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Complacency Is Out Byrnes Warns Nation Army Faces Shortage Of Ammunition

fUJi— Jurnr* F. Byrne*. War Mobilization Direc­tor, wnrnrd today that America's front-lint fighting mrn may run abort of supplies "in a few weeks" imle** the home front devotes un­divided attention to war produc­tion

B>Tnes told President Roose-vet* and the incoming Congress in a jo.ooo word report that mobili­zation of this country's industrial and manpower resources was still neomnieie despite the fact that 1944 arms production equalled the total output of all other countries combined.

"The German counter-attack through the First Army positions has convinced us that we can win thai war only by the all-out ef­forts of the American people— that we could not pursue an all- • out production effort while simul­taneously releasing materials, fa­cilities and manpower for civilian production.*' he declared.

"Our soldiers at the front to­day are not short of ammunition and supplies as result of any pro­duction failures," Byrnes said. -"However, they may be short a few weeks hence if we fail.

Draft of 4Fs to War Job Proposed to Meet Crisis

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Albany—t/P)—A furious storm stabbing at widely separated

„ _ If J areas brought blizzard conditions they are to freely use what they today in northern and western now have in order to save human [ New York. live*, they must know that more, j Winds reached a velocity of 100 In abundance, is on the way." i miles an hour in gusts at La-

Byrnea* report, one of the com- Guardia Field. L.\. I. A tempera-piehensive ever isaued on the ture of 15 degrees Wlow zero was status of the war program at f reported at Mayville, Chautauqua home, covered the need for j County, where 18 inches of snow stronger manpower controls, in-; fell. Two deaths was reported. creased authority for the War Labor Board, the status of the food program and the fight against inflation. His manpower recommendations included a pro­posed draft of 4-Fs not in essen- j . J " " 1 ' **" ,w """ " Hal work. reported these condit

"Our forces in the field need I Canton and Massena area ~r more gum. more ammunition. Blizzard in progreas, roads bolck-more trucks, more tires, more ed. visibility zero. •hips, more airplanes, more Tupper Lake — 10 inches of rockets and more men to finish snow, blowing hard, plows* not the job which they have done so operating. well to date." Byrnes said. Lewis County-All roads closed.

Court Rights Urged for WLB to Fight "Perrillos and Averys" Without Seizure

t Washington —(UP)— An Administration request for

new laws to tighten government controls on manpower, in­cluding a draft of 4-F's for essential war work, today

f awaited the 79th Congress. The request, together with other

recommendations to bolster the war effort on tlie home front, was made by War Mobolization and Reconversion Director James F. Byrnes m a 20,000-word report to the new Congress which begins its two-year existence at noon to-morrow*

Declaring that the nation's in­dustrial and manpower resources are still far from totally mobilized Byrnes told Congress that the fol. lowing legislation was needed to enable the war program to "ride on a horse instead of a mule":

1. Authority to assign 4.000,000 4-F*s to war jobs as well as mili­tary service unless they already are engaged in esseptial activity. • 2. Authority for the War Man­power Commission to enforce its regulations limiting the number of workers employers may retain.

3. Authority for the War Labor Board to enforce its decisions in courts without resorting to prop­erty seizure, thus permitting the government to treat "the Petrillos and Averys alike."

4. Increased unemployment benefits for war workers who may

Blizzard Blocks State Highways, Closing Schools

Mayville at 15 Below Is Coldest in State; Bus Runs Cancelled

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Main highways were blocked. . „ „ . . motorists stranded and rural I be temporarily out of jobs when schools closed in areas of the *he, w a r e n d s and adequate flnan-storm's greatest intensity. c i a I a s ? l s t a n c , e >" re-establish-

<st.t. rwxii .. anA n t k „ .«,,•.„<,„ m e n t °i small businesses discon-^ ^ - - - - ° o n g •O U r C e 8 j tinued as a result of the war.

Although warning that the na­tion must not make another "too early start" toward reconversion. Byrnes sugested some modifica­tions in excess profit taxes and depreciation allowances on equin-

Byrnes would not predict how long the war would continue but

he felt compelled to direct

plows starting to work on main highways. ' -

, . _ . Saranac Lake — Eight to 10 the governments horn*- effort to i n c n M o f ^ ^ unplowed. blow-tne maintenance of all-out war l n f , a n ( j drifting production.. , • Genesee County — Practically

"Wo cannot be complacent m]] ^ d , cio»ed. anowplows not y t t he s a i d . ^ ^ V i operating, visibility zero.

Byrnes eounBed the death.knell Chautauqua County-Route 20 for civilian reconversion produc- reopened, but Routes 5. 17 and 60 tion while the nation is engaged dosed i n a rrf-front war and scoffed at ( " Oneida and Madison counties— „ wmmmm . ™ ™ * t _ . „ . , „ t h e w e S that civilians had sui-1 Secondary roafi blocked by drifts, I this week when he sends Congress ^ L i l ! ! S ! l \ € r i r n C e S m w a r " i rural schools closed in many sec- \ his annual message on the state ^ K S . X E tKTt" . K . „ « v . m m » « t * 5 * I of the nation. The annual budget uJSSK^1L^lJS^SSP!l Buffalo had 30-mile winds, with message, probably calling for had made one too early start on acceleration to gale force expect- $88,000,000,000 in expenditures recofwrraion last * M " ^ r ^ y r n e s > d today. A new snowfall of four during the next fiscal year atari* ?*T. 7*1. . 4 « . . ? ^ ! . . 2 ? ! X ™ Inches was whipped into drifts | Ing July 1, was expected next

Gen Montgomery May Command 7 Allied Armies

Speculation Grows Over Shakeup In High Headquarters

London — <U.R> — Speculation mounted today that Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Britain's No. 1 war idol, may be named deputy supreme commander for the western front with jurisdic­tion over all seven Allied armies.

Swedish reports that Mongom-ery will be given command of all ground forces soon coincided with increasing criticism that Gen. Dwight I). Eisenhower, the su­preme commander, has been sad­dled with so many political and economic problems that he has been unable to devote sufficient time to coordinating ground oper­ations.

Military informants said Eisen­hower's burdens have been in­creasing enormously in the past three months. Therefore, if a shakeup should occur, it would not be due exclusively to the re­cent German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, they said.

On D-Day last June, Mont­gomery was senior Allied ground commander under Eisenhower and all American invasion troops were under his command. When American troops subsequently in­creased greatly in proportion to the British and Canadians, they, were incorporated in the 12th army group under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley and Montgomery be­came commander solely of the British-Canadian 21st a r m y

ment to help industry, and espe- j group, cially small business, look to the Montgomery and Bradley then reconversion period with greater; shared equal rank under Eisen-confidence. | hower, and later Lt. Gen. Jacob

The Byrnes report provided the I L. pevers joined their number first glimpse of the legislative j as commander of the sixth army program which the Roosevelt ad-1 group, consisting of the American ministration will propose to the j Seventh and the French First new Congress for speeding victory armies, and laying the groundwork for an j Eisenhower already has one enduring, prosperous peace.

The remainder of the program was expected to be outlined by President Roosevelt, possibly late

> nee that time to "undo what had been done'* in order to make the public fully aware of the

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He reassured the President and Congress that 'we are ready to move quickly" on partial recon­version the day Germany is de­feated but until that day. he added, war requirements must get the country's "undivided atten­tion.

Byrnes urged extension of the

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deputy supreme commander, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, but he is an airman, not a ground soldier. Maj. Gen. Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff, is con­cerned with executing vEisen-hower's decisions in all spheres, political and economic as well as military. "

It was believed the fact that American troops now outnumber British forces four to one, by American reports - has acted against the appointment of a Britishoffieer, such as Montgom­ery, to the post of supreme ground commander.

But proponents of the change argue that the establishment of an over-all ground command might have lessened and perhaps averted the American setback in

GERMAN DRIVE SMASHEDu-German forces (shad­ed arrows) counterattacks against the U.S. Third Army drive from thje south to cut the enemy salient into Lux­embourg and Belgium in the Bastogne arefc have been stopped. Solid arrows are American drives. Black ter­ritory is thai retaken by First and Third Army troops after the German advance reached its peak.

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Budapest Levelled Block By Block by Angered Reds

Death to Last Man Is WafcCry as Huns Murder Emissaries Under White Flag

Moscow — (UP) — Thousands of Russian cannon and rocket guns began levelling Budapest block by block today as the Red Armyv inflamed by the murder of two of its emissaries, prcllaimcd "no quarter" for the cornered Nazi elite guards lighting on in the heart of the city.

"Death to the last man" w a s * - 3

the Soviet war cry as word

New York— </P»—Arrest of two Nazi agents,-trained in espionage

t ion Vet controlling wages and sabotage, who were landed by to June, 1946, to help j U-boat on the Maine coast last

against inflation or defla-. Nov. 29. was announced by J. tion during the transition period. J d g a r H o o v e e r ' Erector of the

the danger would be **m>

gansett , Long_Island, and to\*&™^JP&*^ others June 17 at Ponte Vedra 'Maintenance of the earlier Beach, Fla. All eight were cap- I ^s\lm

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tured and six were later executed.! I" t h e h a n d s o f a specialist like w I Montgomery might have averted the setback we have suffered," G. Ward Price wrote in the Sunday Dispatch.

"The grand strategy of the western front would still be in General Eisenhower's hands. The

Hoover said Attorney General Francis Biddle would decide what charges would, be placed against

as spread through the ranks that the Nazis had rejecwd a surrender' ultimatum by* staying the two Russian officers who presented it.

Half the city fc^as in Russian hands at the start of the second week of street fighting this morn­ing, and Soviet Held dispatches said the narrowing pockets held by the Axis defenders on both sides of thr Danube wen? being pulverized by a'continuous pocket and artillery bombardment.

Throwing resjHjnsibility for the destruction of the capital square­ly on the enemy, the Red Army high command ordered the Ger­man positions destroyed by shell-fire at whatever cost to the city and its remaining civilian inhabi­tants*

For the tough Nazi elite guards who comprised the core of the Budapest garrison the Soviet com­manders decreed instant death, and it was announced that the re­sponsible German officers in­

volved in the murder of the en­voys would be hanged.

More than 3,000 enemy troops were killed in Buda and the east bank section of Pest yesterday and another 429 — apparently Hungarians—were captured, run­ning the Axis losses in less than two days to an estimated 6,300 men.

After a week of street fighting surpassing in savagery even the battle for Stalingrad, the Rus­sians held about 40vof Budapest's 80 square miles,, including most of the west bank section of Buda and about eight, square miles of Pest, a total of about 500 city blocks.

Soviet troops made their deep­est penetration of Pest Monday with a 11-2 mile advance from the east that overran the Rakos railway station five miles from the Danube.

In that area, the Russians were See RUSSIANS Page 2

Hun Counterattacks Beaten Off as Patron Reports Gains

Paris —(UP)— Supreme headquarters said today that the German attack In the Bitchs area of France had gained a mile and a half and was continuing, with enemy forces now active all the way from Bitche to the Rhine.

London —(UP)— Gordon Fraser of the Blue Net­work, in a dispatch carried by the American army radio, reported today that the Germans had launched a heavy attack against American forces in the Saar val-

By JAMES M. LONG Paris —JP— The Third Army has broadened to a mile

and a half its arrowhead pointed across the narrow waist of the Belgian bulge north of Bastogne in the great, continu­ing battle to split the German salient. 'American infantry, tanks ana* planes exacted a great and growing toll of Field Marshal Von Rundstedt's materiel. The Germans had lost fully 110 tanks and armored vehicles, 208 planes and hun­dreds of other implements of war. , Below Bastogne, Lt. Gen.» • ••• • George S. Patton, Jr., widened to six miles the corridor feeding his main offensive threat by captur­ing the villages of Houmont, five and a half miles southwest, and Chenonge, 4 miles southwest of the road center. At last reports, the Third Army was 13 miles from the U.S. First Army flank­ing the north side of the bulge.

Supreme headquarters said to­day that two German counter-aftacks were repulsed in the area of Champs, three miles northwest of Bastogne, and near Viller-La-Bonne-Eua, five miles southeast. The communique reported pro­gress northeast of Moircy, a much exchanged hamlet.

Von Rundstedt's attacks against the U.S. 7th Army around Bitche and eastward to and along the Rhine appeared in preliminary appraisal to have netted little gain. These probably were the first of several strong diversion­ary efforts.

The German still was throwing most of his strength fhto the Bel­gian bulge.' He was bracing the

hard defensive line St. Hubert-Wiltz and persisting in counter­attacks around Bastogne.

The next moves in the gigantic test of men, strategy and ma­chines were not yet apparent. It was plain, however, that Von Rundstedt has been hurt and bad­ly by sustained and heavy Allied air attacks which went into their 11th day.

The whole front from Linnich to Stavelot at the north-central part of the bulge saw little ac­tivity Monday. American flak guns destroyed 17 strafiing planes in the area.

Allied artillery beat off German self-propelled guns which the enemy ferried across the Mass in darkness north of Kapelle in northwest Holland

Canadian guns threw back two German patrols which also slipped across the. river. Elsewhere the British and Canadian sectors were quiet, just as for the past aix weeks.

During the night, British Mos-See FRANCE Pago 2

greatest* Hoover identified the men as j Colepaugh and Gimpel. He noted that consumers now William Curtis Colepaugh. 26, The p g i director said the two

have $140,000,000,000 in cash and i U. §. citizen of Niantic, Conn., I agents after landing went to

I Y . ^ „ t T C ! l m « n l l 7 o T a8 u ? o \ * a ! J 5 £ * f i r g f f ^ J i f f e / i * I S ^ W ' M e ' a n d 8toPP"» briefly j decision as to major objectives

S&nJTSSLSZS^JS oth£ Sn^^JSk A^Jnl T^gir Iin B o s t o n b e f o r e com^ t o N e w ! «»d the timing of attacks would ^ . ^ r ^ ^ l ^ r ^ " i . ^ I ^ f . . 1 " . ^ " ! ? . ^ ! ^ ; , j 2 2 A r; I Y<*k, . * * * « they went to separ- j lie with him, but the actual fight­

ing of battles and intimate daily This situation, he warned, j rests were made several days ago I Ttl* hn*a\* K~..„U. O t a . * * . * nSm mm, in ,he New Vork S S | Z * F % m S S f U S S S T K is adequate provision for price control.

New Nazi Secret Air Weapon Is Revealed

Hoover said the men supplied a full story of their activities since landing at Hancock Point in Frenchmen's Bay, Me. They* came ashore in a rubber boat at night. Hoover said they carried

A C. a Xit*t Fighter B S M , automatic revolvers, compass, — tm-± The Nazis have ; camera, secret inks, and a variety

construct a short wave radio transmitter to communicate with Germany.

Jap Offensive on Mindoro ^_ J y

To Protect Manila, Hinted General MacArtluirS Headquar­

ter*, 1'hillppineN -f-i/P)— L a n d -based American bpmbers on Min-

American Heavies Invade Reich After Raid on Bases

London —MP>— Escorted Ameri-1 ported hurled against the enemy

north of Mindoro Island and roughly 100 miles from the new Yank Mindoro base at San Jose

contact with the fluctuations^ of j doro have opened fit tacks in force | which sent the strong force of a struggle should be entrusted to someone whose hand is not pre­occupied constantly w-ith prob

thrown a mysterious light, called I o{ „ d r a ' t P a P e r s a n d discharges j ernment."

Colepaugh, who once attended; lems* that arise far behind the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­nology, also served in the U. S. Navy until discharged in 1942 "for the convenience of the gov-

' fog-fighter" by U. S. pilots, into i f ««» the Navy, the night skies over Germany. j _JJjey had been supplied with

Pilots says balls of fire race! ^ W ' i » A m e n c a n money of alongside wings of American j w n , c h $56,754.61 remained at the

1 time of the arrests. Commenting on the arrests and

the recent discoveries of two Jap­anese balloons in Oregon and Montana, which he said might have carried spies instead of ex­plosives, Hoover declared these were evidence of an espionage and sabotage offensive against the en­tire American hemisphere.

The last known landing of

Reaufightera flying intruder mis­sions over ijie Reich. They ap­pear suddenly and accompany the planes for miles. Official intelli­gence says they appear to be ra­dio-controlled.

Position of Treasury -U*»—The position

df the Treasury on the final bus­iness day of the .year, Dec. 30: Receipts. S66.377.668.55; expendi­tures, 1404.551.206.54; net bal-awce. 122.236021. 364.20; total debt. 1232.144.230.84S.72: increase m er pre\ tous day. $278,462,718.03.

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Society Page 11 Sports Pages 12-13 Time Tables Page 16 l" S Weather Page 2 Watt r Winchell Page 6 Women s Pagt Page 7

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He went abroad as a mess boy on *the Swedish exchange ship Gripsholm, leaving the ship at Lisbon where he offered his serv­ices, to the Nazis, Hoover said. He was enrolled in the Elite Guard and sent to school in Berlin, the Hague and Dresden, where he was taught radio, photography and use of explosives.

Gimpel was arrested in Lima, Peru, while working for a Ger­man radio firm and was interned in Texas until repatriated to Ger­many where he continued radio

enemy agents was announced J work until he joined the Elite June 28, 1942. by Hoover, after Guard for training similar to four men landed June 13 at Ama- ! Colepaugh's.

to the far reachJb of invasion-! raiders to Lingayen. menaced Luzon Island, bagging1 The enemy is continuing to raid three enemy w^whips and five | MacArthur's Mindoro position, cargo vessels in one such strike established by an invasion Dec. 150 miles above Manila- but signs 15 which cut west across the Cen-also are accumulating of at- tral Philippines from conquered tempted enemy counter-action Leyte. Today's communique said against Mindoro. • 15 Nipponese aircraft attacked f w w -

Today's communique, which ' the San Jose sector Saturday, I not confirm G^rmanclaims'of 323

can heavy bombers invaded west­ern Germany before, noon today primed to meet any repetition of the Nazis' sudden New Year's Day show of aerial strength. It was the 11th consecutive day of heavy bomber activity.

Revised tallies showed at least 221 German planes wrecked in Monday's widespread combats, while Berlin declared 427 Allied planes were destroyed, most of them on the ground in morning swoops orvfighter bases behind the western front.

Some 300 German planes darted In at treetop level over scattered American and British bases a few minutes after daylight yesterday, but some Allied fighters already were in the air and swirling dog­fights developed.

At least 188 raiders were knocked down. 105 by RAF fight­ers, 35 by American Mustangs, and 48 by British and American ground gunners. ' •

Thirty-three other G e r m a n planes, were reported destroyed in other daylight operations, 17 of them falling to American fighters escorting 800 big bombers raid­ing Coblenz and an oil plant 20 miles east of Hannover.

The bag of gunners aboard the heavy bombers was not disclosed immediately, nor was the number of bombers lost.

Allied headquarters conceded some aircraft were wrecked aground on fighter bases, but did

on New Year's Day, including more than 1,600 U. S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers and fighters.

Censorship did not permit dis­closure of the. damage done to Allied airfield installations.

The magnitude of the German attack was taken here as a sure sign of the damage which Allied airmen have been inflicting upon Field Marsha] Von Rundstedt's ground forces. It appeared un­likely the German commander would have risked so many air­craft in such a dangerous enter­prise unless the need was critical.

Other German losses during the day included 17 Nazi fighters downed by American fighters es­corting Eighth Air Force heavy bombers attacking an oil refinery at Dollbergen and the railway network around Coblenz. Sixteen more enemy planes were knocked out by the First TacHcal Air Force in support of the U, S.'Sev­enth arm.

Late Bulletins

Western New York: Inter­mittent snow tonight and Wednesday, decidedly colder tonight. A little warmer Wednesday afternoon.

Lake level today. 1.307,05 feet; year ago, 1,307.28.

Weather conditions for the past 24 hours ending at noon at government weather sta­tion:

Maximum 30; minimum, 2. Snow: 4 inches. Year ago: Max. 37; min. 23. Sun sets today at 5:54 P.M. Sun rises tomorrow at 8:45

A. M.

listed the sinkinjl or probable j with three downed by anti-air-sinking of three dftttroyers, three! craft guns and night interceptors. 8,000-ton freighter*! ransports and two smaller cargolvessels at Lin­gayen Gulf, also disclosed intense activity by Japanese ammunition trains on southwest Luzon just north of Mindoro.

Saturday, the fume day that medium bombers,]-attack planes and fight er-bombprs flew 150 miles northwest of Manila to Lin-

The Lingayen attack, represent­ing the deepest penetration in strength of American bombers based in the Philippines, was pointed ' at a reinforcement and supply base for the Nipponese on Luzon. It was"there that the Jap­anese invaded the Philippines at the war's outset.

Today's communique depicted gayen, more than $0 Marine Cor-1 an aerial scourge of Luzon's west sairs blew up an pit ire ammuni- j side from Lingayen to Batangas. tion train, strafe<§ three others Liberators cratered Nielson air-and attacked 20 locomotives in i drome at Manila. Patrol planes | slow down the Allied aerial of fen the Batangas area, " destroyed five enemy aircraft in sive. Approximately 6,000 Ameri-

Batangas is 25 cserwater miles < the same sector. ! can and British planes were re-

British and American ships ruined aground, 79 in air duels, and 25 by anti-aircraft fire over Ger­many—a grand total of 427.

Allied announcements listed 27 fighters and two medium bomb­ers lost during the day, and eight RAF heavy bombers during night assaults on a fuel plant near Dortmund and railyards at Veoh-winker near Dusseldorf.

While the Germans achieved an element of surprise at some of the scores of fields at which they struck, they apparently failed to

Dead Americans for Hun Prisoners Is Tragedy of 1945 Four monthn ago, many

Americans were talking ft bout a European victory by Christmas. They were saying how wonderful it was to be able to expend our material wealth to save the lives of soldiers. Boyd Lewis, Vet­eran United Press Corre­spondent, left for Europe during those rosy September days, but he found a far

• grimmer picture was devel­oping in the succeeding months. Here is his story.

My-BOYD LEWIS Oa The Western Front <l'.R>

—Dead Americans for German prisoners! J .

That is the exchange we aire compelled to make on the west­ern front—and it probably will

continue for months to come. It is obvious now that victory

cannot be bought with just a prodigious expenditure of guns and shells. We must also, pay —and heavily—with American lives.

The American people will he spared a nasty shock if they accept the fact that casualties, especially among the infantry, necessarily must be severe.

The misconception that vic­tory could be bought cheaply undoubtedly is encouraged by the reluctance of the U, S. Army to reveal anything the enemy is unlikely to be aware of. The tragedy is that this lulls the homefront.

Our infantry commanders live in close spiritual and physical contact with their men. They

desire to the utmost to per­form an operation with light casualties and are saddened and grim at the circumstances which force us to sacrifice the cream-of our youth to swell the prisoners' enclosures.

While names cannot be di­vulged, it can be said that the grim exchange of American dead for German prisoners is the appraisal of one of the most popular and humane division commanders on the western front.

The German soldier is the best defensive soldier in the world and his commander is a ruthless realist. They know they can hold out to the bitter end killing and killing and killing.

Then, when the last bullet is

spent, they have #nly to come over to our linai with their hands clasped on their head, shouting "Kamerad."

They then spend the rest of the war, better fed, housed and cared for than in Germany.

,It is not the cream of Ger­man manpower which is being sacrificed in this war. The prisoners will be repatriated to Germany after, the war. But much of the cream of American youth will return in burial Clothes or hospital ships.

Perhaps correspondents have taken too much pleasure in re­porting isolated cases of Yank platoons capturing towns and doughboys bringing in scores of German prisoners Unassisted.

Those stories are perfectly' true, but the propjir "balance is

lost when military censorship prevents setting them against the background of day in and day out heavy losses of men in regular operations.

One high-ranking officer, a West Pointer who saw the action at Guadalcanal before fighting the Germans, -told me he preferred the "knife war" of the Pacific to the European style, which plays into the hands of the tricky Nazis.

He said casualties in the Pacific style of lighting were far lighter, even though pris­oners taken by both sWes were negligible.

T h i s frfficer believes we should tell the Germans to "surrender or die,"" and stick to it. If the Germans once found out they had only one

chance to surrender or be killed, they would surrender be­fore killing so many Yankees.

The families of American soldiers can be assured that the American commanders are hu­mane men, men who are happi­est when they can win victories with few casualties. They al­ways strive to utilize the American superiority of materi­al to save manpower, but it is not always possible.

I heard the voice of one high officer break when he said one division had lost thousands of men in a recent tragic opera­tion. Another with a star on his shoulder said he was glad his two children were girls be­cause it would be hard to direct battles after losing his own son, as several generals have.

Chicago —(HE)— The govern­ment took over two additional warehouses of Montgomery Ward and Company in Detroit today as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron, Army officer assigned to run the seized Ward properties, announced that uncooperative company personnel would be re­moved to facilitate his assign­ment,

Washington-<r.E>—The Navy today announced loss of the 1,525-tbn submarine Harder, nemesis of Japanese shipping since the early days of the war. Loss of three lesser craft also was disclosed.

Washington —OLE)— Congres­sional leaders said today that President Roosevelt had "indi­cated" to them that he would meet "sometime soon" with Prime M i n i s t e r Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin.

^ -A Bowling Green, O.—om—Up-

ward of 85 persons, rescued from drift-blocked highway 25 south of here, «were admitted to emergency hospitals today for treatment of frostbite and ex­posure, i

New York —tflPJ— The Navy Public Relations Office reported today that one man was killed and two seriously injured in an explosion and fire aboard a tanker at Leonardo, N. J.

I > HaJpan, Mariana* Islands —•

<A*>—(Via Navy radio)--Ameri­can airmen flying the sky trails to Tokyo reported tiny Jap­anese held Alamagan Island in the northern Marianas was aflame today, apparently from the eruption of its very active volcano.

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