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UPON 'HOLY SOIV
Gives Allies 3 Spring Boards
in Germany; Threaten to
Turn Seig'fried Line.
With U.. S. Seventh Army.
France, Dec. IS (U.R) Three
cUvisions ol the Tenth army
were lighting on German soil
tonight two west of Wissem
bourg and one near the Rhine
above Lauterbourg.
Paris, Dec. 15 (U.R) Lt. Gen.
Alexander M. Patch's seventh
army slashed across the German
border from Alsace Into the
Rhenish Palatinate west of
Karlsruhe today in the war's
third invasion of the Reich by
United States forces.
Patch's veterans of the drive
cross France from the Medi
terranean plunged their first
spearhead into Germany and
drew up in the border region
on a 19-mile front In a push
that threatened to turn the Sieg
fried line at its Karlsruhe el
bow. The first frontier crossing was
made In the area of Wissem
bourg, 19 miles west of Karls
ruhe and some 10 miles west of
the extreme northeastern tip of
France.
- The new invasion of Germany
gave Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er's American armies three
springboards on the Nazi-styled
"holy soil" of the reich the
great bridgehead carved out
west of Cologne by the first and
ninth armies, the foothold in the
Saarland won by the third army,
and now the seventh's seizure
of- the Palatinate territory.'
Only on , the seventh, army
front were tha Americans en
gaged In a war .of movement
against the Nazis. The first army
was massing on the west bank
of the Roer and hammering
down Nazi resistance in the out
skirts of Cologne, while stiff
German resistance had virtual
ly stalled the third army push
Into the Saar basin.
Four months to the day after
splashing ashore ' in southern
France, the seventh army units
smashed through the dumpy
Vosges foothills into Germany.
A German frontier sign mark
ed the border where the, first
troops of the seventh stepped
onto German soil at 1:30 p7 m.
The Siegfried itself lies about a
mile from the border in that
section. ,
Front dispatches said that an
other crossing Into Germany by
the seventh appeared Imminent
or perhaps already had been
achieved.
The 77th division was camp
ed last night at the border town
of Scheibenhard, two miles from
the Rhine in the corner of
France.
Twin columns spearing up the
Rhine valley north of Seltz
reached Scheibenhard during the
night and were attacking near
Lauterbourg at daybreak.
Strung out to the west were
various seventh army spearheads
or bulges comprising a virtually
solid front near the border,
their forward elements ready to
dash north and exploit any
weakness in the Siegfried de
fenses which the exploratory
move-up might reveal.
Wooster, C, Dec. 15 U.R)
Mrs. Otelia Compton, 85, th.e
American mother of 1939, was
found dead in bed at her home
here today.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Diamond Flynn backing Into
a bunch of lighted candles while
poised atop of an Outpost count
er to carry on emergency re
pairs. Amelia Hiles finding herself
a trifle confused.
Enid Ranken Joyful at meet
ing someone from her old home
town.
Dick Baize admiring the
bright new license plates re
ceived for his traffic cop motorcycle.
Navy
; ...
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Burning, bomb-blasted Hangars on
In their raid on the Jap-held field.
tton to this damage,
HOOD RIVER POST
OF ANTI-JAP ACT
. Hood River, Ore.,- Dec. 15
(U.R) Officials of the Hood River
American Legion post were
silent today on protests made
against post removal of 18 'Japanese-American
names from the
post honor roll but , the contro
versy will enliven the next meet
ing Monday night. K - ,
' Commander Jess Edlngton had
no comment as Secretary of War
Henry Stimson, Robert D. Coz
zens, assistant director of the
War Relocation Authority, and
church, labor and other Legion
groups voiced protest at the anti
Japanese action. Cozzens, a San
Francisco Legionnaire, demand
ed the names be returned to the
honor roll.. ' ,
The post removed the names
with the stated purpose "to snow
them they are not wanted back
here." It was understood that the
post also was backing a plan to
prevent return of the Japanese
Americans who formerly farmed
lr. this fertile valley by refusing
to sell or lease property to them.
The Japanese formerly, owned
many farms here.
Latest group to protest any ac
tion "proposing to cancel or to
deny to loyal citizens of Japan
ese ancestry the rights and duties
of their citizenship" was the San
Francisco Council of Churches.
Other protests were made by the
Portland Church Council, Ore
gon Labor Press, Capt. Belvidere
Brooks Legion post of New York
City and the Cheney, Wash,,
post.
E GETS BILL
Washington, Dec. 15 flJ.B'
The senate has passed and sent
to the house a bill by Sen. Ar
thur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich.,
which would prevent interfer
ence with broadcasts of pro
grams by educational lnstini'
Hons.
The bill, directed at Presi
dent James C. Petrillo of the
American Federation of Music
ians, was an outgrowth of an
incident several years ago when
Petrillo's union stopped a broad
cast by the children' orchestra
at Interlochen. Mich.
The bill makes it unlawful to
"conspire" to stop such a broad
cast or to interfere with prepara
tions for It. providing the broad
cast is carried free of charge as
as educational service.
Sacramento, Dec. 15 (UJ5
The state highway commission
today allocated $30,000 for grad
ing and surfacing between Hap
py Camp and Thompson Creek
in Siskiyou county.
Airmen B last Clark
. 'w! T&ifr
(Acme Telephoto)
Clark Field, former U. 8. Fnlllpplno base, prove success of Navy airmen
The raid was maie by carrier-based planes of the Third Fleet. In add!
mora than 400 Jao planes were destroyed. U. 8. Navy photo. '
War Bulletins
London, Dec. 15 (U.R)
More than 650 American Fly
ing Fortresses attacked indus
trial and rail targets in the
Hannover and Kassel areas of
weitern Germany today in a
resumption of the aerial of
fensive against the nail com
munication and supply lines to
the western front.
By United Press i--.
- The allied military govern
ment in Germany will dissolve
the nail-controlled labor .front
but German workers will fee
permitted to form democratic
trade unions, a proclamation
issued in the name of Gen.
Dwight D. Elsenhower told the
German people today.
The proclamation, 12th in a
series explaining AMG plans
la Germany, was broadcast to
Germany and reported by the
. FCC. .
' Rome, Dec. 15 (U.R) Ca
nadian troops of the 8th army
expanded - their bridgehead
over the Lamone river to 10
miles in width aud two and
a half miles in depth today
after beating off repeated
tank-supported German counter-attacks.
Southeast Asia Headquar
ters, Sandy, Ceylon, Dec. 15
(U.R) Allied troops have re
captured the former base of
Buthidaung, 45 miles north
west of the Burmese port of
Akyab, and cleared a village
two miles to the south. ,
Chungking, Dec. 15 (U.R)
. Chinese troops continued their,
advance sot.t heastward
through Kkangii province to
day, driving, a strong Japa
nese raiding party back with
in 100 miles or less of the cap
tured American air base at
Liuchow.
ex-naziWefs
held in russia
beg for revolt
Moscow, Dec. 15 (U.RV-Mar-
shal Friedrich von Faulus, for
mer German commander at Stal
ingrad, and 49 other captured
German generals addressed an
Impassioned appeal to the Ger
man army today to overthrow
Adolf Hitler and Helnrich Himm
ler and make peace before the
army Is entirely destroyed.
The appeal, published In the
soviet press and broadcast over
the Moscow radio by von Paulus,
was relayed over loud-speakers
in the Russian front lines. Mil
lions of copies also were dropped
over the German lines by soviet
planes. - ....
Von Paulus said Germany al
ready has lost the war and called
on the German people and army
"to rise for the act of salvation
against Hitler, Himmler, and the
baleful system."
Field
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TO
OBEY DIRECTIVES
BY NEXT MONDAY
Washington, Deo. 15 (U.R)
The War Labor Board today or
dered Montgomery Ward & Co.
to comply with WCB directives
on wages, union security and
other issues in six cities by Monday.-
Otherwise, the noncom
pliance case will be referred to
the Office of Economic Stabiliza
tion for sanctions or seizure, the
board said.
The WLB action was Identical
with that taken yesterday in re
gard to four company stores in
Detroit, where a strike has been
in progress.
WLB public member Frank P.
Graham, who presided at the
hearings today for the six other
disputes, said that the board had
offered the coniDany the ODDor-
tunity of an adjourned hearing
on the question of its compliance
on or before Monday but that in
any event there would be "no
further delay" in enforcing the
WLB directives.
The units affected by today's
action are located in San Fafael,
Calif., St. Paul, Minn., Chicago.
uenver, Colo., Portland, Ore.,
and Jamaica, N. Y.
OPPOSESStLE
OVERSEAS ROUTE
San Francisco, Dec. 15 (U.R)
Alexander B. Royce, chairman
of the airline committee nn U. a.
air policy representing 17 major
American air carriers, today de
clared Dostwar onerntlnn of
single overseas U. S. airline
would "inevitably mean crea
tlon of an international cartel."
Royce, opposing the "chosen
instrument" policy advocated by
Pan-American Airways and
United Airlines, said at a press
conference that ther wer "un
limited, possibilities for both do
mestic and over-ocean air traf
fic if regulated competition were
permitted in both spheres oi
business.
San Francisco, Dec. 15 U.R)
Production of critical war
materials for both the European
and Pacific fronts, lagging dur
ing the fall, has taken an up
ward turn this month coincident
with new work-or-fight orders
and a share decrease of civilian
complacency, War Production
Board Chairman Julius Krug
aid today. .
Pre-InvasionA
E
OF LUPFS DEATH;
Fatal Potion May Have Been
Smuggled Into Land; Eye
Status of Actor Lover.
Hollywood, Dec. 15-(U.R)
The lovelorn death Lupe Velez
chose . rather than shame her
unborn baby, today precipitated
a flurry of investigations as
such as would have delighted
the puckish nature of the Mex
ican spitfire. :
Chief C. H. Anderson of the
Beverly Hills police said he
would see if the Seconal sleep
ing pills ' she took yesterday
were smuggled into this coun
try. Coroner ' Frank W. ' Nance
called for a full Investigation
of the circumstances of Miss
Velez' death, and was particu
larly Incensed at Chief Ander
son for "obstructing" the coron
er. .... . . .
- Tha Bureau of Immigration
began an investigation into the
citizenship status of French Ac
tor Harold Ramond. a French
citizen bom In Austria of
French add Jugoslav parents
and the man Lupe said had left
her to bear her child alone.. He
said he had at plied for U. S.
citizenship, but Immigration Bu
reau Chief Albert Del Guerclo
said he had no record of it, nor
any of Ramond's being an. en
emy alien.
' Nance complained to tha dis
trict attorney that Anderson had
withheld the suicide notes from
the coroner's office for several
hours. . ....
"According to tha law,"
Nance said, "all information
should be turned over to the
coroner's office immediately."
Meanwhile, the body of Lupe
lay in solitude at Forest Lawn
Memorial park, where it was
taken within a few hours after
she chose death rather than be
come an unwed mother or "mur
der" the infant.
SENATE QUARTET
OPPOSED TO ALL
SIX NOMINATIONS
Washington, Dec. 15 (U,R
Four senators who feel that the
six pending state department
nominations- "considered togeth
er" fail to reflect the senate's
attitude on foreign policy, de
cided today to carry to the sen
ate floor their- tight to force
withdrawal of the entire list.
' The-four Sens. Joseph F.
Guffey, D., Fla., Claude Pepper,
D., Fla., James E. Murray, D
Mont., and Robert M. LaFollette,
Prog., Wis. -said they would of
fer a resolution requesting that
President Roosevelt withdraw
the six nominations whenever
they are called ' Up ' f or ' senate
consideration.
- They made a' similar motion
yesterday in the senate foreign
relations committee but it was
defeated on a vote of 12 to 4
The six nominations were on
the senate's calendar-today, but
their conrMcration was delayed
by other legislative matters. The
senate acted on a conference re
port on the $500,000,000 post
war rivers and harbors Improve
ment program and a $564,794,
3B5 deficiency appropriation
measure.
In addition. Sen. Albert B.
Chandler, D Ky., said he was
determined that the senate
should consider the nominations
of Lt. Col. Edward H. Heller and
former Gov. Robert Hurley of
Connecticut as members of the
surplus war property disposal
board ahead of the state depart
ment nominations.
Actress Suicide
.
' (Acm Telwhoto)
Lupe Veles, fiery Mexican actress
found dead In her Hollywood apart
ment or an overdose ol sleeping pow
der. She left a note saying that she
was taking nor lire ratner than ne
- coma an unwed mother.
FANATICAL NAZIS
STALL RED ARMY
Moscow Silent, Berlin- Frets
Over Battle to Austrian
Invasion Road. .
London, Dee. 15 (U.R)
Soviet troops, swinging far to
the north of embattared Buda
pest in a direct thrust toward
Vienna, captured the Csecho
slovakian river town of Ipoly
sag (Sahy), 116 miles east of
the Austrian capital, a Mos
cow communique . said to
night. ' London, Dec. 15-(U.P.) Fana
tical German resistance appear
ed to have stalled the Red army
momentarily at the gates of
Budapest today but jittery axis
spokesmen admitted that soviet
pressure was increasing hourly
and called on the 'Hungarian
people to make their capital "an
other Stalingrad."
Moscow, as usual in the cli
mactic stages of a great offen
sive, remained silent on the pro
gress of the assault on Budapest.
The early morning communique
centered on the fighting to the
north and northeast where con
verging soviet columns struck in
force along the Slovak-Hungarian
border in a bid to trap thou
sands of Germans in, the moun
tains of eastern Slovakia. .
Berlin commentators, how
ever, reported ferocious tank and
Infantry battles all along the 60-
mlle siege arc extending two-
thirds of the way. around Buda
pest from the northeast to the
southwest.
The Germans said upwards of
1,500,000 Russian and Romanian
troops had been hurled into the
spreading battle for Hungary in
a gigantic effort to engulf Buda
pest, roll up the nazi flanks
above and below the capital, and
lay open the Invasion road to
Austria.
Both sides were reported suf
fering heavy casualties along the
east, bank of the Danube where
German counter-attacks and a
formidable screen of fortifica
tions temporarily blocked Mar
shal Rodion Y. Mallnovskys
Second Ukrainian army drive
through the outskirts of Pest.
riVE DIE IN CRASH
Greenville, S. C, Dec. 150J.R)
The army announced today that
five men were killed in the
crash - of medium bomber
Wednesday night. Two others
wsre injured in tha accident.
ir Blows Fall
REDS' CLAIM IN
IMPUTE
Cede East Prussia to Poland
In Exchange for Buffer
State, Is Plan.
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill today endorsed tha Soviet
Union's claim to a post-war "buf
fer state" served out of eastern
Poland and tacitly invited the
United States to make public its
stand on the explosive Russo-Pol-
ish .dispute.
In a far-reaching definition of
the British policy on post-war
European settlements, Churchill
told the house of commons that
Great Britain will support Rus
sia at the peace conference in de
manding territorial concessions
from Poland in the east.
In return, tha greater part of
East Prussia would be ceded to
Poland, ha said, suggesting also
that there would be no objection
from, Britain or Russia if the
Poles also pushed out their west
ern bordara into Germany
proper. - "
The ' British-backed Russian
plan, ' Churchill said, envisages
.the . virtual extrlpation ot the
Prussian-state, with the forced
removal from their homeland of
most of the Prussian junkers
who traditionally have been the
heart and soul of the German
military machine.
The. prime minister revealed
that the United States Is fully
aware of the 'agreement reached
between Russia and Britain on
the Polish question and that to
date it has not voiced any objec
tion..;;.
- He implied, however, that the
tuna has come for a definite
American statement on the prob
lem, and announced that he
would "welcome" a conference
with - President Roosevelt and
Soviet Premier Josef Stalin at
the earliest possible date, and
preferably in Britain.
It had been hoped that the
leaders of the three major al
lied powers would meet before
Christmas, he said, but this
proved Impossible.
As a result, urgent decisions
"on a host of vital matters . .
stand at the bar and wait."
BLOOD TEST KEY
IN CHAPLIN SUIT
Hollywood, Dec. 14 (U.R)
Four women jurors tentatively
named to decide whether Joan
Barry's baby girl is also Charlie
Chaplin's agreed today that
their decision would take Into
account results of a paternity
Diood test.
Attorney Pat Mllllkan,. de
fending the sliver-topped corned'
Ian against charges that he is the
father of chubby, curley-haired
Carol Ann, questioned prospec
tive talesmen as it appeared the
trial might' end its third day
without a jury.
He asked their opinions about
mother love, the Importance of
blood tests and whether they
thought the fact a man had rela
tions with a woman in Novem
be meant he alio would have
had them in December.
SUPERFORTGREW
SAVED FROM SEA
Saipan, Dec. 15 U.R) V I a
Navy Radio) Eleven crewmen
of a Superfortress forced down
between Japan and Saipan on
the return trip from the Nagoya
bombing Dec. 13 were rescued
by an American destroyer after
spending 17 hours on bobbing
life rafts attached to their par
tially submerged B-29.
On Luzon
2 ARSENAL CITIES
OF JAPAN RATED
Leyte Campaign Near End,
Costs Foe 82,000 Casual
ties; Nimitz to Guam.
By United Press
A devastating nre-!nvn.ln
strike on Luzon that may point
the way to the next nhnw n tha
battle of the Philippines was an
nounced today as Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's forces on Leyte
rushed into its final stage a cam
paign that in 55 days has cost
the Japanese more than 82,000
casualties.
American Suterfnrtr. frnm
Saipan continued their almost-
aauy forays against central
Japan this morning. The enemy
radio described the attacks aa
"nuisance" fire raids on Tokyo
and reconnaissance flights over
the arsenal cities of Kobe end
Osaka.
The Kobe-Osaka district la
nrobablv the mult Imnnrtnnt In.
dustrial target in Japan, and tha
observation flights suggested
wai Dotn. cities are likely soon
to ba visited in force by tha
B-29s. , ....
Carrier plane of the Pacific-
fleet spearheaded the new strike
on Luzon yesterday, pounding
Japanese-held harbor and air
field Installations on, the north
ern Island and destravlns at
least 91 enemy planes.
Philippine-based bombers Join
ed in the assault, hammering
the Legaspl airdrome, sinking
three 1,000-ton Japanese freight
ers off the island's southwest
coast and harassing shipping In
Manila bay. with unannounced
results.
The "double blow was regard
ed as-another major step In the
softening-up of Luzon for in
vasion as soon as MacArthur's
toops have wound up the battle
of Leyte If not sooner.
MacArthur's headquarters an
nounced that In the first 55 daya
of the Leyte invasion 33,801
Japanese bodies have been
counted, 18,500 others remained
unburied In the jungles or were
collected by the enemy, 30,000
were believed to have been
drowned in convoy sinkings and
253 have, been captured.
Those losses were more than
eight times the total American
casualties on Leyte, 10,400 in
cluding 2,176 killed, 7,867
wounded and 257 missing. .
Yesterday the American 77th
division pushed a mile north of
Ormoc, within 12 to 14 miles of
a junction with the 3 2d division
moving down toward Ormoc.
Between the two forces an esti
mated 20,000 to 25,000 Japa
nese were pocketed, and the
juncture of the two American
forces would virtually end the
Leyte campaign.
That other bad news was
brewing for the Japanese was
indicated strongly in the an
nouncement that Adm. Chester
W. Nlmltz Is moving his ad
vanced Pacific headquarters
"far west" of Pearl Harbor to
direct the campaign against
Japan at close range. Australian
sources said Nimitz' new stand
would be on the American naval
station at Guam, 1600 miles
south of Tokyo.
DENIES CORCORAN TALK
Washington, Dec. 15 4U.R)
Former Undersecretary of Com
merce Edward J. Noble denied
today that he had called on
Thomas G. Corcoran, former
presidential adviser, to use his
Influence to sidetrack a congres
sional investigation of Noble's
purchase of New York radio sta
tion WMCA.
Jackson County sales to date
In the Sixth War Loan are
"t" Bonds : $472,227
"I" Quota .. $600,003
Total Sales
82,167,131