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Organized
Bible Glasses
BY DIR. PAGE NICK. ETCHISON.

Capt. Rhoda J. Milliken, Women's
Bureau, Metropolitan Police De-
partment, will be the guest speaker
at the Harrison Bible Glass Of Con-
greSS Street Methodist Church to-
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m o fr o W. Inc
Rev. Dorsey K,
Sturgis will also
speak.
Col. Harry G.
Fraser, chaplain,
air assistant, Of
flee of chief of
chaplains, U. s.
A., will be the
g u es st speaker
tomorrow at the
Vaughn Class Of
Calvary Baptist
Church.
The Organized
Bible Glass As
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nounces its annual moonlight
cruise" on the S. S. Mount Vernon
on June S at $3.50 pm. Awards are
offered the classes selling the largest
number of tickets. Harold S. King
is chairman.
The Templemen's Bible Glass of
Temple Baptist Church will have
Norman Sandridge as guest teacher
tomorrow.
The George H. Winslow Mems
Bible Glass of Eastern Presbyterian
Church will conduct the service at
the Northeast Mission on Monday
evening.
Mrs. Harry L. Bell will teach the
Cleaners Glass of Columbia Heights
Christian Church tomorrow.
The Phi Gamma Kappa Glass of
Metropolitan Baptist Church will
hold prayer service for service
men tomorrow
Mrs. w. A. Haggerty will be the
guest teacher of the Fellow Work.
ers' Glass of Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church tomorrow.
The Women's Glass of the North
Washington Baptist Church will
hold a business and social meeting
Monday, May %, in the home of
Mrs. E. L. Hahn.
Charles P. O'Donnell of the State
Department will speak to the Fell
lowship Class of the Chevy Chase
Methodist Church tomorrow on
Catholic Postwar Aims"
The Friendship Glass of Emory
Methodist Church will hold a can
delight installation service at pm.
Monday.
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three houses on Connecticut avenue
between Taft Bridge and Connecticut
Circle" still another declared.
The presbytery finally gave It's
consent, and the % enterprising
members who had organized the
church in the old Chevy Chase
library went ahead with their plans.
Certainly the prospect was not in
viting. The small village called
Chevy Chase was sparsely settled
at the time. Transportation by
streetcar was hourly, and inclement
days the schedule habitually went
out of gear"
members was one who saw even
more clearly into the future. Harry
M. Martin paid $1,000 for the lots
on which the present church stands.
He had faith in the future both of
the neighborhood and of the new
church, and the future has borne
out his wisdom. When the time
came in 1922 to build the present
beautiful structure the members had
the desirable site ready.
The early members first met on
Friday nights at prayer meetings in
different members homes. Later
they met in the Chevy Chase library,
and on January 81, 1908, organized
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church. OF those to remain today
members of the present church are
Miss Laura Louise Eiker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtis S. Feeser, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee D. Latimer, Grant Leet, Will D.
Nichols and Mrs. Annie Sherry.
Ground for the first building was
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Fifth Baptist Church
To Burn Mortgage
Al Morning Service

Following q sermon tomorrow
morning at the Fifth Baptist
Church on "The Mission OF the
Church" by DR.. John z. Briggs, the
long-standing mortgage on the
church will be burned.
Mrs. Annie L. Sullivan, who has
been an active member Tor So years
will apply the match. The deacons,
deaconesses, Debt Committee and
the ONCE bearers Of the church
and 10 persons who have been
members so years or more will be
to the front. Those who have been
members half 4 century or more
are: Miss Laura Shackelford, Mrs.
Fred B. Rhodes, Edwin Shuttle, Mrs.
Sullivan, George w. Haley, Miss
Alice Meynes, Mrs. Ollie Hayden,
Miss Emma Beall, Miss Zoe Beall,
Mrs. Estelle Webb, Mrs. George
Beller and Mrs. Ora Slater.
The church has purchased lots
at Sixteenth and Juniper streets
NV. and hopes to erect q modern
church edifice there when priorities
are lifted.
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broken in July, 1910, and the dedi-
cation took place on January 8, 1911.
In those days many Of the worship
pers had to cross COW pastures to
come to the church and it was not
an unusual sight to see people carry
their Sunday shoes under their arms
on the way to services. The building,
now known as the "Old Chapel" i"
stands independent from the present
structure and is today used by the
Clyde Kelly Mems Bible Glass and
by an American Red Cross unit.
The class has been named after the
late Representative M. Clyde Kelly
OF Pennsylvania, who taught the
mems group there for many years.
The present church was dedicated
on May 10. 1924. The Church
House" on Chevy Chase parkway
next to the church, used for the
omces and for the minister's study,
was purchased in 1927.
Several of the members have
served the church for many years.
Arthur T. Pinkowski has been clerk
OF sessions for 81 years. Lee D.
Latimer was deacon from 1908 to
1911 and has been on the board of
trustees since the latter date. Louis
Brehm, who left Washington when
he retired from Government service
two years ago, served as treasurer
OF the church for 81 years.
-Four ministers have served the
church. The first pastor, the Rev.
DR.. Samuel Johnson, was with the
congregation only a few months
after the organization. He was
followed by the Rev. DR.. Hubert Rex
johnson, who was installed IN Au-
gust, 1909, and was retired because
OF poor health in May, 1924. DR..
johnson as minister emeritus main.
tanned an active interest in the
church until his death, on April IA,
l945. A botanist Of deep and COM
prehensive learning in many other
f1elds, DR.. johnson used as his text
the first time he preached to the
small group at the library the line,
Il am the vine, We are the branches" I"
The small room OF the church sane
tuary, originally planned as the
study room for the pastor, has been
made into q chapel and is now
known as the johnson Chapel.
DR.. Douglas Putnam Birnie sue
ceeded DR.. johnson and served from
May, 1924, to June, 1926.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Hillman
Houister, present pastor, was in
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stalled June 4, 1926. A World War
chaplain who served in France, he
is = graduate OF Williams College
and Of Union Theological Seminary.
DR.. Hollister served as assistant
to the celebrated DR.. S. Parkes
Cadman at Congregational Church
in Brooklyn. He came to Washing
ton from the First Presbyterian
Church at Mount Vernon, N. Y.
DR.. Hollister is a former president
of the Washington Ministerial
Union, is chairman of the social
service committee of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches and is
a member Of Theta Sigma minis
terial fraternity. He lives at 6302
Beechwood drive. Chevy Chase, Md.
The assistant pastor is the Rev.
Donald L. Leonard. He came here
from the First Congrega tional
Church at West Haven, Conn.,, in
October, 1943.
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Massing Of the Co|ors
Service 10 Be Held al
Cathedral Tomorrow

The Military Order of the World
Wars and Washington Cathedral, in
cooperation with the Washington
Federation Of Churches, will sponsor
the annual service of the massine
OF the colors at 4 pm. tomorrow in
the amphitheater on the Cathedral
grounds. The Right Rev. Oliver J.
Hart, Bishop of Pennsylvania and
honorary canon of Washington Ca
thedral, will preach.
Approximately 600 members of
patriotic and civic organizations will
march with flags. In addition to
Bishop Hart the following will par
ticipate: Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox,
past commander in chief of the Mill
tary Order of the World Wars: the
Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of
Washington, and approximately Is
representatives of churches and
chaplains.
Holy communion will be offered
at 7:30 and 9:30 am. At II am.
the Very Rev. John Wallace Suter
will preach. A special feature of
this service will be the initial sing
ing of a choral prayer, written and
directed by Ellis Varley, acting Or
ganist and choirmaster. The Ca
thedral Choir will sing.
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18th Anniversary
Of Rev. IA. M. Perkins

A special service at II am. to-
morrow will mark the 18th anniver-
sary Of the Rev. M. Mills Perkins
as rector of Grace Episcopal Church
in Georgetown. 1t will also mark
the anniversary Of the rector's ordi-
nation to the diaconate in Washing
ton Cathedral on Ascension day,
May 26, 1927, by the late Bishop
James E. Freeman, being advanced
to the priesthood on the first Sum
day in Advent, November 27, 1927
In Grace Church.
He came to Grace Church as its
rector Immediately upon his grad
uation from the Virginia Theologi.
cal Seminary.
A special musical program has
been arranged.
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Brig. Gen. Cox to Speak
At National Christian

Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox and DR.
j. Warren Hastings will be the
speakers at the National City Chris
tian Church Sunday morning when
memorial service will be held
Members of the Government Print
ing Office Post, American Legion,
will attend in a body. Comdr.
Michael J. Cyganek of the post and
Charles r. Haig, chairman of the
Memorial Day Committee of the
post, and the Rev. Benton Roy
Hanan, associate minister, will have
part in the service.
The annual spring music festival,
sponsored by the young peoples de-
partment, will be presented Tues
day evening in the social hall, 1903
Vermont avenue NV.
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By CASPAR NAMES.

Thirty years ago members
OF the newly formed Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church applied to the
Washington City Presbytery to grant
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permlS S l on to
build a church
at Chevy Chase
Circle.
The presbytery
was reluctant to
6 r a n t the re-
quest.
1T is too far
out" one oppo-
nent said.
IT h e neigh
borhood is un-
promising a n d
will ver be
built up an
other argued.
"There orc oplv
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
Seney Camp
'|nteHeetudIs
In Revolt
spe,ill to 1nr DrrRorr INNS


SENEY. Mich, Feb. Ga large
group Of conscientious directors
assigned to the large wild life
refuge near Seney were reported
in open muuny today against
camp officials and government
restrictions.
Tic mUUncerS. according 70
Director Norman V. Nelson, were
led by a group Of "intellectualS'
and college professors who have
advised the u obiectorS not 10
work or obey any orders.
Nelson admitted that the In
surrcnt obiectorS already have
seized and destroyed a large guam
thy OF foodStuflS and that some
Of them have openly dcfed the
authorities 10 compel them 10
work.
Nelson has appealed 70 the FBI.
which he said VIII make an i'm
mediate complete investigation Of
the camp
~ HihlviltN VI tH'N' Hl'Hs
Nelson said, "are highly edu-
Gated. They resent the re-
strictionS the government has
placed on them. We have had
trouble with them before. hut
conditions al present call for
action"
The director admitted that the
majority Of the u men have been
working eight and one-half hours
day and have given little trou-
ble. Others. he said, refuse to
perform any sort of labor.
The men are given an allow
ance Of s. and two and one-half
days furlouCh each month.
Five of the objcCtors were given
prison sentences several weeks
ago for refusing 10 work The
men are mostly employed on main
tCnanCc work
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06

heavier weapons) filed from the building and formed
three columns between the alert Americans HaYash
at the head of the column.
The strange procession headed by Col Brady moved
through the university grounds past staring silent Amer
lean soldiers.
As the column moved through Manila streets, Fill
pnos who had gathered quickly began TO cheer until they
realized the Japs not prisoners Then they shouted
abuse at their hated enemy
Four miles from Santo Tomas Brady halted the
column Hayash wished to go further under American
protection but Brady refused the request.
They saluted, and the Japs moved on the last half
mile to their own line at a run.
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32 Lost
Inn Blast

NEW YORK, Feb 5 CUP)-
Sheets of burning gasoline cas-
CadinE from an exploding tanker
enflamed Now York Harbor today,
igniung three ships and taking a
heavy casualty toll
At least l. were known dead.
20 were missing and 80 were in
lured.
incomplete naval reports said
the explosion starte d when a
tanker carrying high octanc gas
was rammcd by a second tanker.
Police said at least 60 injured
had been taken 10 Marine Hos
pital. Staten Island, and 10 other
hospitals in Manhattan and
Brooklyn by Red Cross ambu-
lanCpS
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Ys.mH1S Swap 6:5 .Baps for ESQ Hostages

SANTO TOMAS INTERNN1ENT CAMP, MANILA,
Feb ) QNS)-Escorted by four columns of cavarymen,
G5 armed japanese officers and men marched from the
University of Santo Tomas before dawn this morning
through American lines to the safety of their
Their release freed more than $50 American and
British ntenees who had been held captive by the Japs
for 50 hours The Japs, led by Lit Col Hayashi Santo
Tomas commandant, took refuge in the education build
ing when Yank cavalrymen broke into the university
grounds Saturday night.
Up until last night the Japs fired the American
soldiers the campus The Americans returned fire,
but Yesterday morning the Japs called from the first foor
minging with internees.
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could answer.
I'VE were overjoyed. We
could see Juniors eye, the one
they operated on, through the
little window the doctor had
left in his bandage. 1t looked
80 clear and clean TO us.
Junior made me snap the
light on and off,. and back on
again. until l thought we would
break the switch. He couldn't
get enough of watching il.
"Then he Spied my eigaret
lighter. l got it year ago from
my brother, Calvin, in the south
Pacific, and Junior always liked
10 blow il out.
Gle made me snap IL on a
Continued on Page Three
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War Directors Mutiny
Hungry 3, 700
Hail ReScuerS
COMPLETE MARKETS
PAGE I6
By FRANK Hewlett
United Press War Correspondent

MANILA, Feb. (Delayed) (UP)-Some 37O0
thin hungry Allied civilians $500 of them Ameri-
cans, cried hysterica welcome to Gberating Ameri-
can troops at the Santo Tomas University intern
ment camp tonight
Among them my wife Virginia, from whom
parted New Years Eve of 1912 to go to Bataan with
Gen. Macarthur She insisted staying in Manila
nurse in Santa Catalina hospital
The inernees overjoyed at the arrival of the
American troops that they insisted lifting them to their
thin emacated shoulders and carrying the soldiers through
the buildings
Robert Crabb another member of the former United
Press staff in Manila his wife and children among
those set free
"a special announcement from Gen. MacArthurs
headquarters said the Of the rescued internees
would be released to the press and radio they
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
New Red
Drive On

LONDON. Feb. S (UP)-Mar-
shall Konev's Red army was
by the Germans today
to have launched a new offensive
from a bridgehead across the
Oder River some 200 miles south
east of Berlin in an apparent bid
to outflank this last natural
barrier before the capital
MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (INS)-
A very powerful" Russian
drive today split open the
last-ditch Kustrin- Frankfurt
defense line, according to
front reports, placing Marshal
Zhukov in position for a
break-through to the open
terrain before Berlin.
The sudden blow, which might
mark the penultimate of the
battle for Berlin, followed flank
ing drives north and south of
the 17-mile line which German
I tspokesmen said reached the Oder
northwest of Kustrin, 33 miles
from the Reich capital.
ANNOUNCED BY NAZIS
The German radio, which an
nounced the Red sweep to the
river northwest of Kustrin, said
Russian pressure was increasing
/ in "a most every sector" as
Zhukov hammered at the last
natural BARRED protecting the
barricaded and panic-s tri C k n
Reich capital.
In fierce fighting which overran
more than 100 towns on the GEN.
trail invasion road TO Berlin. the
Germans brought up fresh re-
serves and threw them into the
battle direct from the march," the
Russian high command announced.
Meanwhile, German front dis
patches spoke of several" Rus
sian bridgeheads across the Oder.
including one nearly 10 miles
/ deep"
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The Americans then poweress to return the
fire for fear of hitting the internees.
Yesterday Col. Hayashi opened negotiations with
1t Col Charles Brady of Wethorn ~ j. executive officer
of the cavalry brigade commanded by Brig Gen William
Chase His terms safe release for the Japanese
the building or they would fight to the bitter end
An English missionary, Ernest Stanley, acted
Interpreter
Anxious to insure the safety of the nternees, Gen.
Chase decided to meet Hayashis terms.
This morning Col. Brady and Stanley entered the
building while outside cavalry guns ready lined up in
four columns Shortly after, the japanese, carrying
packs and rifles they not allowed to carry grenades
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (INS)
L r. MacGregor, until last
December dierctor general Of the
Australian war supplies mission
at Washington, has been ap-
pointed to represent his govern
ment as trade commissioner at
large in South America.
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Named TO Ethiopia Post

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 CUP)L
Felix Cole of the District Of
Columbia, now consul general at
Monrovia, Liberia, was nominated
today by President Roosevelt TO
be minister TO Ethiopia.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
MOST AMERICANS
Reds See Last Act

LONDON, Feb. 5 GNS)-The
semiofficial Soviet newspaper
Pravda issued a hint to the Allies
in the west today for "reSolute
and quick action" while declaring
the curtain is falling on the last
act Of the Second World War"
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
Boy, a, Gains Sight
Through Operation
By LOU FOLEY

The blessed miracle of light and sight came to
Ellis Sandlin Jr., 4, in Harper Hospital yesterday
afternoon.
Blinded since birth by eataracts, little Ellis
underwent the initial operation the right eye
Wednesday, at the hands of famous surgeon. He
had given the child but $3.50 chance to see.
Yesterday the surgeon, who asked that his be
head
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
Half Manila
Ours; 10000
Jdps Peri|ed
GEN. MacARTHUR'S

GEN. MacARTHUR'S
HQ., Luzon, Feb. 5 (INSt-
AS thousands of American
civilians tasted their first
real freedom in three years
tonight, mechanical units of
the First Cavalry Division
roamed the north half of
Manila, cleaning out snipers
and crushing isolated pockets
Iof Jap resistance.
The tough, unshaven dis
mounted cavalrymen, who raced
TO liberate the internees at Santo
Tomas University before the
Japs could move them or spirit
hostages away, were in complete
control of the northern half of
the city right 10 the Pasig River
which splits Manila.
At the same time, sky-born ele-
ments Of the L. S. Eighth Army
were Slugging theiS way from the
south in a drive 10 entrap an eSti-
mated 10000 Japs below the
Paste.
JUBnATIoN REIGNS
Late today they were reported
near Nichols Field, a few miles
below Manila, and advancing
steadily from B tangas and
Cavite provinces.
Elements of the 37th Infantry
Division, which cleaned out Clark
Airfeld and the important key
town Of San Fernando, to the
north of Manila, also were racing
toward Manila, whose fall ap-
peared imminent.
The liberated portion of Manila
was A scene of jubilation tonight,
particularly at Santo Tomas.
where American husbands, wives
land Children VINO had been held as
prisoners since the outbreak Of
I the war in 1911. reioiced in their
liberation and ate real American
chow" with their liberators.
MOST AMERICANS
/ Gen Macarthur, in a special
/ Icommunique today. announced
that approximately 300" in
( Iternees were rescued in the Santo
. Tomas camp.
While most" of the internees
held in that camp for more than
three years since the Japs overran
the Philippines were Americans,
the rest were identified officially
as British. Australians and of
other nations" The communique
Continued on Page Four
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-w 33 Mi. to BERLIN

EASTERN FRONT-Power-
full Russian drive splits
Kustrin-Frankfurt line in
smash toward Berlin.
page L.
PHILIPPINES -- YankS hold
half of Manila, free 800
prisoners. page L.
WESTERN FR0NT-U. s.
First Army penetrates main
defenses of Siegfried Line
in spectacular advance on
12-mile front. Page 2
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srr STORY on PAGE 10

CHUNGKING, Feb. ) (UP)-Chnese troops have
recaptured key enemy position four miles east Of
Ichang in Southern Human Province the Canton
Hankow railway, cnnmuni4le said today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
Patient Bre axis News

remained for the tiny patient himself break the joyful
news.
ELLIS asleep when his roOm" said
father II snapped the light and the boy right up
bed.
Daddy, daddy! Junior the LghtP he
cried
WY wife and had to choke back tears before
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06

WASHINGTON, Feb ; UNS)-The House appro-
priations committee today approved 81 billion dollar
Independent offices bill, than doubling the current
fiscal years funds for the war-expanded veterans ad-
ministration.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
6 KILLED, INJURED IN TRAIN-TRUCK COLLISION

SALISBURY, Md, Feb GNS)-Sx mill
workers killed and five other employees injured
today when the truck in which they riding coIded
with Philadelphia bound PcnnsN yania Railroad passer
ger train at Fruitland five miles south of Salisbury
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06

RANDY, Ccylon, Feb. ) CP)-Carrier planes of a
powerful East Indian task force raided Palembang in
Southeastern Sumatra Jan. - and % the
damaging blows Yet at Japanese oil supplies southeast
Asia communique disclosed today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
JANUARY B-29 OUTPUT JUMPS I3 PER CENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. : HNS) - WPB Chairman
krug reported today that production of Boo type heavy
bombers had increased 3 per cent during January
December while overall aircraft output for the month
was per gent below schedule.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
IANK BoMBERS BLAST BRENNER PASS

ROME Feb. NNS)-U. :. Mitchell medium
bombers and Thuncrbo fighters hammered the Brenner
Force Headquarters announced
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
Sees Electric Liqh+

Ellis Immediately pointed his tiny finger at
electric light the room" said the surgeon A
radiant smile swept his face and he cried out:
"TheFe's the freP"
Ellis first brought the attention Of the surgeon
through series of stories in The Detroit Times November
when his companion cocker spaniel named Sandy away.
Through four long years his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
Ellis would his Wednesday they scarcely
dared hope lest that their dream would be disped forever
When they went the hospital yesterday visit the child
they the surgeon had preceded them and the
result of the operation known
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
OFFER TO SHARE FOOD

We moved down Avenue Rial
several blocks, then the column
split with half of it taking up
perimeter positions and the re-
mainder moving on to Santo
Tomas.
Civilians mobbed our vehicles,
cheering and offering us portions
of their m eager food supplies.
They passed out iced water, beer
and liquor. The women were
weeping while the men saluted
and children squealed in delight.
But the Santo Tomas reception
was even more delirious.
a grenade hurled from the Jap
guardhouse at the entrance to the
prison camp delayed us until tanks
were brought up under the orders
of Mai. James Gearhart, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Gearhart led his men into the
55-acre university grounds, warn
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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CONDITIONS PITIFUL

"a - NGbAAANANSNs
CONDITIONS PITTUL
Brig. Gen. William Chase, after
a personal inspection of the con-
cenration camp, described condi-
tions as most pitiful." Most OF
the internees, he said, were suf-
fering from malnutrition and were
practically skin and bones"
'It would break your heart to
look at them," he said.
He urged that first priority
should be given food and medical
supplies for the internees.
"a broadcast from Luzon said
great motor conveys with doc
: tors, Red Cross. staffmen and
enough equipment to build a
large hospital were waiting
north of Manila TO enter the
city as soon as bridges were re-
stored. They were also bringing
1900 letters and other mes
sages TO the ihternees, the
broadcast Said.)
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-06
In The Times TODAY

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