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this year; will find the honeymoon—which has permitted them to proceed almost without esion—%. over.

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‘Good Neighbor Policy at Home ~~ .*

MEANWHILE THE STATE DEPARTMENT, which lately has left the lash of congressional criticism, is now trying hard to improve its

domestic relations.

Secretary Stettinius has started a policy of keeping senatorial leaders better informed about our foreign policies. frequent meetings between them, and more frequent appearances by

Stettinius before foreign relations

If the . good-neighbor-pelicy-with-the-senate succeeds, minimize conflict when the united nations organization treaty is pre-

sented to the senate.

That treaty will be a major subject on the agenda when the Big Three meet, After they agree, full- dress International conference wi

be called to do the actual treaty-drafting. NOTE:, Senators will be ready—if F. D. R. is—to discuss foreign policy with him’ before he starts for the Big Three meeting. he can avoid pitfalls if he consults with them ahead of time, lets them know what he hopes for, listens to what they hope for,

Real Push.on for 4-F Draft

ON WORK OR FIGHT LEGISLATION: service act, which would enforce sweeping, across-the-board powers It would get more votes now than last leaders convinced Jimmy Byrnes it couldn't pass, but still not enough, But there's a real push on for legislation which would drive all physically deferred 4-F's into war work or military work battalions.

over all workers, are slight. spring, when congressional

It probably will follow lines of last session's Balley-Brewster bill, with some changes to remove labor's objections. Labor feared low-pay work battalions would be put in industry side-by-side with well-paid union men, might be utilized to lower wages and working conditions. Plan how is to make work battalions thoroughly unattractive by denying members veteran benefits, encouraging 4-F’'s to go into war industry on their own. Work battalions would be used in private industry only after agreement by management and labor that they were needed to meet critical war shortages, probably . after certification by War Mobilizer Byrnes’ office.

» s 2 LOOK FOR DRASTIC ACTION _ to correct the shortage of nurses for armed forces, possibly by executive action. If congress is asked for legisiation, nurses will demand they. be given full military rank, other benefits enjoyed by WAC, WAVES, etc, and servicemen. At present, nurses have full rank for duration and six months, after that lapse back to “relative rank” which no one seems to understand. -

Insurance Fight

ONE OF THE FIRST fights of the new session will be over proto exempt fire Insgranct panies from ° Clayton. and anti-trust acts~a fight that insurance companies won in the house in the last session, but lost in the senate, Chances ‘are the house will pass the exemption bill again, without much fuss, but that there'll be a last-ditch fight against it in the “senate, bolstéred by recent su- - preme court ruling that such laws "apply to insurance, too. Cs =» * MOVE TO LIFT margarine taxes is being revived. Higher ration points for butter provide new argument, but dairy bloc seems strong enough to repeat last session’s defeat. Fight will center in house agriculture committee, which. licked repealer bill by close “ vote last year. = 2 s . CENSUS BUREAU plans to interview 300,000 families in 400 typical counties this year, to find out their income and how they spend it, Sample census of manufactur- » Ing, designed to get cross section . View of industry in peak wartime year (1944), will-be conducted by questionnaires to 300,000 manufacturers,

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” 8 y - . TO PREDICTION that Senator Lucas of Illinois will] get one of the Democratic seats on the sen‘ate foreign relations committee, add the prediction that other seats will go to Hatch of New Mexico, Hill of Alabama,

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HOUSE MAJORITY” “leader Martin takes great pride for his part in the coup that created a permanent house committee on

Nazis Show First Signs of Weakening in Battle Of Ardennes.-

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miles northeastward Dy opening a fresh attack below Stavelot,

Front reports of the new attaack, linked with the east end of the pre-

no news of its trend. . Supreme hegdquarters reported that the Germans hed suffered 100,000 casualties soar in the Battle of the Bulge which began Dec. 6. A possibility was-seen that the

relaxation of enemy resistance on] .

SHERWOOD NAMED _

‘the north side of the bulge represented a combination of two factors: 1. ‘The drain of our hammer blows against their 4 flank, = 2. A shattering bombardment before. dawn. today by the Houffalize transport turntable at the center of the Nazi positions,

Consolidate Gains

About 1400. U. S. 8th air force bombers = and fighters followed through on the British night attack with a widespread ‘daylight bombardment of Rhineland rail and road ‘bridges and communications centers. 8. H. A. E F. sources said Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's armies were concentrating on consolidating their gains rather than moving ahead -today. ’ Field reports showed considerable advances In several sectors. U. S. armored columns, one from the northeast and the other-from

un-American activities, He told Republican gathering, which met heére with G..0. P. Chairman Brownell, that he knew | Rep. #*Rankin "was - ging "to bring the matter up, . was ready with sufficient Republican”strength to put it over, Though Rankin is a Democrat, leaders of his own party did not know of his plan. He did not mention it at Democratic caucus. =» » » G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN BROWNELL made a good impression on congressional Republicans here this week. They reported him friendly and co-operative. But plenty of fire is expected nevertheless at Indjanapolis meeting of the Republican national committee, Jan. 22, Except for a few congressmen who are trying to take the lead in sponsoring such Dewey platform plapks as that for a permanent FEPC, agreement on party policy is not general. According to present indications, Brownell will stay as chairman, whatever else hapens. : Rep. Halleck (Ind) has been chosen to continue as chairman of house Republican campaign committee, He put out more money to get Republican house members elected than in any recent campaign and still ended with a ‘comfortable balance. 8 2» i

HEADS OF THE C. 1. O. United Automobile Workers, barred from actively campaigning on the in-tra-unoin issue of revoking the wartime no-strike pledge in this vital war industry, show concern at the activities of a “rank and file” committee. This group is phampleteering: the mntillion .or more members to “restore the fighting strength of our “great union.” C. L O. leaders in general are concerned because if the referendum goes against the pledge in the automobile union, it ‘will encourage similar movements else where and Work against union efforts for closer relations with men in the armed forces. 8 8 C. I. 0. WILL denounce house

successor to the Dies committee, but the A. F. of L. shows a calm satisfactiofi. Railway brotherhoods pass it over casually, and John L. Lewis will applaud for the the United Miné Workers.

Canadians Get Plenty Cigarets

OTTAWA, Jan. 6 (U, P). & Want a cigaret? ~The wartime prices and trade authority said today that Canada * faced no cigaret shortage.

A WPTB spokesman said that

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an “expanded Canadian tobacco industry made the dominion self sufficient, and that facilities were still available . for transporting smokes, to all parts of the country as ‘well to Canadian soldiers overseas,

“There’s no seed 10 Worry about | 1045, ” he told Canadian smokers.

BOTTLE HOARDERS HANDICAP DAIRIES

Housewives who are letting milk

may be letting themselves in for a milk shortage, Dairy owners today. sald Sallure to .return bottles may seriously hamper the output.df milk. They pointed out that no actual short-

housewives are failing to return

bottles to the store or milkmen, The situation exists all over the Midwest, as well as in Indianapolis, and bottle factories are being flooded With rush orders for addi-

We aw Plenty Left

tional bottles, Clogged-up ‘trucking conditions make it impossible to transport the new bottles to all spots as s00n as they af’ needed. , The tendency to allow hptties to accumulate seeiis ‘to: come With a cold -spell, one dairy’ ii said. | He said. that during the dairy owners have

| the northwest, struck over snow- [ covered fields to within 100 yards {of the La Roche-St. Vith highway, a vital supply line to the Germans

{in the west end of the ‘salient.

A front dispatcH said the fall of the junction of that road and the Bastogne-Liege highway was expected within a matter of hours. Armored units were advancing on it from captured Odeigne sto the northwest and from the hamlet of Fraiture to the northeast. The Germans retreated grudgingly before the allied counter-offensive in the north. The Germans were lashing back furiously at the American 3d army on their southern flank. Headquarters revealed that the American 2d and 3d armored divisions, the 84th and 834’ infantry and the 82d airborne division were spearheading the U. S. 1st army attack in the north. (The 83d division was activated at Camp - Atterbury, Ind, and trained there in 1942 and 1943) ‘Perhaps 400,000 men and massive armored forces already were committed -on both sides. Field dispatches said the Battle of the Ardennes was moving swiftly toward its climax,

‘Bid for Break-through

The allies were hurling their greatest strength against the northern flank in a bid for a breakthrough that would splinter the Nazi pocket. More than 100 miles to the southwest, the Germans were embarked on a second dangerous gamble, A twin drive into the A! ner menaced the entire '. army front. Phe attack countered effectively. In that area, the Germans forced a crossing of the Rhine: above Strasbourg. They drove more than 10 miles through the 7th army front. below Bitche to cut the important rail and road lines between Hagénau and Saarbrucken. : The German salient, now little more than half its original size, was compressing slowly under the converging allied blows. The waist of the pocket was barely 12 miles wide between sthe 1st army spearheads in the Boise de

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{Tave south of Grandmenil and Lt.

Gen. George 8. Patton’s 3d army forces north of Bastogne. Montgomery's troops were fight-. ing everywhere inside the Germans’ main Battle screen thrown across the northern flank of the salient. Field dispatches revealed that the allies sprang a devastating surprise on the Germans in the form of a still-secret artillery weapon that inflicted heavy casualties in the opening stages of the counter-offensive. Mystery Weapon Developed’ by the U. S.. navy, the mystery weapon was brought into action to stem a German counterattack at Befle sto days ago. Within an hour the Nazis were In headlong retreat, leaving the battlefield littered with their dead. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton's troops were locked in a furfous- struggle with counter-at-tacking German armored divisions +in _the Bastogne area at the center of the southern flank. Driven back more than a mile ‘from the Michamps area four miles og rr east of Bastogne, the AmeriJt cans braced ‘on high ground overs looking Michamps. wr On the Saar-Rhine front to the southeast” Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s Tth army temporarily res gained the upper hand in the battle west of the Bitche salient. _The 7th cleared the enemy from:

and Gros Rederchingen, 12 and 10 miles west of Bitche. About 25 miles east of Bitche, American forces withdrew from

age of bottles exists, but that|Wissembourg to avoid being pinched

{off by the German thrust, » ATHENS IS CLEARED “OF LEFTIST TROOPS

"ATHENS, Jan, 6 (U. P.) ~British ‘armored forces, - completing ‘the occupation ul Athens, pushed out four miles in three directions from the Greek capital today oh the

through the hills ‘The city was free from flying bullets for the first time in fveeks |and civilians began for food and firewood: Relies officials |

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vious 1st army push, said there was|'

their deepest penetrations at Aachen |.

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ADJUTANT GENERAL

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in 1918. in six major western front engagements with the 150th field artillery (Rainbow division). Following the war, he was graduated from I. U, in 1021. The author of several books and] numerous newspaper and magazine articles, he was formerly editor-in-chief of the National Legionnaire magazine, official American Legion publication. Maj. Sherwood is married : and has a daughter, Joan, a student at Wellesley college, and a son, Rob« ert, a pupil at Shortridge high school. They reside at 5009 Washington “blvd.

Sealed Package Shorke5 Cigarets

HERE IS the latest fag famine story on the Indianapolis circuit: Mrs. Florence LeForge, 2175 N. Pennsylvania, was lucky enough to get a pack of cigarets at her neighborhood grocery yesterday. Opening the package she found only-15 cigarets. An amazed grocery .manager heard Mrs. LeForge’s shortchange complaint and gave her credit for five cigarets, if and when another shipment comes through. Since the stamp and cellophane were intact, the manager theorized that a mistake at the factory—or perhaps a fagless factory worker—was responsible for thé mistake.

BYRNES ASKS BAN ON MAJOR CONVENTIONS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6=(U. P.).— War Mobilization Director James F. Brynes last night called for cancellation of all conventions scheduled after Feb. 1 requiring attendance of more than 50 persons. He said he was certain that his appeal for curtailment of nonessential travel would receive public co-operation and that tha government would take.no enforcement measures unless the Sppeal is unheeded.

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Surprise Red Blow Checks Relief Army, Dooms Foe in City. By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 6.—Russian tanks and infantrymen fell upon the flank of the German relief army marching on Budapest today.

The Soviets rolled up the enemy's armored spearheads in a surprise

‘blow that appeared to have sealed

the ‘doom of the axis garrisomrsurrounded in the capital, Wheeling down from the Vertes hills west of the city, the Russian flanking columns struck at a critical momerit. - German "tanks In “considerable force had punched through the thain Red army defenses at a num= ber of points in an area 15 to 30 miles northwest of Budapest.

Entire Army Halted

Ripping across the enemy's right flank, the Russians swiftly rounded up and destroyed the panzer units leading the German drive. The entire relief army was halted. A triumphant Red army communique said the Nazis had been stopped “all along the line. There was no claim, however, that the enemy was abandoning it® attempt to Jift the siege of Budapest and rescue the tens of thousands of axis troops cornered there. Berlin commentators acknowledged that fighting had “practically ceased” last night, - Indicating the ferocity of the battle, into which the Germans had thrown at least” 300 tanks and swarms of planes, the communique said more than 3000 Nazis were killed and only 614 captured yesterday. In addition, another 51 tanks and 29 planes were destroy

Nazi Plight Worse: Inside the beleaguered capital,

the plight of the German and Hun- bi garian garrison was deteriorating|-

hourly under the massed fire of

thousands of cannon and rocket).

guns, Soviet shock troops cleared the enemy from another 233 hlocks on both sides of the Danube, giving the Red army control of about 1500 of the city’s 2800 blocks. Their biggest victory was the seizure of the Budapest race track in Pest, on the east bank, which the Germans had been using as a landing ground Yor supply planes, Despite the hopelesshess” of their

position, the axis defenders still,

were putting up a savage and skill-| ful battle,

ACTRESS WED TODAY HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 6 (U. P).~

Actress Leslie Brooks and Anthony

Shay, former atcor recently honorably discharged . from ‘the ‘tharines, will be married today. They will go; to Palm Springs, Cal, for a brief

honeymoon.

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forget about the fighting and get the feeling back into their legs and arms. There is nothing but praise for the nurses and their aids from these wounded heroes... Second Lt. Delma Moore of Youngstown, O., rapidly is acquiring the title of one of the best-liked nurses at Atterbury. “She's nice,” said Sgt. Winfred Steves of Glens Falls, N. Y. Miss Moore is the best nurse in the world, . She's always around to see if we want anything, and her joking, : talking and laughing keeps up our morale.” » » . SGT. STEVES, a member of the 28th infantry division, was hit in the leg with artillery fire Sept. 19 at the Siegfried line in Germany, He's just had an operation and hopes to be able to walk in another month or so. And the favorite nurses’ aid in the ward is Mrs. Lucille Ingram of Anderson. Mrs. Ingram has a national record for the: most hours donated as a nurses’ aid in a certain length of time. She had served 3650 hours since Sept. 5, 1043. : ” . » - “l LOVE my work,” Mrs. Ingram said. Then she told her story of being a ‘housewife before the war and of her husband's death in Italy last April, And there are other nurses’ aids at the hospital who are giving their time without pay to help the boys who fought for them, « ,. “She's my third crutch,” one soldier said, while another boasted. “She's a swell Wheelchair pusher? : 8&8 2 AMONG THE men who really appreciate ‘the nurses and aids are those whose bodies are paralyzed from the hips to the toes. They can't move themselves or bathe. They have no normal bodily functions. » And those who can get out of bed ‘need to be lifted into their wheel chairs, “Oh, boy, these nurses are wonderful!” 8. Sgt. Andrew F, Lipusz . of ‘Cleveland, ‘0. said, “Even the top nurse cooked my Wenkiagy " “ ; * ” » o ‘SGT. from the waist down. He was sitting on the edge .of his fox- | hgle on the Siegfried line Aig lider: when artillery fire hit

LIPUSZ is paralyzed

Widow of Soldier Rates High on Overworked Staff

you when they're coming,” he said. Another ward is 8. Texas. In his southern accent he told how a sniper hit him on June 14 in France. He lay from 7 p. m. that day until 7 a. m. the next until medics came, He was too close on the front lines to be carried away sooner.

patient. 4p. the same Sgt. Clyde Cole of

» n . WAKEMAN not only has over seas veterans, but it also boasts of a few nurses with overseas experience. First Lt. Margaret Srameik of Senecaville, O., is one of them. She landed below Oran, North Africa, just -10 hours after allied troops invaded the area: “We took over the French hospitals, but there were no beds. We were from five to 10 miles from the combat area and nursed the men on the floor and on litters,” Lt. Sramcik recalled.

. » . THEN five days after the in. vasion of Sicily the nurees corps again moved in. It was a little rougher there. . Lt. Sramcik “got rheumatic instead of romantic” and was sent back to the states to continue her nursing: . But while the nurses at Wakeman are doing more than their part. the army is asking for 10,000 trained nurses immediately and the navy for 4,000 by July 1. In the Indianapolis area the quota for the Red Cross nursess’ recruitment division was 100 for the past six months. Just 10 answered the call. Indiana's goal was 203. It Teerultad 72, » THE ARMED forces also are

| asking for more volunteer aids |

.and WAU medical technicians. These. nurses’ aids work with. out compensation, live in nurses’ quarters, eat in the nurses’ mess hall and nurse in the wards on day dnd night shifts. And these quarters at Wakeman are even more cazy than some homes. The WACs get complete training at® Atterbury in the medical technicians’ Joehitel. 1

” . “WHEN the or in Indianapolis really’ understand the serious shortage of nurses for the

and volunteer,” said Mrs. GD. French, ¢hairman of the nurses’ recruitment committee of the In“dianapolis Red

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declaration of the united hations, ne recalled, and this country will use its influence to see that those principles are fulfilled “so far as fs humanly possible.” . The President urged men and

He summoned those in ‘tinessential occupations to get into the war effort now.

“The Lord Hates a Quitter~

“This is no time to quit or to change to less essential . jobs,” he said. - “There is an old and true saying that the Lord hates -a quitter.” Airplane production goals are going up. The army needs artillery, ammunition, cotton duck, bombs, tires, tanks, heavy trucks and more airplanes, including the B-29 model | that #s pasting Japan. The "navy is hampered by am-

tion of “huge rockets” lags. Labor shortages have delayed cruiser and carrier programs and production of some aircraft. The: President outlined. all of that and then presented to congress his request for all-out national service legislation backed by the demand of the army and navy heads themselves that congress make good on the promise it made in joint resolutions declaring that a state of war existed with Japan and Germany. The promise was that “to bring thé conflict to a successful conclusion, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the congress of the United States.”

No Conditions on Plan

There were no conditions this time to his national service request as there were a year ago when the. President made it part of a five-point program that he wanted kept together. Recalling that his 1944 recommendation was not adopted, Mr. Roosevelt said. “1 now again call upon congress to enact this measure for the total mobilization of all our human resources for the prosecution of the war, I urge this to be done at the rliest possible moment, It is not in the war. t, bitter ‘experience Kas

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we come to the fd of the more pressing becomes the n sustained war production with

the enemy.” Ld Has Confidence in ‘Ike’ The President, in a detailed re-

said our forces had “recovered” from the “savage attack” of Germany into Belgium and he expressed “complete confidence” in the supreme allied commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. ' “Further desperate attempts may well be madé to break our lines, to slow our progress,” the President said in describing the period -as the most critical phase of the war. “We must never make the | mistake of assuming that the Ger{mans are beaten until the last Nazi has surrendered.” Expressing pride over progress in the war against Japan, the President said the’ American navy looked forward to any new opportunity {which “the lords of the Japanese | navy” would give them to fight it lout again in the manner of the | great battle last October in Philip{pine waters. The President said “one of the most. urgent immediate requirements of the armed forces” was more nurses.

Urges Nurses’ Induction

He urged that the selective service act be amended to provide specifically for the induction of nurses into "the armed forces aside from general national service legislation. “The need is too pressing to await the outcome of further efforts at recruiting,” the President said, citing figures to show that the army alone needs 18,000 more nurses now and the navy 2000. As to the outlook for 1045, the President said he could see the following results: “The final ending of the NaziFascist reign of terror in Europe. “The closing in of the forces of retribution about the center of the malignant - power ot imperialistic Japan, “The substantial beginning of the organization of world peace.” Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that this world peace organization must make good on the promises, the sacrifices and the misery endured by the world and for which men have

Analyzes Manpower Problem

In a lengthy analysis of the manpower problem in this country the President insisted that the nation will have to pay “with the life's blood of our sons” for all those who|' quit essential jobs for non-essential reasons. He made three basic arguments

1. “It would assure that we have the right number of workers in the right places at the right times 2 “Tt-would--give- supreme | to 0) our fighting men that we are giving them what they are entitled to, which is nothing less than. our total effort.” 3. “It would be the ‘final, unequivocal answer to the Mopes of the Nazis and the Japanese that we may

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‘The President promised that Pow ers contained in a national service law would be used “only to the

tary necessities.”

loss of retirement, seniority rights and benefits that workers had in their normal jobs and it “would not mean reduction in wages.”

Mr. Roosevelt said there was no need to. discard prevailing “voluntary and co-operative processes” which ‘liad produced “great results,” but it was necessary to “guarantee the production that“may be necessary in the critical period [that les ahead.” Evidence that his idea of national service applied to women, as well as men, was found in a letter from the secretaries of war and navy which he quoted. “They “mane the point THRE, Nae tional war service was “a recognition by law- of the duty of every citizen to do his or her part in winning the war” and that legislation of this type would “give complete assurance that the need for war equipment will be filled.”

Gives Allies Praise

»The letter, dated Jan, 3, 1048, sald that Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Adm. Ernest J. King, chief of the fleet.) joined the war and navy secretaries In stating that “total mobilization of our manpower” through a national service law is necessary to a successful conclusion of the war, “The armed’ forces need this leg{slation to hasten the day of final victory, and to keep toa minimum the cost-in lives,” the secretaries’ letter to the President said. In his review of the war the President praised the nation’s thee most active allies, Britain, Russia and China, saying: “In the future we must never forget the lesson that te have won-— that we must havé friends who will work with usin peace as they have fought at our side in the war.” Then later in his message he went into the foreign fleld in more detail, saying that “we propose to stand

not for the war alone but for the victory for which the war is fought.”

Co-operation Essential

He said that peace could be made and kept only by people who were

He stressed .the importance of renting existing differences from

war-and building He defended the At against recent attacks bot country and abroad, saying th document which he and Prim Minister Winston Churchill agreed on in August, 1941, was a statement of principles which did not “provide rules of easy application to each and every one of this war-torn world’s tangled situations.” - “And we shall not hesitate to use our influence—and. use it now,” he added, “to secure so far as is humanly possible the fulfillment of the principles of the Atlantic Charter. We have not shrunk from the military responsibilities brought on by this war, we cannot and will not- shrink frong, the political responsibilities which follow in the wake of battle.”

* He Admits ‘Concern’

The President said that despite inevitable mistakes and disappointments in our internationsl relations “we must not this time lose the hope of establishing an international order which will be capable of maintaining peace and realizing through the years more perfect justice between nations.” To accomplish this, he said, there must be constant guard against exploitation and exaggeration of differences between the allies, particularly as affecting people liberated from “fascist tyranny.” “I should not be frank if-I did not admit concern about many situations—the Greek and Polish for example,” he said. “But those-situ-ations are not as easy or as simple to deal with as some spokesmen whose sincerity I do not question, would have us believe.” The President did not identify these spokesmen. “We have obligations, not necessarily legal, to the exiled governments, to the underground leaders and to our major allies who came much nearer the shadows than we did,” he continued, Continuing to indorse the idea of self-determination as a right of all people, the President said that in-

extent absolutely required by mili«|

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“SATURDAY; JAN. 6, 1945

13 CONVOYS NEAR

LUZON, JAP SAY

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a third convoy 6f considerable strength is also cruising westward.” Another broadcast claimed that before dawn Saturday Japanese air craft attacked U, 8, surface units which appeared off 8an Fernando on Luzon and daniaged a cruiser or battleship and two destroyers, - An earlier Japanese communique asserted that in “waters west of Luzon” two aircraft carriers and a battleship had been sunk. Japan's new uneasiness became manifest simultaneously with the

lreleasa” of a. Pacific. fleet. head. NN

quarters announcement that plane(. of the U. 8. 3d fleet had destroy or damaged 95 Japanese ships and 331 planes in a two-day attack on Formosa and Okinawa. They are the two strongest outposts south of the Japanese homeland, Yanks Invade Marinduque A new threat to Luzon was an American invasion of the strategic island of Marinduque, only a dozen miles from the capital island. Meanwhile, China-based Super fortresses, 70 to 80 strong by enemy accounts, bombed industrial targets in western Kyushu, southernmost of the Jap home island. A broadcast in London said Tokyo also was attacked but the report has not been confirmed by American sources. Tokyo radio described the Leyte and Mindoro campaigns as local operation to be followed by the “decisive struggle” of the Philippines to be fought on Luzon. American heavy and medium bombers stepped up their attacks on Clark Field near Manila, destroy ing 30 Japanese planes aground. Other planes hit Linbones island in Manila bay and Laoag airdrome in northwest Luzon. The American invasion of Marinduque island after an unopposed leapfrog landing from Mindoro, 25 | miles to the west, posed a real threat to Luzon, : Sixth army troops landed at Buenavista, on the southwest coast of Marinduque, Wednesday, with air and naval support, quickly overran the remainder of the island and set up defenses against any enemy counter-thrusts from Luzon. “Through seizure of this island east of Mindoro, we gained control of the Sibuyan sea and established direct contact with the southern coast of Luzon,” Gen. Douglas Mac= | Arthur announced in ‘his Sally communique, : . Assuming other 6th army troops | be in full control of Mindoro, |

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northern shore opposite Luzon. ; Northeast Mindoro lies about nine t miles from Luzon's Batangas peninsula, while Marinduque

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tutions under which, as free men, they are to live.” The President hailed the rennaisance of the French people and their return to the ranks of the united nations, France has proved her determination to fight Germany, he said. “Since our fandings in Africa, we have placed in French hands all the arms and material of war which our resources and the military situation permitted,” he said. “And I am glad to say that we are now about to equip large new French forces with the most modern wea~-

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Japanese planes attacked Ameri- ‘ can installations on Mindoro under cover of darkness and, though few @

countries made it difficult now “to 7 e kind of self-government 1

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of one,

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