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Philippines in the South: China sea east of the Liuchow peninsula and had.hit a transport, a freighter and & tanker, totaling 10,000 tons. Two direct bomb hits probably . sank the transport, while the freighter; left listing and burning, also was believed to have sunk. The tanker was left smoking.
First Cargo Ships
The communique, increasing the American bag in the Battle of the Philippines to between 10 and 16 ships sunk and 21 damaged, marked the first official mention of Japa-
It was possible “that the task _ force blasted by the 14th air force was intending to land reinforcements in the Philippines while the main Japanese naval battle forces engaged the American 3d and Tth fleets, but had turned and fled when the other armadas met disaster. _ J8warms of carrier planes from the two American fleets still were blasting away at the battered remnants of the enemy's three main naval forces, which were known to have lost at least 34 combat ships, including 10 battleships and three aircraft carriers, sunk or damaged in the first three days of the battle.
10 Definitely Sunk
Ten definitely had been sunk, four probably sunk and at least 20 damaged—two thirds to three quarters of the three enemy naval fofces which futilely challenged the American fleets. There was every indication that the final toll would exceed 40 warships alone., (A Japanese naval spokesman said # second naval battle east of the
paper Yomiuri added hopefully that it was certain “a second, even third
* naval battle for a decision” would
be fought.) The stunning blow was believed to have knocked out at least tem-
Naval observers freely predicted that the American victory would + speed the liberation of the Philippines, accelerate plans for seizing buses on the China coast and pave the way for possible future blows against the Japanese homeland, including Tokyo itself, 8 Silent on Progress
Gen. MacArthur reported from his headquarters on Leyte in the cen-
minimum results of the battle: At least 10 Japanese warships
STRAUSS SA IT'S ONE NEARER
sunk—one battleship, two aircraft carriers, five cruisers am two or more. destroyers. At least four warships probably sunk—three battleships and one large aircraft carrier. At least 20 warships damaged—six battleships, eight cruisers and six or more destroyers. At least 242 Japanese planes shot down. Known American losses remained as previously announced: The light carrier Princeton and an escort carrier sunk, several escort carriers and destroyers damaged and several patrol torpedo boats sunk or damaged. Japan Admits Losses
Belief that the final bag of enemy ships sunk or damaged would reach
commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, and MacArthur emphasized in their communiques that the figures given were incomplete, especially as to the number of cruisers and destroyers hit, Japan herself acknowledged that one of her battleships, a carrier, two cruisers and two destroyers had
126 planes shot down. On the other hand, the Japanese claimed to have sunk ~ eight American aircraft
carriers, three cruisers, two destroy-
ers and more than four transports, damaged seven carriers, a battleship and two cruisers and shot down 500 planes, Ralph Teatsorth, United Press war correspondent aboard the 7th fleet flagship, reported that at least eight of 14 ships which penetrated 22 miles up the Surigao straits south of the American beachead on Leyte were wrecked by American ships and planes Wednesday night. One and probably two battleships were sent to the bottom.
Catch Fleeing Ships
Carrier planes caught the remaining Japanese heavy cruiser and five destroyers near Zoaol as they fled north into the Camotes sea off the west coast of Leyte yesterday and showered them with rockets and bombs. By noon, the cruiser was severely damaged and down at the stern and doing a continuous turn at slow speed, a destroyer was down at the bow and its anti-aircraft batteries had been silenced. The second Japanese force, which pushed through San Bernardino strait south of Luzon into the. Philippines sea in an attempt to split the American 3d and Tth fleets, originally numbered 25 ships, Teatsorth said.
Battleships Trail Oil When the smoke of battle had
+lers had been sunk and three cripbattleship, a heavy cruiser and a destroyer—remained behind, abandoned by the rest of the force in its haste to escape. All three cripples appeared doomed to destruction.
Among the damaged units which fled were ‘at least three battleships, all of which were trailing oil, two cruisers and an undisclosed num-
ber of destroyers.
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time element of victory will depend chiefly upon tHe flow of war materials to the fighting fronts and the complete co-operation of the armies and navies of the allied nations. “If the allied armies don’t break
winter probably into March, or May,” he said. Long Road Ahead
“In the Pacific, not one inch of
fallen under the heel of allied armies and it may take two or two and a half years to do it.” On the home front the admiral
reared in-Jeffersonville, Ind., where he still maintains his residence, but hasn't been there much in the last three years because he has been at sea with his fleet.
Attended Culver He is a brother of the late “Big
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diana university many years and when a boy attended Culver Military school and then went to Annapolis Naval academy where he
"| was graduated in 1907.
awards to winners of the Navy day
essay contest. Later today, Adm, Ingram will review sailors stationed at the naval armory. Following the review, which is set for 4 p. m., an Indiana sailor will*be singled out to receive fromi Adm. Ingram the purple heart award. Robert G. Chapman, pharmacist’s mate 3-c, the recipient, was attached to an LST sunk in the invasion of Normandy. The sailor was wounded in this action. A memorial service will be held at 8 p. m. in the Indiana World War Memorial in another feature of Navy day. Lt James R. Marks of the Great Lakes chaplain corps will be guest speaker. The day's activities will close with a bat at § p. m, in the Indiana ballroom,
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IN INDIANAPOLIS
EVENTS TODAY
Indians State Teschers' associalion, eonvention, Cadle tabernacle. Indiana Association for Education Radio, convention, Claypool hotel American Friends’ Service committee, meeting, First Priends church. Navy day luncheon, noon, ad club, review, 4 p. m., Naval army Indianapolis Speake clu Te Hotel en n A, Indianapolis Federation
of Community Title clubs, 7:30 p. m,, 0 y
Hotel Washing-
EVENTS TOMORROW
American Friends Service committee, First Priends church. American Legion, state parley. Indians Federation of Art Clubs, John Herron Art museum Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, convention, Claypool hotel Chi Oni Ohi,
state convention, Hotel Warren,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
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Jaymond, Corlette, at St. Vin
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sylvanis.
DEATHS Orville E. San, 70, at 6209 Central, acute 3 ber >. at 3642 W. MichLd an, cerebral sthorthages. Lovise Speckman, Toy at 1218 B Vermont, chronic m Lula Elkins, 74. at SY lobar bay nguments, John Combs, 53, a Sai onic n Strickland. Ceo ‘at 1051 W. 27th, fitinm wilkams, 11. at 401 N. Walcott, | NL cerebral C. LL 70, at 41 W. 324, cere! Age. Pred ory 88, at City, earciAbert "Rr Worm, 74, at 1215 Kessler blvd., : usion. ; John 3 ite 8" 65, at 3538 N. Meridian, e ‘Wiley ‘Montgomery. 78, at St Vincent's, lobar pneumon omas E Franklin, 42, at 1505 N. Arsenal, rheumatic heart. ‘Norman Jones, 39, at- 828 Lexiugton, sarcoma. Catherine Fox, 34, at 1245 Union, acute
nephritis. Ruth i Pord, 51, at 20 Parkway, cere 1
traditional Japanese homeland has|*
Bill” Ingram, football coach at In-}
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Roosevelt in
11:16 a. m. (Indianapolis time) and the _ away two
motorcade i ‘|mintues later, 18 minutes late.
. In the open car with the President were Secretary Stephen Early, Atty. Gens Francis Biddle and Postmaster General Frank Walker. Behind Mr. Roosevelt's car—the second—came automobiles loaded with Democratic leaders, including U. 8. Senator Joseph PF. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence and candidates for various state offices. Passes Dewey Banner As the motorcade passed Philadelphia’s old City-hall it was driven beneath a street-wide banner of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, hang-
ing from the city headquarters of the Republican women of Penn-
ania, : Police Capt. Vincent L. Ellwell estimated 500,000 persons lined Broad st. for three blocks below City hall. Confetti rippled down from some of the office windows. Tne SitWds Sunied 3 Jide ss the parade gathered speed on the lower end of Broad st. The crowds swiled again in South Philadelphia. Two accidents marred the early stages of the parade. Marine Col. A. E. Randall collapsed of a heart
lattack while waiting with a group
of naval officers at the main gate of the navy yard. At City hall the tailend of the motorcade was delayed for a few minutes when a
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NEARER
Philadelphia
police horse was knocked to the pavement by a car. Welcomed at the main gate hy Rear Adm. M. F. Draemel, na yard commandant, Mr. elt was sped through a five-mile tour of the yard as thousands of workers along the route. : Tours Navy Yard
A brief pause was made before the’ Olympia, preserved flagship of Adm. Dewey and relic of the battle of Manila Bay. The tour ended with an inspection of the naval air material center, which includes the naval aircraft factory, the naval experimental station and the naval air auxiliary station. Mr. Roosevelt's talk at Shibe park tonight is scheduled for 45 minutes, starting at 8 p. m. (Indianapolis time). It is to be broadcast over the Columbia and Mutual networks. (WFBM and WIBC will carry the speeth in Indiana.) The Philadelphia talk is directed to businessmen of the nation and also will deal with “the basic policy of the war.” Mr. Roosevelt will speak at Soldiers field, Chicago, Saturday night, and will return fo Washington Sunday. The President will pause for 15 minutes tomorrow in Ft. Wayne, Ind. for a short speech. Reportedly on the schedule is a train-end appearance either at Akron or Youngstown, O., one purpose of which+if it took place— would be to attempt to blast the re-election prospects of Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), a standout adversary of administration policy;
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Germans had held in the southwest corner of thastowp for two days. Only a few snipers remained to be cleaned out of 'S Hertogenbosch, one of Europe's oldest towns and the capital of North Brabant province, United Press War Correspondent Walter Cronkite said. A city of almost 50,000 in 1940, 'S Hertogenbosch lies three miles below the lower Meuse. From it railroads and highways radiate to
{all parts of Holland, and the Ger-
mans once used it as the transport control center for a broad reach of the low countries,
To the west, British forces broke through the southern German flank on Beveland island, guarding the approaches to Antwerp, after an amphibious landing and drove inland to within two miles or less of a junction with Canadian units pushing in from the causeway to the mainland. - Cronkite said a counter-attack against the Beveland bridgehead was repulsed, and the allied position had been reinforced, The Canadians thrusting west on Beveland crossed the Zuid Beveland canal and pushed on more than a mile beyond. British forces stormed into Tilburg from the southeast and
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O. P. chairman and running campaign headquarters in New York. ‘* At G. O. P. headquarters now you see only Dewey men—Herb Brownell, national chairman; J. Russell Sprague, national committeeman from New York; Ed Joeckel, New York state chairman, and a halfdozen young men, who were ciated with Mr. Dewey as distriét attorney or governor,
John D, Hamilton was national chairman earlier; today’s he’s forgotten. Senators Vandenberg (R. Mich.) and Taft (R. O.) had scarcely been heard of in the'campaign until mentioned by Governor Dewey in his foreign policy statement. Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican nominee, is on the shelf similarly—a speech he made in Sabetha, Kas.; the other night got no more than a paragraph or two in any of the papers, / Mr. Dewey and Mr. Hoover got into the same news picture a couple weeks ago at a parade in New York but it probably would be a safe bet that the New York governor didn’t plan it that way. Tom Dewey hasn't wanted any of the aura of old-time, reactionary Republicanism about his campaign. He seems almost allergic to most of He is friendly with most of the old leaders, but they have litti® or no part of his counsel. When, in campaigning, his path |
reached ILilonopzand, two miles north of the fown, in a flanking
both domestic and foreign. ;
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ONE DAY VICTORTY,
thrust.
crosses the paths of people liké Senator Brooks (R. Il.) or Senator | Wiley (R. Wis.) as was the case in
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Massachusetts was the ‘national G.
governor's campaign. is a young staff picked by the ernor himself, with smartness not organization politics the surement. : They've taken some parts of New Dedl which the old would never take, contending & social advances evolve naturally a nation. and that they can i claimed as the property of single party. Going into the campaign's he stretch, only four definitely uled speeches are ahead. Go Dewey delivers his farm speech morrow at Syracuse, speaks at Bui falo next Tuesday night and Boston Wednesday night, and expected to speak at WM Square Garden in New York Saturday night before election. The idea that Mr. Dewey and new administration, giving a new confidence to the country, could do a better job of prowiding ployment in the era to follow war, probably will be one of the heavily played themes from now on,
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