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Ike's Aim: “To Py Nazi
By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Feb. 24.—Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said
today that the aim of his new Rhineland offensive is to:
ONE: TWO: permit. THREE:
Destroy German power west of the Rhine. Strike east as fast as weather and terrain
Meet the Red army in central Germany. “Given conditjons I can see now,’
' Eisenhower said,
“a reasonable {ote break—I don't ask for July in
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Retiring Draft Board Head Assails
Vernon M. Scott,
and Homer Asher.
By JOE JARVIS “YOU CAN'T tell people now to .work or fight. The time for a “work or fight’ law was four years ago.” That was Vernon M. Scott's last “official” comment before retiring as chairman of local draff board No: 1.
Rights of Man
A veteran of the first world war and chairman of board No. 1 since its inception in October, 1940, Mr. Scott has come to learn considerable about working or fighting « i His. board has approximately 11.000 . registrants whose destinies he has helped to shape ~ * ~
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right, presides for the last time as chairman ef local draft board No. 1. retiring today to recuperatg 1 from a recent operation. . With him are board members Fred M. Wolf, left,
Nationalism at Mexico City
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24-1 have been present at most of the great international eonferences since Versailles, but this is the first to place ‘the rights of man ahead of the. rights of nations. The keynote here was sounded by Mexico's foreign minister, Ezequiel Padilla, who said: “Peace is not: enough; there must be jobs for? all. The only thing the world needs to fear is poverty.” And in different words, our own secretary of state, Edward R. Stettinius, bore him out, as
has every other with whom I have talked. This is something new in the world. Unless I miss my guess it wiil make Francisco when the united nations hold heir first meeting, next April. Acceptance by the rest of the world of this basic departure from peace-making may even be this hempisphere’s. price for all-out support of the new league of nations, blue-printed at Dumbarton Osks. Mexico's remarkable Padilla takes the position that wars are
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‘All Sides to Blame in Labor Shortage, Capehart Charges
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Sen#‘or Homer E-Capehart (R. Ind), a war contractor himself, today blamed management, government and labor equally for current manpower shortages Capehart, who employs 1500 workers in an Indianapolis plant making parts fee tanks, airplanes and guns, said he would oppose
§ both the senate and house versions fo manpower legislation on
the senate floor. The senate version, he declared, would only add to the confusion, “make slaves out of farmers and penalize on the Puplesers
He referred to: 1. The Tydings amendment to the senate bill, which would imposé $10,000 ~fine--and five-year prison terms on 4-F farm ‘workers who leave their jobs without draft board approval, 2. The Austin amendment, imposing $10,000 fines and one year
| imprisonment for employers. who
violate war manpower commission employee ceilings. The issue is expected to come to . a showdown in the senate next week. That body is scheduled to begin debate Monday on almeas- | ure which would give the office of
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Workers Defy WMC Order Shifting Them to New Jobs
By ROGER W. STUART Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 24. «The war manpower commission's attempt to, compeR employees of local textilé mills to go to work in two essential tire fabric plants bere, remains a failure today. It hasn't done the trick, The workers, for the most part, won't transfer. . So far, only a dozen out of the 118 employees whose jobs in 24 eivillan-goods mills have been or-
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dered terminated by employment ceiling cuts have accepted jobs in the Fisk and Firestone tire fabric plants. The others positively will not do so, according to their union leaders. “The forced ceiling reduction is
"a violation of law,” declared An-
tonio England, New Bedford director of the textile workers union (C. I. 0), who advised members of his union early in the week to refuse the only jobs they can accept, under: the manpower commissions order. Today Mr. England planned to lead 75 of the workers—those who have either failed to show up for interviews or who refused to consider jobs in the war plants—to
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ployment service. There they will file. appeals which will permit them to continue working at. their Teguinr Jobs, at least until next
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Kansas—the attack just started should mark the destruction of the German forces west of. the Rhine.” In all history, he observed, a river line never has been defended successfully. .
“There is going to be no cessation of aggressive action on this front,” Eisenhower said.
He said that we are going to fight as violently and aggressively as we are able from now on. Thus the allied supreme commander gave his tacit
YANKS RESCUE 7146 MORE IN PRISON CAMP
‘Raid Near 1589 Americans With Light Losses.
By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent
MANILA, Feb. 24. —
'Work or Fight'
{have rescued 2146 American and
{other allied civilians in a daring] air, sea and land raid on Los Banos linternment camp four miles south-| least of Manila, Gen. Douglas Mac-|
Arthur announced today. The internees comprised
| lians. 56 Canadians, (Poles, 10 Norwegians, and one Nicaraguan. Men, women | and children were rescued. The raid was carried out at dawn | yesterday by 1200 troops from the 11th airborne division and 200 guerrillas.
Kill Entire Garrison
Striking 25 miles behind 4 enemy lines, ‘the raiders killed the, entire Japanese garrison of 243 men | and burned their barracks. The| camp was situated in hills overlook- | ing the southern shore of a “work = or pay. “waste of | American losses were two killed effort” land two wounded in addition to two! “First off,” he declared, “such |internees slightly injured. a measure is not necessary in this | “Nothing could be more satisfying {to a soldier's heart than this res-| Continued on Page 2—Column 7) | cue,” MacArthur said in announcing pt - the raid.
He is
since selective service was inaugurated. Mr. Scott insists
fight” measures are a
| “I am deeply grateful. _Go ferLABOR PEACE [tainly was with us today.’ | The Los Banos camp was§he last
of the large Japanese prison establishments on Luzon. Since Jan. 30. MacArthur's forces |have rescued 14,789 allied soldiers; 'and civilians from Japanese prisons and internment camps in five separate operations.
P@ests, Nuns Included
BUREAU URGED
Medium of f Conciliation Is Assembly’s Aim Under
Amendment,
By NOBLE REED
Legislation to create a state bureau of labor conciliation which would seek to maintain co-operative relationships between management and workers is being considered by the house labor committee, it was disclosed today.
The proposal has been drafted by committee members in the form of an amendment to the bill reorganizing the state labor department. It would create the conciliation bureau within the state labor department, providing that an assistant state labor commissioner be |
lied oe Sr, ony | STRIKE. PARALYZES B-29 PARTS OUTPUT
| of $4800 a year. | Employment of two field concilia-| \tors also would be provided with| DETROIT, Feb. 24 salaries of $3600 a year. | Production of B-29 parts, rockets, | guns, tanks, and trucks was {paralyzed today at the Chrysler | Under the amendment, the bu- Corp's. Dodge main plant. Some] |reau would be given broad powers 8900 of 9400 first- shift workers conto take full charge of all matters tinued a strike started yesterday. | pertaining to mediation and arbi-| . A company spokesman said that tration of®abor disputes in Indiana. {32 of the Chrysler Corp's. 100 interIt also would establish in the|Plant truck drivers had joined the walkout. He expressed fear that |continued idleness would affect | (Continued on gr 2—Column 6) production at other Chrysler plants, | which depend on the drivers for| pars Supplies.
ernment employees businessmen. The main liberation force, drawn from the 11th airborne: division, embarked in amphibious tractors from Caulubang. in the pre-dawn darkness and proceeded down the inland lake known as Laguna bay to Los Banos. g Filipino guerrillas, meantime, for several nights had been infiltrating the enemy lines toward the rear of the camp, finally completely surrounding it. Just before the zero hour for the attack, a selected detachment
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Manila Frees
American | paratroops and Filipino guerrillas |
1589 Americans, 329 Britons, 33 Austra-| 89 Dutzh, 22] 15 Italians|
The internees at Los Banos included priests, nuns, ministers, gov-| and Manila!
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, Tomorrow increasing cloudiness and mild.
confirmation of the impression that this is it—the grand scale offensive looking to ‘the showdown¢ Battle of Germany. swat Eisenhower, at a press conference of more than 90 minutes, said the battle which began yesterday promised bring the allies to the Rhine.
iven the breaks in weather and terrain, he said, the GermanJorce in the northern battle area can be eliminated without Unreasonable losses in American troops.
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Nowspapery 3
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Next 60 dave may be ost stirring of the war. Signs all indicate climax is near in Europe. : Interdiction—army air fortes trade name for campaign against enemy transportation—is always the prelude to something big. It made D-day possible last June, This time it's on an even vaster scale. Last time several zones of interdiction pinned German armies between them, shut off the invasion beaches from ready access. 3 This time bontbing of transportation covered® all central Germany, separated Western from Eastern fronts and presumably made transfer of troops impossible. But don't imagine vou know all the answers from studying communiques and .maps. Campaign iast spring was partly designed to fool the enemy, we may be doing the same thing now. i ” » 1d » n bd
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F. D. R.’s ‘Report on Yalta’ Being Prepared?
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER Samuel Rosenman took a large mis-
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He paid glowing tribute to the Russians. They have given him all, the information he wanted, cheerfully and willingly, he said, and “l am completely satisfied.” “Our liaison with Russia always has been:-as close and intimate as necessary to meet any situation at any particular moment,” Eisenhower declared. The Red army offensive which began Jan. 12 drew off
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YANKS 5 MI.
| PAST TORN ROER WALL
2 Armies Batter Ahead Unchecked Against
Shell-Shocked German Troops 161% Miles From Cologne.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
sion to Europe to study civilian needs over there. But Rosenman
join the President in the Mediterranean. When those two get together it, usually means a presidential
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. S$ US. TANKS RAM. Singapore Docks INO'S DEFENSES * ‘Bombed ‘by Great
d * Superfort Fleet
| oct slow gains against. violent re- | i sistance. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced that the marines charged | Japanese positions-on the Iwo air-
On the southern tip of Iwo, pa- | trols entered the crater of the ex-| 'tinct Suribachi volcano, atop which | [the Stars and Stripes flew.
|” WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U.P) — ‘Marines Make Slow Gains, The biggest fleet of Superfortresses | ever to.take off from India today | In New. Assault on ‘bombed Singapore, crossroads of | JL war traffic between Japan and her| Central Airfield. stolen southern empire. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, eof By FRANK TREMAINE demolition and incendiary bombs | United Press Staff Correspondent were rained on Singapore's exGUAM, Feb. 24 —Tank-led U. S.|tensive and well-established dock marines renewed the assault on Jr ries Jn She fourth) Iwo’s. central airfield from a spring- {the naval stronghold. board on its lower edge today. A singapore ‘broadcast recorded At noon they were hammering by FCC said the bombers caused | “some damage” to harbor facilities | {and the city itself during an hour land a half-long raid. The bombers attacked in a dozen | {waves, Singapore said. At least | nine planes were damaged, the | broadcast said. MANILA, Feb. 24 (U. P.).—The | The 20th air force, inannounc- | Japanese carried out another sui- ing the raid, for the first time de- | cide act Thursday. They set off {scribed a Superfortress raiding aran ammunition dump Inside big mada from India as “large,” an Malinta tunnel inside the rocky indication that it totaled well over fort, blowing themselves to bits |1% a roads - - icipated. rather than fight it out. Results will be announced after operational reports have been refield from a line on the southwest-| ceived from Brig. Gen. Roger M. ern rim of the base and south of [Ramey’s 20th bomber command, the its center. 20th air force said. With tank support the marines| In the last previous raid on struck this morning after Amer-|Singapore Feb. 1, B-29's sank a ican planes, artillery and warships naval drydock, largest of its type had plastered the field with a great|in the world, and damaged other weight of explosives. harbor installations. Patrols Enter Crater The Superfortresses may have caught part of the elusive Japanese | fleet at Singapore. | The Yanks were mopping up rem- | 0 nants of the Japanese defending IVE UP KOENIGSBERG the natural fortress. | (A B. B. C. broadcast quoted] Radio Tokyo as saying that the [Rae ‘have-established fwo new Paris Radio Broa Broadcasts Un|veactibends on the southeast coast confirmed Report. Casua]ties mounted steadily on By ROBERT MUSEL . |both sides in the bloodiest fighting United Press Staff Correspondent lof the Pacific war. i While American losses have not a ao. 24h : aris, | been announced beyond 5372 casual- | nirmeqg re-
scarcely slowed down going through France and Italy, went on to |
PARIS, Feb. 24.—American armored and hfan try divisions hammered the Germans back two te five miles from their broken Roer river line today. They drove forward unchecked today in an_attempt to destroy the remaining Nazi military power west of the Rhine. Vanguards of the American 1st and 9th armies were 1161 » miles from the Rhineland industrial city of Cologne at |mid- day today. They still were meeting only Hiodetate to light oppo|sition from shell-shocked Nazi front line troops. "The Yanks already were through the first hard crust of German resistance along the Roer. They were moving {ahead on a 22-mile front at a steady, unspectacular pace. Yank Casualties Light More than a dozen German towns and villages already were in American hands, along with 1200-odd Nazi captives. Yank ‘casualties thus far were described as unexpectedly light.
But just ahead of the Rhine-boufid Americans. lay a formidable ridge along which the Germans were expected to make their first real stand. ] And behind it tay hundreds of tiny crossroad villages ‘and larger towns that had been converted into a bristling network of fortifications. The first major test of the American offensive was ex- | pected to come at the ridge a few miles east of the 1st and 9th army spearheads, although there was some doubt whether the Nazis couid move their reserves in over the shattered Rhineland railway system in time to make a determined fight there.
Report 300,000 Yanks Attacking German spokesmen said the Americans had 20 divisions, |including six armored divisions, totaling perhaps 300,000 {men on the attack front. Field dispatches said Yank engineers were working | feverishly to throw additional bridges across the still-swollen |Roer. oe ; | The battle 3 feared to bé&dev reloping into a race to get the Americans’ full armored power across the river befors ‘the arrival of the Gerthans’ main reserves. Juelich, 22 miles west of Cologne and probably the toughest German stronghold on the Roer, fell to the 9th army after a fierce street battle. Out in front of the attacking 1st army were the 104th; “Timberwolf” division under Maj. Gen. Terry Allen and the 8th infantry. The 104th took |Niederzier, 1614 miles dua west of Cologne. Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's 9th army spearheads captured | Glimbach, Gevenich, Ruhrich, Bos-
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LONDON, Feb. 24 (U. P).~— More than 1600 American planes struck oil, rail and shipping targets across a wide area of north- | western Germany today. The big fleet, numbering more than 1100
also
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BALDWIN, COATES LISTED AS KILLED
One Missing, 8 Wounded, And One Captured.
Today's list of war casualties includes two dead, one missing, seven wounded, and ohe prisoner,
KILLED Cpl. Donald H. Baldwin, 440 Alton st., in Germany. Aviation Machinist's Mate 3-c Calvin ‘Blue Coates, 6045 E. 8t. Joseph st, in the South Pacific. MISSING © First Lt. Cecil W. Carroll, 2140 N. Pennsylvania st., in France,
WOUNDED Pfc. John R, Chestnut, 1314 8. East st., in Germany. T. 8gt. Charles W. Bell Jr, R.R. | 3; Box 396, in Belgium
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Nathan Weisenberg, “big boss” of] Cleveland's slot machine racket, was] BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb. 24 found shot to death in his parked|(U. P.. — President Herman B |car early today. ' Wells of Indiana university anPolice said the slot king was ap-| nounced today that the school's anparently killed by two blasts from| nual spring vacation has-been cana shotgun as he sat in the driver's|celled at.the request of the’ office seat of his coupe not far from his|of defense transportation to reduce
Cleveland Heights home. travel
Hermit Facing Draft Charge Learns-That U.S. Is at War
By HARRY L.' CARLSON United Press Staff Correspondent
tricks . for, several years until his “| capture two weeks ago. LEWISTON, Ida, Feb. 24—A| “I et a Inigo hen bens n | Roosevelt beat Hoover,” Mor! ded, i ye ol4.; hermit, hol said. “The federals have been after took to the wilderness of wes me for ‘borrowing’ clothes and stuff | Montana when - “Roosevelt beat) from their, ranger stations.” {Hoover,” sat in a jail cell here U. 8. Commissioner E. B. Steele today puzzled over charges Of oe orofine, Ida, told him that he
| evading the drafi--something he | ‘also was wanted for failing 10 reg-|
never heard of. The recluse, William c. Morland, left civilization for the primitive offerings of the forest in 1932 dnd He said he hadn't spoken to afothies pers since that time.
Baten for the draft. , “To fight in a war?” he ‘asked. ar replied the: astounded commissioher, . _ Snowshoed forest rangers closed
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1 The broadcast said the garrison |
[port ofydoubtful authenticity today | lar, Selgersdorf, Hambach, Korren|that the German army had evacu- |zig and Baal on the east side of the
|ated Koenigsberg, capital of East |Roer above: and below Juelich. Prussia.
At Baal, the Yanks were 3'» niles {of ibeleaguered Koenigsberg had [pulled out, “leaving the population Ito their fate.” Two days ago Moscow said ie EYEWITNESS OF THE BIG
Germans had opened a gorridor |
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Four Teams
Mark Dueren'
By JOHN McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent AN OBSERVATION POST OVERLOOKING DUEREN,; Germany, Feb. 23 (Delayed).—Dueren was in its death throes late today. From ‘this observaliou “post, I watched the awing speclacle as American artillery and planes turned the city on the east bank of the Roer into billowing geysers of smoke and flame. Dive-bombers, like trout snapuing at bait, darted out from the over. cast and dropped their bombs on the flaming city.
In Semi-Finals—
® Crispus Attucks, Broad _ Ripple, Howe and Warren Central reached the semifinal round of the Indianapolis secticnal basketball tournament last night. They play this aflernoon and tonight and the winner will represent this section in the regionals next week. For details,
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GAMES TODAY
1:30—Broad - Ripple va. Crispus At- ‘ tucks. 2:30—Howe vs. Warren Central. 8:00—Winners of Sfispon games.
plumes of black or white suoke
P. M. From every part of Dueren arose!
Flying Fortresses and Liberators and about 300 escorting fighters, attacked oil refineries at Ham-
[" burg, Harburg and Misburg, and
U-boat yards in Hamburg and Bremen.
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tified barracks. Then ft burst into
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