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tho most Important news In
e world to the relative of the
cn a these organizations.
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ENSOnSUIP as lo CHINA Is
even relnxlntt a little.
It niiiiomicud today that
mtrlcniis In Kweichow ana
man provinces nuve uu.n u.
..j i Kviiciintc in the face ol
IENACING Jan columns driv
IidccDcr Into China toward the
urm road.
in imnortnnl section of the
lurma rond between Kunming
Id Chungking runs Ihrouiih
wclchow. iiunan ties jyni eui
i Kwcichnw. (Chinese prov-
Ictt correspond roughly to our
law.)
0 for In November, our car
1 rlcr nlnncs 111 the Philip.
InMircii hnvc sunk or dumaKcd
Ul Jan ships 4B ot them nisi
rddny-nlone. "No wonder the
laps are fiRhtliiK hard for HAIL
Ir.AnC In tin. inlnrlnr.
The present point is thai 1 wc
n sink and damage ENOUGH
I their ships, they will hnvc to
Bit the Philippines battle with
.t forces they HAVE THERE
IOW,
'IlTErt and bloody fighting
toes on in Europe with little
fr.ince of oositlon,
i Eisenhower's mirnose Is lo
BESTROY the Geririnn nrmlcs,
lid II makes no great difference
HERE he does It. As nearly
V wc can Indue from the (lis.
alches, we have gained about a
lie and n half in tho Aachen
lolomic men. but Von Hiuul
Icdl. the I1H7.1 commander there,
Is been forced to COMMIT
IEW RESERVES lo the fighting
I Wo Imvo more reserves than
o enemy has. It wo can force
Sm to throw In his reserves anil
n then destroy them we'll be
kcomplislihig our purpose. In
e long run, It makes little till-
fence whether we destroy tne
"man armies WEST ' ot tho
nine or EAST of It,
nE'RE heavily bombing Ger-
man niiiy Cl'llll'ra 13ll.n.
the western front as we did
France. (If wn rnn slnn thnir
' . . . - .
T,ra a n a reinforcements,
If 11 hove them at a critical dis.
p vintage.)
Our continuing attacks on nazl
" IHCl llp nri. 1'i.i.nrlnrl In In.
m dlsnntclica to hnvc dlmln
kiwi ui-ptitlu n.n ..rrini.....i nr
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Fighter Planes Bomb,
Strafe Saipan
B-29 Base
Klamaths Buy Bonds
By VERN HAUGLAND
SAIPAN, Marianas Islands,
Nov. 27 (Delayed) (I") In an
obvious attempt to retaliate for
the first D-20 rnld upon Tokyo,
Japanese fighter planes twice
bombed and strafed the Saipan
Superfortress base today at a
cost of at least 13 Nipponese
aircraft.
Thero was no announcement
of American damage,
No Commtnt
Brig. Gen. Haywood Hansell
Jr.. commander of the 21st
bomber command, said he had
no comment because the de
fense of the island was not Ills
responsibility, but at a press
conference beforo the first
Tokyo raid he warned that the
Japanese would react Instantly
and strongly to an auacx on
their mainland, Inevitably In
flicting some damage on this
base, but at a high cost.
The first attack was by two
or three low-flying airplanes
which bombed and strafed Sai
pan shortly after midnight to
day. The . raid lasted only a
couple of minutes. .
Dosen Strlk
At noon more than a dozen
fighters boldly struck, dropping
a few bombs and stroflng Irom
as low as 300 feet; Anti-aircraft
gunners brought down ai icasi
seven; P-38's and P-47's tackled
the Japanese planes as soon as
they left the ainli-alrcraft rongc
ond brought down six more In
running battles extending over
several hundred miles to the
north, olmost to I wo island in
the Volcanic group.
The early morning attack
sent everyone running to rarely
used shelters. Half a dozen men
neglected to put on their shoes
(Continued on Pago Two)
Bombs Dumped on
Supply Centers
i nNnnN Nnv. 28 WP) At
least 1000 RAF heavy bombers
In prc-dnwn raids today hurled
some 4000 tons of explosives on
Ncuss and Freiburg, German
supply centers Just back of the
western front, as the sustained
72-hour assault on nazi front
line rail and supply centers con
tinued. Freiburg lies behind the Mul-house-Kolmar
sector where the
French first army and the Amer
ican seventh army are pressing
up to the western bank of the
Klllnc. American iiunyj
niinoVort r.nmmn ra 1 move
mcnts at Of fenburg, north of
Freiburg, yesterday.
Mosqultos raided Berlin dur
ing the night.
r-L i f r V. -T 14 3 '
r
MyrU C. Adams, (center), chairman of the 6th War Loan
drive, smiles approvingly at a generous check supplied by the
Klamath Indians when they purchased $125,000 worth of war
bonds in this campaign. Left, Boyd Jackson, and to the right,
Selden Kirk. The tribe already has the following planes named
after them for previous bond purchasos, one bomber named
"Klamath" and two fighters, "Modoc" and "Yahooskin."
LEYTE BATTLE
IT STANDSTILL
IN OHG ID
Yanks Hit Jap Bases
On Cebu, Negros,
. Davao
rench-Canadian Soldiers
"Mutineers', Says Army Man
VANfYl!
IL" F''cnch-Cnnadlnn draftee
PPS S IltinnnH nl T,.rn n
1; who have demonstrated for
rre days against the
O" Sl'rvice net, were termed
rWinCCrs" trillnv h n.. nr.v,
"kesmnn. Thoi. ...... i.
wanetn i,.i .J1' "j
Ihtu .1 ",,u ueuii sioppuu
""O thev ri-rnn i i.i. .'.!,..
iJlieir officers. ..
.noue of commons was
i croi session to-
r ' 'a a dcmlnlnn. inllltlrm
K'lptlon la.ua after', dec"
rM!on ti-i mti.
iiifc iMKon,ta King that
n id. 8 onablo" unity
l" "It OllOSlinn U1.I I..J
"y Canada".
old B,? yar-old premier
.hit ."""""ment last night
J " he would n.i.. ii k.
V?,0.1 s?1 "'ron9 aupport In
Ken """.dene, to b.
hiln.j 7l week. Me
KluJ? ,hat thl upportmust
ripllt liberal party.
line
Fc. jrTn '""""'raiions nt Ter-
fiver ,. m"c" nortl o van
ft rwre .tlle Inrt?cst of a
ovro if1 ,n Hr't'sh Colunv
my tnntl10 woc'!rt and tho
150n Z mnn cllmntod 10U0
me Particbated in a
parade and slldown last night.
Ho added that not more than 25
per cent of the troops in the
area were Involved.
"Don't Want lo Go"
The spokesman said the griov
.. nf tlm men at Terrace
"bolls down to the fact they
jusi cion i wnnv iu ku uvu,h.m,
The sit-down accompanied a
rlnmnnulrnllnn with rifles by a
regiment of French-Canadian
troops stationed at the village
of Terrace on the northern
British Columbia coast.
Tho nrmed demonstration and
sit-down was related by a cor
the Prince Ru
pert Daily .News, who said no
violence or uhiiuiku who. ih.
cd.
Members of the unit had de
manded from army headquarters
In Ottawa that, they be return
ed to their homes In Quebec
and were awaiting a reply, the
correspondent reported.
Meanwhile at Vernon, B. C.,
far south and Inland, an indi
rect answer to the draft protest
ers was given by the army in
the squelching of an attempted
second demonstration there by
military police, and the read
ing of section seven of the
king's rules and regulations of
Canadn to every man in the
Vernon camp.
Bomb Dump Explodes, Kills
20-250 in English Village
BURTON -ON -TRENT, Eng-
land, Nov. 28 (IV) Estimates of
the death toll in yesterday's ex
plosion of an RAF underground
bomb dump still ranged from
20 to more. than 250 today. A
former British army officer de
clared "enough bombs for hun
dreds of- major raids on Ger
many were detonated in tne
blast. ;
Scores of persons "simply dis-
BUDAPEST BATTLE
By DANIEL DE LUCE
MOSCOW, Nov. 28 iP) The
heaviest snowfall of the year
following a severe sleet storm
slowed down action today in the
battle for Budapest.
German and Hungarian troops
were occupying defense positions
along a 20-mile curve from the
southern limits of Budapest to
tho rail junction of Aszod on the
northeast, front advices said.
Situation Tense
Tho Russian command made
no mention ol progress on tnai
front although reports here said
the situation In the Hungarian
capital was tense.
Tho soviet war bulletin, how
nvpr reiiortcd capture of 50 ad
ditional hamlets in the puppet
state of Slovakia. Red army
columns in a six-mile penetra
tion of northern Slovakia crossed
tho 2700 foot Carpatnian moun
tains along tho Polish frontier,
nihnr units in the south ad-
vnnr -H to within 11 miles of the
big north Hungarian rail center
ol snioraijaujneiy.
Widen Front
Thus Col. Gen. Ivan Petrov's
fnnrih Ukraine army widened
its front to 75 miles from a point
west ot DUKla pass in mo norm
down to the Hungarion frontier,
and further Imperiled the enemy
strongholds of Prcsvo and Kassa
(Kosice). , , .
Red army units only 25 miles
to the cast already menace those
two points.
EmilPotucek
Dies in Camp
Lt, Emil Polucck, 26, B-17
Flying Fortress pilot and hus
band of Mnric Potucek of Malin,
is reported to have died In a
German concentration camp on
October 10, two days after he
was shot down over the Helen,
Word of Lt. Potucck's death
was received Here tins wcoKcnu,
He was reported missing Novenv
ber 8.
In addition to his wife, Lt,
ri..ir u mirvlvod bv his moth
er, Mrs. Anna Polucck of Malin,
his father, Joo Potucek Sr., Bo
nanzn; three sisters, Mrs. Anna
Knoll of Tulelake, Mrs. Mildred
Holbrook of Malin, and Mrs.
Lydia Huff of Merrill, and two
brothers, Joe Jr., of Bonanza,
and George of Medlora.
Before entering tho service.
T.t Pntucck ODorntcd a small
restaurant In Malin and also had
been employed on various
ranches In that section. Mrs.
Potucek Is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Joe Wntkhis of Malin,
with whom she has made her
homo since her husband entered
tho service. t
appeared and until we can
cuecK up on them we are un
able to say whether they are
dead or alive," a Burton po
liceman said. The British Press
association said the toll might
mount to 250 or more.
' Air Raid Scare
One bomb burst and the rush
of air ' apparently acted as a
detonatorXor,.all- tho. bombs in
the dump, situated near Burton.
This detonating wave under
ground caused the earthquake
effect felt several miles away,
driving many persons to air
raid shelters.
The village vanished as the
blast shook the entire country
side like an earthquake, and
sent bombs high into the sky.
They rained down liko a large
scale enemy bombardment.
Scores Trapped
Scores were trapped in
wreckage. Rescuers tunneled
through rubble to bring out
saiciy 4U persons Burled in s
munitions works near the scene
Windows 32 miles awavwere
broken by the explosion, one of
Britain's worst in the war. Sec
ondary blasts followed.
uratcrs torn out bv falline
oomos Hampered rescue work.
ers.
Hundreds of cows were re-
ported killed. Buildings, trees
and telephone poles in the vi
cinity were hurled into the air
and shattered.
A cement factory was de
stroyed. Buildings at the bomb
depot simply disappeared.
nothing like it was ever
seen on a battlcfied," a witness
said. "Roads are turned up
Part of. a village is gone; the
rest is rubble. It looks as though
every house had a direct bomb
hit. Everywhere there are
craters."
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUAhTErtS, PKARL HARBOR,
Nov. -ii (H) The fight for Leyte
island slitnered to a virtual
standstill in the Ormoc corri
dor's mud as terrific rains fell,
but J. S. planes based on the is
land dropped 235 tons of bombs
on Japanese air installations on
Uebu and Negros, and at Davao
Friday, Gen. Douglas MacArth
ur's communique reported.
Tne toll ol Japanese ships
sunk or damaged this month in
relentless American carrier
plane raids on the Manila area
stood at 151 today with upward
revision of figures on Friday's
strike which bagged 48 ships
and 7 airplanes.
Adds to bcore
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in a
communique added two" ships
sunk and 23 damaged to tne
earlier score. . . :: :
In the Friday strikes. Hellcat
fighters and anti-aircraft batter
ies on American surtace snips
have downed 58 Japanese
planes, in addition to 29 more
destroyed and ii prooapiy dam-
aeed on the ground.
Adm. . Nimitz' communique
listed the following vessels sunk
in the attacks:
Cruiser Sunk
A heavy cruiser at Santa
Cruz, on- the west coasf of Lu
ion". ,. h-- .w
One destroyer at Santa Cruz.
Two old destroyers at Marin-
duque island, about 100 miles
southeast of Manila.
One destroyer escort.
(Continued on Page Two)
BRUSSELS. Nov. 28 UP)
British tanks and steel-helmeted
trooDS ffuard the Belgian parlia
ment today as the chamber of
deputies gave Premier Hubert
Pierlot a vote of commence.
Street car workers had struck
several hours earlier, demand-
ing -resignation of the Pierlot
government, and columns of
marchers were reported converg
ing on the tense capital to join
in a national day ol protest
tomorrow against Pierlot's re
gime.
British troops set out to dis
arm one column ot boo march
ers from Mons. First reports
said 200 persons of the Mons
delegation had surrendered arms
without a struggle.
The chamber of deputies voted
118 to 12 for Pierlot s bill vest
ing him with extraordinary pow
ers.
Major Joe Foss Reporting
.x "I
Vi ' " ' It
Msior Joe Foss, South Dakota boy who made good in the air
In early days of South Pacific fighting, has reported for duty at
the Marine Barracks. He will be on the Pelican itage at both
matinee and evening performances of the 6th War Loan show
Wednesday. Major Fosi will have duty here as assistant plans
and training officer. Official Marine Corps Photo
Major ae Foss to
Headline Jamboree
-Major Joe ' Foss, American
ace, will speak at the 6th War
Loan bond program at the Peli
can Wednesday.'
Announcement that the fam
ous ' airman would appear at
both matinee and evening per
formances was made Tuesday
from the Marine Barracks where
Major Foss has reported for
duty.
BOND SHOW;
: Matinee, 2 p. m.! evening
performance, . B oiclock. No
seats reserved. General ad
mission, downstairs and bal
cony, $100 war bond; loges,
$500 war bond.
Major Foss, first American
ace to tie the enviable record
of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker of
World War 1 fame, will be in
troduced by Lt. Col. George O.
Van Orden, commanding offic
er at the barracks.
The 29-year-old marine, back
from his second combat tour of
the Pacific, didn't have a chance
to better the 26-Jap-plane record
he rung up during the early
days of the island fighting.
Squadron Commander '
Out for seven months and
based on Emarau, some . 40D
miles north of Bougainville,
Maior Foss was squadron-com
mander of VMF 115, a Corsair
fighter group nicknamed "Joe's
Jokers" for its famous leader.
But, because of a decided lack
of aerial opposition. "Joe's Jok
ers" ' became a dive-bombing
outfit.
In contrast to the rough' days
in 1942. when the Sioux Falls,
S. D. flier was operating from
newly-won Henderson field on
Guadalcanal and had a fight on
his hands every time he put his
Grumman Wildcat in the sky,
Foss and his crew operated over
Rabaul and Kaveieng, (New
Britain and New Ireland) from
last February until September
without ever seeing a Jap plane
in the air. - ......
Wet Jap
' In fact, the only one he saw
anywhere was in the water,
having been snot down or
crashed previously.
Despite the antt - aircraft
screen, light and medium stuff,
which Joe says was terrific
(Continued on Page Two)
Where the First and Ninth Armies Battle
r rlpp
American first and ninth armies are fighting in the Cologne area. Latest reports show that
ninth army men reached the Roer river at Kirchberg, 23 miles from Cologne, and that first
army units reached inaen, thro milts irom tne noer.
AFL Ignores CIO,
UMW Rebuff
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 28 UP)
The American Federation of La
bor voted here today to ignore
tne "rebuff from the CIO and
the United Mine Workers and
to renew AFL efforts to bring
the two organizations back into
the parent federation.
- The convention action was
taken by the 600. delegates after
William Green had offered to
resign the AFL presidency, if
necessary, to restore labor sol
idarity.
U. S. THRUSTS
NEAR ARSENAL
P0ST0FS1
Northern Units Reach
Roer River, Pound"
Cologne Defense ;
LONDON. Nov. 28 UP) Third
army doughboys thrust within
84 miles of Saarbrucken, arsenal '
capital of the Saar, today while '
their comrades to the north
reached the Roer river and '
punched deeper into the Ger-'
man defenses guarding Cologne. :
Simultaneously with the ad-
vance on Saarbrucken, other
third army units cut into Ger-:
many at a new point alone a .
seven-mile front, thrusting with-
in 34 miles of Saarlautern. This
fresh invasion gave Lt.-Gen. Pat-;
ion s men a zu-mue front inside .
the Reich, and control of more .
than 40 square miles of Ger
many. .. :.
Wholesale Retreats .
The. German radio announced
wholesale retreats both north"
and south of Strasbourg tonieht.
The enemy said the U. S. third
and seventh armies were push-'
iiik armies into me aaar irom a .
French triangle along the Rhine
southeast of Hagenau and north
of Strasbourg. ... .'
''Relentless enemy pressure '
south of the- Rhine-Rhone canal .
has led to a planned withdraw-'
al to shorten our lines," Berlin "
said of the flight below the Alsa
tian city. -
. f lgnt In Streets
Surging forward in ore-dawn
blackness, first army infantry of -Lt.
Gen. Courtney H. - Hodges
fought into the streets of Inden
and Jugersdorf and close to
Lamersdorf. ' "
The U. S. 9th army reached
the Roer at Kirchberg, 23 miles .
from Cologne and less than .a
mile across the . muddy Roer
from the citadel of Julich. .
Unconfirmed .
A French broadcast asserting v
that' French units of the U. S.-7th-
army had crossed the Rhine -north
of Strasbourg had no con
firmation. ' ... " .' ,';
- The nearest third army ap-';
proach to Saarbrucken, sprawl
ing. steel and coal, center, was at
captured . Seingbousse to. the
southwest..: . :'' ; .
First . army troops "won ; two
thirds' of Langerwehe, -. last rim--portant
enemy communications-
point west of tnejtoer.-,;uerman..
(Continued on -rage xwoj- , .
NIPS DRIVE NORTH
TOWARD KWEIYAMG
By SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING, Nov. 28 (fl1)
Japanese invasion forces have,
thrust northward from captured
Hochih into Kweichow province
in their drive toward Kweiyang,
provincial capital on the Burma
road, it was reported . unoffi
cially today.
If correct, it represented the
first Japanese invasion of Kwei
chow province since the war be
gan. All American and British
nationals have been ordered to
evacuate Kweichow province
and unoccupied portions qf Hu
nan province, - --- ..
At, the nearest- point the
Kweichow border is about 30
miles north of Hochih..
(A Tokyo broadcast previous-j
ly had reported that Japanese
troops had stabbed eight miles
into Kweichow province).
. The Chinese high command,
said one Japanese drive from
Lluchow had enveloped Hochih
in advancing to less ' than 140
miles southeast of Kweiyang
while, another enemy column
was pressing toward the proving
cial capital . from . Poaching, in
Hunan.
The evacuation order affected
missionaries,. Red Cross work
ers and representatives of va
rio'us civilian agencies.
5758 Vessels Lost in War
By Allies, Neutral Nations
By KARL R. BAUMAN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 P)
Shipping losses of the allies
and neutrals irom . tne begin
ning of the war through 1943
totaled 5758 vessels aggregating
22.161.000 gross tons. This was
officially announced today.
The British government re
leased through the office of war
information a - vear bv vear
breakdown of losses by Britain,'
the allies, including the United
States, and neutrals, presumably
in the service of the United
Nations. Simultaneously, ' the
war shipping administration an
nounced United States losses to
taled 753 vessels aggregating 3,
311,000 gross tons.
In the period covered by the
announcement, the United States
constructed about 30,000,000
deadweight tons of merchant
ships, roughly offsetting the
losses.
The maritime commission in
its construction reports used
deadweight tons as a measuring,
stick, while today's report spoke
in gross tons. A merchant ship's
deadweight tonnage is some
where in the neighborhood of
30 per cent greater than its
gross tonnage,
- Terms Explained
(Gross tonnage the entire ca
pacity of a ship expressed In
units of 100 cubic feet to the
ton; deadweight tonnage the
carrying capacity of a ship, In
cluding supplies as well as
cargo, expressed in long tons,
2240 pounds.) -
The report covered losses to
enemy action, as well as marine
casualties resulting from perils
of the sea. - :
No figures were given on
losses for 1944, but the : ratio
of construction t o losses I s
known to be extremely favor
able. ' -
Losses were severe In 1942,
followed by vast improvement
in 1943. ,