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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-20
By GEN. JONATHAN NJ. WAINWRIGHT
Copyright. is46. Ming Features syndicate. Inc.
Reproduction in whole in Part strictly Prohibited

In
VXTELL, here it was at last. Maj Gen.
wv Edward p King, my successor as
commander of the forces on LuZon,
had sent his chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Ar
mold J. Funk, to Corregidor to tell me that
King might have to surrender-so great
was the Jap pressure on our malarial and
starving forces.
Funk stood before me, in my little Of
flee in Malinto tunnel on Corregidor, that
grim afternoon of April Z, 1912, waiting
for my answer. On my desk lay mes
sage from Macarthur, in Australia:
''When the supply situation becomes
impossible (MacArthur's message read)
there must be no thought of surrender.
You must attack"
looked at Funk, a picture of Weari-
ness.
General, you GO back and tell Gen.
King that he will not surrender. Tell
him he will attack. Those are my or
ders"
Gen Funk waited moment. Then he
said:
General, you know, of course, what
the situation is over there. You know
what the outcome will be-"
II do" | answered. ! could not say
anything else Funk turned and walked
out =. fine soldier.
TT WAS with heavy heart that l sent in
l. my report to Washington, a commu-
niqUe which read:
Fresh Japanese troops are cOntinu-
ing their forward drive in Bataan with
great vigOr. A heavy attack on our new
position is now in progress. Dive bomb
ers and attack aircraft are bombing and
machine-gunning our front lines. Heavy
bombers are continuing their attacks on
our rear areas near the southern ex-
tremity of the Bataan Peninsula
"The present Japanese attack is the
longest sustained drive of the enemy
since operations began in Bataan.
Waves of shock troops have attacked
almost continuously, without regard to
casualties, which have been heavy on
I6-C .1HE DETROIT TIMES Oct. l74s
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-20
Last Tie Broken
With Peninsula
international Photo

wounded from the hospital bembiHgs-
and every last one of them with her chin
up in the airs a memory that can
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-20

I6-C .1Ht DETROIT TINES
Evening star., 1945-02-15
|WFA Acts 10 Step Up
Butter Production

In a move designed to encourage
more butter production. the War
Food Administration today an
nounced a revision of its dairy pro-
duction payment program, effec-
tive April /.
On that date the rates of pay
ment on whole milk will be reduced
IS cents per 100 pounds for three
months. Under the present price
structure, it has been more profit
able for dairymen to sell their whole
milk for products other than butter.
Thus with payments on whole
milk reduced, VITA officials hope
that more producers will divert
their production to butter. Since
the first of the year butter produc-
tion has shown q steady decline
IN contrast to the increase usually
experienced during this period.
VITA tentatively plans 10-cent
increase in payments over the sec
ond quarter for July, August and
September and q 25-cent increase
for the last quarter, bringing the
payments back to their. present
levels of 60 to 90 cents depending
on the region.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
|Yunk Bombers
Renew Attack
|On Dresden
Ry the Associsted Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON. Feb. 15.-Americar
heavy bombers carrying out on,
of the greatest air offensives Of
the war, blasted Dresden agar
today and bombed. the cloggee
Irailyards of Cottbus. only l:
miles from a sector in which
Russian spearheads we're re-
ported operating.
Still another force of American
heavy bombers again attacked the
synthetic oil plant outside Madge.
burg, rs miles southwest of Berlin
While this great armada Of more
than 1,100 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators with $50 fighter escorts
was making these attacks, the Ger
man radio sounded new alarms
Fresh formations of Allied bombers
were reported flying in over Holland
and also from the south over
Austria.
The attacks brought to about H.
600 thus far the number of planes
which have linked the eastern and
western battle fronts under an un-
precedented blanket of explosives
and incendiaries in the last 48 hours
Tactical Aircraft Busy.
Front-line reports said tactical
aircraft, also. were having another
great field day against Nazi road
movements.
Cottbus is big rail and highway
junction squarely in front of Mar
shall Ivan S. Konev's right flank
1t is fat target, jammed now with
Nazi troops and supplies.
Today's powerhouse assaults came
after overnight blows by 1900 Raj
planes which struck at the east
front rail center of Chemnitz, as
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Roosevelt Expected in France;
Relief Distribution Probe Seen
MorseiIIe Visit Reported; Relocation
On Italian Armistice Terms Anticipated

visit italy on his return trip and
arrangements to receive him also
have been made both by the French
government and by Allied head
quarters, according to a news story
passed by Allied censorship from
Paris last night.
This dispatch, by A. P. Bureau
Chief Edward Kennedy, said "one
of the wars greatest scandals may
come out" in connection with French
relief II the President visited France.
He said high-ranking administra-
ton officials and Army officers had
been summoned to be prepared to
meet the President.
Judging from this" it was added
"the President may intend to in
quire into the problem of the re-
lief of the French civilian popula-
ton. 1t is reported that White
House directives for more of this
relief have not been fulfilled"
In Washington, Owl Director
Elmer Davis said he assumed the
reference was to the failure to sf1ir
as much civilian supplies into
(See ROOSEVELT. page A-I61
Evening star., 1945-02-15
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. Feb. 15.-Some re-
Taxation of Italian armiStice
terms and a possible inquiry by
President Roosevelt into ar
rangements for the relief of
French civilians were indicated
today by continental dispatches.
"a dispatch from Paris shortly
after noon today said it was
learned that the investigation
already was under way and that.
Justice Samuel /. Rosenman, Mr..
Roosevelt's adviser, had been in
quiring into the relief situation
for the President.)
The best available information In
Paris was that Mr.. Roosevelt had
not yet reached France, although a
Paris broadcast said the President
on his way hack from the Crimean
conference, was reported by the
Marseille press ito have made a
short stay" At Marseille, French
Mediterranean port.
Mr.. Roosevelt was expected to
Evening star., 1945-02-15
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The Senate Military Affairs
Committee abandoned plans to
end hearings today on the House.
approved Work-or-jail bill and
began inquiring into the use be-
ing made by the Army Of its
manpower, both military and ci-
william.
Chairman Thomas announced at
noon It 1t. Gen. Thomas r.
Handy, Neputy chief Of stan. who
WAS questioned in closed session this
morning, will give further testimnoy
tomorrow or Monday.
Earlier it had been indicated the
Evening star., 1945-02-15
U. 5. Army Casualties
On West Front Put at
'61,962 for January
Ground Force Losses
From D Day to Feb. |
Given os 394,874
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Army ground forces suffered
394, ,874 casualties on the western
front from D day last June to
February l, including 1882 last
month.
In reporting this today Secretary
Of War Stimson said 63,4l0 were
killed, 273,997 wounded and 57,467
missing. The January report re-
fiected an increase in casualties on
the western front, with S,s4s report
ed killed, Al ,325 wounded and II, ,78s
missing.
Mr.. Stimson also reported that the
Army's casualties In all theaters
since the beginning Of the war now
are COS .342 on the basis of names
compiled in Washington through
February Z and rejecting combat
action In the early part Of January.
Linked with the Nays latest re-
port of losses of 88,838, this puts
total American combat losses at
7s2 2,189, an increase of 1885 since
last weeks report.
The. breakdown on Army losses
in thin / weeks report and corre-
spondiE { figures for last week fol-
low: II
Killed, 1850 and 100, ,2ee;
wounded, 408, $50 and 3s6.176; pris-
oners, 58,5 3 and 58,87S; missing. 9o,-
723 and 81. VIC.
Mr.. Stins IN reported that 202, BIS
Of the wo,h ded have returned to
duty.
Similar figm IS for the Navy are:
Killed, 1888, and 33,l92; wound
ed, 40.607 and 4.Y248; prisoners, 4,474
and ATS; missing, ,10,221 and g.
873.
The decline in the number listed
as prisoners by the Army and Navy
presumably represents shifting to
other classifications.
The losses on the western front in
January were 1896 smaller than il,
December, when the powerful Ger
man offensive in the Ardennes was
under way. During January. the
American forces began to pinch OF
the Ardennes salient and to launch
offensives of their own.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
U. s.. 0uiposts in Italy
Driven Back by Nazis
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
ROME, Feb. 15.-German infil,
tration tactics drove back American
loutposts on the Tyrrhenian coasta
sector 2of the italian front and q
Nazi raid in the Serchio Valley
forced another slight withdrawal
but the ground later was regained
Allied headquarters announced to.
day.
Describing the Tyrrhenian action
the ofncia1 report said:
Between Strettoia and Seravezza
our outposts moved back O. shori
distance after enemy forces infil-
trated our lines and also launched
q raid about 500 yards east oi
Strettoia. !"
Raiding Nazis forced American
troops back few hundred yards
east OF Lama di Soto, but the posi-
tions were regained later, the COM
munique said.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Work Bill Inquiry Extended
To Weigh Army Use Of Labor

hearings would end today and that
revised bill might be ready for the
Senate by Monday.
Chairman Thomas said the COM
mittee was told that three-eighths
of the Army Is In the United States
and that half OF the uniformed men
still In the country are taking care
of supplies and reserves. About
per cent Of the military personnel
in the United States is hospitalized.
I'VE are trying to ind out II there
are pockets Of wasted manpower
that could be used In, solving this
problem" Senator Thomas said.
Asked II he meant manpower in
uniform, the chairman said "Yes, .
o. NAlt1(5WE12. Page A-leJ
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Jap Industrial City
OF Nagoya Attacked
By Super Fortresses
New B-2e Unit Based
On Tinion Island in
Mariunus Revealed

The War Department an
nonnced that Super Fortresses
had attacked Japan's home is
land of Honshu today and at the
same time revealed the estab-
lishment Of q new unit Of the
giant bombers on Tinian Island
in the Marianas.
An Associated Press dispatch from
headquarters of the 21st Bomber
Command at Guam said the B-29s
had struck the important industrial
city of Nagoya. The Tokyo radio
confirmed this and added that the
Mel prefecture across Atsuta Bay
from Nagoya also suffered some
damage" from explosive and in
cendiary bombs. The japanese said
go Super Fortresses carried out the
raid.
Damage Called Serious.
Secretary of War Stimson, who
last week told reporters that al
though air attacks had been doing
damage to enemy industry, "Japan's
war production has not yet been
fundamentally weakened" said to-
day that damage inflicted on the
Ota aircraft factory last week was
serious"
In announcing the new Tinian
base, Gen. H. H. Arnold, command
| er of the Goth Air Force, said it
will increase the scope of bombing
operations against Japan"
He added that with headquarters
of the 21st Command established
on Guam and the original bases on
Saipan in full operation, "all three
major islands of the Marianas
group now become an impressive
center of B-29 operations in the Pa
cific." t
Gen. Davies in Command.
The planes on Tinian compose a.
new unit, the 313th Wing OF the
21st Bomber Command. The wing
is commanded by Brig. Gen. John
H. Davies, Piedmont, Calf.
The Goth Air Forces other COM
mand, the 20th Bomber. Command,
operates from bases in. Southeast
Asia.
Earlier today the Tokyo radio re-
ported that lone Super Fortresses
bombed the Tokyo Yokohama met
ropolitan area and the Naeona dis
trict last night and early today and
returned later in reconnaissance
flights.
Today's strike was the fourth by
B-29s since Saturday. The aircraft
factory at Ota, 40 miles northwest
OF Tokyo, was hit Saturday, the
Rangoon area Sunday and Two
Jima Monday.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Budget Officer Asks
Teacher Pay Raises
Ranging Up TO $1,000
Boosts, Fowler Says
Would Get Bulk of
Elementary Instructors

Pay increases for $500 District
public school teachers. ranging
from $500 to $1,000, was recon-
mended to the Commissioners
today by Budget Office Walter
L. Fowler.
II the schedule is approved by the
Commissioners and finally adopted
by Congress, Mr.. Fowler said 90 per
cent Of the increases would 90 to
teachers, particularly those in the
elementary schools. The remain
ing 10 per cent would be distrib-
uted among administrative and SUI
pervisory officials.
Under the schedules recommend
ed by Mr.. Fowler, elementary school
teachers salaries, which now range
from $1,400 to $4,000, would 20 from
81 800 to $4,000. The Board of Edu-
cation had recommended a range
Of 1900 to $500.
High School Schedule.
Various grades of Junior, high
school teachers now receive from
81 800 to 5000 and under the sub.
mitted schedule would range from
81 900 to $3,700 Senior high school
teachers, whose salaries now 20
from 81 800 to $4,000, would 60 from
$2,100 to. 100. The Board of Edu-
cation had suggested $1,000 to $3,-
500 for Junior high school teachers
and $4,000 t0 900 for senior high
teachers. IS:
Mr.. Fowler ftport calls for
salaries Of $500 to $4,700 for as
sistant principals in senior high
schools, compared with $4,000 to
$3,700 in effect at present. Princi-
pals OF elementary schools would
receive from $3,700 to $4,50O, a
sharp increase from the present
range of $4,000 to $1,000.
Principals of junior high schools
would range from $4,000 to ST, 900
under Mr.. Fowler's schedule and
principals OF senior high schools
from $4,700 to $500. Present
salaries are from $500 to $4 900 for
junior high school princirals md
$4,000 to $500 for senior hieh
principals.
Boost for Superintendent.
Mr.. Fowler also recommended
that the superintendent of schools
receive $4,000 a year, $1,000 more
than the salary of the Commission
ers.
The recommendations of the
school authorities for upward revi-
sion Of salaries has been under
study by Mr.. Fowler's once for sew
eral months.
The increases would cost s1.118-
400 the first year-an increase of
$80, 400 over the present $300-a-year
bcnus paid to teachers.
MIR. Fowler declared that the re-
vised and approved schedule for
warded to the city heads was the
result Of Z united effort with the
Board Of Education and in no sense
represented = splitting Of dif-
ferences."
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Comdr. Stossen Here,
Unavailable to Press
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. y
s Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, named
by President Roosevelt to the Amer
lean delegation to the San Francisco
world security conference, is In
washington.
Senator Magnuson, Democrat, of
Washington told reporters Comdr.
Stassen arrived today. The former
Republican Governor of Minnesota
has been serving on the stan OF Ad-
n1iral William r. Halsey.
Because OF naval regulations,
Comdr. Stassen was unavailable to
riewsmen for comment on his desig-
nation as . security conference dele
gate.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Late Bulletin
Morgoid HEARING Feb. Is

A separate hearing on the
nomination Of Municipal
Judge Nathan r. Margold to
be an associate justice Of Dis
trict Court has been set for
1880 am. February %. The
hearing will be before q Sem
ate Judiciary Subcommittee
headed by Senator McCarran,
Democrat, Of Nevada and in
Guiding Senators Wheeler.
Democrat, of Montana and
Moore, Republican Of Okla-
homa.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Lublin Polish Leaders
Arrive in Moscow
By the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Feb. 15.-Boleslaw
Beirut, president of the Polish Ma
tional Council, and Edward b.
Osubka-Morawski, Premier of the
Lublin regime, arrive in Moscow
late yesterday and were welcomed
by Andrei Vishinski, Soviet vice
commisSar for Foreign Affairs.
Presence Of the two Polish leaders
in the Russian capital, coming after
the Big Three decisions with re-
gard to establishment of a pro-
visional government for Poland.
were regarded here as significant.
1t was learned the British and
American missions In Moscow ex-
pect the Polish question to be taken
up very shortly along the lines
agreed on by the Crimea confer.
ence
The Polish leaders were accom-.
panied here by v. z. Lebedev. So
Wet Ambassador to the Lublin re-
gime.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Canadians Fight
Through Flood
Waters 10 Rhine
Drive Threatens
To Outflonk Ruhr
Munitions Plants
BULLETIN.

PARIS P.-The Canadian
1st Army gathered momentum
today after beating OF six
more frenzied counterattacks
and there were signs the Ger
mans were faltering under
heavy artillery and aerial
bombardment. Kessel, S miles
west OF Goch, was taken. The
offensive has overrun 120
square miles, most of it in
Germany.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
War Probers Demand
Early Agreement on
U. 5.-BuiIt Airports
TunnelI Report Criticizes
Apparent Lack Of Policy
On Postwar Economic Aims
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate War Investigating
Committee today called for early
determination of United States
rights in airports and other in
stallations it has constructed
throughout the world.
I'M a report sharply critical of
what it termed "the apparent lack
Of definite national policy on post
war security and economic aims" a
subcommittee headed by Senator
Tunnel, Democrat, of Delaware as
serted:
Neither the United States nor
any of our American airlines have
obtained any franchises to operate
in North Africa.
British Operate Regularly.
gsOn the other hand, the British
Overseas Airways Corp. is run
ming regularly scheduled commercial
flights, accepting nonpriority pas
sengers when space permits. On
a much smaller scale, the French
and Belgians are operating in North
Africa"
Senators Tunnel and Burton, Re-
publican, of Ohio, who recently made
a tour extending from Bermuda to
Casablanca, gave the Senate findings
that:
l. Records as to the costs of in
stallations are poorly kept" in many
instances, indicating the need for
a complete appraisal by the armed
forces.
2. Documents containing terms of
United States rights should be as
sembled. indexed and preserved
3. Titles and rights in installation
not now clear should be clarified
immediately"
4. Where rights are possessory
only, possession should not be re-
linquished without due regard for
our national interests
S. Full information as to sur
pluses, both movable and immov-
dpie, anu eStlInageS as 10 costs OF
dismantling. removal and DISPOSE
ton Should be collected
6. Future negotiations for rights
in real estate for military and other
wartime installations should be
conducted in consultation with the
State Department."
Inadequate Measures"
Senator Tunnel told the Senate
that tn some instances he and Sem
ator Burton found that installations
such as airports, camps for road
maintenance and other camps, had
been abandoned by the Army "and
that inadequate measures were
being taken for the maintenance Of
records on cost, fair rental or sale
value. /"
No adequate investigation, he said,
was being made as to the propriety
Of charging up against those Of
our Allies receiving BENEFITS from
Installations erected ct our expense
the fair value Of such benehts"
Evening star., 1945-02-15
MAP on Page A-6.)

81 bAio hoSOtAAtfu FscS2.
PARIS, Feb. Is. Canadian
troops today fought through
flood waters to the west bank of
the Rhine opposite Emmerich
and swung slowly along the
northern end of the Rhine
Valley in a drive behind the
Siegfried Line threatening to
outfank the Ruhr munitions in
dustries.
The 20-mile Kleve front was the
only active one in the west. On
its south flank, British Empire
troops crushed a series of violent
German counterattacks and pressed
close to the key defense bastions
Of Goch and Calcar.
More and more Germans were
drawn into the semi-aquatic battle
which steadily was turning the Ger
man flank In the north.
Hundreds of Guns Firing.
Barrages from hundreds ON hum
dreds of Field Marshal Montgom-
ery's big guns and huge fleets Of
Allied planes paralyzed every Ger
man attempt to regain ground and
exacted terrible casualties. None
theless. the threat was so real to
the Ruhr and Rhi1elAnd, the very
heart OF the German war effort
that Field Marshal Walther yon
Model mustered every reserve he
could scrape for his defending army
group.
The Rhine was reached at Huren-
deich. There the river is normally
3,270 feet wide but breaches in
dykes In the desolate lowlands have
made the Rhine even more impos-
ing. .
At low points north of Kleve and
west Of Emmerich, the Rhine was Is
wide As the English Channel be-
tween Calais and Dover and flood
waters were 8 feet deep, leaving
only islands OF sunken villages. The
Canadians used amphibious tanks
to advance.
The Canadian 1st Army, already
behind the Siegfried Line and up
to the Rhine, was in q position to
push south and confine or kill the
enemy on either side Of his West
Wall fortifications.
Roer Floods Receding.
Three of Gen. Eisenhowers armies
to the south watched with satisfac-
ton a gradual recession of floods on
the Roer River barring their path
to the Cologne plain. Still farther
south and near the center of the
western front, the American Sd
Army made quarter-mile advances
to within 8 miles of Bitburg, where
seven military highways meet.
Alsace was quiet.
The British Empire troops crept
forward in the wake of blows struck
at Germany by 10000 planes in 36
hours, much of their might loosed
on the area between the Rhine and
Gen. Esenhower's seven armies.
One group wrecked the Rhine bridge
at. the Hunr city OF WeSel, IL miles
ahead Of British troops.
Gen. Henry Crerar's Canadian 1st
Army appeared definitely headed
south toward the Cologne plain.
On the west edge Of that plain,
the British I'd and the American
9th and 1st Armies were check
mated by Roer River floods, fiow-
ing from opened dams at the head
waters.
The Canadians, Britons, Scots and
Welsh commanded by Gen. Crerar
captured Hommersum, Heijen and
Warbeyen. Opposite Emmerich and
its plants producing iron, chemicals,
leather goods, textiles and rail equip-
ment. the Canadians were 1917 miles
inside Germany and 40 from the
great Rhine city Of Dusseldorf.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Practice Radio Alert
Excites Purisiuns
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 15.-An air-raid siren
sounded in Paris shortly before
midnight last night, creating con-
siderable excitement until the ALL
clear sounded a few minutes later.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
U. S. Delegate Missing
From UNRRA PurIey
By the Associated Press.

~ tAAS ASoO(iAtSu- EIScS. .
SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 15.-Ab.
bott Low Moifatt, leader Of thu
American delegation to the Unitee
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration conference here, l1ae
failed 10 arrive for the opening oI
the meeting today although he wa.
due by plane a week ago.
Authorities here cabled to Wash.
ington last night asking If Mr.. Moi
fatt, State Department oflicial
could be traced.
The Far Eastern Committee Of
UNRRA is opening = six-day con.
ference on relief activities in thu
Orient.
State Department officials said
Mr.. Monatt's plane was not SUM
ciently overdue for them to feel any
apprehension about his safety. He
left San francisco February s. they
added, explaining that it often re-
quired six or seven days to make the
air journey from there to Australia.
Evening star., 1945-02-15

Three additional men from
the District area hape been
reported killed in this tDar. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page AZ.
Evening star., 1945-02-15

fSee RUSSIA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-02-15

(See AERIAL, Page AL