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MONDAY, AN SIS Nazis' North Wall Breaks; wey . 7th Army Takes Initiative
At the same time, field .dispatches sald German resistance was wilting on the southern flank above Bastogne,
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BM hrough the Belgian forest toward | Gen. George S. Patton's north-|¢ bound forcef. They whittled down he waistline of the bulge fo" less % han a_ dozen Thites. The 82d airborne division capured Thierdumont ridge, two miles | southeast of Vielsalm. This is a choke point not only on e cut: German escape route along he north side of the bulge but also roundabout roadway angling up from the Houfalize area. Units of the 2d armored division stormed into Dochamps, five miles orthwest of the key transport center of La ‘Roche. The towps of Jouniveal and Hebronval on the La Roche-St. Vith highway fell to the 3d armored after a German delaying action was overwhelmed. Ten American divisions and an ndisclosed number of British units were- crushing -into the German | salient. They were moving with ‘increas g speed—after—five days of stow; uphill battle through the stiffest of the enemy's northern defenses. Many Seeking Relief for Colds’ Muscle Aches Millions depend on St. Joseph Aspirin | to ease pain of colds’ achy muscles | and colds’ headaches. Gargled, swiftly reduces soreness of colds’ sore throat.
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an 2d and 3d armored divisions, | backed up by the veteran 82d air- { borne; drove powerful wedges across
three and possibly four points. The Yanks cleared the. Nazis from a wooded ridge co ding almos. the entire 15-mile len th of the road, At last reports, the sleepless, halffrozen doughboys were pouring across the highway in the wake of their armored spearheads through spotty enemy resistance. United Press Correspondent Ronald Clark. reported that the once-formidable German defenses covering the highway appeared to have disintegrated into a series of isolated strongpoints, Many were already by-passed by fhe American vanguards, “to be mopped up by the Jupporung infantry. The breakthrough across the road severed the last escape and supply rogd for at least three German [armored divisions locked in battle {with British troops at the western end of the salient, One American spearhead was advancirig down the west side of that road within about seven miles of | Houffalize. It had cut .the St. Vith-La Roche lateral road two miles below Odeigne. Two other columns were across {the .lateral road to the east. One captured its intersection with the Houffalize highway at Baroque. de Fraiture. . The second took IRegne, 2'z miles farther east.
~ Pivotal Point Flanked
Vielsalm; another pivotal point on the German communications line [five miles east of Regne,*'was outflanked this morning by units¥of the 82d airborne division. The Yanks routed the Germans! from “the village of Grandsart, mid{way between the two towns, ; * Only light rear guard opposition was encountered in Grandsart. The
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Report Terrific Navy Shelling of Lingayen Gulf in ’ Its 3d Day. -
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ported the bombardment with treetop strafing and bombing "attacks, Tokyo said. ? “This is .the: enemy's usual .tac+ tics preceding a landing,” a Japa~ nese Domei dispatch from Luzon said. “Our men . . . are straining their ears for the sound of .]Janding craft, for the enemy may approach the shores at any time.”
Pr American headquarters here and
in the Philippines remained silent on the enemy reports of impending
1landings.
Neutralization ° raids were anpounced, however, against Luzoii.. Pdluan, in the. northwest .corner of Mindoro island and 90 miles southwest of Manila, was captured.
150 Transpbrts
One U. S. task force including 150
transports was said ‘by Tokyo to be cruising westwardbelow Mindoro. Another” of undisclosed size was reported moving west ini the Mindanao sea. x The fourth, with an escort of battleships or large cruisers and destroyers, was in water south of Negros island, the enemy reported. All four armadas were under air attack and that in the Lingayen gulf also was being blasted by shore batteries, Tokyo said. The Japanese claimed that 32 war vessels, including six aircraft carriers and 18 transports, already had been sunk or damaged. Listed as “instantly sunk” were 23 ships, comprising three carriers, a battleship, two battleships or cruisers. a cruiser and 16 transports. Nine other vessels, comprising three carriers, two battleships. or cruisers, one unidentified large warcraft, a destroyer and two transports, were said 2 have been damaged. x
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A later broadcast said 40 warships
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ther elements of the 82d captured and transports had been sunk, but Font and Garonne and drove ahead did not detail the losses. through feeble resistance. | It estimated that the convoy in | A tank and infantry team of the 'the Lingayen gulf carried a diviod armored division was locked in! !sion of troops and speculated that fierce house-to-house fighting with the main force. two to three diviNazi troops in Dochamps, five miles sions, was aboard the ships below | northwest of La Roche. Mindoro. Planes of the 3d fleet meanwhile Hammer Out Gains shifted their sights from battered Other American forces to the west | Formosa and Okinawa farther | harpmered out a 2000-yard advance north. directly south of Hotton to the | They joined with Gen. Douglas Marcourt area where they were less| |MacArthur’s land-based aircraft than three miles due north of La Saturday-in destroying 45 Japanese | Roche. dlanes and damaged 14 others in a La Roche also was threatened by | series of raids in and around Luzon. a British ‘column moving down| The Japanese Domei agency through the marshes four miles 0 painted a lurid picture of the bomthe northeast, hardment of Lingayen gulf. First U. §. army headquarters an-| Tt said coastal positions at San nounced that 858 German prisoners, Fernando, Bauang and Damortis, were taken in the last 24 hours. |the latter 19 miles northeast of On the sbuthern flank, Gen. Lingayen, had beeri under fire since George S. Patton's 3d army edged | Saturday. « forward slowly horthwest and west, San Fabian, half-way between of Bastogne against suddenly slack- Damortls and Lingayen, also was ened enemy resistance. Helle for a time Sunday, Domel sai Yanks Ad¥ance Mile “Battleships or large cruisers Patton's armor advanced an av-| head. the ‘task force as it. moves 'érage of ohe. mile on a three-mile | farther south, firing at a rate of front northwest of Bastogne. one shell about every two minutes,” On the Alsace front, .the Ger- {One Domei eyewitnetss account of mans expanded their.initial bridge-|the bombardment said. ‘head -across-the Rhine to a width Round-the-Clock Fire
of seven miles and a depth of : P “More than 70 vessels are in this
about three miles. They pushed south from -Gamb- [ATMmada. As one group opens fire land passes on, another group ap-
schein to within seven miles of | Strasbourg, north to the Drusen-|Pea3%s. The naval bombardment is heim area and west to.Rohrwiller. continuous. Rohrwiller, only seven miles east| “Our ground tfoops can see the of the American supply center of enemy vesséls as they pass in single Hagendu, was in German hands file” over the waters of Lingayen early today. But the Americans |bay. were reported still holding Drusen-| Another Tokyo broadcast spoke heim, 15 miles north of Strasbourg. ©f & “continuous. stream. of airHeadquarters insisted the Ger- craft” attacking positions along’ the mans had only abont a battalion of |8ulf. infantry and a hantiful of tanks | Shore batteries were “giving the f in the bridgehead. {hottest reception ever recorded in The second Nazi penetration of [the annals of war to the oncoming Alsace was made 19 miles south |enemy convoys,” Tokyo claimed. |of Strasbourg. The = Germans | “It is anticipated that a great {drove French outposts from Neun- |enemy annihilation battle will be
"i kirch dnd advanced 1% .miles east unrolled as soon as the enemy steps land west to take Friesenheim and [On the soil of Luzon.”
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| More than 20 miles BoTiA-north-west of Strasbourg, other German |
The Japanese landed at Lingayen gulf when they invaded the Phil-
Yanks Driven Back |ippines in 1941.
Airdromes Pasted ,
| forces drove American 7th army | Liberators struck Clark, Nichols ‘| troops back into the Maginot line |and Nieldson airdromes at Manila fortifications -a half-dozen miles | Saturday, cratering runways and {south of Wissembourg. destroying 18 marked planes. The attack appeared to be mainly| Carrier planes of the 3d fleet at|a diversion, however, supporting the [tacked shipping, aircraft and enemy : | Rhine crossings. installations in and around Luzon
| The enemy columns in the Bitche |Saturday. | salient to the west
still were re-, Incomplete reports showed eight {ported stalled by American counter-|enemy aircraft shot down, 19 deattacks. |stroyed on the ground and 14 damOne German force of about 200 aged. men that entered Wingen, 10 miles| This brought to 372 the number south of Bitchie, was surrounded |0f Japanese planes destroyed or there. . A large number were cap- damaged by the 3d fleet in five. days ur in an abortive attempt to, of attacks against the Philippines break out to the north. jan Pormes and Okinawa to the nort.
REPORT NAZIS SPREAD ar nn mites corto sie - V-3 WEAPON RUMORS 'bachi on Paramushiru. Th; Libera-
|fors bombed the island in a follow LONDON) Jan. 8
(U, PY—aA ‘through, Tokyo ‘said. Zurich dispatch of the Exchange| Lt. Gen. _Teelgraph said today that Nazi Strategic air force sent the siege of propagandists are spreading rumors |IWo Jima, half way between Saipan in Switzerland that the Germans And Japan, into its second month now are using the V-3 on the West- With a raid Saturday. ern front. The Germans were reported describing it as a weapon capable of | freezing all persons within 150 yards of its explosion.
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Monty: 'Nazi Drive a Failure, Armies Are Being Written Off’
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special commendation the Ameri-
can 7th armored, critical moment to halt the Nazi| vision, 82d and 101st drive; | visions, the 7th corps commanded
He summoned American and| by Maj. Gen. Joseph L. (Lightning) British correspondents to his field coping.
headquarters to give: them a de- “ tailed account of the battle since “Better Than’ Rommel”. the German breakthrough. Then he launched into an unexpected defense of his supreme commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. - Montgomery hit particularly at sections of the British press which, he said, had been unjustly critical of Eisenhower's direction of the campaign.
He labelled his opponent, Marshal Karl von Runstedt, a better general than the late Marshal | Erwin Rommel, whom he defeated! in North Africa. ~ “That Rommel was good,” he said, “but Runstedt would” knock him | for six" (the British equivalent—of; “knock him for a goal.”) - | He revealed that a picture of Runstedt now adorns the—wall of his headquarters alongside that of Rommel. Montgomery refused to speculate on how long the European war would last.
‘Devoted to Ike’
“Let me tell you that the captain of our team is Gen. Eisenhower,” he sald.” “I am dbsolutely devoted to Ike. We are the greatest of friends. . . He bears a great burden, he needs our fullest support, and it is up. to us to see that he gets it.” Throughout his review of the first phase of the battle, ending with the start of the allied counter-at-tack, Montgomery repeatedly praised the part played by Ameri-|V-weapons, he said he had not | can units who fought on in isolated given them any consideration and| sectors and split the German drive. [conceded that answer implied they Montgomery singled out for|were of no military importance.
NAZIS BUCKLE RED LINES AT BUDAPEST
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have more to lose from a long war than the allies, since the R. A. F. and U. S. A. A. F. are “writing off” three German towns a month Asked about the Germans’ new |
army moving on Budapest.
Nazi rescue force through. The Russian communjque today reported Red army tanks operating for the first time’ in the central] area. of the capital after capturing almost 300 more city blocks over the week-end. Sahg
Danube crossing town of Esztérgom. This is 19 miles northwest of Budapest and almost half-way back from Komarno, where the countetoffensive began last Monday. At the same time, a second armored spearhead farther to the south carried a six-day, 22-mile advance to the outskirts of Bicske, 15 miles west of the capital.” The Nazis began storming that Russian |MOSCOW dispatches said the -corstronghold. fnered enemy troops were fighting | Late dispatches said ‘furious fight- | | savagely for every street corner and ing was’ in progress at Bicske and tourer attacking incessantly. south of Esztergom. Outnumbered Soviet armored and artillery forces ground the Nazi advances to a’ temporary. halt last night.
Reds Advance
Red army dive bombers and artillery took a terrific toll of .the panzer spearheads. The Russians knocked out 88 tanks Saturday and 69 more Sunday. | "They ran the enemy's :losses to more than 300 tanks since the start | of the week-old counter-offensive. In addition, more than 1400 Nazis were killed yesterday west of the! capital. Meanwhile, a grave threat to the Germans’ left flank was developing in the north, : ; Powerful units of tle 2d Ukrainian army broke out of their narrow bridgehead on the west bank of the -Hron river and advanced 12 miles to take Madar, 11 miles northeast of Komarno. Capture of Komarno would lop off one of the main ‘supply and
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106th infantry di- | plained airborne, di- |
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He pointed out that the Germans |
communications centers of the Nazi resort town lay in ashes today after |
nside Budapest itself, the battle] Hac developed into a grim race by | the Red army to kill or capture the! rest of the axis garrison before the| could preak |
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and sweet with flowers, bushels of | flowers’ of every hue and aroma. | These were most conspicuous in § ithe governor's office, but théy were located at points throughout the
massive building. State Auditor A. | V.. Burch -of Evansville gave a re,lception of his own in his “office,
On hand to beat out peppy rhythms, |.
lin marked contrast to the harsh | band music, was Mr. Burch's all-girl accordion band. Later in the day, Mr. Burch and | Mayor Manson Reichert of .Evans- | {ville were to give the new officeholders. a special reception in the | Claypool hotel.
Flowers Bedeck Rostrum
The fifth district honored the new governor with a huge elephant fab-| |ricated from white carnations and |daisies. Scores of ather bouquets -rand-flarsl-gifts-pilede-hgh—in—khe {governor's office, prompted one [light-hearted Republican to remark: | “It seems more like a funeral” { To which, Ray Smith, Governor { Schricker's secretary, dourly replied, Lue Well, I guess that's what it'is- for lus. . N | Truly, the-donkey had finally fi | passed out of the state picture after [12 years ‘of Democratic reign, Mr. {Gates became the first Republican
] SELECTIVE SERVICE | Mustang Pilot |
10 EXAMINE LISTS EIGHTH U..S. AIR FORCE |
{ | HEADQUARTERS, Jan. 8 (U. P). —A Mustang fighter pilot, who lived after being knocked unconscious from his plane with his | «parachute unopened, tops this outfit's “believe it or not” string | of incredible war adventures. “People look askance at me ‘| every time I tell them I woke up | hanging from the limb of a tree, but. here I'am through the grace of God,” said 2d Lt. Emory Taylor, Austin, Tex. Taylor, 21-year-old pilot on his fourth combat mission, was with the 352d Mustang group ing—heavy—bombers—when—hisplane engine cut off and he’ dropped to 10,000 feet. —“I-still don't~know what hap‘pened. Somehow I was knocked from the plane, and somehow my parachute opéned of its own accord. It was just one of those things,” he observed.
COLLEGE DINNER DUE 'TO HONOR DR. .GOOD
as hundreds of Speseh Saturday.
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“Affected are all those between 18 and 45. We aren't going té| | waste time getting them under government control once the orders | comme through.” y The director pointed out that! 4-F's doing war work would not be! called under present plans. Also to be examined are about { 12,000 men under 26 deferred be- | cause of work in essential industries’ or on farms or because of school attendance. I. Col.” Hitchcock revealed that {many of those in this latter group {never have had pre-indlction tphysteats as a result of their de= ferred statuses. W. I. Longworth, local Red Cross | chapter chairman, reported two en- | listments by nurses from Methodist | | hospital. Although the pool of available nurses in the Indianapolis area is small, Mr. Longsworth said he| hoped to reach the local quota of | 150 nurses before June.
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OF SUMMER RESORT 3» year as president. of Indiana |
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me., Jan. | Sextral college in July, will be! (U. P.).—Half the business and| {honored at a recognition dinner at|
rr district of this summer |6 p. m. tomorrow in Dailey hall. Dr. O. T. Deever, Dayton, O,, general secretary of the board of! | education of the United Brethren will pay tribute to Dr.
|a five-hour blaze swept the district | | early yesterday, causing approxiimately $300,000 damage Workmen were busy cl earing away | church,
|yard and wharf, 27 pleasure eraft.| 4ianapolis,
| the Boothbay Bol newspaper : . | plant, a sail-making plant, a mar- |alumni, Glenn Catlin, a senior from
ket, a gift shop, a howling alley and | Decatur, Ill, will represent the {several other business. properties|student body and Evan R. Kek will | and residences. speak for the faculty and staff.
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smoking, John - Gibbons isafely. But later a passerby, John |man; Bishop Dennis; Dr. G. W.| W. Patzke, was hurt when he fell #1 Bonebrake, superintendent of Illi-| {front of the house on ice formed |nois conference, and Mr. Kek. Dr. {from v water spilled by Bremen, [McKain will act as toastmaster.
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FIRE DESTROYS HALF Dr. 1. J. Good, who ended his|
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A musical program will be pre-|
Inaugurated.
36th Governor
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Right smack of . Republicans appeared Democratic ‘Staté Chairman Fred
| Bays attired in black homberg and black suit
“You 100k like you're in mourn« ing,” a Republican friend quipped, “Yep, and that's just the way I feel,” Bays shot back. -
Emmert, James Sworn In
Governor Gates was preceded in the , oath-taking = ceremonies by Attorney = General James Emmert and Lt. Gov, Richard. T. James. All {those sworn in were confronted by | six microphones Immediately before the speaker's The Columbia City high school band was in the rear. For a half hour before the ceremony, the Indianapolis e cone
reert Hand gave othr ry ——————
As a whole, the event was brief. Mr. Gates strode to the stand with they con=
versed with each other confidenw
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Among the mofe attentive specs tators were. Mrs. Gates and theip daughter, Patricia, a student at Ine diana university. A son, Robert, is a lieutenant in the .navy, serving in the Southwest Pacific.
LEGION WILL SEEK
~ STATE ASSISTANCE
Expansion of the American Le= gion national headquarters at state | cost will be one of the major ob | jectives of the organization's legislative committee. ‘ In addition, .the state will be
{asked to provide assistance in the { handling of veterans’ claims.
The committee met yesterday. to complete plans already under conthe Indiana World War Memorial commission, a state agency operating the memorial byilding and plaza. Joe Rand Beckett, a committee member, called attention to the fact
PAROLE SUPERVISOR
Voyd Wagoner of Rockville is the new state parole supervisor. His promotion was |yesterday by Thurman A. Gott.
ministrator.
{division the last six years, Mr. { Wagoner succeeds James D. Acher, who left Jan. 1 to practice law at Columbus. The new supervisor was chosen {from the merit list, Mr. Gottschalk said. He placed high in an exs amination for the job held a year ago. ' Mr.. Wagoner, who will. be ‘responsible for the supervision of more than 2000 persons completing prison sentences outside institu {tional walls, formerly was Parks county parole officer and district | parole supervisor over 23 southern Indiana counties. He is a graduate of Indiana State { Teachers’ college and was a teacher
There was no sign of weakening |p.) —Setting his bed afire while | charge of the dinner are Dr. A. B. rat Dunkirk before entering parole escaped | McKain, “Huntington pastor, chair-|
work. He has done graduate work |at Indiana university. A member of the Rotary club, Mr. Wagoner is married, has one lenild and lives at 1549 Broadway.
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