Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              October 1944 most powerful weapon in the Pacific Fleet is the giant newly commissioned shown firing her mighty 16inch guns at a Distant target during preparation for a Navy strike in the ans 4 cruisers Serti to Bottom the japanese Imperial High seas pee Etc came out for the Long awaited showdown with the in Effort to disrupt Macarthur stub at the and after 17 hours of Battle it broke off action and High tailed for safety after sus Taining severe enemy minimum losses Are put at sunk Ono two four pro Babiy sunk two one Largo damaged six three three Des in american airmen destroyed at least 150 Jap Zero planet retiring toward foe Pearl Ches Ter come Midei of naval Force sin the announced to has received from adm William Halsey comforting Assurance that he is now relic toward the enemy follow in the Salvage of All ships of the third Fleet recently re ported sunk by radio nominee Swap ers in final rounds Cam which according to Apia reaching a free Orall assumed new intensity Over the week end As Dewey spoke in Pittsburgh on what he called the presidents Oneman government and the president answered the next evening with a foreign policy address which caused Dewey to rewrite his tentative speech in what some observers consider the sincerest form of de Wey immediately dropped his pre pared speech on farm already announced for tuesday and said that he would answer with a talk on the chiefs prep Earl Harbor diplomatic re fill in gaps Dewey Roosevelt took Liia history out of the context of his his memory seems to fail him on Large areas of re cent history so i will fill in the acceleration of political addresses and the Busy agendas of Hoth presidential candidates do not belie the fact that election se0 nominees on Page 3 Little Joe will help to fill dads spot never seen hut the seven Montgold son of an american fighter is coming Home to the to take tie place of his dad who was killed Over president Roosevelt himself intervened in the Case of Little Joe and authorized the Rise of an at plans priority and an army nurse to care for him while in route after receiving the Appeal of the Childs grandparents who will rear the Childs an English agreed to give up the Little his father would have wanted him to grow up to he an am Mirfin above and beyond Ethel gave birth to her 25th a said Ive done my mine kills Lardner new York David War correspondent for the new yorker was fatally injured and Russell correspondent for the new York her Altri was injured last week when their was blown up by Road mines near s Macarthur invades Amar in new philippine thrust while the huge air and sea Bat the Between the and Jap fleets raged in nearby Mac Arthur threw Strong forces of cavalry troops in a new invasion thrust on Sumar at a Point Miles from the Island of in the Battle for now in its seventh american forces using remember Bataan As their have captured a total of 31 towns and villages and six in addition All ene my resistance has ended on the islands of Dinagan and guarding the entrances to Leyte telling of steady Progress along the entire Macarthur said that tenth army units have passed Miles beyond captured capital of in Pursuit of Tho japs who Are fleeing tit Liis sector Jap forces am re ported to he yanks Widen front the 2llh corps has taken san Pablo 10 Miles West of gulag at the Southern end of the tins was the third Leyte Airfield to fall to the latest reports reveal that the yank foothold is now 10 Miles clean and 98 perish in Cleveland explosion Cleveland the most devastating fire in Cleveland his tory left at least 98 persons 108 missing and hundreds injured when a terrific explosion of fuel storage tanks sent streams of flame through a densely packed Indus trial and residential Section last Friday the inferno raged through a 50 Block Eastside area bounded by East 5gth Clair East 62nd and Lake Shore leaving vast sections in ashes and ruins causing damage estimated at a minimum of the explosions occurred at the of the East Ohio Gas East 61st where tanks contain ing 200 million cubic feet of liquid Gas went up in of the missing 4 arc Plant employees 814 persons Are of them reported in serious and some 200 others reported to be suffering from lesser investigation begins a Penman Board of inquiry has been appointed by mayor Frank Lausche to begin an investigation to determine cause of the explosion in american Gas association testing Laboratory which apparently fired off the liquid As the multimillion Dollar fire raged into it left persons forced an estimated others to evacuate their but threatened police Loudspeaker helped Avert panic in the evacuation of the 50 clock Navy and guard personnel were pressed into service alongside 05 per cent of Cleveland private ambulances sped 43 Miles tanks and scores of carriers borne bombers Are blasting the path of the a Vance while flame throwers Cre mate Tho stubborn defenders in their Concrete enemy counterattacks have been thrown Back in bloody fighting North of Palo entered the fray to help crush All night japanese another yank spearhead seven Miles East of gulag wallowed through deep mud to set up a trap covering a 140square mile first casualty reports reveal thai japs have already been killed american forces on the Island Are reported to number at least while the Jap Garrison is estimated at Many of them from the infamous 15th authors o the terrible death alter the fall of almost hourly filipino guerillas Are trickling into the american lines in organized bodies under heir own the filipinos Aio armed with captured Jap deadly Bolos and ancient other guerillas who have remained in the Jungles rendered Groat assistance by gathering de tin Ltd information on a noisy troop dispositions and transmitting it to the Cantero of capital see Philippines on Page 2 against the loss of the uss Princeton with at least part of her complement of the badly crippled Shore based enemy planes was sunk by american ships after Rescue of her Crew of officers and battleship known to have been sunk avos of the ton Yamashiro it was Inone of the two Jap battleship form actions which attempted to attack Macarthur forces in the Leyte the enemy Fleet in three rent squadrons was taken Onby Mil schers 3rd meet Light Carrier forces and Kincaid 7th supported by cruisers of the australian Tho news of the american Vic tory was communicated to presi Dent Roosevelt by William commander of the in a special statement transmitted by army news service from ins Headquarters at in the announced the japanese Navy in the Philippines has received its most crushing de feat of the its future can be Only on a dwindling practically All of the Jap High seas Fleet was involved in the air and sen announced Ernest Navy co at in an earlier communique Nimitz said that lie considered it quite remarkable that the enemy should have sent surface units into Waters of the Central Philippines where mane vering would be so he disaster scene and Cleveland hospitals which had been placed on an emergency the Speed with which lie fire spread is indicated by the fact that motorists caught on Lakeshore were forced to abandon their automobiles and Wade into Lake Erie to escape the sheets of flame rolling toward in the tragic aftermath of Cleve lands greatest Volun Teers aided the state guards and military in searching the acres of charred Wood and Wisted steel for missing victims of the for a Day and a half after the spasmodic fires and hot Brick Walls prevented an extensive search and minimum evaluation of the Cleveland townspeople pitched in to care for the homeless while sol Diers patrolled the stricken area of prevent Patch son ribbed in action Alexander command ing the seventh notified his wife that their Alexander match was killed in action while assaulting enemy positrons in the generals Only had just returned to duty after treatment for wounds received Churchill Speaks today minister Chur chill told commons that he will make a shortish state ment Friday today on his conferences in Moscow with Stalin Las Washington the combined army and Navy casualties for All Heaters of War have reached a total of As compared with two weeks of the Are army casualties and include dead Are Are missing and Are captured and army casualties have increased since last reported on the latest Navy casualty figure is an increase of in two of the Overall Navy Are killed and wounded Are missing and Are the War also announced that army casualties on the West Ern front from the invasion on june 6 through number aah casualties Are not in of the Western front were wounded and Are was arrive in Alaska the first detachment of Wircs to be assigned foreign service in the alaskan command have arrived for duty in the