Carriers Strike 200 Mi. From Jap Mainland Unopposed ' r— Id On Parle Frangais THESTH TRIPES Puis-je vtfns re voir domain? U.S. Planes Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces Pweej voo ruhVOAR duhMAN? the European Theater of Operatic?.: Vlay I see you again tomorrow?- Hit58Ships Vol. 1—No. 86 New York — PARIS ■ onaon Thursday, Oct. 12, 1944 PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 11. —Driving deep inside Japan's inner defense circle, a car- rier-based aerial task force Aachen Assault of the American Third Fleet Monday raided the Ryukyu Islands, just 200 miles south of Japan, sinking or damag- ing 58 enemy surface vessels and knocking down 88 Jap Ultimatum planes, it was. announced today by $ J vtm ftr * #"•» J* yfim. Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific T ^fc MM XJr Ifcaval chief. Not a single American plane was Ignored, So lost in the raid;- which Tokyo said was carried out by 400 bombers. Nimitz' announcement said the car- Blow Falls riers remained near the targets and awaited * the planes' return. The attack was unopposed by the Jap Besieged Aachen, first Ger- fleet. man city to be condemned to The Ryukyu Islands stretch in a 600-mile arc from the southern tip death, last night was carpeted of Japan proper to the northeast with shells hurled into the coast of Formosa, off the south encircled target by 200 heavy China coast. The islands guard the' American guns and battered eastern entrance to the China Sea, through which most Japanese ship- by bombs hurled down by ping must pass to maintain com- U.S. airplanes in a 90-minute munications between Japan and her attack. Pacific outposts. The. promised destruction of the city of 165,000 got underway soon after the expiration of the 12 Nazis Swim U.S. First Army's unconditional-sur- render ultimatum. By nightfall a terrific weight of explosives had 18 Mi.To Blast been heaped on the defenders, who chose to obey Hitler's order to stand and die. Waal Bridge Grace Period End The historic city's 24 hours of LONDON, Oct. 11.—Allied troops grace ended at 10.45 AM without a . have captured ten of 12 German reply to the American ultimatum, super-swimmers who, wearing rub- Supreme Allied Headquarters and ber zoot suits with web feet, swam front-line reporters said. The Ger- 18 miles down the Waal to dyna- man News Agency said the ultima- mite the, bridges at Nijmegen in tum had been rejected formally. Holland the night of Sept. 28. With Aachen covered in a deep They swam six miles back up- pall of smoke from the concentrated stream after much difficulty in set- bombing and shelling, a German re- ting their charges and, tired out, lief force estimated at one division made for the banks, where one was was racing toward the city to relieve killed by a rifle shot and another its hard-pressed garrison of 15.000 mortally wounded. The fantastic SS troops, and a sizable battle was )2-man aquatiG team included two in prospect, Henry Gorrell, United ex-Olympic stars. One prisoner, just Infantrymen of a heavy weapons company "over the top" in the U.S. First Army's smash through the Press correspondent at Firs* Army to show he could take it, vaulted strongly-defended Siegfried Line. Almost invisible in the brush and scrub and meeting heavy fire (top), Headquarters, reported, k the fence into the detention camp. the Americans are striking for the German strongpoints. Fires started by the Allied air bombing which The relief division was approaching Wearing sheath undershirts of preceded the infantry thrust can be seen in the background (bottom). the city in two columns from the black rubber and rubber oversuits east and northeast, the UP dis- with paddle extensions, the men patch said. carried torpedo-like time charges. Doughboys Closing In According to the London News 2 Sergeants Develop Chronicle, which claimed the at- Reds Shelling East Prussia American guns which shelled tempt failed, British naval experts A New Bomb Release Aachen were turned to repel the removed the explosives. Nazi reinforcements and P38s were In Drive Down From North strafing the columns while the NINTH AP HQ., Prance, Oct. doughboys, ignoring the new ene- 11. — Two enlisted electricians my menace, were closing , in on Court Refuses were credited today with de- Russian shells fell on German soil yesterday from the Aachen from all sides. Gorreli said. veloping the new A-2 bomb re- north as Soviet heavy batteries from advanced positions On the U.S. Third Army front, lease on P47 fighter-bombers, near Memel opened up on Tilsit, in East Prussia just across Americans and Germans occupied VoteActRuling giving added accuracy and split- opposite ends of a curving tunnel second precision to low-level , at- the border from Lithuania. underneath Fort Driant and were tacks. r WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. — The Meanwhile, Berlin Radio an- trying to shoot each other out with S/Sgts. Henry Wallace, of nounced the Russians had launched ricochet shots off the tunnel walls, U.S. Supreme Court today refused Baxter, Ky., and Charles E. British Moving to consider a case in which it was great new attacks north of War- according to an Associated Press West, of Konawa, Okla., drew saw, and the German commentator story. asked to define the right of service- up plans and installed the first men under the Soldier Votive Law. said: "The autumn offensive is in Toward Athens Elsewhere, Lt. Gen. George S> Five servicemen had asked the court device, which involves an elec- full swing." Patton's troops beat off enemy to rule that they had the right to tric buttoa on the stick instead ROME. Oct. 11 (UP).—As some counter-attacks near Fresnes-en- of the old manual lever. Hie Germans admitted the loss Saulnois, 15 miles northeast of use a federal ballot in casting Illi- of Tauroggen, in Lithuania, and re- British troops stabbed toward Athens and others pushed north- Nancy, practically swept all Ger- nois votes. ported the Russians had reached The federal ballot—on which ser- ward past the captured Albanian mans from Parroy Forest and the Baltic Sea both north and seaport of Sarande, German-inspir- fought in the streets of Maiziere- vicemen may vote only for federal Goering Calls south of besieged Memel, in the candidates—is legal only in those ed reports tonight said that Nazis les-Metz. vicinity of which fierce fighting were abandoning all Greece in an Canadians last night were moving states which authorize its use. The continued. servicemen contended that the Allies 'Tops' attempt to escape the closing Bal- along a narrow neck of land into denial of use of a federal ballot in At the other end of the Eastern kan trap. Zeeland in a new assault to clear Front Moscow last night announced the approaches to Antwerp. The Illinois would force them to use Hermann Goering, in a speech With all the Peloponnesus In the capture of Cluj, important rail- Allied hands and Soviet troops forces which cut the German escape a more cumbersome state method broadcast by German Radio, yes- and, In effect, would deprive many road junction just inside the border astride all main escape routes in road and railway separating Wal- cheren and South Beveland from of them of their votes. terday admitted that America, Bri- of Transylvania. Other Red Army Jugoslavia and Bulgaria, the rem- tain and Russia were the "three units driving through Hungary to- nants of five German divisions the Dutch mainland wheeled west most powerful nations on this ward Budapest were reported to were reported moving north on (Continued on Page 4) Senator Out to Close have split the Germans into small secondary Greek roads in an effort earth." isolated groups, and the Soviets to escape. , The Reno Divorce Mill Speaking at the state funeral of were combing the forests for enemy Allied Armistice Terms a Nazi, fighter ace, Goering said: "suicide battalions," WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.— Sen. "A very grim time has begun for The Germans reported that Rus- 4,305 Naval Officers Accepted by Bulgaria William Langer (R.-N.D.) said to- the Reich and the German people. sians had landed on the ftibachi Quitting Active Duty day he would press for action im- . Even though the material Peninsula, in the far north of LONDON, Oct. 11 (Reuter) .—Mos- mediately after the congressional superiority of our enemies—they Finland. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 —The cow Radio announced tonight that recess "to end Mexican and Reno are, after all, the three most power- Navy has ordered the gradual re- Bulgaria had agreed to preliminary divorce mills." ful nations on this earth—is tre- COLOGNE, COBLENZ HIT turn to inactive status of an estim- armistice terms of Russia, the U.S. Langer said he would attempt to mendous, in the end it is the man Cologne, attacked Tuesday night ated 4.305 officers, called baca and Britain. A condition of the jjtert action oi the long dormant ' and spirit that weighs the balance. by RAP Mosquitoe's, and Coblenz from retirement since 1939, it was preliminary terms is that Bulgaria Capper bill setting up nation-wide, With the spirit of the best among were pounded again today by learned today. Most of the officers withdraw all her troops from uniform laws on marriage and us, we now oppose this material I Eighth Air Force Portresses, escort- to be released have been serving Greece and Jugoslavia within two divorce. I superiority," ed by Thunderbolts and Mustangs. In administrative shore posts. weeks. age <s THL STARS AND STRIPFS Thursday, Oct.