a a 1 WEATHER FORECAST YEARS LES Rais tomorrow, 47, tonight Low Temper sets 3:37 The Daily Progress OF PUBLIC SERVICE 1892-NO. 18,080 The Associated Press TAR Retreating die Offensive Extended Into all Islands Currier Planes Repel Blows Counter- CARL HARBOR, Nov. into Japan's a 1 is being pounded route and Navy bombers victorious while warty Gilberts troops seek out surviving ground enemy defenders froca aircraft carriers air blows developments, which tooting -down of 44. Jae by Aghters of only de wveral aircraft carrier INNINGTON, Nev. 1 hitting supply lines 1 States supporting the Gubert vere contained in yesof Adm.
Chester Bombed Japanese the Marshalls 450 miles the chief American Tarawa in the Gilberta, anew by Seventh Liberators. A spokesdaclosed that during raid earlier in the another Marshall air 200 tons wearstely bit 1 the trianguauthorities in a mortared belief that the a the Marshalls, exposed conquest to heavier bombings, must de de.) 1 the 8.400 or more enemy sola utimated to have been captured Makin, Taand Abemama, "few live in the Gilberta," AdI Amits said Reports Awaited a in the midst of operations, engineers tart to get its bomb-pitted operation for even hear-' on the flanked da reports on the enemy planes coverthrough Wednesday. may well be much larg. the reports are received aircraft carrier groupa. period, the carrier morting sustained losses three fighters and tor.
Zeros fighter In one without bagged said. 16 engagement, losing of 20 Believed Sank NANCE BASE: IN THE ISLANDS, Nov. 25 UP- The Japanese lost a fifth warship and and damage to sixth in the second naval battle anthers Solomons early today. strumbered American desank four out of six A a miles running night hpaa's key base southeast on New of a Tre of those were Britre were over-size destroyers destroyers cruisers of the 'Yubari weasel was crippled and burning. Air reconreports later disclosed a where fifth ship I be the water near the loleading to the belief it was last was sunk.
warship was hit but we dowed up in the chase by destroyers virtually to George Channel entrance to Our force came out of the ribost suffering hit. alamed Executive Senator PICNTOX, Charles N. J. Nov. 26-UPArthur Edison today Walsh of South re vice president of Thomas A.
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It. 1p. AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1943 AP Features Abandon Russians Tear Wide Gap Defenses Guarding Road U.S. Daylight Bombers Bremen Believed Target Of Today's Assault From Air- Frankfurt Pounded By RAF Last Night By Gladwia Itin LONDON, Nov. -U- AmerIcan heavy bombers struck Into northwest Germany today, taking up in daylight the massive serial offensive against the Nazis after the RAF rave Berlin its fourth straight night of bombing and bravily attacked Frankfurt-am.
Main. The U. 8. government did not specify immediately the target of the bombers and their fighter but the Bremen radio went off the air, suggesting that battered port as an objective. This was the first operation in a week by heavy, formations from the Eighth Air Force, the 18th heavy Allied attack from Britain In November and the ninth for the 8.
air force. Berlin Has Night In addition to Frankfurt, the German radie said RAF bombers hit Offenbach, leather and chemical goods town six miles cast of Frankfurt, Marauding RAF Iquitos simultancously struck Berlin. The twin ralde were achieved with small loss. Thirteen British bombers failed to return, compared with 44 the last time was hit on Oct. 23 when expiring Kassel also was smashed in a final blow.
The visit to Berlin meant the Nani capital had been weakened by bombs on 20 out of 25: nights of November. Although the Mosquitos craft which carry 500- pound bombs--do not pack the wallop of Britain's four -engined armadas, they kept the sirens go ing in distraught Berlin. Gas Works Are Target The attack on Frankfurt, big center of the 1. G. Farben-Industrie, International chemical trust worka, with three Ng raids last week on chemical and poison gas component producing factories at Ludwigshafen and Leverkusen; Frankfurt-am-Main Germany's biggest truck manufacturing works (Opel), its biggest tire works (Dunlop), and is one of the main railroad centers.
The -latest attack on Germany coincided with only vestige of the Nazis promised reprisals for the small-scale Berlin bombings. incursion which This wan caused A short alert in London and little The Air Ministry communique said mines also were laid in enemy waters last night. Bad weather prevented See AIR WAR, Page 1 Fanatical Defense Japanese Survivors succeed in taking the Japanese Icer prisoner he was trying to do. The Japanese was "The Nary began shelling Makin about dawn and poured heavy barres a shells into their shore positions Tor more. than three hours," the lieutenant said.
"Then the troops moved in to shore. was in the first wave. We bad to wade through the surf waist deep and had no opposition until after hitting the beach. Then the snipers began operating from to bish in the cocoanut. trees which fringe the taland.
"They let us move up well on shore before they opened up, them began picking us off. was heading a machine-gue We managed to get. some distance inland when saw Jap officer come jumping over fallen cocoanut trees towards us. He had See, MAKIN DEFENSE, Page Lend Lease Latin-America Called 'Boondoggling' By Senator U.S. Is Played For Sucker Says Butler is WASHINGTON, Nov.
28-UP) Describing United States aid to of Latin American countries as "naively conceived and badly coordinated boondoggling." Senator Butler (R-Neb) told the Senate today that the program should be chang. ed to one of technical assistance and cultural contact and understanding. Reporting on his 20,000 miles tour of Central and South American countries, Butler said the present. "good neighbor" policy is based don "sentimental dreams which are merely reflections of our. own ideals, not of theirs, and la tolerated by the Latins solely because it is accompanied by liberal tions from our 20 countries he visited can fairly be Declaring that only three of the called democracies" Butler said: "All the rest are dictatorships of the most autocratic sort, and erally militaristic dictartorabips that." Although official totals have never been announced, the Nebraskan a timated this country has poured ala billion dollars into "good neighbor" countries through loans, grants and outright gifts.
Instead of resultant good will he said he found: 1. At least one country is using U. 8. Lend-lease armaments to prepare for war on its South American neighbors. 2.
Many countries are openly Senator Predicts: German Collapse Early Break Likely Asserts Californian WASHINGTON, Nov. UP Reports that Pope Plus XII had undertaken 'to mediate between Germany and the Allies were coupled with a statement by Senator Downey (D-CIO) of the Military Affairs Committee today that influential Germans are trying to find a way to surrender. leaders of 'Allied governmenta," Downey sald in an Interview, "believe a German collapse of some kind can not be delayed long after the Christmas holidays and may, indeed, come. about that time." Downey, quoting what. he called "unusually well informed added: "Enough has now been revealed for us.t to know that Influential mana, both in and out of the army, fare searching for methods of nego: tiation and surrender that will will save the total destruction of German cities," Significance of his statement was heightened by a Swiss newspaper dispatch quoting "Italian Catholic as saying the.
Pope had been in frequent conversation cently with the German, British, French and American envoys to the Holy See. There was DO confirmation of his reported mediation efforts from diplomatic or church circles. In arguing against the draft of Downey previously had predicted Germany would collapse next April. Poll Shows Farmers Oppose Fourth Term DES MOINES. Nov.
UP The nation's farm vote would favor either Gen. Douglas MacArthur or Gov. Thomas D. Dewey of New York over President Roosevelt if the presidential election were being held now, according to the December "Farmer Speaks" tion- wide poll conducted by Successful Farming magazine. The poll showed Wendell Willkie I would stand 50-50 chance of sethe were running a second time.
ting a majority of the farm vote if The President diven relatively strong support by farmers outside the 11 Middle West States, but in the farm belt 'his supporters were definitely in the, minority. WOMEN'S GALOSHES SLO Children's galoshes. $1.65. Walters. 16.
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FRIDAY Nazis $300 Severance Pay For Service Men Is Proposed Security Benefits Also On Congress Program, WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-4 Bills were introduced. In both houses of Congress today providing unemployment Insurance of from $15 to $25 week, and social curity credits, as out -of -service benefits for America's servicemen and women. Earlier, Chairman Slay (D-Ky), of the House Committee. had promised swift committee action on a bill he plans to Introduce which would provide 1300 in mustering-out pay for those holding ranks no higher than Army captain or Navy.
lieutenant, senior grade. The benents were asked by President Roosevelt, a message to Congress this week. The federal unemployment paymenta, continuing up to 53 weeks if the serviceman remains ployed that long after his discharge, would supplement existing State unemployment insurance benefits. No payments would be made however, for any period in which the serviceman receives federal mustering-out pay or tional allowances. May Cost Four Billions.
Identical bills were Introduced jointly in the Senate by Senators Wagner (D-NY), George (D-G3) and Clark (D- Mo) and in the House by Chairman Doughton. D-NC) of the Ways and Means Committee. Senator Warner sald It was And' possible to forecast the cost of the proposed benefits but that "by any reasonable estimate the cost will not exceed our cost of running the war for about two weeks during SOLDIER BENEFITS, Page Raising Of Corn Ceiling Expected Move To Spread Feed Supply Is Indicated WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-- UT The government is expected soon to raise' the celling price on corn. in an effort to encourage its movement from the Midwest to feed shortage sections 'of the East, South and far West.
Acute shortages of corn are seri. ously affecting the production of dairy and poultry products outside the corn belt, Officials of the War Food Admin. fistration and the Office of Price Administration have under consideration a proposal to boost the corn celling. price from $1.07 4 bushel, Chicago basis, to where between $1.14 and $1.22, same basis, with normal differentials for other markets and The Increased corn celling price may be accompanied by an order placing a maximum price for the first time on two other feed grains, oats and barley, which have advanced beyond the normal relationship with the pegged corn price. The result would be a reduction of about ten cents in the farm prices of these grains.
Makin Island's Leaves Few By Ray Call, Jr. Representing The Combined U. HICKMAN. FIELD, Oahu, Hai wall, Nov. -4 A lieutenant wounded by sword-swinging Japanese officer described the threeday battle of Makin Island today in these terse words: "We killed every Jap in The U.
8. 7th Division ant its first wounded from Makin in the Gilberts back to Oahu by evacuation transport today. 1 came with them. These men had story to tell that was filled with typical panese hysterical, fanatical defense of the isla- they had held nearly two years and on which we landed Nov. 20.
Makin is now in our bands after three days of hard-tough fighting. So is Tarawa, another Japaneseheld base in the Gilberts just south of Makin. The wounded lieutenant dida't PRICE THREE CENTS Gomel German Poland; Reich lined SR a Me playing us for suckers and American officials told Butler U. 8. cash is finding its way into local graft.
3. High wages on American projects are looting local business men of workers, causing lator unrest and forcing intation in some countries, 4. U. 8. money is being used to Industrialize nations which intend to compete with for markets.
5. When good neighbor spending ends we will reap the blame for any unemployment and economic chaos that results. Butler praised work done by the Rockefeller Foundation in stamp ing out disease and said education had made marked progress In a number of No Senate Entry Seeks Presidency But Potential Dark Horses Are Numerous By Jack Bell WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 For the first time in years the Somate, historical stamping ground for presidential candidates, may have no formal entries next year far either major party nomination. Although the clerk calls the names of dosen potential dark horses every time he lists a um, circ*mstances far have kept any senator from publicly declaring that he will be tial candidate and may combine to keep all them 7 in the ground.
The Democrats, of course, aren't likely to anything until they find out what President Roosevelt is going to do about. fourth -term, decision few of them think will be made finally until a few days before the 1944 convention. Taft Counts Self Out Some of the Republicans listed possible candidates come from States where the Republican governor is already in the running, and others just chuckle at the idea that they are being mentioned. At least six Republicans are in the dark horse category, including Senators Taft and Burton of Ohlo, Vandenberg of Michigan, Revercomb of West Virginia, and Langer and Nye of North Dakota. Taft has said he will not candidate because Governor John Bricker of Ohio is running.
Burton has been proposed quietly by his colleagues who worked with him In support of the Ball-Burton-HillHatch -war bill, but la not giving much thought to it himself. Vandenberg, several times an successful candidate for the publican nomination, wants more of it, he sari Langer's friends bare made some quiet moves to Interest northwestern delegations in bi: Nye has been boomed at times. by Gerald L. K. Smith, heed of America First, as presidential timber.
Revercomb, who won surprising victory In the 1943 Senate race In West Virginia, has been adranced in some qua: ters likely candidate if deadlock develops in the Republican convention. Byrd Has On the Democratic side, some serious moves have been made to Senator Byrd (D- Va) as potential candidate, and "Byrd-forPresident" headquarters have been opened in Orleans. If era Democrats who are at odds with the New Deal united behind Byrd they could make their weight at the convention, but few think that they could prevent President Roosevelt' nomination If wants fourth term. Senator. George (D Ga) also has been mentioned us possible candidate of the Southern group and friends of Senator 'Daniel (D- Tex) are scouting his prospects.
Senators Wheeler (D- Mont) and Reynolds (D-NC) have received mention possible third party I candidates and Senator Aiken (R- Vt) attracted widespread attention when he suggested that the Republicans nominate Senator Gillette (D-lowa). Gillette, who says be will always be a Democrat, is being importuned to run for Senate again la lows, where the Republicans are likely to make it an uphill battle. STOLEN Packard Sedan, maroon. License No. 203842.
If seen notify either Police Station or L' Chisholm, Phone 124 16. 1p. One Fourth Of Germany's Capital Destroyed By Bomber Attacks By John H. Colburn STOCKHOLM, Nor. -The Stockholm said today it had learned that Cer.
man officials had admitted a fourth of Berlin was destroyed in the concentrated attacks Mon. day and Tuesday nights. The officials refused for military reasons. to specify any wrecked areas, the newspaper said, but an two enSwedish eyewitnesses, 'one gineer and the other military plosives expert, sald damage was largely located in the city's center. The engineer, Bund a Lundquist, an official of the Swedish civilian defense organization, and the plosives expert, Maj.
Olof Nordsell, said upon arrival in Sweden: "Some few houses still are left Intact among the ruins. We would say destruction in the center of the city runs between 60 and 100 per cent." Censored reports received crippled communication lines from neutral correspondents and counts from eyewitnesans gave this highlight picture of conditions Berlin: Captive Mines Enter Pay Parley. Steel Manufacturers End Their Holdout: WASHINGTON, 26 -UPFor the first time In. history soft coal operators and union leaders representing every coal production section of the country sat down around a table today to perfect a wage contract. Representatives of coal mines owned by the steel companies ended their bo' ut and joined the wage negotiations between John Lewis and soft coal operators, Harry Moses, president of the 8.
Steel owned H. C. Frick Coal Company and principal spokesman for the "captive" mines, heeded appeal from Secretary Ickes and showed up at the conference in the Interior Department. Virtually all other previously sent operators also joined the conI ference, so that nearly all of the nation's soft coal tonnage was resented in the new contract talks for the first time. The "captives" mine about 000,000 tons a year.
Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, has agreed with most northern and western coal sociations en the basic outline of wage contract, but would not sign until the agr 'ement was on tional basis. The Southern Coal Producers Association, though represented In the talka, has held out against the form of the agreement. Suspension Of Grain Tariffs Wins Favor WAShINGTON, Nov. 26-U- In a move to relieve shortages of livestock and poultry Iced, the House Ways and Means Committee approved today a resolution to Buspend for 90 days all duties on imports 'of at, oata, barley, rye, cottonseed, flaw and hay. Committee members said the measure was proved by the Warl Food Administration.
Most of the duty free Imports probably would come from Canada. Rep. Hope (R-Kas), ranking mi-nority member of the House Agriculture Committee, said "We're ing to have to import come feed. There's no doubt shout that." The Kansan added, however, that before the duty is suspended there should be an agreement with Canada that there would be no price hike in the imported feeds because of the lifting of the duty. Non-alcoholic egg neg mix now available at the Monticello Dairy.
6L 3p. No bread or milk for sale Thurs day in shops; crowds waiting lessly in front of shops- for supplies; thousands of workers laboring night and to clear the streets and get traffic in operation; many homeless people sleeping at nights In the debris-littered streets; Aremen so busy they have been unable to dig into ruined air raid shelters for bodies, Lundquist added: "I would say that in the center of the city about every tenth or 15th building was bit by a bomb and that other buildings around them were damaged by Incendiary bombs. thing la certain. Most of the damage was caused. by diary bombs, at least 90 per cent of all damage being by fire.
"The reason why only few ple were killed compared with Hamburg where nearly 80,000 'killed la because Berlin streets are wider. People could rush from burning houses a and And safety in the wide streets. Hamburg streets narrow, and the Are blanketed Fighting 45th' Is With Fifth Army Famed Seventh Army. Unit On Italy Front ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alriera, Nov, 36-449-The American 45th Division, once part of. the Seventh Army of La.
Gen. George Patton, Ir, in Sicily has been in action with the nith Army in Italy, it was announced today as Allied units beat off enemy coun terattacke along generally, unchanged The Impact of the "Fighting 454h," one of the most colorful visions in the American Army, helped roll back the German tide when the Salerno bridgehead peared likely to overus la critical period after the Arat las. it was disclosed. The division, made up largely troops from Colorado, Oklahoma land New Mexico with a sprinkling from a number of eastern states and more than 1.000 Southwest in dians, made its battle debut in amphibious assault agalast Sicily after only a brief pause la' North The Cerman air force joined ground forces la determined attacks yesterday agalast British Eighth Army forces now securely entrenched in the bridgehead cared from the winter defense line across the flooded Sangro near Italy's Adriatic shore. Despite the daylong enemy onalaught the Eighth Army troops Improved their positions it was.
nounced officially. Thanksgiving Day activity on the Fifth Army front on the western half of the line was limited to violent 15-minute artillery bardments againet targets the enemy's liane well mal patrolling. While rain continued to fall and mist reduced visibility throughout. the battle area, as Alt Force statement declared persistent bombing had kept closed to traffic for month the three main railways running down the Italian sula to the battlefront. The three main rail lines knocked out, la the order of their portance, are the central Apennine route from Bologna through ence 'to Rome the west line through Genoa and Rome, and the track from Bologns through Rimini Ancona to' Pescara.
CHILD. COAT. LEGGING Children's costa Walters 1L 1p RAGE loves: Walters. 1p Moscow Reports 34-Mile Advance Toward Border Escape Corridor From Gomel Is Narrowed to LONDON, Nov. Berlin broadcast today said that man troops had evacuated Gomel, key Nasi bastion in White Russia and only Important beld town cast of the Daleper River.
The announcement, made by the International Information Bureau, Naal propaganda agency, followed reports from Stockholm that Gomel had fallen to Russian' troops which had been rammering at defenses for the part three weeks. There was no immediate conArmation, however, from Moscow, which announced last night Russian troops hat torn St miles wide in the Nast lines north of Gomel in new odensive that brought Soviet forces to the banks of the upper Daleper and -appeared. to have; cracked wide open the road to Sites This new drive, mounted to Propoisk area miles north Gomel, carried Soviet forces proximately 30 miles westward la three days, the bulletin declared, and posed a direct threat to Nist defenses in the Important enak-Gomel area. More than Germans were killed in the, threeday advance, 180 villages were liberated and enormous quantities of war gear were captured, the Russians said. Minsk, close the frontier of northers Poland, today was but 160 miles west of the Red Army spearhead.
In another successful drive, seeond only la importance to advance north of Comel, the Rus sians announced they had cut the northwest of Rechitas, capturing the towns of Rosove, Zherd, kovichi and Koreni. Kier's Defense Holds Meanwhile, Gen. Nikolai tia's First Ukrainian Army reported standing fast in the bulge against savage German lacks and Russias troops were pushing forward In the Daleper bend just below Kremencher, where, thi Soviet communique sald, district center and several strongpoints were. stormed and captured. The one escape railway from Comel open to the has not already Bobruisk and Minsk: The 1 latest northwest.
through Zhlobin advances by the Red Army. announced by the Russian narrowed that escape corridor "to less than 33 miles tween Recovo and the town Juravichi to the northeast. Dispatches from' the front Moscow newspapers sala that Field Marabal Frits von. helm's 13-day offensive in the Kiev. area apparently was ening.
He launched new attacks near "Korosten, 45 miles north Zhitomir but they were reported repelled. Foreign military beery ere in Moscow said the chances that he would launch any further. major counter-oft nai res were slight Discharge Buttons Are Promised Soon WASHINGTON, Nov. Honorable discharge buttons will be available to soldiers who have separated from the military service under honorable War Secretary Stimson ced yesterday that the made of plastic and bearing sure of an caste being distributed the country and women 2.
