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Russians Capture Warsaw And Czestochowa
Race TO Withir14 Miles Of German Border
British TankeT Crack North Rhine OUTPOST
Sixth Army Patrols
Push To Pozorrubio
Main Manila-Baguio Highway Cut In Two
More Places As Other Units Drive ~
Miles from Captured Alaninos

G E N E r L MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon. Thurs
day, Jan. 18.-P)-Sixth Army
troops cut the main Manila-Bagu
highway in two more places and
patrols entered Pozorrubio in a
squirt of activity on Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's left flank, slowed for
several days by stiff opposition,
headquarters reported today.
Still meeting the sternest resis-
lance of any sector, the Yanks
pushed across the vital highway
at Babonan, three miles north of
Pozorrubio. Nine miles to the
north other units moving from the
west were within a half mile of
Rosario.
Juncture at fork less than two
miles beyond Rosario would put
the two Yank columns on noun
tain road leading to Baguio, the
summer capital of the Philippines.
16 miles away.
The Americans on the right
flank meantime drove il miles
from captured Alaminos to the tip
of the Bolinao peninsula, taking
Bolinao city after short skirm-
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Correspondent Says a
. Hardly A House Left
Standing In Warsaw

LONDON, Jan. IT. - R) - Inc
center of liberated Warsaw is
picture of terrible destruction
with hardly a whole house lett
standing,'', a Polish frontline cor
respondent report broadcast to-
night by the Lublin radio said.
The dispatch said all bridges
across the Vistula at Warsaw had
been blown up and that the river
could be crossed only on the ice.
mo civilians are to be seen IN
the center of Warsaw" it added.
1.-THE Copernicus statue has been
taken away by the Germans. The
liberating army is speedily re-
storing order in the city. They have
already begun to repair the
bridges and install telephone
lines"
The correspondent said condi-
tons among the populace were
better in those districts
Of the capital in which the Ger
mans had been billeed."
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Donald Nelson Sued
For Divorce; Wife
Charges Desertion

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-P)-Donald
M. Nelson, former chairman OF
the War Production Board, was
sued for divorce in Superior Court
today by Mrs. Helen W. Nelson.
She alleged desertion.
Nelson is a former executive
vice-president and chairman OF
the executive committee OF Sears,
Roebuck and Co. he served as as
sistant to the chairman OF the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Admin
istration in 1884 and 1885, and IN
1898 was made chairman of the
Textile Industry Committee under
the Wages and Hours Law.
He recently made trip to emma
as special representative OF
President Roosevelt to study pro-
ducticn problems there.
Mrs. Nelson charged in her suit
that her husband deserted her Dec
ember Is, 1910. The Nelson's were
married December 10, 1926. They
have no children.
Mrs. Nelson asked alimony ana
attorneys fees.
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TOKYO SAYSCH 81
COAST HIT AGAIN
BY NAVAL AIRMEN

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD.
QUARTERS. Pearl Harbor, Jan. II
-OP)-Tokyo reported today that
more than 300 American carrier
planes hit the China coast for the
fourth successive day, batterine
Hong Kong, Canton, and Hainar
island.
B-29 Superfortresses joined the
mounting two-Way offensive with
new blows against Formosa.
There was no immediate confir-
nation that Adm. William F. Hal
sey's Third Fleet planes had struck
again, carrying into the third week
their sweep of the China Sea from
the Ryukyu Islands to Indo China
and back to the China coast. So far
they have destroyed or damaged
345 ships and 913 planes.
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz'
last bulletin reported the third day
of attack on the China coast Tues
day Japanese time).
The China-based B-29's-Tokyo
said 80 made the assault struck
military air installations in the vi
entity of Shinchiku on the north
west coast of Formosa, it was an
nounced in Washington. 1t was the
third time the giant bombers had
hit that island bastion in nine days
and the sixth attack of the war.
Washington said 'sizeable
force" of B-29's bombed usually,
scoring good" results. No Japa-
nese fighter opposition was encoun-
tered and 1pti-aircraft fire was
meager and inaccurate. All planes
returned. I
Tokyo said the bombers arrived
over Formosa at 1880 a. m.Wed-
nesday Japanese time) and left a
little more than an hour later. The
enemy admitted "Slight damage"
and 40 casualties.
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ish with a weak japanese rear
guard.
This advance was mainly in a
northerly direction up the thumb
like peninsula, but t h e western
part of the drive extended the
Lingayen Gulf beachhead to ap-
proximately so miles.
From Alaminos. other units cut
south along a mountain road head
ing for Dasol Bay. Associated
Press Correspondent Fred Hamp-
son, with these troops, said the
Yanks were meeting only a few
Japanese, and that the main body
of the emmy garrison in the north
western Luzon area was trying to
make it's way southwark through
foothills of the rugged Zambales
mountains.
Macarthur communique fo- the
first time since the January 9 IN
vasion failed to mention progress
of Yank columns which "a hours
before were reported Is miles in
land from Lingayen Gulf conve1g-
ing on Tarlac along two highways.
Tarlac is an important highway
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100000 Tons
Of Jap Ships
Sunk By U. S.
Huge Toll Continues Ia
Rise Over Period OF
Two Weeks

WASHINGTON, Jan. IT, Up -
The High Command, in a burst
of jubilance, revealed tonight that
U. S. ships and planes have sunk
250,000 tons of Japanese shipping
in two weeks and the returns are
still coming in.
A pattern of future destruction
of Japanese bases and supply lines
also was disclosed. Probably with
the thought that the Japanese ex-
pect it anyhow and the surprise
will have to be in the execution.
Therevelations came from the
Navy and the Army Air Force.
A SOLDERING thought came, how
ever, from General of the Army
George c. Marshall and Admiral
of the fleet. Ernest J. King, in
their letter to the President about
memanpower situation. They gave
he frankest description yet OF
what happened during the Philip
pine liberation, conceding that the
Japanese defenders caused "exten-
sive damage to naval vessels,
many of which will require major
repairs
Rear, Admiral M. F. Schoeffle,
assistant chief Of staff for naval
operations, announced at Navy
Secretary ForrestaTs press confer
ence the tonnage exacted by the
far-ranging task forces in the cur
rent two weeks sea and air often
sive. It started with a strike at
Formosa to keep japanese air
power immobilized while MacAr-
thur plunged on to Luzon and to
Illustrate any relief attempts.
Admiral Halsey's forces follow
ed up with strikes around Luzon,
then back to Formosa, and all the
way to the China coast. Tremen-
dous damage was wreaked by the
surprise air thrust at Indo-China,
Admiral Schoeffle said. and in a
single day there 10000 tons OF
shipping were destroyed.
Across town. an Army Air Force
spokesman radiated confidence in
the success of future air opera
tons, especially when Luzon and
the Manila harbor is secured.
He told reporters submarines
and land-based bombers from Lu-
zon then will just about cut off
Japan from any of her territories
to the south. Even now, the Nip
ponese can operate only one con-
voy route from the Dutch East
Indies, Siam and Burma and that
is under almost constant attack.
AS a result, he said, shortages
of essential materials are causing
concern in Japan. The enemy, he
added, apparently has no sizeable
stockpiles which he can tap by
rail or other inland communica-
tons.
This officer gave the Air Forces
picture of the LuZon invasion, dis
closing that 5,193 tons of bombs
were dropped on the Philippines
from December l. 1914 to January
II.
In answer to a question, he &C
knowledged that a Bog base at
Akyab on the Burma
coast would make bombing Of
Singapore, Bangkok, Rangoon and
the Dutch Indies milk run
He did not say whether establish
ment of such a base is contem-
plated, however.
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STUDY SCHEDULED
ON CONSERVATION
Highly Controversive
Measure Before The
Legislature

RALEIGH, Jan. II Up The
most controversial subject yet to
raise in the 1945 legislature appear
ed today when the Senate and
House passed a joint resolution pro-
viding for a study of the feasibility
of separating the division of game
and inland fisheries from the De-
partment of Conservation and De-
velopment.
The measure, by Rep. Stone of
Rockingham, passed both branches
under suspension of rules and pro-
vided that special commission
composed of three representatives
and two senators probe the matter
and report back by February l,
if possible.
The commission may be appoint
ed tomorrow by Speaker Richard
son and President Ballentine.
The legislation was in line with
recommendation Governor
Cherry made in his inaugural adj
dress. Although he said in pri-
mary campaign speech that he
favored the separation, he amend
ed his stand on January by say
ing he had reconsidered the matter
and thought the legislature should
investigate it before acting. He told
the Board of Conservation and De-
velopment two days ago that he
had can open mind on the SUBJ
ject and suggested that Assembly
action be based on the commits
sion's report.
Groups of sportsmen, particular
ly in the central and western areas,
have consistently favored the sep
aration for some time. claiming
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Warsaw Capture Creates
New Political Situation

In Washington there was little
optimism. although as one official
expressed it there is always hope"
for some sort of compromise be.
tween the Lublin administration
and the Polish exile government at
London which would permit an &C.
ceptable solution of the Polish issue.
If there is any real cnance of a
solution the opinion here is that it
will have to be worked out by
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stain in
their forthcoming Big Three meet
ing. The American position in sup
port of the exile government is
quite firm at the moment but Of
ficials frankly admit that this gov
eminent will not go on Indefinitely
regime without a coun-
try and will eventually have to seek
some different way out if a Lublin-
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Radio
Says Krakow
Also Seized
Three Crack Armies Head
ed For Berlin, 26O ~.
Miles Away

LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 18-
-UP)-Russian and Polish troops
yesterday liberated devastated
Warsaw to free its last survivors
of five years of Nazi tyranny. az
the Red Army's greatest offensive
surged "a miles across western Po-
land. capturing Czestochowa and
reaching within IA miles Of the
German border.
At the same time, the Red Army
launched a great new offensive
north of Warsaw that carried with
in 100 miles of Danzig and % miles
south of the East Prussian border.
Krakow, the fourth city of Poland,
also was reported to have been
liberated but Moscow said only
that Russian armored spearheads
were eight miles northeast of the
city at Sadowie.
Shoulder to shoulder, three crack
Soviet armies were driving west
ward across Poland along a twist
ing 45O-mile front. They were head
ed straight for Germany and were
26O to 288 miles from Berlin.
With Warsaw. the first European
capital to be overrun by Adolf Hit
ler's victory-flushed troops, behind
them, the Soviets were racing west
ward toward LODI, second city OF
Poland, and Russian spearheads
already were at Babsk, SO miles
east of LoZ.
German troops were retreating
hastily toward the borders Of the
Reich, and Berlin reports indicated
that the Nazis might be pulling out
of Poland entirely, writing off their
1899 conquest of the country. Ger"
man newspapers reaching Stock
holm said that the German High
Command had moved the puppet
government general of Poland from
Krakow to central Germany.
Nothing that has happened IN
the last five years of war can be
compared with the masses of men
and weapons which the Russians
have thrown into their winter Of
fensive," the German radio COM
mentator, Max Krull, said.
The Russians were striking with
blitz speed that paled Germany's
lightning marches through Poland
in 1899 and France in 1910 and
through Berlin protested its troops
were fighting far behind advance
Soviet lines, the German army ap.
peared to be in full rout.
More than 100000 Soviet SOL
diers were committed to the huge
offensive, and Moscow dispatches
said that savagery unparalleled In
four winters of war ragged on the
Eastern Front as the Russians tore
gaps int the German lines and split
and re-split enemy groups falling
back to the Oder river-the Rhlne
of the east.
Thousands of German troops
were killed yesterday as Soviet
troops, racing at mlle-an-nour
clip. outflanked the rich coal and
steel region of Silesia and split Its
defenders from the main German
armies in the LODI area. Capturing .
Slawniow, the Russians were only
"a miles northeast OF DabroWa'
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MAJ. Thomas Mcclure
Second Leading Ace In
Pacific, Is Shot Down

san ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. II.
-lUPl-Maj Thomas B. Mcclure,
second leading Southwest Pacific
ave ave credited with destroying 3S
japanese planes, has been killed
Al action, his wife was notified
sousy IN letter from his COM
handing general.
-, Mcclure, 25-year-old ii ghter
p sho. from Il Ridgewood, N. j., was
t snol down January 7, the letter
s.olh 1t Gen. George C. Kenney
IN, Mcclure. slim, former college
sf i1,e' took first place among
he sn.hs pilots last July q when
tie ton s no down his Dist plane while
" wy \ Pacific ace Maj. Richard Bong
=. .d Poplar r. Wis, was in the Unit
o ~ o'ales. His 2ist accredited kill
Sce, during the first large
Me ME- rad on Halmahera in the
r;or one of the longest mis-.
hou ns ilo"n by fighter pilots. Bong
NOW regained the lead ane
cTe m mas 40 destroyed planes to his
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Sailor Says He Lost Seat
On Plane To ElHoH;S Doe

emergency is so great that delay
in transpo1 tation would seriously
delay and impair the war effort.
Priorities for air transport COM
mand planes are set by the pri-
critics and traffic division of ATC,
at request of military agencies.
The young gunner on a Navy
tanker said he boarded the Army
cargo plane at Newark, N. j.,
after learning of the death of his
father, former police chief here.
Leroy had an emergency leave
and &c priority. At Dayton, Ohio,
he related, box containing "a
huge shaggy dog was put aboard.
The crate was so big it occupied
the space of three seats, he said,
and shipping directions stated it
had been dispatched by Col.
Roosevelt to his wife.
At Memphis, on January II, high
priority matter was put aboard.
recurring that some weight be left
behind. Leroy declared an Army
lieutenant told him, a sergeant and
la Navy Seabee. they would have
to leave the plane. I'VE protest
ed he said, land the lieutenant
showed the dog had an "a pri-
GRITTY, while we only had a c.
priority"
He said he hitchhiked from Mem
phis to Dallas, and eventually got
a plane from there to the coast.
The War Department spokesman
in Washington conceded that the
threeservicemen had been drop
ped off at Memphis, that the dog
continued, but that the department
had no information as to the iden-
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BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-lR-Sec-
rotary of State Stettinius today in
dorsed a proposal by Foreign Min
lister Eden of Britain for periodic
Anglo American Russian confer
ences to tighten cooperation among
the Allied powers.
His action conceded with a fresh
wave of interest here in the Anglo
American split with Russia over
the question of a Polish govern
ment. This renewed attention was
due to the Soviet capture of War
saw in the general Eastern Front
offensive.
1t was predicted both here and
in London that the Lublin admins
tration, which Moscow, recognizes
as a government, would further
strengthen its political position in.
side Poland by moving Immediately
to the battered national capital.
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FDR Declares
Service Law
Is Necessity
President Wants Yanks To
Go Forward With
Security

WASHINGTON Jan. 17.-;UP)-
President Roosevelt told Congress
today that it must without delay
enact work-or-fight legislation So
that our fighting men can go all
out with confidence" and our en-
emies be advised the offensive will
not slacken until victory.
In brief letter in which every
line emphasized the urgency of
Congressional action Oil the bill
that would force ifs into var
plants under penalty of enforced
service in special labor battalions.
Mr.. Roosevelt said again and
again, in effect, that the time for
Legislative action is now.
He bolstered his appeal with a
joint letter from his top Army and
Navy commanders. Gen. George
&c. Marshall and Admiral Ernest
J. King, which pointed up that ler-
sonnet losses on war fronts re-
quire 100000 requirements by June
L; that industry demands 10000
more workers in munitions; That
Naval vessels in Philippines en-
.gagements have suffered extensive
damage, and that Naval personnel
therefore also requires replace
ments.
THE urgent need OF this Iesisla-
ton has not 1esseaed but has in.
creased" Mr.. Roosevelt said. Gas
the agents directly responsible to
you for the conduct of military
operations, we feel that it is our
duty to report to you the urgent
necessity for immediate action to
improve the Situation of Army,
Navy and war factory replace
ments, the King-Marshall letter
said.
The Presidents appeal was in
a letter to Rep. Andrew ] May ID
Ky) chairman of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee which mas
been holding hearings on the work
or-fight bill for two weeks. In it,
Mr.. Roosevelt pointed out that this
bill affecting the 100000 men be-
tween 10 and As years old now in
the 4-F classification, was only a
prelude to all-emoracing. Nation
al Service legislation which he will
urge in the near future
The White House letter arrived
as the committee completed hear
ings at which the Army, Navy, Sc
lective Service and War Manpow-
er Commission approved the meas
ure while all segments of organic.
ed labor and most of industry op-
posed it.
May was expected 20 call his
committee into executive session
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FORECAST

s,;sbtly warmer in afternoon with In
rs. c,oudiness; moderate north and
northeast winds.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, slow, 80 ~ =
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CIVIL SERVICE
PLAN SUPPORTED
Member OF Board Agrees
With Police On Plans
Quality

The opening skirm;sn between
City Councilmen supporting a re-
vised Civil Service bill and Po-
lice and Fire department mem
bers opposing it began anti ended
with catch-as-catch-can debate
yesterday morning between Po-
lice Lieutenant. Coy EtheTldge, on
one side, and Councilman Robert
R. Romeo and City Attorney W. B.
Campbell nthe other
Reverberations in The torn OF
additional comments still were to
be heard last night, however.
Councilman r. S. LeGWln said
that as long as he, Let1win, was a
councilman he would back the
right of any City department mem
Der to bring his complaints to that
body with or without the acquit--
cence of his superiors.
The Rev. Earle L. Bradley, MN
isterial conference representative
on the Civil Service Commission,
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. A.
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Yanks Seize
Vielsam And
NearSt. With
patton's Forces Begin Out
thanking Wilt In
Luxembourg

PARIS, Thursday, Jan. 18.-
drp)-British tanks, cracking the
utmost defenses of the northern
Rbineland, swung north across the
base of the dangerous enemy sa.
lent in southeastern Holland Tues
dav willie U. S. troops recaptur-
ed embattled Vielsalm in the R.
DENIES and drove within four miles
f the big enemy stronghold of St.
With.
L. Gen. George S. Patton
Third Army began outflanking the
Luxembourg city of Wilt, twin an
Choir post with st. With at the base
of the Ardennes bulge, and invited
four strong armored counter-lung-
ed in the Oberwa1npacn area, four
miles northwest Of Wilt.
All four wererepulsed, with one
alone costing the Germans 18 out
of "a participating tanks and $50
infantrymen killed. Other fierce
armored action developed on the
north side of the bulge base as
The Germans counter attacked
First Army columns biting into
their escape corridor through St.
With.
The two U. S. armies, their lines
restored IN a powerful new front
east of fallen Houffailize, were ad-
yancing across on icebound battle
field to wipe out the last 300 square
miles of the Ardennes salient, only
one fourth of its maximum size.
Extending gains for the two days
Of their new drive to almost two
niles, Field Marshal Sir B. L.
Montgomery's tanks were threat
ening the Dutch road junction of
Echt, seven miles north of Sittard,
after breaking enemy resistance at
Dieteren, two miles to the south,
and capturing that town.
Wrapped in bedsheets and lace
curtains as comouflage against the
snow and supported by hundreds
Of Montgomery's famed guns, the
Second Asmy's armor already was
threatening to cut off an enemy
force in an island formed by tae
river Mas and the Juliana canal
just west of Echt.
The drive was paralleling t h e
canal between its course and the
German frontier, United Press
Correspondent Richard D. McMil-
Ian reported. He added that while
the Germans were at first resist
ing fiercely they are now sag
glng back slowly but surely"
On the first day of it's attack
the Second Army had stormed
across the Roode river at several
points and captured Dieteren in
advances of LOCO yards, placing
me Iommies one mile from the
herman frontier in the southeast
corner Of Holland.
Tine Brazzaville radio quoted
pufported German radio report
ula' the Canadian First Army had
opened an offensive northeast of
SJmesen, pointing at historic Arm
len and the north end of tn e
Sles1ried Line.) .
1rouhd fogs, rnuffling the roar
VI tn: Allled cannon and cutting visi-
l'''y TO a few feet, throttled prog
"Ol'lnued on Page Three; Col. s.
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ANTIOCH, Calf, Jan. 17.-R-
A young Navy gunner related to-
Gay that he and two other service
men were bumped off an Ar
my transport plane because dog
had a higher travel priority than
they did.
The dog, said Seaman First
Class Leon Leroy, was being ship
ped across country by Col. Elliott
Roosevelt to his wife, Actress Faye
Emerson, in Hollywood.
At Washington, War Depart
ment spokesman agreed that a
sailor, a soldier and NJ y Sea-
bee were put off plane at Mem
phis, January II, to tighten the
load, while dog, about which the
department had no information,
continued its journey by air.
Leroy, 10, told his story first to
the Red Cross as he sought help
in arranging fast transportation
back to his station, elaborated in
talks with reporters, and then, as
comment began to come from var
ious quarters of the nation, he
svoided callers.
His mother, Mrs. Al Leroy. ex.
planned Eyes, its all true enough
But this sort Of frightens us. Dc
you think it will affect his standing
with the Navy? He wasn't grip
ing p
An official in Washington said
Col. Roosevelt had returned re.
Gently to overseas duty with the
Air Forces. The White House had
no comment. One spokesman said
it was purely Elliott's affair.
Army regulations state an all
priority is granted only when ar