In the Pacific, Admiral Nimit z is bringin the ar closer to the Japanese ~omeland. Ye s terday, lar~e formations of our carrier-based planes attacked not only Formo a but also the island of Qkina a, which is even closer to Tokyo. two days in successi~n now, an Aaerican tas force has attac~ed those i lama. Okina a is the principal islaIMI of the R7ukyu gap, hundred and sixty miles east of formosa. The Japanese ay there were no fewer than four hundred American planes in the raids. Tokyo beli••• that thia is preliminary to new landings ~1 MacArthur in the Philippines. And the Japs say that not only II Nimitz carrier-based planed ere in on the raid, but also land-ba eed B-29s. --o-- By the way, the B-29 raid on Nagoya yesterday appe a rs to have been successful. As the big bombers left, the fliers ob s erved bu e fires from the jikado's thou sand feet. war plants -- smoke billowing up to twelve aaatz ■ The Japanese · ay four n o ·e -29s, on reconnaissa wee over Nagoya again today. The Tokyo radio prophesies that the Japanese wi11 soon be using rocket bombs againstps in the Pacific. It quotes an enemy scientist as reporting the development of not only rockets but electric wave weapon• which, it says, will be a decisive factor in tb war of the Pacific. BU A --- The c pture of anting, on the , al een, in Burma, ill enable the Allies to \We that Ledo Road e've heard so m\C h about. Fleets of new American trucks are ~obilized at the foot of the Himalayas, all set to start at any ~oment, te rush sup p lies to China. The director of the newly created Chinese War Transport Board says the only delay now will be a few repairs to *~• this military road. The Chinese on the Salween River fought for eight days to capture Wanting, and we hear they are chasing the remnants of the beaten Japanese to ard the South. PH L , 1 } ' . ! . ) ' , , 0 , , ' / . t I ' I ---- -------- .. ---------- i. ' ,... C ' n ♦ from hf? in :- t 1 !. • I . ' t u r r · or t r? ain in o f .. i hi in th u of .,inpey n r nd Subig Bay, on the · e ern c o t · the 1 l n of Luzon, the u er end of the Bataan Peninsula. Ling yen 1s bout eifhty mile n o rth of Subig. In addition to sinking the fifteen, M cArthur•s planes damaged s~verely fifteen more. This haul inc udes twenty-five freighters and trans orts, a seapl ne c rrier, thr e naval escorts, and a coastal vessel. i ., if n .r .. e r " . : e ~ , in o h h i ' ,f' • e e_ 1re, r _. i ne - ne h . _ n n .. ille 0. T o e e r und in their Ma e est life ja c ket, f o ur unti a iavy bomb r drop ed a rubber r f t onto hich t e four climbe d . The r11en soon were out of fresh w a ter: The s al t ater s p oiled all of their rations ex e t e fe• c a ns of cheese on w hich theJ survived for eleven d ys. ifter th t, they b ed nothing t oe t but b ir d F- n f ib, hich thy c u r h · i h their b a ~e hen d s. One of them r a b ed a three hundred pound l u e_i h. u c u ~ d n't h a ul it ofito the ra f t because n 0 0 W c. .: . Th e s e _a d s ~u t in h i rty-three d ' ys o n th t rubber r a ft, durin g hich ~ rio d they spotted no f e er th n five enemy subm r in s, one o f · hich c c:. m r. i t hin ifty y rds of th e m an d f a i l e d o s p ot t h em. n 1 r y - thir j y' f ou r hun r~ ni L • r o m th : oin wh r they h ti bailed out, they w r s o eak it took th m ten hours to ashore. Then, wi h th . , i of friendly n tives they fin lly e r r turned to their own eople. ddle The • eric n Fi · t, ~~ o n he m rch · ain. T h G erm a n ; v nee h · 1 t some of von R und tedt' divi ions Pxoo ed on the fl n s of the bul e. v id nt y , h nemy x cted the bli zard weather ~~ to ro ct them. But General Hod g es attacked t ~ ' " " ' " de. · n, through blin in g snow, t1: r C...OUbl.lO O t. ... l' :,. 1 • , ,i!, and a chieved a com p lete ~urprise. o :'lak : viE.iol It w as the worst " weather of the whole inter, but six spearheads advanced across the r vine s of the Ardennes Forest, and penetrated the ~azi lines for a di t a nce of three and a half to five miles. . They ere attackin r ~ ~ p e . , - ~ d ~ ~ although t&ken by surprise, ome ofJ- r lliPd _ uickl y : n d f 11 back fn g ood order. ccording to r e orts from the front, our high co mma ntl has hopes that this counterattack will be the deci·ive action in th~ b tle on the ,. t es ern Front. N r 0 . T ,. ' - ----------- or ' O 0 n r m i . o , a lion t o . f iliar 0 · 11 r l · . • t l i o l n b 1 1 rick. Von undstedt ha ci thro n a h . vy un r a t c k ' inst Patton' Third A~my o n he o 1th f n nk of the bul r e, and Hod es picked that ~om nt to s~ k u ·nd tt & ck on the north side and seize the initiative. There was no conce linp. the fact that it is a terrifically tough battl. T h ~ are fighting -1111 , v ~ ~ over 4A'M""Hy•q4~ hills, some ef the• fifteen hundred feet hi h, with narrow gorges and r vines. ~ ,,I almost im p assable for tanks. The censorsbio at hlli~d he ~ dqunrters is exceedingly cautious. But throu h i t all we gath P r the admission that on the southern end of the line, in Als ce, the eventh Army under General Patch, hns given up its foothold in G rm a ny ~ l n in some lace~ retreated as f a r a, the old . . a , in o t Line. Inf ct, at one point : t, f th , lin , and h ve r iven up th F n h frontier ci y of is embourp , th : ey to th ~is Pb urp C It. h b e n in~ rd from h , t M?e Al ied s p o ke smen ~ 1 , th a, al l hi G o c ur ed e v a l d a y a [ o, a n was part of the o e r ion to pr ep ' 1 · e for the at t acks by Patton am ~ ~ ~~ Hod g es on the bul e. ~ now the vance of the Germ ns in the Alsatian plains is bein g checked. Her e on t e l o ~ e front a loud complaint was expres ed tod y about t1e c ha r a ct r of t h e censorshi r- . It was a complaint t ha t the authorities are keepin th e trut trom u s . Fre deri ck c. Cr awf ord of Clevelan d , Ohio, former President of the National returned Association o f an uf cturers, has just/\txa ■ saza"A 1 ro a visit to all the libe r a te <l countries of E urope. S pe kin t N e w Y rk tod a y z ■ xz ■ J• h e r ep ort c t ha t American cor r • ~ op j ndent in F rance had tol d him that. fro m w h t t ey ~ a c L e ard it p µ eare th a t. Americ ns - 4 0 0 , o l u I • r t l. t ' 1 t t • ,.., L " . ' l • o t, "o r re · t, t , e i r y ff ; ; $ al of us. • V-1 -- - -- 0 n e N a i bu : z b o m b mad e 4 u it e a . it it h a , ro up of Oncle · am' infantrymen -- eight men 01' the ...,e cond Signal Co-npany o · the Second Inf · ntry Div is ion. These lad2 put in a full day hi.din in th:-; cell tr of · a house in Belgiu. -- a houae occupied by the Germans. All day long nothing ha pp ened. Then along toward evening the boys crept out. And, just as they left the house, a V-One fell on it, blew it to smithereens, and tilled the Ge ~ mans. After this, the Americans lost their way in a wood, and they might have wandered bact into the Geraan lines bad it not been that ■ore buzz bombs were roaring over their heads, their flaming tails lighting the way home for those eight signal corps men who like buzz bombs. Th 1 i • i. ., h o 'll nd c · nother blow on th e ~ t n lront rom von undst e t. o "e :nay iu r 11a rks. Th Secrel ~ r lol r rt e s to ay tho. t the Ge~man co~~ nder is keepin 0 a bi reserve near the plac ~ here he broke through recently. a~ thinks the Nazis will do anyt~in to prev e nt Eisenhower from recovering any f th round he ha lcs t. i•iJx And that, said Yr. Sti~son, is the real purpose of the la•• German counter-attacks in the aar. As for those German clai:ns of h avy O. S. casualties, with fifty tho\11 and of our 11en captured, the War Secetary explained that it will be some time before we have the exact figures. U l ' . ' .. ____ _ I . .. .. n {un r· ., th GPr ; n :-: ; t he a vy . ' count r L c:: • a in ·· h d r i t r in t. rive tk l' th l1 h 0 th of h ~ r i ~ on in Bu So fe. th . us i .. n ,. h V t ~ e n a _l the . i h t anc 1. have thro thf'm be the outset f th a tlE1, they destroyed o, · ; L •• 4r · · .. u 1ex1•!Jxtlf~}rrr - n And . ~ s 1 1m« th t the Army of the Uvr ine h~ broken osco A.. th CY. 0 hat N zi coun~e tt· k. H ever, not one but everal t nk battl s e~·e still oin . on southeast of the Danube, and there is e v i d e n c e ~ • the German will try a in and af • ain to cut through the wall which the Red Army maint ins t of Buda est, a all.-, • thirty-one mils wide 1 of ~ovi~t soldier. re are .,.,.. i J hty s .. . , , a· is 1 t ii. ff. rr: on 01 Bu da pe hi h t was p oinr on, the rest of the ivicions in Bud , est took ~wo-hun~p.a.d-&A A more b]ocl : . ~ from th Nazis . The city i~ in ruins and thouR a n s of civilians have t a n refu g e in U.. I ------- th CP ..... . ' • in to void t cros - f i r e of us ian n , n nr E · n be .: o , . ' h d ivi ions h a d co loa o the Hun i 1, th ~ a is shipped OU · . 11 h :o o r o rve. T , ..... ci vili n o u 'a tion~ Tll-e R •s ians IPrY9' t. e city park of Pest, , also ,.._ " the e'ld city cemetery, en in Buda they have the base of [;_ ~ .. .!lA m .Ao r , 0 ' 1, 0 I' L ' o ... ; lo Uni ~e ~- Pr " · t e 1 1 L 0 LI Vi u la o d y o: .v t r ·- r - o ; r ... . o · . . r:n · l - t l ' l I V •• r s of n i t . Y 0 "'r w. H r por an or. s 01ce tr ,, Russ r ud Po ivi~i s r • all tor he bi i -v.i ntc r at t a ·r. 0 t C uaz1 1 ont i ola1 . TI e b·t le 0 a rs «¥. \', i 11 . 001 r C O l aid be 0 e of t,t lo l ::; t v. e l!ave ev r hL r a of. --- --- John Bull n Un l e a I r _ t it a~a in. L a st · eek it a thos e A. C id co m n e nt. s made by The Econo m ist a . ape r in Lon d on a Tory a p er. To da y there w as more of it in the Trib u ne, a weekly ma g azine s peak s f or the Left intern a tion a l matte r s, w e'd etter go b a ck into our hole until we are fit to entJr the comity of nations, I said this Briti s h Left in 6 sheet. Then it went on to is due to the secret dip om a cy practiced betw e en Roosev e lt, Stalin and C urchill. The British paper adds: wwe can now see th a t he truth wa s concealed from us not bec a use it be an advant a 6 e to the enemy, but because it w as # r e p u t a ble to stand the light.• The London editor speak s of growing tired of the American commentators who sp e ak a bout Yankee intervention in two world wars a s evidence of altruism. "Inte r n a tion a l cooper a ti o n,r a dde d the T~ibune, "is not a gift of American ma g nanimity, but a nece s sity of world life." Thee is no enyin g there i a decidedly unhealthy situation growing up between us at this crucial st a ge in this ost terrible of ST TT!' I U FOLL O ." B IT I ------------------------ Pr sent r 1 tions bet een our British cousins nd ourselves evoked st a tement from Secretary of State Stettinius tod y. The Seer tary • · as r ther nettled by a Dre~ ~ear on story to the effect th there was a difference of opinion bet een President Roosevelt and the Briti . h g overnment over the amount of food to be sent to the Italians. Pear on, in his coluan, published a aemorandua fro ■ Downing Street to Washington, a meaorandua in which the British were supposed to have said that the failure of the United States to adopt the British • position would have far reaching consequences for the whole settlement of Europe. Secretary Stettinius didn't like that, said its ublication w s unauthorized and most regrettable. And he added th a t he was investi ating to find out how the contents of the memorandum leaked out. But them in burden o f the Secretary's STETTI I ~ . FOL L Q H B .. IT IN - -------~-~----------- a nn o in c m n o • y • . h the United States and Britain basic a lly a ree an a re both anxious to help the Italian people to beg~n reconstruction. ,, , " ----------- The b m e ·o r th sh rt a e f ma n p o er belon s at least artly to the A my and Navy, says ~~ ~ d'4..~ Sen tor H~~ Kil r o r-e of est Vir ini .AThe hi g h com and has fle. g r r ntly misused men a lr d y in uniform. Lots of the ■, fit for comba duty, ~ doin g non-combatant work. ~s~~ lllt•Athose not fit for combRt should be used in the sunply linPs 1 a n at bases here and abroad. Se nator K il g ore, as a member of the Senate War Investi gat ion Committee, has been studyin the manpower PETRILLO .. _.---------- Th t x , y r~ f ~ icaf'o p , n Pd to y th t for •e lve r they have been payine the sal ries of two detectiv s whose only work w s to serve as bodyguards for James aesar Petrillo, Pre icent of the American Federatio of Yusici ns. Pet~illo obtained his bodyguard~at the public expense/in Nin teen Thirty-Two. It has been no - · secret th the had this escort, but until today we did net - know that it w son the cuff, so to speak, the public cuff. ' However, it ts too late for the people of Chica o to protest, should they so feel inclined, since this only comes to light because the Chicago Police Commissioner has ta k en Petrillo's protectors away from - - _':A to him, order.d''them to report back 1.1w work. }-.. ,. ·u ------ Forty y ar , . o , schoolm t r 0 2 , ed · alter 0. Smith, t Fai r m ount, e t Vir 'nia , thr hed one of his oupils, boy nam d a . The boy's f a th r went to the school an d p rotested, wher s"i, the ~ schoolm a s t er e t eked him. in his h · n d a t the im e n d defended him elf, the r e sult o f the enc o u n e r be in the d ~ a t h of the s ch o o l m o •· t er . ast week h seventy-three year old resident of S uv lea Island , off the co a st o f re on, w ent to the sheriff n d s a id he • s Benjamin Franklin ale, the man who had k i lled that ichool teacher forty years ago. Hes i his re a on for confessing was, that at the age of seventy-three he w anted to end his rem inin years in the . est Vir g inia hills, where he w as born. - 4~ .. :.- f>b._ The O re on sh riff did not arrest hi~ /\put him on his h o nor to c o ba ck to West Vir gi nia all nlone. The sheriff ' s report took the W est Virginia law auth o rities by surpris. The ori inal in d ictment had YU F - ------- b en l '"'t , o r · n ' jury s im n lled tor turn a ne~ one. hes venty-thr e y · r old Benjami Franklin le la·t ni h sai oo -bye to is friends and bei hbora ~ tJfl~ on the island and /\ will board a tr'""in for , est Virginia tomorro • In th e h plin o , a hun jury! T h e s ev e n wom n an d fi v e e n in t e b x ju t " ' ould n et a g re e. , It ts intere s tin g to l e rn that on every b ' l lot th voting was seven t five in f vor of C ha p lin; s t ill or e interesting that of the seven w o men, six ~ere f o r Ch ap lin all along . The la y r f o r ..4AI - ~ ~ , i s .. B a rry 1HHt furious, laut.- a.JS:i4 b♦ :saailii /- A ask for a ne trial . He t a l k ed bout the women on the . 7f' jury as thro w in g roc k s a t the baby. O ne juror told re orters th a t Ch ap lin c a me ~ ithin an ace of losing .. f • when his la w yer compared.him to - , )- GJ_ "4w'. ~t, \ t.oX.~ \,"'10 ~ - Q ~ - - LTP.1945.01.04i.pdf LTP.1945.01.04ii.pdf