i. Page 2 -Dte. 17. 1944 C DETROIT SUNDAY TIMII f ELAS Reported Today'* War Map: Von Wieqand Say»: Yanks Blast Japs' Burma YANK INVASION OF MINDORO Oppose FDR' AN Ready for Truce • SAN MARCaiNoI 0 IUIAoJ* KRNANDC*- Jap Ships Army CHONG |fEa L U Z6C Lack of Allied Accord 17 Counter-Proposal Beaten APoi-ftP Nominations 373 Planes Toll of Rejected, However Chinese Troops Mop Resolution in Senate 3-Day Air Attack Up After Battle Costing Many Lives LONDON, Dec. 16 fINS)— Would Delay Action Archbishop Damasktnos of Athens C»U7 PEARL HARBOR, Dec 16 ft P> according to a Rente* s dispatch BHAMO. Dee. 16 tUPI—The I ' WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 (INST Germans Get Darkest Picture V. S earner planes, attacking from the Greek capital, declared last organized Jai> resistance in day and night without interrup- tonight that he beeg aj>- senators three New- !>¦ had north-central Burma collapsed Four Defeat, Fight on Fanatically tion for the first time in the proached and would accept an mu. and a of destroyed today as Chinese troops mopped Democrfts Pacific war. or dam- offer to become regent of strife- joined in introducing a resolution VON WIEC.AND aged 17 Japanese ships and 373 torn Greece. up enemy stragglers in the cap- B\ KARL H. Japanese * at Luzon Island in tured Irrawaddy River strong- into 2he Senate tonight to have Dean of American H*rel|n Correspondent* their three-day assault in support ATHENS. Dec 16 (INS) -The hold of Bhamo, ending a 28-day action on President Rooaevelt'a of the Mindoro invasion. Adm. ELAR central committee, replying battle that reopened all but a nominations to six high state de- Portugal. Dec. H‘> A bold and clear statement by today. •10 to 50-mile, of the LISBON. Nimitz announced to Allied truce terms, was re- stretch partment posts deferred until the and Soviet Russia the German lifting offensive, to Burma Road lifeline to China. \m erica. Briiam to jvcople, The Luzon primarily ported today have agreed to next session of Congress, which to Bhamo idl to Ameiican t ained , ‘ ie mystery of their fate and postwar destiny, might indeed go i designed seal off the Manila ‘evacuation of the Athens-Piraeus Ray bastion and safeguard Gen. provided Greek mountain veterans of the Chinese 38ffi Di- ; begins Jan. 3. ar to bring Germany's resistance to an end and shorten the war, .area the afternoon, MacArthur * landings on Mindoro brigade which has been fighting vision yesterday after Sponsoring the resolution wera saving the lives of thousands of our boys. a wild banzai by the thus jIsland to the south, was develop- left wing forces is withdrawn charge PHILIPPINE Senators Pepper «D) of Florida, ! ing into the great naval from the capital. trapped .lap garrison broke un- There appears to be some agree- one of air leaving Murray of Montana. Guffey victories of ihe western Pacific. CBS correspondent John Nixon der a hail of gunfire, the ment t*etwren the big three on river beaches littered with enemy ISLANDS (D> of Pennsylvania, and La- reporied a here that condition* and the occu- FAILED REACH in broadcast Kollette (P) of Wisconsin. Imme- irmustice Airport TO TARGET ELAS’ counter-proposal, w'hich dead. o: Germany Mindoro The fall of Bhamo eliminated diately after the resolution was pational partition disarming Plane* from Carriers operating included a demand for position presented the Senate recessed to American, British and of Greek police the last important Jap between under Adm. Halsey’s Third Fleet employed against augured Monday ranged length Luzon, the rebel forces, rejected north of Mandalay and noon. Russian forces as adopted and the entire of had been early resumption Allied raking fields and installations and by Gen Scobie. The Allied mili- an of Introduction of the resolution recommended by the Allied ad- by military traffic over the entire * climaxed another day of torrid Taken Yanks devastating the adjacent waters. tary commander in Greece. Nixon visory in London, but Burma Road from India to and much behind-the- committee The only major enemy eounter- said, had insisted that one of hi* debate Chungking. , maneuvering even that has not been ratified. (Continued from Page One) thrrat was offered Dec. 15 when true** terms surrender of Hrms scenes in the bitter Allies, the sent eight planes to at- and cessation the struggle over the nominations. That the victorious transports, heavily Japs of hostilities on sunk four thp leight were part ELAS in been PI SH KWANGSI JAPS united in war. are divided into two damaged eight tack forre hut a I of Attica—had FILIBUSTER BEEN and set ablaze shot down long before reaching ignored (UP! g.gantic camps, fundamentally op- transport*. two battleships, CHUNGKING. Dev’ 16 Connally -100 miles west of the former ican forces swarmed ashore near San Jose (arrow) with- nees would be staged. Churchill's pas- offer- issued to left-wing forces by the American air base at Liuohow, a Prime Minister American control of Mindoro opposing the new Mindoro out losing a man. Mindoro is ItiO miles from Manila. tD) of Missouri, - calling fight nw ap< ach in th< enemy ships central committee for sur- communique said today. Senator Claik mat* will drive a wedge across the jsivo included two has vigorously a few days others burning of arm* and termination of A U. S. 14th Air Force com- who opposed c*t»* House of Commons archipelago and "enable us to sunk and 15 left render of Archibald MacLeish, ago. damaged fighting against the British in the munique reported the destruction firmaiion dominate air and sea routes which or in the first day of the poet-librarian of Congress, IfVjn. told thrpe-day aerial blitz. Athens-Piraeus area. of 12 Japanese planes by Amer- liberal In June Hiller me reach to the China coast," Mac- Meanwhile, prior delivery of Traitor Black to be an secretary of to' ican airmen the week List assistant in Belgium that hr wanted to Arthur said. in ended Bombers Pound SIX SHIPS BLASTED ELAS* reply, fighting continued 14, 30 others probably istate, surprisingly announced that establish contact with London for Dec. with opposition destroyers es- in ide the Greek capital through destroyed or damaged, without he had withdrawn his the discussion of peace. JAPS UP TO OI.D Six or destroyer and support of TRICKS corts were blasted in the attack, the night and into the morning by the loss of a single American would confirmation H# seemed convinced the war light Published all the six nominees. (IN.Si— flare*. plane in Paris NEW YORK. Dec. 16 all being listed as damaged. :the of uas all but over* The 14th Air Force fliers hlso Nazi Rail Yards With American Army forces con- ! The attacks Dec. 15 by the EDITOR’S NOTE —EAM are OPPOSES CLAYTON 1 said: solidating their beachhead posi- l/i» initials of the three Crook sank 12,400 tons of enemy ship- 68, (INSI—A carrier piano destroyed 11 Jap Including Laval, LONDON, Dec. 16 "Mr. Fuehrer, you arf de- tions on newly damaged words in the name of the na- ping and a Japanese destroyer Senator Bankhead of Ala- invaded Mindoro plane* and 48 more. ! strong force of RAF heavy bomb- bama. leader of the ceiving yourself. The British in the Philippines, the tional liberation group; attacked in Hongkong Harbor by Petain, a Senate farm Island Japs boosting the total destroyed in 72 ELAS Are Accused ers attacked the industrial and bloc, Mustang fighter-bombers % savagely flayed the Presi- will never talk with you." following their usual propaganda to are the initials for EAM's fight- Dec. 8. center of Siegen, miles hours £35 and the total dam- rail 45 dent s nomination of William theme, boasled that the Yanks aged to 138. ing arm. Dec’ (INSi east of Cologne, tonight after up- L. HE GETS EXCITED PARIS. 16 Mar- of Tex., to he who landed without having a shot Relatively few enemy planes shal Philippe and wards of 100 y. S. four-engined Clayton Houston. Petain Pierre assistant secretary of state in Hitler argued, got excited and fired against them were being were seen the third day. Laval, officially to have craft pounded Ihe Kornwestheim an said charge state departments shouted: severely mauled. U. S. Convicts Builder "fled to Germany." appear almost yards in continuance of an assault of the "Why not? I demand nothing A Domei dispatch declared that ELAS in Greece at the hot ton of the French against enemy communications division of economic affairs Sj from England except one thing "Japanese land forces" had "black list - ' of 68 former Vichy The air ministry announced The Alabaman charged that —that the English keep their wrought "heavy damages" on Of Santa Ana AirBase ministers and officials accused of that the huge Lancasters of the Clayton is an advocate of lowr political hands «fT the continent. American units. treason cases are being bomber command swept against 'priced cotton and that he has Canadians (INS» whose to Cross LOS ANGELES. Dee. The continent In mine.** Japanese eagerness jump co 16 examined the Siegen target with lighter working against the bent Joseph Canella, Linked to Nazis by the French high been effect. Sjtalln also seems to their microphones and typewriters -Col. J. the man court of justice. escort. interests of American cotton pro- In pronouncements who built the Santa Ana army be saying "the continent u mine.” with expansive NEW YORK. Dec. 16 (INS> The list, published in Paris Almost simultaneously with the ducers. be easily understood, air base from a bean field to one air announcement. wiser and more astute than could for the A blunt charge that the Greek newspapers today, includes Ca- ministry Allied Earlier, Senate But Tokyo radio has been sounding off in Italy of the greatest military airfields circle* In Rome revealed that the conitrmed Hitler, Canal mille Chautemps he is not saying it out loud. Communists now tosirring the and Pierre the nominations of former Gov. for week* that Mae Arthur's force* in the West, was found guilty prime American aircraft of the Mediter- Churchill recently declared: by ELAS uprising collaborated with Etienne Flandln. former Robert Hurley of Connecticut and in the Philippines would be pinned ROME. Dec. 16 (INS)—Cana- a federal court jury today during minister, two war minister*, ranean Allied air forces based in harlot down and conspiracy to the the Nazis the occupation three Edward Heller of Cali- "Democracy is not a crushed in Levte. dian troops with the British of defraud of Greece today hv ministers of the interior, three Italy hit synthetic oil plant* at Lt. Col to picked in the street by government. was made and fornia to be members of the he up Eighth Army in Italy extended Nicholas G. Lely, Greek informa- ministers of information and two Brux, Czecho-Slovakia. Forts man with a tommy gun." The verdict was reached on Liberators bomb- surplus projierly board. a their bridgehead across the Na- tion in this country. ministers of w’ar. There are also dropped their regarding the handling minister loads through heavy cloud*. The freedom in Amrnrs cause* Gen. Eisenhower's viglio Canal today in a new thrust testimony Lely lumil the charge on in- mx generals, including Weygand. of supplies and the awarding of many of our people to mix senti- against Faenza after repulsing of' from Pre- and two Another Italy based form civilian jobs at the base, of which formation just received admirals. mentality ttilh. democracy »n several German counteratta* ks. mier Papandreou and the Greek Besides Petain and Laval, 10 Liberators bombed Innsbruck. 1,142 Tirpitz Casualties iVd: CtmrHa quartermaster- < Europe. Driver, Orderly Wed Southwest of Faenza where WA* gov eminent firrwrnehy minister* are said to STOCKHOLM. Dec 16 L'Pi the the at the time charges’were brought have $200,000 The people of Europe are in a (UP)—Gen. Germans are blocking '‘According to authoritative "fled so Germany." Fire at Chicago Reports from the Norwegian PARIS. Dee. 16 against today veritable carnival of human mis- Eisenhower’s Cpl. British drive to Bologna. Polish source*," hr told newsmen at his The "black list" also include* CHICAGO. Dee. 16 ~ Fire underground said that 42 eries. driver. Pearl and English columns were re- him^^> that officer* were killed and Hargrave. WAC from Pillager. office “It was now revealed six former ministers killed or at the plant of the Maxwell Bros German Coalless, freezing cold, the ported by Allied Mediterranean Canadian Envoy ) suspicion* of an existing col- by patriots" the Box w«* brought killed or injured Minn , was married today to his Quits “executed before Corrugated Co. 1.100 sailor* pangs of gnawing like headquarters to have made im- OTTAWA, (UP) - British sank th# hunger orderly. M/S Michael Mckeoch of Dee. 16 laboration between the Greek liberation of France, among them under control today after causing when plane* specters dance around bare portant gains in a day of un- Resignation of Leighton McCarthy Communist party and the Ger- Adm. Darlan. damage estimated at $200,000. battleship Tirpitz. New York. usually heavy fighting. Christmas trees in utter mockery Eisenhower, Gen. Walter as Canadian ambassador to the man authorities of occupation is of, "peace good will Lt. confirmed, Ger- Christ's and Bedell Smith, chief pf staff, and British on the right wing of the United States and appointment of now as many trn.all men." U. regained Tos- Lester a* successor man, Italian Bulgur other officers attended the wed- S. Fifth Army B. Pearson his and prison- For Britain there Is more than, ding at signano and then absorbed a series, was announced today tiy Prime er* have already been taken by democracy the royal chapel of the at stake in Greece. palace. of Nazi counterthrusts. Minister King. government troop*." For many years there has been French Eisenhower later gave a reception for the newly- an alliance between Britain and weds. Greece by which the British have secured rights in Greek ports for naval stations and bases. Yank England SOVIET TIKIP SEEN in Gets A Red Greece, like Tito In Peteu FOR THi Sporting THING TO GIVE Yugoalavia and like France has, Five Years for Theft Q done, would doubtless make an LONDON. TVc. 16 (INS)—An alliance with Moscow instead of American court-martial at Wilt- England. shire today sentenced Pvt GIFTS WITH A FUTURE Tne Greek ports might then be- Richard B. Noel. 21. to five years’ coma Russian naval bases. detention and a dishonorable dis- it That would leave Gibraltar as charge from the army, in which Britain’s only naval base along the he had nerved in Franre and Ger- Gaaluhaia SwaclaM. in the most beouti* coast the north line ol Mediter- many wa* Purple and awarded . . the ful shades . beige, powder, brown and ranean. Heart.

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