t,1. - ~-J,,_,.~. ~ . ~ - 2~, ,'fa/$, g ~ _ tonight Perl Harbol;('confirms in part a story from To · yo reµorting Am~rican air attac ~ on the island of Okinawa, also on Formosa. Okinaw~a aaaxlJ less than three hundre and twenty mile s from the ~ilado's l omeland. The~ps an1ounced th a t for the second day running so e iai five hun red and fifty of our carrier based pl a nes bombed Ok.in~wa, Al• ""'-., Formosa. The Japs boasted tha t some of their special attack pla es had set three ■ zx ■ fxfaa of our aircraft carriers on fire also another ship of a type th~ Admiral Nimitz fro Pearl Barbor e dmits that planes of the Third Fleet attacked Formosa Satur ay and d es troyed or dama ged ~•• t~o hundred and forty Jap planes, also shi p ping, d cks and factories, ~ ~~v~~ In the Phi~ippines, General Krueger's men region indicate that they may try to make a stand at Bamban, fifteen miles below Tarlac and five miles north of Clark Field. Reconnaissance pilots h&ve spotted large concentrations of Japs at Bamban. Evident~ the Nips will not declare 1 fanila an open city. A Tokyo broadcast reported tanks rolling through the capital, to the front, an added that they had barricaded every key point in the city. --o-- The Japanese themselves say they made no atte~pt to defend Tarlac, but, they did take pains to destroy it. They began burning the place three days after Ame ican fighter planes flew over imx it. They set fire to the market pl a ce, the residential districts, whole blocks of business houses, warehouse a , munition dumps, p ublic buildings, and particul a rly one large ammunition du m p near the ca p itol building. Guerrillas declare th a t the enemy w anted the Filipinos to think that we had burned the city with incendiary bombs. -----0----- A later dispatch from ~ acArthur tells us that the Sixth have c a ptured lnfanta, a port on the main west coast bi hway leading down into the historic Bataan Peninsula. BURMA -- Re p o r ts are in of three Allied victories ·1n Burm& -- three all in one d ay. F ir s t of all, the Britiah Army h ~ ve entered Monywa, an important eneay base. They have also capf:ared the main harbor of an islaml off the coa s t. Ang word is just in that a Chinese A rmy in Burma and another co m ing from China have joined forces on the Ledo-Burma roJd. ' is a center Yonywa, the first place I mentioned, ~•x••* of communications vital to enemy operations, and one of the biggest fortresses barring the way to Mandalay. The Japanese put up a stiff fight, determ i ned to hold it al all costs -- a gar r ison composed of men of the Third Division, a crack unit of the ~ikado's army, which had ~ laye d a p art in overrunning Burma three years a go. Two other British columns, by the way, are closin g in on M an d alay, with a third only fift e en ra i 1 es a r : a y • As for th e Ledo R oa d victory, one o f the t w o Chinese ar m i e s th a t j oined forces there is th e JDRMA - _g Thirty-eighth Division, ~ hich w as trained by some of General Stillwell's office r s, and commanded by Lieutenant General Dan Sultan. The big thing about this is that it means the beginning of the end of the two year campaign to clear the Ledo-Burma Road. r T"Re J3e oo le . ef Moo eew ere ge ie~ t,e need..,,.. £art a1 taey hn-.ie 1'e ea 8 o; nc oYer the •ae ken 4. The gun ■ in Stalin's capital••• went off nineteen thousand, five hundred and eight times tonight. The reason was tllat f i v e ~ spectacular victories. One of the towna they captured, on the lower reaches of the Oder River, is only a hundred and sixty-five miles from Berlin. l i e ~ as far as fro■ Hew York to Baltimore. A All along that eastern front the Red armies are punching holes in t~e G~rman line. Even the Nazis ' themselves~not attempt"t? disguise it. Stalin's ~ . A generals bave bro ' · en through, and no doubt about it. - The Berlin radio reports that Fuehrer Hitler himself has gone last to take charge in person. Maybe that's a break for Russia. Let's take East Prussia first. Two of the spectacular victories there were the capture of Allenstein, well inside the frontier and almost due north of arsaw; also t"1 lnsterburg, in the north of the Province a n d ~ second largest city in East Prussia. Insterburg is only a few miles from the Baltic. h * h M ~ ~ addition to ~eing the second largest place - Ml in the p rovince, la also a big center of Nazi I\ co ■ munications and full of munitions factories. Further south and west, the White Russian Aray has captured Deutsch Eylau (Doytch-Eilow). And there, as the Nazis declare themselves, the Reda are only forty-five miles fro• the Baltic, a n d ~ - ~ ~~ from Danzig. Almost as important is the fact that if they push through to the Baltic fro• Deutsch Eylau, they will have cut off a ll the German divisions, two hundred thousand men, in East Prussia. That Second White Russian Army also captured the neighborin g city of Osterode (Oster-Road). The · hird ~ hi t e Russi a n army, which c a ptured Insterburg, h a s only seventy-ei g ht miles to go to effect a junction with the ~e ond W hite Russian Army at Allenstein. From Berlin and not from Moscow, we learn that still anoth e r S oviet army is movin g into the Suwalki corner, in he e a st. Meanwhile, the First White Russian Army, which is only a hundred an d sixty-five miles fro ■ Berlin, is less than twenty-eight miles away from the city which the Poles c a ll Poznan and the Germans call Posen. Evidently several Russian spearheads are moving to isolate Poznan. Deutsch Eylau, wher e four railroads meet, is the chief center of supplie s for the Nazi divisions in East Prussia. Still furthP.r south the Red armies are fighting towards Breslau, '1r1J, capital of Lower Silesia, and also Oppelo, a strong fortress and the ca p ital of Upper Silesia. The Nazis a re consolid a tin p. a system of defenses forty •·1 1 ea northe s t of Breslau. But Moscow reoorts that the fil!§llL- 4 Germans in Silesia are relyin ~ henvily upon the recently organized battalions of middle-a ed men and boys. If that is true, they will be no match for the veterans of Stalin . rad in the First Ukrainian Army. Berlin also reports the news that the Russians have been makin tentative attacks at the Courland Peninsula in western ~atvia, ~ere soae two hundred ~ thousand Germans have~their backs against the sea since early this winter. -----0----- In Huugary the Red soldiers have captured twenty more blocks in Buda, the western part of Budapest. GERYA N Y -~----- The Nazis radiosioday were telling the German people t h ey w e r e up a g ainst the real hour of most serious test no w th a t Russian ~ Armies are invading both E ast Prussia and ilesia. The 6hief of the Nazi Press Bureau told German newspapermen that any attempt to make li g ht of the break-through of the Soviet Armies would be senseless, but he added, •our German fanatisism will break the Soviet waves.• Swedish newspapers reported that German troops are bein g evacuated from Norway, as many as possible, without weakenin g the German position there too much. They need those divisions to help out on both the Eastern and Western f ronts. Swedish newspapers also reported th a t the Nazi Government ba s proclai m ed a state o f emer g ency in Upper Silesia. It is sending women and boys with shovels to help throw up f ortifications outside Berlin. S o say the Swe d ish report e rs. ~¼~ts we A al'..-.b &ti A ewe fpoa ..i Re -We"&-t,cPl'h j:pu,t-.·,...,"'1u>i• +.hie ~.:.1.1,...,-• 'lne Germa~nounced d■l---- A ~ th{.:F htRi captured 11 Hagenau, t:::ai. key junction of highways and railroads iu Alaace. r~r~ only eight miles awa, from Strasbourg. The French First Army has been t - rying to re1ieve the American Seventh Army, whic h as been hard pressed in the Iolmar pocket below S trasbourg. ~ the latest announcement from a~rlin reports that the Germana have bro.ken throug h the 1a g inot Line on a twenty five mile front. T e 1 ~ a~is ~ American Seveath clai'X that _ t h e Army is in full retreat. H II II I e !NII I • I . ~ •• German rep rts from t h ~ Western Front have been reasonably a c ~ urate so we hkve indications that I II Z:z.~w. another~~ powerful Nazi counter-offensiv~n-, git v• ~o+e-g ~ see i n Alsace a repetition of the BRt t le . 7 - - P ~ , f tl e Bu g e 1n •BP.l g ium. AaaH2 w . ~ EbT~ __ fBQ ~I_!.~ ~ ~ This e a na th~t_.A:ht ~s-•111.,..bave to t a ~ e , re ha casualties and sta~e ano£her . fffr pusn to !:> eat t.fie G,:,.rmans oaclt v. · h1ch · take A A JtS jQA as long as it did to force them back through • the Apdenne For e s~an'1'r:;:y ~isenhower's time table. r::to t ::urn :n::~ ------0----- For the rest, however, there is better news from the Western front. Patton's men recaptured the big enemy base at\ iltz, and have practically cfeaned out· Luxembourg - for the second time. Also they are already pushing into the' outskirts of St. Vith, the last stron g hold ••I held by the Germans in Belgium. And further north, kilted Highlanders with flame throwers, advanc ed more than mile north and eat, capturing four German villa Ge t, and reaching a point less than twenty miles from Munchen-Gladbacb, a big industrial cent e r in the Phine Valley. , But the mosts ectacular news from that part of the world comes from the Air Force. British and ArE rican flyers had a field day with be a utiful eather. It was the ~ ■oat destructive · ingle day ~ the;l1fave had since the ~ war began. They \url)J8d and....,.destroyed more than £1 ••n ~ ~ ~~~ *1\ enemy tanks and truckAl The ermans, evacuating the Ardennes bulee, were retreating as fast as they could toward the armored vehicles. iegfried Line in two long columns of One of th,was eight miles long. " . The Rineteenth Tactical Air Force jumped on them, some p-2,,.~ of th~ flying as low as a hundred end fifty feet, with no opposi ion from the Luftwaffe. At one point, a bri , s being destroyed and hundreds of enemy trucks we re i led up there. · .g.an-....p-i}e-1.e t -w 11otu~ p,e~op\a.d----the.b i+,-,r~re p ~ ~ r-" It 1 As believed that the · h voe Hn+t- t h ~ planes cau ed h incr ed van undstcdt's ca ualties enormously. . ~ k ia pbl'lN.~ln a t he has lost up to 1, 8 h~ndred Bnd fifty thousand men, c ap tured, killed or badly w ounded. The bul e is now down to seven miles,~ seven 11.iles aw; f r o m ~ ~ o • · • f t i ~ the big counter-offensive started. Pr s ident oos e velt to y w lked headlong into the inevitable fi g ht over the substitution of Henry allace for Jesse Jones as Secretary of Gommerce and head of thj R. F .C. The President made a direct frontal attack; he s e nt the a llace nomination to the s nate without ny apolo g y or attempt At JZ ■ ii•i•zJx ■ xxx preliminary negoti a tions. Stories f r • wa~hinglon report that Congress may show some resentment. For Jease Jones has been popular with members of both Chambers, on both sides of the oolitical fence. I,+, 11ae Repuh]ican President Baova», ay \he way, wae fipoi appeinied tae Texas, Jea~e Jeaee, to the pewePfYl, ai££icYlt end 1esponslble j ~ whicb ae lle.e hele ee leng,. The Ex-Vice President, for his pa rt, uttered what amounts to a manifesto of his a ims a nd p ur p oses as head of the Com erce~ ~ n - the R.F.C. - i.e., if he is con irme d . 'R-ou e a l y,s a i d he, the job is top~ ~ ~mum of nat,i aoal em p loyment by priv a te basiae r. s, a nd ~., must seeing to work out a clear-cut pl&n for ost-war employment, with special attention to returnin soldiers. Second, to try to bring about maximum production and reasonable prices to the consumer. Third, opportunity for free enterprise among business men must be expanded, particularly small business men. Fourth, sound government programs for river authorities, irrigation works, etc.; full use of our resources and manpower. ired the /!rt: G ~ f once t r i e r g e and which I oul ,,.,. mean nomin t e d ~ 0 er and _ restige will , be substantially - -- T h e ac t t ~ also ferred. would a g encies from F' r enden- A d doll ~ " r a , .. referred to the .. - 4 ~ ti:.'""' in d ign a tionAover the appointment is expressed by southern D emocr a ts) •crs-i-e£ . ~ ~ ·••t"o•■-~R~lf!.::::.::r;::s::R::NM:Jlll:lliiiR"l:l:117--;8_...::tH~·!llll . . ~--===T~h•~~ de C 1 are that i ~ - a 8 0 p to appe as e the Ne D e a lers of the Left ing. Senator ~Daniel of T e xas i■ckxx■i d eclared it ha d been dictated by Sidney Hill m2 n. Sen a tor Byrd of Virginia d e scribed Wall a c as the J ea d er o f the most r a d ic a l g roup in A meric a , a clos e fri e n d a n d C0 6 orker of Sidney Hillman. tf'4../,1t,.e New D e l e ~ e jub · t ~ nt. E ven one or two Republicans ap 1 ud e d the nomin at ion. F or in sta nce, Senator Lan ge r o f North Dakota, who said it was a break. for fa ri.llers a11d sm all busi ess men. -----1}----- The f i g ht on the Iallace nomination has aecome more acid tonight. Democratic Congressmen fro ~ the South served notice t h at t h ey will use all parliamentary tactics they can to block the appointment of the Ex-Vice-President af to be Secretary of Commerce. A statement was made today on the floor of the Senate th a t shed a peculiar libht u on the alleged short ge of manpower. One of the places supposed to e short of labor is the Norfolk Navy Yard. In fact, some officials have declared that it was short four thousand essential workers. A group ot Senators visited Norfolk last week, and found that the opposite was the ~ase. So . far from being short of help, they say they found the yard full of men loafing, standi~ aTtJ sitting around in gm ups, smoking and talking right on the decks of vital fijhting ships. ihe Sena~~ ~ate11eat added. that a ■ they follad ae signs of theiP , awe~ -50888&.. Alee that the~en themselves think there are 1 too many of them on the job and that they actually are unable to do an honest day1 s work.-- the mea \aemeel,ee eayin~ thie. Yee, enitne Senator who made this report ~n the floor ef the Senate tode~ is the ardent New Dealer. Jim Mead of New York, who announced that it u as his p ainful duty to reveal the truth about ~ alar m ing conditi o n. - - ~ . r ~\,;-c: S pa 1 at si ant. / The Senators who m ke th is report are menb ers of a sub-comm i ttee of the Committee-to-Investigate-the- W ar. This is the one that former]¥ was knan as the Truman Committee, now called the Mead Committee. They say they checked several larse ships and went through several ships at Norfolk, and found, to quote Senator Mead, "excess manpower, waste labor, hoarded labor, and enforced loafing." While Senator Yead made his report, the Milita• Affairs C ommit te e of th e Bouse continued with its job of considering the Work-~r-Fight Bill. Many have been asking whether - men drafted for war wo •kin closed shops would be forced to join a Onion whether they w anted to or not. The Co m ittee today voted an amendment to the bill which wo u ld exe m pt such worke rs fro m the closed )IAIPO W ER -_i __ _. . shop provisions of union contracts. But il it was a fairly close vote, fourteen to ten. llowing r- eg isl~6'Ji. n VET E_ N -------- Staf erge a nt J. F. Coleman of t. Louls, bas been home on le a ve from the Pacific, but he's in a hurry to e t back. Be has been t h rou g h four major batt:ea against the Japs but he wants to · get back to the war zone where he will be safe from the St. L o ~ ~ ~ ~ e t h e n yH ■ ay 11-e ~ l • M 1cuat1;:~Sergeant Coleman is the victim of A publicity. St. Louis neRpapers quoted him as saying that he preferreJ Australian girls to American girls. O u r ~ irls, he was reported to have said, are •■ iJ < too artificial. ,/l ~ O _ .: ~ ~e"'~~~-~ ••-b d, I J.~letters.b 1se11 pOGPlAg l•• Illa . . . . . . . . . ~ 22 Dt@PCll~~omeone found out the telephone number-of Coleman's parents. ~ ~ - Ql;_.j ~ NG. it ran-g all ti-e.,i., r.. Lou is women · '7~ ~~- a traitor a:u:a one even wants him to b ~ /\ _..Y_,;f: ~:b_- - ~ tarJe:mt and fe t e r ~ • S o to d ay Colem~:-"{ have ~ /'- ,'- flown t h rou h flak and storms of machine un bullets, but it was n e v 9r li K this . I' m g oi n back t o the ~ ~~ ~ ~ ! ' ' ~ ~ ~ ~ I-(~"