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- % "Py RALPH JeATSoRsa Tt slaughtered the entire Jap stockade at Cabanatuan, 70 miles i —— United Presa Siafl smi “garrison and delivered from their — north of Mantis arid 25 miles in= — WITH THE AMERICAN RAN-" filthy stockade American, British, side enemy territory. = GERS on LUZON, Jan, 31 (De- Dutch and civilian prisoners of ° Here, since the fall of the Phillayed).—In five of the war's most war, Ippines, American and allied prisexciting minutes 510 allied pris- The prisoners never had quite oners had suffered cruelty and oners of war, most of them men given up hope of rescue after 32 hardship. of Bataan, Corregidor and Cavite, months of imprisonment. This morning the 510 prisoners were set free today by the 6th It was a storybook rescue car- were free, American Rangers, ried out by 121 Rangers and 286 They were safely brought to the The commando outfit stormed trained guerrillas. rendezvous point in the tiny vil-
Many of the men had walked " alight ea Others. whoucould not walk had in honor of the men, been carried by Rangers or placed A long American flag was on small Filipino carts drawn by brought out of some hidden recess lumbering carabao. for the occasion, The rescued men cried. with As the men sat resting, eating - emotion as they came into the fresh food, drinking good wate little village between lines of and puffing on cigarets fromi Red hundreds of cheering Filipinos Cross packages, they told their: who made the victory sign as the ' stories. There were men who had
Just before the Gohumn ap- the war's most exciting Dera who had beey strapping- soldiers peared, a young guerriila gatloped - —tlons. rr when the-war had started, —— up on a grey horse, beafing a mes- Not & single prisoner was Jost ~There—were—officers--with—deep— sage from ‘Lt, Col, Henry A. by the commandos in the effort. lines carved in .their emaciated Mucci, Denver, Colo." leader of I watched them come in—the faces. : the Rangers. heroes of some of the bravest There were men who hobbled He asked “that’ ambulances, .pages in Americhn history—men with canes. cigarets and supplies. be made who had. gone down fighting at And there were men too ill to ready for the rescued prisoners. Bataan, who had held out in grim walk who were carried on stretch Then the long straggling pro- doomed days at Corregidor and in ers by Filipino guerrillas. . cession’ began to arrive at the the desperate final hours at Ca- All of them wore ragged ana Cabanatuan prison camp Tuesday They slipped behind the Jap lage of Sibul, a few miles from barnyard of a small farm here vite, torn clothing. A few were clad column approached. imbni— : night, lines to fall upon the prisoners’ Talavera, captured just yesterday. which was the terminus of one of There were gaunt young men only in tattered underwear, As they entered the village, (Continued on Page 3—Column SB}
Flames Destroy New York Central Freight Warehouse Here
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YANKS RESCUE
510 COMRADES IN LUZON CAMP
Rangers, in Surprise Attack 25 Miles Behind Jap Lines, Annihilate Garrison, Liberate Prisoners in Running Gun Fight.
By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Oorrespondent
“ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 1.—A picked force of American comntandos has slipped behind the Japanese lines and brought back to safety 510 allied war prisoners, many of them men of Bataan and Corregidor, Gen. Douglas MacArthur revealed’ today. The men were brought back to Ireedom i a daring
foray last night in which 121
members of the 6th Ranger battalion and 206 trained guerrillas penetrated 25 miles inside the Jap lines $0 storm the prisoner of war camp at Cabanatuan, 70 miles Manila in Nueva Ecija incident of the campaign given me such personal satisfaction” said Gen, MacArthur. The rescue at-
In the fight at the camp and in Lt. Col. Muccl a Funning escape battle with Japanese columns ‘supported by tanks, the Americans killed 523 Japs and knocked out 12 tanks. American planes supported the raiders, (A CBS broadcast from Luzon reported the American commandos killed 73 Japs guarding the camp and 150 Jap soldiers in a flerce fiveminute attack.) A special squad broke the main gate, hacked away the barbed wire and shouted: “You're free, Yanks, head for the maif gate where the guides will pick you up.” One prisoner dled of a heart attack in the excitement as he reached the gate. Within 27 minutes the expedition was heading back, the weak and sick being carried to oxcarts three miles away, Almost all the rescued prisoners were Americans, but there was a ” sprinkling of - British, Dutch and ether nationalities,
Japs Paid Heavy Price “The condition of the rescued ‘men is fair,” Gen. MacArthur said. “They are receiving every care and attention.” The prisoners brought with them the first eyewitness accounts of the last days on Corregidor before the fortress finally surrendered at 10 a. m. May 6, 1942. They tevealed that Gen. Jonathan N. Wainwright forced the Japanese to pay a frightful price before going down before the Japanese tide, The Japanese lost almost 5000 “men in their landing on the rock walls of the island fertress. The story was told by Lt. Col, John K. Borneman, Niagara Falls, N. Y,, one of three chaplains rescued at the camp. The other two chaplains were Lt.
| @ol. Alfred Oliver, Washington, D.| -#C., a Methodist, whose son lives in|"
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CRASH KILLS 96
. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1 (U. P.)— The National railways announced that 96 persons were killed and 63 injured today when a freight train collided with a special passenger train. The latter train was crowded with Mexicans making the annual pilgrimage to thé shrine of San Juan de Los Lagos in the state of Jalisco.
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SON HERE TOLD DAD WAS SAVED
‘’m Walking on Air,” Alfred
Oliver Says Upon-Getting Good News.
Alfred Oliver, Methodist army chaplain and father of Alfred Oliver III, 5121 W, 16th st;, was one of the 510 allied war prisoners rescued in & daring raid last night on Luzon, The - colonel, whose wife, Mrs. Dell Lake Oliver, lives in Washington, D, C, was captured in the fall of Bataan.’ News of his rescue was received: this morning by his son, a patrolman at Allison division, General Motors Corp. “I've been walking around on air ever since my wife called me about 9 o'clock this morning,” Mr, Oliver said. “All the telegram. said was Dad has been rescued’, but that was enough,” he added. Col. Oliver was interned in camp 1, Cabanatuan, Manila, where two other Indianapolis men are pris-
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WALLACE. BACKERS WIN SENATE ROUND
Defeat Motion for Immedi-
ate Nomination Vote.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U, P). —Administration supporters won a two-vote, first-round victory in the Henry A, Wallace fight today when the senate defeated a motion for immediate consideration of his nomination to be secretary of commerce, : By a count of 43 to 41, they defeated a motion by Senator Josiah Bailey (D. N. C.) for the senate to
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TODAY'S ONE- ABOVE: IS YEAR'S GOLDEST
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 12 Midnight. 4 7a. m..... 3 Sam... 3 98 M.vsee 3 10a m.,... 3 1lam. 2 12 (Noon). 1 §am..... 1 1p;m.....}
Indianapolis had its coldest day this winter today as the mercury slid to 1 degree above zero in the downtown area and 5 below zero at the Weir. Cook airport, The weather bureau predicts fair and continued cold for tonight with increasing cloudiness and slowly rising temperatures tomorrow. Cloudy skies tomorrow may pre-
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High Priority Merchandise Burns; Loss Is $500,000
Sweeping fire and explosions last night destroyed the New. York Central railroad’s ingoing and. outgoing freight house at Delaware and South sts. High priority freight and geheral merchandise were consumed. Early estimates place the loss at least at half a million dollars. Fire Chief Harry H. Pulmer dislocated his right shoulder when he slipped and fell on the rapidly freezing water draining from the burning
building. The fire was fought in neai-zero weather with the flames
whipped into raging inferno by &|
strong northwest wind, = = Also injured were John Friels, station 24, who twisted van ahkle; Ralph Aldridge; driver for Chief Fulmer, and John Gallagher, station 3. Fireman Aldridge hurt his leg when he fell on the ice. Eight loaded freight cars on the east side of the warehouse also were destroyed as flames leaped the loading platform. Another 100 cars, mostly loaded, were pulled to safety ‘by four locomotives working the 16 tracks feeding the freight house, First alarm on the fire was turned in at 12:45 ‘a, m. with Assistant Chief Otto Petty calling a second alarm at 1 a. m. Extra companies were summoned to fight the blaze, The warehouse was loaded to capacity with about 800 tons of freight, Employees had worked un-
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ERNIE PYLE, is back on the job again.
Ernie Pyle Is Back on Job; First Story Appears Feb. 6
America’s most beloved war correspondent,
Refreshed after a ‘long vacation, Ernie has already started
next Tuesday, Feb. 6.
where in the Pacific.” the same intensely human style
the Western front.
writing and his first column will appear in The Indianapolis Times
4 The author of two best sellers is now with the navy “someHe intends to report the Pacific war in
that won him the Rulitzer Prize
for his dispatches from the war fronts in North Africa, Italy and
Watch for Ernie's first dispatch, next Tuesday, in
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The New York Central railroad warehouse goes up in flames... a half million dollar fire fought in near zero weather.
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STATE TRUCKS T0 HAUL GOAL
Gates Takes Action to Relieve Dealers’ Cartage
Difficulties.
BULLETIN
Governor Gates today ordéred "all state trucks to be made available to make emergency deliveries of coal in the Indianapolis area in an effort to relieve the eeal shortage crisis. ‘The governor put Albert Wedeking, chairman of the state highway commission, in charge of mobilizing all transport required. By JOE JARVIS Ng one knows exactly what caused the present coal shortage, No one knows how it ¢an be relieved, But evéryone—dealers, the Red Cross, the solid fuels administration and the city—is trying to explain the how's and why's and to da something to end it. That’s the picture in Indianapolis today. And this is what's happening: There's coal at many of the approximately 100 retail dealers in the city.: But there's insufficient trucks and drivers to haul it to consumers. Regardless, the dealers claim insufficient coal is being brought into the city daily, They charge the daily average received during the past week is 102 ecarloads—50 carloads, according to their estimates, below the amount required by the eity. The dealers give these figures on carloads of coal—all kinds; steam, industrial and household—received in Indianapolis since Wednesday, Jan, 24:
Wednesday, 38; Thursday, 95;
Friday, 103; Saturday, 102; Sunday,
50; Monday, 188, and Tuesday, 140. (Continued on Page 5—Column 3)
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Merit System Changes Asked
In New Measure
By NOBLE REED
Changes in the state's merit system laws to give department heads more power in selection and dismissal of workers was recommended by the 1943 legislative committee investigating state government personnel in a report to the general assembly today. : At the same time, 8 G. O. P. ad-ministration-sponsored bill was introduced in the senate to place the
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said today that the allies sive in the west.
They prepared to storm t
WAR FRONTS.
(Feb. 1, 1945) EASTERN FRO R ON T—Red army
from Berlin.
WESTERN FR ON T —Americans push into outer belt of Siegfried fortifications on 40-mile front.
state personnel director under control of the governor's office instead of under the state personnel board. The bill was introduced by Senators John A. Kendall (R. Danville), and John Van Ness (R. Valparaiso),
Asks More Authority
The merit system investigating committee, headed by Senator Kendall, recommended legislation to give heads of state departments and institutions operating". under the merit , system “more authority in hiring and dismissing employees” ahd that department heads be given “equal authority with the personnel director in determining the eligible list.” The Kendall committee criticized
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SUBSTITUTE WORK ‘BILL TURNED DOWN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U, P.).— The house today rejected, 187 to 177, a substitute proposal for work-or-else legislation that would have] kept manpower controls on a voluntary basis. Offered by Harness (R. Ind), Barrett (R. Wyo.), the substitute measure would have “asked” deferred men 18 to 45 in non-essential activities to agree in writing to
Reps. Forest A. and Frank A.
accept war work.
AIR WAR—American planes attack Germany by daylight after night raid on Ruhr by British Mosquita bombers. Superfortresses raid Singapore,
PHILIPPINES—U. 8. columns cross Pampangas river in drive within 20 miles of Manila,
HINT NAZIS QUITTING
PART OF WEST WALL]
Americans Find Pillboxes Abandoned.
By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Feb. 1.—American Ist atmy headquarters today reported
| signs that the Germans were with- | drawing from some sections of the
Siegfried line. U. 8. divisions were closing against the west wall on a 40-mile attack! front in Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Units of the 1st and 82d airborne divisions entered the Siegfried pill= boxes east of the Malmedy area of the frontier, They found them empty and surrounded by unmarked snow-——evi
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Washington Street Before and "After Brownout af Midnight Last Night
RACING REDS
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FROM BERLIN |
Soviets Prepare to Storm Oder, Last Barrier ‘Before Panicky City; ‘West Front
: Moscow. L
LONDON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—Radio Moscow.
soon will begin an offen-
“We will meet in Berlin,” the broadcast added.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Feb. 1.—Red army tanks and troops smashed to the Oder river between 30 and 40 miles from Berlin today,
hat last natural barrier block- :
ing the way to the panic:stricken German capital. The German high command admitted that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's forces had swept to the east bank of
the Oder northwest of Kus trin, 42 miles east of From Kustrin the river ane gles northwestward to its. right-angle elbow ant even 30 mils from the capital.
reaches Oder iver 30 to 40 miles} J a es mnie
proximately 40 miles from Indians apolis to Rushville, Ind.) ¢ The city is at confluence of the Oder and W the trunk line from the Oder and runs
tle in that sector. This indicated the defenders of Berlin might make their supreme
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outlying defense line. G The angle of the river northwest. ward from’ Kustrin in relation to the
certain exactly how near the Ruse sians were ‘to the richest single prize of the war in Europe: They appeared to be less than 40 miles away and possibly only a little more than 30 The Nazi command said reserves also had been. engaged against Soviet tank spearheads that had ade
-|vanced as far as the Sternberg
Zielenzig area 60 to 70 miles easte southeast of Berlin. Moscow dispatches said scores of Soviet air squadrons were defying snowstorms and generally bad weather to hammer the enemy day and night. Neutral sources said the rumble
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HOOSIER HEROES—
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{Three Are Killed;
“Six Others Hurt: Two Lost; 1 Safe
effort at the Oder, the eity's-last
distance from Berlin made it une.