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TEN____
3,000 BOMBERS 1
POUND GERMAN
OIL REFINERIES
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(Continued from Page One)
rail yards in the. Saarbrucken re
gion.
The Germans shot clouds of flakj
into the sky over the oil targets
8r,d also sent up a few fighters in
this area. The American escort of
Thunderbolts and Lightnings kept
enemy planes from reaching the
bomber formations, however.
Flak over the rail yards, which
were bombed by instrument, was
officially described as ranging from
meager to moderate.
These blows topped a 36 - hour;
serial offensive which left the Reich i
erunting from an averageof 10 tons:
ol bombs a mirute.
Nearlv 22.000 tons of explosives j
v,Cre spread over Germany in the,
day and a half scourging by 11.000
Dianes which flew on seven major
missions and some 4.000 Sorties in
support of the six Allied armies
advancing on the Western Front.
The wind-up blows made Novem
ber the greatest operational winter
month of the war. _
Pailway yards crowded with sup
plies for Nazi frontline troops also
were oownded in the Saarbrucken
region, directly in the path of Lt
Gen. George S. Patton’s Third
Army. ' ,
While the American armada was
visiting the four oil centers which
normally produce about 90.000 ons
of fuel n month—a force of RAF
Mosquitos and another of Lancast
ers escorted by Spitfires bombed
three gasoline plants in the Ruhr.
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First United States Marines to
land on European soil accompanied
Benjamin Franklin to France in
1776'. _
Lawmakers Irked By Luce
In Tour Of European Front
LONDON, Nov. 30.— UFl —The
publicity-shy House Military Com
mittee shoved off for France to
day with its male members won
dering how they could combat
Clare Boothe Luce’s penchant for
hitting the headlines.
To the battlefields of the con
tinent they carried a feud of their
own. The smouldering resent
ment of several representatives
about two episodes of their stay
in Britain, both involving Mrs.
Luce, threatened momentarily to
disturb the serenity of their mis
sion.
Mrs. Luce first upset the mas
culine equanimity in connection
with a “gentlemen’s agreement”
—in the words of acting Chairman
Matt Merritt CD-NY)—to let a
spokesman issue all the state
ments during the committee s in
spection tour.
The comely Connecticut lawmak
er was reported to have declared
the Army had ordered her not to
talk. This, the Army denied. Then
Mrs. Luce had a few words to say
about the current cigaret short
age. She was against it.
But the annoyance within the
committee turned to something
near to open anger yesterday. She
abandoned the committee tempo
rarily for a short flight in a Fort
ress while her colleagues plodded
through the mud on an inspection
tour of three air bases.
This cut the other committee
members to the Congressional
quick.
Merritt said he hadn’t been con
sulted about Mrs. Luce’s inde
pendent sortie.
Doris Duke Left Out
Of Social Register
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—(A1)—Do
ris Duke Cromwell, often called
the richest girl in the world, and
James H. R. Cromwell, from
whom she got a Reno divorce,
were left out of the newest edition
of the New York Social Register,
released today.
Also missing was the name of
John F. Harjes. He was a friend
of Wayne Lonergan, playboy who
was convicted earlier in the year
of murdering his wealthy wife.
Harjes’ name was mentioned in
Lonergan’s trial. Mrs. Harjes’
name remained in the register.
The couple now are divorced.
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NIMITZ TO BE HONORED
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. — </P) —
Admiral Chester Nimitz will be
awarded the honorary degree of
doctor of laws by Fordham Uni
versity following a field mass to
be held December 7 at the Naval
Post at Honolulu, the Rev. Father
Robert I. Gannon, S. J., president
of the university announced today.
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BUY ANOTHER BOND TODAY
I
ROOSEVELT FIRES
NORMAN LITTEL;
PROBE IS ASKED
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papers,” the President said in a
statement issued through the Jus
tice Department, ‘‘I wrote to him
that it was primarily an execu
tive matter; and that I hoped for
his own career he would resign.
‘‘Since then he has volunteered
a long statement, thus substanti
ating what the Attorney General
had said about his insubordination.
‘‘This is inexcusable; and under
the circumstances my only alter
native is to remove him from of
fice. which I have done today.”
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COTTON YARN CHIEF
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — (IP) —
Lewis S. Trundle -of Washington
today was named chief of the cot
ton yarn branch of the War Pro
duction Board succeeding J. Bruce
McCullough, who resigned to re
turn to private business.
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Cotton fibers, impregnated to
make them durable, are now used
to manufacture house screens.
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U. S. TO ASSIST
BRITISH TRADE
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much mere than half ct what we
have been receiving in 1944.
“The defeat of Germany,” he
said flatly, “will make possible re
ductions ' in the Lend-Lease pro#
gram and in certain fields we have
been able to anticipate those chan
ges and to work on the basis of
the new program from the begin
ning of 1945.
“Thus from that date, we shall
no longer get shipments to this
country, under Leild-Lease, of any
articles for civilian manufacture
for civilian use which enter into
export trade nor of many rav and
semi-fabricated materials such as
iron and steel and some non-fer
rous metals.”
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SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
December 20 To January 2
Set For Yule Holiday
New Hanover county schools will
be closed at 12 noon December 20
for Christmas holidays and will
open at the regular hour Tuesday,
January 2, H. M. Roland, superin
tendent of schools, announced yes
terday. c
Enrollment attendance this year
has been higher than the peak en
rollment last year, he said, adding
that there is no indication thr.t
there will be any enrollment de
crease after Christmas.
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JONES AT HOME
Cold Better, Commerce Sec
retary Watches Business
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. —(JP)—
A cold put Commerce Secretary
Jones, 70, in Naval hospital last
week, but he’s home now and
keeping in touch with his office
by telephone
An aide said Jones had “a cold,
or a light touch of flu or grippe"
and went to the Bethseda, Md.,
i hospital for a check up. He re
turned to his home Saturday.
Reunion In New York
Actress Irene lninue, nositss to wouuvlu seivi.ce men at a special
movie preview in N. Y., smiles at reunion of MM3-C Carl Melconian of
Boston and his wife, Anne, together again after his tour of convoy duty.
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A brief exercise costume witl
sweater style top, wide belt ant
satin shorts serves to set oft thi
charms of statuesque Dusty An
derson, motion picture actress.
NINTH ARMY WINS
MORE NAZI TOWNS
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land to Switzerland, the Germans
were counterattacking frequentlj
and hard. This stiffening resistance
slowed the previously spectaculai
adance of Lt. Gen George S. Pat
ton's Third Army on the Saai
front, limiting its gains to an aver
age of about a mile.
Patton’s 95th Infantry Division
alone hurled back 10 German coun
ter-attacks in 24 hours, but pushed
on a mile to within three miles
of Saarlautern, midway between
Merzig and Saarbrucken.
Troops of Lt. Gen. Alexander
M. Patch’s U. S. Seventh army,
driving toward the German bor
der north of Strasbourg, approach
ed within a mile and a half ol
the important French city of Ha
genau and threatened it with a
flanking push on the west. Hage
nau is 14 1-2 miles from the Ger
man frontier.
The German radio reported that
Nazi troops were withdrawing
from Hagenau. but a dispatch
fom the AP’s Thoburn Wiant on
that front tonight declared the Na
zis sti 1 were resisting bitterly.
“But the report is interesting,”
he added, ‘‘because it now seems
that the Germans are reconciled to
withdrawal under pressure to the
Siegfried-Rhine line, where they
will try to last out the winter.”
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PEARL HARBOR PROBE
Stimson Says Results Will Be
Revealed In Time
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — (£>) —
War Secretary Stimson said today
he has been devoting “an enor
mous amount of time’’ to studying
the report of the Army board which
investigated the Pearl Harbor dis
aster.
In answer to a news conference
question, he said “in due course
there will be some statement.'-' He
did not amplify the rejnark.
NAZIS RECAPTURE
ITALIAN SECTOR
(Continued from Page One)
prepared positions in this mud
bound sector.
Other inconclusive clashes broki
out west of Monte Castellaro aloni
the Fifth army arc below Bolog
na.
On the Fifth army’s right, ai
Indian division occupied the vil
lage of Casola Valsenio and Mon
te Fortino, southwest of Imola.
Troops of the British Eighth ar
my repulsed a bitter Germai
counterattack in the' Alberton are;
northeast of Faenza, killing 40 er
emy troops, and hard fighting cori
tinued there. The Eighth army i
| slowly fbrging an assault rin
I around Faenza. stronghold astrid
j Highway Nine 28 miles southeas
I of Bologna.
Ration Free Foods
To Remain On List
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—UP)—
Meats and processed foods cur
rently ration-free will stay on that
basis at least until mid-December.
This was assured today when
the Office of Price Administration
tacitly acknowledged that the first
skirmish in a new controversy
over rationing policy has been won
by the War Food Administration.
Meanwhile the OPA indicated to
night that "A” card motorists will
be up 150,000 over November, go
ir.3 to 2,000,000 a month for the
first time.
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Alii e A Governments
Plan On Ten Billion
Purchase From U. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—(.'Pi
Allied governments are proposing
to buy at least $10,000,000,00(
worth of materials and supplies ir
the United States for postwar re
construction in their countries, ii
was reported tonight.
This figure was described au
thoritatively ,as a conservative es
timate of what Britain, Russia
i France and the other United Na
tions would like to obtain in th<
years immediately after the war
provided financing can be ar
ranged.
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bound soldier son last ni«ht'
farewell dinner, and he- death *
it a somber finality todav ?5Vf
Mrs. G. G. Carter. « ‘of r,
qmtt, Ga.. here to bid b r J*
Corp. James C. Carte-. gJ s>
ate one last dinner vt-v, 'JPeeti
her daughter and daughter^*”4
Before the meal was over “"i'
were violently ill, Mrs c-t 31
ing pronounced dead by „
this morning bv Cou-v r
H. A. Alexander'. The
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said poisoning r< , fr ' '
restaurant propriet s
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