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'$~, m k=========================================~======~==~~==============~====================~======~============================~==~~==========~. = YANKS POISE TO HURDLE INTO SAAR COAL BASIN B-29's Hit Iwo Ji.ma, Bonins; ERS! 77th Division lands on leyte Seventh Army Court Declares Mistrial of- Yanks Destroy \I ooca. all 00- In Enchenberg Mass Sedition Jap .(onvoys reo By the Aasoel&ted Pretll The mass trial of 26 persons ac- ginning. Patton's Tank Corps cused of conspiring to undermine The trial had been underway morale ot the armed forces blew since April 17. O. John Rogge, the Observe Pearl Harbor Drives on Forbaeh; up yesterday. chief Pco$ecutor, had introduced By Sinking 19 Jap Nazis Falling Back Justice Jam~ M. Proctor of the more than 18,000 pages of testi­ United States di:5trict court declar- mony and 1,100 documents in an Reinforcement Vessels ed a mistrial when only one de- effort to prove the defendants con­ PARIS (AP) - United States fendant, Prescott Dennett, a for- spired among themselves and with WASHINGTON (Friday) (AP) Third army tanka yesterday mer army private, expressed a wi!- NazI officials in Germany. -Superlortre..... .trlIdnq from MILES thrust to Forbach, three and a lingness fOr the trial to continue Rogge told reporters that Bid­ baNe OD S a I paD. bombed half miles from Saarbrucken, with another judge substituting die's decisIon on the future of tbe Japcm ... In.taUatloDS OD lwo in a relentless drive on the war for Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher, case probably would not be an- Jlma 1I1cmd In th. BoDlD b1cmda BAlD HITl'ING YANK troo", of the Third army havinr crosse(! the Saar rtver at Surlautern. have fan- factories of the Saar basin. who died last week. DOunced in the immediate futUre. This left the future of the case- "Only a fanatical prosecutor today. aetI out for lI'ore than 16 miles to POints beyond Merar (Indicated by larre arrow) and established a whose peril was heightened by Th. attack was carried out .;rilltboard to the rich Saar e_1 baltn. Other United States Third army troops are In Surbrucken, In- another American army on the the largest sedition trial in the would start all over again this In­ nation's history-with Attorney judicial, farcial and impossible by B-29', of Briq. Geo. H. S. ...1&1 capita" and General Patch's forces hammer northward alonr the Rhine from Huuenau. The east striking within three mil.. General Francis Biddle. He can trial," Maximilllan J. SL George, HClDMU·. 21,1 bomber com· hleb drive not only menaces straterlc Karlsruhe, but aided by thrusts over the Saar river, thr~atens to of the old Maginot line. either (1) call ott the whole thing, a defense attorney, said in a state­ ueep up the Rhine river corridor toward vital Ludwillhafen and Mains. The Uhited States Seventh mcmd. or (2) order an entirely new be- ment. Th. blq bombers n.w ap­ army en t ere d Enchenberg, proximately 150 mU.. to th. about seven miles south of Ger­ north of th.ir bases on Saipan many's Saar border where in the Marianas 10 bit at th. they were about four and a half Earthquake Strikes Steftinius Speaks for Greeks Superlorts Bag THE RE-ELECTION ot Roberl A. Jap attonqhold. Th. attack wa. miles south of the Maginot line'S fortress town of Bitche. They also Near Jap Mainland Talt, above, Republican United th. second In as many d~ on cleared Montbronn, near Enchen­ States senator from OhIo, is being Japan... 0 u t P 0 a t a by the At a Glance- berg. contested by Cuyahoga county Superfortr.... s, Senator Protests British Units Blast 63 .Jap Planes Observers Doubt Democratic organization and CIO­ The American 77th divlaion Launch New Attacks PAC oltlciais In Cleveland, who succeuhilly landed south of As the winter offensive's first Adve~se Effects have p05ted $11,830, the sum ne­ HOP British 'Dictating' Greek Rebel Party month ended wIth 700 square 'id Ormoc. heart of the Japanese On Nip War Plants eded for a recount by the county Today's miles of Germany in allied hands, In Huge Ra board of elections. William G. resistance center on the weat I!th DubUque coast of Leyte island. Philip­ NQtionalists, Leftists the United States First army By The AMoclated Press Pickrel is the Democrat who op­ Secretary of State launched three new attacks that posed 'raft and lost the election pines. Dec. 7. Pearl Harbor an­ Fighting in Thraee; WASHINGTON (AP) - Slxty­ A violent earthquake, described Seconds Greek Right carried to the Roer river at one three Japanese planes were shot by observers as "catastrophic," for the state by 17 ,999 votes. niversary day, Gen. Douglas Iowan pOint, amid indications the Ger­ To Political Freedom Civil War Expected down or damaged today as Chlna­ struck In the Vicinity of Japan MacArthur reported today. .. .. .. mans may be preparing to fall based Supertortressea fought their yesterday. third anniversary of In a dramatic race to ahore. ATHENS (AP)-British war- back almost to the Rhine for a new WASHINGTON CAP) - For way Into Manchuria and bombed Pearl Harbor. the 77th won out over an 8-29's hit Iwo Jima, BOnins, ships, planes, tanks and riflemen stand on the Cologne plain. 18-Year ·Old Soldiers the second time in three days, the 77th division lands on Leyte as an aircra1t plant at Makden and There was no direct word from enemy convoy of 13 'hips. in­ United States yesterday spoke out Yanks sink Jap reinforcement blasted at centers of Greek leftist American intruder pilots saw other mllltary objectives. the Japanese, but seismograph cluding seven destroyers. that lor politicul freedom in a Euro­ attempts. resistance around the Acropolis floodlights blazing for the second ThIs was the Superforts' biggest stations around the world recorded To Be Sent Overseas was destroyed. while on Ihe and near the Piraeus yesterday. straight night on roads and fields pean country wbere Britain has bag of enemY planes. a prolonged earthquake of terrIfic opposite side 01 Leyte Japa­ intervened . This time it was Seventh army in Enchenberg. As ancient Athens rocked again near the Edt river, five to eight On the third anniversary of intensity, conceivably centered on Replacements Needed nese paratroops landed in a futile Greece. to the roar of artillery and the mHes from the Rhine, suggestina Pearl Harbor, Tokyo also was hit the Nipponese maInland. As Tempo of Action effort to .abotale Amerij:an air­ The action, by Secretary of SteUinlus speaks for G r e e k clatter of machine guns, a Bt'iUsh that tl'\e enemy realized the Roer by bombs from two :B-29's-out Each observatory sald the trefl)­ !Ields. Sttte Stettinlus put the Unite<;l freedom ot choice of govern­ destroyer and t\yo motor launches de:fenses were about to crack and from Sajpan p r ito 8 r j.1 y on a ors were "extremely violertt." In Speeds Up Overseas Nineteen Nipponese vessels In States on record to let the Greek ment. joined the tray, the royal navy an- was building new ones farther wnther reconnaiAance mission. West Bromwlch, England, seismol­ all, constituting two convoys. people choose their own rulers re­ nouncing their guns set a fire at an back. A 20th alrforce communique said ogist J. J, Shaw saId "the whole WASHINGTON (AP) - Eigh­ were sunk by American planes teen-year-old soldiers are now prdless, in the words of Prime Earthquake strikes near Japa­ Ellis strongpolnt rtear the harbor. Enter Forbach revised rep 0 r t s showed three earth" had vibrated nearly six and naval crait otf Ormoc In de­ being sent to the battle fronts be­ MinIster Churchlll, of whether nese mainland. While Premier George papan-I Lieut. Gen. Geo~ge S. Pa\ton's Superforts were lost to enemy ac­ hours after the shock, feating enemy attempts to put re­ dreou, whose government the Brit- ThIrd army tanks m a tW? and a cau~ of "urgent military require­ they "form a government of the tion in the daylight strike into Shaw, who said the shocks were in10rcements ashore. right or left .. ish are supporting, deClared that half-mIle. advance probed lOto the Manchuria. It reported that "un­ ments," the army disclosed yes­ Japanese planes, hitting at the the Elas, armed auxiliary of the French city ,Of Forbach, and ~ept recorded at 8:48 a. m. Greenwich terday. In thus enunciating again a pol­ I observed to excellent bombing time (11:45 p. m. CWT), declared Yank amphibIous operation three icy which has already brol,lght a Atlanta Newsman EAM party, was "plunging Greece Saarbruc~en s busy fa c t 0 ~ 1 e s results" were attained in the Under Secretary of War Pat­ miles below Ormoc, sank one into civil war" and denied he was under artillery flre for the eIghth that wind tremors obscured trac­ terson said at a news conference clash with Foreign Secretal·y Eden strikes at varied targets.