~~ ~ ~ ~I 3 1 l'IY1L . For ome time thee have been reports that the Germans er e getting re dy to abandon the great fortress of Metz. Tonight the story is officially confi ~ed. Allied Supreme headquarters announced this evening that the Nazis have begun to evacuate the ar a. General Patton's men in ront of Met ■ today drove through the German fortifications from two direction, fro ■ the north, and ' tbe south, and captured a ■az four forts, two large and two smaller. The two large forts are part of the nine big forts which consti~ute the main defense system of Metz. In addition to that, Patton's ei ht divi~ions took twelve more tons and advanced along a sixty mile 1ront, at some places as much as four miles. Yean bile, the right wing of Patton's army advanced six mile into the Saar di trict. All this the oughboys ac co mpli bed in spite of b d eather which pr vented their havin any air sup ; ort. They E TElHl FRONT - 2 --91ai:-~---------... - are now only t enty mile from Saarbrucken, the principle city in the Saar. LOS ay ni ht an erican attalion advanced against the G 0 rman line throu h the thick Christ ■a tree of the forest of Buertgen. Their Co ,ander as Lieut 0 nant Colonel Fran ' lin Sibert of Bohokus, Be Jersey, one of the youn 0 est battalion toa anders in the Army. Be's only twenty-eight.J•aza As darkness as co ■ in on, young Colonel Sibert ordered his battalion to dig in on a wooded height. Rain was allin ~ and ■ eltin the sno that covered the balsa ■ trees. At dawn the Ger ■ ans counter- attacked on both flanks.By Friday noon Colonel ibert and Captain Crocker of Greenwood, South Carolina, and *•o companies were cut off fro ■ the American ■ ain lines. They could have fought their ay back, but that would have meant giving up their position. So the Colonel sen\ ord b ck to the regimental command post by r dio and advised the regimental commander th t the t o companies ere well protected, but that the Ger an were attacking. Captain cElrath of Corsic na, Texa~, an a rtillery o i e r, r a i ed LOST BATTALION - 2 - . -------- ......... ~----_,_, his b at t e ry to le t t he G e r■a n s have it • Those t o companies stayed where they were, completely cut off and isolated all aay Friday, all day Saturday. Each day they beat off one counter~ attack after another. Back in the main lines pilots of Piper Cub planes were rea<ty to fly over, to drop food and ammunition. But tb.e ceiling as too llow, an . d too •ucb sleet was falling. It was not until Sunday afternoon that a third company of Colonel i~s Sibert's battalion fou ht iixa waJ forward to establish contact.And this morning the entire battalion followed and rescued the lost companies. Just a little incident in this, the most te~rific war in history? Yes, but it tells a good deal. Ul!Q Twenty six years go, Chester Hirscbfelder of San Antonio, Texas, was a Captain in Uncle Saa•s Ar ~ y, erving in F r a nce. As a matter of f a ct he had been in the Ar m y since Nineteen Hun red and Nine, in the ranks. Then in World War One be won proaotions at Soissons, Chateur thierry, and in the Argonne, also tne Silver · Star, Croix i e Guerre and the Distinguished S ervice Cross / 1n the last war, be won the reputation of being one of the bravest fighters in an army not lacking men of valor, and many a tale was told of his exploits, of how be had stuck to his machine gun, served it all alone, during an air raid and shot down t · o plan . s 1 of that f a mu u s flying Circus led by Richthofen, the Red lniiht of Ger m a n y. Tod a y Ch es ter Hir s oh f elder is a Co l on e l, a nd tie mo s t ec 0 r a ted ma n i n t h e t econ d D ivi s ion. And he' s in uro e i n. In f a ct urin g th re a t push in UB.Q_- 2 Ro , rman ' y . , it was Co onel Hirschfelder who wa . s crossing personally res p onsible for his regiment's s ■ ~••i•g of the river Vire. He was also lea ing a plato n to wipe out a German machine gun nest. Eighteen men had alreadv perished in the attack on th t nest. So hot w a s its fire th t i t held a whole platcon pinned down behind a hedge-row. Suddenly ColoOel Hirschfelder jumped up, put his fists on his hips an ·shou · ted: 'Well, wh.at•s holding you up?• O~e of his officers remarked afterwards: •It looked like the Colonel I • was trying to et himself killed•. T - he effect of bis action was to make his troops jump to their feet and charge like mad. lhereupon they wiped out that German machine gun net, and no~ the Army ha ~ added an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Croes the Colonel won those , venty-six J••• years ago. T I I T Z ------ Th Bri ti s h A i r i n i stry 1s jubil nt t od ay, and w ith r ea on. n rl y today w h ea rd that a formati of big L a nca s ter bomber had d rop ed s ome of their earthquake bombs, the hu g e s ix-tann e rs, on the great - Na. . z . i .batt_l e,s hip Tirpitz, the la s t b a ttlewagon Hitler , . , . . ' . ' ,, . . . has. The first stori es re p orte d direct hits on the forty-five thou; and ton • man-of-war. But no w comes the news th a t the L a ncast e r s have sunk the Tir p itz and l o t only one plane in the battle. T h is · . v a s the iig•iJ eighth att a ck on the Tirpitz in two and a half years. She w as hiding in Tronso Faord in No~r~w~~--- Twenty-nine Lancasters caught her at anchor, unable to maneuver. She sank soon afte r those huge earth~uake ' bombs hit her, and that ts the end of the Nazi Navy. U.. I ------ - T f. e con d nrm of th U r 1n to da, c · ptured a az i lron h o l d lldrty -o ne miles e a st o f Budapest, thereby ri vin E> r e ge be t w een th G e rm an g rr ·s on at Bu a est an d Nazi d ef nses on the Czechoslov a k frontier. Th fighting in Hungary is now n hundr d mi le front, with both s i d es throwing fresh roops, an more tans int o the b att le. I ■• No word from Moscow -- except th a t it w ill not be long before the Russians ill have annihilated th em in Ger ma n ~ orcea in Hungary, thus knocking th a t co u ntry out of the ar. V · r ~ 10 t t i n in G rm n h a e n orkin overti me en in t h e rumor ab out i t l e r, the tory th a t he's 1· 11, or v .o un ed ' or i n a pad d d cell, or de d . ccordin to the German r a i o spokesmen he' in the b es t of he ~l th, going s trong, and b usy winning the w ... r 1 thi~ i n s pite f t e :a ct th ~ t his late s t speech • · s read by Gestapo Chief Himmler. One story had it that the Fuehrer's sanity has been growing mor and more shaky, ever since Stalingrad, and that the revolt against him on July T entieth pushed him over the edge. But all these d enials sti fail to squelch the rumors. In fa ct they gre. The late t i s th a t the Gest po re lanning to blow up Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden with Hitler inside it. The idea bein tom ke him a artyr, a symbol, a German God. The ord pe rsists that H itler is no l oner capable of tending to h i s duties, n t h t Himmler is now the ict a tor. 1n ton hurchill a n Gener r l DeGaulle in P a ris, V r eed t a t the Unit e d Nations must establish a n iron ring around Germany -- after the war. They lso greed that there should be a firm alli a ce between Britai , Russia and France -- a permanent al iance. That is, in addition to the general alliance et een member ~ of the United Nations. The British Priroe inister also ag reed that France should be allowed to take part in the military occupation of Germany ' in the Allied military government to e established after the efeat of the Nazis. The Belgians also want a share in the occup a ti o n of Ger ~any . !• They nt to take part in the con t rol of the Ruhr and the Rhineland, since the Eastern Frontier of Bel ium is only about ten minut es ' bombing d i tance f rom the Ruhr. CO F "' R NCE - " _____ _ ._ .. - - Churchill n DeG a ul e , e r e t the ront ••m•JJ tod a y. Th vi ite the dv nee line of the co m in Fr nch a n Americ · n Arm y in the Vosges Mountain • riving through a he a vy sno · f 11 they made their first stop · t · command post only tw lve ilea from the firing line • It w as so murky and fogy they coul . ee very little. The Paris ra di to ay broadcast as ory that Stalin has invit d President Roosevelt and Churchill to Moscow some time before Christmas. There is no confirmati n of i~, and London brushed it aside as improbable. P I IP . I ~· s ------- - -- - T h J p r . t i l l r e infor c in nd sup l y ing t e ir , rr i ons o n L t , ut A j o r G e n e r a l Irv i n g , co m a n d in t e t e n ty - f o rt h D ivi i n says he is con f i de nt t ■ h e c a n thro w b ack a n co un e r-att a cks the Japs may ry. ------0------ Ra d i T okio, broadcast a re po rt that our c a rrier b a se d .pl. . ne bom b ed their i nstallations at Manila th i s morning. Our own comman e rs hav nothing to say aboutthis r e port. CHINA ---- The Ja a nese c aim of th capture of not only Kweilin but Lieucho , is evidently true. The Fourteenth Air Force re orted today th a t the Americans had destroyed a nd evacu ted the air base there, the last important air base our side had in Ea · tern China. 1he7 now ha e only t o small field s from which they can support the Chinese ground forces against the 4 J ap ane S'e. And today's news from Burma is not so good either. The Japanese are beginning to ~esist both the British and the Chinese troops in northern Burma more stoutly. Heavy fighting is going on wherever the Allies are trying to a d vance. He r e is i p ort nt n ews f or i s charged fighting men. The Veterans A ministr a ti n i s now mailing out application blanks for veter a n s who ant home lo a ns. They have already been distributed to the regional offices of the Administrati o n, and will soon be sent to banks, building and loan associati o ns, and similar places. Under the G.I. Bill of R~ hts, the Government guarantees as much as fifty percent oft e loans made to eligible veterans by banks and other lending agencies And here is an announcement from the War lanpower Commission. Veterans who enroll in the Commissiods Apprentice Training Service will be paid allowances of fifty to seventy-five dollars a•••*~ month, in addition to ~he wages they earn while learning the trade they · have selected. Already some six hundred veterans have enrolled,and there are accommodations for six hundred thousand. GOL D ----- n A r m y cou rtm a rtial t o ay b ro u ht in a ver d ict of g u il ty a ~a ina C ap t a in Joe Go u l d , who onc e as man ag er of Ji Br a dock.when he wa s heavyweight boxing cham p ion. Th e pro se cutor charged Gould w ith having taken a bribe of e ig hteen thou and dollars.from a shipbuildin g comp a ny. The court, con s isting of thirteen officers, found him g uilty of havin defrauded the rut gov rnment st J y influenc~ the a w ard of A s even Army contracts. The ~entence follo ed immediately: Dismi s sal from the Army, three years at hard labor, an d a fine of twelve thou s and dollars. COURT ------ The u p reme Cou rt of the Unit e d tates today made it positive th a t people ho h a ve been injured by orders o the W a r L ab or B-0a d may not look for relief in th e court s . This ruling is an outgrowth of the Montgomery ard case when the Marines threw Sewell Avery, the fir m 's President . out on the sidewalk . Montgomery Ward asked the tederal Courts to enjoin the War Labor Board from exceeding its jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that orders of the W ar Labor Board are not subject to review in the courts. The Supreme Court uphold s that decision. So anybody who i ■ • doesn't like a decisi o n o~ the War IJi>or Board is ;uew ~ out of luck. .QAVIS lilli am H . Davis till se r v e s a Chairman of the War L a or Board. He has not resigned, neither has the President relieved hi of his d uties. Secret a ry Steve Earl y d mitt e d th a t to · a rd t he e n d of Aug u st , Davis, who is ~ ixty-five years old, wrote to Mr. Roosevelt a nd a s ked to be r e lieved. But the President at asked him to hang on for a while longer. And that is bow the matter stands nbw. Davis himself said he is not the only member of the Bea rd who wants to quit. Two of the members supposed to repres e nt the public, both University profe s sors, are anxi o us · to ~t back to their teaching jobs. Davis hi m self wants positively to r e turn to •i• his law practice by the first of the ye a r. Be denied re ort s th a t he's resigning from the War La b or Board for reasons of health. iiid FLIGHT --- A ne tr · ns At 1 antic record . It w-ae - est-a-bi i-tthe4.. y a Lanca s ter four-motored bomba-, one of those huge planes the British use to blast the daylights out of German citie • With a Captain Lothian at the controls as pilot, this Lancaster flew from ontreal to Prestwick in Scotland, in ten hours and fifteen minutes)~..+, ~ three thousand, one hunJred miles. - a ~ .t.-im•~ •• ~ne hour better ' than the previous record. From the West Coast of Ireland to Scotland it took only thirteen minutes. The average speed was more than three hundred miles an hour. LOT ----- F or v "I n d n y · , , , r. u : A r • A 1 m e r i c Bourbon na i · l o in v a in fort e ir nine y ea · old son D A vid. T Yf ived in a tr iler c o m p • ~ ~ ~ & , ne a r Lo n 1 Be c h , C liforni a . Whe n t e l i itle boy w s lost, h i s f a t ~ er w ~ s a t a Lon Be a c naval 1 ospital in r e c o v e r in g · r o m s l. rap n e 1 o u n d s h e s u t a in e d \t, the battle of Tara a . He w a s rele a sed from the h ospital to help look f or his son. They found nine year old David today locked in a trunx one h undred yards away f~om his trailer ome. A t1elve year old paymate baa locked him in the trunk and left him there. Durin ~ the s ven days Devid shrunk f rom seventy pounds to thirty five. Be is all ri ~ ht t oni h t. He is just w a iti n to catch the boy ho loo e d hi ~ in. Says-&&¥id1 KISS At the U.S.O. Club on Bo ton Common ax the number of visitors yesterday appro ched the three million mark. So it was ar anged that Mis Norma Gleason, ax of Belmont, Massachusetts, a twenty-one year-old hostess at the club, would welcome the three millionth visitor with a kiss. There was considerable e x citement as the total mounted. l ■ il ■ ••• Following two million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and Bos'n's Kate, ninet7-nine, in ca ■ e First Class~••l•t ■ xxxxx~Richard A. Benr7 of the Coa s t Guard. Norma Gleason, who is a prett7 girl, stepped up to him, held up her face, closed her eyes, and waited to be kill ■ ix kissed. To her dismay, nothing happened, until the Bos'n's Mate stepped back nervously and said: 'I'd like you to meet my wife," who turned out to be a little bloni e Spar. DI W ~ 8 -------- H e r e i s o m t h in about five y oung ladi . s who have not been in the news for uite a while, the Dionne uintuplets. They a re now ten and a half ye a rs o 1 d , and I e he r that they a re in 1 iv id u a 1 is ts • A reporter asked them a number of q ue tion s , a nd they all g ve different answers. On just one they agreed: not one of them would like to be a Queen. Said Emilie: •A Queen has to meet too many people.• Said Cecile: •A Queen has to sit down too much.• Said Marie: •A Queen can't have fun•. And so on. They also have different ambitions. Yvonne thinks she' d like to b e a nun, but she's not sure. Cecile would like tomake people hap p y. Marine would like to look after children. Emilie's ambition is a se cret. Annette wou l d like to s tay with har parents. The intervie er then asked them what they like•• about people. Yvonne likes honest people, DIORBES - 2 ----------- Cecile likes people who play the piano.Annette likes people w h o are"ha p py and gay. Emilie likes people who are good to her. And Marie likes people who are good to other people. And now here•, Bugh, who is good for us •••n when he isn't good to us. SUBSTITUTE uE , ESTERN F ON]: 1. . 7:. -J1 ----------------- A l ~ .,) ~ '<{ r-ryy The latest on the estern Front is a new offensive launched by Fr e nch troops. Tod ay the First ~ French Army made a lunge a~Belfort Gap, at the southern end of the battleline, and captured the first line of German positions. The news fro ■ Patton's army is - fortresses falline, to the Americans.