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THE ENNIS DAILY N
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY
No. 292
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of Marshal
School Workers Meet
By Russia-France At Tabernacle Church
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reported in his communique.
on
enemy positions in the battle area, northwest of Duren.
by
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guns
battalion
plane turned homeward.
between 11 a.m. and 12 noon yester-
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THE MARKETS
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THE EDITOR.
an
Memorial Service
Held Sunday For
Guy Youngblood
Hope For Early
Settlement Of
Greek War Fades
Italian King
Forced On People
Sforza Accuses
UNITED
FEATURE
SERVICE
sporadic bombardment of the Bri-
tish-Greek headquarters in Athens
and the naval -station at Piraeus.
Tentative peace feelers were put
out by the leftist leaders yester-
Work-Or-Fight
Edict Placed
Before Nation
MEMBER
UNITED
PRESS
While one column was pounding
toward Duren from Echz, another
attacked in the pre-dawn darkness
at 4 a.m. and advanced 2,000 yards
from the direction of Lucherberg to
the outskirts of Merken, two miles
to the east and three miles north
Advance appreciation is express-
ed to all those who are opening
theii’ homes to welcome the guests
and to the cafes who are willing
to aid in feeding the large crowds.
that
throw
RAF bombers and fighters, fin-
ally ordered into a “shooting” of-
fensive after a week of token at-
Sforza,
Italian
man
his
Lasting Memorial
Planned For All
Texans in Service
Ger-
had
and Bingen. Rhineland centers of
supply for the western front.
Continued Cold
Weather Reported
For Texas Today
county associational territory.
Last year this meeting was held
with the First Baptist Church in
i Hilsboro, and this year the Ennis
New York
March ___
May _____
yesterday, but dropped no bombs,
Tokyo .said, while others dropped
incendiary bombs on “western Ja-
pan” Saturday night.
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Closed
Mon.
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New Treaty Of Associational Sunday
Alliance Made
Ennis Deer Hunters
I Gave Barbecue Today
The price of victory must be paid
with War Bonds, _
Germans Driven
From Port of
Porto Corsini
stated that another letter would
be sent giving full details of the
accident.
part in the exchange of peace pro-
posals, on the ground that any set-
tlement must be reached between
the opposing Greek factions.
city drove off the raiders before
they could do any real damage.” |
the southern segment of the Yam-
ashita line, although thousands •
ures in common for safeguarding
Europe from new aggression.
Tokyo Bombed
Fr 5th Straight
Day by Superforts
thur
The bloodiest fighting raged
“small formations” of B-29’s follow-
ed five other attacks by the huge
bombers over the week end on cen-
tral Japan and Korea, including ,
two strikes at Tokyo, the Japan-
ese said.
“All fires were put out speedily,”
Tokyo said in reporting today’s at-
SAIPAN SCENE—In white glare of heat, GIs string yards of heavy caliber ammunition into
lethal tail of B-29 Superfortress on island base of Saipan. Heavy belts of cartridges require
seyeral crew members to handle them; Jap interceptors on the Tokio run attempting a tail
play will ha vp even more difficultv.
Fla Lewis, Jr.
To Graduate From
Midshipmen School
The Mediterranean Allied Air j breast of the stream along a front
Force flew more than 2,100 sories of nearly 20 miles.
50 below zero temperatures and roll 1 + 71/ Om e nontn-
ing cloudbanks to attack Coblenz,east an the other from the south. ;
day, but “fled without doing any ;
damage”. Tokyo said.
A few jet-propelled German , . . ,
’planes were sighted by the Ameri- ■ e raids all appeared to have
the double objective of keeping en-
To the People I
of this Community
You may be wnderirg what I
one man can do to help win a <
war. We refer yqu to the late j
Private John W. Dutko of Homer
Washington, Dec. 11 (UP)-—B-29
Superfortresses bombed Tokyo for
the fifth straight day today and
again kindled fires in the heart of
the world’s fourth largest city, Ja-
panese broadcast reported.
A group of Ennis men who re-
cently returned from a hunting trip
in South Texas gave a barbecue for
a few friends today, noon, in the
building behind Guaranty Grocery
and Market.
Those from Ennis on the hunting
trip were W. G. Armstrong, Scrap
Gerron, Clayton Brown, Dea Da-
vis, Joe Hawkins, W. C. Burford,
Dr. Raymond Burford, Dent and
Harry MeBriety. They hunted near
Marble Falls and Llano County
and reported very good luck. They
bagged 8 deer the first day of Tire
trip.
The barbecue was cooked by Al
Gurecky and a large number were
present at the feed.
victory over Germany and their, Church is honored in being chos-
desire to take all necessary meas- en as the place of meeting.
Cotton closed 2 to 3 points up
today.
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he had conspired to over-
strong. arq, J liable to- extricate j
themselves,” Gen. Douglas MacAr-
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annual convention at the Taberna-
cle Baptist Church of Ennis, Dec-
ember 12. beginning with the ten
o'clock session that morning and
closing after the night service that
yesterday and reported that 15
planes were missing. Five enemy
aircraft were destroyed.
Light bombers, fighter bombers
and fighters concentrated on rail
communications on the Brenner
route and in the Po valley and on
Columbia University, New York
City, on December 14th when the
members of the class will receive
town visitors are expected to at-
tend.
This is the last of a series of five
annual Associational Officers meet-
ings in the seventeen states of the
Southern Baptist Convention spon-
sored by the Sunday School Board
of Nashville, Tenn., to seek to give
aid into every rural community in
Sunday School work. Representa-
tives are expected to attend the
conferences who will in turn car-
ry the plans and suggestions offer- j Two Marianas-based Superfort- |
ed in the meeting into every j resses also attacked Tokyo about '
church and community in every j 8:30 p.m. yesterday with a shower
. ors. The Germans counter-attack-
ed at least 11 times along the front
the weather
East Texas: Fair and continued
cold east and south portions, slight-
ly warmer north-west portion with
lowest temperatures tonight 24-28
degrees except 0-34 degrees with
frost in lower Rio Grande valley.
Tuesday fair and warmer.
Eastward Across
Wet Cologne Area
The early morning attack
project and encouraged the women
to proceed with it, and has mailed
a great deal of helpful material to
them since that time. This plan
gives every home and every citizen
an opportunity to plant one or
more trees or shrubs in their front
yards and on public properties as a
I living memorial to Texans in our
nation’s armed forces making the
supreme sacrifice: to honor those
returning after victory has been
gained, and to make Texas a better
and more attractive home for them.
Remember Pearl Harbor—Bataan
—Corregidor—and The March of
Death. Buy War Bonds.
dent that the city itself could not
be cleared without the arrival of
strong British troop reinforcements.
---- as heavy duty tires and ammuni-
2177 i tion.
More Than 40,000
Japs Trapped In
Pockets on Leyte
formations of heavy bombers flew
out through the bright sunshine
over the S traits of Dover today for
a new onslaught on Germany’s
warmaking facilities.
The weather appeared to have
improved since yesterday, when
gs
fair and . warmer, throughout the
entire state, the weather bureau
said.
Temperatures started climbing in
Texas early today after dropping
to the lowest points of the season
in many areas during a norther
that sent freezing weather as far
south as Corpus Christi on the
Middle Gulf Coast.
Fair and continued cold was the
foiecast for East Texas’ Eastern
and southern portions today, while
not quite so cold was forecast for
west Texas, and the northwest por-
tion of East Texas. Tuesday will be
British opposition, today accused
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
of trying to force King Victor
Emmanuel on the Italian people.
Sforza denied Churchill’s charge
To perpetuate the memory of
Texans serving in the armed, forc-
es and to beautify the highways,
both urban and rural, Texas Feder-
ated clubwomen made plans last
spring with the State Highway. De-
partment to plant trees or shrubs
beside the highways honoring Tex-
ans in the armed forces the world
over, Mrs. Judd Collier of Mum-
ford, chairman of Texas Roadside
commissions as ' ensigns, United
States Naval Reserve.
Lewis is a former student in the
Ennis Schools and prior to enter-
ing the Naval Schools he attended
the University of Colorado and
Southern Methodist University.
invitation to come to Paris, there all parts of Texas will hold their
was good reason to believe that ' " “
for the 26-37 year group was an-
nounced over the weekend by mo-
bilization director James F. Byrnes
in an attempt to alleviate the man-
power shortages responsible to a
large degree for the deficiences in
production of such vital equipment
sian treaty of alliance and mutual
assistance, probably will meet next
with President Roosevelt, inform-
ed French sources said today.
Though Mr. Roosevelt has not
replied officially to De Gaulle’s
The leftists countered with an
offer to withdraw from the. Athens
area if a new government were for-
med, including communists and
other left-wingers, which left both
sides exactly where they were when
the hostilities began last Monday.
British Lt. Gen. Scobie took no
night. About 350 to 400 out of
Under the leadership of Dr. G. S.
Hopkins, State Baptist Sunday-
School Missionary, of Dallas, Tex-
as, and Dr. William P. Phillips,
Secretary of Adult and Young Peo-
ple’s Department work, Nashville,
Tenn., the Associational Sunday
School workers and pastors from
armistice government
Pietro Badoglio in
Medium bombers attacked a bar-
racks near Bologna and heavy
bombers attacked a rail target in
Austria.
more than 1,150 American heavy ™
bombers and fighters flew through! W°, upei fortresses also flew
-a, ■ । over Korea, one from the north-
tial overcast was visible as the
A memorial service was held
Sunday morning, Dec. 10, at 9:00
o’cloc’k at the Holy Redeemer-
Church for Guy Youngblood who
was recently killed in France while
serving with the U. S. forces.
The Knights of Columbus, of
which Guy was a member, received
Holy Communion in a body. Fath-
er John C. McCarthy spoke of the
faithful work that Guy did in the
Catholic Youth Club and also in
b the Knights of Columbus. He serv-
ed .as secretary of the Knights of
Columbus a year before entering
the service.
Mrs. Letha Youngblood, his mo-
ther, Edward and Joseph Young-
blood, and a sister, Mrs. Bill Price
of 2913 Royer Place, Dallas 11, Tex., 1
were here to attend the service. (
Mrs. Youngblood has received a
letter from the War Department
stating that Guy was accidently
tack. “Air raid defenses of the
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 11, 1944
London, Dec. 11 (UP)—Strong
Paris, Dec. 11 (UP)—General
I Charles de Gaulle, en route from
Moscow with a new Franco-Rus-
— ... from Fla Lewis, Jr., 18, Midship-
tacks, gave the Elas positions east ! man USNR, of the graduation of
and north of Athens a terrific the class of Reserve Midshipmen,
pounding yesterday, but it was evi- - -
can,s, but the raiding fleet was not , .
attacked by any enemy fighters. 1 2 my nerves on edge and mapping
The German air force was re- ne terrain mi future large-scale
. .02 • . air assaults.”
ported to be forming new jet squad i
I ress arrived over the target. During
Head for Germany Tokyo "enes
The glow of flames above a par-
rons and training pilots for them as ,
fast as possible. Responsible sources ~,.1y D
predicted that the Nazi first-line ! D-one
strength might soon include 500 j Goes to Longview
____________ To Accept Job
Soo Starts ‘Sweet Sue’
B29 Superfortress Base, Western
China (UP)—The fact that all des-
serts here are called “sweets” plus
the fact that the most popular
Chinese waiter in the officers’ mess
is named Soo. causes a small up-
roar nearly every day. Usually ev-
’ eryone is chanting; ‘Sweet Sue.”
Announcement has been received sion at its meeting in Austin on
March 29 heartily endorsed the
Mrs. S. C. Bovell of Dallas, chair-
man of the committee for Second
District, TFWC, and Mrs. Floyd
Casebolt, county chairman, were
instructed to proceed with the
plans during the summer and the
Highway Department at Austin,
has sent out maps of the state wth
plants most suitable to each sec-
pinned down in
a’ trench on the
road to Rome.
Armed with an
automatic rifle
and hand gre-
nades he ad-
vanced toward
an 88-mm. can-
non and three
machine gun
nests. Running through a hail of
gunfire, he silenced the first
machine gun by killing its two-
man crew with a grenade.
Nazi machine gunners in the
second nest wounded him but he
staggered on toward the cannon.
With a mighty effort he killed all
five of the cannon crew with a
long burst from his rifle. Then
he swung his rifle toward the
’ second machine gun nest, killing -
| the two Germans who had just
I wounded him. The third machine
) gun nest still blazed away, hit-
J ling him again. As the final
burst from his “heater” cut
down the remaining two Nazi
gunners, he stumbled into their
nest where he fell dead over their
bodies.
You are not asked in the Sixth
War Loan to make a contribution
like that of Private Dutko to help
the defeat of Japan. But Victorv
also is made up of individual ef-
forts of millions of Americans
at home and on the fighting
fronts. Ho-w about dedicating
your extra $100 Wai' Bond pur-
chase today to fighters like Pri-
vate Dutko?
\ Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Boone, lor-
mer residents of Ennis. have moved
to Longview where Mr. Boone has
accepted a position with a funeral
home. Mr. Boone was an .employee
with the Keever Funeral Home and
left here for Kilgore several
months ago.
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supported the ground forces and
destroyed at least five enemy
planes in combat.
(Japanese broadcasts claimed
that Japanese forces had re-occup-
ied four American airfields on Ley-
te and “firmly” held the initiative
on the island. American troops
were being driven “even further
from Ormoc," the broadcasts said.)
American Liberators with fight-
er escorts dropped 268 tons of
bombs on Japanese airfields on Ce-
bu, Negros, Panay and Masbate Is-
lands Wednesday and Friday, de-
' molishing buildings, cratering run-
' ways and destroying two parked
' planes.
One of three intercepting enemy
fighters was shot down and a sec-
ond probably destroyed. In several
cases, no anti-aircraft fire was re-
ported and observers speculated
that the Japanese may have given
up as hopeless the task of keeping
the airfields in useable condition.
Other American planes damaged ;
three small freighters and two bar-
ges off Luzon and destroyed two
small freighters off Masbate.
Athens, Dec. 11 (UP)—Hope for
an early compromise settlement of
the Greek civil war faded today as
the bloody street fighting in Ath-
ens raged into its second week with
some 20,000 well-armed leftist
troops still sniping and shelling
British and-Greek government pos-
itions in the heart of the capital.
Reprised with heavy losses in an
attack on the central Gendarmer-
ie barracks and in an attempt to
move reinforcements in from the
sububs yesterday, the left-wing
Elas detachments fell back to a
The Germans were expected to
put up a tough fight for merken,
however, because the eastern out-
skirts lie only 100 yards from the
Roer.
One mile northwest of Merken,
other first army troops were en-
gaged in a bitter street battle with
German self-propelled guns and
tanks for the town of Pier.
Doughboys advanced a, mile and
a half from Altdorf to the western
outskirts of Schophoven, five miles
northwest of Duren, but there ran
into stubborn resistance and were
making- only slow progress today.
Geich, three miles west of Duren,
also was proving a tough nut to
crack, though Obergeich, farther
west, fell readily.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s third
army hacked its way deeper into
Germany’s old and new west wall
defenses along a front stretching
principally from Dillingen, two and
a half miles northwest of Saarlau-
rten. to the Sarreguemines area,
nearly 25 miles to the southeast.
In the past 24 hours alone, third
army doughboys and tanks have
knocked out 25 pillboxes and 30
fortified buildings, mainly in the
house to house fighting in the Saar
lantern and Sarreguemines sect-
Guy, a former employee of the
United“Publishing Co., entered the
service about three years ago, and
served overseas for ten months,
spending a furlough in Ennis in
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tion designated on the maps. The
’ Ellis County chairman has received,
: also a letter of instructions concer-
ning the proposed post-war widen-
ing of the two main highways thru
1 Waxahachie, so tht planting may-
be made with these changes in
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mind.
1 The first step is the selection of
I a county plant or tree by the resi-
I dents, both urban and rural, and
j the second step is the actual plant-
ing of at least one shrub or tree of
the county's choice in the yard of
every home, as well as beside the
highways. The highway commis-
excluded from the new
cabinet as a result of
lenu
near Tolibaw, 18 miles north of Or-
moc and two and a half miles
south of Limon, where the Japan-
ese had committed their main for-
ces in an attempt to prevent the
American 32nd division from a
frontal breakthrough into the Or-
moc corridor.
American fighters effectively
but each time were thrown back
to their initial positions.
Cix counter attacks were repuls-
ed around Fraulautern, on the
northwest edge of Saarlautern, a-
lone. Elements of the 377th regi-
ment captured two city block in
Fraulautern, including a large ho-
tel where a pitched battle was in
an old-fashinode ballroom with
tommy guns and hand grenades.
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Rome, Dec.' 11 (UP)—Italian
patriots have driven the Germans
from the important enemy barge
port of Porto Corsini, six miles
northeast of Aavenna, head-
1 quarters announced today, while
j southwest of Faenza British Eighth
Army troops battled large scale
I German counter attacks on a
broad front.
Porto Corsini is well behind the
lines but the Eighth Army’s rapid
10 mile advance up the Adriatic
coast from Ravenna to the 'South-
ern shore of the Valli Di Com-
; macchio by-passed several enemy
pockets.
German troops infiltrated through
woods northeast of Aavenna in an
attempt to extricate the isolated
troops and were reported engaged
I by Eighth Army units.
A communique reported that the
I British had inflicted heavy losses
i on the Germans in turning- back
strong counter attacks op the
bridgehead across the Lamone
river, southwest of Faenza.
In an effort to seize a com-
manding ridge, the famed 19th
panzer division, which had been
held in reserve, went into action
and forced British troops back
400 yards but after bitter fighting
the Eighth Army units still held
the vital road bend between San
Prospero, a mile south of Faenza,
and Pideura, four and a half
miles west.
Fifth Army patrols engaged in
, several sharp clashes with the
enemy south of Bologna but there
was little change in forward posi-
tions.
December, 1943. He was a Staff
Sergeant, and served as a tail and
waiste gunner before returning to
the States. He asked for overseas
duty again, and was sent to France.
violation of a pledge made to the
Allies before his return from
political exile in the United States
last year.
“Churchill attributed Badoglio's
expulsion from office to my in-
trigues,” Sforza said. “Instead, it
was the committee of national
liberation in Rome which, after the
liberation of the capital, unani-
mously demanded with extreme
frankness and no intrigues the
elimination of Badoglio and his
replacement by Bonomi.
“I took no part in this episode,”
Sforza added in a flat contradic-
tion to . the charge made by
Churchill in the House of Com-
mons last week.
Sforza asserted that in his two-
hour conference with Churchill
in London on Oct. 11. 1943, the
prime minister devoted most of the
discussion to “pressure that we
accept Victor Emmanuel- regard-
less of his heavy responsibilities
for- Fascism.”
He added that Churchill was
well aware of his opposition to the
king and that he had reaffirmed
his “definite repudiation” of
ammenuel before and after that
conference.
day, but they were rebuffed sharp-
ly by a spokesman for Premier Geo.
Papandreou, who merely reiterat-
ed the government position that no
Two B 29s penetrated western i peace, can be arranged until the
Kyushu, southernmost of the Jap- Elas foices lay down their arms.
the visit will occur fairly soon.
It was suggested that the presi-
dent might visit Paris immediate-
ly after the next, meeting of the
•Allied “big three.”
Having reached agreement with
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stalin on the main out-
lines of treatment of Germany and
the post-war European settlement
with France in a key role, De
Gaulle was said to desire a similar
understanding with the United
States.
The signing of the Franco-Rus-
sian pact probably will be followed
soon by the signing of a parallel
Anglo-French alliance.
The text of the Franco-Russian
agreement was not released, but
an announcement in Moscow said
the two countries had “reaffirmed
their determination to continue
military operations up to complete
nine and a half miles east of Or-
moc.
killed when struck by a traitor at i “Trapped and compressed into a
Beaumont France. The letter also ! narrow pocket by these three All-
i ied columns, the enemy’s forces in
Washington, Dec. 11 (UP)—Se- Large Group
lective Service headquarters prepar- - p
ed today for speedy application of j HpS W omhepe
the government's latest work-or- | 1 V J ----- 9
fight edict under which all men 26
through 37 who are not in essenti-
al jobs get behind the war effort at
once of face induction.
Draft director Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey was expected to send
to local boards today new instruc-
tions calling for review of deter-
ments in the upper- age bracket and
possibly outlining a stricter inter-
pretation of what constitutes a de-
ferable contribution to war or es-
sential civilian activity.
Officials said the new policy
would bring no wholesale reclassi-
fication of men in the 26-37 age
bracket but would be directed
chiefly at registrants who have re-
fused to get into war jobs or who j.
leave essential work for peacetime
occupations.
The number who have shifted to
peacetime work was understood to
have risen steadily since last may
when Selective Service headquart-
ers announced that it would con-
centrate future draft calls on the
18-25 age bracket.
The tightened deferment policy
have effected a junction with the
seventh division around the sec-
ond enemy pocket.
Ormoc, main Japanese supply
anese home islands at 10:30 a.m.
determined effort to wipe out the
last German forces on the west
bank of the Roer river, first army
tanks and infantry captured Echtz,
less than two miles northwest of
Duren and 17 miles inside Germany
last night and pressed on toward
the Roer itself, a mile away.
The American third and seventh
armies far to the south also ham- .
mered forward at the central gate- I
way to the Rhineland, wedging
deeper into the Siegfried line in
the rich Saar basin and toppling
the key supply and communications
center of Haguenau in the eastern
tip of France.
A German front reporter said
the two armies had hurled 16 ce1-
sions—some 240,000 troops—into an
attempt to break through the west
wall to the Rhine along an 30 mire
front.
The American threat to Duren,
an industrial town of 39,000 astride
the Roer river 22 miles southwest
of Cologne, was mounting hourly
as Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st
army forces stepped up their new
offensive.
Capture of the west-bank portion
of Duren would collapse the last
sizeable enemy pocket west of the
Roer and bring the Americans a-
By JAMES McGLINCY
United Press War Correspondent
Paris, Dec. 11 (U.K)—American armored forces battled
! eastward across the muddy Cologne plain on a 10-mile front
today to within two miles or less of Duren, main anchor of
the Germans’ Roer River winter defense line.
Resuming their offensive in a-------------------
and reinforcements gateway on
Leyte, fell yesterday to veterans of
the 77th only 72 hours after they
•had driven ashore three miles to
the south in a surprise amphibious
landing.
The capture of Ormoc split off
the southern end of the enemy’s
Yamashita line beyond hope of be-
lief and complete encirclement of
that pocket appeared imminent.
The seventh division, driving up
the west coast from Albuera, eight
and a half miles south of Ormoc,
yesterday was less than a mile
from a junction with the 77th al-
ready had established contact with
other forces moving across the in-
land mountains from Mahonag,
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Philippines, Dec. 11 (.P—The 77th 1
division fanned out from the captured port of Ormoc on the j
west coast of Leyte today, tightening the American strangle-
hold on 40,000 to 50,000 Japanese trapped in two shrinking
——------------—--------------- pockets.
j of incendiary bombs that caused
fires, Tokyo said. These fires, too,
were extinguished ‘“immediately,”
it was said.
Headquarters of the 21st bomber
command on Saipan made no com-
ment on rhe reported raids Sun-
day and today, but confirmed that
i a lone Superfortress had bombed
thecapital in a “weather” strike
just before dawn Saturday.
1st Lt. John T. Garvin of North
Bergen, N. J., a member of the
crew, told United Press war cor-
respondent Mac R. Johnson at
Saipan that Tokyo was completely
blacked out when the Superfort-
Program, TFWC;
One column pushed north up the i
Ormoc corridor in an effort to
strike a knockout blow from the
rear against the bulk of the ene- l
my garrison fighting a last-ditch
struggle against an American fron-
tal assault below Limon. Another
headed south and already may
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