it ion oys N- \ '"i.......................... ii. 'The Wrtilher Average Daily Circulation Korecaat ol L. Wtiatlier B vesa V e t the Month of November, IS48 F.lr and ronttnned very rold t«.- nlght; Mnttirdav tnrrea.lng rlniidl- 8,537 neM. windy and ri.ing tempera- Member ef the Aodit tore. r lEuptttng Bnrean ef ClrenlkMon. HlancJiiMter— 4 City o f Village Charm (FOURTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS (ClaaaUled Advertlalng on Page It) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943 VOL. LXIIL, NO. 72 BeforeSlVIakiii Attack Allied Planes Roosevelt Announces '8th A rm y S eizes Hit at Japs’ Vezzani in Drive; Supply Sliij )S Eisenhower to Lead Dig Out Giermans Shoot Down at Least 14 Enemy Aircraft Dur- Forces for Invasion ing Attacks; 20 Vessels Wet, Wintry Weather gQ lQff UrS^BS Seen at KMajaleiii. Handicaps All Opera- a r* i - No Reference Matle to Advanced Allied Headquarters, lions on Entire Ital- A.mty Jjllgilt N ew Guinea. Dec. 24 - lAb - Allied Future of Marshall; iaii Front; Bombers n n . • j planes stnick right and left up the Pope Wants Just Seleelion Approved at Pound Railroad on Be Ketamed narrow waterway between . New Britain and New Guinea, doing Recent War Confer- Rivieria in .3 P laces. heavy damage to Japanese supply eenee in Middle East; And Honest Peace IT tulsivorth Advocates facilities' and air bases and shoot- Allied Headquarters. Al- Agreement on Every ing down at least-M enemy air- giers, Dec. 24.—</P)—I* ight* Fire - Point Program craft, the high command said lo. Prays'This U ili Be Last Point Uoneerncil With ing in snow and rain, the As Insurance to Main IN« lluruld Eighth Army has driven day. Christmas of WaC in Laiinehing of Attack. tain Peace in ff’orW. The heaviest concentration of northward and captured the Tomorrow enemy ships reported in the Mar- Message to World; Hyde Park. N.-Y., Dec. 24. village of Vezzani three miles shalls was sighted by American Washington. Dee. 24 {A’l—A Urges Planning ^ow. —(/P) — President Roosevelt . .southwest of Ortona and the Army and Navy fliers who aitack- far-reaching five-point post-war ■■ ' - ■' “ * 0 ’ announced in a world-wide Canadians are digging the ed two atolls in the mid-Paclflc No issue of the Manches- program to maintain America’s j jgjgnjj group. Twenty ships were London, Dec. 24.—(iT*)— broadcast texlay the appoint- last Germans out of Ortona ter Evening Herald will ^ armed might as insurance for I counted at Kwajalein, Indicating Pope Pius in a Chl•i.stmaa^ ment of Gen. Dwight D. Eis- with bavoneta, it was annoimced lie pulilished tomorrow, todav The whole Italian front world peace was advocated today Japanese reinforcement against me.s.sage to the world today enhower to the suiireme com- by Representative Wadsworth possible invasion strike Troops aboard a Coast Guard manned transport en route to Christmas Day. wa, Wankeled by wet, w intj Makln for invasion of the Jap-held baae attend prayer services held prayed that “this will lie the mand of the Anglo-American weather which handicapped oper- (R., N. Y.), former chairman of Rocelve Dlre«-t Bomb Hits by Lieut. Col. L. W laiwood of Blauvclt, N. Y , Army chaplain last Christmas of war’’ and A Merry Christmas to all forces which will open a Sec- ation. both aground and In me the Senate Military committee. transports and a freighter An ammunition chest on the hurricane desk provides a ba.se for the The New Yorker, now a m em -[ harbor at Wewak appealed to mankind to liegin from The Herald Kam- ond front against Germany. air. on the altar. (AP Wirephoto. i He made no reference as/to th‘« her of the Foreign Affairs com- northeast coast of New Guinea, re- the planning of the world'.s ilv. Bonil>erM Pound R ailroad future of Gen. George C. .^Marihall, mittee and one of the few mem- ceived two direct bomb hits each reconstrnctio*! and a peace of American infantry of the Fifth bers of his party to visit the 'ch ief of staff .of the A'rm.v, wno Armv plodded through the snow from Mitchell niedium bombers “justice and honesty.” Speak- had been reported ei/lier as th« White House regularly, auggeated; that scudded in low to also set choice for the vital European In- to take one high point but >vaa 1. Compulsory one-year mili- ing from the Vatican, increasing- pushed off another. Marauder fires airdrome and supply dump ly near the war zone and where vasion command. / tary training of all able-bodied areas and silence anti-aircraft Federal Operation Yanks Tlironjs ^ lum bers of the 15th U. S. Air in a sense he was a prisoner—for British Officqt Su(6«ssor Force pounded the railioad along men betw een 18 and 21. positions. the shadow of Nazi bayonets A B ritish officer who will bo 2. M aintenance of a sm all b u t the French-Italian Riviera In Escorting lightning fighters ringed and fell across the ancient announced by Prime Minister highly-trained army, which could three places. pounced on 30 Japanese intercept- Of Railroads Prospect seat of the Catholic faith—the Shrine to Pay•' Churchill of Britain will take over The most violent fighting con- be Increa.sed swiftly by calling up ing planes, downing 14 and proba- I holy father appealed for a peace Eisenhowex's present Mediterra- tinued In the Ortona area, where trainees. bly two more. An enemy bomber not "Imposed at the point of the nean comipand. ' 3. P reservation of the fleet, the Germans battled desperately was destroyed on the ground. Two sword. GJirist Honor Mr. Koo.sevelt, In a Christmas now the g re a te st .sea force In hia- to retain the eastern anchor of Allied fighters were shot down, one New Offer I>y 1,5 geiiatC RuCCS Should Be Baned on Justice eve adijixiss to his fellow country- their crumbling defense linci plane was missing and several men at home and in the armed (Onntinued on Page Eight) Operating Unions .Vtlns “A future peace should not. A military commentator aam were damaged in the hot fight, the cerlainlyyl?ave out the possibility Aiiirriruna of All Kuiikfl forcqji overseas, nr.aile it clear that the enemy atill held one cor- communique said. of sanctions.” he added. "But do th ^ the selection of Eisenhower Dash of . Uneertainty hffil been approved a t the recen t ner of Ortona and that many of Cape Gloucester, on the western I I I 15 States give back to the world a pea.e Uoiivcr^p on Jeriisulein /•ar conference in the Middle the Germans were sticking shore of New Britain, was blasted To Labor Dispute. based oh justice, not on reprisals, death rather than -retreat. This And Rptlilchem ; S|»e- East. Nazis Admit with 1.53 tons of bombs in another on a world communion based on had turned the Canadians stiug- of the aerial attacks which were Hold'Coiitrol He said that he. Churchill and Bulletin! present world suffering" riul Ma88 to Be (liiiiax Kle for the city into a house to made Wednesday. Airdromes, sup- The pontiff, isolated from the Premier Joseph Stalin of Russia, house campaign With bayonets and / In three days of intense and con- Ncm’ Breaks ply and bivouac areas are located Washington, Dec. 24.—(/P) 300.000,000 of the faithful since the amall arms. ...... in this vital enemy aector which German occupation of Rome last Jerusalem. Dec. 24—OPi Amer- sistently amicable discussions at An indication of the fleice de- —Chiefs of the Brotherhoods Republicans Seek to Up- Teheran, had "agreed on every has been churned by nearly 2,200 September, spoke in Italian by ra- icans of sll ranks—coni-erglng fense the Germans were waging In Defenses tons of explosives in almost daily of Railroad Trainmen and set Denioeralic liiriiiii- dio. The speech was recorded and point concerned with the launching from battle stations \yt storied was aeen in one roadside ceme- attacks since Dec. 1 the Locomotive Enpineer.s translated by The A.s.so<iated Persia, Syria. Egypy' Africa — of a gigantic attack ui»on Ger- tery near the town where there niany/ Twenty-two enemy supply and announced at the White beuts; Any 12 to Press in London. thronged with other /humble pil- were more than 100 German '‘Naturally,” the pope went on, The President added: Reds’ Baltic Army Hit- troop-carrying barges were de- House today they were call- Be Siiffieieiit Gain. grims to this shrine of Chrisliani- Will Continue Olt'ensUes graves. stroyed or damaged by Allied "the conclusion of jieace will not t.v today to pay homage to the Pressing Kelentlessly North ing off the strike set for Dec. •‘The Ru.sslan Army will con- ting Outer Lines at planes and light Naval craft in mean that measures should not be Prince of.Peace. / Other units of Gen. Sir Bernard .30 as far as their two unions Wa.shington. Dec. 24 c/Ri Con- taken to prevent any strong force tinue its stern offensives on Ger- their patrols of barge routes along The dram a t h / has lived for 2.- maiiv's ea.stern front, the Allied L,. Montgomery’s Eighth Vitebsk as German the New Guinea coast and east- are concerned. , fident they w|ll win control of the from committing aggression upon 000 .years was /feborii again with were pressing relently northward humanity again.” • A rm ies in Italy and A frica wnll Tank Drive Stopped. ward to N ^ ' Britain and the Solo- Hou.se.