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NO. 224.
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Storm Suburbs of Duren
Patch's Force In East
Near Siegfried Line.
' Paris, Dec. 13. (U.R) Ameri
can first army troops plunged
forward up to two miles through
three towns In the snow-blanket
ed Monschau forest below be
leaguered Durne today in a new
attack which broadened Lt.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
Rhineland offensive front to at
least 20 miles.
The doughboys were storming
the suburbs of Duren, key cita
del - 20 miles west of Cologne,
and Berlin said they had reach
ed the Roer river on either side
of Duren while pressing at
tempts to break Into the town
itself.
Hodges' new push in the Mon
schau forest some 15 miles
southwest of . Duren broke a
three months lull in that sector
and in the first few hours rolled
eastward through Rollesbroich,
near the headwaters of the Roer,
and the villages of Bickerath
and Simmerath, a mile apart and
two miles southwest of Rolles
broich.
Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
seventh army at the other end
of the active western front raced
northward through the eastern
tip of France within sight of the
Siegfried line and the German
border where it cuts westward
from the Karlsruhe area.
' Patch's veterans of the drive
from the Mediterranean smash
ed across a river beyond Seltz,
near the Rhine, and also above
Langensoultzbach, north of Hag-
enau, In new gains advancing
the potential threat of turning
the westwall at its Palatinate
elbow.
TWO-PRONG PUSH
United Press Correspondent
Jack Franklsh reported from the
Monschau forest of Germany
that in their new attack the first
army troops were driving uphill
and through melting snow in the
woods lying directly below the
Hurtgen forest.
It was a two-pronged push
that Hodges loosed at dawn un
der a heavy artillery bombard
ment but without air support
which the murky overcast made
Impossible.
By nightfall, Franklsh said,
the gains ranged from one to
two miles. The first objective,
Rollesbroich, was in American
hands by mid-morning. Later in
the day the neighboring hamlets
of Bickerath and Simmerath, the
latter a secondary road junction,
were captured.
The Germans pocketed in the
Colmar area along the Upper
Rhine counter-attacked heavily
in the area of Selestat, 17 miles
northeast of Colmar.
Front dispatches reported
some street fighting at Seltz, 15
miles southwest of Karlsruhe,
but said the spearhead driven
beyond the town to the border
region had been widened to em
brace Niederoedegn, three miles
to the west. .
Another seventh army spear
head probing northward from
the Haguenau area was four
miles or less from the border and
breasting heavy fire from the
German guns in the Siegfried
line. 1
ASK WAGE BOOST
Denver, Dec. 13 (U.R) An in
ternational organizer for the
union representing approximate
ly 8,000 employes of six sugar
beet companies today presented
employes' demands for higher
wages to the National Sugar
Panel In Denver,
WEEKLY SOLD
Winters, Cal., Dec. 13 (U.R)
F. C. Hemmenway, editor ana
publisher of the Weekly Winters
Express, today announced sale
of the newspaper to Walter W.
Stark of Sacramento, formerly
a banker at Winters.
Washington, Dec. 13. U.R
The threatened shutdown by
New York butchers prompted
the office of price administra
tion today to renew its pleas for
price ceilings on live cattle.
Center of Barry
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(Acmm Telepholo)
Carol Ann Barry, 14 months old, unconcernedly looks over huge legal
tome in lawyer's office as her mother, Joan Br'T, prepares to prove in
Hollywood court that comedian Charlie Chapud Is the child's father
DELAY BY COURT
IN JOAN'S SUIT
Hollywood, Dec. 13 U.R)
Superior Judge Ruben S.
Schmidt today listened to a plea
for delay by Charlie Chaplin's
attorneys and then ordered them
to get on with the business of
finding out who is the father of
red-haired Joan Barry's baby.
Miss Barry, a freckle-faced
former Brooklynite, says it is
Chaplin. The multimillionaire
comedian's attorneys say it could
be any one of a number of peo
ple, including perhaps Hans
Reusch, the writer on whose ac
count they asked Judge Schmidt
to delay the suit.
Reusch, said Attorney Pat
Millikan, is in New York and
won't come back if subpoenaed
to testify.
Before denial of the motion to
dismiss, Millikan said Reusch's
testimony was relevant and that
if he were here to testify, he
would say that Miss Barry spent
considerable time in his apart
ment, told of taking trips with
other men, including millionaire
oilman J. Paul Getty, and that
she wanted Chaplin to support
her. .
A note she left Reusch, accord
ing to the Millikan version, said:
"I did care for you. If only
Charles had proviaed means for
me to live I would have wanted
to know you better. Forgive me.
Mommy,"
On New Year's day, 1943, he
came home in the morning, Mil
likan said, to find Miss Barry's
clothes strewn about and his pa
jamas missing. '
Miss Barry presumably was
in them, but Millikan never got
to that point.
. Both Miss Barry and Chaplin
were on call, but not present in
court as it opened. His chief de
fense, it appeared, would be a
blood test.-
DEFENSE STARTS
E
Witnesses for the prosecution
were cross-examined by the de
fense attorney, O. H. Bengtson
this morning in the circuit trial
of Woodrow Wilson Newburn,
charged with statutory rape of
a minor. There were no defense
witnesses. The case is being
heard by Judge H. K. Hanna.
Court officials expect the case
would go to the Jury some time
this afternoon. Serving on the
Jury are Ray Zulauf, Ward B.
Spetz, Charles Dooms, Frank
Sauer. Francis Dudley, Nels Ja-
cobson, Frank W. Houston, Lela
Shoares, Ernest S. Madden
Gladys Roberts. Blanche Hans-
com and Mary Igo.
Paternity Suit
ANEW BY US'. IN
NIGHT ASSAULT
London, Dee. 13. (U.R) More
than BOO British heavy bombers
attacked the German rail and
Industrial center of Essen in the
Ruhr valley! last night while
RAF Mosquito raiders pounded
enemy targets at Osnabruck.
Dense' cloud formations blan
keted - Essen, . but returning
bomber crews reported that the
glow of huge fires was clearly
visible through the overcast and
that pillars of smoke billowed
up almost four miles over the
city. li
Night fighters of the RAF
bomber command supported the
main attack, destroying five en
emy fighters and shooting up
Nazi airfields enroute.
Most of Essen already had been
badly battered by repeated Brit
ish and American attacks, but
the city still was considered an
important cog In the German
army's western supply and com
munications system, containing
more than a score of big freight
yards.
E VOTE EVEN,
MAGNUSON QUITS
Washington, Dec. 13. U.R)
Rep, Warren G. Magnuson, D.,
Wash., who was appointed to the
U. S. senate yesterday, today
notified Speaker Sam Rayburn
that he has resigned his seat in
the house.
The resignation wiped out the
Democratic party's numerical
superiority in the house for the
first time, since 1930. Both the
Republican and Democratic par
ties now have 212 members In
the lower chamber.
Magnuson was named by Re
publican Gov. Arthur B. Langlie
of Washington to serve out the
unexpired term of Homer T.
Bone who resigned Nov. 13.
Magnuson, elected to succeed
Bone last month would have
taken office to begin his six year
term In January. By taking up
his senate seat now, he will have
seniority over other newly-elect
ed members who take their scats
Jan. 3.
r Radio Highlights
Washington, Dec. 13. U.R)
President Roosevelt will speak
for about 15 minutes over all
broadcasting networks at 5:15
p.m., EWT, on Sunday, Dec. 24,
in his annual Christmas eve ad-
dress to the nation, the White
House announced today.
TEN MORE ENEMY
SHIPS WIPED OUT,
HUNDREDSPERISH
Attempt to Save Trapped
Japs on Leyte Fails; Final
Battle Phase Near.
Allied Headquarters, Philip
pines, Dec. 13. (U.R) Gen.
Douglas MacArthur regrouped
his ground forces for the final
phase of the battle of Leyte to
day after his planes and torpedo
boats wiped out their ninth Jap
anese reinforcement convoy in
aix weeks .off the northwest
coast. .
Ten of 11 ships in the convoy
were wrecked and thousands of
soldiers drowned in a two-day
air and sea battle that smashed
an 11th jour Japanese attempt
to reinforce and supply the 20,
000 to 25,000 troops facing anni
hilation in the Ormoc corridor.
American fighters and fighter
bombers sank three transports
totaling 19,000 tons nd three es
corting destroyers in a series of
attacks lasting from dawn Mon
day to dusk Tuesday. Two me-
d'um transports and another de
stroyer were, left dead tin the
v.-ater and burning.
A torpedo boat sank a fourth
cargo transport of 8,000 tons
Monday night. Only a single de
stroyer escaped from the battle
without serious damage.
A spokesman for MacArthur
acknowledged, however, that
some of the .vessels may have
k nded a few supplies and troops
at Palompon, .sole west' coast
port remaining in Japanese
hands before they were wrecked.
, Japanese planes struck back
with an attack on an American
co. voy steaming south' after un
loading supplies and reinforce
ments for the American 77th and
7th divisions at Ormoc. "Some
damage and casualties" ' w e r e
caused, MacArthur's communi
que said, but these were not con
sidered great.
SENAWVOTE
HURLEY & HELLER
Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R)
The senate -military affairs com
mittee today recommended sen
ate confirmation of former Gov,
Robert A. Hurley of Connecti
cut and Lt. Col. Edward M. Hel
ler of California as members of
the surplus property board.
The vote was along party
lines, with 10 Democrats and
two Republicans voting for Hel
ler and five Republicans voting
against him. The vote on Hurley
was 10 to 6, with 9 Democrats
and one Republican, Sen. Rufus
C. Holman, R., Ore., voting for
him, and five Republicans and
one Democrat, Sen. Edwin C.
Johnson, D., Colo., voting against
him.
' Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., Ky.,
took the nominations immediate
ly to the senate floor. He told
reporters they will go on the
calendar and will probably be
acted upon by the senate tomor
row.
They are expected to run
headlong into opposition from
nearly all of the senate's 37 Re
publican members.
Washington, Dec, 13. U.R
The senate foreign relations
committee today concluded open
hearings on six high state de
partment nominations and im
mediately went into executive
session to determine its next
step in connection with them.
Committee Chairman Tom
Connelly, D., Tex., seeking the
six nominations before the sen
ate tomorrow afternoon, indicat
ed that he hoped the committee
would vote this afternoon to
endorse them.
The hearings ended with Sec
retary of State Edward R. Stet-
tinius, Jr., assuring Sen. Albert
B. Chandler, D., Ky., that the
state department "stands on its
own feet" In diplomatic rela
tionships throughout the world.
About one-third of the United
States is forest land.
Jap War
BUDAPEST AFIRE
FALL IMMINENT.
Nazis Arm Civilians For
Suicide Defense of Hun
gary Capitol.
London, Dec. 13 U.R) The
Germans began arming a rag
tag army of Hungarian civilians
for a suicidal stand in the streets
of Budapest today as Soviet
tanks and shock troops stormed
through the eastern suburbs be
hind an earth-shaking artillery
barrage.
The desperate Nazi move
came on the heels of a Moscow
broadcast declaring that Buda
pest was at the mercy of the
Red army and that its fall was
expected imminently.
House-to-house fighting al
ready -was raging in outlying
districts on the east bank of
the Danube, where the Russians
overran and silenced scores ofj
enemy guns ana cut one 01 tne
main loop railways over which
the Germans had been shuttling
troops to meet the multiple
soviet threat.
But a great concentration of
Nazi artillery still was raking
the Red army assault lines with
a murderous counter-fire ,,nd
defiant -German-' and- Hungarian
military authorities, proclaimed
their intention of defending the
capital to 'the death. -
With the bulk of their own
regular troops reportedly evacu
ated to escape entrapment in the
burning city, , the Nazis called
upon the citizens of Budapest
to take up the guns of the fallen
and fight for their capital. .
Moscow reports asserted,
however, that defections were
spreading among . Hungarian
troops and civilians and that
many of them were turning
their weapons against the Ger
mans in the suburban areas.
JUST CANT MAKE
Washington. Den. la fllP
Witnesses in pffprt tnlrt tha pn.
ate war investigating committee
today that there's a cigaret
shortage because there's a short
age oi cigarets.
The simple fact, they said, Is
that manufacturers can't pro
duce enouah ciearets tn meet
Increasing armed service de-
mana, nigner civilian consump
tion, and over-buyng at coun
ters. Contributing fact ore. wit
nesses agreed, are manpower
shortages In ' cigaret factories
which prohibit expansion of
Droduction. and. tn a pupr Hp-
gree, a tobacco leaf shortage.
ine ieat snortage, they empha
sized will become acute in an
other 10 to 12 months.
PLAN MORE TIRES
FOR WAR NEEDS
Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R)
The War Production Board has
ordered construction of new fa
cilities for manufacturing military-type
tires to increase out
put by 4,000,000 tres a year to
meet rising battlefront demands.
WFB Chief of Operations Hlland
G. Batcheller disclosed todday.
CONTRACT LET
Sacramento, Dec. 13 (U.R)
The U. S. army engineers dis
trict office today announced
award of a contract for $396,000
to McDonald and Kahn, San
Francisco, for Installation of an
automatic sprinkler system at
Sierra ordnance depot, Reno,
Nev.
A California redwood, 364
feet high, it the tallest tree In
the world,
Plants on
War Bulletins
U. 8. Pacific Fleet Head
quarters, Pearl Harbor, Dec.
13. (U.R) Pearl Harbor of
ficials declined comment to
day on Australian radio re
ports that Adm. Chester W.
Nimits, commander In chief
oi Pacific ocean areas, would,
move his headquarters to'
Guam soon.
London, Dec. 13 (U.R) The
Insurgent ELAS forces appar
ently held control of tha
Athens radio station today. It
was broadcasting attacks on
British forces.
GENERAL STRIKE
DETROITjECTOR
War Workers Asked Not to
Leave Jobs to Picket
' Ward Stores.
Detroit, Dec. 13 (U.R) Union
leaders today admonished war
workers against leaving their
jobs in support of striking Mont
gomery Ward Sc Company em
ployes, but said all other support
would be given the United Re
tail, Wholesale Sc .Department
Store workers in a campaign to
force government action against
the firm's defiance of the war
labor board. -
Richard Frankensteen. inter
national vice president of the
powerful United Auto Workers
(CIO) union, and August Scholle,
state CIO director, asserted that
fears of a general strike In this
war production center over the
Ward issue were unfounded. -
"The UAW will support the
Ward employes In every way
except Joining them in, strike
action," Frankensteen said. "The
issue, serious as it is, should not
Interfere with munitions sup
ply." Most Detroit war workers
are affiliated with the UAW-
CIO.
Labor members of the region
al WLB Joined the picketing of
four Ward stores here as an
estimated 1,650 or 2,200 full-
time employes extended their
walkout in its fifth day.
Striking Ward workers, mem
bers of CIO's United Retail,
Wholesale Sc Department Store
employes, formed the spearhead
of a concerted CIO drive to
break Montgomery Ward's re
sistance of a 1942 WLB order.
The order called for union secur
ity and minimum wages in
seven states where Ward oper
ates retail outlets.
PLANTS FAVORED
Sacramento, Dec. 13 (U.R)
Legislation to authorize joint
construction and operation by
farmers of cold storage plants
when "normal" cold storage fa
cilities are not adequate to avert
crop losses will be considered at
a meeting Friday summoned by
A. A, Brock, director of agricul
ture, Brock announced today.
Brock said approximately 70,
000 tons of California bumper
peach crop rotted this year be
cause canneries could not keep
up with production, and that
550,000 bags of potatoes were
lost to human consumption for
similar reasons.
The, amount of money lost by
Delta district onion growers
would have paid for a cold stor
age warehouse, Brock said.
arabTanlTne HIT
Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 13.
(U.R) The proposed Arabian pipe
line to be built by federal agen
ies today was branded "tanta
mount to power politics," and
"practically a prime mover in
World War IU," by Congress
man B. W. Oearhart, R., Calif.,
following the annual meeting of
the San Joaquin Valley Oil Pro
ducers association here.
Home Island Blasted
BEVINS TELLS OF
SOVIET-BRITISH
DEALONGREECE
Pact Initialled by F.D.R. at
Quebec Parley Elas
Force Open Offensive.
Athens, Dec. 13 (U.R) Elas
forces opened a full scale attack
from all directions on a shrink
ing British pocket in the heart
or Atnens toaay, ana in one sec
tor broke Into the compound of
a military barracks. ,
London, Dec. 13 U.R) Labor
Minister Ernest Bevin revealed
today that Britain had an agree
ment with Russia regarding the
"stabilization" of Greece, and
that proposals concerning Greece
were initiated by President
Roosevelt at Quebec.
Bevin, in a blunt speech at the
British labor party's annual con
ference, disclosed that the labor
ministers in Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill's cabinet took
part in the decisions on Britain's
policy in Greece, and "looking
back, I cannot convince myself
that any of these decisions were
wrong." .
After Bevln's candid speech
wnicn in effect comprised a de
fense of Churchill and labor
leaders with - regard -to -their
policy in -the- current Greek
crisis, the army approved a com
promise resolution urging an Im
mediate armistice in Greece,
establishment - of a provisional
government and eventually free
elections. " '
(Informed sources In Washing
ton said that whatever Balkan
political stabilization plans Mr.
Roosevelt and Churchill initiated
in Quebec, could not have antic
ipated the present civil war in
Greece. No one in Washington
officialdom Interpreted Bevln's
speech as meaning the president
approved of any plans for Inter
ference, in the Greek political
and military crisis of the last
ten days.) . - . ,
Portland, Ore., Dec. 13 (U.R)
The world peace plans laid at
Dumbarton Oak ahnnlrl ha thnr.
oughly understood by all citi
zens, declared Adm. Arthur J.
nepDurn of Washington, D. C,
leader of A atate denartmiint
delegation here to conduct a
series of conferences with Port
land area citizens.
Adm. Henburn la hparf nf th
U. S. navy general board and
was senior military delegate to
the Dumbarton Oaks conference.
"The general misconception of
me peace plan is that an Inter
national arm V wnillH h nraan.
ized. Instead, each nation in the
United Nations group would
make a military force available
under a joint command aiirh aa
the Allies are now fighting un
der,- tne admiral explained.
Third Time Charm
Deserts Cracksman
New York. Itw. 1.1 flIPl
Two burglars broke into an of
fice building looking for safes
hj cracK. iney rouna tnree. on
the first thev lledffe-hammareri
the dial, but couldn't work the
tumblers. They hammered the
second ,dui couiant open It
Thev bored a hole In th thlrri
opened the door and found It
empty.
San FranHwn Tlnn ii n i d
Members of a house subcom
mittee on naval affalra srrlvH
on the island of Guam, today,
Jackson County sales to date
In the Sixth War Loan are
"E" Bond $445,870
Total Sates
S1.989.374
BY B-29
Offensive Speeds Evacua
tion of Major Industries
From Key Cities.
Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R)
Heavy explosions and large ,
fires were reported by Super- .
fortresses which made a day
light attack today on Kagoya.
Japan, home of the Mitsubishi
aircraft plant
The raid was carried out by
a "sisable" force of the mam
moth planet from the 21st
bomber command base on Sal
pan, a 20th air force communi
que said.
Fighter opposition was alight
and flak opposition was moder
ate, the communique added.
No reports of any bomber
losses or enemy fighter planea
destroyed were Included in tha
report which said such informa
tion would be given after final
reports of the crews were care
fully tabulated. ,
Nagoya, scene, of the 24th
Superfortress raid on Japan's re
sources, is one of Japan's four
principal Industrial manufactur
ing centers, a city of nearly 1,.
500,000.
It wa 'Understood the Mlt.
sublshi plant was the main tar
get although the communique)
did -not specifically say so.
"Preliminary reports from
Brig. Gen. H. S. Hansell. corn
mander of the 21st bomber com
mand based on Saipan. reveal
that tha bombing was accom
plished visually and that heavy
explosions and large fires war
observed in the target area," thai
communique said.
It appeared from communi
ques Issued thus far on the at
tack that upwards of 100 B-29i
participated. -
Washington, Dec. 13 U.R
Upwards of 100 B-29 Superfort
resses bombed the great aircraft
center of Nagoya and other tar
gets on the main Japanese island
of Honshu today, and enemy
broadcasts admitted that tha
mounting aerial offensive was
forcing the evacuation of major
industries from Tokyo and other
key cities.
A German DNB dispatch from
Tokyo said single B-29s also had
made new nuisance raids on the
greater Tokyo area itself during
the night, dropping high explo
sive and incendiary bombs
"which fell almost entirely in
coastal waters without causing
damage."
The war department announced
today's attack on industrial tar
gets on Honshu without naming
any specific objectives, but near
ly three hours later Tokyo said
the Superfortresses had hit the
"vicinities" of Nagoya, 165 miles
southwest of Tokyo, and Hama
matsu, 55 miles southeast of Na
goya. Another Tokyo broadcast
heard in London said that as
Superfortresses attacks against
Japan steadily increased, "prior
ity in evacuation" was being
given the "most Important In
dustries" and non-essential civil
ians. The report' Indicates that
Japan, following the lead of
bomb-battered Britain and Ger
many, was setting up a system
of "shadow factories" dispersed
over the Japanese home Islands
to house industries now concen
trated in major cities, where
they offer juicy targets to Amer
ican bombardiers. - '
Axis radios yesterday said
that civilians were being evac
uated from Tokyo at the rate of
20,000 a day.
Nagoya, named by Tokyo aa
one of the main targets in to
day's B-29 attack, before the war
was Japan's biggest aircraft
manufacturing center. It was the
site of the Mitsubishi heavy in
dustries, which manufactured
aircraft, engines, hydro-electria
and general industrial equip
ment. New England now hat mora
area In some form of forest
growth than lt did 150 years ago.