I • 58 Japanese Ships Sunk or Damaged in Sea Battle U.S. Navy Launches New Raids on Manila DaflyTribune After Great Victory \\5scoflsnCONSi T E W S PA PER (By the Associated Press) U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor—The vic- Thirty-First Year—No. 9615. Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Monday, October 30, 1944. Single Copy Five Cents torious American navy has launched new aerial attacks against Manila, Tokyo reported today, after sinking or damaging 58 Japanese warships in one of history's greatest naval triumphs. The Third and Seventh U. S. fleets definitely sank 24 Japa- nese warcraft, including four aircraft carriers and two battle- ships, in last week's naval action off the Philippines, Adm. Chester W. Nitnitz announced last night. Thirteen more Japanese craft, including a battleship, were damaged so badly they may. have sunk, and 21 other warcraft, including sU NAZIS COLLAPSING battleships, were damaged. HOLLAND The total—at least 500,000 tons— is more warcraft than Japan lost Sgt. Watson in all the four preceding great Pa- LAST RAIL EXIT OFFICIALS FIGURE Allies Enter Last cific war sea battles combined. U. S. Lost Six Warships Is Killed on American forces spent six war- FROM NORTHEAST TOTAL VOTE OF ships for a victory by which, Nim- itz said, "the Japanese fleet has French Soil Link in Defense been decisively defeated and rout- HUNGARY TAKEN OVER 44 MILLION ed." Dispatches from the Philip- pines say, however, American per- sonnel casualties were "consider- London — (IP) — The last rail es- (By the Associated Press) Line Below Maas able." In addition, the 10,000-ton cape route for Germans in north- Washington—On the basis of in- Australian cruiser, Australia, was eastern Hungary was blocked by the complete registrations and qualified London—(.P)—Allied columns paced by tanks and planeg damaged. Russians today with capture of estimates of voters, state officials raced for the German escape bridges and ferries across thei {Tokyo radio today reported, with- Csap on tbe upper Tisza rher, while figure roughly that more than 44,- broad Maas and Hollandsch Diep in Holland only five miles out allied confirmation, that 200 U. to the north Berlin reported further 000,000 persons will vote in next away today, and Berlin radio asserted that a major withdrawal S. carrier planes staged three raids Russian gains in the liquidation of week's presidential election, includ- en Manila and Clark airfield Satur- an estimated 100,000 Nazis pinned ing 3,392,000 service men and wom- across that barrier to Rotterdam was in full swing. day—just three days after heavy against the Baltic sea. en. Allied troops, breaking into fighting in the naval battle ended. Csap, junction of four rail lines This compares with the 49,515,- the last of the chain of strong- Japanese aircraft, said another at the southeastern edge of libera- 312 who actually cast ballots Jn the points before the Maas, en- ted Ruihenia, was occupied by 1940 election, but takes into account tered Roosendaal, a city of STORY RELATED Tokyo broadcast, Sunday began at- tacking an American task force, in- troops of Gen. Ivan Petrov's Fourth wartime dislocations in estimating 25,000, 12 miles south of Wil- cluding four aircraft carriers, in Ukraine army which fought their the overall decrease, despite heavy emstad ferry across the Diep, Lamon bay, oa the east coast of way 30 miles across mountainous registrations in big cities. the sea arm of the river. BY YANK RESCUED; Luzon, opposite Manila). eastern Czechoslovakia, Moscow an- There have been lower and high- American amior plunged to with- 'Overwhelming Victory' nounced. er estimates of the 1944 total vote. in six miles of tbe Moerdijk bridge, Henry J. Kaiser, shipbuilding in- Nimitz' 1100-word communique Wild Fighting for Town one of the lon^cstspans in Europe, IN PHILIPPINES said that "amplifying reports, al- KING HAAKON HAILS ARRIVAL OF RUSSIANS IN NORWAY— dustrialist and chairman of the non- and other forces fought to within A midnight bulletin said the Rus- partisan association for franchise though still subject to revision as King Haakon VII of Norway, in a broadcast from London, tells his sians seized the town after a day of three miles of the Maas and five BV AL DOPKING more information is received, indi- education, figures 50,000,000 will miles from the Gecrtruidenberg With the 7th, Division, Leyte—T people to give the Red army the "greatest possible support," in the wild street fighting during which vote for an iLll-timc record. He made cate an overwhelming victory. . . . Russian advance into Norway. He said Norwegian administration hundreds of Germans were killed. crossing by capturing Oosterhout P)—A slender, blue-eyed Ameri* this forecast in taking exception to ' northeast of fallen Bieda. the second battle of tbe Philippine will be restored in reconquered territory. This photo was radioed A Berlin announcement said So- can who escaped at Bataan's fall a 39,500,000 estimate. i Nazi Force Disintegrating was rescued from Leyte mountains sea ranks as one of the major sea from London. viet troops attacking in western La- battles of World War II in the Pa- Vice President Wallace has pre- i The German stand in all south- today, ending three jears of secret! tvia had penetrated the Priekule SGT. JAMES WATSON dieted a vote of 45,000,000 and Cal- cific." area 20 miles southeast of the Bal- western Holland and northern Bel- missions in the Philippines with the! The three related actions, thus vin B. Baldwin, assistant chairman had been cut into four pockets, Japanese constantly hounding him« tic port of Liepaja, and had cap- of the CIO political action commit- classified as the second battle of the tured Auce, communications center Sgt James A. Watson, 24, was and military spokesmen said the Second Lt. Joseph Francis Saint killed in action in France on Oc- tee, estimates a minimum of 47,- Philippine sea, were fought south of Recall of Gen. Stilwell 70 miles east of Leipaja. German force was disintegrating John, 24, of Philadelphia, related Formosa, off the east coast of Sa- Moscow Communique Brief tobei-12, according to a war depart- 000,000. under the concerted pounding. the story from the bamboo hut ment telegram received this morn- Higher Figure Possible mar and in Surigao strait off south- The Moscow communique, one of The four pockets were below the where he was given his second pair eastern Leyte, Oct. 23, 24 and 25. Plunges China Into New ing by his wife, Betty, wbo resides The state officials' minimum esti- Maas where the chief resistance of shoes in three years. He was the briefest in weeks, did not con- at 431 Ninth street north. Aircraft and submarines scored firm the Berlin reports on the La- mate compiled by the Associated center of Btoda had been taken; on brought through American lines by, Sergeant Watson was sen-ing with more successes in hunting down tvia offensive, nor did it mention Press today was 44,102,000. This Beveland island; on flooded Wal- 1st Lt. Claude Hombacher, Sebe- survivors the next two days. the 26th (Y.D.) division, an infan- was raised to 44,037,000 when high- chei'en island, \irtuaily rut off by wainjr, Mich., whose patrol reached Military, Political Crisis the East Prussian front, where him by crossing the bay south of Possibly only two Japanese ships heavy fighting has been raging try group, in France when be met er figures were taken into account a Canadian drive to within 3,000 escaped undamaged from tbe de- his death. in eight states where officials gave yards of the causeway connecting Abiiyojr. BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER along the Kaunas-Konigsberg high- A Star Athlete Rescued also was red-haired En- bacle. No modem nation has had its way. varryiny: estimates. The maximum with Beveland; and a tiny six mile fleet so nearly destroyed in one en- Washington —•(&)— China has He was born at St. Charles. Minn., estimates, for example, added 250,- long, four mile wide corner of Bel- sign Edwin J. Beattie, 21, Colum- been plunged headlong into a new RUSSIA WILL NOT (Berlin said Soviet attacks April 1, 1920 and moved to Wiscon- bian ille, Mich., naval pilot who gagement. against the thick German defenses 000 to tbe vote forecast for Mis- glum south of the Schelde. military and political crisis by the sin Eapids while still in grade souri, 100,000 to South Carolina, North of Tilburg a British column crashed in a dog fight daring tbe Number of Ships Involved recall of General Joseph W. Stil- southwest of Ebenrode and south of invasion and took refuge with Saint The Philippine battle involved school. He attended the Two Mile 50,000 each in Colorado and len- lashed out from Loon op Zand and well to Washington. Gurobinnen, important highway school and then was graduated from John. more than the 248 ships engaged in ATTEND AIR MEET points, were growing -weaker.) ness, 15,000 each in Alabama, Ar- seized the village of Kaatsheuvel, , Information reaching here indi- Lincoln high school in 1938. Ser- kansas, and Virginia, and 10,000 in only three miles south of the Maas, (The dispatch failed to reveal the World War I batfle-Ttt Jut- cates that decisions which must be The Moscow communique asserted any details of the "secret mis- land although exact figures can- Washington—(£>) — Russia hung geant Watson was an outstanding New Mexico. and drove to within two miles of made in Chungking in tbe next that fighting only of local impor- atblete in footbalj and basketball at sions.") not be given. This means that Am- a question mark over her western tance occurred along most of the The vote forecasts were based on Waspik to the northwest, only three three to four weeks may well de- Lincoln high and starred in amateur a combined estimate by these state miles from the Geertrui den berg A B-17 gunner of the 14th bom- erican naval power alone totalled termine the fate of the Chinese European diplomacy today just as rast battlefields scattered from the bardment squadron when he was approximately 200 warships, possib- affairs in the Balkans slid into a basketball and baseball circles here officers of (-0,766,625 registrants and span across the Mass. war effort from now on. Arctic to the Balkans. following Ins graduation. bombed out Dec. 7, 1941, Saint ly more. groove of collaboration oiled by other eligibles, compared with 60,- Antwerp Drive Gaining Among American officials there Until he entered the armed for- 576,979 estimated to have qualified The drive across flooded lowlands, John leached Bataan Christmas eVe Among them, Nimttz proudly an- is hope, but little real confidence, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister and later with 900 other airmen Churchill. ces, Sergeant Watson was employed for the 1940 election. These officials laced by canals and dikes, in the nounced, were five battleships "seri- that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek by Consolidated Water Power & Pa- went to Maiabang airfield on Min- ously damaged at Pearl Harbor"— emphasized that official registration campaign to clear the Schelde ap- will be able to put his military and The newest upset in Washington, Former Rapids per company. He left Wisconsin Ra- figures are kept only in a dozen proaches to the allied harbor of An- danao where "we waited for planes the West Virginia, Maryland, Ten- political affairs in order without pids on Auugust 30, 1942 and went that never came." nessee, California and Pennsylvania, and probably London, calculations states and that hence their esti- twerp, was gaining momentum and further delay. came over plans for the internation- to Fort Sheridan, III. For the next approaching a conclusion after some When the surrender came, Saint and three new carriers named for High strategy of the war against Youth Dies in mates of eligib!es must necessarily al aviation conference opening in two years, he served in various ar- be largely guesswork. Also, final of tbe most difficult fighting of the John and 11 other Americans fled See—WAR IN PACIFIC—Page 7 Japan hangs on the outcome. to the hills and finally reached Chicago Wednesday, my camps, going first to Camp registration statistics aie not avail- war. ft Affects Future Strategy Moscow announced last nigbt that Wheeler, Ga.; then to Fort Meade, On Walcheren the remnants of Leyle May 8, I 42, in a frail native The campaigns ahead have had Air Tragedy able in some states until long after launch, passing through the straits Russia would not attend because Md.; to Foit Jackson, So. Car.; the election. German forces were fighting from Fire Destroys to be planned on an "if" basis—if "countries like Switzerland, Portu- Camp Gordon, Ga.; Camp Campbell, islands within the island—bits of in the darkness. There, Col. Cornell* free China remains an effective The body of Lieut. Donald J. Some state officers said the total the island commander told them gal and Spain, which for many Ky.; on maneuvers in Tennessee, service vote may never be known land and raised dikes around the force against Japan, or if she Wiederhoeft, missing since last back to Fort Jackson, So. Car.; then principal cities of Vlissingen they must leave before 5 p. m. May; Shed Behind doesn't. Counting always the pos- years have conducted a pro-Fascist as many states do not separate policy hostile to the Soviet Union— Tuesday, was recovered near Cher- to New York, from which point he (Flushing) and Middleburg which 10 to avoid surrender. They left 2 sibility of a Russian move in east ry Point, N. C-, the public relations them from civilian ballots in the hours before the deadline in an Tomsyck Tavern have also been invited." left for overseas early in September counting. stood above tbe flood waters loosed Asia and also of a direct attack on office at the Norfolk, Va., naval of this year. Just prior to going outrigger boat for Australia but the Japanese homeland, allied strat- American officials have talked States With Record* by allied bombing of the seawalls. base has announced It was an- overseas be was awarded the Expert The Germans admitted many of were shipwrecked off Cauit point,, A garage and woodshed behind the egists now appear ready to play with Soviet a\iation experts and California and Illinois wore two Mindanao, May 17, in a storm. It know their views and intend to keep nounced last week by the navy de- Infantryman's badge. their guns were under eight feet of Kick Tomsyck tavern, West Grand their cards either way. partment that a navy land plane, of the big electoral vote states was Saint John's birthday. i them in mind as the conference de- List of Survivors which set registration records *his water. avenue, was destroyed by fire Sat- Stilwell's recall from the China- occupied by six marines, including In addition to his wife. Sergeant Then began his guerrilla life. He urday evening, while another small velops. year. Final official registrations for Enemy Offensive Burma-India theater was announced Lieut. Wiederhoeft, was missing. Watson is survived by his thice- subsisted on fried monkey meat and woodshed, the back wall of the tav- at the White House Saturday. The "What taught attention, however, California totaled 4,141,331 an in- To the east, however, an enemy tiopicat fruit He once wasted from was the demonstration of a firm Lieutenant Wiederhoeft had lived in year-old daughter, Penny; his par- counterthrust launched too late to ern and the roof of tbe building war department said he would get Wisconsin Eapids from 1925 to crease of 88,03(1 over the record 155 pounds to 100 before he was Soviet policy toward Spain, which ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffcvs, 210 E. Sec—ELECTION—Page 7 save the garrison noith of Antwerp housing a dry cleaning establish- an important new assignment. The 1936. Miller avenue, and one sister, Mrs, cured of malaria with "ditto" tree ment were damaged as local firemen action is linked directly with the had troops fighting for tbe Germans grew into a determined attack, sup- bark brews concocted for him byj in Russia, and toward Switzerland, Attends Teachers College Harvey Langino, 1811 Fifth .street ported by tanks, artillery and quelled a blaze whicb threatened for thus far unsuccessful American ef- Lieutenant Wiederhoeft, son of south. He was a mevnbei of SS. Two Slightly Hurt a native. His escapes were manv^ a time to destroy all wooden struc- forts for a complete shakeup of the which does not recognize Russia. planes, and gained ground against a Once 200 Mips charged his hideout, Portugal presumably was lumped in Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wiederhoeft, Peter & Paul's congregation. stubborn American defense. tures in the half block area. Flames Chinese high command and subse- LaCrosse, was graduated from Log- In Crash Sunday shooting e\erj thing at him without! and sparks could be seen shooting quent reorganization of the Chinese with Spain. Apparently the develop- Striking on the east flank of the success. an high school there and attended allies' Dutch salient in the Maas up over the First National Bank armies. ment forebodes stern Moscow oppo- Two persons were injured slightly LaCrosse State Teachers' college for bulge, the Germans yesterday swept building when the blaze was at its Plan for China sition to the Franco regime as an late Sunday afternoon when cars important factor in the future diplo- a year and a half. While at the -col- Sec—WESTERN FRONT—Pace 7 height. A large crowd, attracted by Allied strategy has called for a lege, he was enrolled in the civilian MIXED BALLOTS by Miss Matj WilloiiRhhy of drive across the Pacific, via the macy of western Europe. Mrs, Mathews of the activity gathered on West Grand pilot training program. Madison, traveling wrst <>n Chestnut Philippines, to the China coast and street, and Donald Liehly of Port MRS. MUtY MILLER DIES avenue and behind the building-, and Entering the naval corps, lie was Mr*;. Mary Anna Miller, !U">, died City Dies; Funeral police directed traffic to a side a drive from interior China to the TO BE COOKED Edwards f'rKing north on Lincoln same coasttal point. The ultimate trained at Verrnillion, S. D,, the at the home of her son, John F. street University of Iowa and Glenview, street, collided. Miller, Dril Thirteenth a\(.'nuc north, objective was to equip China's man- Charles, thrc~ and one Ii:t1f year To Be Wednesday The small structure behind the SGLBUEHLERIS 111, He was commissioned a second Madison, Wis. — f/P) — ballots at 1:10 ]>, m. tnday. Funeral ar- tavern building was full of rubbish, power with American supplies and old son of the Ijicht\F. lecrivecl a lieutenant in the marine air corps which are maikcrl with a cioss in rangements are in charge of Krohn authorities stated, end it was not technical training. badly bumped head as he wrt^ Mrs. Michael .Mathews,
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