Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1944 — Page 2

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JAPAN REPORTS (Ooaueoed From rage I) day an the Leyte canipaigh approached Its final stage with Japanese casualties already totalling 824 M. <A Japanese Dome! broadcast said Japanese planes sank a destroyer and damaged heavily two I cruisers In attacks on an American convoy in the .Mindanao sea be’tween Leyte and Mindanao Monday and Wednesday.) Two American column*: fighting at either end of the Ormoc corridor in northwest Leyte drove to within 12 to 14 miles of a Junction that would virtually complete the campaign on that central Philippines island. Cen. Douglas MacArthur estimated Japanese casualties on Leyte and adjacent Ha mar In the first 55 days of the lilieration of the Philippines at eight times those suffered by the American Invasion forces. American casualties were listed ux 3,176 killed. 7,967 wounded and 257 missing—a total of 10.400. o WAR'S THIRD (Continued grew rage IV Germans were fighting from a ring of Maginot forts like those girdling Mots. At last report the American vanguard was less than five miles below the border In ihat ares. To Patch's left on Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton's third army front, doughlioys battled afreet by street through Praulautern. the eastern suburb of Saarlautern. The 3791 h regiment of the 95th division now held one-fourth of Huarlouis-ltoden. northern suburb of Saarlautern, where the third army won Its first bridgehead across the Saar river. German artillery in the Siegfried fortifications east of Saar-J tautvrn was laying down a heavy ' Iximbardinent on the American! positions. — — O " 11 NIMITZ TO ADVANCE (Contlassd Fte* rag* 1) tion of sh Philippines and the former American naval base at .Ma- ■ nils. Where the next blow w**J fall nat- j uraily remained a ccuely-guarded i secret. Nimitz often ha. said he will seek bases on the China coast and perhaps Formosa, sou. it west of ; Tokyo before attacking Japan proI per. while the Bonin aud Volcanoielands lie acrexx the direct route I from the sautheast. it also was regarded as tdgnlfl- 1 caif; that Nimitz has just concluded 1 a conference with hb srmy and, ghtvy cotnittanders from Alaska. 1 ; who hare been battering away al I ; the northern end of the Japanese* I j empire with planes and wanrhlpa. I : INSURGENTS IN (Csatlaasd F»m rags 1) Leeper were couferiing Scobies communique, reported that tighiiug was continuing berth in Athens aud Piraeus aud that

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I guerilla activity In the Salonika ares has not dlminiatedunits stabbed at the peri* | - meter of the British and Greek | • government positions in central - ' Athena, but the attacks were light I I and apparently designed to teat the I defenses. i 1 i The ELAS forces last night car- ’ ■ rled out a small attach lit the area ’ ’ of Omonolas square and tried to I 1 establish a road block with Get man | teller mines, but were repelled by > the British who were clearing the * mines today. | The British clear two more I | square blocks of the KalllpoHa peu- i insula In the Piraeus area. Royal engineers repaired the Ath- ’ ens water mains and restored a | weak flow of water in the central | part of the city. . o fOwusoee vrww> rws t) army oficer His rank of "gener- I al of the armies.” created for him | by special act of congress, re- ! mains superior to "general of the ’ army.” I The new ’'super-ranks” were I bought by the services In order to . give top U. 8. army and navy com- " manders rank and prestige com- I para Ide to that of their counter- | parts fti the British aud other . Allied armies. Elsenhower, for " example, has Iteen ’'out ranked” I theoretically by his subordinate, | Britain's Sir Bernard Lew Mont- . gomery. since the latter was pro- ■ ■noted from genera) to field mar- | shal last summer. g Holders of the new ranks —all g of which are temporary., along " with a majority of other high war- I time ranks—are expected to wear g five stars on I heir shoulders. U.S. g generals and admirals wear four slant. I □ | The Philippines had 29.951 g Japanese residents tn 1940. ■ ■■■■—o I Dutch East Indies have a nor g ma I population of 70 million. IWMrf : UHmiHiseriMefVmt J MBft COD ■ ■ As He Sleeps ( Now most young mothers use this ■ modem wav to relieve a miM-nes at • child's cold. Even a* you rub ■ It on, Vidcs Vapoßub | starts to soothe irritation in nose and throat, loosen phlegm, ease coughing. I Then, as baby sleeps, Vapoßub ... | a to upper branchial z ,« ■ tubes with its special medicinal vapors. jrrr*- I chestsndbock —>*ls a etrfaces like a wanning poultice. J3UX-Zzf 1 Often by morning most of the misery of I the cold is gone. Remember, Mother... ■ ONLY VAPORUB GivttYbu this ape* , dal double action. It’s time-tested. ” I home-proved... the best known home I J SSS visas:

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