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Wlukden Mamd by
Bombers Also
Blast Dairen,
Japs Report
Leyte Battle Nears End
As Yankees Smash Last
Defense Line of Nippons
(By the Associated Press.)'
Superforts bombed Mukden to
day In the fourth successive day
ot mass B-2i) raids on scattered
Japanese Industries as U. S. in
fantrymen shattered the last ves
tiges of the Yamashlta defense
line and drove surviving enemy
soiaiers inio me nms ot western
Levte island.
Sweeping advances by two
American divisions on Leyte cut
on me Japanese escape nignway,
cap,tured huge stores of supplies
that would have lasted the enemy
for six months, and ran the total
of Nipponese soldiers known to
have been killed on the island to
43,096.
Scattered elements of Japanese
no longer able to put up an or
ganized defense, are fleeing to
ward the northwest coast, Gen.
MacArthur reported.
'The battle is rapidly drawing
to an end," MacArtur exulted. U.
S. ground forces continued to ad
vance on Mindoro without oppo
sition. Today's daylight air raid on
Mukden, center of Japan's Man
thurian arsenal, was made by a
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
CRITICAL news comes from the
western front where the
Germans are COUNTER
ATTACKING in. what seems to
be real force.
THEIR drive, well supported by
tanks and planes, appears to
center on an 80-mile front ex
tending from just south of
Aachen to the southern tip of
Luxembourg pointed toward the
Ardennes forest in eastern Bel
gium, which they chose as their
original invasion route in 1940.
But there are signs of Impend
ing German activity from Arn
hem, clear up in Holland, to Al
sace, at the far southern end of
the western front.
r: are presumed to have been
getting ready for days for
another BIG smash at the Roer,
and it is guessed that the Ger
mans are HITTING FIRST to
throw us off balance.
kNE can't help recalling that
I in these big late-in-the-war
offensives the Germans seem to
FOLLOW A PATTERN.
They launched one in the
spring of 1918, and those who are
old enough will remember that
it came perilously near to suc
ceeding. It was stopped barely
in time. The effort broke the
back of the German striking pow
er and Germany surrendered in
November.
In the present war, after the
Russians had stopped them at'
Stalingrad and driven them back
to the line of the Donets, they
mounted another which made the
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Failure of Nazi Drive Will Shorten
War, Says Stimson, Recalling Collapse
Of Similiar Offensive in First War
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (AP) War Secretary Stimson said
today that if the German counter-offensive falls It definitely will
shorten the war.
He coupled with this assertion, however, the statement that the
Germans' ability to launch the huge offensive Is significant. He said
the nazls had penetrated allied
territory for distances ranging
from five to 20 miles.
Stimson said the Germans chose
for their attack a sector "which
had been loosely held by both
sides. It was a terrain which had
not offered to the allies much
incentive for exploitation."
The secretary commented that
the nazis did not have a great
deal to lose in risking the offen
sive and that It might gain for
them a few months of time be
, fore they must- account for "the
Public Contributh More
Than $10,000 AdvVo Plans
For Civic Cenfer, Swim Pool
Contributions In excess of $10,000 have been received during
the past week to create a civic center and swimming pool program
for the city of Roseburg, it was announced today. Sponsored jointly
by the several civic clubs of the city, the campaign is still in progress
and is expected to raise approximately $25,000, It was announced at
Beware of Bogus
Checks, Warning
To Business Houses
Douglas county m e r chants
should use extreme caution in
cashing checks, particularly dur
ing the holiday season, when
many inexperienced clerks are
employed and with more than
normal business. Sheriff Bud Car
ter warned today. Bad check pass
ers, he explained, become Increas
ingly active during periods of
rush business.
A warning also has been issued,
he reports, from the U. S. Treas
ury department urging all plac
es of business to "know your en
dorser and require identification,"
in handling government cnecKs.
The Treasury department, it is
stated, is issuing approximately
thirty million checks each month
and theft and forgery of any one
of these will require investigation
by agents of the secret service
and a loss to the Individual or
firm cashing the check, which
must assume the loss the same as
though they had accepted a forg
ed personal check.
Cigarets Given as Yule'
Presents For Men Only
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 21
(AP) There's been a shortage
of cigarettes at the statehouse
cafeteria lately, unusual even in
these virtually smokeless times.
Yesterday diners there found
out why.
Mrs. Annie Romanovski and
her son Charlie, cafeteria opera
tors, passed out 200 free packages
to male customers.
"Christmas presents, said Mrs.
Romanovski. "I saved cigarettes
for this.
To woman customers, however,
Mrs. Romanovski gave only or
anges and bags ot candy.
it is Better lor tnem, sne saiu.
Murder in $12.60 Holdup
Draws Life Prison Term
EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 21
(API Henri Youne. 32. self-
confessed slaver of William Bueh
rig, Everett baker, In a noidup
more than 10 years ago wnicn
netted $12.60, was sentenced to
life at Walla Walla state peni
tentiary yesterdav by a Snohom
ish county superior court jury.
Young was brought here for
trial from Alcatraz, where he
was serving time for robbing a
bank at Lind, Wash. He pleaded
guilty on arraignment and testi
fied at his trial he had confessed
to the slaying because he had
turned to religion and wanted to
"become a good Catholic."
City Refuses to Pay
Employee's Damage Bill
PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (API
Portland city employes who break
their glasses, tear their clothes
or crack their teeth while on the
job must pay the cost themselves,
the city council has ruled.
The council rejected, by a vote
of 3 to 2, the claim of Sam Hen
drlckson, water bureau employee,
whose glasses were broken when
they were hit by a rock from the
bureau's pavement breaker.
misery they have inflicted upon
the world."
Discussing the power of the
German thrust, Stimson said that
despite losses suffered by the
nazis in land and air attacks in
recent months "they have been
able to build up on the westwall
a verv substantial force for this
attack."
Interpreting the enemy offen-
sive as
an all-out effort to halt ,
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BURG, OREGON,
a meeting of committee workers
at a conference held Wednesday
for the purpose of gathering re
ports. me project! was lormuiaxeo
following . adoption by the Rose
burg city council of an amend
ment to its narks and playgrounds
ordinance, authorizing the city to
accept contrioutions lor any aes
ienated civic purpose. As this or
dinance made it possible to in
elude such gifts to the municipal
ity in the list of contributions de
ductible on Income taxpayers are
donating to the fund, to bring
their contributions nearer the al
lowable limitation. To those in
higher income brackets, the act
ual out-of-pocket donation Is re
duced through greater income tax
credit.
Promoters Listed
The plan of gathering contri
butions for a civic center pro
gram was placed before Kose
bure civic bodies by Kenneth
Ford, owner-manager of the
Rosebure Lumber company. Un
animous approval was given the
suggestion and a joint committee
was formulated to promote the
idea. Committee members in
clude Kenneth Ford, chairan:
Paul Geddes, treasurer; William
Adair, Dr. B. R. Shoemaker, Ray
Hampton, Fred Lockwood and
Pete Motschenbacher. Harold J,
Hickerson. secretary of the Rose
burg chamber of commerce, is
assisting In: a secretarial and ad
visory capacity
The committee has contacted a
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Capt. Kinoshita,
Thrice Wounded,
Wins Purple Heart
Captain Robert S. Kinoshita,
Japanese-American doctor, who
served CCC camps on the South
Umpqua and at Steamboat prior
to the war, has been awarded the
Purple Heart, according to word
received from the European thea
ter. Dr. Kinoshita has been wound
ed in action three times, but at
last reports had recovered and re
turned to his unit fighting in Hol
land. A doctor in the officers' re
serve, he served several years in
Douglas county with the civilian
conservation corps. Following
evacuation of Japanese from the
Pacific coast, he was the medical
officer for a large camp In Col
orado and was among the first
of the Japanese-Americans to ob
tain combat service overseas.
He is a native of Hawaii, where
he was born of Japanese-Hawaiian
parentage.
He is a member of the Oreeon
State Medical society.
Congress Passes Bill to
Pay for Death in Jeep
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (AP)
Congress has passed and sent to
the White House legislation au
thorizing payment of $4,250 to
Mrs. Bertha Le Franco of Mil
waukie. Ore., as compensation
for the death of her son, Paul Ed
win Le Franco.
Paul Le Franco was fatally in
jured when an army ieen turned
over on the Falls City-Dallas high
way Dec. 22. 1943. Le Franco was
not in service but had been given
a ride in the jeep which was on
its way to Camp Adair. An enlist.
ed man. Pvt. Virgil L. Johns, also
was fatally Injured In the acci
dent.
Former All-America
Football Star Killed
BRENHAM, Tex., Dec. 21 (AP)
Capt. Joe Routt. all-America
football guard in 1936 and 1937
while at Texas A. & M. college,
was killed in action in Europe
Dec. 10, his wife has been noti
fied. Routt was commander of an in
fantry company.
Folkes Hearing Dated
SALEM. Ore.. Dec. 21 (API-
Governor Snell announced he
would hold a hearing Friday on
a request by Negro leaders for
clemency for Robert E. Lee
Koikes, 23. Los Anceles Neero
dining car cook sentenced to die
for the "lower 13" slaying two
' years ago of - Martha Virginia
James, -.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21,
Highway Bill
For Postwar
Work Signed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP)
State and local governments
can start planning today their
projects under the $3,i73,2ou,uuu
three-year postwar highway pro
gram. The 44 state legislatures meet
ing in 1945 should give "prompt
anil vigorous attention" to the
highway, program, President
Roosevelt said in signing the
measure setting it up.
The program, Mi'. Roosevelt,
said "becomes a challenge to the
states, counties and cities which
must originate the specific proj
ects and get the program ready
for construction after the- war
ends."
States would supply $1,500,000,
000 on a 50-50 matching basis to
be eligible for the larger share
of the federal funds authorized
by the bill.
Congress in authorizing the
federal contribution did not make
an actual appropriation for this
purpose. That will come later.
Important Changes Made
Designed partly to help ease
possible after-war unemployment,
the legislation embodies several
significant changes in national
policy for highway development,
Mr. Roosevelt said.
He mentioned the authority for
designation by federal and state
governments of an inter-regional
highway network. The measure
likewise "gives practical recogni
tion to the transportation prob
lem of our cities by extending
federal aid to projects in urban
areas which will reduce traffic
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Kiddies to Enjoy
Free Yule Party
At Indian Theater
Boys and girls attending the
free Christmas party to be given
at the Indian theater Saturday,
under sponsorship of the Elks
lodge, will enjoy two hours of
screen and stage entertainment,
George Trapalis, chairman of the
committee on arangements, re
ported today.
The show will start promptly at
10 a. m. and will be preceded and
followed by a street concert by
the Roseburg school band, which
has accepted the invitation of the
lodge to furnish music for the
event.
A Laurel and Hary comedy,
"Dancing Masters," will be the
principal attraction, and this will
be coupled with a Popeye cartoon
and other short subjects.
All kiddies in attendance will
be given a treat of fruit and can
dy by Santa Claus, who will be
present in person.
The free Christmas party is
sponsored annually by the Elks
lodge for all children through
grade school age.
Alcoholic Beverage Sale
In Oregon Sets New High
PORTLAND. Dec. 21 (AP)
Oregon has set a new record in
the sale of alcoholic beverages.
The Oregon liquor control com
mission announced that in the
first 11 months of 1944 Its sales
reached $29,400,000, compared
with the previous high of $24,
000,000 in 1943.
Sales of wine containing more
than 14 per cent of alcohol by
volume have decreased since Dec.
!7, when they were restlcted to
state stores by a newly-enacted
law.
Strong Arm Method of
Druggist Costs Him $10
PUEBLO, Colo., Dec. 21 (AP)
The complaining witness ex
plained to the police magistrate
that, when hn asked for change
for a half-dollar so he could get
stamps from a vending machine
in the drug store, the druggist be
came miffed, twisted his arm,
pushed him out the door and
knocked him to the sidewalk.
The patron's wrist watch was
broken.
The druggist was fined $10 and
lectured on business methods.
Sagacious Canine
DENVER, Dec. 21 (AP)
The Tracy Flemmlngs moved 30
miles from Conifer, Colo., last
October, leaving behind them
Whiskers, a stray dog they had
fed for a month.
Yesterday footsore Whiskers
showed no at the Flomlnes home.
They know he never had been In
Denver before. Thev don't know
how he learned their address.
1944.
rfoirtiiresses
Geo. H. Moses, Former
United States Senator,
Ex-Diplomat, Dies at 75
"i it
George H. Moses
CONCORD, N. H., Dec. 21
(AP) George Higgins Moses,
75, former U. S. senator from
New Hampshire and widely
known republican leader, died
last night at his home.
Once described as "the most
exciting man in American pub
lio life," he served three times
in the United States senate. He
lost his seat in tiio democratic
landslide of 1932.
His widow and his only son,
Gordon, were with him when he
died.
Moses was president pro tem
pore of the U. S. senate for eight,
years before his enforced retire
ment in 1932. He enjoyed a rep
utation as one of the nations
most pungent phrase-makers dur-
ings his career as a legislator,
diplomat and scholar.
It was in criticism of a south
em and mid-western farm coali
Hon, in a fiery speech at Boston,
that he made his famous refer
ence to the "sons of wild jack
asses." Before entering the senate he
served as U. S. minister to ureece
and Montenegro from 1909 to
1912.
War Bond Sales Prize
Goes to Junior Class
The junior class of Roseburg
high school was presented with
the $25 cash first prize today as
winners of the war bond sales
contest. The award was made at
a student assembly.
Competing with the seniors,
the members of the junior class
sold bonds totalling $12,925, bare
ly nosing out the upper classmen
who had total sales of $12,375.
The $25. cash prize was donated
hy Abe Bean and Bruce klllott.
A $10 prize was given by Al Bash
ford to the seniors.
Representing the classes were
Doug James, president of the ju
nior class, and Margie Irvln, vice
president of the senior class.
Crew Unhurt in Forced
Landing of Navy Bomber
KELSO, Wash., Dec. 21. (AP)
Sheriff's officers said today the
crew of a navy bomber, from
the Seattle air base, escaped
without Injury when forced to
land In a cornfield near Castle
Rock Wednesday at 4 p. m. Of
ficers said the plane became lost
in the fog and clouds and ran
ihort of fuel. The plane suffered
only slight damage but probably
will have to be dismantled be
fore it can be removed from the
field. .
Delinquent Farmhand
"Out of Touch" With War
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 21
(AP) A 24-year-old farmhand,
Albert Joseph House, told Police
Court Prosecutor John Dougher
ty he knew there was a war on
hut was "danged" if he knew
that farm boys had to register
for selective service.
Dougherty said House explain
ed he had no draft registration
card because he had been work
ing on a farm near Nlcholasvllle,
Ky., and had been "out of toucn
with things."
New Salem C. of C. Head
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 21 (API
Ioval Warner, manager of the
Salem J. C. Penney store, was
elected president of the Salem
chamber of commerce yesterday
for 1945, succeeding Carl Hogg,
who has served three terms.
Ii
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No. 44 21a
Slim Lead In
Bond Contest
Retained Here
Relative positions of Douglas
and Coos counties In the "Battle
of Bonds" remained unchanged
today In Federal Reserve bank
reports covering sales of E bonds
through Dec. 18. Douglas county
was still leading with 77.2 per
cent ot quota, sales amounting to
$370,674, while Coos county, with
sales of $387,404, had a percent
age rating of 64.1, Coos county's
E bond quota Is $600,000 and
Douglas county's quota Is $480,
000. Coos .county was approaching
the 100 per cent mark on total
sales, including corporation sales
and allotments, the overall sales
amounting to $1,766,428, or 94.5
per cent of quota, while Douglas
county, far over the mark, had
sales of $1,581,976 of all series,
or 156.6 per cent of quota.
Late Sales Reported
Florence Johnson, Instructor In
the Glendale schools, who has
been directing pupils In the 6th
War Loan campaign in that com
munity, reported to Roseburg
headquarters todav that sales
amounting to $16,884.80 had been
made through the school. Of this
amount $1,743.75 came through
payroll deductions, while stu
dents campaigned to sell the bal
ance. The Roseburg branch ot the
U. S. natfonal bank today re
ported E bond sales amounting to
$80,493.75. -
The Roseburg lumber company
reported bond sales to employees
amounting to $8,775.
:. Mrf. Leah K. Howard, Yoncalla,
personally sold bonds In the sum
of $975 to her neighbors.
British Open Fire
On Defiant ELAS
In City of Athens
ATHENS, Dec. 21 (AP) The
British opened a tank assault
against ELAS concentrations to
day after expiration of an ulti
matum from Lt. Gen. R. M. Sco
bie that the insurgents stop fight
ing. Rocket-firing flgfiter planes
joined in the attack.
Sherman tanks climbed monastery-topped
Likabcttus mountain
and sent 75-mm. shells crashing
Into ELAS positions around Aver
off prison and the military acad
emy.
Scoble's ultimatum, which ex
pired at 9 a. m., had warned that
anv ELAS forces continuing to
hold out would be attacked "with
all the arms at my disposal."
At Omnia square, tank-supported
parachute troop patrols
made a series of sorties, demolish.
ini? a sniper's nest and taking
numerous prisoners.
The billet of the U. S. air
force transport command rocked
with the shell blasts as buildings
behind the reauisitloned Cosmon-
olite hotel were plastered.
Jean Rallls, the pro-nazl for
mer premier who escaped from
the Averoff prison two days ago
when the insurgents stormed the
building, was recaptured last
ingni.
A renlv was awaited frnm Tflncr
George II In London on whether
he would accent or reject a sug
gestion that the nation's lender
shin be turned over to Arnhhlshnn
Damaskinos as regent.
Officer's Shots Rout
Prowler at Store
A prowler, apnarently attempt
ing robbery at the Olvmpla Sun
plv company store, escaped offi
cers last night when he was ap
nmhenrlnH hu T xr rnn.nnn
sneclal merchants police, while
iMiempunp- to lorre tne rear en
trance to the building. The prowl
er ran when the officer ap
proached. Thomnson fired two
shots Into the air, but the fugi
tive continued running and was
not again located, although state,
VMtntt, anI nlf.r Affl I
.-..u... v nit,, uij UIMtl, Illrllll-
talncd search during the night.
Winter Makes Official
Debut in Oregon Today
PORTLAND, Dee. 21.
(AP) Winter makes Its offi
cial arrival In Oregon at 4:15
p. m. todav and In Portland,
at least, I being greeted by
aporoprlate temperature.
The weather bureau fore
cast a minimum of 32 de
areet the freezlnq point
for this ares. Daylight todav
shortest day of the year.
Is to last 8 hours, 38 minutes. i
Thrust Into Belgium Extended
But Yankees, in Bloody Battle
Stop Foe's Northward Lunge
(By the Associated Press)
Nazis Marshal von Rundstedr's swirling countoroffensive?
shoved two great wedges into U. S. First army lines, one of therrl
stabbing 35 miles Into Belgium, the other driving three quarters
of the way across Luxembourg, supreme headquarters announced
today.
These were the developments by noon Tuesday, disclosed
under the partial security news blackout.
The northern flank of the countoroffensive speared 14 mile
west of Malmedy and ten miles beyond Stavelot, headquarters
said. Stavelot was reported in a front dispatch yesterday as re
captured by the Americans, and at last reports still was In First
army hands.
The southern flank of the German drive, through' Luxem
bourg, was building up a menacing threat towards Sedan. ?
A front dispatch said reinforced First army elements, back-'
ed by additional armor, artillery end tank destroyers, stemmed
the northernmost prong of the German offensive and contained
the flank of that spearhead on a line running throuah Malmedv
and Stavelot.
Outside Stavelot, another dispatch said, tank destroyers
smashed nazi armored attempts to break throuah the rescue
remnants of 60 tanks trapped near
Ammunition Sole
Need of Yank Army,
House Group Says
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (AP)
House members back from Eu
rope left the definite Impression
today they found everything
going well at the fronts al
though more ammunition could
be used.
Fifteen members of the mili
tary committee returned last
nieht and arranged todav to tell
General George C. Marshall and
Secretary of War Stimson of
their four-weeks Inspection tour
of battlefronts.
. Although bound by a self-imposed
censorship not to discuss
In detail what they had seen un
til they had talked with army
bosses, the returning legislators
left these impressions with Inter
viewers: American troops want for noth
ing, including cigarettes, gasoline
and supplies of all kinds; their
morale is high, although they
want to get the war over with
quickly and return home; the
supply organization from buttons
to tanks, Is, as one member put
ltj "lust simply amlazins and will
be recorded by history as' the
greatest Job of its kind ever un
dertaken." This appraisal of the situation
followed recent expressions of
alarm by military men over the
output of heavy ammunition,
trucks and other critical items.
Even the selective service regu
lations have been revised to help
Increase this production. Howev
er, most of these calls were based
on increasing output to meet
greater demands which are de
veloping, rather than on actual
combat shortages now.
Salem Market Forced
By OPA Rules to Quit
SALEM. Ore.. Dee. 21 (AP)
The Paramount Market, one of
Salem's lamest grocery stores,
will close Deo. 23, "because of
difficulties with the OPA," W. L.
Lcwls, owner, said today.
Lewis said that his volume of
business had increased to such
an extent that the OPA placed
him in the same classification
with chain stores, thus lowering
his ceiling prices to a degree
where he could not operate at a
profit and provide credit and de
livery services.
The store, located In downtown
Salem, also operates a meat mar
ket, which likewise will go out
of business. Lewis has been op
erating or 17 years.
No Red Fanfare Attends
Stalin's 65th Birthday
MOSCOW, Deo. 21 (AP)'
Joseph Vlssarionovich Djugash
vlll, better known to the world as
Premier Joseph Stalin, celebrated
his 65th birthday with a complete
absence of official fanfare.
Although the soviet union took
no formal notice of the occasion,
telegrams from all over the na
tion, as well as from many of the
world's capitals, poured into the
Kemlin.
Neither press nor radio made
any mention of the occasion, but
like Washington's birthday In
the United States the date Is
known to every Russian.
Farm Machinery Ration
Duties Are Transferred
PORTLAND, Dec. 21. (AP)
All county farm machinery ra
tioning committees have been
dismissed and their few remain
ing duties turned over to county
AAA committees, the state agri
cultural adjustment administra
tion announced today.
Corn pickers, the only Item
rationed since Sept. 29, have been
taken off the list, cancelling the
entire program, explained S. B.
Hall, Multnomah county agent.
Trucker Fined HOO
ROISE. Idaho, Dec. 21 (AP)
William E. Card of Baker, Ore.,
was fined $100 yesterday when
he pleaded guilty before Federal
Judge Clark to a charge of oper
ating a truck In interstate com
merce without an ICC permit.
the village. U
The Germans sustained heavy
losses In the northernmost sec
tor of their salient Into Belgium,
both In armor and Infantry, In a
head-on collision with .veteran
Americans, and were pushed
southward at some points.
Anti-tank gunners near Stave ,
lot destroyed five captured Amert
lean Sherman tanks and a captur
ed tank-destroyer manned by nazi
spear-headlng the drive to rescue
the trapped armored force. The
Americans shattered an Infantry
attempt to surprise their outposts
in the thick fog. An officer said
30 of the 60 tanks In the trap,
and 50 of 200 supply vehicles al
so caught there had been destroy- .
ed.
Losses Frlqhtful ' . '
The battle was exacting a
frightful toll on both sides. The
Americans, fighting their great
est engagement of the war, gave
and took the heaviest losses of
the invasion, and it was reported
on reliable authority that tho
nazi onslaught was not likely to
bo halted this week.
The Germans said spearheads
had penetrated the Ardennes fori
est and cut the Llege-Bastogne
highway, a maior north-south
route between the First and Third
armies running 12 miles west of
Stavelot. - V s
The nazi high command said!. ,
20,000 prisoners had been taken
in the offensive thus far.
A front dispatch said the drive)
slackened slightly -in violence,,,
amid indications that Von Rund
stedt was consolidating hi9 gains
for a new push.
An allied spokesman with the
21st army group said the nazis
"must be expected" to make even
more gains before countermeas
ures now under way become ful
ly effective, and belief was ex ,
pressed that the enemy drive was
beginning to lose momentum.
But supreme headquarters,
painting a gloomy picture, con- .
ceded further advances were
likely, and there was a feeling it
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Setback of Allies
Toughens Task Of
U.S. Production
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (APV
The allied setback In Europe
win nic us Deiwoen tne eyes
with new war production prob
lems, WPB Vice Chairman Sam
uel W. Anderson said today.
He added that the powerful
German counter-offensive makes
it impossible to predict an end of
tho civilian production freeze. -
Present urgent demands for
more shells, guns, trucks and
other vital materiel "certainly"
will be followed by armament
problems "as difficult as the ones
we have now," Anderson said.
"I feel sure the present military
situation in Europe will come
back and hit us between the eyes
in various ways, at present un
known." said the vice chairman
who signed the recent order
freezing future civilian poods
nroductlon programs at present
levels.
"The purpose of the freeze Is
to see that rising civilian produc
tion does not Interfere with ur-
gent munitions output," he assert
ed. "I haven't any idea how long
it will last, or how Ions we will
have critical shortages in war ma
terials.
Southern Britain Again
Battered by V-Bombs
T.oivmoN rw 9i fATii.
The Germans continued to bat
ter soutnern Kngland with V
bombs Inst night while pressing
their offensive on the wpstern
front. A government announce
ment reported both casualties
and dnmnoe.
Tho noxis at last, from their
holes al call.
Have struck at ths Ysnks
they're rating hob;
But though ths outlook h dlr,
When the last shot Is flrtd
You'll hear from those Kraut
that scream kameradl"
Rrkr, Wiiiiiim
iter;