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| 200 NAVY Planes Hit Tokyo
Reds Outflan% Beriin's Eastern Defenses
War Casualties Jump
1888 In One Week;
Grand Total 782,18O

WASHINGTON, F e b. 15.-UP)
Announced American war casu-
allies jumped 1888 during tn e
past week to a grand total Of 1872
180-approximately the population
Of Boston.
The total includes 169,046 killed,
a figure comparable to the popu-
lation of Nashville, Tenn. 1t also
includes 449, 100 wounded, 10O,944
missing and 5000 prisoners of
war.
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson revealed that Army cas-
ualties compiled through February
7 totaIed 693,342 and reflect losses
through January. The total in
cludes 1855 killed, 4O8, 553
wounded, 58,556 prisoners and co.
723 missing. OF the wounded, 202-
813 have returned to duty.
He said that more than half the
Army's total casualties - 1894, 81
Represented losses suffered by
the Ground Forces alone on the
Western front from D-Day June s
to February l. Included were g.
40 killed, 273,997 wounded and
81, 467 missing. Ground forces
casualties on the Western Front
in January were 81, 962-8848 kill
ed, 1925 wounded and 11,789 miss
ing.
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Big CRASHES
AT N. Y. FIELD
Five Rescued From Flames
In Water Off La Guardia
Airport

NEW YORK. Feb. Is Up, "A
B-29 Superfortress, attempting to
make an emergency landing at La
Guardia airport. crashed and burn
ed spectacularly If Flushing Bay
at $50 p. m. (EWT) today.
Five survivors were rescued
from the flaming waters by Coast
Guard, police and airlines crash
boats which fought through the fire
and heavy smoke to the wreckage.
More than three hours after the
accident the most disastrous at the
airport since the field opened in
1899, five crew members were an
nounced officially as missing. OF
the survivors. four were said to be
in good condition, with the fifth suf-
fering from shock.
Col. Eugene F. Gillespie, com,
handing officer of the Army All
Transport installations at the field,
said such plane usually carried
a crew of II.
Eye-witnesses said the big bomb
er apparently overshot the runway
as it attempted to land. The pilot
nosed the Superfortress up to circle
the field again but as it turned, the
left wing dipped. The ship lost
altitude, struck the water, somer-
saulted and crashed, Immediately
bursting into flames.
It had taken off short time earl
ier from Mitchell Field, Long Is
land, about IS airline miles away.
Rescue equipment, thrown into
action by radio message from the
plane that it was coming In with
the left cupboard engine not operat-
ing, was racing down the runway
when the crash occurred.
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AERIAL WAR HELD
IN FINAL STAGE
Yank Planes Strike II
Miles Ahead OF Red
Advance

LONDON, Feb. Is (UP) Al
lied air forces, unleashing the
wars greatest assault on Ger
many with 1900 planes blasting
the Reich in two days, dealt
sledge-hammer blows to both the
Western and Eastern Fronts TO-
day.
U. S. heavy bombers pounded
the siX-way railway hub of Colt
bus, only IL miles from reported
spearheads of the Russian armies,
in the closest support ever given
by the Allies to the Soviet adj
vance. and LOO medium and
fighter bombers raked enemy tar
gets behind the Western Front.
An observer at U. S.. Eighth Air
Force headquarters said the Al
lies were observing the final
phase" of the air war. The Ameri-
can and British fleets, which had
dropped $4,000 tons of bombs on
Germany in So hours, now were
in a position to give direct support
to both fronts while continuing the
SCATTERING assaults on interior in
dustrial cities, he said.
Berlin, Magdeburg, Vi nm a,
Chemnitz, Nuremberg, Duisdorf,
Dortmund, Mainz and Dresden
had felt the might of the all-out
aerial blitz in the past two days
with Italy based bombers joining
the assaults. The Transocean
News Agency quoted official Ger
man sources as saying that the
great city of Dresden had been
reduced to dust and ashes.'
Tactical forces on the Western
Front, which had flown more than
1000 sorties yesterday, added L.
700 to the total today in hitting
enemy transportation centers, sup
plies and armor along the south
ern part of the front.
The U. S. Eighth Air Force sent
more than 1900 Fortresses, Liber-
ators n d supporting Mustang
fighters over the Reich today to
attack Cottbus; great synthetic
oil refinery near Magdeburg and
the refugee-packed Saxon capital
of Dresden, which shuddered I'M
der it's third major assault in 48
hours.
More than $50 of the heavy
bombers flew almost t h e entire
width of Germany to bomb Colt
bus, second only to Berlin as
rail junction serving the Eastern
Front and only IL miles, accord
ing to German reports, from the
vanguards of Marshal Ivan S. Ko-
news First Ukrainian Army. =
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Canadians Pour Men
Across Riuer At Goch
Seventh Army Lashes Out in New Attack
South Of Saar Basis; Third Army driv-
ing Into West Wall Below Pruem

day was mile and half through
advanced West Wall positions Is
miles south of Pruem along the
Sure river.
A fall of 16 inches on the flood
ed Roer, where the U. S. First
and Ninth and British Second Ar
mics are deployed, indicated that
that troublesome barrier on the
Cologne plain was returning to
normal. T he Germans shelled
First Army positions around the
Roer dams southeast of Aachen.
Resistance to Gen. H. D. C. Gre
rar's Canadian First Army WI S
lightest on the south flank, where
Scottish troops captured Kessel,
bridged the Niers river and pour
ed armor across four miles north
west of Goch.
Two and a half miles to the
southwest, Hommersom, second
village blocking the approaches to
Goch, also fell and the attack thus
carried across the Niers all the
way, from Kessel to Gennep at the
confluence of the Niers and Mas.
The Germans had been pouring
in blistering fire along this river
front, but now the weight of their
defensive fire veered to the east.
Btween the forces pressing on
Goch and Calcar, a British col
umn was punching slowly down
the highway from -Kleve to Ted
EN-, a traffic control center four
miles east of Goch. Enemy NOR
tar and artillery fire was intense.
Heaviest fighting on the ap-
proaches to Calcar ragged in Moy-
land woods, where the Germans
were clinging to a hill from which
they could sweep the main high
way into the town.
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FiinanceCroup
favorsPeak
State Budget
$2l5,OOO,O0O Appropria-
ton Bill Expected To
Be Passed

RALEIGH, Feb. 15|PLThs
Joint Appropriations Committee,
moving with unprecedented speed
voted today to report favorably the
record-breaking House appropria
tons bill calling for the expendi
ture of more than $215, 10000 ir
the next biennium.
The committe thus completed
its work on the money measure
and made it ready for floor action
in less than six weeks, during which
group received requests for more
than $20,000,0OO in additional ap.
preparations for various depart.
ments, agencies and institutions.
The bill is expected to hit the
floor Tuesday of next week, and
veteran legislators predicted il
would pass both Houses in record
time because of previous settlement
of controversial matters regarding
proposed exenditures.
A recommendation from Cover
nor Cherry that $40 monthly con-
tingent war bonus be paid all school
and State employees, and that the
salary schedule recommended BY
the State Board of Educ alton be
adopted in place of that recon-
mended in the budget bill by the
Advisory Budget Commission, pave
the way for quick action on the
part of the committe in reporting
the measure out
The Governor bonus recommen
dations and the teacher salary
schedule were adopted by the com
mite in the form of an amend
ment sent up by Sen. Wade Bar
Der of Chatham. An amendment by
Rep. Hatch of Wake which woulc
have provided higher salary
scale for teachers and provided
payment of school principals fol-
10 months yearly. was defeated
Earlier, the committe had ap
proved an additional appropriation
of $685. $50 for the States mental
hospitals, following a recommends
ton made yesterday by a sub.
committe which laid most of the
the blame for unsatisfactory
conditions" at the four institutions
to "a conflict between business ano
professional management. The ad
ditional sum brought the total ap
preparation for the hospitals to APP.
proximateiy $6,000,000 for each
year of the biennium.
On the floor, duties of the State
Board of Education, the Stats
Superintendent of Public Instruct
ion and the Controller were out
lined today in bills introduced in
by Rep. Stone of Rockingham, and
Senators McBryde of Hoke,
O'Berry of Wayne and Pate of
Scotland.
The Identical measures bore the
approval of Governor Cherry and
followed some of the suggestions
he made his inaugural address.
The meas would direct the
State Board of Education, whose
appointive members would serve
staggered terms, to appoint a Con-
toller and fix his salary. A recently
adopted Constitutional amendment
made no provision for continuation
of that office
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we have no other possible designs
against the Soviet, and that all
we want from Russia is freedom
and independence"
In connection with tn troops
under the London government, a
dispatch from Rome today report
ed that Gen. Wladyslaw Anders,
commander of Polish troops in
Italy, had issued an order of the
day appealing to his men to main
tain discipline despite the heavy
blow which the Polish cause has
suffered" in the Crimea confer
ence decisions.
ArciszeWski accused the Big
Three of dictatorial acts and said
that Britain and the United States
may be disillusioned by Russia Sin
the very near future"
He said that his government
would not resign because of the
Crimea decisions. eff we resigned
it would mean accepting the die
tates of foreign poWers,'' he said.
The Polish nation, he said, docs
not believe in the words of Russia
when she rsomises free democra-
cy for Poland"
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col, A
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YANKS FOIL :JAPS
IN MANILA PLANS
Enemy Defense System Not
Set Up To Block
u. S. Blows
CEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD

GEN. MacARTHUR's HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Friday, Feb.
16. -U.P)- American troops are
steadily cutting down the trapped
Japanese troops in south Manila
and have foiled enemy plans to
hold out indefinitely in the Phil
ippines capital, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur announced today.
Fighting into the japanese
pocket from house to house, the
Americans destroyed or captured
800 more enemy cannon and 244
e1nplaced machineguns, MacAr-
thurs daily communique reveal
ed.
United Press Correspondent
Ralph Teatsorth reported from
within the city late yesterday that
the Japanese held an area of
about two square miles, including
the Intramuros, the ancient wall
section, and extending south to
the region around Harrison Park.
The communique said captured
japanese documents showed the
enemy had planned a major and
successful defense of Manila" ap-
parently hoping to hold the city
and Manila Bay as turning
point of the Luzon campaign.
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the
the japanese commander on Lu-
ION, put 10000 troops into Manila,
furnished them with Hundreds of
guns of various calibers and many
thousands of mines and built an
elaborate system of concreate
strongholds and pillboxes.
But these defenses were fitted
to face an attack from the south
and from Manila Bay, the com
munique said. MacArthur's divi-
slons moved down from the north,
from Lingayen Bay, and entered
the city February 3 from the
north and east.
The plans were dedicated by the
rapidity of the development by
our forces and the dislocation and
unbalance caused by our unanti-
cipated advance and attack from
the north and east" the communi-
que continued.
No details were given OF the
fighting in south Manila. Previous
reports to headquarters, however,
said Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beight-
Continued on Page Two: Col. 81
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Massive Push
Tcepples Vital
Sommerfeld.
Sorau Also Overrun In
Race Around Frank
fort Barrier

LONDON, Friday, Feb. 16.-(P)-
The Red Army, paced by attack
ing American heavy bombers, out.
flanked Berlin's eastern defenses
yesterday in a powerful 30-mile
breakthrough which toppled t h e
Brandenburg province stronghold
of Sommerfeld, 81 miles from the
imperilled Reich capital.
Sweeping across the Bober,
Luebst and Queis rivers south OF
their confluence with the central
Oder, Marshal Konev's First Uk-
raine Army cut in behind a Is
mile stretch of the Oder held by
the enemy between Fuerstenberg
and Neusalz, thus destroying the
effectiveness of that defense line
guarding the capital on the south
east.
The rapid advnace from the
depths of Silesia, apparently aim.
ed at racing around the Fuersten.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES line due
east of erlin, also overran Sorau
IL miles southeast of Sommerfelo
and Gutenberg, rs miles northeast
of Sommerfeld.
The strength of the Soviet force:
invading new sections of Branden
burg, Berlin's home province, was
indicated in Premier Marshal Sta
Inns order of the day which cited
% generals in the capture of the
thre strongholds. Two thousand
Germans and 100 parked planes
were captured.
Berlin said the Russians already
had reached and crossed the
Neisse river west of Sonnmerfelc
at a point only 81 miles from Der
lin, putting Soviet troops IL miles
from the Spree, last natural de-
Tense line guarding Berlin on the
southeast.
Front dispatches said that Ko
news lower wing also had driver
to within As miles of Dresden, CAPT
tai of Saxony, after reaching the
Neisse river in the area of Goer
litz, IA miles northeast of Prague
Czechoslovak capital.
A Stockholm dispatch said thai
Dresden was a burning inferno
because of heavy U. S. bomber
attacks paving the way for the
Soviet ground drive, and that
items of thousands of persons
had been killed there. The report
came from the Berlin correspond
ent of the newspaper Dagens Ny
heter.
The fall of the three important
functions of commune atoms and
mighty strongpoints of German
defenses'' southeast of Berlin was
aided by U. S. heavy bomber
attack On Cottbus, strategic rail
junction only q miles west of cap
tured Sommerfeld.
In another striking example of
closest liaison between the Amer
lean airmen and Russian ground
forces nearly 500 U. S. bombers
hurled some 1,500 tons of ex-
plosives on Cottbus, big 12-Way
junction clogged with German
81
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Giant Carrier Force
Strikes laps Heart
Greatest Battle Fleet Assembled; Raids Con-
tinuing With Waves of Bombers;
Nipponese Navy Challenged
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam Fri
day. Feb. 16.-(AP)-The most powerful battleship and
aircraft carrier force aoa poured than 1000 Hecats
and Army planes shelled and bombed islands the SOUTH
More flattops than America before assembled in
single operation sending raiders in continuous
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|B.29'S HIT FOE
FROM new BASE
Large Force Pounds Hon
shu War Industry;
Nagoya Rocked

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS - Up -
Superfortresses from a newly re-
vealed base added weight today to
a new strike at. Japanese produc-
ton.
The development pointed up an
assertion by Secretary Stimson that
the enemy has no safe areas left.
Few details were Immediately
available here or at Guam ope~at-
ing headquarters on the latest blow
beyond the fact that a large force
was involved, that part of them
came from the recently established
base on Tinian Island in the Mari
anas, and that the target was in
dustry on the main japanese island
of Honshu.
Japanese broadcasters, however,
were more specific, naming often
bombed industrial Nagoya as the
main objective, saying there wers
B-29s over other areas, and admit
ting some damage.
A few hours after the bare an
nouncement of the raid, it was re-
vealed at goth Air Force Headquar-
tiers here that new wing OF its
21st Bomber Command, the 313th,
is operating from Tinian. Previous
ly the only announced island oper-
ating base had been Saipan.
Shortly afterward, 21st Bomber
Headquarters on Guam reported
that some of today's raiders were
from Tinian. That report accom-
panied early information that the
bombardiers had to work through
an overcast.
Tinian's field was commissioned
last December, it was revealed,
and the first BIOS landed there
December 81.
The secretary of War, discuss
ing Superfortress operations at his
news conference, said that the
Japanese admit the present dam
age to their industry and the GER
tainty of much greater damage in
the future when they speak OF NOV
ing airplane factories and otter
vital plants to Manchuria.
He asserted that the oriental ag-
gressor's diminishing area OF con-
quest offers no secure haven OF
safety anywhere
Evidently reassessing B-29 re-
suits since he said week ago that
'Japan's productivenesS has not
yet been fundamentally weaken
ed,' Stimson said damage to an
aircraft factory at Ota last week.
was SERIOUS" e
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PARIS, Feb. 15.- Up The Ca
madam First Army in a two-mile
gain poured troops and tanks to-
day across the last river before
the stronghold of Goch, beyond
which lies open rolling country
leading to Germany's great mum.
tons producing region.
AS Canadians and British weld
ed two crossings of the Niers riv-
er into solid Smile bridgehead,
other forces pressing due east IA
miles inside C e m any neared
Moyland, less than two miles from
the communications center Of Cal
car and II miles from Vessel in
the northwest corner of the indus
trial Ruhr.
On the north flank, Canadians
seized control of 20 miles of the
Rhine's south bank east of Mi
megen by entering Hurendeich
and capturing ferry crossing to
the textile town of Emmerich, five
miles northeast of Kleve.
At the opposite end of the West
ern Front, the U. S. Seventh Army
dashed out in a new attack south
OF the Saar Basin that gained up
to mile and a half on a tive
mile front.
This attack, dealt by the 44th
Division, ironed out German sa-
ient east of TIE French citv OF
Sarreguenines in the northern
VoSgeS mountains.
Comparative quiet lay over the
remainder of the front, except for
the Eifsl mountain sector where
the U. S. Third Army is attacking
the West Wall south of Pruem.
This fallen German citadel w S
under enemy artillery fire.
Rest Third rr,o1, q J,,opoo 80 A. i.
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WLB Defied
By Higgins

ASHIN TON, Oct. 81
'IPA) - Andrew ]. Higgins,
once acclaimed by the daily press
as the Henry Ford of shipbuild-
ing, showed his anti-union col
ors last week when he stalked
out of a War Labor Board hear
ing and said that he would no
longer honor a contract with his
employees in his New Orleans
shipyard.
By walking out, Higgins dis
rupted negotiations with the
AFL Metal Trades Council which
he contended had not been
proved as the proper bargaining
agent. The CLOS Industrial
Union of Marine & Shipbuilding
Workers claims that it now rep
resents a majority of the 5000
workers involved. The National
Labor Relations Board has set a
hearing for Nov. /. After walk
ing out, Higgins refused to re-
turn after a recess and shortly
his lawyers walked out also. At
issue were such questions as the
closed shop and the collective
bargaining rights of foremen
Higgins and his lawyers indi-
Gated that they would not abide
by a WLB order extending his
present union contract.
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a NLRB conducted election.
Hobart's is the second plant
to pick the UAW-CIO in the
past 18 months, the other
being the Waco Aircraft Corp.
which voted CIO by a decisive
majority last year. A previous
attempt to organize the Hobart
Co. by the AFL ended in failure
shortly before the Waco plant
election and there was some
doubt about the ability of the
Auto Workers to complete the
organizational work successfully,
Tull In Charge
Organizationai work which
has been concentrated in the
past six months among Hobart
employees was in charge of Har-
old Tull, International UAW-
CIO organizer. Assisting Mr.
Tull were Howard Seren, Walter
Madrzykowski, Chris Topel,
Carl Schick and John Burke.
Continued on Page Two
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Record Vote Turnout Is
Predicted For Novem Der 8
Navy Stalls
OiIWorkers

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81
1PA) - The governments
seizure of So oil plants and
their operation by the Navy
has only aggravated griev-
ances, it was indicated last week
by the CIO Oil Workers Inter
national Union. Navy's retention
of the properties of the 26 COM
panies taken over by order of
President Truman makes it
possible for the managements to
stall collective bargaining in
definitely" an OWIU statement
said.
President o. A. knight asked
that: "(D - Either the COM
panies should agree to arbitra-
ton of the difference between
the 15% they have said they are
willing to grant and the 800
that the union is asking, or (2)
The Navy should return the
seized plants to private manage
ment, and let the companies and
the union engage in the normal
process of collective bargain
ing"
Hope Dispelled
Hope that the Navy would
negotiate the wage demands that
resulted in the companies pro-
voking the strike and rejecting
Labor Secretary Schwellen-
bach's arbitration offer were
dispelled last week. Knight con-
tended that Under Navy" seiz-
ure, the status quo prevails. The
48-hour week has not been re-
duced to 40 hours, thus prevent
ing the rehiring of thousands of
returning veterans. Further,
tnere mas Deen no assurance JnaL
there will be no reduction in
take-home pay when the hours
are reduced"
knight declared that the need
for speedy settlement is urgent,
and added that workers know
that the oil companies can af-
ford the 800 requested by the
union" The union cited indus
trial reports which showed that
the IA major oil companies
showed a 2285 increase in divi-
dends in 1914 over 1889 and a
96%o greater net income.
We Can win With Burke
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da drawn up by William Green,
Philip Murray, Eric Johnston of
the Chamber of Commerce and
Ira Mosher of the Natl Assn of
Manufacturers.
Besides the full conference
sessions, six working commit
tees will be set up, on which
alternate labor and management
delegates will serve, as well as
the first-string delegates. A
three-fourths vote will be re-
quired favoring reports they
submit to the full conference.
Here is the proposed agenda,
agreed to unanimously by the
four labor-management leaders:
81. The extent to which indus
trial disputes can be minimized
by full and genuine acceptance
by management of collective
Continued on Page Two
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GIossWorkerS,
A&P Still Strike

APP warehouse workers and
the Flatglass Workers, both CIO
unions were still on strike as the
week drew to a close with very
little hope of immediate settle
ment of either work stoppage.
The warehouse workers con-
tinued their strike when the
A&P Co., failed to join with
six other struck Toledo ware
houses in negotiating contract
satisfactory to the United Retail,
Wholesale, Department Store
Employees Union on October 20.
Only progress made thus far was
the company's agreement with
the wage stipulations. The other
six warehouses are in full op-
Grafton.
Effect No Settlement
William Akos, president of
Local 9, Flat Glass Workers
CIO stated that no change had
taken place on the glass work
ers strike which is tying up the
plants of the Libbey-Owens-
Ford Glass Co., here. Mr.. Akos
said that the union and COM
pany have negotiated five times
since January 1914, and that
each time negotiations have
failed to make progress for the
Union. The strike will continue,
he said, until the company
changes its position and shows a
willingness to negotiate in good
faith.
The glass workers strike is
considered a continuation of the
June strike which was author
lied and voted on according to
terms of the Smith -Connally
Act.