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| EYEWITNESS: AMONG PRISONERS WAS MY WIFE .
By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent
MANILA, Feb. 8 (Delayed).—Some 3700 thin, hungry allied civilians, 2500 of them Amercried a hysterical welcome to liberating American troops at the Santo Tomas university
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1945
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COUNTY COUNCIL TARGET OF BILL
Legislature Gets Proposal For Creation of ‘Budget Boards.’
By NOBLE REED The two-year feud among Marfon county officials over spending policies reached the floor of the Jegislature today when a bill was introduced in the senate to abolish all county councils and replace them with county budget boards. The bill was submitted by Senators Walter Vermission (D, Anderson): and John Kendall (R. Danville) who said they were asked to
gounty attorney, Mr. Jose has been aligned with oounty commissioners and ‘Ralph Moore, county auditor, in the feud with the county council headed by Addison J. Parry. Power Shift Proposed The bill would create budget boards of five members in all counties, empowering them to take over all “functions, powers and duties now performed by the several coun-
Membership of the proposed new budget board would be composed of the county auditor, treasurer and three resident taxpayers who would be appointed by the circuit court Judge. No more than two of the three
BIRD FOOD FEUD— Friend and Foe Of Pigeons Gird
For Showdown
A SHOWDOWN was expected today in the pigeon war at University park. : After a week-end of jockeying between park department antipigeon forces and Mrs. Dortha L. Hunter, self-appointed generalissimo of the pigeons, the stage was set for a show of strength. Paul V. Brown, city parks superintendent, and his two lieutenants, Carl Reed and Roy Hess, were ready for another try with their large wire trap—termed by Mrs. Hunter a “trapeze.” . ” . ” ‘THE PIGEONS won a tactical victory Saturday when they entered the trap, made away with some of the enemy's stores of corn and escaped. Mrs. Hunter, who begafi feeding the pigeons at the park one bitterly-cold Christhas day during the last war, has continued ever since. » . ” A FAMILIAR figure to nearby building residents and . others, she has become so well known to the pigeons that it has been said that she is able to warn them of impending danger. Her home at 2045 Park ave. also is the home of about 100 of the pigeon elite. Utility wires behind the house sag with the
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LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins, in London Control of Labor Congress At Stake as Parley Opens
Br FRED W. PERKINS Soripps-Howard Fiat Writer LONDON, Feb. 5~The world trade union congress, opening in London tomorrow, is shaping up as a battle for dominpnce between the Russian representatives and the American C. I. O.~with the British delegation in‘a position to swing decisions, i "The Russians are here with 385 delegates, to 12 for the C. I. O.— this proposition roughly representing the comparative membership. In Russian nearly all workmen
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must beléhg tosgovernment-amli-ated unions. In the United States membership is not so arhbitrary—and it is complicated by the fight between the A. F. of L. and C. 1. O.
The importance to everybody in the post-war world is that labor organizations want a potent voice in the peace arrangements, The strength of the Russian delegation shows that it wants.to impress the virtues of the Soviet
: ideology on the rest of the world.
If the Russians win, the social fabric of all nations may be affected for generations. The ‘history of international labor movements indicates that the Russians are never content to take second place. This prodoes: question of Whellnr® he $5: 9. 1s monkeying with 8 Yum
eC. 10. delegates—gecretary James B. Carey and several others—have ‘been in social con-
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ARMY COAL DUE TO EASE FAMINE
Needful Cases Rec Require 0.K. Before Emergency Fuel ~ Can Be Delivered.
Release of 3000 tons of army surplus coal through dealer distribution channels today was expected to ease the critical shortage in Indianapolis. Myron R. Green, co-ordinator for the coal relief program, announced that the army fuel would be available to all householders with five days’ or less supply of coal whose efforts to obtain delivery from their dealers hate been futile. Plans to deliver the coal, which has been held in reserve by the government at the army -air- forces depot at the Indiana State fairgrounds, were made at a meeting of a distribution committee yesterday. 40 Trucks In Service
Forty city, county and state trucks will be utilized. They will be manned by their regular drivers and county jail prisoner volunteers. Meanwhile, warmer temperatures also came to the aid of the city
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Mounting casualty lists include six more Indianapolis men killed in action. In addition, one is missing and 13 have been wounded,
KILLED Second Lt. Francis A. St. 1817 Union st. in China. Sgt. John R. York, 1001 College ave, at Bastogne. Pvt. Lloyd J. Fraley, 2009 Harri son st. T. 5th Gr. Thurman R. Peay, formerly of 822 N. Illinois st, in France. Pfc. Noah 'R. Dennison, 43 N. Warman ave. in Belgium. Pvt. John O. (Jack) Tames, 874 W. 20th st, in France.
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Lt. Col. Haskett Conner Jr., who was born in Indian-
which undertook the mercy
errand on Special orders from Gen. MacArthur. MacArthur ordered them to take any risks to get through to Santo Tomas, liberate the civilians and then protect them until stronger forces could be brought up. Among the ‘prisoners was’ my wife Virginia, from whom 1 parted on’ New Year's Eve of 1942 to go to Bataan with Gen. Douglas MacArthur. She insisted on staying behind in Manila as a nurse
1 found her there today, recovering from a nervous
Doctors said she would have fully recovered now if she had had sufficient good food.
her weight has dropped to excellent spirits.
Treading the '
Saturday.
United Press Correspondent Frank Hewlett, then Manila bureau manager, parted with his wife Virginia on New Year's Eve of 1942 Yo go to Bataan with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, She remained in a Manila hospital as a nurse. Hewlett was the last correspondent to leave Bataan. ‘road back" from Australia with MacArthur, Hewlett accompanied the Ist cavalry division in its record dash into the the Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila
In this dispatch, he describes the rescue of the internees of the camp and his reunion with his wife.
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The Japanese were routed quickly from most of the
buildings in the camp area.
They still were holding out in the former education building of Santo Tomas university late tonight with nearly 300 American, Dutch and British internees as semi-
hostages.
Troops of Brig. Gen. William C. Chase's mechanized flying column surrounded the building, but hesitated to use, machine guns or other automatic weapons for fear
of hitting the civilians.
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REDS OPEN NEW FLANKING PUSH, BERLIN REPORTS
Powerful Forces Attacking
From Bridgeheads on Oder, Nazis Say.
‘By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Feb. 5.—~Marshal Ivan S. Koney's. Red army was reported by the Germans today to have launched a new offensive from a bridgehead across the Oder river some 200 miles southeast of Berlin. b Konev apparently was making a bid to outflank -this last natural barrier before the capital. The German high command said powerful Russian forces had lashed out westward from a springboard in the Breig area of the Oder’s west bank midway between Breslau ang Oppeln. Violent fightirig was reported = the heart of Silesia. : The Nazis also acknowledged officially that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’s atmy had clamped strong assault arcs against Frankfurt and Kustrin, twin bastions of the Oder defenses east of Berlin.
Thirty Miles From Berlin
Moscow broadcasts and dispatches said the Soviet vanguards was “about” 30” miles from Berlin and that Frankfurt and Kustrin were “closely invested.” Heavy fighting was going on in the eastern suburbs of Frankfurt. “The Red army now has crashed into Germany along a front of 360 miles, although steadily mounting resistance and a thaw which has turned the fields into bogs has slowed the advance,” one Moscow broadcast said. With a 100-mile stretch of the Oder line under assault and Soviet forces reported battling for a river crossing 32 miles northeast of the capital, Konev's forces were said]: by the Nazi command to have ripped into the Silesian defenses beyond the Oder in strong force. “On both sides of Brieg,” a German communique said, “the enemy
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$40,000. FIRE STRIPS WAR PLANT BUILDING
War Production Machinery
Included in Loss Here.
Fire destroyed one of two large buildings of the’ Ameritan Valve & Enameling Corp, 8, Holt rd. and Highway 67, early today causing damage estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000. : C. A. Wulf, president of the corporation, sald all the contents of the building were destroyed, including ‘valuable machinery used in the. manufacture of battery boxes
for the army snd navy. The structure was a one-story
Ernie Back in Times Tomorrow
INDIANA'S OWN Ernie Pyle, now with the navy ini the Pacifie, is back on the job again. The first column he has written after three and one-half months of vacation, will appear tomorrow.
ERNIE DOESN'T relish going back to war on a new front. But, Bo aay, Meiflies does any soldier, Eifion; marine or filer like the idea of going into the danger of war . 2 AND. ERNTE feels he is fust going back like anyserviceman 10. da Hi joe’ 1ob he Toul ie te Vu 9 Walch for Mules fra
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THIS IS NO YOLK— Today's the Day The Eggs Stand On End in Chind'
By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent
CHUNGKING, Feb. 5.—1 sat shivering in -the unheated office and complained of the cold to Censor Jimmy Wel. = “Yes, it's cold,” Jimmy said, “but this is the last day of winter. Why, this is the day the eggs will stand on end.” “This is the day that what... ?” 2 2 s “THE DAY the eggs will stand on end,” Jimmy repeated, pointing to the Chinese calendar on his desk.
“It's the 220° day of the 12th®
month of the Chinesé lunar yer, + Bi. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d
“At 1 p.m.” winter ends and spring begins and from 1 p. m. for about an hour eggs will stand on end.” “What's the gag?” 2 5 # “NO GAG,” Jimmy said. “It’s an old Chinese tradition that eggs stand on end during the first hour of spring. Come by my house-at 1 p. m.” I did. Jimmy greeted me with a smile and producéd a basket fresh eggs from the kitchen. “Okay,” I sald. “Go ahead with your parlor tricks.” ” s ” “THIS IS not a trick and it can't be done in the parlor,”
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TANKER BLAST FIRE KILLS 12 AT N.Y. PORT
20 Missing, 80 Hurt as
Three Ships Burn,
. NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (U. P)— Sheets of burning gasoline cascading from an exploding tanker enflamed New York harbor today, igniting - three ships and taking a heavy casualty toll. Spokesmen at the port of embarkation said there were 12 known dead, 20 men missing, and approximately 80 injured. - Incomplete naval reports said the explosion started when a tanker carrying high octane gas was rammed by a second tanker. The ships were identified by survivors as the Liberty ship Bernard Carter, the tanker Spring Hill and a Norwegian tanker Vivi,
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{ST CLOSES ON ANCHORS OF 20
Patton Forges Arc Around Transport Gateway To Rhineland.
By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Feb. 5.—Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st army closed today against Schleiden and Gemund, anchors of the second belt of Siegfried fortifications. ‘They were within 27 miles of the Rhineland stronghold of ‘Bonn.
army forged an arc about five miles west and northwest of Prum, key transport center and gateway to the Rhineland. Patton completed the second liberation of Luxembourg except for a few German remnants
jon the west bank of the Our river
Far to the south American and French forces sliced through the Colmar pocket in Alsace, trapping elements of three reduced .German divisions in the Vosges to the west.
No Confirmation
Supreme headquarters professed to have no confirmation of reports that the eastern belt of 'the Siegfried fortifications had been pierced. German broadcasts, unconfirmed thus far, said the U. S. 9th and British 2d armies had opened a heavy barrage across the Roer river between Julich and Duren, 15 miles northeast of Aachen. “The shelling, Berlin said, was believed to be the “overture” to a new offensive on that front. The Nazis also predicted new alled attacks on the northern wing of the British 2d army on the Maas (Meuse) river front between Roermond and Nijmegen.
Step Up Offensive
Far to the south, American and French troops stepped up their nutcracker offensive against the shrinking German pocket west of the Rhine around Alsace. Field dispatches said the Nazis were in full retreat across the Rhine, fleeing through an eightmile corridor below Colmar under a storm of bombs and shells. More than 2500 pocketed Germans surrendered there in the last 36 hours. On the: American 1st army: front, doughboys of the U. 8. 8th and 78th divisions rolled up gains of as much as five miles against Spy German resistance yesterday. They were pushing rapidly through- the relatively open area between the first and second fortified belts of the Siegfried line. The 78th was holding the north-
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Internee Tells Of Braving Fire As Yanks Arrive
By ROBERT CRABB United Press Staff Correspondent
SANTO TOMAS INTERNMENT CAMP, Manila, Feb. 3 (Delayed). --The grounds and buildings of ancient Santo. Tomas university were a joyous sight tonight as 3700 internees—mostly Americans
Robert Crabb, a former member of the United Press in Manila, was interned at Santo Tomas university with his wife and two children when the Japanese captured the city in 1942. In this dispatch he gives the first eyewitness account of how approximately 3700 internees greeted their liberators.
Loads Rescuers”
Lt. Col. Haskett L. Canner Jr. above, led a special force that liberated 3700 allied civilians from the Santo Tomas. university prison camp in Manila yesterday, He is the son of Col. Haskett L.
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U.S, COLUMNS
TAKE HALF OF BURNING CITY
Arthur Waits Impatiently
For Triumphal Return To Capital. By FRANCIS McCARTHY Staff Correspondent
United Press Staff o MANILA, Feb..5 5. —Avenging American ‘troops seized control of virtually all’ the northern half of burning,
starving Manila today. -
and captured the presidential pal ace.
—sought the strength to carry on their shoulders the husky young Yank cavalrymen who freed them ' from the Japanese, Almost hysterical joy swept all of us internees as we heard the first shots, then realized American soldiers at last had arrived to free us. We hung from windows and rushed from buildings to shout encouragement, * unheeding Jap defense fire. s # * AS 1 WRITE, a small enemy detachment is holding out in the education building where about 300 internees still are held But even there the prisoners are in high spirits, they are
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Fear and Hope " Mixed Here for
Luzon Captives
IN MANY Indianapolis homes today - the liberation of Manila means a great deal more. than a° stepping-stone. to “the shores of Japan. Joy, hope and tear rein for relatives of those once interned at Santo Tomas. The fear is for
- their health and eveh for their
lives as word from the Camp has been sparse. * » 5 WHILE direct word has not.yet been received, many feel their relatives still were in the univer. sity prison camp. D. E. Blossom, a resident of this city for 32 years, had been in the plumbing and sheet _metai- trade
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The 1st cavalry and 3th infans try divisions stabbed into the heart of the Philippines capital from the : east and north.
‘Yanks Mop Up ,
They rapidly were mopping. up the last enemy pockets north of the Pasig river, which bisects the city. South of the 200 to 300-yard-wide river, several thousand crack Japanese marines were blasting ‘ard burning docks, warehouses, bridges and other vital installations. ' The Japanese may make a. lastman stand in the southern half of the eapital. Gen. Douglas MacArthur at last reports was waiting impatiently in the northern suburbs for the bridge ing of one last river for a triumphal entry into the city. He was forced to abandon Manila three years, one month and three days ago. ?
Osmena Returns
(A C. B.-S, broadcast from Luzon said President Sergio Osmena and Resident’ Commissioner Gen. Carlos P. Romulo landed at a Luzon aire port from Washington Sunday and headed south to join MacArthur in his return to Manila.) (Royal Arch Gunnison of the Mu. tual network jubilantly reported that Manila had been “liberated.” but all other sources emphasized that the southern part of the city still was in Japaness hands.) (Radio Tokyo conceded shortly after 3 a. m. today (1 p. m. Sunday, Indianapolis Time) that the Americans had entered Manila from the north and east in forces outnume bering the Japanese garrison.) (A Japanese Domei broadcast sald American troops had landed Jan. 18 on Kolo island, largest of the Sulu group in the southwest Philippines midway ‘ between : Mindanao and Borneo. A force of 3000. troops and more than 10 tanks was put ashore, Tokyo said.) The 3700 American and British
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Simms: Tokyo Loses Face by Feeble s truggle for Manila’ Lucey: Wy | Didn't Js Fight Harder? They
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By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer bi] WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Mili
Did—at Leyte’
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stiff Japanese resistance in some areas of the Philippines despite ‘Manila's fall.