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iy. February 3. Mrs
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percentage of
ridden on a
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ON CAPITAL
12 FREEZING
DAYS IN MONTH
Would Prevent
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40 miles north-
,rin and Frank-
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E. L. Sawyers and Mrs. Sawyers
were much pleased to see that Al-
fred Pharr of Jasper was among
Mrs. T. H. Richardson of the Van-
ity Shop left for New York and
other markets Friday.
fore June
since; 439
N. Y.; and Capt John J.
Ranger Leader
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Aseseiaisl Press War Editor
I Drive to Stettin
Would Carve Big
Slice Off Reich
Hear “News of the Hour” dally
ever KDNT, 7:51 a. nu-l:55 p. m -
7:55 p. m. SWINDLES.
M for a i
suiting in
Associated Fraas I saasi Wire J
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i-cople have the Ann
to capitulate
om neutral cap-
I broadcasts said
I and slogans
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German Press, Radio
Cry ‘Remember 1918’,
Anti-Hitler Posters
Reported in Cities
383 sunk or
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In Green Valley Drive
A community drive at Green
This Bat yr da:
R. M. Bams, I
Farrington. Mrs. George Gideon,
Dorothy Curl and Coon Smith are
pteervlng birthdays.
Japs in Luzon Mav Be Waiting for
Navy, Planes to Come Out and Fight
For the Lord thy God bieaaeth
thee, aa ho prombed thee; and
thou shan lend unto many nations,
but Um6 shalt not borrow; and thou
Shalt Veign over many nations, but
they shall not reign over thee —
■ Deuteronomy 15-8.
Give me a lever long enough
And a prop strong enough. I can
single-nand< d move the world.—
Archimedes
Would Lop
Off Huge
Reich Area
ROUND^
ABOUT
TOWN J
TWO AMERICAN COLUMNS
RACING FOR MANILA; SEVER
JAP ISLAND COMMUNICATIONS
BERN. Feb. J.—UP)—A dis-
patch from the Swiss border
town of Chiarao to the news-
paper La Suisse today quoted
Fascist sources in Italy as say-
ing that the Big Three Confer-
ence has begun tn the Romani-
an port of Constant* on the
Blsrk Sea.
W‘
; LONDON, Feb. 3. —(to— A
mysterious broadcast heard In
Ixtndon today said “Rumors arc
sweeping Berlin that the Ger-
man high command Intends to
declare Berlin an open city but
German army circles declare
there Is no truth in It." The As-
sociated Press listening post
heard the broadcast but could
not trace its origin.
January saw 13 days on which
the temperature in Denton reach-
ed freezing. according to the
monthly weather report the State
Experiment Stauon here. With the
lowest temperature being 33 de-
grees on Jan. 39, the highest was
75 degrees on Jan 14.
, Rainfall of 1.36 Inches was re-
corded in January, with the largest
in any 34-hour period being .78
inch. Seven day* recorded .01 inch
or - more of rainfall. The month's
total was .75 of an Inch below nor-
mal.
During the month 15 days were
clear, 10 were cloudy, and six were
partly cloudy.
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American air fleets rocked Barlin
with MOO
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man lines
The German Radio, which has
consistently placed the Russian ad-
vance several miles ahead of points
announced Officially by the BovObt
High command, said the Red srmy
was attacking Kustrin and had
reached the Oder River at naw
points onto M miles from Berlin in
the Frankburt area "i -;i
The midnight Russian war bulle-
tin said the Nazis were constantly
replenishing their shattered force*
east and northeast of Frankfurt,
but despite a stubborn resistance
were losing one position after an-'
ottwr
Another column of Zhukov's men,
coiling northwest around Kustrin.
reached the Oder River # a point
30 Alles from Berlin, tte Germans
announc'd. Thia advance threaten-
ed to outflank Kustrin and take it
"" (Me BDBBIAN. Page 5) '
vanguards plunged forward from- ■ RM
captured Drwaen. I« fiffles north-
east of Frankfurt and 01 miles due
east of Berlin. The fall of this com-
munications hub represented the ,.
greatest gain yesterday for the Mik
Mans with a 16-mile plunge straight
through the heavily reinforced Ger-
Berljn Says Red
Bridgehead on
Oder Hurled Back
on Luzon, as Pharr has been here
to visit in the Sawyers home upon
• 4 ' a good many occasions with his son
Ben Sawyers, who is also in the
Army. Bill Coleman, Frank Sawyers
and Douglas Crouth, aU of Denton,
who enlisted on the same day and
remained together for several
months, have again joined up with
tile same company, after having
been separated for some time They
are on Luzon.
Allies in Italy
Probe Axis Line
tion at our soldiers
O. C. Knight, chairman of the
1945 waste paper drive, said Satur-
day morning. "If the skies are dear
and no threat of rain Bunday af-
ternoon, the drive will get under
way at 3 o'clock at the City Hall.
• T _an __•__..____
'-/ho are willing to be of assistance.’'
Tbe Americans alar
attack front, have run
tag reetrtsnra
Yanks Few Threat
The second Division, some lb
SS,*3Se,l.*®%rta:
werepouring through Uw C
breached defence belt and stream-
ing across an open country gap
under cover ot artillery and mortar
ftre, toward the second and last sone
of concrete barriers.
ba?X d^SvVrom ^“haR’St
line. Service troops and rear echelon cwnmuno^ "
soldiers were being thrown in by the
Nasis to pad out the thinned de-
fense forces. .
The American attack had carrBff
throupgh two-thirds of the whole
Siegfried belt at one of its widet
points The Second Division's 9th
regiment smashed to within four
miles of Gemund and three mites
of Schteiden al the eastern *
of the final defense belt.
tone of bombs in aid to
ips massing along the
„ _ Mr eeat of the eaprat
One Berlin broadcast said Mar-
shal Gregory Zhukov'S troops had
won but later loot a bridgehead over
the Oder near Kustrin. ■
Kustrin is on the Oder 40 miles
east of Berlin. A huge battle was
:r|»rted raging farther south, four
mites east of Frankfurt on the his-
toric Kunderedorf battlefield, first
bloodied tn the am of Frederick the
Q TSOI
The rain Of bombs from more
FtetmeMB
Your kitchen fat is a vital wea-
pon of war. Save It. turn It in to
make explosives, fuel for flame-
thrower* and hundreds of other mu-
nitions Save every drop possible;
take it to your market and get paid
in cash and red ration coupons.
’ Mluan MdCorregkio^The chapiata^R
tout -Ooi. John K. Borneman. Niagara Faile,
ffioto.)
Long-Time Occupation for Germany
Seen; Conditions Lead tb Little
Hope of Unified Enemy Surrender
LONDON, Feb. 8— (AP)—
The Moncow radio Saturday
declared one of Zhukovs’s col-
umns had speared to within
111 miles ot Stettin on the
Baltic. A plunge to Stettin
would lop off 18,000 square
mils* of Northeastern Ger-
many, the Polish Corridor and
the Danzig area.
KhukoVs drive oa
mites northeast of Berlin, threaten-
ed to cut eff great Oennan foroee.
and to open Berlin for an attack
from the north.
Russian attacks on the Oder Riv-
er have been repulsed the German
eliminated
Three Japanese destroyers were
caught by American Mitchells off
the Northern Luzon coast and In
a two-day running air-sea battle
were either sunk or crippled. Five
Japanese planes were destroyed in
this engagement and 30 more wiped
out. on the ground at Formosa by
bombera sweeping across the China
Sea from the Philippines
Twenty-five small craft were also
bagged in the same general area as
the destroyers. Thirty others were
sunk, damaged or routed as they
attacked the American invasion ar-
mada off the Batangas coast with
torpedoes and depth chargee.
Litt Jap Ship* Sunk
The Navy announced- that a to-
tal of 1,793 Japanese ehips have been
definitely sunk. 911 of them since
the first battle of the Philippines
last June 19.
An unconfirmed Japanese broad-
east claimed four Allied submarines
wore sunk recently in the Southwest
Pacific.
' Japanese are putting up increas-
ing resistance In Burma without
stopping the British advance. A
thousand Nipponese were killed try-
ing to keep on escape oorridor open
M Kangaw tn the south. Others
fought stiibtximly for >4 hours be-
fore yielding the village of Ywathlt-
gyl. 17 tniled from Mandalay.
fairs techne to the view
effective power baa penrni f
hand* of old line Junkers
*ndidS vrtMtte
betwoen the
She “On you tell me why a
black cow give* white milk that
P t makes yellow buttert”
He: “Ftor the reme __
btecktarrtos are red whim they are 07 war 'prior to
WEATHER
OKLAHOMA: Cloudy, light rain
and drteele today exeept drisste in
north thia morning; somewhat
warmer today; tnereoaing rain with
slifhUy rising temperattires tonight
"’eaStTWAM: Partly doudy this
afternoon, tonight and Bsusday ex-
Curtis Coppage. son of Mr and
Mrs. H. C. Coppage of Denton,
writes that he has landed In France
some time in December. He had
been in training at Camp Meade
By WILLIAM RYAN
Aasocisted Press War Editor
Berlin, crammed with refugee*
from Soviet offensive, trembled to-
day under an assault by more thdn
_ now
were about 3g mllea from the-Rhine
communications city, of Boon.
One front dispatch* declared Ger-
SXTMKXEiSJTKS:
By J. M. ROBERTS JR
BubstitnUng fr DeWitt MacKensie
News that the Red army is with-
in artillery range of Stettin and the
main railroad line of German re-
treat from Danzig. Pomorze and
the northwestern tip of Prussia
brings us back to a familiar pattern
ot Russian strategy--------- —
Stalin’s men. many of whom are
gathering at the Oder like water
behind the lip of a dam, are also
about to cut another great scallop
out of Hitler's demain along the
Baltic and trap another Important
segment of his Army The entire
German left flank, which occupies
something like 30,003 square mites
and has been strongly defended, is
tottering.
Either the Germans already have
gotten out what they can of these
northern forces for the defense of
Berlin or few of them will be avail-
able when the crisis comes.
North of Stettin there is a rail-
road of sorts across t|w strip of
tend which divides fire Stettin la-
goon from the Baltic, out Stettin
is the main outlet for all the threat-
ened area. And another Russian
drive farther east, last reported near
Nt ustalUn and headed for Kostin,
threatens complete disruption of
the region's entire railroad sys-
tem Capture of Koslin would di-
vide Lite salient into two great pock- 1
ets.
Number of Germans Unknown
There is no way of telling how
many Germans are in the bag, but
it must be taking strong forces,
many of whom fled from East Prue-,
sia. to hold the Russians oui'of
Danzig With the recent removal
of the German fleet from Gdnyia
to Denmark and the Red fleet's
constant western encroachment, any
German hope of retiring by sea la
largely forlorn.-- —>
Completion of the Stettin opera-
tion will bring the Russians up to
the Oder from its mouth to Che-
choslovakia Then, If not before,
we shall sec what happens to the
"Frankfurst box,” where every hour
the delay is giving the Germans op-
portunity to prepare their Anal de-
fense of Berlin.
As the Germans say, capture of
Berlin may not mean the end of
the war. But. aside from the very
Important psychological angles, the
city is the railroad and highway
center of the nation. Without it,
Germany will be like a wheel with
the hub removed.
Col. Tom Cole has lost one of hi*
fine Trigg hounds, dark in color
with white tip on tail, white breast
and legs The dog was lost near
Pilot Point, and the Colonel will
appreciate any information about
the dog.
mans to stand firm against bat-
Uefrent Seibaoks and any Allied
calls for surrender
Promising nothing German
newspapers declared ■‘all enemy
alms cannot be achieved If the
German i
will not to capll__
Dtepatchas from
itals and Allied brt
anti-HlUsr posters
were appearing on i
said "There II no doubt of panic-
reigning in many sections of
Germany."
Berlin was reported in vari-
ous dispatches as teeming with
refugees with armed guards
trying to shuttle them hurried-
ly from the capital. One Bwiss
newspapers Benin aispatcn said
the city was threatened with
famine. Munich. It added, is
"hourly becoming more and
more the capital of the Reich.”
ROME, Feb 3—(AT—Allied patrols
probing German defensive positions
before the American Fifth and Bri-
tish Eighth Army fronts inflicted
casualties on the enemy yesterday
at several points. Allied Headquar-
ters announced today,
A headquarters statement said a
number of Silesian Poles from the
German 148th Division had desert-
ed to Fifth Army lines.
Despite unfavorable flying weath-
er, medium bombers of the Mediter-
ranean Allied tactical air force at-
tacked rail bridges on the Brenner
route into Germany and bridges in
North Italy.
Mrs. Jim Leatty. reading that
of the Q-hog men thought
be ma tion on February's, remarked
to her husbafid, “WelL I never
heard of such a thing; those men
are just plain silly to consider the
second day. as any one should know
that the G-hog comes out to look
at, the weather on February 14."
"HF™
paper and waste fat, sponsored by
the Green Valley A, reMdt-
ed in securing 3335 pounds of pa-
per. and 112 pounds of fotrdurtng
the month of January. Carter W-
bert. principal of the school, Mid
The battle was partleolarty fteree
tn the area 10 mites southeast of
Monschau, where the 82nd Airborne
Division seized Udenbreth and
heights dominating the SHgfri-d
I.ine 1 1-2 miles Inside of Ger-
many.
Fighting forward east of Mon-
schau, the First Army's Second In-
fantry Division had cracked the west
wall at one of its widest points 30
miles southeast of Aachen, and
driven to mites inside Germany.
Pushing on, the Second Division
seised Schoneaelffen and Harper-
sheid, three miles from the Sieg-
fried fortress of Schteiden and »
miles from Bonn, communications
hub on the Rhine. ,,
The Second Division already was
through the first of two main de-
there. but enemy opposi-
tion stiffened.
German* Fight Bitterly
Germans fought » as bitterly
against the U. & Third Army's push
farther down on the 40-tnile assault
front. *nd hard fighting raged for
Bleialf, five and a half mites wtet
of Prum. a supply canter for the
defense line
American and French troops bat-
tled to throw Germans from a toe-
hold in Colmar on the southern
end of the Western Front, and
broadened their grip on the Rhine
south of Strasbourg to 36 mites.
Artillery pounded the Rhine
bridge at Neufbrtsach east of Col-
mar. main escape route for perhaps
'25.000 Germans in the Colmar area.
Allied troops reached the Rhine near
Kuenheim. north of Neufbri*ach
French and American tanks and
infantry had driven to the center
of Ootanar. meeting strong restetanoe
only in the eastern sector. More
thiin 25 French town* were taken
yesterday.
Americans of the Seventh Army,
(Sre YANKS. Page 5)
'sz- - III
’ ' W-'j
ed that Red Army attacks on the
Oder River line were thrown back.
A Nazi broadcast said a Russian
bridgehead across the Oder In the
Kustrin area. 40 miles from Berlin,
was wiped out.
Moscow reports said Red Army ar-
tillery was pounding German for-
tifications across the Oder from
hill positions in the Frankfurt-
Kustrin salient, as the Nazis hurled
fresh divisions into an attempt to
stem the drive on their capital.
Moscow Says Panic Keifus
The Moscow radio said there was
no doubt that panic reigned in
smoking Berlin, and the German
radio echoed to cries of "remember
1918" In appeals to the Germans to
stand firm.
A Swiss dispatch said Munich
- ---------— —------hourly was becoming more the cap-
. lPe h.elp of thoae IluU of the Reich than Berlin. And
a Soviet broadcast said Propaganda
Minister Goebbels had left Berlin,
although he was charged with its
defense.
The Fort 8111 Replacement Train-
ing Center has discovered that 65
out of every 100 men now entering
the V. 8. Army had never ridden
on a train until they became sol-
diers and traveled at government
expense. The Center is thinking of
popularizing a slogan, "Join the
Army and Take Your First Train
Ride’2 to offset the Navy slogan
the Navy and See the
mint
June 19 and 'anil 710 ^^7rttk"nta~ia Ti^~7u>rU>- Valtey for the coUmilon •< wwte
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makes « grand total sf l,- night, sMgMIy warmer to north.
« He is an expert rifleman, standing
number two of 800 ID rifle shooting.
He said, "mere wrili about six
incites of snow on the ground, snow-
ed all day and continued through
the night."
IB"'®15
TbToennans rurted frasti divi-
sions up to the Oder River line
< The perman military oesnmenta-
tor Col Ernst von Hammer declar-
ed the "wretern bank ot the Oder
has now boon mopped up of Rus-
sian forces" after one spearhead
had won a temporary bridgehead
near Kustrin. *
fiovteta Shell Kustrin _ , ,
Moscow dispatches said Soviet ar-
tillerymen already were pumping
•hells into Ku* " "
east of Berlin,
furt form the last major barriers
before Berlin.
South of Kustrin other Russian
Lieut -Col. Henry Mucci. above,
led the U. S. Rangers who res-
cued 513 Allied prisoners from
a Jap prison camp on Luzon.
He received the Distinguished
Service Cross (NEA Tele-
photo.)
The Philip Coury plumbing place
of business wont look the same to
Phil or his friends Dot, hte Llew-
elyn tetter, wont be there to greet
Phil or others who have hunted in
days past, as, fallowing an opera-
tion Friday. Dot passed on to Dog
Heaven And. if there 1« such a
thing as "Dog Heaven", Dot will
|( surely make the grade, as she has
r been a good hunter with one of the
finest dispositions of any dog that
thia hunter has ever shot a bird
over. For seventeen years, Dot has
been in the shop to greet Phil, and
he's going to mis his partner
■ "There is very tittle sickness in
-^p the city or county now," said Dr.
M. L. Hutcheson, City-County
Health Officer. “Other tlian mumps
•nd colds it may be said that the
i>coi>te of the county are compara-
tively free of contagious dteeaee."
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NO.149 - DENTON, TEXAN, SATURDAY AFTBRNOON, FKBRUARY 3t 1H5
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Heavy ipmbing Increases Panic in Berlin Dm
Among Those Rescued from Pr
By ELTON FAY
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3—(AT-
The Japanese army on Luzon, en-
gaged in a strangely listless battle
with American forces, may be us-
ing this occasion for a showdown
with the Tokyo admiralty before
the hour comes to defend the home-
land.
This is suggested by an American
naval spokesman in discussing the
mystery of the relatively light ene-
my resistance to General .MacAr-
thur's advancing land forces on Lu-
ton.
He recalls that high JaapneM*
army commanders, both in the field
and at home, have been urging the
Navy to come otit and fight.
“We think." said the spokesman,
"that General Yamashita is waiting
for supoprt from the Navy afid air
forces.*' 4
. But the Navy, he said, has shrunk
to "the size of a task force He did
not elaborate. But it was evident
that he implied that the Japanese
Navy does not now even approach
its peak size
And a * ,
ships sunk or
.......... ..
is the regular monthly day for gath- I Ume- 400 Liberators were smashing
ering waste paper in Denton, a cam- 1 at Madgeburg, 65 miles to the south-
paign which has been sponsored by I west' “ Nazl 011 center The fighter
the Denton Chamber of Commerce ! escorts totaled 900.
for a good many months. In these I 'H1* Gennan high command, its
drives, it te believed that Denton I “nr’™uJ11Su*
people have turned in around 600.- * - — * —
000 pounds of paper tn addition to
that which has been taken up by
;• truck dally from the stores. But, it
Is impossible to get more of this
paper to the government than is
needed by the fighting forces of the
United States. It sounds hard to
believe but there are more than
700,000 uses for this paper by the
government, and when you take
. Part in the campaign, you should
< have a feeling that you’re helping
Win the war and helping in protec-
•' /
I' • I .
1' ____-
Among the 513 Allied war pel ioften rescued from V uwp-n
and Filipino guerrillas were tbrate Army chaplains, veterans
left to right. Lieut.-Ool. Alfred tNlvar. Washington D. O ;
N. Y.; and Capt John J Dugaa of Boston, Mass <NBA TH
. WKBT TKXAS: Fartiy steady thta
afternoon, tonight, and Bunday, not
qwite ao warm to the Panhandle
t - • ■
~ A
Light Resistance
Hie Japanese pul up only light
resistance against any of these col-
umns closing tn on Manila and Ita
prised harbor. The 36th Division en-
countered the only sharp resistance
at Umingan at the northeastern
edge of the Central Luzon plain.
Communications between Japa-
nese forces remaining on Luzon
have been completely severed. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur reported, indi-
cating the same fate awaits them
as their compatriots on Leyte where
im1Ju?-,I^PPOneSe troop* have ***“ A Republican move to freeze gov-
ernment agencies against a presi-
dential transfer cast a new shadow
today over Henry Wallace's nomi-
nation for secretary of commeroe.
Just when Wallace's adherents
were settling back to await expect-
ed confirmation of the appoint-
ment after March 1, flthe House
Republican popped a propooal to al-
ter the Senate-approved George
bill.
This Wallace- saving measure
would trandsfer the 945.000300,900
Reconstruction Finsnce Ocrporatiou
and similar agendas from the Com-
merce Department to a separate fed-
eral loon administrator.
President Roosevelt said be would
approve legislation Z'
change and on that ndte the Sen-
ate pat the cabinet nomination on
the ulmlf.-imiH March 1. e
But Mr. Roosevelt'S message to
Senate Majority Leader Barkley *ald
only Whit the would approve tegis-
latto.i to return the lending func-
tions to a separate admmMre-
smaged before Juns
ice for a grand total
roba bi V sunk or dam-
forces Since Decern.
and Beaib Plates Sunday aftemren.
By JOHN M. H1GHTOWEB
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -UP)~
In American government circles the
idea ot keeping at least small mili-
tary occupation forces In Germany
for many years is gaining Increas-
ing support
Information reaching Washington
about conditions inside Germany Is
generally interpreted by officials as
holding little hope of a unified en-
emy surrender.
Instead, the belief is that Ger-
man military forces will disintegrate
under preesure of Russian and An-
glo-American armies, leaving the
country in a state of chaos, s
fftoce this prospect, if realised,
likewise means the complete dis-
___integration df Oeitadhy poMcafiy,
tfiTXdmi !^top<SS^SWfefeJSd
is. people may haw to be ruled by an
tndad And Allied commission for an uMteftalts-
mSu *tSSE1rnTtelief Umt —
Fnooaragss Fees
Bo the question of what he might
do with a bill enlarged to eut off
his authority to shift other agen-
cies areoe to plagde the Weilabites
and encourage the former vice
president's foes who still hope to
jceep him out of publiig office
TSe House Republicanu strategy
was reported to Involve offering
qn amendment to the Georgs bill
which would repeal Section 1 of
the ftrtt ite aflLTWi W-
tion gives ths r reel dem l_ .
limited powers to reshuffle
dfntrtnienU and hitr—na
Tfthebtn were thus amended And
passed finally ” -
IBAAMKv m
dodftM to i
And a breakdown of Japanese
ships sunk or damaged bears out his
P<Navy figures show that hi the last
eight months more Japaneee vee-
■i^- — ■■ have been sunk or daninged
Btt “Ftor the same reason that than in the two and a half years
____ ____> tbBlJMBKro
..a .. Ptoce the first battle of the Phil-
be taken up by Roosevelt, Church-
ill and Statin st their meeting The
possibility to not entirely discount-
ed that Premier Stalin may i
eventually building up the fra
many committee of ea?tuiw
man generals at Moscow as i
mintotrattvs group with wb
work Inside Germany.
ippines June 19. 1944 911 enemy
ships have been sunk compared
with 871 prior to that time.
In addition, IM Japanese ships
probably have been sunk and 710
damaged since June 19—an aver-
age of 50 a week sunk or dam-
aged.
A brrdkdown of the losses since
June 19 includes 153 combatant and
719 non-combatant.
combatant. ~ . .
He said the latest data on the
second battle of the Philippines in
late October showed 33 enemy com-
batant ships sinik and possibly 35.
These included three battleships
the Yamashlro, the Fuse and the
Musashl; four carriers, one large
and three light; six heavy cruisers;
three to four light cruisers sad
seven to eight destroyers.
The Musashl was one of the ene-
my’s most powerful battleshliM. Ito
mrcificntiohs are altoMMt identical
with the Iowa's.
Hie Navy's recapitulation listed,
in addition to snemy ships sunk.
S3 as prob**-’- —*• ----
19 and IM
FARIS, Feb. 3 —(F>-Two Ameri-
can (division* burst cotnpietely
through the first pUlbox belt of
the double Sieg! tied Line today end
surged' across open country t«o-
third* of tbs way thruogh the whole
defense system tone troops gain-
ed aa mush as three miles.
The Geramn high command re-
ported lively air activity s >d to-
orsaate artillery ftre in Holland and
on the frotn line along the Rocr
Rtrer m GsrwwiHy, flag Mtt
indication* of an impending Allied
etfeMtvs.
Field Marshal von Rundstedt gave
this cryptle command to his troops:
^Ordsrs^ for what we bare to do have
than erer wo must be watchful?*
to stiffen-
Two American armored columns
raced toward Manila today to see
which would be the first to liberate
the Philippines capital.
in the fastest advance of the Lu-
oon Island campaign the seasoned
First Cavalry Division (dismounted)
sped 57 miles ip 34 hours down
Highway Five to Bateng. X WDfo
rConi MbiUIa .
Yhe 47th Division, spearheading
the main push on Manila, wp 18
miles from the capital at the rail-
way center of Malolo* The two
Sixth Army Divisions were II miles
apart on either side of the Central
Luzon plains, now securely in Yank
hands.
Two Eighth Army columns were
clamping mechanized jaws on Ma-
nila Bay. probable base for the ul-
timate American invasion of the
China coast
The 11th Airborne Division ad-
vanced nine miles toward Cavite
naval base from the newest Yank
invasion beachhead on the Batan-
gas coast, south of Manila Bay On
the north the 11th Army Corp*
irushcd six mile* Inland 'from the
Olongapo naval station toward a
junction with a 37th Division unit,
at the foot of Bataan Peninsula.
Bombers Blast
Center of City
LONDON, Feb 3. (A*»—More than
1,000 American Flying Fortresses
cast nearly 3,000 tons of ooinh* on
the heart of Berlin today in the
greatest air blow ever dealt that
capital, now teeming with refu-
gees
The record attack was aimed di-
rectly at military and communica-
tions targets in the center of the
city menaced by Soviet armies
which the Germans say are only
40 miles away.
More than 400 Liberators, stag-
ing a diversionary attack that con-
fused Berlin’s defender*, pounded a
synthetic oil p^rnt and railyard*
on the outskirts of Magdeburg. 65
mile* southwest of Berlin.
The tf 8 Eighth Air Force bomb-
ers were shielded by more than
900 Mustangs and Thunderbolts
which streamed from Magdeburg to
the rescued prisoners of the Japs Berlin in a swift, protective shuttle.
> cutting down fighter opposition to
the bomber*
Berlin broadcast* declared tire
bombers and fighters formed a sky
train stretching 300 miles from Ber-
lin to the Dutch frontier.
Most Npeetacular Raid
Today's assault was more spectac-
ular than the 1000 bomber raid by
the Eigth Air Force last June 31,
which set the previous record, and
more devastating to the core of the
city. The strength of the June 31
formations was dispersed over a
wide area of Berlin's outlying in-
dustrial zone, but today's blows were
concentrated on the very center.
It was the 304th raid of the war
on Berlin, and brought the total
of bomb* dropped there to nearly
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.... . .
an automobile trip. Roundabout, be- record raid on the city hurt June
inor <* r» /wIzBXswao* *i4411 ui. 1
trips by train to any other means.
of "Join
World.”
While thta percentage of men
who've never ridden on a train
comes high, it may become higher
in the postwar years when restric-
tions on gasoline and tires are re-
moved. Many youngsters today have
never ridden on a train, and the
reason isn’t lack of funds. Before | ,
long the kids will want to enjoy the i 1,000 U. 8. Flying Fortresses, which
novelty of a train ride just as an . cascaded 3,000 tons of bombs in an
earlier generation wanted to make . attack which matched the previous
fin RiitnmrsHIlto fisvirs Dn<mXakz<ii» ! »—bmsU4 /sex FHre IrtvY YlTTlfo
ing an oldtlmer, still prefers his' 21.
The raid was reflected In appar-
ent confusion of Oennan news and
Sunday, tomorrow. February 4th,' proRaganda agencies. At the same
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