section became a snipers wradise. i Heavy machine gun nests set up in buildings on streets along the south bank of the river had been knocked out by but farther back, penetrating toward the center of the city, were- -being knocked out methodically one by one. Buring buildings along the waterfront sefit up. great clouds of smoker -But-historic- buildings toward 'the' heart of the 'city'! Nad not been damaged much since the artilelry barrage had been ammunition, shouted: You got all the .45 ammunition you Over by Jeep; a chaplain's young assistant paused from piling hymnals and prayer books to assault boats, It makes -you sort of wetnder, doesnt it? he said to no one' in particular.

LONDON, British Lancaster heavy bombers attacked targets In Germany's Ruhr today after American Flying Fortresses bombed a Ruhr oil jplant at Gelsenkirchen and rail yegds at 'nearby Munster. Spitfire -Mastang fighters, escorted the Lancasters In the afteraeenas-sault en the Ruhr, toward Americans moved to Bri.i also in the Maplas, next day "and, though resistance was suffer, occupation was completed rwlthln a couple of days. Natives told the landing party that -the i-Japanese had taken away three jl white women soon after they sei-ed the island. One of the women was an the wife of a copra trader, and the other two were British. The 'American landings in the Mapiaa and deprived the Japanese of warning stations from which they have been alerting their in the Halpir.heras, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies the approach oj.

Amerl-jj can bombers and transport planes from New Guinea. The supplement to Mac Arthur's j-communlque said occupation of the "entire Mapia group of Islands, had been completed. 1 On Leyte, tho Japanese moved up additional tanks and artillery for new attempts to break thrqugh the American, road block south of Limon to relieve their trapped (See Page Five, No: 3) Germans in Retreat on Wide Front: i One Desperate Stand Mddo At One Point. But at i Others Nasls Yielding, PAIRS, (UP) American roop virtually completed the conquest of Metz today, when German resistance collapsed suddenly, and French mobile -unite raced down the west bank of the Rhine after 28-mile lightning thrust through the Belfort Gap to the frontier of -Germany. en.

Jean De Latlre Da Tassig-nys sweep, to the Rhine, outflanking Belfort and leaving some elements behind to drive into Its outskirts, was the most, sensational single spuit of the allied winter offensive. Six allie'd armies waging n. Dwight D. Eisenhowers greatest offsnsive of tha war slugged for ward along a 400-mile front against opposition from a desperate Nasi stand on the Cologne plain to a headlong retreat in some sectors. Lt.

Gen Courtney H. Hodge First army advanced up to a I most two miles on a broad front east of Aachen, driving a spearhead through neighboring villages of Wenau, and Helslern, 26 miles from Cologne. Northwest of Aachen the British First army drove all the Germans except a sacrificial ntr guard, from the Dutch salient west of the Maas above Roermond, and the American broadcasting station In Europe said Lt, Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempseys forces had burst acr-iu the Maas near Venlo.

The Gcruans'thrJw a stiff coun tor-attack' against Second nr my forces alongside, tha An erlcan Nln(h and -arm! above Aachen, and some Nasi uh Its reached captured two miles northeast of chen, but a front dispatch said ths enemy was beaten back. From Metz, United Press Correspondent Collie Small repo ed that the selge of perhaps li strongest fortress in f.ur-ope was nearly over, with ali'Ger-mqi resistance crushed save for snipers and a crumbling core In a small barracks In northwestern Mets. The French First motorized division and mobile units of a motorised Colonial Infantry nji mint speared to the Rhine late yesterday, and late reports said they had captured a of towns along a three-mile stretch rif the river bank opposite the. Swiss town of Bassl southeast of. Mulnouse The (extent of the German rout on the southern wing of tho western front was demonstrated by the fact that the colorful troops of the Ninth Zohave regiment were storming Into Belfort itwlKw 1th little trouble after overrunning its utposte of Es'sert an(J Fort Du Mont Du Salbert.

French press agency rf ported thot-ti 7ki( arm already had capturedtmusands of German prisoners, most of them Vol-kssturm unite left behind, by! ho Nazf army forces scrambling, bfcck through the corridor between the Vosgtf and the Rhine. -Swiss dispatches said many German soldiers were streaming Into Switzerland and surrendering their arms to guards as the Belfort wing of the western front jell Between Metz and Belfort, American -troops 'Captured the oi 1 jr rail junction of. Benqstroff an closed In on the transport -center of Supreme headquarters 'reports (See Page Five, No. 2) illzing wartime prices and 1 ntmery ammunition, said that much has been accompllsh-' The stabilization Erector n- ed lB-wmr production a and dorsement of even greater miracle will ave the American Federation of tle lives and shorten the and the Congress of Industri a I Organizations opened national conventions where the present wage policies were scheduled for bittep attack. Affirming, the admihistratkm's determination iths litti-W, the anti-inflation front, 1 ns admitted he was "frankly disturbed to note after- a year jsf complete stability the cost of living has risen slightly but- perceptibly during the past six 'months.

This, he. said, must stop and the price administration and I will Use special vigilance to this end. We cannot- afford to relax p(ir efforts, he said. "So tang as the war absorbs half of our nat 1 nal production, we must hold prices at their present level In -order preserve the purchasing' power 1 of the workers pay envelope The statement was' taken mean that wages also (would have to be held at their is level-and that Vinson would not recent-- (See Page No. 10)- More than 'alx million volunteer workers are enrolled In the Sixth fFar.Loan which seeks five billions from individuals and nine btylions Horn non-bank: Investors by Dec.

rclnejrwnr attempfto'ijoost: over th' 100 billlon-dollar mark the total of 287.815,000,000 raised In five previous' leans. Director Ted R. Gamble, of treasurys War Finance division, said 'that newpapers, magafuea, radio stations, the advertising industry, war plants sta committees and local orgamzat-long'have rallied behind the drives slogan: My thinking, my money and my time will stay in this war to the finish. Mr. Roosevelt warned that many a costly battle is yet to be fought and- There is ah old saying about sticking to the plow until ypu have reached the end of the furrow.

Every rule of', and directed at the fringes to enable the Doughboys to wlji footholds. As 95 tb Division Infantrymen stormed the central part of the city, I could see the gun snouts of tanks, which slipped ipto the north eastern tip belching fire as they lumbered through the empty streets. Snipers took pot shots at the island all afternoon. Once a bullet snagged a twig off a tree while Chuck Hacker, Acme cameraman. another'eorregpondentl and I stood, i beside It.

After lour companies had strsamed across the river there were several terrific explosions on the other side as if the enemy fuel dump had. been hit. The companies were commanded by First Lt. Thomas N. Bowman of Harrisonburg, VaJ First Lt.

Roy L. Farmer of Florence, S. First Lt. Hugh T. Boulet of Crowley, and Capt.

Maurice Reynolds 9f Lincoln, Neb. Doughboys kept river all afteifioon. As I -started (to leave a chaplain was just finishing a talk to bare-headed, mud-caked boys waiting to attack while outside a sergeant, which the northern group of Gen. Dwight D. ElseAhower's armies were driving.

LINCOLN, John Gallagher, Holt county clerk, hasj resigned following discovery of a shortage totaling $1,988 in his accounts, State Auditor Ray C. Johnson reported today. Gallagher had been county clerk for 10 years. WASHINGTON, The War Food Administration today lifted rationing and distribution control 1 ai portent measures which they hope ti dispose of before Christ- Smith had served in both House and Senate. I Though defeat ed in last summers primaries, his tenure in the upper house of congress 86 years1 was the longest on record.

1 The Senate resumes work tomorrow when It' takes up the house-approved flood contra 1 bill carrying; a series or projects for postwar Next will come the 2497,724.231 rlv rs and harbors bill, i The House scheduled the federal crap Insurance bill for 1 tomorrow with expectations of completl action not' later than. Wednesday so it can then take; up the Senate-approved bill authorizing expenditures 'of 2450000,000 a' year for three 'postwar yeaiJi for roads '1 Facing both chambers is extension of the. second war-powers act. senate. Democratic! Leader Albe W.

Barklcy of Kentucky. and Sen. Robert A. R-. 0chairmen of; the Republican confer ence, expected an extension bill to pass the upper, house with Iftt 1 opposition, although foreseeing some efforts to press amendments.

President and Eisenhower Urge to Provide Funds to Win Battles WASHINGTON, (UP) The Sixth Waf Loan- drive got under way today with President Roosevelt and' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower urging the nation to the men On the fighting fronts by buying bonds and still more bonds until the 14 billion dollar goal la met and over-subscribed. Mri Roosevelt officially opened the drive In a' radio address from the White Houes last night, calling on every woman -end ch'ld sacrifice osme of ouf comfort to the needs of the men in servlce- I and yes, even some of our needs to their comforts. -Eisenhower, reminding the nation that the capture cf Aachen was delayed, by a shortage of ar- the- common Bens 3 patriotic thought makes that maxim applicable--to our conduct in this In the name of our wounded and sick.

In the name of our dead, and the name cf future generations of Americans, I ask you to plow out this furrow to a successful and victorious Eisenhower, -counting the cost of the struggle in ammunition alone said artillery and mortar shells are fired at the enemy at the rate of 5,000 pounds every minute. Expenditures have ac ahead of our receipts from home, but-I know that you do not us to give the enemy one second rest, he said. do not Want the leaders of American soldiers to substitute additional cost lives for the ammunition. that could so save those lives. Kenneth Hanke Loses His Life In Pacific War- KenneUv Eugene lianke, fireman first class on a destroyer, has been killed in action in the Pacific, theater, of war, 'according to a telegram received Sunday b7 his parents In McCook, Mr.

and. Mrs. William A. Hanke. -Press releases 'SeVeral days ago revealed that the' destroyer, on which 'he served was one of several.

such vessels ((ttempting to protect the carrier Princeton when it was sunk by Japanese lit the Philippines. The Hankes- believe It may have been that action which resulted in their sons Hanke was home on leave only once, about a year, ego, after completing his basic training at Ida. He enlisted In April, '194S, about a week before his Mth birthday. A' brother, 'William A. Hanke, motor mechanics mate second' dlass.

Is on duty in' the Sams theater of war as a member of a crew on a landing ship. Invade the. Want Jld Fags Watch been made for a whirlwind two-day 'bond sellig campaign in Red Willow county today and tomorrow, with a big torchlight parade and bond rally to take place tomorrow night. Solicitors in all parts of the residential section, of McCook started out to cover their districts today and tomorrow, if possible. Donald E.

Kelley is county chairman for the Sixth War Loan drive and has. named chairmen in each of thev other towns in the country, with Harry Krogh serving as chairman of the drive in McCook proper. Under Krogh's city has been divided Into three general districts, and the McCook Klwanle club, the McCook Rotary club and the. McCook Womans, club each being given responsibility for solicitation of a district J. W.

Hasty, who also is county chairman for -the womens division. Is in charge of the Woman's club assignment. R. Hervey Porter Is directing the Ki-wanis effort and Leo Blschof is in charge of the Rotary solicitation. The county has a quota of a slightly smaller figure than for the Fifth War Loan campaign but the sale of bonds this time is more essential to the war effort than ever.

At 7 olock tomorrow evening will be held the Bond parade, with the line Of march starting at the Burlington station. The parade, with the McQook. Army Air Field and McCook High School bands, American Legibn, Boy Scouts, Sea scouts, McCook Womans dub, the Carpenters union, and other organisations, will move up Main street and continue on to the McCook Junior Cbllege aUdiroium for a program to follow immediately. Two specially arranged search lights be directed on the sky and desposited four quarts of milk on the doorstep. Life was beginning to stop inside the house.

C. B. Dilbeck, Cheyenne business man, appeared in a red suit and flowing white beard with his arms loaded down with bundles topped by a -toy. kangaroo. Inside the house, 1 Nubbins crib had been moved into the living room.

He had been settled on the floor and waited expectantly with his parents and grandparents. His mother watched him quietly. The doctor had said the-boy must not be unduly excited. Dilbeck opened, the 'door, and strode into the room. Nubbins stood motionless, hla eyes widening in awe.

Santa, he said. He stepped forward in western, neighborly fashion, and pffered the stranger his hand. Dilbeck didnt for a moment. He swallowed. The room was Nubbins father bit his lip aiid turned his head.

The frisky! puppy poked his head from beneath a brightly decorated Christmas tree and brought the room to life. Theres my- puppy, Nubbins cried, mnd went to the tree which ws loaded 1 with more than 00 presents sent to the little fellow from all over, the natioif by kid-loving Americans who also ailed his parents more man 2200 to give the boy a real Christmas. Oil to China By Pipeline U. S. Engineering Triumph Relieves Part of Task.

Of Fueling War Craft MYITKYINA, Burma, (UP)' One of the wars greatest engineering triumphs' was revealed today irlqn official announcement that American Army Engineers nave -completed the major part of an i' mile plplellne to feed oil andfgas- oline into China for therco ng-f (UP), Congress grand-scale bombing of. Japan. suspended action on its heavy cal-Thousands of gallons already are endar 'of legislation today to pay fiWRtf To Ellison D. 8. C.r the fiery, individualistic dean of the senate who died Friday at his Lynchburg, 8.

CL, home. Both the House and Scyate followed calling for brief eulogies to the 80-year-old legislator beforpadjourning until tomor-to DCgl flowing through the conduit ITQm Calcutta, up the Brahmaputra ley Into -Assam, and thence across the Patkai hills to supply the allies in northern Bunpa. The final' lap of the piplAi probably the longest in the. world, is being rushed toT completion as swiftly as allied troops can clear over coro pickets, thp last item on tho Yarn machinery ration list. Other items had been, removed from tho ration 'list on Sept.

28. gin work on a scries of parade and, under favorable weather conditions, should be visible at points 75 miles from McCook. At the Bond rally at -the auditorium will appear a Navy, Marine and Army traveling unit which will present some interesting motion pictures supporting -the bond drive and members of the party who have returned from Service overseas will speak. Several speakers from the McCook Army Air Field most of them 'returned war veterans also, are expected to (See Page Five, No. 4) Big -Russian- Drive Being Made Ready Poland and East Prussia Will be' Sites of Huge Effort When It Starts LONDON, (Ui) Reinforced Soviet shock troops, perhaps a halfmillion strong, cracked throu gh the 80-mile German flank no th-east of Budapest at a half-doxen points today, as axis and all led sources hinted that Russia's northern armies were about to explode their last and greatest winter offensive of the war ih Poland 'and East Prussia.

The German high command said the Red army opened a powerful new offensive iu southwestern Ln-tavia below Liepaja (Libau), preceded by strong artillery fire and violent air attacks. It said the first Soviet attack broke 'down but violent fighting was goln against Russian forces brought up from the rear. Berlin, apparently paving the way for news of a smashing Russian triumph, reported that fresh Soviet troops were puuriqg into the battle for Budapest hourl swelling Marshal Rodion Y. Mai -lnovsky's Second Ukrainian army to 35 Infantry divisions and seven mobile corps. Stalled at the southern gates of the capital by ferocious Germa and Hungarian resistance.

Malinovsky shifted the main wsigh of his assault to the northeast In a great, sweep that crushed, through a mace of Nazi tank-traps and pillboxes extend -ing up across plains and rolling foothills to Miskolc. -80 miles away. Moscow dispatches said the Soviets forced at least six breaches in. the enemy line cutting direct communications between Budapest and Miskolc and driving to wlth-iH less than 19 miles of the upper Danube, at one. point.

Meanwhile, Berlin spokosm said the ground in East Prussia and Poland, bogze'd down in mud for was hardening rapidly under the first blasts of winter, and that the decisive battle of north was Imminent. Both the German radio and Moscow dispatches-quoted by Absie, the American broadcasting in Europe, said vast, Russian hordes, in greatqr strength than, at any time since the war beg a were wheeling into line for the filial drive, timed to coincide with the allied offensive in the west. Wanted Apply; at Gaeette office. Boys foc paper routes. ihis ar--- Doomed Youngster Happy as Santa Makes Emergency Trip to Assure Him Joy oil One More Christmas I i i I.

Up Cabinet Six Top-Flight Officers In China Removed. One Is His War Minister By Walter Randle CHUNGKING, (UP) Generalissimo Chlang Kai-Shek removed six of his top ranking cabinet members 1 from office today, Including the war and finance ministers, jn a governmental shake-up apparently aimed at silencing the recent barrage of criticism directed against his regime. (Chinese government censors prohibited amplification -of the reasons behind the reorganisation, permitting correspondents to say only that It undertaken to meet the objections of the Peoples Political which Is headed by Chlang." (The' shakeup, however, appeared to stem directly from 8. Gen. Joseph W.

StllweUs recall from. China last month, following a disagreement with Chlang on the prosecution of the war.) Major victim of the 'wholesale cabinet purge was Gen. Ho Ting Chin, who' was -busted, as minister of war. Ho, whose dlrecton of Chinas armies long has been the butt of criticism from the Peoples Political council as well as American quarters, retained- his post as chief -of staff of the' Army how-ever His war ministry was taken over by Gen. Chen Cheng former commander of the.

First, war sone nd for years confidential adviser to Chlang. He Is jiefo as one of Chinas strong men. HH. Kung, a brother-in-law of Mm. Chlang! was re-' placed minister-: by K.

Yui, formerly his assistant in that-, Yul falser- assumed concurrent management of the four national adminlst ed by Kung in hla capacity' as f' nance minister. the Japanese from its path. 1 Maj. Gen. Daniel I.

Suljtan, bm-maiiider of American force; in (he Indla-Burma theater, predic ted that -the pipeline -would 'play an important role in reviving. 'China for the phase of the against Japan. Censorship still prevents publi -cation of detailed, information on the pipeline or 'the two years of heart-breaking: effort that went in' to its construction across the a 1-most impossible terrain -of eastern India and northern Burma. But It can. be.

revealed that ft has already taken a great load off the Air Transport, command freeing planes for the transport of guns and ammunition to When completed-the line will be more than 1,800 miles considerably; -longer than America's famous "big-inch from Long View, Texes to the New York -area. The. job Is being done by specially-trained Americans who learned their trade -at Camp Claiborne, La. Capt. Hugh Adams Bakers-, one of the Army En-glneeers said the line so.

far has been, laid Without much troub 1 from enemy. t. We were shot at only, a couple of times' he said. A CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UP) For- 1 ytst (Nubbins) Hoffman lay" in his lavender crib today his three-year-old heart as crammed with happiness as only a' childs can be with the floor about him strewn with glittering Christmas toys.

In his pale, small hand he held the glass fire-engine, filled with bright candy, which his tuer gave him. His dancing eye3 followed the black Cocker spaniel puppy as it capered around the "room. In the corner sat a bright red automobile. The little blue music box. beside his bed, its tinkling tnotes echoing he beat of Nub bins heart slowly ran.

down. Christmas had come and gone and Nubbins Christmas, th iesxtra- s.p cia 1 Chjistmas whi chcame to the modest home of Mr. and Mr 3. H. Hoffman more, than a month ahead of time so 'their only child, falling rapidly from an incurable 1 bladder ailment would the meaning of the day, began' shortly after dawn yesterday.

policemen sauntered along the sidewalk in front of' the four-room house with drawn shades. A group of newsreel cameramen," newspaper- reporter sand photographers shivered in vie chill morning. wind that swept across the Wyoming plateau. Skifts of snow swirled between the gray I houses in the block. A milkman appeared silently 'Make Your Ohnicks CountAn CatiTod3y? and'iJomonowj.

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