· li ~ b . al,cv'fi:•f, rai~tf ~ !1~~ ~~- . / fbl:& ,:T.e li i g ~ news fro · ..,a~ tbJ..pt•• g-- o• Clark Field,_ and Jort Stotsenburg,..._,. ~c-~~w~~~. ~ -----~Ile- eW:ei@~~ the Fortieth Division unae Major General Brush.who ~ -trhe ; ~ C::lark i.,ield - built byr,Mt:;,~~ Fort Stotsenburg w once commanded by Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, father of Qeanft Douglas acArthur~ Thia_,"~,~ ~ J . ,.,... ~ - - - 4 . • Douglas MacArthur's sixty-fifth birthda~ t-• ~P_~h~b:~~anntt.~• According to the lat~~t reports the men of t,,J. the Fort i e th J w h en they f in al ly ■ • 1 ell ;,t u IL l I t.M, Clark . --to6t_- . ~-!.,,/ to ~ ~ Fiel~ -..eaJ.,v •o!H.h";t enemy patrols •Aile a fH 'ftrs.,1141$,r;;:;~ 4 T r t ~ ~ / i . ~la and Stol aeub~the Fortieth advanced further on • • • • :.d 1s 1 ll11Ril ..... and - no~s~han forty-three • ~ l e s ~ ~ • ~ / ~ i f . ~ d # t s of a dozen different air s t rips 1 VJJi e 8 ,t.l:re ¥,e n-k & 1 e c fl , ta ~ ..t d t n e. th e y f o II n d th e~littered with t .~rec - e o Japaee~ p l a ne ...... .. , , . - i ---1.. Americ n h a vy 10 S_.CZ!ft- rtillery bas kept the Japa■ ue- guns silent for three days now) d/llllJ aiP■ H M General 8eor1,• Kenny's Fifth Air Force h-ai. IJ ~ ~ bo■b'fCorregidorl\for two days; ■rz; a 41so Subic Ba1i west of the Bataan Peninsula where the enemy. -Ga.-« -4-c.,, installatio ~sand defenses)I E)l destroyed. Cl[li the East lndie~, attacking Japanese shippin and ground installations. Thus King George's men-o-war have been backin g up the work of e.ar ewa ..W•irnik Halsey' a Third Fleet, la whittlin away the lipponese lifeline.'• t.b1ia The ne•s co ■ ea from Tokyo, and the tone of the broadcasts makes it clear that the 6pa are worried• since this now constitutes a two-way threat to their coamunic tions with their positions in southeast Asia. Tokyo declares ihat c a rrier based British planes raided Palemban g , the seaport of Sumatra, three hundred miles to A•I the south of Sin g aporet one of the principal ports for Jap oil shi p ments. !wo hundred British aircraft are reported to have attacked Palembang, and the enemy claims to have shot down forty of them. But there is no confirm tion one w~ y or- the other from t h e P. llied com m and. Tokyo also reported attacks on Osaka by Americ n Superforts flyin singly. They also report that four of our cruisers with eight destroyers, shelled Iwo lslan south of Tokyo. Admiral Nimitz confirms the last part of the Japanese report. Warships of the Pacific Fleet with heavy bo m bers based on land, delivered a .-4 •"4,,, - I.. t ~ ••••••••~ attack on lwo Jima on Tuesday. and Liberator-s co]labora e men of war and . . -:;TH they leftAsnip ing and installatio n s on fire. One cargo ship exploded and two others were left burning. Russian armies toni ht are besi g inp Breslau, . ...,.~' one of the p:; cities ./- German~nd the heart of Silesia. The beginnin ~ of the sie~e followed immediately upon the capture of Gleiwitz to the south amd east of Breslau, ~ the biggest German c i t y ~ the Soviet ---· ~ , troops have capturedr'They also took a Polish mining city still further southeast. In southern Silesi, and in adjoining regions of Poland, the Red gener ls are carrying out a gigantic ~ . ;;J.e«, -1«:~ ~ ~incers movement 1 j(777° Ir • ~ cut off a considerable slice of the Reich with several busy manufacturing Silesia is one of the main sources of munitions and machinery, a ~re t war arsenal for the German Army. The whole p rovince is virtu lly doomed now, and that will substanti_ lly reduce the azi ability to make war~- ~ ~ - • • as serious s i ie wer to lose Pennsylvania The Mo co ne spapers tonight are carrying banner headlines that re a d: "Only Some Hundred and twenty-five Miles Separate the Red Armies from Berlin.• off the the But ,aside from that, f e Ruasians have cut ~e4-o?l-"4 province of East Prussia~' entire proy,ince /2,J ~ Fatherl~~e azis admit it. The)!:'11 news " ,( froa today acknowledged that Soviet tank columns had east R y overrun one-half of East Prussia, and they are now attacking the defenses of Koenigsber g , the c a pital of the province. In the rest of East Prussia, the Russians have surrounded a a rri s on of some two hundred thousand Germ ~ ns. • The a z i .. . p O k e s men est i mate the st re n r. th of the ~ Russi a n armies advancin ~ on Ber l in aTal■u~ four millio A men. They d ecl Pr e th tin E ast Pru si a l on e there are 1 hundred and fifty-five Soviet infantry divisions, which mens one million, three hundred and twenty-five thousand men. The next ~o 1 of two of the Red Armies will be Stettin, the great seaport on the Baltic at the mouth of the Oder.~;;p=-Berlin announces that the Russians have encircled the foPtress town of Torun 1 on the Vistula .... · ... ~ 0 the Nazi generals had expected to establish a last ditch defense line along the middle reaches of the Oder.,,1&~0• the Russi ns have advanced too fast for A them, and any defense line they can throw up will be improvised, hastily built, probably mostly earthworks. Berlin admits that Soviet units have established not one, but several, bridfeheads on the west bank of the . Oder south of Breslau. Those are now a menace to communications bet een Breslau and the German forces in Czechoslovakia. . . A later dispatch fz ■■ this evening reports ·9f!_:' that the Rpus are l i o ~ four milesA';J;;, fN■ the Polish city o Pozna~ •here the Nazis ha a stron 6 fortre s. And in East Prussia, they ave driven tl-. -~ a pei,K J.e11a. ~•~ seventeen miles n • ~ • • • Ioenigsber~ - ~ -~J e Germans counter-attack~cf""•ifrW.;-a~ the Russians k - ~ thr~em back.•t>.9 LAzcL On th e estern Front the N azi divisions in Alsace punched anot er hole into the line of ills N.rt -- Seventh Army.ef tiNt-Btr~ · They advanced ~ two miles 1 and are now aiming a ,ineher attack on " Bagenau. Von ~Runstedt has reinforced his strength in ~lsace with crack SS armored divisions and also parachute troopa. The ruaor is that the('are under the command of Heinrich Himmler, bead of the Gestaf~· · Whoev,er is commandin g them bas crossed the Moder River, four miles west of Hagenau, and cut the American com ucica- ~ tioa.l~ the averne Gap. All in all, there are eight divisions attackin 6 G t neral Patch's Army with nine more in reserve. The Seve-nth- affv- ottiiged t,.e g■ ... 1o ■ e away. All ia all ~ -to-~ : : : ~ ~h_e:e•s better news;'{rem f11p+J~•• ~ . 'Nie Y8it=~ Patton's Third Army advanced...,... miles aaix on a twenty mil e front 1 and are--..a&llJ close to ~ j th e German b or d er,~ a lon ~ the souther/~el f •~ ~ Lux~mbourg. In the northern tip of the Grand Dutchy they are within one mile of the laci Reic~tl111a =~~ •-'::a~ e.qT~r the Siegfried line, · the Luxumbourg frontier. ~till further north, ae ■ e units of the British Second Army started an attack against the Nazi bridgehead at Roermond ••• in southeastern Bolland. ~ .:!'~,t~~ ;-- a big assault. lf;eporta fro■ all along the line bring us the encouraging word that the succeas of Von Runstedt 1 s army in Alsace will not prevent t ~ • d s h for which . everything is ready, - ""'"' waitin ~ word from Eisenhower. bieu\euant General Somerville/head of the U~~a~fe• Services of Supply announced today that there is plenty of material on hand for a major offensive on the .estern Front.) \ora from Paris indicates that Eisenhower wil strike wile the Ru sian of f ensive in the ast isA~=n~ ~ "'lttere are sins afx~ecaai th · t all reC!:nt iYge stock piles th The United States Government is taking action to cut off the Ge~mans fro• aupplies co ■ ing through Switzerland. The Statt\Department announced today that Lauchlin Currie, assistant to the President, is going to try to persuade the Swiss government to prevent anf ■ aterials from going across their border into Germany. General Gttatlae DeGaulle today served notice on the United Nations that bis people will demand the right to station French troops along the whole length of the Rhine after the war. France, he pointed out, has been 1ucce11tully ·nvaded fro• the Rhine three times, and 7~. does not went it to happen again. I* Wlll"li&'Jlt nothing ~ to do with p@rmament frontiers and IL atll no~preclude other Allied forces fro ■ also occupying the Rhine lands. But, he added, the security of the whole civilized world depends on permanent occupation of the banks of the Rhina We le rn today for the first time that the Mazie have sunk an American troopship in European waters. far Secretary Stimson gave out the news, but no detaila. She was carryin two thousand, two hundred American soldiers•~ fourteen undred were saved~ al•t~ugb the 1hip sank rapidly. Two hundred and fo~ty-eight . . . definitely lost, and five hundred and seventeen m ■ i1sing. Viscountess A stor tod a y hed another exchan e of quips in the British House of Commons with Pri ■ e Minister the lady objects to the lack of seats for all aeabers -,,c,,,~~,,_.,.,. --- of the Rous~ a con 1 10n which €hurchill propoaes to preserve in the rebuilding. The Prime Minister, said she, is lookinf backwards instead of forward, and she adied: •1 will gladly subscribe to a monument for the P.riae Minister, but I don't want the House of Commons to be a ■onument to him.~ She also remarked that the Bouse had been built dur i ng the worst period of English art, and the on 1 y thing with which they are completely supplied is a pla c e to drink. To which Churchill retorted: "Yes, yes, now let's get on with the job.• ia.... RAtJJ :as, 1,ugun ta: go J.a 1te1@tly rs: ,11.., 1/.s. Admiral Hussey, Chief of th~Navyl:a eee Bureau of Ordinance, announces today that..._, ~ production of tbese~weape1't will be increased tliree hundred ~ercent during the next few months, faxf••*i ~A.•4"'.,,. and Mli"-&e stepped · up even aor-e after that. " a r e going to spend a billion dollars making.,-ockets this year. ~ Admiral Hussey says tha~Alockets will not replace cannon for a long while to com~ in cer~ain kinds of military operations they have been proved far better than shells fiPej from guns and °'""'~ probably will be used on a large~cale,in \ime te ' .... ._ The great advantage of a Afocket is that it does 4 N1s require a heavy compl·cated and expensivaly ■ ounted piece of machinery to fire it. I It ts launched by a light, simple, cheap gadget with very little recoil. Colo 1 i ll i o oo .. V 1 0 th Ai Fo ces i s to e Bri ir - n r 1. Pr id nt !1 0 0 s velt ent in bis no m i n ion to the n t to d y, alon ith a hundred and thr ot rs. It e x la in ed at he hite H ous e th at . the r t nt r om m ended the nomin a tion. A the s m time, ar Seer t ary Stimson revealed t a t he A my ha s m ad~ Generel Joe Stilw 11 com ander of u .. s, ~ ~ all Jdla .!.rmy g roun d forces, ~ c a p a city he succeeds A A - - I\ - - - - ~ ,. L!euten u nt General Ben Le "I ~::Z1te~e-p,iao& . . ~ Ae; bcA hae N-eft--~~•t t& Furope/\as Deputy eommander of ea.e.R t?Vv7 ~ tib@ ~ it ei-- e.._.t-e.t, forces there. I'- , .... I n .. J . ~· i h i C n C i I C US, i S t 0 h e c r i. t. ir Q ll u s Am ric ~ n w a r s hi s. The Uni o . th o 1 Navy th t ill P vein the P a cific, will be unde the oper tional control of the Americ n Com l_ r-in-Chief. He will decide whether they shall coo r i ith · imi z, or, MacArthur. This news comes from Briti h Admir 1 Sir James Somerville, h ad of the British Admiralty dele ation in shin ton, ~ho hinted that hen the war in Euro i . over, more of the Kin 's men-o-w r will be sent to the Pacific. At present they are still needed, to keep an eye on t · o Ger m an ocket battleships and ~ i t~o heavy an four li ht Nazi cruisers plu some destroyers an d o r e d o bots - the remnants of the once owerful Ge a n N vy. A B §=1_QR -- - - ' h r <' n " to b c my ry bou the . ne acciden kill d Co . t n ne Oum f n Y, ~ S oviet Amb a or to . exico. T e ~ n~ ~ a twin en ined tr a nspo t m ~ e in th United ~ tes, flo n by a Mexic a n I\ Army crew. It h nd ju tt k en off from an airport near Mexico Ci , wh n it. xplod d in mi d -a ir\Only ho I& ~ ~ Uwee ehi,11d are i:li•,t o tell the t le, ~4,h gf the ■ I attaches of the u sian Embassy. rs. Oumansky was killed as w 11 a • three other members of the ambassadorial offici a l arty, n c he entire crew f three. The aff ir became 11 the more mysterious because the Aexican authorities made it so. Police took char e of the ~ r cka e, and forbade anybody to approach. t:,) Oum&ns k y be me well known in the United ~tates wh n he ,, ~s the oviet Amba s--dor in , hin ton. Be w a s a man of a reeable manner s and, like so many educated Russi ns, cou ld s p k fluently in s ver 1 l a n f! u g es. In d · ion o 1n , m a s or to exico, h r s nt e d he "ov i ts 11 over L tin-Am . ric . a lin h l' iv n him h i n ; e nt of o btainin recognition for the Sovi ts in all the Catholic republics of the hemis ___,._~~ - { J ije ba~ alre dy I succeeded in Chile, Nica r p ua, Dru ue:t, Cub a , Columbi end tosta Rica. In ~ hi fact, I\ he , .. on to Cost i ca to present his credent i ls, when he w s killed. ~ .r. o . 1S o i J all out or enry 'allace. Pr s1 nt Y ilip ~ u r ay ha sent word to all unionmen in that o r 1 nization to bo m b r t h eir congressmen with m e ss a es u r i. t e to con f irm allace's appointment an d oppose t he Ge o e Bill, which woul d strip the Com er c e D epart en t of authority over the R.F.C; and the lendi n a encies. Those who o pp ose an increase in g overnment contra~ eclare that the Wallace appointment is part of the c .r.o. plot to brin the activities of practically everybo d y un d er complete saat~ federal authority. The po s twar reconversion bill of Senator Murray of ~ont ana, is another part o f that pto g ram. If th a t ev r be co mes law, no one will be able to un erta e any n w enterprise without of f icial per m ission. The champions of complete control would even ext en d it to college and univ e r si ties, d eciding for e ach student ha t profession he or she sh al l be P rmi t te d t o stud y. Th e ' allace business is part and parc e l of the , , ~ M - ..... - ---- -- ------ c .1. 0 . p o r r , n a , be c a e the cont rol o f the R. F .C. n lend·n g enc ies i ll b 1 nec e sary to putt t he pro ,, r into ef · ect. 'I'he op po nents of the idea hav b e n pointin out t ha t 11 t hi is nothing more tkaax or l s · what the l azis est ab lishe d in Germany. all · c had his day in c o urt today, appearing as a 1 nes in hi on behalf be f or e the Senate Committee on Interstate Com erce. He preformed to standin g room only, and hit back itterly at Jesse Jones. He eni e d t at l.1e las amateurish, inexpt:rience ana inco n p e tent as Jones has described him. In turn he c a lle Jons a pennypincher ith limited vision and stunted ima g ination. 1 ht t. v- ~ <+ · Pd ~ ~ ~~ f oo t . r n c · t:: os . n les e : ~ arrested five ' . ~~ ,J ~~ n 1e ....,., _ - ~ I • n e-e-u-re t e 1 , , m-a.;A--<M- -'ffl' &n, Jl- 'f'T, rv-e-s . - The -1:-aw e t1y e V a n= · ¥ ie hes -he4is n ~ ~ ~ ~ , ; ~ ~ - - - * th~, Ri-n-. sil!MH:t&Reoulill~, e ~ a y b e Y:e:B eleven. ) He h i m e 1 s a i d he· is not s u re h ow many he m a ried, but he thin k it w a s e i ht. *~th• ~ ~ e l , . ~ wanted a home./ ¥ n e v e r be 1 i e v e d i n ci iv o r c e • - ~~f-a,e-e,dl ~',-t't- - tg:,,o.,.-r.t th-1 ,.rno_,,a.,,g-tihr---ttrl'lhrt1_.1111 Nr11el it:y .- ~ H e S e i d h . n't &f r a i d of eetin f any or all of is . -. ive c , .a.fr , i d 1 · · -11 11 I - once wen.: te s l ee Jr, - ~ ee 1a g :fl 8 v 'C • i-ft a - ion' C He w e nt o n ~ IVORC E ----------..-.---- From Cambri1ge, assachusetis, we have a solution for unhappy marriages. The formula is: •A laugh a day will keep the divorce lawyer away.• So says Professor Alexander Yagoun, Professor of Human Relations at the ~assachusetts Institute of Technology. Yost people suppose that M.I.T. exists to educate young men to be engineers, but maybe there's technology in marital affairs. ~ays the Professor, married eople should make each other laugh at least once a day -- also never get tired at the same time. Now Rugh, you are not tired, are you? LTP.1945.01.25i.pdf LTP.1945.01.25ii.pdf