Roosevelt
Home After
Conference
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17—(AP)
—President Franklin DeLano
Roosevelt, returned to the White
House, five weeks and a day after
departing on the historic military
and diplomatic series of confer
ences in the middle East, and his
safe arrival in this country was
announced yesterday.
The President found congress
getting ready for the Christmas
vacation and the joint session
prjor to vacation, to hear him re
port on the momentous meetings,
which have been discussed by the
House.
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Speaker of the House Rayburn,
who was among the first to talk
with the President, said he would
not appear before congress until
he delivers the annual message
early next year.
BERLIN MASS
OF FLAMES
LONDON, Dec 17 —<AP) —
Stricken Berlin heaved up fields
of flame and smoko again last
night as hundreds of giant black
RAF bembers loosed thunderous
explosives against the Nazi nerve
center for the 41st time this year
Stockholm dispatches said that
Berlin was burning again after
two weeks respite. The flames of
her gutted buildings reddened
the night sky. Telephone com
munication was irregular. All
transportation in the capitol was
paralyzed.
A German comixlunique report
ed fleets of American Liberator
and Flying Fortress bombers
over Heligoland Bay, and drop
ped a great number of high ex
plosives and incendiary bombs in
residential quarters and a num
ber of localities in northwestern
Germany.
Bremen acknowledged particu
larly heavy damage to Bremen it
__self. - _ • •
The Americans lost 11 bombers
and one fighter and downed td
German fighters.
The degree of the Berlin as
sault, more than L500 long tons
of bombs, in determination,
which is pressed home despite the
loss of 30 bombers, left no doubt
that the RAF intended to finish
the job of levelling what remains
of the capitol’s acres of factories,
government buildings, financial
institutions and warehouses,
when they showered the blacken-,
ed city with high explosives and
incendiaries.
DAILY RAIDS
ANNOUNCED •
P&ARL HARBOR * Dec. 17 —
(AP)—A new heavy bombard
ment of the Japanese-held, mid
Pacific islands was announced,
and for the first time in five
weeks of almost daily attacks,
the loss of “one” raiding Liber
ator was reported.
The new airfield at Taroa on
Maloelap, and Atoll, the main
fortified base of Wotje, were the
targets.
30 enemy planes were encoun
tered in battle over Taroa. Two
were shot down and eight more
were probables, with eight more
definitely damaged.
There was apparently no enemy
interception over Wetje.
The raids occurred yesterday
and resulted in the damage to
installations at both bases and
fires were started at Wotje.
LEAVES FOR
SEATTLE
A M. Hartford, local manager
for the United States Smelting,
Refining and Mining Company in
and about the vicinity of Nome,
left this morning aboard a Pan
American plane for Seattle, where
he will be with his family for
Christmas.
Coming Events
IN THE HIGH SCHOOL GYM
Dec. 22. — “Alias Santa
Clans.”
Dec 23.—Gtounankf
Tree. ,
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IE N C I N ES IF 0 HR THE WAR FRONT S—Locomotives of 5-foot gauge for reconquered territories in Russia ride flat cars on
dm New York Central train. Other standard gauge engines in the train will go to the U. S. Army abroad.
Soviets Hold Trial of Germans and
Russian Alleged Guilty of Murder
1" moeo*kt~ ^SST To.—' AP) _
[The trial of a group of German
'soldiers and a Russian accused of
being a traitor, on charges of
islaying Soviet citizens in the Nazi
‘occupation of Kharkov, began
yesterday in a military tribunal,
dispatches said today.
They further stated the Ger
mans and. Russian ail took part
in the murders of several thous
and civilians.
The dispatch went on to say
that 30,000 were killed, but not
ail by those on trial. The kill
ings were perpetrated by forcing
the persons into trucks and seal
ing the vehicles, then filling the
trucks with carbon monoxide
gas fumes from the running mo
tors. i
The press carried pictures of
the numerous corpses, and the
shallow graves, from which the
bodies were taken for examina
tion. This gave the proof that
through the examination of over
600 bodies, more than 500 were
killed in specially built truck ‘gas
chambers’ ”,
SUBMARINES
SCORE HITS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—(AP)
—U. S. submarines roaming the
Pacific have added eight more
Japanese cargo vessels “sighted
and sunk” to the list, and raised
the total toll of all Jap ships sunk
since the start of bte war to 374.
The navy listed two large trans
ports, two large tankers, three
medium freighters, and one small
freighter.
The submarine raiders have
now sunk and probably sunk or
damaged a grand total of 534
Japanese vessels of both fighting
ships and merchantmen
NOW STATIONED
IN UTAH HOSPITAL
Word has been received here
by Mrs. Helen Bockman from her
son Frederick, who was wounded
in Salerno, Italy, that he is now
stationed at the government hos
pital in Brigham City, Utah. Mrs.
Bocfcman will leave in the next
few days to be with him for a
visit.
ARMY FIRMLY f
ESTABLISHED
MOSCOW. Dec. 17.—<AP) —
Vatutin's first army of the Uk
raine appeared firmly established
and holding the upper hand to the
west of Kiev after more than five
weeks of desperate fighting
> .
against heavy German odds in in
fantry and tank attacks.
Russian counter attacks dis
! lodged the enemy from several
settlements in the Teterev sector,
50 miles west of Kiev, for the sec
ond successive day, enabling
Vatutin's columns to resume their
drive northwest of Radomysl,
Marshal Von Mannstein’s strong
hold.
RadOniysl, lying beUveen Kor
osten and Kiev, and Zhitomir and
; Kiev, the mam highways is per
j llouslv threatened by the Russian
| gains.
BEN IN TELLS OF
REPARATIONS '
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LONDON, Dec. 17.— (APf
Ernest Bevin told the 91st ses
sion of the governing body of tne
International Labor O ffice, thpt
“We are making much better
preparations for peace in Ggat
Britain than the last war,”
declared “Past prosperity
[been measured in accumula
i of wealth, in terms of motty,1
[ without regard to the real wealth,
the national well-being of ' tits !
people.
! ‘‘We believe the essential
for the future is not a fina
budget, but a human one.” h
MARRIED ON
DECEMBER FOIST
9
Albert L. Atchley and Elsie E. j
Dennis were married on W#d- I
nesday, December 1st. Harry? L. j
Smith and Josephine Simon were
married on December 6th; and on I
December 14th, Edward Topkok
and Louise Tunguenuk of Wales
were united in the bonds of mat
rimony.
Churchill
Improving
LONDON, Dec. 17.—(AP)—A
general improvement in the con
dition of Prime Minister Church
ill has been maintained, accord
ing to bulletins received today.
Churchill is suffering the sec
ond attack of pneumonia in 10
months. ;
It will no doubt require long
weeks of recuperation, conse
quently it is expected that the
British war cabinet may name an
acting leader to serve in his ab
sence.
LT. COLTsCOTT
GIVEN AWARD
SEATTLE. Dec. 17.—(AP)—
Lieut. Col. Clayton A. Scott of
Seattle, was commended by the
War Department, for organizing
relief work, after a flying fort
ress crashed in an English vil
lage recently.
The northwest airman, 10 years
ago, was the first to fly to Cor
dova, Alaska, a pioneer of Alas
kan Airways, and was the first
to land a plane at Crater Lake,
Oregon.
CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE AND
MADONNA AT FEDERATED
CHURCH SUNDAY
The theme of the regular wor
ship service at the Federated
church Sunday at 7:45 p. m., will
be built around “The Light of
the World." The sermon will be
on the topic “The Great Light.” j
The Federated choir and the new
children’s choir will sing and will
assist in the candle lighting ser
vice. The children who partici
pate will be Barrow Morgan,
Nancy Lehman, Brownie Whfilfey,
Bobby Bayer, Rita Reimer, Olga
Hay, Irene Gra, Juanita and Ruth
Fagerstrom and Kitty Bjorns tad,
and Cary Longley
FRENCH SCORE
SUCCESSES
ALGIERS, Dec. 12.—(AP) —
French troops entering the war
on the European mainland for the
first time since 1940, have scored
outstanding successes against the
Germans in the mountain fighting
of the Central Italian front.
The French have been in for
. ward positions with the Ameri
1 i :
can and British forces for some
time, but their presence was not
disclosed until today.
They are the same troops who I
fought alongside the allies in Tu
nisia, but since have been com- |
pletely reequipped w'ith Ameri-\
can uniforms, guns and materials, j
the day’s communique revealed. I
Aerial assaults for the second
consecutive day against German
communication and supply lines
in the Alpine region of northern
Italy, where heavy bombers
wrecked rail facilities at Padua
and Donga, were reported.
Both the fifth and eighth arm
ies were confined largely to con
solidating gains, and to bitter lo
cal battles for strategic locations.
DEFEAT NAZI
OFFENSIVE
LONDON, Dec. 17—(API
Spectacular defeat has been in
flicted on the latest German ‘‘an
nihilation” offensive against
Yugoslavian guerillas, a special
bulletin from the headquarters of
Marshal Tito rveeals.
In a broadcast the marshal
said Nazi satellite forces every
where suffered defeats and the |
enemy was thrown into retreat in j
numerous sectors.
Nazi forces which achieved one !
break through Into liberated ter
ritory then embarked on a cam
paign of looting and burning, ex- i
pending men and tanks recklessly
in an effort to break the rising
tide of Tito’s fiercely fighting
guerilla forces, the bulletin add
ed.
Considered
Greatest
Feat of War
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GEN Mac ARTHUR'S. E-U5AD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
Dec. 17.— AP)—American troop*
invaded Arawe Peninsula, on
New Britain Island Wednesday
and are today consolidating their
position;, while American air
forces successfully repelled aev
eral Japanese air attacks, while
yesterday's bulletins told of the
landings of army troops on the
southwest coast of Japan’* mam
island base in the southwest Pa
cific.
TT srj are no further details
from the action near Arawe, but
it was announced that Texas
Army units, while consolidating
their positions, encountered little
if any, additional opposition after
the brief skirmishes, accompany
ing amphibious landing oat ml;
They continued to branch out
in the ram-soaked jungle on re
connaisance missions, seeking
contact with the Japs,
At thrJ MacArttuw h .%.*aj'v»»'u
it was said Australian* on the
western sde of Vituw Straits
were making go>i progress up
the Huon Peninsula on New Gyi
nea, to capture Lakooa which L
imminent.
Japamse bombers attempted
an attack on. American position*
soon after the initial landings at
Arawe, but allied fighters inter
cepted hem and in each case,
the attackers were repelled
The .American Sixth Army es
tablish ?d its hold on Arawe Pen
insula with but few casuattie*
considering the scope of opera
tions Troop; moved shoreward
under a powerful naval air sup
port. and after seven hours re
port 1 “our objectives gained’.’.
The allies now have command
of ti e straits between New Brit
ain and the northwest coast ofl
New Guinea.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
Lr-JD HEADQUARTERS — Am
er an troops landed on Arawe
on the lower southeastern coast
of New Britain yesterday morn
ing in an allied offensive against
Japan’s key base in the south,
west Pacific. Troops swarmed,
ashore from landing craft, after
a naval bombardment blasted
way for the ground forces.
The landings climaxed a rec
ord breaking assault when allied
bombers dumped 356 tons of
bombs on Arawe, in a 7-hour
raid Tuesday.
For nearly two months th©
Allied planes have carried cut
widespread bombing attacks on
the key supply-barge concentra
tion points, from one end of th©
300 mile long island to th©
other.
The invasion of New Britain
was by far the greatest under
taking of the war against Japan,
for all the islands of the Solo
mons and elsewhere were re
taken by the allies, the action
was small by comparison Th©
invasion was aimed primarily
at the neutralizing of Rabaul, th©
enemy’s stronghold on N e vt
Britain, and other bases whet©
Jananese aircraft shipping and
supplies were poised like a dag
ger at New Guinea, and stands
like a Japanese bloekide against
the allies, in future operation*
against the Philippines and th©
Netherlands East Indies. ^