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Nazis Claim Destruction
Of Nine Ships In Convoy;
Churchill! Warning Noted

LONDON, Jan. 22.-tR-The Ger.
man High Commands claim that
U-boats sank six merchant ships
ard three corvettes in strongly
escorted Atlantic convoy supplied
the punch line today to Prime Min
lister churchill's warning that
still strong and resourceful enemy
has at least three weapons the AL
lies are watching warily.
In his summation of the mill.
tary picture and the political out.
look in Commons last Thursday,
Churchill injected into a generally
optimistic war report, II will just
add that we must keep our eye
en- jet-propelled fighter aircraft,
on the V-rockets and above all on
the renewed U-boat menace"
OF the three, the U-boats un-
doubtedly are causing tn most
concern although the menace Is
not nearly as great as when the
savage wolf packs tore at North
Atlantic conveys two an d three
years ago.
The monthly joint British-Amer.
lean statement January 10 report.
ed U-boat squirt and increased
Allied losses in December.
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and impeccable relations with ia
pan. But Russian silence was brok-
en- by Stain himself on the last
anniversary of the Red revolution
with the charge that Japan was
an aggressive nation"
Since then Soviet publications
and officials have discussed Japan
more freely, taking the line in al
most all cases that Japan is los
ing the war and cannot hope to
compete with Allied production.
Officials here carefully refrain
from specializing on Russian lining
up against Japan but privately
most of them cite many reasons
Why it would be in her interest to
play some kind of role in the
final Pacific campaign. The most
important is the understandable
desire of Russia to have voice
in the peace settlement for the Far
East,
The timing of such move by
Russia is considered all-important.
Some military men here contend
that it would be just as unfortunate
for Russia to enter the Far East
ern war prematurely-before she
is capable of resisting any Japa-
nese move into eastern Siberia
as it would be for her to stay per-
manently neutral. The United
States is interested primarily in
eventual bombing bases in Siberia.
If the japanese got them first be-
cause OF Russia's inability to pro-
tect them, it would seriously hurt
! the Allied cause.
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'YANK ENGINEERS
OPEN LED0 ROAD
First Conveys Ready To
Begin Journey Into
China

MYITKYIMA, Burma, Jan. 90
P)-The new Ledo Road to China
was officially declared open to mil
itary traffic tonight and the first
convoy of trucks to carry supplies
across Burma in two and half
years was ready to leave here on
the final leg of it's winding jour-
new of more than 1000 miles
through mountains and jungle to
Running.
1t. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, COM
mander of the India-Burma thea
ter, announced officially that the
road had been cleared of Japanese
troops and was ready to handle
conveys. The fall of the Chinese
border town OF Wanting eli.ninat-
ed the last remaining enemy OBJ
stacle to passage of Allied trucks.
Wanting, site Of former GUS
toms station on the o d Burma
Road, fell to Chinese troops two
days ago following two weeks of
bitter fighting. The next-to-last
japanese stronghold in the area
was Namhkam, stormed and cap
tured January Is in surprise as
sault. The jungle tract between the
two towns had represented the last
rs miles of the new supply line
that enemy troops menaced.
Drivers tonight were making fl
nal preparations for the final lap
OF their historic trip. They arrived
in Myitkyina last week after COW
ering the 262-mile stretch from the
western terminus at Ledo. Some
are Negro soldiers who will be-
come the first American ground
troops to enter China.
Opening of the road, which at
some points climbs to $500 feet
over the Pagcda and Punk
represents a major
milestone in U. S. Army Engineer
ing Corps history. The Army's sup
ply chief, 1t. Gen. Brehon S. Som
ervell, once described it as "the
toughest road construction job ev-
er attempted.
Men of five countries-the Unit
ed States, China, Great Britain, In
ola and Burma - were aided by
tens of thousands of Chinese cool
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East Prussiian
Forts Fall To
Red0ffensiive
Hitler Reported In Per.
sonal Command At !
Eastern Front I

LONDON, Tuesday, Jam
% CUP) Russian armies
attacking on an 800-mile front
yesterday advanced 38 mites
across the base of the Polish
corridor to within 165 miles
of Berlin, captured the East
Prussian fortress cities OF
Insterburg and Allenstein and
split the Nazis lines in the
southeastern tip Of German
Silesia.
Five Soviet army groups, which
Berlin estimated at 100000 men,
captured more than 1,750 towns
and settlements on the 18th day OF
the the great winter offensive roll-
ing down of Konigsberg, capital
of East Prussia; Poznan, last ma.
jor bastion on the Warsaw-Berlin
road; the great Baltic port of Daz.
zig, and Breslau, capital Of Lower
Silesia.
Unconfirmed reports credited to
the Berlin radio said that Adolf
Hitler had gone to tn Eastern
Front to assume personal CONF
mand, and Swedish newspaper dis.
patches reaching the Office of War
Information said the Germans
were building defenSes outside Der.
linz
Moscow announced that Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian
Army expanded its front inside ST.
lesia to IS miles yesterday and
drove to within % miles east Of
Breslau at the town of KaulWitz.
Konev's forces killed $4,000 Ger.
mans, captured $1,000 and destroy.
ed or captured 1874 tanks in 10 days
through Sunday, Moscow said.
The western wing Of Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's Sec.
ond White Russian Army driving
northward into East Prussia on
37-nile front captured the big rail
and highway center of Deutsch Ely.
lau, within A miles of the Baltic
and 81 miles of Danzig, and sever.
ed one of the main Nazi routes
from the Junker province. Moscow
dispatches said an estimated 2OO,.
600 Germans were threatened with
enlightenment by the tWo-way Sow.
ct drive into East Prussia.
The eastern wing seized Allen.
stein, town of $4,000, in a 19-mila
advances - greatest one-day gain
by any army on German soil in
this war.
Gen. Ivan D. Cherniahtovsky's
Third White Russian Army, driv.
ing into East Prussia from the
north, captured 1nsterburg, a city
of $4,000, and 20 miles to the west
was within 80 miles Of Konigsber9
at the town of Petersdorf. A col.
umn driving down the Baltic coast
reached within % miles of Konigs.
berg by capturing Agilla.
The crack First White Russian
Army, commanded by Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov, Premier Josef
Stains military deputy, scored the
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s anks Seize Airmen Bag
|Capas, Drive 5000 German
On Amdrome War Vehicles
Sixth Army 10 Miles From
Clark Field, 81 Miles
From Manila
ALLIED GEN. HEAD

ALLIED GEN. HEAD
QUARTERS, LUZON, Tues
day, Jan. 23.-CUP)-Sweep-
ing down the main Manila
highway for an 11-mile gain,
1t. Gen. Walter Krueger's
Sixth Army troops captured
Capas, less than 10 miles
from giant Clark airdrome
and 50 miles from Manila
while on the right flank they
slashed through to the west
coast of Luzon to reach Dasol
bay, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
On the bay, the American troops
captured Infanta, port of the main
west coast .highway-Highway No.
(which leads down into Bataan
peninsula.
They had advanced here to a
point % miles southwest Of Lin
gayen Gulf, their landing place,
and effectively had isolated any
Japanese troops remaining in the
Pangasian peninsula which forms
the west side of the Gulf.
In the main advance on Manila,
in the center of the American lines,
the Sixth Army troops captured
Santa Monica, nine miles east OF
Capas on lateral highway and six
miles south of captured La Paz.
To the north, on the American
left flank which was pushing steadi-
ly eastward, Anao, II miles north
northeast of captured Tarlac, and
Cuyapo, five miles northeast OF
Anao, were taken. Both towns are
on the east-west highway connect
ing north-south highways 3 and
Is, the two chief roads leading to
Manila.
Japanese resistance remained
negligible. Only on the right flank,
in the Anao-Cuyapo sector, was
there Japanese resistance. Here,
where the Americans had moved
patrols eastward of Highway Is to
Mt. Balungao, the japanese failed
in attempts to infiltrate demolition
parties into the lines and a small
enemy tank was sent fleeing.
At the north end of the American
front, inland from the Lingayen
Gulf coast port of RADON, artillery,
naval guns and planes joined in a
of japanese gun po-
sitions in the mountains near Ro-
sario.
Announcing for the first time the
units which made the triumphant
invasion of Luzon, Macarthur
named the First Corps, forming
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Russians Advance To 165 Miles From Berlin
Belgian Bulge Collapses In Rout OF Enemy
Mass EvacuationHDf Reich Capital Reported
AnH-Union Measur
Added In Draft Bill
Men Assigned To War Jobs Would Not Be
Required To Join Labor Groups; Plan
To Clarity Farm Deferments

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-tRH
An "anti closed shop" amend
ment was added to the manpower
bill today by the House Military
Committee, which meanwhile held
out an olive branch to agriculture.
The actions were taken as the
committee forged ahead with its
work on the bill applying criminal
penalties to men 10 through As who
refuse to work at war jobs at the
behest of their draft boards.
BY IA to 10 vote in closed ses-
sion, the committee approved an
amendment declaring that men as
signed to such jobs by draft boards
shall not be required to join a I'M
ion.
Then it overwhelmingly approved
another amendment designed to
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JAPS ANTICIPATE
NEW EXCHANGE OF
NATIONALS IN As

WASHINGTON, Jan. o. R-
The Japanse government mas ao-
vised Washington that it expects
tn he able to carry out an exchange
~ interned citizens of t h e two
countries some time this year.
The State Department today
made public a note sent from TO-
kvo late last year through Spanish
d;nlomatic channels giving the en-
erov,s official reaction to inslstent
American proposals that a third
exchange be arranged as soon as
The Japanse said that they are
narticularly interested in repatrlat-
;no nationals held at the Tule
Lake, Calf, segregation center.
The text Of the enemy note:
"Japanse government are care
fullv considering further exchange
Of nationals between Japan n d
limited States and expect to be
able to carry it out during next
wear Q945), in view of special ma
ture of Tule Lake segregation cen
ter. Japanse government are pre-
nared to give special consideration
to repatriation of Japanse subjects
detained there through exchange. -
The first exchange involving
more than 1900 Americans occur
ed in the summer of 1912. A Sec
ond took place late in 1913. 1t in
Guided 1910 United States citizens
and 26O nationals of other Amerl-
can nations and Canada as well
as a small number from the Phil
lippines.
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By IVES GALLAGHER

WITH THE U. S. NINTH ARMY,
Jan. 22.-tR-While Gen. EisenhoW-
err has been trying to convince
American soldiers that fraternlza-
ton with the enemy is dangerous
and that German youth has been
poisoned by Nazism, some Army
intelligence officers have tried to
suppress one of the best evidences
of the Supreme Commanders con-
tention.
This incident is the climax OF a
steady growth of interference by
American Army officers who are
not connected with censorship, but
who try to restrict the policy OF
freedom of news within the bounds
of security laid down by the Su-
preme Commander.
In this case, 17-year-old Ger
man girl was arrested on suspicion
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of participation in sabotage. In her
possession were found papers on
which she had written in the most
violent terms her day by day
thoughts concerning American SOL
diers and what she would like the
Germans to do to them.
These papers constituted one OF
the few evidences that have come
into Allied hands of the true feel
ings of the Germans toward t h e
Americans. Newsmen considered it
good story, also strong support
for the campaign against fraterni-
cation.
A Ninth Army briefing officer
who read quotations from the girls
writings in official reports passed
them on to correspondents, W h o
wrote the story.
But because the story developed
in First Army territory field cen
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flame Crew In Hospital,
Eliot Dead, After Crash
At Pennington Airstrip

Two injured members of the
sIe| OF an ago attack-bomber
WHY, .nicA crashed on Pennington air
r rntp at Carolina Beach yesterday
n n!.g were in the station hos
t a.; al Bluethenthal Field Army
~ ~. base last night, but neither
s aeiF condition nor their names
s vutu De diVulged, since no ac-
h hlO"Iedgment OF notification had
kin. Il oiii 'helr neAt "a
~, The pilot of the plane. which
sn ras nave been forced into an
was eglseAcy landing by adverse
Tb ea'lleF conditions, was killed.
t.i e plane was described as a ito
c oh wreck by Bruce Valentine,
ne OF police at Carolina Beach.
~, me plane and its crew were
Tbirs 81 a unit stationed at the
baso O AIT Forces Morris Field
W qse Charlotte although they
Myrtlo0 q a ter" orarily on the
troro 1e Beach Amy Air station,
aigb - winch they took off on the
' which ended in the crash.a
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Japan Believed Worried
Oper Russian Peace Pact

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-UP)-
Japan is worried about Russla's
future intentions in the Far East
as the renewal option date Of the
five-year Russo-Japanese non-ag-
erosion pact draws near, foreign
affairs experts said tonight.
The Soviet Union must decide be-
fore April Is whether to continue
the pact another five years or de-
nounce it and permit it to expire
a year from that date-April Is,
1916. Meanwhile, Russian criticism
of the japanese has become more
bold as reflected by recent Japa-
nese broadcasts warning the
Soviet Union against crooked dip
lomatic genius by the United
States and Great Britain ito Sc
cure at least Russias moral CO.
belligerency in respect to the Pa
cific war, if not her full embroil-
ment."
premier Stain will be COM
PEELED to show his hand in respect
to the Pacific war before April
next" the japanese Domei agen-
cy was quoted by Federal Com
munications Commission monitors.
The whole subject of Russia's
possible role in the Far East is
expected to be On the agenda of
the forthcoming Roosevelt-C Church
ill-Stalin meeting.
Russia's possible role against
Japan has been one of the most
delicate of subjects among the Al
lies. Until recent months the
Kremlin has maintained correct
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ASSEMBLY KILLS
CAT PROPOSAL
Forsyth lawmakers Bill
Would Have Protect
ed Wildlife

RALEIGH, Jan. q. -P- After
receiving a bill to raise the COM
pulsory school attendance age
from IA to 16 years, the House to-
night killed a bill by Rep. Sam
Welfare of Forsyth which sought
to protect game and w:?dlife by
the control of stray cats.
The motion to table the "cat'
measure was made after Rep. Ed
wards of Swain mad offered an
amendment which would have ex-
empted "tom CATS after 10 pm.
The motion was adopted by voice
vote.
The bill, which would have al
lowed any person over 81 to ''hu-
namely kill stray cats caught kill
ing game or wildlife protected by
the State game laws, was the first
measure to be tabled in the House
during the current session.
Earlier, an amendment sent up
by Rep. Arthur Of Onslow sought
to exempt tom cats" in Onslow
county, but Edwards amendment
would have made the charge State
wide. Rep. Pritchett Of Caldwell
made the motion II table.
A total of II bills, mostly OF a
local nature, were introduced in
the House in the busias: night ses-
sion of that body. The Senate in
session II minutes, received no
bills and passed none
The measure to increase the
school attendance age is in line
with another of Governor Cherry's
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Army Field Censors Charged With Polling
Eiisenh0werS Plan To Pro ue Nazi Menace

sors called First Army censors and
asked if there were any objections
to the stoy.
AS a result, a First Army coun-
ter intelligence corps officer call
ed the Ninth Army Command and
objected, declaring that the girls
writings were secret and that any,
way when the story was released
it should be given out by the First
Army to correspondents accredit-
ed to the First Army.
Correspondents dispatches then
were held in the First Army for
three days while field press cen
sors, all junior officers, tried to
get them released.
Meanwhile a British woman cor
respondent tried to interview the
girl and her parents. The parents
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M0NYWA TAKEN
BY BRITISH ARMY
Three Smashing Victories
Over Japs In Burma
Reported

CALCUTTA, Jan. o. OP) -
Three smashing Allied victories ov-
er the Japanese in Burma were re.
ported today in Southeast Asia
command communique which said
that British forces have entered the
major enemy base of Monywa, cap
tured the Ramree Island harbor OF
Kyaukpyu and that Chinese troops
from Burma and China have join
ed forces on the Ledo Burma
road.
Monywa, important enemy COM
munications center and one of the
major strongholds barring the way
to Mandalay, about SIS airline miles
to the east, was attacked from the
north by British column advanc-
ing d o W n the Yeu - Mandalay
branch railroad.
The British fought their way into
the town against desperate Japanes
street-to-street resistance.
(The London radio, quoting dis
patch from BIC Correspondent
Richard Sharp, said that the town
fell suddenly despite expectations
that the fight would be long and
difficult. The broadcast was heard
by United Press in New York;
More than 100 planes of the East
ern Air Command, including rock
et-firing Hurricanes, Joined in the
assault on Monywa.
Front dispatches said that the
japanese apparently W er deter
mined to hold Monywa, garrisoning
it with men of the crack 33rd di-
vision which fought in the inva-
sion of Burma in 1912.
Additional progress, meanwhile,
was reported for two other Brit
ish columns also closing in on
Mandalay. One column, driving
down the Shwebo Sagaing road,
was fighting against strong Japa-
nese resistance at a point 10 miles
north of Sagaing, which is the site
of the Japanese escape route from
Mandalay proper.
A third column, which last was
reported to have thrust armored
spearheads within IS miles OF
Mandalay on the east bank Of the
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Great Test Has Come.
Mazi Leaders Declare
Neutral Diplomat In Sweden Describes Long
Lines of Trucks Bearing Documents from
Berlin; No Other Confirmation

LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 3D.
UP)-Unconfirmed reports reach.
ing neutral Stockholm indicated to.
day that the Germans mad started
mass civilian evacuation of Ber-
lin as Russians swept to within
165 miles of the capital, and Nazi
propagandists told their people
that the great hour of our most
sincere test mas come"
The Stockholm newspaper Alton
bladet quoted a neutral diplomat
arriving in Bern, Switzerland, from
Berlin as saying he saw long col
umns of heavily-laden trucks driv-
en- by Nazi storm troopers leaving
the Reich chancellery, indicating
that important archives were be-
ing evacuated.
Mass evacuation of the CAPT
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ROOSEVELT URGES
FOOD PRODUCTION
OPA Denies That Any
Items Will Undergo
Major Point Change
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.- IN =

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.- N
President Roosevelt called on
Americans today to help grow, pro-
cess. conserve and share food.
The White House statement made
no mention of such factors, but it
set off immediate speculation
whether it was intended to help
fill the places of new farm draf-
tees.
Congress now is embroiled over
Selective Services call for re-
view of agricultural deferments for
young men, with farm state legis-
lators pressing for a stiffly-word-
ed directive requiring literal appli-
cation of the Tydings Act, blue
print for farm deferments. The
farm group insists that if more
agricultural workers are inducted,
food production will suffer.
Another suggestion was that the
President might have been laying
groundwork for tighter food ration
ing but Office of Price Administra-
ton officials said no major changes
are under consideration. 1t was in
dicated that there will be few point
value changes in February. In re-
cent weeks OPA has restored near
ly all meats, and cooking and SAL
ad fats, to the point list.
Mr.. Rooseyelt's statement, which
he described as these calls to ac-
tion." paid tribute to the perfor-
nance of those Americans VINO IN
the last three war years have mad
a part in the food program.
Gas we enter a new year, II
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Third Army Finds Luxem-
bourg Salient Virtually
Deserted

PARIS, Tuesday, Jan: %.
(AP)-The Belgian bulge
collapsed yesterday in a Ger
man rout over ice-glazed and
snow-drifted roads as Allied
warplanes knocked out nearly
5000 enemy motor vehicles
and tanks-enough to equip
almost an entire enemy Pan
ger army.
In an aerial slaughter without
equal in this war, airmen rained
Furnishing blows on the remains of
two German Panzer armies that
had made the Ardennes break
through. At the same time some
1000 railroad cars were destroy
ed or damaged in aerial sweeps
over Nazi supply lines.
More than 5000 sorties were
flown in close support of ground
forces. Marauders sealed the ex-
its on the only good highway lead
ing out of the German-held sector
of Luxembourg into Germany and
the Siegfried Line while fighter
bombers strafed and divebombed
enemy equipment damned bump
er-to-bumper for miles on snow
covered main and secondary
roads.
Flying weather was good in the
wake of storms, but on the ground
heavy snow and slippery roads i'm
peded the Doughboys.
The U. S. Third Army, racing
ahead up to five miles, found the
Luxembourg half of the shattered
Ardennes salient virtually desert
ed and resistance disorganized,
and the enemy stand crumpled be-
fore the U. S. First Army in Bel
GUM.
Pilots reported hardly any of the
German columns fleeing from the
Ardennes made good their escape;
earlier accounts had put the num-
Der of enemy vehicles caught on
the roads at about 5000.
They reported IS tanks and ar
mored vehicles. 1888 trucks and
635 railroad cars destroyed, and
81 tanks and armored vehicles and
1,179 trucks damaged Hundreds of
German troops were slain.
Three hundred medium and light
bombers set the stage for the kill
by blowing up bridges and lock-
ing roads along the paths of re-
treat.
All day long the German col
uinns, withdrawing too late from
the Ardennes, were ripped in a
hurricans of bombs, rockets and
bullets by swarming warplanes
snarling down through the mists
on the transports, massed so
densely on icy roads that pilots
said they could not miss.
Front dispatches quoted fighter
bomber pilots as saying the scene
of havoc, stretching from northern
Luxembourg into Germany east of
the Siegfried Line, was worse
than at Falaise. where Allied aer-
ial execution was so terrible the
enemy could not rally for a stand
on the Seine.
Thus, Field Marshal Won Rund-
stedt found one of his two mobile
reserve armies practically on foot
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