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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1945
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Photos Of Prisoners After Rescue On Luzon
These piclures, the first from Manila arriving at The Times today by Acme Telephoto, depict graphic scenes following the rescue .of In the photo (above) 1st Sgt. Orville E. DrumClovis, N. M.; falls into a deep sleep on his cot at the Luzon evacuation hospital as a result of exhaustion, Twe other fellow prisoners,
American: prisoners. from Camp Cabanatuan, Luzen, by Yank Rangers and Filipino guerrillas.
Aon. excited for slumber, eagerly discuss their new found freedom.
Gaunl young men whe had been strapping soldiers when the war started, hobbling with canes and men almost too ill to walk enter the evacuation hospital after their rescue. . 8
officers with “deep Hnes in “thelr. emaciated faces, men
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. Pvt, Alfred Jolly of San Francisco (left) was among those rescued after three years at the mercy of left arm testifies to the heroic role he played in the defense of Bataan before that fortress fell
Acme Telephotos his Japanese captors. His missing
In the photo (at right) Pvt. Jolly enjoys
his first real meal in three years and the missing arm doesn’t seem to interfere with his eating. The meal Pvt, Jolly is eating here was the
first course with three more following rapidly.
BG 3 BOARD 7000 Aircraft SEEN TO SHAPE | Lash Nazis in REICH'S DOOM Dutch Salient.
BULLETIN PARIS, Feb. 8 (U. P.). — More |
Russ. Believed Joi Joining U, S. than 1000 allied medium ana in Full | murky weather today at German |
And British | positions directly in front of Mar- | ili i -| shal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Military Unity. Shai Sif Berns | LONDON, Feb. 8 (U. P.) ~Digor) The salient is aimed around the matic quarters believed today that| Stekfried line toward the open’ one of the momentous decisions to| Plain of northwest Germany. ’ be announced: at the end of the Big| a ay Three conference may be the forma-| tion of a military board by America, | Britain and Russia to deal the death PARIS, Feb. 8.—Lt. Gen. Court- heads blow to the German army. {ney H. Hodges’ 1st army captured | Observers here believe the Rus- the Siegfried stronghold of Schmidt
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Feb. Russian. fdrces were waging
time—to join the Americans and| (ward nearly a mile through weak- | British in the formation of a mili-| {ening resistance to the vicinity of) tary committee that will execute | the biggest dam in the Roer river | the strategy planned by President | flood control system. Roosevelt, Premier Stalin and Prime] Hodges’ headquarters announced | Minister Churchill, Military experts | that units of the 78th division
\said Marshal Gregory K. Zhu. | tkov’s assault troops had es-
made by the big three.
There is, great satisfaction inthe Schwammenauel dam. of the Oder along a 35-mile arc British official quarters over the This is one of \a series along the facing Berlin. fact that the Big Three came to an | ypne# Roer that may hold the key| Supplementary Nazi broadcasts agreement so quickly on plans for t; the start of a general allied of- {reported that the Soviet bridgethe final defeat of Germany. fensive forecast by the Germans. [heads had been widened. There has been some feeling that| A handful of fanatical Germans
in the past, operations of the neld out in the eellars of Schmidt, Eastern and Western fronts have, |key to the dam systein and two and
been carried’ out on pendent a basis. Now the Russians! menauel. on one side and the British and! Americans on the other are ex-| changing full military information | as the vise closes on Germany. |the town itself for the second time! London diplomats also believe |in three months. that the military board will func-| The 1st army vanguard moving |24 hours. leastward from Schmidt saw six| A fourth at
(Continued on Page 3—Column 1) German tanks racing back deeper rKuestrin: Zhukov's armored vaasguards were
| {Continued on “Page 3—Column 2) reported by Moscow t toshave ripped
The Lad They ~ -— Left Behind— LABOR . By Fred W. Perkins—
® “Get some prisoners,” C. |. 0). Lines Up With Russ
Report Four Bridgeheads
A German . military «spokesman
heads over the Oder east of Berlin: Two. “minor’ ones at Fuersten-
berg. - B d overr ut the dougiiboys Had over One south of Frankfurt which
was “enlarged somewhat in the last
Town Overrun Again
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Japs Report Yanks Forcins River Into Southern Manila SYSTEM SUSPENSION
By FRANCIS McCARTHY g Vid A CE WOARTNY Bitter Debate Rages Over, MANILA; Feh, 8.—American troops killed off the last Japanese | registance in northern Manila today, Bill; Called Trick. They loosed a heavy artillery barrage on the surviving enemy forces! holed up in the blackened, burning southern half of the capital. : By NOBLE REED \ Vanguards of the U. 8. 11th airborne division. were cutting their way | Bitter debate over the operation slowly into the Japanese rear from the south, | the state's merit system broke (Tokyo reported that American forces, including amphibious tanks, [Out in the house today when a bill began crossing the Rasig river at a point west of Malacana palace. A |t0 suspend the merit law for the Tokyo broadcast said the Japanese duration ¢f the war was called to were “fiercely ‘gttacking the |across the river to wipe out the sur-|the floor. enemy.) viving enemy were dashed Tuseday The oi was passed by a vote of The main American forces were [night. 66 stalled temporarily, however, alonz| A party of Japanese sappers blew the north bank of the Pasig river, up the last of the four Pasig bridges shouted chargés that the ' war which bisects Manila from east to|—the Jones span leading into, the | {emergency limit 4n, the bill was a +old walled ify. [merely a trick to get through legis~ © Their foray. nullified the work of lation to wreck the merit system a daring American naval officer. | few: hours’ earlier he had lashed patronage, through a hail of gunfire. to remove | “Suspension of the merit law for| a spluttering - demolition from the bridge. Amusements. . 14 Ruth Millett, 17| ous off from all supply and. re- | Gates’ administration,” Business .... 24 Movies 14 {inforcement, the Japanese still were | Rep. Robert Heller, Comics ...... 27|Obituaries ... 12| fighting back defiantly in the south | floor leader. Crossword ... 27|Radio . 27| etn half of the city. Editorials .... 18 «1,
tie minority leaders
American hopes for a quick thrust
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«.++s. 18|8ide Glances. 18 |artillery and mortar fire across the Meta Given 3 m, P. Simms 18 Pasig into” northern Manila. : In Indpis. ‘Sorte. of the enemy shells were | lending in the Santo Tomas uni- |
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® And so the saan and the corporal and the private slipped through Lhe forest in the dusk. By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer LONDON, Feb. 8.—In the first|ing instedd of consultative and adibig row to develop in the world|visory, the conference's decision. | trade .union conference, the Amer- | THREE: Open flouting of exist{ican C. I. O, and the Russian trade|ing international trade unions in unions are on one side, and the the proposed makeup of the. postBritish trdde union congress om war ‘reconstruction committee the other. ; These are recommendations of The conference has brought to {he rules committee, London about 250 delegates from amendments to the original outline {40 countries to form a new inter- drawn up by the Britishérs who [national labor body. (called. the conference. The recom- | The controversial issues, as item- | mendations were approved. by che ized by Sir Walter Citrine, head of |C 1. ©, committee members, Albert the British delegation are: | J. Fitzgerald, president, of the United ONE: Proposed invitations .to| labor unions in enemy countries to! ' (Continued on Page '17—Column 8)
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Mob Sinatra af i the . corporal “came back 2 with the information miliInduction Board |
tary intelligence wanted, and how the snow wove a blanket gently over the lod NEWARK, Feb. 8 (U. P)— | they left behind. Prank, Sinatra was mobbed by | ON PAGE 17 squealing bobby sox girls today when he reported at the Newark | armory for a pre-induction physi- | cal examination, The skinny, $1,000,000 crooner arrived at the armory in a coupe
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Ernie: ‘Sometimes | Feel Like: Crying—My-Old Life Is Gone’
Ernie Pyle is with the navy in the Pacific. Pending “receipt of his dispatches from that war theater we are publishing a few articles he wrote before his take-off from San Francisco, of which the fol- | lowing is one.
® Also turn to Page 5 for Leigh White's “Story of Prightfulness”—of the three men who survived out of 2000 political prisoners jailed at Lodz—before the Germans fled.
from the war, but aside from that 1've- had more duties and worked harder here at home on “vacation” than most of the time at the front, By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO.~—These four months of furlough in America, away from the war, have gone like the wind.
time is mow given to other people. - H's almost impossible | to count on a single hour alone. - To get half a day uninterrupted with my own family I have to plan it days ahead and then bar the gates. hardly anything has happened that I had hoped would happen. . There has been no rest. There has been no time for composure. No day has been long enough to finish the things required in that day’ I've had the ge Pritliege of ? beiup away
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‘publicity-seekers or the curious. Ninety per cent of the people who phone, wiite. visit or stop me in: public places, have legitimate reafons for Cangnued on Page 13-—Column 4) Cake
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across the Oder before Berlin. The Russians were developing a flanking drive to cut sians now are ready—for. the first/today. The 1st also fought east-|the Frankfurt-Berlin road and isolate the key bastion on the ‘west bank of the river, dispatches said. The German high command |
already are wbrking on the decisions|g geed to the edge of the state| tablished an unspecified num-| {forest a mile and a half north of | ber of footholds on the west bank
too inde- |g half miles northwest of Schwam- said the Russians had four bridge- |
south’ of
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SAVAGE BATTLE RAGES ON ODER
fighter bombers ‘struck through Russ Threaten ‘Berlin- Frankfurt Road in West Bank Drive as Nazis Report Bridgeheads Widening
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
8.—Moscow dispatches said today that’
a violent battle of the bridge-
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| into the northern suburbs of KuesHrin and into-the-eastern-fringe of | Frankfurt. Massive infantry formations | meanwhile surged up to the Oder and ‘stamped out virtually all of the German toeholds on the east bank. “The battle for the Soviet bridgeheads on the west bank of the Oder {raged unabatedly, with the Rusisians developing a drive to cut the rFrankfurt-Berlin road and isolate the bastion city,” United Press Correspondent Henry Shapiro reported {from Moscow.
Crossing Not Confirmed
The Red army command has not {vet confirmed the reported crossing lof the Oder a little mbre than 30 miles east of Berlin. But, the Moscow. dispatch report~ ing the flanking drive, together with the Nazi acknowledgment of new Soviet gains beyond the river, | indicated that Zhukov had solidified | his crossirig sufficiently to renew his | push toward Berlin, | ‘Frankfurt lies on the west bank of the Oder, 33 miles from the city {limits of Berlin. Sufficient Russian progress for a swing in behind this key city would raise the possibility of an approach
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Hoosier Heroes—
THREE ARE KILLED, PARATROOPER LOST
Six Others Are Wounded, Two Are Captives.
An - Indianapolis pilot, previously reported missing, has been reported | killed; two former residents have {been killed, and a patatrooper is | missing in Belgium. In addition, . \six others have been wounded and [two are German’ prisoners, ! KILLED ‘Pvt. Carl W, Wilson, Hasmindud,
| formerly of 4519 Jackson te 1p ; | France. #
S 8gt. Richard D, Drager, Radburn, N. J. nthe
If the intrusions were by mere publicity-seekers, then |. + 1 could be tough. But the pressure upon me is Hot from .