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"REDS SMASH NAZI ARMY --- DRIVE ACROSS STEPPES"
LONDON: A broken German Army which once numbered 300,000 men
abandoned tanks by the score In a rapid retreat across the flat Steppers of the ’'Eastern
Ukraine Friday reeling in confusion before a triumphant Red Army which was
smashing toward Poland and Rurnania [sic, spelling changed to ""Romania"
in 1975] in one of the great Allied victories of the war. Field
Marshal Gen
Fritz Von Mannsten lashed back with counterattacks at some points in a desperate effort to reform
his lines and restore order but he could not stop the Russians, The Red
Army poured fresh troops into the battle widened the breach in the heart
of the Nazi eastwall to 200 miles and pounded Westward down to the last
35 miles to the pre-war Polish border and Southward toward the Nazis Bug
River defenses before the border of Old Rumania.
NAVY HONORS HEROES OF TARAWA AND MAKIN
Washington: Valor of the men who drove the Japanese from Tarawa and
Makin Islands will be commemorated in the names of two aircraft
carriers/ The Navy announced Friday that at the suggestion of
Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet two new
carriers will e named U.S.S. TARAWA and U.S.S., MAKIN ISLAND. The
Tarawa. a large aircraft carrier, is now under construction at the
Norfolk, Va. Navy Yard. The MAKIN ISLAND, an escort carrier, known
heretofore as WOODCLIFF BAY, is being built at the Kaiser Shipyard at
Vancouver, Wa.
HOMEFRONT LABOR BATTLE BREWS
WASHINGTON: In a new flare-up of bitterness over the
administration handling of the railroad wage dispute Unions representing
100,000 non-operating employees withdrew their demands from arbitration
by President Roosevelt. Advising the President they would not agree to
arbitration "on the basis propose", leaders of the group told him the
procedure he outlined would be a Gross injustice". Mr. Roosevelt
gave no indication of his reaction of the Unions turndown or whether he has
any new step in mind. The development however further clouded the
outlook for a settlement and increased the prospect, that the Army may
keep control of the railroads indefinitely.
FIRST LATIN-AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
(CNS) General Mascaronhas de Morais of the Brazilian General Staff has
arrived in Algiers with a party of 13 Brazilian officers to confer with Allied
military leaders preliminary to dispatching Brazilian ground troops and
air forces to serve with allied troops in 'Europe or Africa.. The units will
comprise the first expeditionary force ever sent oversees from a
Latin-American republic.
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Those weird sounds coming from Ship's Co. 9 last night were not made by
gremlins, as you may have thought, but were made by Papa Bowling's
Glee Club, You are invited to attend and bring your best voice,
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