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Catholic Thought And Opinion
Bj REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY
of the AFL and
__ of the CIO retum
! od to this country from their tour
l of labor unions In Italy
for the word of Plus
| XII. They learned
first hand the aid
| given regardless
I of race and creed
by the Holy
Father during the
Nasi occupation
of Rome.
| Bald an si re
porteed: "It was
a great act of hu
manity which
American workers
f— profoundly ap
I predate. They
■ also express the
— same thankf ul
—„—_ „ ' ness for the social
■or. J. Donnelly teachings of the
Bopa, the aim of which coincide
perfectly with the Intentions and
ime of the American people.”
Ih the vein of the last sentence,
| President Philip Murray of the CIO
I commenting, at the last national
* eonventlon, on the great address
m delivered by Bishop Shiel of Chi
eago la opening the convention
said:
* “If you summed up all of the
enrk which the CIO has been trying
*jio do since the Fall of 1935 . . .
■A you would find It all In what Bishop
3 Shiel had to say to you this mom
, | MXUTART TRAINING
‘ The National Education Assocla
> Mon has taken a poll on the sub
ject and here are the results:
m Sisty-elght per cent of 1,430 pub
Me school principals, sixty-three per
m cent of 2,120 superintendents and
“ sixty per cent of 250 leaders among
k classroom teachers, haue expressed
• tbemeslves as opposed to such leg
islation at this time. In the great
majority they state that action now
• in neither advisable nor necessary
A The Association points out that
*** the view Is not the view of pacl
j* Heists for sixty per cent of those
m who expressed their views stated
* that they were not opposed to all
' forms of military training in peace
time.
4
TAIWAN CHALLENGE
The Vatican newspaper “Oeser
vatore Romano”, obviously Impa
tient with the recent reckless accus
ations of the Soviet press, hurled
£ those accusations back at Moscow
’■ with challenge that the Red Press
A print without any change the words
3* of Plus XII stating his judgement
on totalitarian regimes and his attl
^ tude on the punishment of war
3” criminals, so that the Russian peo
ple might know exactly what the
Holy Father has had to say on both
of these subjects.
To us, of course, this seems to be
but a request for elementary Justice
To tbe Soviet press, and its pur
pose* however. It Is an impossibil
The theme of the auervatore ar
ticle *u: You accuse us. Produce
the proof. And the article goes on to
point out that the Holy See. long
before others and long before the
war. condemned the totalitarian
regimes as a violation of liberty, of
human rights and of the law ol
God. On the punishment of war
criminals the attitude of the Holy
See is one of just punishment of the
guilty without room for hatred, re
venge or sadistic destruction.
THIS BAROMETER WORKS
The reports of diplomatic discus
sions between the Holy See and Mos
cow are clouded In many strange
circumstances. One of them is re
markable. While Izvestla In Moscow
maligns the Pope, the Communist
newspaper In Rome, L'Unita, has
praised him twice since his Passion
Sunday address to the workers In
Rome.
Significant, however, la the fact
that "the Nation” in its March 24
issue. In its usual bigoted line, heat
edly denounced the Pope and de
nounced L’Unita for its praise. Of
course you may safely judge such
frantic and groundless attacks from
such sources as easily read baro
meters indicating the growing In
fluence of and respect for the Holy
Father throughout the world.
CELEBRATING VICTORY
Reports Indicate that the bars in
England are laying in great stocks
of liquor for the celebration of V-E
Day. The preparations seem much
out of order in a nation to which the
war has brought so much destruc
tion and so many heartaches, but I
suppose that It Is none of our busi
ness.
More sensible people, however, will
take seriously the suggestions of
Fulton Lewis Jr. in his broadcast
of last Wednesday to the effect
that:
“All churches should be open so
that the people of America may go
in for a time, whether long or short,
to thank an all-merciful God for
bringing our country victorious
through this half of the war and
pray that he will bring us through
the other half victorious and with
a minimum of casualties."
THE STRANGE CUSTOM
A recent issue of Collier’s Maga
zine reported a strange custom in a
little church In Jutland, Denmark.
For as long as any one could re
member members of the Protestant
congregation bowed to a blank white
wall at the entrance to the little
church as they passed in and out.
No one knew the reason for this im
memorial custom until a Copenhag
en scientist who Investigated found
under the wall's white coating a pic
ture of a Madonna which had evi
dently been obliterated during the
Reformation four hundred years
ago. Thus do religious customs and
practices persist, as the Communist!
have discovered in Russia after a
generation of efforts to exterminate
them.
Coal Accord
jSeen Likely
*S (Continued from Pag* 1)
Conclusion of a soft coal contract
"iNrill facilitate negotiations for a new
anthracite agreement, which also
'X expires April 30. These conferences
wer* scheduled to be resumed today
’ In N*w York City and the final set
> glement traditionally Is patterned
sifter the bituminous pact. The
UMW has asked for a strike poll
of the hard coal miners on April 26.
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Lend-Lease
Final Test
(Continued from Page 1)
cited as an example In the first
round of Senate debate yesterday
The French agreement provides
terms of payment for such long-life
articles.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., lead
ing the fight to tighten restrictions,
argued that such an arrangement
“can be considered nothing but an
extension of postwar credit."
Taft had two plans for tightening
restrictions against such a program
First, he offered an amendment
to strike out part of a "military use
only” amendment approved by the
house. The House amendment stip
ulates that nothing in the act shall
be construed as permitting lend
lease agreements "for postwar relief
postwar rehabilitation or postwa:
reconstruction.”
The House didn't stop there, how
ever. It added an exception provid
ing for disposition of lend-lease arti
cles, under terms of sale, when the
president determines they no long
er are needed for the actual prose
cution of the war.
Taft proposed to strike out the
exception. Barkley predicted flatlj
that his amendment would be beat
en.
If it is, Taft planned to offer an
other amendment putting a dollai
limit on the amount of goods which
can be delivered under lend-leasc
to any nation which obviously can’l
use such goods in actual war opera
tions.
"I’d at least like to limit th<
amount for delivery after the wai
to around $3,000,000,000,” Taft said
Canada's Election
Date Not Set Yet
Ottawa, April 10 — (U.P.) —
Prime Minister McKenzie King will
announce the date of Canada’s flrsl
war-time election 48 hours after th<
close of the present session of par
liament, scheduled to end next
Monday.
King told the House of Com
mons last night that a general elec
tion should be held as early as pos
sible because under parliamentary
procedure a new parliament woulc
not be able to meet until fouj
months after the voting.
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all-weather highways.
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Young Germany Can’t Take It
(NEA Telephoto)
This ll-Ttar-all German kid soldier breaks down when captured by V. 8. First Army. At left the tears begin
to form In his eyes »s he stares Into defeat; center, he gets out handkerchief as sobs well np and at right
he lets loose the floodgates of despair as he leans against wall and settles for a good cry.
Ninth Army Races 21
Miles Past Hannover
(Continued from Pace 1)
against weak opposition.
Lieutenant General George S.
Patton’s American Third Army also
was on the move farther south. The
niird’s drive, a Berlin spokesman
said, was fanning out east toward
the Czechoslovak frontier and south
into Bavaria toward Nuernberg.
Powerful armored and infantry
forces of the American First and
Ninth Armies also were teamed up
in converging attacks on an esti
mated 100,000 or more Germans
trapped in the Ruhr pocket. The
enemy commander, Field Marshal
Walther Von Model, was believed
also to be in the trap.
The whole Ruhr was ablaze from
Allied bombs and shellfire, and field
dispatches said the Americans ad
vanced as much as six miles into
the pocket today against weaken
ing opposition.
Berlin spokesmen admitted that
Hannover was rocking under a
"drumfire" artillery barrage, but
they claimed that American attacks
on the city had been repelled.
The Nazis were silent on the new
First Army drive in Central Ger
many, which appeared to have un
covered a gaping hole in the enemy
defenses covering the southwestern
flank of Berlin.
Front dispatches said Lt. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges’ First Army
forces started their new attack in
to the foothills of the Harz Moun
tains early today, on the heels of an
18-mile advance yesterday that
shattered the Nazi defenses along
the Weser and Lelne rivers.
Hodges’ men started a daybreak
along a 30-mile front looping in to
within 133 miles of Berlin and were
speeding ahead against only de
sultory opposition.
At Nordhausen the Americans
would be 55 miles from the Elbe
River stronghold of Magdeburg, 65
miles west of Leipzig and bare]?
150 miles from a juncture with the
Red Army.
At the same time American and
British forces in the north struck
within 60 miles or less of the Elbe
I twin drives for Hamburg and
Brunswick, the latter only 104 miles
due west of Berlin.
German spokesmen said the Am
erican Third and Seventh Armies
on the southern flank also had
opened coordinated attacks headed
for the Nazi shrine city of Nuern
berg.
A Nazi transocean report placed
one Third Army spearhead at Ro
dach, 10 miles northwest of Coburg,
and 59 miles from the Czech front
ier.
Annihilation Fight
Far behind the Allied Berlin and
Bavaria spearheads, two great bat
tles of annihilation were raging in
the Ruhr and Holland pockets,
where American, British and Can
adian forces had sealed off more
than 200,000 German troops.
The Canadians slammed shut all
but one of the land escape routes
for perhaps 50,000 Germans caught
in Western Holland, leaving open
only a narrow, bomb-spattered
causeway along the coast. That
road, too, was less than eight miles
from the Canadian front, and an
armored column was hooking north
ward along the Dutch-German
border within 26 miles of the Em
den naval base in a bid to seal the
trap permanently from that direc
tion.
The American Third Armored Di
vision sparked Hodges’ First Army
offensive this morning. The veteran
tank fighters captured Dunderstadt,
22 miles west of Nordhausen, last
night after a 13-mile advance from
Goettingen.
They seized 150 German guns and
200 prisoners in the town after fir
ing a few shots that brought the
Nazi garrison out in a panicky rush
to surrender.
At daybreak, the Third shoved
off for Nordhausen and was report
ed moving ahead at a pace that
promised to reach that city by
nightfall.
Twelve miles to the south, another
First Army column reached Dingel
stadt, while a Third force crossed
the Leine river 18 miles northwest
of Dunderstadt, captured Northeim
and rolled on another three miles
last night. There they were only 133
miles from Berlin, and the advance
was continuing at top speed.
Strong infantry forces were
crowding in close behind the tank
spearheads, mopping up by-passed
pockets of resistance between Din
gelstadt and Northeim.
The Anglo-American offensive in
the north swept far beyond the be
sieged and burning fortress cities of
Hannover and Bremen, both of
which were rocking under a ter
rific Allied cannonading.
Unconfirmed reports said Brit
ish units already were storming
through the streets of Bremen, Ger
many's second seaport, and Amer
ican Ninth rAR n . -elghnMym
icsn Ninth army troops were mov
ing through the outskirts of Han
nover from all sides.
Late field dispatches said British
Second Army tanks were racing up
through the 55-mlle corridor be
tween Bermen and Hamburg less
than 60 miles southwest of the lat
ter port and about 96 miles from
the Baltic eoaat.
U Beyond Hannover
The Ninth Army's speeding tanks
meanwhile struck out southeast of
.
the Elbe stronghold of Magdeburg,
Berlin's main outer fortress. Late
last night the Yanks were reported
a dozen miles beyond Hannover
and less than 20 miles from Bruns
wick—a key communications center
104 miles due west of the German
capital.
Hundreds of Allied fighter-bomb
ers swarmed out to join the battle
at first light today, raking the re
treating enemy all across the
northern plains and southward in
the path of the American First,
Third and Seventh Armies.
First reports of clear flying
weather indicated the Allied sky
fleets might duplicate yesterday's
devastating series of strikes on the
Germans' airfields and communi
cations centers on the roads to
Berlin.
Flying upwards of 5,000 sorties
yesterday, the American and Brit
ish raiders destroyed 189 German
planes, 168 of them caught aground
and sowed death and destruction
through the enemy's forward battle
areas from Hamburg to .Munich.
The blistering air attack sent the
American First and Third armies
off again on their Joint drives
across Central Germany, with the
first hooking up for Magdeburg
and Berlin and the Third east and
southeast for Leipzig and the Cze
choslovak border.
Field dispatches, lagging more
than 12 hours behind the battle,
said Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
First Army troops were across the
Leine River in force and advanc
ing east and northeast along a 40
mile front from Einbeck in the
north to Hciligenstadt in the south.
They carved out gains of as much
as 18 miles in 24 hours.
Vanguards of the First Army by
last night were barely 70 miles
from Magdeburg, with one column
at Duderstadt, 133 miles southwest
of Berlin, a second at Northelm, 17
miles to the northwest, and a third
at Einbeck, 10 miles farther to the
northwest.
German resistance was reported
breaking wide open in the path of
the charging First Army. Jittery
Berlin spokesmen said the Yanks
were driving northeastward from
Elneck to the rim of the Harz
Mountains, barely 120 miles from
Berlin,
There was no further word of a
German-reported American para
troop attack on the First Army’s
southern flank. Berlin said the
paratroops were fighting in bad
sooden, 10 miles southwest of Hei
ligenstadt, and trying to link up
with the American Third Army in
that sector.
Security Blackout
Most of Lt. Gen. George S. Pat
ton’s Third Army tank divisions
were cloaked by a security black
out early today and there was no
immediate indication whether they
had resumed their advance east
ward or were still building up sup
plies and reinforcements.
Front dispatches said Patton’s
Infantry formations advanced as
much as nine miles today alopg a
front extending south from the
Frankfurt-Dresden-Leipzig s u pe r
highway for more than 20 miles.
The gains for the most part, how
ever, were line-straightening opera
tions aimed at wiping out small
enemy bulges In Patton's front.
The doughboys entered Plaue, 13
miles southeast of Gotha, and
reached the Roda area five miles
farther east. Other columns to the
south reached the Manebach area
eight miles northeast of Suhu and
entered Waldou, nine miles south
east of Suhl. Patton's troops were
58 miles from th e northwestern
corner of Czechoslovakia.
German resistance was rough at
some points along the attack front,
but upwards of 5,000 Nazis were
captured there yesterday and the
advance was reported continuing
steadily.
Patton’s southern flank rested on
Roth, 11 miles southwest of Waldau
and only nine miles north of Am
erican Seventh Army troops who
raced 23 miles beyond the ball
bearing center of Schweinfurt to
Rieth.
Schweinfurt itself was closely in
vested by Seventh Army forces
moving in from positions less than
four miles north and south of the
city and its fall appeared imminent.
Par to the southwest, other Sev
enth Army units were locked in a
savage battle to hold their 25-mlle
long salient jutting down to within
94 miles northwest of Munich.
Swarms of German planes and
the crack Nazi 17th SS Panzer
division were reported smashing
continually at the nose of the Am
erican salient at Crallsheim, but
late dispatches said the Yanks were
holding fast.
Almost 40 miles to the west, the
Seventh Army ran into another
tough battle for Heilbrown on the
Neckar river. Fierce street fighting
raged inside the city this morning
for the Seventh straight day.
French First Army forces farther
south drove within nine miles
northwest of Stuttgart at Ober
Ricxingen.
At the northern end of the Allied
.battle line. Canadian First Army
(forces continued their slogging ad
vance across the flooded Dutch
wirtanda to tighten their boom
around the remnants of the Qerman
28th Army in western Holland.
The Nazis, estimated at perhaps
MMMW strong, wars *fhu"| hud
.
Barracks In
Reds' Hands
(Continued from Page 1)
>
Danube canal.
The German-controlled Vienna,
radio went off the air shortly before
10 p. m. (BDST) yesterday.
The Third Army also broadened
its spearhead striking west across
Austria with the capture of Bem
dorf, 21 miles southwest of Vienna.
The Second Ukrainian Army un
der Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky
pushed a two-pronged offensive east
and northeast of Vienna.
One column, deepening its bridge
head across the Morava river on a
20-mile front, captured Schoenau,
one mile east of Vienna. »
The other force drove north
along a 41-mile front from the Mor
ava east beyond the Vah river and
captured 40 towns and villages,
among them Zmerndorf, 20 miles
northeast of Vienna, and Radimov,
50 miles northeast of Vienna and
40 miles soutiieast of the Czecho
slovak industrial center of Brno.
The advance carried across the
Hlohovecke Mountains to the ap
proaches to Trencin, another im
portant Czechoslovak Industrial
city. Soblahov, two miles southeast
of Trenoln and 66 miles south of
Moravska-Ostrava, was captured.
Par to the north, Marshal Alex
ander M. Vassilevsky's Third White
Russian Army beat at a 100-square
-mile German pocket on the Sam
land Peninsula of East Prussia
after capturing Koenigsbcrg, capi
tal of the Junkers province.
Koenigsberg, last German strong
hold in East Prussia, fell after a
70-day siege. Moscow said Colonel
General Lass and his staff sur
rendered at 9:30 o'clock last night
following a terrific two-day assault
that breached the city's last de
fenses and netted 42,000 prisoners.
The last enemy survivors were
pushed into the Samland Penin
sula west of Koenigsberg for a last
stand. Planes of the Baltic fleet
air arm sank nine transports total
ling 36,000 tons, a destroyer, two
patrol ships and two hlg..-speed
landing barges in raids Saturday
and Sunday on Plllau, only port on
the peninsula, and in the bay of
Danzig.
Cruiser Destroyed
A German cruiser, a destroyer, a
trawler and two transports of 4,000
and 6,000 tons were damaged in the
raids.
Premier Marshal Stalin saluted
90 generals for the capture of Koc
nigsberg, among them Gen. Ivan C.
Bagramian, former commander ol
the First Baytic Army, and Mar
shal Alexander A. Novikov, com
mander of the Red Air force. So
viet planes flew as many as 5,00C
sorties a day against Koenigsberg
in the final days of the assault.
The victory was expected to re
lease as many as 1,000,000 Soviel
troops either for action againsi
Berlin or for service in the Pai
East to guard the Soviets' front
iers with Japanese-occupied Man
churia.
Pro Football
Clubs Merged
(Continued from Page 1)
chise to the stadium but the own'
ers of the Giants have the powe:
to block the move under the leagui
territorial regulations. Thus far
the Giant owners have refused t<
consent to the transfer, but leagui
pressure is expected to change thei.
minds before the 1946 season opens
The proposed shift has been (
stumbling block In the leagui
meeting which began Friday. I
will wind up today after a 1941
schedule is worked out.
All of the home games of thi
merged team with the exception o
the Giant contest, will be player
at Boston. Brooklyn, which wa;
without coach, failed to win a singli
game last season while Boston woi
two—both from Brooklyn.
The league also voted to prohibi
its clubs from meeting teams fron
the other professional football loop
in exhibition games except unde;
certain conditions.
Fishermen Alerted
For Aerial Bombs
Providence, R. I., April 10—(UP)—
Fishermen operating near Block Is
land were warned today to be or
the alert for aerial bombs such a:
that which reportedly destroyed the
Dragger Na'.ianiel B. Palmer anc
three of its crew Friday.
Officials broadcast the warning
after another dragger, the George
A. Arthur, hauled in a 550-pounc
bomb while casting its nets yester
day in the same area where the
Palmer was blown up.
During the winter, several navj
training planes came down in the
vicinity of Block Island and coasl
guard authorities said their high-ex
plosive bomb loads never were re
covered.
to hold open a narrow causewai
along the seacoats thot offeree
their last land link with their malt
forces in northwestern Oermany.
The Canadians captured Zwolle
eight mUea east of the Zuider Zee
and swung an armored division !<
miles northward on their eastert
flank to within 97 miles of the Ger
man Naval baas at laden.
Tsukata Isle
Landing Made
(Continued from Page 1)
gusuku Bay.
More than two-thlrils of the Oki
nawa coast of the bay already has
been cleared by 24th army corps
troops. Yonabaru, its principal
port, lies at the southwest corner.
Forces which infiltrated the Jap
anese lines to Onaha, less than a
mile and a half north of Yonaba
ru, were In company strength, Do
mci said. Capture of the Yonabaru
airfield would give the Americans
their third airfield on Okinawa.
Once Nakagusuku Bay has been
cleared, the American command
will have an excellent naval an
corage within easy striking range
of the Japanese homeland and the
China coast.
On the west coast and in the in
terior, American soldiers were
fighting from cave to cave and pill
box to pillbox in a battle as vicious
and as savage as ever fought in the
Pacific, front dispatches said.
Gains were limited to yards as
the Americans fought to enlarge
their wedge in the enemy’s major
defense line two miles above Ma
chinato airfield and four miles
' north of Naha, the burning capital
1 city.
■ "The troops are doing a lot of
> traveling on their bellies in slow
‘ advances,” United Press War Cor
respondent Edward Thomas report
■ cd from the front. "One general
1 described 'White Hil' as the strong
: est prepared position he ever had
; seen and said steel and concrete
1 reinforcements made it similar to
spots in the Siegfried line.”
The 184th Regiment of the
, Seventh Division captured a triang
. ular Japanese point of resistance
centered on a burial vault in fierce
' fighting, but lost it to a Japanese
counter-attack. Reorganizing, the
Americans attacked from two sides
| and re-captured the point, this time
. holding it.
! American tanks were moving in,
but the terrain was difficult and
minefields further slowed their pro
gress. One company lost two tanks
to enemy fire.
In addition to artillery, hundreds
•of American carrier planes and the
big guns of warships ranging up to
16 inches in diameter were hurling
shells into Japanese positions and
into Naha.
Japanese broadcasts estimated
that more than 100 American war
ships. including eight battleships,
were shelling Okinawa.
Naha Being Flattened
Naha itself, largest and most
modern city in the Ryukyu Island
chain, gradually was being flattened
by the unprecedented bombard
ment.
In addition, a Pacific fleet head
quarters communique said Japanese
guns, emplacements, barracks and
small craft were destroyed yester
day by the warships in southern
Okinawa. Warships alone have
pumped 10,600 tons of shells Into
Okinawa since the start of the bat
, tie.
Japanese guns also were laying
, down a heavy barrage.
la northern Okinawa. Marinas of
l the Third Amphibious Corps staled
i off Motobu Peninsula and occupied
. half of it in advances of 3,000 to
4,000 yards against scattered and
- ---.
ineffective enemy resistance yester
day.
The thrust to the north completed
the occupation of 160 of Okinawa’s
485 square miles.
Ten Japanese planes attacked the
Okinawa area during last evening
and seven were destroyed. Two
American planes were lost in a col
lision over the Japanese-held por
tion of the island. Their pilots para
chuted, but the Japanese fired on
them as they floated toward the
ground and little hope was held for
either.
The Japanese attempted several
suicide boat attacks on American
shipping ofl Okinawa. One suicide
boat blew up too soon and the two
Japanese crewmen were killed as
they attempted to swim to shore.
The others were driven off before
they could do any damage.
Tokyo broadcasts claimed that
Japanese forces killed 2,400 Amer
ican troops in a two-day battle
Sunday and Monday in southern
Okinawa.
Airport Plan
In City OK'd
(Continued from Page 1)
Upon suggestion of Senator Wal
lace the Waterbury bill had in
jected into it a clause providing for
the return of the authorization of
funds to the legislature should the
money be unexpended during a cer
tain period. Upon inclusion of this
clause Rep. Wakalee withdrew all
opposition to the bill.
The forfeited rights of Mr. Crary
and Mr. Shanahan came about as
result of the latter’s implication in
the Waterbury conspiracy case.
Local women teachers who have
unsuccessfully sought to have the
$300 salary differential here abol
ished have supported the state bili
sponsored by the Connecticut State
Teachers’ association calling for
abolishment of all such unequalities
in Connecticut. Should the latter
bill be adopted administrations au
thorities would be required to grant
the equilization here. Today’s res
olution by Rep. Hicks is said to be
another prop to bolster the move
Also approved today was a bill
permitting the Issuance of tempo
rary insurance agent’s licenses to
executors or relatives of deceased
agents, for a period of 90 days. The
Milford board of police commission
ers was authorized to appoint police
and special officers for a period of
30 days without examination. In
surance agents under an approved
bill to to be held liable for policies
Issued for companies not registered
in the state.
BUY WAR BONDS and STAMPS
12 Jap Ships
Hit At Luzon
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headquarters in the Philippines.
One force was reported less than
three miles from the southeast,
while the other approached within
six miles of the northwestern corner
of the city.
In central Luzon, the Sixth Divi
sion was moving slowly toward the
east coast, although front reports
said the Japanese were fiercely re
sisting from dug-in defenses south
east of Mount Mataba.
First Cavalry Division troops were
reported only a few miles from a
junction with the 11th airborne
units which seized Lucena, capital
of Tabayas Province, near Tabaya
Bay.
The juncture would complete the
encirclement of a large force of
Japanese, by-passed south of La
guna Bay where other American
troops already were mopping up
isolated remnants in the hill posi
tions.
At the southeastern tip of Luzon,
the 158th Regimental combat team
still was meeting considerable re
sistance at a point five miles north
west of Legaspi. The Japanese,
mostly naval personnel, were put
ting up strong machine-gun and
mortar fire in a desperate effort to
hold the main road leading north
ward through the center of Bicol
Peninsula.
BUY WAR BONDS and STAMPS
UNCLE SAM TO
HAND OUT 44,200,050
EXTRA RED POINTS
The greatest windfall of extra
red points ever Is going this
month, and each month follow
ing, to American housewivea
throughout the country.
44 million extra red points, ap
proximately, will be handed out
by meat dealers to customers who
turn in used fats in a great Vic
tory drive for this essential of
medicines, gunpowder, synthetic
rubber, soaps, paints and a hun
dred other necessities on the
battlefield and home front For
each pound of fats turned In,
every housewife Is entitled to 2 '.
red points.
The need for used fats Is still
urgent Women are urged to save
every drop, every spoonful of
grease possible and keep saving
until final Victory over both
Germany and Japan.
BACK CONDITIONS
Tbe scat of a backache la the foundation of
the back—tile spinal column. This does net
retcr to the one-day backache that fonowa
unusual exertion, such as spading up We
Karilrn. but to the persistent, nnKBinff, palnfel
bachnche, that hanars on, seemingly without
reason.
To be rid of such a backache, get rid of the .
cause by haviiiK the spinal column restored
to normal alignment by chlroprutlc aplnal
adjustments.
DR. HARRY N. GEORGE (chiropractor)
111 WEST MAIN STREET
HOUKH 7 to >:M P. M. PHOTO 4-M11 '
CONSULTATION—WITHOUT COST OR OBUOATION
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