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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-07
NaZis Accused
Of Atrocities

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (INS)
The Soviet embassy has charged
that German occupation forces in
Lithuania burned people alive on
bonfires" and carried out whole
sale killings of old men, women,
children and prisoners OF war in
attempts to make that country a
Nazi colony.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-07
Spain Halls Macarthur

MADRID, Feb. 6 (INS)-Entry
Of American forces into Manila,
capital of the once Spanish owned
Philippines, was hailed through
out Spain as a white victory over
yellow TYRANNY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-07
AT CASANOVA

Joe Morrison, the Grand Rap
ids. Michigan boy who became
the idol of screen, stage and ra-
do fans when he introduced the
song classic, The Last Round
Up In holding over for a second
week, by popular demand. rs the
Club Casanova star. Detroiters
rate among Joe's most enthusi-
astic supporters and his appear
ances here are increasing in
frequency.
Lending topfiight aid in the big
new variety revue are Jack Rus
sell, clever comedy and dancing
master OF ceremonies; Madeline
Jardinere, talented exotic, second
week: Tom and Verne Cowan. a
boy, a girl and a dog: the famous
Dance Cocktails. six acrobatic
beauties, fourth week, and others.
Benny Resh and his swell dance
and show band are huge favorites.
Ethel Resh Is on hand to greet
you.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
By GEORGE DIXON

wv TASHINGTON - Congressman from north
wv ern and central states have howled long and
loud about the Armys practice Of locating
most of its air training fields In the South.
There is only one reason, of course. for concen-
trating the flying fields in the South-clmate.
Down in the land of cotton and Spanish moss they
can train most of year. Up North the training Is
constantly interrupted during the winter months
by tough weather.
Texas has far more Army fields than any other
state. For one thing it is bigger; for another II
has more flat unwooded terrain; for still another
it has comparatively mild winters.
Any Texan will agree with this, and PROBABLY
go you ten better. But Il Is not so easy to con.
vince a non.Texan. of which-despite seeming
evidence to the contrary-there literally dozens
In the country.
Recently a senator from one OF the more tngid
states of the northwest tried to put the heat on
Brig Gen Walter F. Kraus. Of the Central Flying
Training Command, with headquarters at Ran
dolph Field. Texas. The senator. whose name
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14

promised Gen. Kraus I would withhold. com.
planned that he sick and tired Of seeing Texas
favored over his bailwick
He demanded that some of the Texas air
schools be moved to his state forthwith. In very
truculent tones he asked:
What has Texas got that my state hasn't
got?"
To which Gen. Kraus replied:
only one thing-climate."
Well, 1t seems this senator thinks highly of
, the climate up his way because he yelped;
Climate, heck-we have the finest climate
In the world"
So Gen. Kraus prepared an exhaustive chart
showing temperatures and weather conditions In
the senator's country for every winter in the last
five years. This represented as you can imagine,
a lot of work.
The chart showed impossible flying conditions
prevailed there for an average of nearly 100 days
every year.
A few days after receiving II. the senator came
charging In on Gen. Krauss
This is an outrage-and libel on my state
he screamed. where did you get these fgures?"
From the United States Weather Bureau"
said Gen. Kraus.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14

which Sam Houston beat the Mexican forces
The monument was built with WPA funds and
presented to Texas at Its centennial In 1896. Then
a horrible discovery was made. The monument
was 500 feet high.
That made 1t higher than the Washington
Monument, which is only SIS feet. and no monu.
ment in the country can be higher than the Wash
ington Monument.
Well It looked as II the top might have to be
chopped off the San Jacinto shaft. In fact there
some serious talk In Washington OF doing
just that Then one of the great governmental
brains began functioning.
The solution is simple" he announced That
monument is only SAB feet high" He was then
informed, in variety of ways. that he was nuts.
Il am not" he said That monument will
sink twenty feet in the next twenty years. There
fore it is not actually as high as II Is. 1t is only
SAB feet which makes it twelve feet shorter than
the Washington Monument"
And by golly, those are now the Official meas.
urements-even though there still symp-
toms of the monument sinking.
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered
brewers to cease and desist from advertising that
beer is comparable to or the equivalent OF bread
In nutritional value.
do not see why the brewers want to comparaE
beer to bread. VINO, except Omar Khayyanis
would think Of going out for big time with a
loaf OF bread? And even he lugged jug OF wine
along. too.
Wait a minute. there might be one other
Senator pass the Biscuits Pappy" oDaniel Of
Texas.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
DRAWINGS BY ONO soeloW

UkAWIN0S " OTTO SO0lOW
The Senator was taken sback for moment
but only moment.
Well" he finally said. II know It's the truth.
But it's still le."
A while ago was down in Texas and at San
Jacinto saw one OF the great scientific marvels
of the age-a monument which does not measure
as high as II actually Is.
Before you accuse me Of gibberish let me as
sure you that this is a fact. And the reason the
monument does not measure as high as II is. Is
because Washington won't let It,
The huge shaft was erected at a cost OF $5.00or
900 to commemorate the Battle of San Jacnto al
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

noWned for-hs- -esteftat4etts affrrr~ rd fifS strict
discipline. Then why had they picked him for SO
important administrative post?
The Appointment not stupid IL seemed
The Bank of France had piled up hundreds OF
millions in gold in the vaults under Fort DcsSaIx
guarding the entrance to Fort dc France in Mar
Unique where it would be safe from anything
short of local uprising. To prevent that possibility
they needed strict diSciplnaran who would stop
any insurrcction before il started Robert
supposed 10 be good at that, if nothing else and so
he proved to bc-muCh too good
FIRST he organized n secret police system. not un-
worthy Of Heinrich Hmmlcr's Gcstapo, but he
was smart enough to know that while Germans
submit mcckly 20 executions without trial the
French are intolcrant OF such official murders.
50 he must be satisfied with imprisonment. There
fore while members OF his French Gcstapo were
receiving their first lessons IN spying their
fellows, he was reforming" the penal system
His first move sent chill down the spincS OF
convict and guard alike because nothing could have
been more revealing OF what the man had in mind
The hell yacht being put back into
mission La MartiniCrc the old rotting hulk of
prison ship, had been at its mOorinGs since 1885,
uninhabitcd and unviSited, except once a week by
a small crew who pumped il out Even the rats
had long since SWum ashore,
In the cruel days before the reforms OF 1886
this the place whore rcbclhous ConvctS u
taken as a last resort, after ordinary solitary i.
fincmont had failed There little ventilation
the hulk ana the stencil was so sckcning that many
a tough COTviCt broke down and begged for mercy
after only few hours in of the upper deck
cells II this did not break him he taken TO a
smaller, Smellicr the deck below, finally
reaching OF those in the very bigc OF the ship
These ultimate cells were small that the
cupant could rest only in sitting position, with
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

4 AOST people think of the 5000 to 1000 pris-
M oncrS i'm the French penal colonies this
AVt hemisphere all living on Devils Island.
In reality there Of the settlements, some
in French Guiana and the others in the Lesser
Antilles of the Caribbean Devils Island due TO its
name, is naturally supposed to be the worst.
To give the devil his due, that island is the best
the prison de luxe infinitely better than any of the
others and would be chosen by all convictS, II they
were allowed TO choose But they don't choose
because Devils Island is exclusively for political
prisoners who are permitted to fare better than
the ordinary offender
Until recently the prisoners had been demand
ing that all the colonies be closed supposed
TO have been done in 1886. Now, however, they
that the prisons be continued the abodes for
such Vichy collaboratonists not quite bad
enough to be shot.
Above all others they wish their former Gov.
crnor General, Admiral Georges Robert to spend
his declining years there but not on Devils Island
Mais nom They have a special cell in mind for
him, on La Martinere. the "heil yacht
A pardoned prisoner, returning shortly before
The tFfetethc following about Devils Island:
''The torments of the place are entirely mental.
Physically the island could qualify as one Of those
tropical paradises to which city dwellers imagine
they would like to run away from 1t all. II is
small, fertile, heathful and though hot swept
every night by cool breeZes. Each of the 20 to 80
prisoners has his cabin, books, plenty of clean
clothing and bedding and the food is good
"The serpent in this Eden is the fact that sen.
tences here long ones. AS the saying goes,
'On Devils Isle you live forever, which is just
about the length of your sentence Combined with
this is the knowledge that it is the hardest of all
from which to escape and so despair fills the mind.
"Yet there should be some hope because Capt.
Alfred Dreyfus sent there in 1894 sentenced to
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

This is opportunity at last" they agreed
when the war started and yet of all Frenchmen
they seemed farthest from its reach AS convcts
they could neither volunteer nor be drafted.
Then began the stage, known the phony
war, when nothing seemed TO happen. No news
good news, the prisoners and guards agreed If
Germany did not attack it was because France had
the strongest army in the world and the Maginot
Line was mpreGnable. In the midst of this wishful
thinking disaster reached across the ocean and
struck the convict settlements first of all.
II was hcraldcd by news that Admiral Georges
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

Guiana. Tins Was Known as the "teaScr colony
because its convcts could see freedom just across
the river
1t not long swim but long enough for the
guards to pot bobbing head with rifle bullets.
TO get out of range a prisoner could, with deter
mination and luck, force his way through the
jungle entanglemepts to point where he would
still have strength to swim over without fear of
bullet, provided he had et-beer bitten by
poisonous snake.
But then he must face the most faithful Of all
guards, the alligator. SO his chances were slim.
After 1886, escapes and attempted ones vir-
tually ceased, and yet throughout all the penal
colonies was a curious premonon that things
too good to last
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

life imprisonment as traitor but later
was exonerated and given the Legion OF
Honor, by way of apology"
After the reforms of 1896, other
colonies were lifted, if not TO this high
standard of living, at least TO a point
that was fairly endurable. There was
ST Laurent, in the midst of a tropical
jungle, on the bank of the Maroni
River which divides French from Dutch
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

Robert had been
recalled from re-
tirement to be
Governor Cen
eral OF the big
French island OF
Martinique a n q
that all penal in
stitutions were
20 be under his
con troll. This
seemed strange
because Il o b crt
was k n vn in
the n avy as a
political admi.
raj with no great
ability OF any
particular kind
but Il man re-
From the "HelI
Yacht" Men
Sometimes
Returned, Half
Dead but With
No Marks on
Them Except
Those of the Leg
Irons, Here
Being Placed on
an Annamese
Convict.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
Hitler Visions
Turn Of Tide

LONDON, Feb. "a. CUP)-Adolf
Hitler spoke by proxy to his shaken
German people saturday and Of
fered them the vague and uneasy
promise that the war would tul n
again in Germany's favor some time
in 1945.
Hitler's speech to his old Nazi
comrades in Munich on the 25th
anniversary of the prcmulgation OF
the party program in 1920 was read
for him by a party secretary.
Again offering the excuse that his
sense of duty prevented him from
speaking in person, the fuehrer
launched into his familiar diatribe
against world Jewry, capitalism and
Bolshevism and held out to his war
weary people the bleak prospect OF
a finish fight against the invading
Allies in the east and west.
There must be nc doubt that ma
tional socialist Germany will carry
ON the struggle until the historical
turning point takes place, and this
will happen during the present
year." he said.
"We all know how difficult the
present struggle is. Whatever we
may lcec in this battle bears no
comparison to what we would lose
were it not crowned by success"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
Military Rules
Require Pass
To Enter Mexico

'The trouble service men have in
crossing the Mexican line doesn't
lie with Mexican officials, Tom Fin
ney, USES director explained Sat-
urday in commenting On a previous
statement to the effect that many
Americans in uniform are barred
at the border for lack of passes.
Mexican officials do not require
passes, but military regulations on
this side of the line co require that
all men in uniform must present
passes in addition to their regular
off-post passes, he pointed out.
Finney, who has interested him.
self in the situation, says that such
specific passes to cross the border
must be isued by the mems COM
manding officers. Thus, he says, it
is men on furloughs who find them
selves barred and it further is stat
ed that the Military Police can nos
issue such passes and have no al
tentative than to turn the men back.
Men on brief furloughs long dis
tances from their posts do not have
the time to send for passes.
Because of so many instances of
this kind, it is pointed out that at
tention should be directed to mill
tary authorities to remedy the whole
situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25

amusement after mic night when the
curfew on nightlife goes into effect
Monday.
War Mobilizer Director James F.
Byrnes decreed last Monday that
all movies, bars, sports arenas and
other amusement places close their
doors at the stroke of midnight as
a means of saving coal, transporta-
ton and manpower.
He then dumped the job of en-
forcing this program in the lap of
VINO. Byrnes' office, however, will
keep a watchful eye on the mid
night curfew.
VINO officials, it was understood
favored allowing certain movies and
bars to remain open after the cur
few hour to accommodate late-shift
war workers. But Byrnes reported
ly turned thumbs Gown on this.
A high official said there would
be very few exceptions" to the mid
night closing hour edict. He also
squashed widespread reports that
government was considering NOV
ing the closing hour ahead to am
I'VE said midnight and midnight
a. suri1l 1au y l,o 1oc1orad
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25

demolition and incendiary bombs
were rained on Singapore's extern
sive and well-established dock and
barber facilities in the fourth B-29
daylight attack of the war on the
naval stronghold.
A Singapore broadcast recorded
by the FEC said the giant bombers
caused come damage" to harbor
facilities and the city itself during
an hour and half-long raid be-
ginning at 1890 a. m. Singapore
time.
The bombers attacked in dozen
waves, Singapore said. At least nine
planes were damaged. the broadcast
said.
The goth air force. in announcing
the raid, for the first time de-
scribed a Superfortress raiding ar
mada from India as large" an In
dication that 1t totaled well over 100
bombers. A Tokyo broadcast heard
by the FEC eaid 1870 B-29s partici-
pated.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
Fire Destroys
S.P. Bridge

Fire of undetermined origin des-
troyed a 50-foot Southern Pacific
railroad bridge across the Central
Main canal a mile and half south
of Heber late Friday.
The wooden Urestle was quickly
replaced, train officials said, and the
new one vas being used by 8 am.
Saturday. It was necessary to re-
route only one passenger train over
the INLAND line, the eastbound train
from San Diego Friday night, rail-
way officials said Saturday.
The bridge was found to be burn
ing shortly after pm.
Immediately after the fire was
discovered special railroad officials
and agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation were called to make
an investigation.
Imperial Valley residents recalled
the series of incendiary fires which
destroyed several railroad bridges
and livestock loading pens and
sheds in the county in 1912 and 1943
and wondered if another fire bug
could be working in this area again.
The bridge blaze was fought by
firemen manning the state fire
truck housed at the Ell Centro fire
department. The bridge was doomed
when the truck ereached the scene,
Fire Chief C. S. Reed said. Loss
was estimated at $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
-Four State Guard
Units in County
Set Mobilization

General mobilization of the I'M
rerial county battalion of the Cali
fornia State Guard will take place
April and when the four compa-
nies will bivouac in Ell Centre for
two days of instruction and tactical
maneuverS.
Instruction will be in charge of
Captain w. A. Langdon, army in
structor who permanently was as
signed as instructor to this area by
the Army Ninth Service Command
of FoIt Douglas, Utah. He will in
struct in guard duty, bayonet prac-
tice and other phaseS of the State
Guard training arranged by the
army. This, it was explained by
Captain Langdon, is part of the
army's plan to keep instructors in
the various areas of the state to
maintain State Guard standards.
Lieutenant Colonel E. E. Foulkes,
public relations officer from the
California adjutant generals office
and Major Albert w. Eggen, regional
instructor on the adjutant generals
office were in Ef Centro Saturday
ccnferring with Major Elmer Heald
and Captains John Kepley and H.
K. McClimans of the Imperial
county battalion.
Friday night the visiting officers
met in the court house in Ell Centre
with key officers and men for a con-
ference during which the mobillza-
ton and instruction were discussed.
Saturday morning the visitors met
with Mayor P l.. Moore and other
city officials and civic leaders.
Colonel Foulkes said the goal for
the Imperial county battalion Is
500 men. He explained that the
work and activities of the guard in
Imperial county will be facilitated
and improved by the use Of the two
one and a half-tcn trucks and the
command car assigned to the Impe-
rial county battalion by the army.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
Nips' Hold Ends
Inside Manila

The final drive to wipe out the
pocket of bitterly resisting Japa-
nese in southern Manila was
launched yesterday morning.
United Press Correspondent
Ralph Teatsorth watched the
assault ION point only 200
yards from the 40-foot- thick wall
around Intramuros. Sherman
tanks and tank destroyers lined
up in rows and fired point-blank
into the crumbling masonry while
heavy artillery poured 10000
rounds Of shells into the city, he
said.
The barrage, the most intensive
of the Luzon campaign, shattered
the enemy defenses along the
walls and in the city, Teatsortf
added, and the old cathedral in
the southern section appeared to
be the only building left stand
ing.
When the guns ceased fire an
hour later, the entire area was
blanketed with haze and smoke.
One large fire ragged near Fort
Santiago in the northwest area.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
Daring Blow Frees 214b
Prisoners on Luzon

ing IL army nurses, priests, nuns
and Manila businessmen were liber-
ated. Also among the prisoners were
329 British citizens, 33 Australians
Sc Canadians. 80 Netherlands, %
Poles, 10 Norwegians, Is Italians and
one Nicaraguan.
Nothing could be more satisfying
to a soldiers heart than this res
cue," Macarthur said in a special
communique.
Il am deeply grateful. God was
certainly with us today"
Macarthur reported that the cas-
ualties among the raiders were only
two killed and two wounded. Two
OF the internees suffered slight in
juries curing the dramatic rescue
he added
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25

way and highway as far as the Oder
for the movement of reinforcementS
and supplies.
The last organized German res
istance in Poznan, Poland's fourth
largest city with a pre-War popula-
ton of 272,000, was smashed Friday
after a month-long siege during
which Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's
First White Russian army raced on
11G lilies farther west toward Ber-
lin.
$4,000 NAZIS KILLED
Some 25,O00 Germans were killed
and $4,000 captured during the pro-
longed and bitler battle for Poznan.
Adolf Hitler ordered the city held
at all cost, ouJ Major General Mat
tern, the Nazi commander, was
among the prisoners taken.
Zhukov's forces also cleared an
other encirc1ea German city yester-
day, Arnswalde, 80 miles southeast
of the Baltic port of Stettin and
junction of the Danzig- Berlin and
Poznan-Etettin railways.
Marshal ivan S. Konev's First
Ukrainian army, meantime, broke
into the streets of third encircled
German city, the Silesian capital
CT Breslau, ITS miles southeast OF
Berlin. Twenty city blocks and a
number of tank and automobile
factories were captured.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-25
7 unkS
Smos sh
At Two
yanks Advance
On Airport;
Hard Fighting

GUAM, Feb. "a. (UP) =
Tank-led u. S. marines re-
newed the assault on Iwo's
air field from a springboard
on it's lower edge Saturday
and at noon were hammering
out slow gains against vio-
lent resistance.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced that the marines charged
Japanese positions on the Two air
field from line on the southwest
ern rim of the base and south of
it's center.
With tank support the marines
struck Saturday morning after Am
erican planes, artillery and war
ships had plastered the field with
great weight of explosives.
On the southern tip of Two, pa
trolls entered the crater of the eX-
tinct Suribachi volcano, atop which
the Stars and Stripes flew, and were
mopping up remnants of the Japan
ese forces defending the natural
fortress.
Conditions on the beaches are
generally improved, and the unload
ing of general cargo is proceeding y
the communique reported. .
CA BIC broadcast reported by
CHS quoted radio Tokyo as saying
that the Americans have establish
ed two new beachheads on the
southeast coast of Iwo.)
CASUALTIES MOUNT
Casualties mounted steadily on
both sides in the bloodiest fighting
of the Pacific war. While Ameri-
can losses have not been announced
beyong 5372 casualties for the first
So hours of the siX-day battle, the
finding of another TIT japanese
bodies jumped the number of enemy
dead to at least 1885,
CA Japanese broadcast claimed
that American losses on Two were
well over $1,000" up to Friday
night. Eight more American war;
ships, including two battleships have
been sunk or damaged off the is
land, Tokyo said)