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FBI Arrests
2 Saboteurs
(Continued from Peg* l>
tnent, ha Mid, *n to mingle with
aervloe men In bars and pick up any
Wta of valuable Information which
they planned to transit to the en
emy. They had not yet attempted
to Mnd any Information, he Mid.
Hoover declined to reveal how the
attention of the PBI vu attracted
to the two, but said both of them
had made a complete itatement.
Their activities are still under Inves
tigation. but the PBI chief Mid he
had hastened to announce their ar
rest as soon as possible.
"I think that it has a powerful
psychological effect on the Oerman
government to know that their plans
have been balked." he said.
Connecticut Native
Colepaugh, alias William C Cald
well, was born In Niantie, Conn., on
March 25. 1918. of an American
father, now dead, and a German
mother who was bom on a ship en
route to this country. ,
He attended public schools in Nl
antlc and New London .Conn., and
war graduated from the Admiral
Parragut Academy, a private school
at Toms River, N. J, in 1938. Then
he studied engineering for three
years at Massachusets Institute of
technology. He quit to become a
merchant seaman and was arrested
In Philadelphia on July 22. 1942, for
failure to Inform his local draft
board of his address. He was re
leased on his promise to join the
Navy.
Colepaugh was inducted on Oct.
2. 1942, but on Jan. 20. 1943. was
discharged “for the convenient of
the government.” At that time he
had shown German symi>athtes, au
thorities said.
A year later he sailed for Europe
as a messboy on the diplomatic
liner Grlpsholm He jumped ship
at Lisbon and contacted the Ger
man consul, who helped him get to
Germany.
He was accepted by the SS and
trained In short-wave radio, photog
raphy and sabotage.
GimDel. native of Mersebera Oer
*
many, went to South America In
1935 as an employe of Telefunken. I
the German radio corporation. He
was taken Into custody in Peru In
1942 as an enemy alien and .sent to
this country for Internment In a
Texas camp. He was repatriated to
Germany aboard the Drottningholm
within a few weeks and also was
recruited for work in the SS.
The two men, who said they were
trained in The Hague school where
the specialists who rescued Benito
Mussolini from Italy were rehearsed,
left Germany on the U-boat 1230 on
Sept. 26, 1944. The crossing took 54
days and the submarine entered
Frenchman Bay on the Maine coast,
passing between Bar Harbor and
Winter Harbor. Of Hancock Point,
six or seven miles up the bay, Cole
paugh and Gimpel went ashore in a
rubber boat.
Walked to Bangor
With the aid of a pocket compass,
they walked to Bangor. Me , From
there they went to Boston.
The men lived In swanky hotels
In Boston and New York for the
month they were at large, and spent
•3,425 of their funds in a fling at
high living.
Colepeugh did not contact his
mother and sister who live in this
country, Hoover said, but he de
clined to say whether the two were
clear of all suspicion.
The men did not carry explosives
as did eight Nazi saboteurs put
ashore on Long Island, N. y„ and
Florida on June 13 and June 17
1942.
Colepaugh and Gimpel were held
on an open charge. The Department
of Justice said in Washington that
Attorney General Francis Biddle
would confer with President Roose
velt to determine if the men would
be tried in civil court or before a
special military tribunal sucli as
convicted the other eight. Six of the
others were executed and two are
lerving federal prison terms.
Reporters Banned
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 — iUPi
Army officials remained silent today
on the results of their examination
of a large balloon hauled from a
mountainside 38 miles southeast ot
Portland.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation
assent, and an army demolition squad
took possesion Sunday afternoon of
she oalloon found by an unidenti
fied resident three miles from Hi
lockbura Rangr Station in the area
fl liroe nmi'ne nlnnt .i - . .» i■
Run head works of Portland's water
system.
The balloon, reported unofficially
to have been unmarked, was fouled
In a tree, which was chopped down
i>ermlt recovery of the sphere
u 1 ' ns of natlvs looked on. but the
T'J agent banned photographs and
turned away reporters seeking to
Inspect the salvage. Unofficial des
criptions Indicated the balloon was
similar to the Japanese paper craft
found near Kalispell, Mont three
weeks ago.
Discovery of the Kalis),ell balloon
wsa followed last week by the find
ing of a second mysterious llghter
than-alrcraft near Tacoma, Wash.
Details of that balloon were not
disclosed, but some sources said it
might have been one sent up by a
V 8. weather station.
The FBI said any Information as
to the origin of the latest balloon
would come from army source if at
*11.
Contractor
Gets Blame
(Continued from Page li
A Housing Authority has been In
atltuted here which recently sur
veyed all these projects and unof
ficially declined to accept them un
der Ite Jurisdiction It does not s em
likely that such responsibility ever
will become the city's until the close
pt the war and the federal authori
ties return the sites to the city
In answer to statements published
that the complaining resident had
been unable to contact any repre
sentative of the FHA projects here
Mr Oraske declared that to his
knowledge the only attempt made
U> contact him was done so yester
d#y. Hew Year's Day. when he was
i his office.
FOUR REKCUKD
Frevidence r. j., Jan. J—i UP,—
r persons, Including » year-old
r, war# rescued over a ladder by
Ml today when flames swept
wooden home, trapping them
atf door bedroom.
Yank Bombs Did This
In. Just Two Minutes
(USAAF Photo Prom NEA)
Oner the area in the photo above wan occupied by the big Matford factory, in Strasbourg, France,
produced 200 to 300 German fighter plane engines a month. Ode day 43 heavy bombers of the 8th
flew over. Just 10 seconds later nothing was left of the plant except the utter ruin seen
, which
USAAF
above.
roe Active rrom
Bitche To Rhine
fContinued from Page 1.)
west of the* line through Bastogne
A field dispatch timed at eight
o'clock this morning <three a. m.
EWT.i said all contact had been lost
with the Nazi armored divisions
that had been holding the western
tip of the salient and that Amer
icans were advancing eastward
against light rear guard resistance.
United Press War Correspondent
Boyd Lewis reported the German
withdrawal which aparently ended
for the time being Field Marshal
Karl Von Rundsted's threat to the
Meuse river line.
Apparently alarmed by the grow
ing threat of Lieutenant General
George S. Patton's Third Army as
sault on their southern flunk, the
Nazis were believed gathering their
crack panzer units in the center ol
the Ardennes in preparation for a
new attempt to break through the
American ring—perhaps north to
ward Liege and Antwerp or south
against Patton's troops.
Rochefort Captured
Lewis' censored dispatch did not
si>ecify the location of the American
forces advancing agdinst the nose
of the German Salient. The Yank
counter-drive at last reports, now
more than 36 hours old, had punch
ed back some 12 miles from positions
only lour miles east ol the Meuse to
recapture Rochfort, 24 miles north
west of Bastogne.
Coieident with the reported Ger
man withdrawal in the Ardennes,
supreme headquarters announced a
sudden flare-up of enemy activity
on both sides of the focal battle
ground.
Nazi patroLs stabbed aggressive
ly at the American and British
lines to the north, while consider
ably stronger enemy forces coun
terattacked on the U. S. Seventh
Army front along the Rhine plain
in a pattern very similar to the
ir\tr gfuu« g\f thu a
fensive.
United Press War Correspondent
Clinton B. Conger reported that the
Germans threw in several attacks
of battalion strength, some 800 to
BOO men each, against the seventh
Army lines around Bitclie Sunday
night nnd were continuing their
onslaught with increasing force
early yesterday.
There was no further indication
of tiie scope or intent ol the new
thrust, which succeeded in push
ing back the Seventli Army lines
slightly on a front of about 12 miles.
Headquarters spokesmen declined
to speculate whether the new as
sault was a diversion to weaken
Patton's drive in the Ardennes or
the beginning of a full-scale ol
fensive to split the Third and Sev
an lit Army fronts.
Meanwhile, the SHAEF communi
que and field dispatches from Pat
ton’s attack front-all delayed 24
to 26 hours by censorship—said the
rhlrd Army was grinding steadily
Into the southern Hank of the Ar
dennes salient on a broadening
front north, east and west of Bas
togne.
Veterans ol the American Ninth
armored division gave the Nazis a
resounding beating in the wooded
hills southeast of Bastogne New
Vein's Eve, halting a powerful arm
ored force Unit tried reneatfMlv to
'ut iIlf .supply corridor below that
•own and isolate Patton , advanced
ipearheuds lo the north.
67 Tanks Lost
Attacking all day Sunday and
(trough the night, the Germans had
tallied about 2(X) yards in the Lutre
aois sector three miles southeast of
Bastogne at a cost of «7 tanks
Thirty-two of the Nazi Panzers
were wrecked in a tremendous but
,le with the Ninth Division’* tanks,
ank destroyers and bazooka gun
icrs, and another 35 were blasted
jy American dive bombers and
ocket-firing fighters.
Simultaneously, the Germans hurl
'd some 500 infantrymen Into a
tanking attack on American posi
ions above Dutrebois, only to be
brown back on that sector by
ioughboys of the 20lh Division,
noatly New Englanders. The 26th
vent over to the attack early today
md slugged back several liundred
yards tltrough the enemy lines,
jewUi reported.
Still closer to Bastogne, an Amer
cun armored column drove three
nlles eastward to take the eross
oads hamlet or Wardln, strength
nlng the eastern wall of Bastogne
orridor
Other Germun units in apparently
muller force were reixirted sink
fig futllely against the western side
f the corridor from the Bibret
rea. four miles southwest of Bus
ugne. By Sunday morning these
nits had succeeded in gaining as
luch as u mile, but their threat was,
egated by American advances to
be north and west,
On tht flank, Patton’s armored
nd infantry divisions all but ellm
lated the danger to Bastogne by
loving their line almost abreast of
le own on a 15-mile front extend
ig westward to the St. Hubert area
The American offensive spear
eads were crowding steadily for
ard, by-passing relatively strong
terma nresistance areas around
Sibret and Lutrebois to be dealt with
by the main forces moving up in
their wake.
Senochamps, Chenogne and Hou
mont, two to five miles west-south
west of Bastogne. were captured by
the Americans, while nine miles to
the west they re-took Remagne
alter losing the town to a German
counter-attack Sunday.
Moircy Retaken
The Nanis recaptured Moircy. 1 1-2
miles northwest of Remagne after
three days of furious fighting, but
other American units outflanked
that position on the east and west
by driving to within 1 1-2 miles of
Tillet and about the same distance
south of St. Hubert.
Headquarters spokesmen and
heavily-censored field dispatches
were vague about the progress of
Patton’s central column striking di
rectly northward into the German
flank above Bastogne.
At last reports, the Americans
had driven a deep wedge into the
German lines well north of Long
chamjxs. five miles above Bastogne,
indicating they were only a dozen
miles or less from a juncture with
American First Army forces below
Manhay on the northern wall of the
salient.
It was the threat of that junc
ture that appeared to have prompt
ed the German decision to pull back
their most advanced panzer spear
heads at the western tip of the
salient.
Farther east of Bastogne, the
Third Army continued to make slow
nrntrene o in . .1 r .
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hill country below Wiltz. German
counter attacks were beaten off in
the Nothum are, two miles south
west of that highway town, and
, heavy fighting was reported under
| way just south of Wiltz.
Headquarters also confirmed be
latedly a German announcement
tliat Echtemach, on the Luxem
bourg-German border 18 miles
northeast of Luxembourg City, was
reoccupied by the Americans on
Dec. 28.
Just north of Bchternach, the
Nazis were being backed up against
their own frontier, formed there by
the Sure river, and it was disclosed
that some American patrols had
crossed the river into the outposts
of the Siegfried line.
The new German counter-blows
on the Seventh Army front some
100 miles southeast of Bastogne cen
tered in a densely-wooded area ex
tending 12 miles east and southeast
of enemy-hold Bitche.
The Germans opened their thrust
with two batalion-strength counter
attacks in the Bitche sector Sunday
night and followed through with
supporting blows in the Bannstein
forest six miles to the southeast.
By midnight the attacks had spread
another five miles east to the area
around Dambneh and It was
acknowledged that the Americans
had been forced to give up some of
the positions they had carved out
of the Siegfried line.
Counter-Attacks
Fifteen miles west of Bitche Ger
man troops were reportd counter
attacking with undisclosed results
against the American Third Army
bridgehead in Germany's Saar Val
ley around Sarreguemtnes.
German skirmishers also were
Jabbing repeatedly at the northern
flank of the Ardennes salient with
out success, losing a considerable
number of troops who were per
mitted to Infiltrate the First Army
lines and then were surrounded.
At the same time, other German
lines along the Maas river In Hoi
uuui aihi hi ricnni pusiuun.s on uir
southern end of the Allied front in
the Vosges mountain*.
Tile Allied air forces took up the
attack on the Ardennes pocket and
its rear communications bases along
the Rhine in great strenwth yester
day, shooting down at least 205 Ger
man planes, and the U. S Eighth
air force's heavy bombers returned
to the attack again this morning.
20 Naw Englanders
Holiday Casualties
Boston, Jan 2 •) UP) New Eng
land's holiday weekend death toil
stood at 20 today and included three
slayings and four highway fatali
ties.
Massachusetts topped the list
with 20 deatlis followed by Maine
and Connecticut with four each.
New Hampshire and Vermont one
each and Rhode Island none.
Monoxide or Illuminating gas
caused five deaths In the area while
(Ires and drowning* helped boost
the total. One person was killed
by train.
KAI-PII hETTANI l)IEK
New York, Jan. 2 — <U.P.) —
Ralph Settani, 55, of <1 East Wal
nut street) Milford, Mass., was pro
nounced dead by physicians on ar
rival at downtown hospital today
after he was taken suddenly ill In
a subway station,
Finland's new fertiliser factory
has 50,000 tons annual production
capacity.
Badoglio May
Take New Job
(■Continued rrom Page 1)
j Switzerland by his two daughters
who .sought refuge there more than
a year ago following the Italian
armistice.
He said It was the first word he
had received from his daughters
in a long time and he expressed the
hope that the Allies would place a
plane at his disposal to return them
from Switzerland to Rome.
He blamed the separation on
Mussolini.
“It was all the fault of that mad
man who launched Italy In a war
that was not felt by the people and
for which the nation was not pre
pared," he said. “He declared war
against our former Allies despite
the advice of his general staff and
all the military experts closest to
him."
Referring to the Americans, the
Marshal said:
“When I was in touch with the
Americans we got along magnifi
cently. There was immediately a
mutual feeling of comprehension
and understanding which bound us
lirst during the first. World War," he
said.
“The Americans also knew that
once I made a promise in the name
of Italy It was a final one and thut
I would defend that promise even
with my life." > '
'45 Greetings
Sent Hitler
(Continued from Page 1)
me gun pn,, 1 saw nre control oi
ficers of one star divisional artillery
unit commanded to go down to their
slide rules and shuffling non-coms
painstakingly plotting military tar
gets.
"My” gun was one of a battery
which laid four 100 miliineter shells
on an important crossroads railway
terminal east of the Boer.
Most of the boys in this unit com
manded by Tripp were former mem
bers of the Michigan National
Guard.
In the dugout where we huddled
against the biting cold, Battery
Commander Captain James E. Uli
lenback of 11028 Smith i Lansing,
Mich., and Corporal William By
croft of East Palestine, Ohio, col
laborated with the gun crew which
was proud to spearhead the position
inside Germany.
As midnight neared, the corps
commander, a seamy-faced jovial
West Pointer, arrived to wish the
crew good shooting.
"How you doing, boys? Got any
complaints?" he lr.quried.
"We'd like more shooting, sir,"
several of the crew piped up.
"So would I,” answered the Col
onel. “Ike is trying to get us more
shells. Meanwhile bust ’em open
every time you shoot.”
The reference was to the shortage
of shells about which General
Dwight D. Eisenhower lias spoken
in the last few weeks. Everywhere
I went among artillerymen they
spoke of tlie reluctance with which
they were compelled to ration shells.
At one artillery corps headquart
ters there was red-pencilled sign in
Christmas card style:
"Don't send me candy, mom. Send
me shells."
A few seconds after the com
mander's arrival, a telephone
Jingled in the pit and a man with
ear-phones called the orders for the
elevation.
"Supercharge,” he said. "This one
has to go deep Into Germany.”
Then he called the sigr.al for fir
•■•o IIV-4V
blotted out momentarily In the roar
and concussions.
The war moved Into 1945.
The Luftwaffe was active In the
flak-filled sky but the German guns
never answered.
U S Down 205
Enemy Plones
(Continued from Page 1)
by the RAF'* second tactical All
Force and 104 by American pilots
of the U. 8. first, ninth and 12th
Tactical Air Forces.
In one uttack, 35 of a raiding
lorce of 50 German planes were
shot down by Americun fighter pilots
who took off under fire to take on
and beat the enemy at a cost of
one plane.
Another 17 enemy aircraft were
downed by the fighter escort of a
1 800 plane U. 8. 8th Air Force ar
mada that bombed the Dollenberg
oil refineries and other targets
northwest of Brunswick and rallwuy
bridges in the Coblenz area.
KILLED IN WRECK
San Francisco, Jan. 2—(UPi—The
12th Naval District announced to
day that Wllford Smith II. Water
tender 1-c, USNR, 58 Portland
street, Portland, Me, was among i
the enlisted men killed in the Bag- i
ley, Utah, wreck.
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Nazis Murder
2 Red Envoys
(Continued from Page li
ble German officers involved in the
murder of the envoys would be
harged.
More than 3.000 enemy troops
were killed in Buda and the east
bank section of Pest yesterday and
another 429— apparently Hungar
ians—were captured, running the
Axis losses In less than two days
to an estimated 6,300 men.
After a week of street fighting
surpassing in savagery even the
battle for Stalingrad, the Russians
held about 40 of Budapest’s 80 square
miles, including mast of the west
bank section of Buda and about
eight square miles of Pest, a total
of about 500 icty blocks.
Soviet troops made their deep
est penetration of Pest Monday with
all-2 mile advance from the east
that overran the Rakos railway sta
tion five miles from the Danube.
In that area, the Russians were
advancing into the most densely
populated and built-up section of
the capital and all accounts indi
cated that the fighting was doubl
ing in fury, with the Nazis convert
ing every house and office build
ing into a miniature fortress.
• Inside Buda, the Russians broke
through three successive defense
lines thrown up by the enemy and
at last reports were storming a
fourth, apparently along the river
bank.
Front reports said the capital had
become a vast charnel house lit
tered with thousands of rotting
corpses and lighted by the glare
from burning buildings and explod
ing ammunition dumps.
Tanks and self-propelled guns of
the opposing armies clashed head
on in the streets, while the murder
ous Russian ‘Katushkas”— rocket
guns — brought scores of houses
tumbling down about the heads of
their Nazi occupants.
There was no word on the fate
of the city’s civilian population,
which was estimated to have been
swollen to 2.000,000 by an influx
of refugees from the surrounding
countryside. It was probably the
first time since the beginning of
the war that civilians on so great
a scale have been caught In the
cross-fire of two warring armies.
A dispatch from the newspaper
Provda’s front correspondent re
vealed thatt he Germans and Hun
garians concentrated southwest of
Budapest made one last attempt to
break through and relieve the trap
ped garrison, but gave up after
three days of futile and costly at
tack
Tne Russian communique also re
ported that Russian troops north
east of Budapest closed to within
two miles south of the Slovak rail
way center of Losonc (Lucenec)
after advancing as much as five
miles on a 32-mile front.
MOT. WEDS WAC
Boston, Jan. 2 — (UPl — S-8gt.
Thomas P. Coyne, 24, of Charles
town, who lost a leg while serving
with a European theater bomber
crew, was honeymooning today with
his WAC bride following their mar
riage New Year’s Day.
Coyne married Pvt. Margaret M.
Tagen, 23, of Charlestown, his boy
hood sweetheart, at Bt. Francis De
Sales (Catholic) church In Charles
town
Hospital Care For Casualties
In Pacific Called Unexcelled
Bv EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Written for United Press
AN ISLAND BASE IN THE PACIFIC—(UP)—This isn't a story of
"bombs bursting in air." or of high heroism. It is a report to the lathers
and mothers, the brothers and sisters, the sweethearts and wives whose
men are casualties in army and navy hospitals. If a casualty lives long
enough to get into the hands or the Medical Corps his chances of sur
vival are pretty close to 100 percent.
T write* that, nft.pr »tv»nriimr a rlnv j -—__
In a Navy hospital here. Perhaps
you would like to have your man
back where the family doctor in
whom you have so much confidence
and who may have brought him into
the world, could look afler him with
that fine humanity and sympathy
which has made the family doctor
beloved. Don’t worry. He is getting
these things and more.
Walking through ward after ward
all day until my feet were worn off
to the ankles, I saw that same fine
humanity and sympathy evidenced
by the uprses and the corpsmen.
They are wonderful. The nurses,
trained and efficient, also bring that
spiritual lift that only a fine Amer
ican girl can bring to American boys
whose recent feminine contacts have
been with bare feet or shuffling san
dals or tabi.
Take Pride in Skill
And the corpsmen. Of the many
things the boys call them I heard
only one that is printable—"bed
pan commandos.” Tills is an ap
pellation of affection, as is "pill
rollers" In the Army.
Your men are getting not only
expert and sympathetic nursing, but
the best surgical and medical service
that any nation can provide. I was
shown one boy who had been suf
fering the agonies of sciatica. The
nurse proudly exhibited him as the
first putint to have had a certain
operation performed on him. He was
her prize exhibit. I am sorry that I
cannot give you a very intelligent
is the gist of it: Between the two
vertebrae tiiat were pinching the
sciatic nerve, the surgeon Inserted a
gadget consisting of u couple of sil
ver plates and ball bearings. The
pain was instantly relieved, never
to return. Unless his parents are
wealthy, tile chances are that in
civilian life lie would never have ;
had this operation.
Then there was the man with a
gangrenous leg. He hud asked to j
meet me, and I found him In a pri
vate cubicle with a corpsman in at- '
tendance. Ordinarily, he would have |
certainly lost his leg, or. possibly, his
life. But they are going to save his |
leg and probably all his toes as well, j
The corpsman was so proud of wha;
they had accomplished that he j
damn near burst. He wanted me to j
wait half an hour until they removed ,
the ice puck so that I could see ihe 1
leg.
Shown Every Attention
If you have men In Army or Navy
hospitals, thank God that they are
not at home, for they could not get
better surgical and medical service
there or anywhere else In the world.
And dont worry about them. The j
nurses, the corpsmen, the Red Cross j
girls, the Gray Ladls look after thei.
every comforts-and the physicians
and surgeons are such as you could
not possibly afford unless you are
very rich.
Mrs. John Thomas Jenkins, a
Gray Lady who looks vary cute In
her uniform, made It possible lor
me to visit the hospital. I was aup
posed to lift th boys' morale and
Klve them some laughs, but the idea
boomeranged. Tire boys did all that
to me. They were a cheerful, won
derful bunch.
Miss Christine Herman of Wash
ington. D. C.. a Red Cross girl, took
me by the hand and led me around.
She being exceedingly pulchritudin
ous, I was not hard to lend. And then
there was another beauteous Red
Cross Rirl—Josephine Jack of Bea
trice, Neb., whose father is a close
friend of the last of my schoolday
friends, Bert Weston, who, like me,
is older than God, It’s a small world.
Montgomery
No 1 Choice
(Continued from Page 1)
ish forces—four to one, by Amer
ican reports—has acted against the
appointment of a British officer,
such as Montgomery, to the post of
supreme ground commander,
But proponents of the change ar
gue that the establishment of an
over-all ground command might
have lessened and perhaps averted
tlie American setback in Belgium
and Luxembourg.
"Maintenance of the eariier sys
tem of the fighting command in the
hands of a specialist like Montgom
ery might have averted the setback
we have suffered,” G. Ward Price
WrntA in thp Riinrlnu rliciviloli
"The grand strategy of the west
ern front would still be in General
Eluenhower's hands; the decision as
to major objectives and the liming
of attacks would lie with him, but
the actual fighting of battles and
intimate daily contact with the
fluctuations of a struggle should be
entrusted to someone whose hand
is not preoccupied constantly with
problems that arise far behind the I
front,
Price said Eisenhower was gen • '
uinely popular with all subordinate!
commanders, but contended that1
his resjxmsibilities were too diapers-;
ed and widespread for him to dire', t |
the operations of seven armies i
‘•with the necessary detailed know!-1
edge of the situation of each." !
It was not believed that Bradley
will be punished for ,‘he American,
reverses since he had performed
brilliantly from D-Day onward, i
though he may have an intermedi
ary commander placed between him
and Eisenhower.
If there is to be any "scapegoat”
for the American setbacks, it was
believed more likely to be LI Qen.
Courtney Hodges, whose First Army
bore the arunt ol the assault, but
it was by no means certain he
would be punished by .ou of his
command.
Palestine's textile industry now
employs 1.510, and mlothlng busi
nesses 3.020.
4-F's Draft
Plan Favored
(Continued from Page 1)
D„ N. C., of the House Ways and
Means committee endorsed the
Byrnes report.
"We’ve got to put people where
said. "We’ve got too many folks sit
ting around and doing nothing.”
Doughton said he thought too
many government agencies were
overstaffed.
“We’ve gto to put people where
they will do the most good in the
war effort, not in the easiest spot,”
he said.
Sen. Warren R. Austin, R„ Vt„
co-author of a national service bill
which died in the last congress,
said he still believed such legislation
was necessary but said he would
support any other "reasonable plan
that will get the work done.”
Rep. Walter G. Andrews, R., N. V.,
ranking Republican member of the
House Military Affairs committee,
said putting 4-F’s in essential war
work posed problems that would
have been circumvented "if we had
hod a National Service Act in the
first place.”
"If we pay them regular indus
trial wages it would be unfair to
the men in the service, and if we
give them Army pay it would be un
fair to labor,” Andrews said.
Allies Wreck
2 Destroyers
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Another 895 enemy dead were
counted on Leyte Saturday bringing
the toll for the campaign to 111,.
883. Mopping up continued.
Medium bombers and lighters at
tacked enemy airfields on Pansy
Negros and Cebu, all west of Leyte
while other aircraft sank or dam
aged six barges off Mindanao and
hit fuel storage lacilitie* at Sasa
airfield on the island.
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New York :tJp»- While the Ger
mans were ravaging Bussla, they
were particularly harassed by
■Granddad," a effective guerrilla
chief whose specialty waa night
raiding and train wrecking. The
Nazis put a price on “his" head
and instituted many fruitless
lurches for •■him." Granddad, the
Moscow representative of Russian
War Relief now revet la, waa pret
ty 23-year-old Vera Khokholova,
who has returned to Mlnak to teach
daw 9-B In the public achool.