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Evening star., 1945-01-02
Mindoro Flyers Bag
8 Jap Ships in Raid
On Lingayen Gulf
Foe Believed Planning
Counteroction Against
MocArthur's New Base
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Philippines, Jan. 2.
l-Land-based American bombers
on Mindoro have opened attacks
in force on LuZon Island, bagging
three enemy warships and five
cargo vessels in one such strike
$50 miles north of Manila, but
signs also are accumulating of
attempted enemy counteraction
against Mindoro.
Today's communique, which list
ed the sinking or probable sinking
of three japanese destroyers, three
8,000-ton freighters and two smaller
cargo vessels at Lingayen Gulf, also
disclosed intense activity by jap
anese ammunition trains on South
west Luzon just north of Mindoro.
Saturday, the same day that me-
dunn bombers, attack planes and
fighter -bombers flew $50 miles
northwest of Manila to Lingayen.
more than so marine Corsairs blew
up an entire ammunition train.
strafed three others and attacked
20 locomotives in the Batangas area.
U. s. Positions Raided.
| Batangas is Is miles north of
Mindoro Island and roughly 100
miles from the new Yank Mindoro
base at San Jose which sent the
strong force of raiders to Lingayen.
The enemy is continuing to raid
Gen. MacArthur's Mindoro position,
established by an invasion December
Is which cut west across the Central
Philippines from Leyte. Today's
communique said Is japanese air.
craft attacked the San Jose sector
Saturday, with three downed by
antiaircraft guns and night inter-
ceptors.
The Lingayen attack, representing
the deepest penetration in strength
of American bombers based in the
Philippines, was pointed at a REIN
forcement and supply base for the
Japanese on Luzon. 1t was there
that the japanese invaded the
Philippines at the wars outset.
Today's communique depicted an
aerial scourge of Luzon's west side
from Lingayen to Batangas. Liberia
tors cratered Nelson Airdrome at
Manila. Patrol planes destroyed five
enemy aircraft in the same sector.
Train Blown Up.
The Corsair pilots over Batangas
saw one ammunition train go up
with a thunderous explosion, wit
messed one of the attacked loco
motives disintegrate and saw their
bullets pour into trucks as well as
other ammunition trains.
The Lingayen raiders reported
seeing some of the eight ships go
down and said the others were so
badly hit it is reasonably certain
they also sank.
Another day of mopping up on
the west side of Leyte added 995
Japanese killed to the enemy losses
in that campaign, now totaling
1892.
Today's communique also reported
the firing and exploding of enemy
oil stores on Borneo and airdromes
in the Central and South Philip
pines and islands to the south.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Costa Rico Presidents
Home Is Fired On
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. q
War Minister Rene Picardo re-
ported yesterday that an armed
group which he said were followers
of former President Leon Cortes
Castro fired at President Teodor
Picado's home Sunday night and
wounded Capt. Esquivel of the
presidential honor guard.
The minister said the attackers
fired from a passing truck and the
Presidents guard fired back. wound
ing two women in the truck. All
the trucks occupants were appre-
hended, he said.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
New Oversees Edition
Viii Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond Booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The Overseas Edition NAV be
sent by ordinary mail for 5
cents. but 1t will be delivered.
much more quickly-and will,
be all the more appreciated
II sent by air mail at IL cents.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Bio Three Honored

NEW. YORK, Jan. 2 (R.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, Premier Stain and Mar
shall Josip Broz (Tito) were elected
today honorary members of the
presidium of the anti-Fascist So
branje (Parliament) for the ma
tional liberation of Macedonia" the
Free Yugoslav radio said in a broad
cast reported by the FEC.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Won Rundstedt Reported
Inuctive Due to Illness
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. a Unofficial
sources here which claim contact
with the German underground said
today they had received a report
that Field Marshal Won Rundstedt
was temporarily out Of action be-
cause of the recurrence of a serious
stomach ailment.
There was no official confirmation.
When Won Rundstedt was with
drawn from his command In the
west after the Allied invasion, a
stomach disorder was given as the
reason.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Father Says Youth, II
Spotted Two Seized
AS Nazi Saboteurs
Men Landed by U-Boot
In Maine Arrested;
One Native of U. S.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-FBI off,
cials remained silent today as to
how they picked up the trail OF
two alleged Nazi espionage
agents who, the FBI said, slipped
ashore from a U-boat November
20 near Hancock Point. Me.
In the remote Maine fishing viii
lage Deputy Sheriff Dana Hodgkins
said his son Harvard, II, a high
school student, spotted the men the
night they landed as they were
walking along snow-covered high
way near his home, but Inspector
Earl Connolly of the FBI said the
boys story was not relayed to au-
thorities until December 4. while the
FBI was investigating other leads
which Inspector Connolly did not
divulge.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said
the men had come ashore in rub
ber boat at night after their subma-
rine had lain off the coast of Maine
for a week. They were arrested
several days ago in the New York
area, he added.
Full Story Given FBI.
Mr.. Hoover identified the men as
William Curtis Colepaugh. 26, Amer
lean citizen of Mantle, Conn, and
Erich Gimpel, IS. native of Ger
many, who was radio engineer in
South America The arrests were
made several days ago in the New
York area.
Mr.. Hoover said the men gave a
full story of their activities. He
said they carried automatic revolv-
ers, compass, camera, secret inks
and forged Connecticut birth cer-
tificates, fraudulent draft registra-
tion and classification cards and
forged Navy discharge papers.
! Supplied With SCI, 900.
They had been supplied with $780,
600 in American money, of which
$56,574.61 remained at the time of
the arrests.
Commenting on the arrests and
the recent discoveries of two Japa-
nese balloons in Oregon and Mon
tana. which he said might have car
ried spies instead of explosives, Mr.
Hoover declared these were evidence
OF an espionage and sabotage Of
fensive against the entire American
Hemisphere
The last known landing of enemy
agents was announced June 28, l942
by Mr.. Hoover after four men land
ed June l3 at Amagansett, Long Is
land. and four others June II at
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Evening star., 1945-01-02
By the Associated Press.

hoNO01N, jail. q. - ESCOI JGC
American heavy bombers in
vaded Western Germany before
noon today primed to meet any
repetition OF the Nazis' sudden
New Year Day show of aerial
strength. 1t was the 11th con-
secutive day of heavy bomber
activity.
Revised tallies showed at least
221 German planes wrecked in yes
terday's widespread combats, while
Berlin declared 427 Allied planes
were destroyed, most of them on
the ground in morning swoops on
| fighter bases behind the western
front.
About 300 German planes darted
in at treetop level over scattered
American and British bases a few
minutes after daylight yesterday
but some Allied fighters already
were in the air and swirling dog
fights developed.
At least 1873 raiders were knocked
down, los by RAF fighters. IS by
American Mustangs, and 48 by Brit
ish and American ground gunners.
80 Bagged in Other Operations.
Thirty-three other German planes
were reported destroyed in other
daylight operations, II of them fall
ing to American fighters escorting
300 big bombers raiding Coblenz and
an oil plant 20 miles east of Han
over.
The bag of gunners aboard the
heavy bombers was not disclosed
Immediately, nor was the number
/ of bombers lost
Allied headquarters conceded some
aircraft were wrecked aground on
fighter bases, but did not confirm
German claims Of 323 British and
American ships ruined aground, 79
in air duels and Is by antiaircraft
fire over Germany-a grand total
of 427.
Allied announcements listed n
fighters and two medium bombers
lost during the day, and Raj
heavy bombers during the night as
saults on fuel plant near Dort-
mund and railyards at Veohwinker
near Dusseldorf.
Fail to Slow Down Offensive.
While the Germans achieved an
element of surprise at some of the
scores of fields at which they struck
they apparently failed to slow down
the Allied aerial offensive. Approx
imately 5000 American and British
planes were reported hurled against
the enemy during the day, including
more than 1000 United States 9th
Air Force heavy bombers and
| fighters.
Censorship did not permit dis
closure of the damage done to
Allied airfleld installations.
The magnitude of the German
attack was taken here as sure sign
OF the damage which Allied airmen
have been inflicting on Field Mar
shal Won Rundstedt's ground forces
1t appeared unlikely the German
commander would have risked 50
many aircraft in such a dangerous
enterprise unless the need was crit
ical
One Group Bags 33 Planes.
Associated Press Correspondent
Yves Gallagher, writing from Bel
gium, said that at one field a COM
bined Thunderbolt and Mustang
outfit shot down 33 German fighters
losing only one ship and not single
pilot.
German planes fell at the rate
Iof one minute, although the Amer
leans had no warning the Nazis
were coming" Mr.. Gallagher wrote
Other German losses during the
day included II Nazi fighters
downed by American fighters es.
corting 9th Air Force heavy bombers
attacking an oil refinery at DOLL
bergen and the railway network
around Coblenz. Sixteen more
enemy planes were knocked out BY
the 1st Tactical Air Force in sup
port of the United Statas 7th Arr,v
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Shell Foctory Burns

SOREL. Quebec, Jan. (P.-A
shell-manufacturing plant of Sorel
Industries, Ltd, 800 feet long. was
destroyed by fire today. No explo-
sions or injuries were reported.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Patton Drives Two More Miles
Into South Side Of Nazi Bu|qe;
1000 Bombers Blast Germans
Signs Indicate
Withdrawal of
Enemy Armor
BULLETIN.

PARIS (P. Admiral Sir
Bertram Ramsey, Allied naval
commander, was killed today.
No details were announced by
Allied headquarters. Sir Ber-
tram, who engineered the
Dunkerque rescue of 1856 900
British and French soldiers,
commanded the naval phases
of the western invasion under
Gen. Eisenhower.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
5000 Tons of
Bombs Dropped
By u. S. Planes
BULLETIN.

LONDON tP,.-One thousand
American heavy bombers to-
day plaStered German tank
and troop concentrations,
bridges, road intersections and
rail yards Immediately east of
the American Sd Army. They
dropped more than 5000 tons
of bombs.
Field reports today raised to
1853 the number of planes esti-
mated lost by the German air
force yesterday.
Evening star., 1945-01-02

Three additional men from the
District area haze been re-
ported killed in this Uar. See
ON the Honor Roll" Page Az.
Evening star., 1945-01-02

tSee SPIES, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-01-02

lSee BYRNES, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1945-01-02

tSee CAPITAL TRANSIT, P. A-4
Evening star., 1945-01-02

Temperatures today-Highest, 27, at
12:0l am; lowest, 10, at am; 26 at
1:3O pm. Observation-Disclosures, S.. at
$40 am; lowest, 27, at II ST pm.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
POLITICAL PARADE

A DM. HARRY E. YARNELL,
"A who knows what he is talk
ing about for he has had a wide
experience in the Far East,
poses a question for the Aneri-
can delegation at the San
Francisco conference of the
United Nations.
The United States. he pre-
diets. will retain control after
the war of the Marshall Islands,
the Carolines, the Marianas,
the Bonins and Two Jima.
This may take considerable
doing at the Golden Gate, but
IL is we'll worth the attempt,
and the United States repre-
sentatives should be content
with no less.
A question of the so-called
guardianship" of territories
wrested from Japan and Ger
many has been raised lately.
Adm. Yarnell cuts across any
such halfway measure. What he
has in mind obviously is Ameri-
can possession, not an American
mandate.
THE islands south of the
Il equator which were taken
from Japan by American troops,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22

Recently ! attended a stag
dinner at which a leading New
York artist was given the priv
ilege of criticizing the clothing
worn by each guest. He found
that nearly all the men had on
becoming suits, but many were
wearing shirts, ties, socks, etc,
which clashed completely with
their suits, as well as with their
complexions and hair (or bald
heads. The answer Is, No.
2-I should have guessed they
were more stupid than those
who deliberately plan house.
breaking. bank robbing, ETC.,
but a study by psychologist l. A.
Berg. in which he compared the
intelligence and school marks
of car thieves in a large peni-
Tertiary with these factors in
other inmates, showed the car
thieves averaged higher both in
intelligence and school achieve.
ment than the remainder Of the
prisoners.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22

sailors and marines, already
have been taken over by Great
Britain, Australia or the Neither
lands.
We got nudged out OF New
Guinea so fast by the British
that we hardly had time to bury
our sacred dead before the
British flag was going up, so
that civil authority could be
exercised over the natives,
whom the United States had
freed"
1t is going to be up to the
American gentlemen gathered
at San Francisco TO determine
whether the United States is to
retain possession of those
islands, north of the equator at
least, which have been won, and
are being won, by American
valor. and with no outside as
sistance.
ONE of the most important of
~ these strategically is the is
land OF zap, in the Caroline
group.
We were done out of the
Carolines in 1893 when Ger
many secretly bought these IL
lands from Spain for $1,000, 900,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
THESE DAYS
IN HIS report to Congress on

IN HIS report to Congress on
Il Yalta, the President said:
"Of the problems of Arabia,
1 learned more about the whole
problem, the Moslem problem,
the Jewish problem. by talking
with Ibn Saud for Ave minutes,
than I could have learned In
exchange Of two or three dozen
letters"
This is an astonishment
because this particular problem
is some 1000 years old and no.
body has yet been able to
solve il.
Great minds have devoted
their entire lives TO IL but with
out effective achievement.
AT my own wedding in Shang-
hal was a Chinese Jew from
Khotan, indistinguishable from
other Chinese except for his
beard.
He insisted upon orthodox
Jewish rites.
Also present were several
Jews from India whose ances-
tors had been in that land be-
fore Christ appeared in the Gar
den Of Gethsemane.
Who can understand the his
toric force that in a universal
rhythm tears this Jewish people
asunder and throws them vio-
lently together again.
And always before them is the
reality or the mirage of Jeru-
salem?
IT Is amazing to me that Ibn
Il Saud could, in five minutes,
explain 10 President Roosevelt
the mystery of the millions of
Jews who have adhered TO a
religion, TO a community Of kind.
IN spite of actual and provable
dissimilarities.
What mystic power keeps this
people together when there is
no tangible. no visible, no prov
able relationship?
The whole of Jewish history is
a challenging record OF diffusion
from Abraham, the Canaanite,
TO Theodore Herzl. the Viennese
journalist who discovered his
affinity for his own people only
when he attended the trial Of
Alfred DryfuSs. the Alsatian
officer In the French army who
only became conscious of his
Jewishness when he was perse-
cuted for being one.
IF EVERY Jew now in Palestine
L were driven from that coun-
try and all the lands and all the
buildings were given to the
Arab, history then would start
all over again.
In every country, the Jews
would divide into three ele-
ments: those who would fana-
tically devote themselves "a
Zion; those who would oppose
Zion as an outmoded shibboleth
and those who would secretly
love Zion and outwardly wear
the garb of opposition.
This is such an old pattern.
Actually. il is the pattern that
kent Moses in the desert for d0
years. And those who love Zion
will be the most articulate and
pressing because theirs is q
positive design for Life.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
One Word Led to Another
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

You may think this is the first day of spring because
you robin I'm mug who also wants to gander the
robins eggs
Here's the way tell seasons out our way. If you
don't feel like going outdoors it is winter. If you don't
feel like staying indoors it is summer you unable
to do either it is spring
1t is spring when the violet and the push
ing their heads above the ground is spring when bad
cold is trying to push your head below the ground.
1t is spring when you feel like million dollars
every of them counterfeit 1t is spring when the air
is balmy and the birds twtterng 1t is spring when
you are both.
1t is spring when the is hotter than home
made pistol 1t is spring when the breeze is colder than
penguins tail. 1t is spring when you straw hat
with muffs and wear mink coat with Vback.
1t is spring when you take quinine and whisky
because you want and need both. 1t is spring when
doors sitting wooen blankets and twice
1t spring when you have paid your first instalment
your income tax, it is spring when the government
declares red flannel drawers to be conraband Of and
it spring when your asthma back you have float
ing domino games front Of your and your shoulder
blades open and close like Venetian blinds.
CopyrEht BY
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
By George E.
Sokolsky

I ORD BALFOUR and Wood
II row Wilson tried to find a
solution and curiously they
nearly did.
They sought il in a mutually
between Jews and Arabs under
the aegis of Great Britain.
Had their plan not been dis
carded. millions of Jews might
have moved from eastern Europe
to the colonies in Palestine and
even Transjordania and Hitler
would have had no excuse for
his miserable racialism.
Instead, Zion has been kicked
about in the politics of snide
vote gatherers and is now a
damned thing, a nuisance, a dis
carded wanton.
Zion will not be represented
at San Francisco.
And yet, Zion will live on long
after San Francisco is only an
other Tilsit where once also the
affairs of the earth were per-
manently settled.
For obviously, Zion Is the
promise-of God and no two men
can undo II in five minutes of
conversation.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
By George
Rothwell Brown

only to lose them to Japan in
World War /.
They went to Japan under a
mandate of the League of Ma
tions, but the Japs kept them
when they withdrew from the
League, and no hand was raised
to stop them.
This island of Yap is partic-
ularly important, and might
have been the cause of war be-
tween the United States and
Japan more than 20 years ago,
il America had not been ad-
dicted to peace at any cost.
VAP Is the great cable base
L in the Pacific for American
lines running between the
United States and the Far East.
Woodrow Wilson, in yielding
to Japan's claims to German
Pacific Islands north of the
equator, entered an oral reser-
walton with regard to zap.
Japan refused to recognize
the reservation and we did
nothing about IL. .
American cable rights to the
Orient and to Europe were
grossly infringed upon by our
allies in the old war at the end
OF that conflict, and Uncle Sam.
as usual, came out the small
end of the horn.
1t is believed that these, and
similar questions are certain to
arise at San Francisco.
The American delegates will
be amply fortified with techni-
cal information to enable them
to demand and sustain the point
Of view expressed by Adm.
Yarnell.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
IL. v. DURLING

When | sdw my neW-born child
On its mothers arms;
And hanging at her bosom,
She the Whle bent DER its fed-
lures
With a smile.
Then tcas thrilled aud most
WGrm
Impressed fathers kiss.
So for the mothers sake
The child loos dear
And dsdrsr UGs the mother
For the child.
--Coleridge.
(COIeridge wrote the above In
answer tO Charles Lamb who
had asked him how he felt the
first time he saw his first born
child.D
THEY are becoming bored
L with "Oomph Girl enter
tainers who strut about the
stage in scanty attire boldly ex-
posing their alleged charms and
singing and dancing in sugges-
tive manner.
That is what number Of men
in the armed forces of the Pa
cific area have written this de-
partment. o
One letter is from 85 surviv-
ors Of l.. S. warship sunk in
the second battle of the Philip
pines.
The lads say they would like
10 see some good plays such as
The BaTretts OF Wimpole
Street. which Katharine Cor
B.. H@ll and Brian Aherne did on
the European fronts.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

THIS whole thing started
Il when Senate Minority
Leader Wallace II. White Jr.,
who is also senior senator from
Maine, introduced a resolution
10 permit the tearing down of
murals from the Kennerbunk-
port post office.
The murals were painted by
the WPA in the days when the
government openly paid people
10 lollygag. They depicted fat
females, bulging In the most
unsightly ways, on a bathing
beach.
The good citizens Of Kenne-
bunkport writhed every time
they looked al the murals. They
contended the WPA artists had
gone out of their way TO be
offensive; particularly as Ken
nebunkport does not even have
a bathing beach.
The problem had 10 be
brought 10 the Senate because
you can't 60 ripping things out
Of United STATE. post offices
without senatorial okay. But
when Senator White told his
palpitating colleagues how the
females "bulged fore and aft"
they concurred in the tearing
down.
Travel conditions being what
they are. most Of them couldn't
have gotten up 10 Maine to see
them anyway.
NATURALLY, figured they
~ must be getting goshamighty
aesthetic down east, but Sena-
tor Brewster put me straight.
"Our only objection he said.
twas that the murals depicted
feminine forms absolutely for
eign 10 the great state Of
Maine. Our Maine women do
not bulge fore and aft in this
unslghtly manner. Our woman
folks bulge In only the most
delightful ways.
"You may quote me "a say
ing this-again, and again and
again: Maine wordnhood
buisss only in the approved
places. I thank you!'" "
Senator Brewster added that
Maine does not like to owe it
post office art 10 the WPA be-
cause Maine never liked the
WPA.
"As for those ladies In the
murals," he said darkly. "the
least said the better. Under
stand, I do not come right out
and say they are New Dealers,
but you may tell your public I
am highly susplcious."
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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-22

to the Office had something,
writes Brooklynite.
Recently 1 wore a bright
yellow dress To business. IL
seemed to brighten the place
considerably. Also In addition
TO a number of compliments I
got quite q few wolf whistles
from otherwise respectable mar.
ried men. IL was all quite
lift TO my sagging morale"
CHICAGOAN says she had
~ only three blessed events
and they all came in September.
That's somewhat unusual. bU:
/ know of woman who has
three ildren all born on
Christmas Day in different
years.
The subject of uniform di-
vorce laws for the United States
is again being discussed. This
brings to mind that in South
Carolina you can't get divorce
for any reason, while the laws
Of Kentucky list Is grounds for
divorce.
A T A u. S. ARMY hospital on
"A the European front a visi-
tor, referring to a badly
wounded sergeant, said:
when are you going to send
that man hack home" The or
derly said: He ain't going
home. He's going back to the
front" Exclaimed the visitor:
Back to the front! But. he's I'm
awful shape" Replied the or
DERBY: "Yes, and ne thinks he
knows who done It."
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