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Evening star., 1945-01-10
Strong German Thrust
To Relieve Budapest
Believed Broken
Russiuns Claim Control
Of More Than Half of
Hungarian CopitoI
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 10.-Red Army
assaults within Budapest were
reported increasing in fury to-
day, while German relief col
umns, now menaced by an out
flanking drive north of the Dan
ube bend, had failed in attempts
to break through to the besieged
garrison.
In the 18th day of street fighting,
the Russians claimed control of
more than half the Hungarian capi-
| tai.
Northwest beyond the Danube
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's ar
NOR and infantry were making rapid
strides toward Komarom, north
bank communications hub which
was one of the springboards for the
German rescue offensive.
Russians Advance.
In advances of 3 miles or more
his troops yesterday captured the
town of LISA, little more than 31a
miles east of Komarom, and half a
dozen other communities to the
northeast in a wheeling movemen,
that could carry around the big Ger
man base and on toward Bratislava
the Austrian border, and eventually
to Vienna, 81 miles away.
The Russian coInmunique said the
Germans were throwing in strong
reinforcements to stem this west
ward Soviet tide, but it declared the
Red Army still was advancing.
Fresh troops also were brought
up by the Germans west and north
west of Budapest to fill holes in the
battered ranks of their relief COL
umns. New German tank and in
fantry attacks failed, the official
announcement said.
Counterattack Continues.
The German eounterattack, which
began January 2-four days after
the start of the Russian an
Inhalation offensive against the
Budapest garrison-still was being
maintained with desperate vigor,
front adviceS said.
More than 500 tanks now have
been lost by the German command
in beating against Marshal Feodor
I. Tolbukhin's flank, based on Bicske
l<8 miles west of Budapest, and
Dorog, approximately the same dis
tance on the northwest.
Dispatches said there were signs
that the core of the enemy resist
ance within Budapest was crack
ing. The Russians now have cap
tured more than 1900 Of the city S
$500 blocks.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
laps Report Incendiory Raids
On Tokyob by Three Super Forts
Night Blows Follow Strike by 40 Craft;
installations on Formoso Also Blasted

Weather over the target was clear
and visual bombing was accom-
plished. In many of their previous
blasts against the Japanese home
land, the B-29s were forced to bomb
through heavy overcasts with pre-
cision instruments.
Additional details of this raid soon
will be announced by the Guam
headquarters of the 21st Bomber
Command and by the Goth All
Force in Washington.
Japs Minimize Results.
A japanese imperial communique
said some 60 B-29s staged the raid
on Tokyo and nearby targets or
Honshu Island. In line with their
policy of minimizing the results OF
American air attacks, the Japanese
claimed damage was negligible
and that several enemy planes
were observed by the naked eye to
be trailing smoke, hit by our ground
batteries and fighters"
Cloud cover obscured the results OF
the strike by China-based B-29s
against Formosa. No enemy fighter
opposition or ack-ack fire was en-
countered. All planes returned.
This attack probably was intended
to hamper the flow of reinforce
ments to Luzon.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Ferguson Asks Senate
Unity in Demanding
Strong Foreign Policy
No Commitments Made
In Advance Of Big 8
ToIks, President Says
BY the Associated Press.

-
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan called on the Senate
today to spell out "a strong, eff
fective foreign policy" as the
time for another big Three
meeting draws nearer.
President Roosevelt has assured
congressional leaders he will go into
the forthcoming session free of prior
commitments on specific items re-
lating to Europe's tangled political
problems.
Senator Ferguson, however, urged
his colleagues to unite in "a clear
minimum statement of principles to
which every Senator can subscribe
who believes enduring peace depends
on teamwork"
The resolution he drafted would
call not only for United States par
ttclpation in United Nations Or
ganization prepared to use force, il
necessary to preserve the peace, but
also would emphasize the Ma
tion's determination to stick by the
principles Of the Atlantic Charter.
L Two Aims of Policy.
While administration leaders said
the President will not expand now
on the foreign policy principles LAID
down in his state of the Union mes
sage last week, Senator Ferguson
said:
The United States must obvious
Evening star., 1945-01-10
.1,100 j. ). Bombers
Blast Nazi Transport
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 10.-Eleven hun.
dred United States Liberators ano
Flying Fortresses bombarded bridges
airf1elds and road functions behind
the Belgian bulge and along the
Rhine today in daring daylight
raid, supported by only 300 fighter
escorts.
The United States 9th Air Force
heavy bombers braved icy runways
and flew through snowstorms in de-
livering their tactical attack with
1000 tons of bombs.
A small force of United States
9th Air Force B-26 Marauders yes
terday bombed a railroad bridge al
Rinnthal, 8 miles from Landau, or
the route supplying Germans at
tacking United States 7th Army po-
sitions above Strasbourg.
A few fighter-bombers hit at 9
bridge over the Rhine-Rhone canal
and others bombed railyards at Neu-
stadt and Rastatt.
Five German planes were shot
down yesterday and one American
fighter was lost.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Merry Widow Composer
Reported Held by Nazis
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. 10-Austrian bor-
der reports today said Franz Lehar,
74-year-old composer of THE Merry
Widow Count of Luxembourg"
and other light operas had been
placed under house arrest in Vienna.
Mr.. Lehar, because of his world
wide reputation, previously had not
been molested by the Nazis, the re-
port said, because they were anxious
to have so prominent a musician
identified with their regime at
time when Fritz Kreisler and many
others declined to play in the Reich.
If the report of his house arrest is
true it may indicate he has openly
criticized the regime or is feared as
a man Of Hungarian antecedents
who might be useful to Hungarian
elements seeking peace,
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Argentina 10 Ignore
Pdn-American Meetings
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 10.-The
Argentine government announced
today it would not participate IN
future Pan-American Union meet.
ings.
The announcement was regarded
here as an outgrowth of the unions
action Monday in refusing Buenos
Aires request to call meeting of
American foreign ministers to con-
slider the claims Of Gen. Edelmiro
Farrells regime to diplomatic rec
ignition.
At his press conference today, the
attention OF Secretary Of State Stet-
tinius was called to the Argentina
announcement, but he declined to
comment on 1t.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
|0PAand WFADirected
by vinson 10 Establish
|$1S Livestock Ceiling
SIouehterers' Subsidy
increased to Avoid
Higher RetoiI Prices
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.


Economic Sterilization Direc-
tor Vinson today directed the
Office of Price Administration
and War Food Administration to
establish an overall ceiling of $18
per hundredweight on live cattle
and calves, effective January 30
through July 2. Then the ceiling
will be lowered to S17.50.
In a move to prevent increases in
retail meat prices, sMr Vinson also
directed Defense Supplies Corp. to
increase its subsidy payments to
slaughterers from 81 TO 50 per hun
dred pounds live weight on choice
grade cattle and from $1.45 to $195
on good grade cattle.
In announcing the five-point pro-
gram, Mr.. Vinson said the action
was taken at the recommendation Of
the OPA and was designed ito make
it possible for the OPA to secure
more effective control of live cattle
prices and to continue to protect the
consumer against any increase in the
price of meat"
Cushion for Feeders.
Likewise, it will prevent any sub
stantial reduction in live cattle
prices which would adversely affect
cattle feeding or production" the
stabilization director added. Cattle
men long have been opposed to CELL
ings on livestock.
Other points in the program are !:
OPA and VIA are ordered to in
crease the price over the country of
the stabilization range for choice
cattle by 81 and good cattle by so
cents a hundred pounds. On July
2 the maximum and minimum range
will be reduced by so cents hun
dred weight. It was explained that
stabilization range refers to the
price range in which packers had to
stay in order to receive their sub
sidy.
OPA and VITA further are di-
rected to issue regulation making
it an OPA violation for slaughter
ers to pay more, on the average,
than the maximum prices of the
Stabilization range for cattle. This
does not include calves.
To Buy Yellow Corn.
VITA is ordered to delegate au-
thority to the price administrator
to issue an order establishing the
maximum percentage Of good and
choice cattle that any packer may
slaughter or deliver over month S
period.
Mr.. Vinson pointed out that con-
tinuation of subsidy payments under
the program beyond June 80 was
'of course, contingent upon con-
gressional action" on funds.
VIA, meanwhile, announced it
will offer to buy $4,000 900 bushels
of yellow corn from the 1914 record
breaking crop to be used as an emer-
gency reserve against future needs.
The agency win pay ceiling prices
and will make q down payment tc
farmers equal to the Government
loan value on corn when contracts
are signed.
The corn will be purchased before
March is and will be held in farm
cribs for delivery to VIA during the
summer months, officials said.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Patterson and Bard Appeal
i For National Service Law
225, 900 in "a and
2-B to Be Called
For Induction
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON,

Already beset with manpower
problems and loaded with huge
new demands for war materials
American industry has just been
informed that it will have to re-
lease to the armed services a
large percentage of it's deferred
young workers. ..-
The Star learned today that al.
ready harried production officials
have been notified that an esti.
mated 225 900 of the 800, 900 deferred
workers aged 26 through 20 with "a
and 2-B classifications will bs
needed by the Army and Navy ir
the next few months.
Since large proportion of the
total Of deferred are physically unfit
for service, this may mean that wal
and war-supporting activities viii
have to give up half of their key
young men,"
National draft calls, which are
set at about 10000 for January and
Gee TNOTTCTDv noro ~
Evening star., 1945-01-10
|Corgo-Ty B-29 Flies Here
From Seattle at 383 M.P.H.

the War Department, will not be
shown to the public during its stay
in Washington. News that the
transport had passed its initial flight
tests successfully was released in
November.
The commercial version of the
C-97 has been designed to utilize
features now being built into the
Super Fortress, and can be con-
structed on assembly lines now in
war production with relatively few
changes In toohng.
A bubble" type fuselage has beer
added to the cylindrical body Of the
streamlined bomber.
The commercial transport will use
the wings, engines, landing gear and
control surfaces of the superbomber
1T was said.
Probably Aided BY Winds.
The plane is equipped with -four
ZOO horsepower Wright Cyclone
engines and Hamilton Standard
'propellers. The production model
Boeing ofncials said. probably will
(See PLANE, Page All
Evening star., 1945-01-10
|Counterme0sures
By Japanese Navy
Are Threatened
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
LONDON, Jan. 10.-A Tokyo
dispatch relayed by Berlin to-
day quoted 1t. Gen. Masaharu
Homma, former japanese COM
mander in chief in the Philip
pines, as saying that with the
American landing on Luzon "it
may be taken for granted that
the japanese Navy now will 60
into action and deal blows in
this theater of operations"
The dispatch, reported by
DNB, German news agency,
said Gen. Homma declared:
Immediate countermeasures
are essential, particularly as
the enemy may make further
landings which would expose
Manila to fresh dangers.
'The moment for determined
action is at hand"
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Troops Continue to Pour Ashore;
Yanks Win Belgian Tank Batt|e
Enemy Places
Landing Forces
At 10000 Men
BY the Associated Press.

ny sue assoClateQ fIess.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD,
QUARTERS ON LUZON, Philip
pines.-Tens of thousands O
American troops, landing will
Gen. Macarthur yesterday il
Lingayen Gulf on Western Luxor
Island, today drove tank-lee
spearheads south across fiat.
lands toward Manila in the eli.
mactic showdown fight for the
Philippines.
(The Berlin radio quoted a
Tokyo dispatch as saying that
American forces already landed
otaled about 10000 men.
Censored dispatches from the
Philippines did not report the
number of men used, but they
described the operation as half
again as big as the Leyte in
vasion on October 20. Leyte's in
Nasion force, including ships
personnel, was reported as high
as 250,000 and equal to that in
the Normandy invasion. The ac-
tual landing force at Leyte was
estimated at around 100000.
GA CHS correspondent reported
from Luzon this morning that
the Japanese still had offered no
opposition on the ground to the
AmericansD
Manila was less than 100 miles
away through low, dry country ex-
cellently suited for the enormous
quantities of mechanical equipment
landed with the veteran fighting
men from an 800-ship convoy which
stretched out for 70 miles.
Twenty-four hours after the initial
landings, made against amazingly
light opposition at $3.50 am, the 9Th
Army Yanks still were pouring
ashore and over the same crescent
of sand dunes the Japanese invaders
used three years ago.
Light Landing Losses.
Landing losses were officially re-
ported as very light.
Gen. Macarthur, wading ashore
with an assault wave, established
headquarters on the island where his
outnumbered men fought valiantly
in defeat at Bataan and Corregidor.
With the support of a blistering
dawn naval and air barrage of shells
bombs and rockets, 1t. Gen. Walter
Krueger's 9th Army veterans landed
along 15 miles of Lingayen Gulf,
found the beaches virtually cleared
Of defenders and quickly pushed in
land.
The beachhead extended from near
Lingayen City on the southern shore
eastward to San Fabian.
The low American casualties re-
futed enemy warnings that an inva-
sion of Luzon would be a costly un-
dertaking from the start. Japanese
defenses ashore were woefully in
adequate. Some trenches were only
foot deep
Civilians Greet Yanks.
Associated Press Correspondent C
Yates Mcdaniel, who accompanied
Gen. Macarthur ashore, reported
that when the smoke of the bom-
bardment lifted Filipino civilians
were on hand to greet the Amer
leans.
I'VE found no BOBBY traps or land
mines such as we encountered on
Leyte," Mr.. Mcdaniel said. "If the
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Allied Pledge
|0f Unity Urged
By Vandenberg
3-Point Plan Calls
For Force to Keep
| Axis Disormed
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Calling for honest candor"
and a renewal of the principles
of the Atlantic Charter. Senator
Vandenberg of Michigan, Repub-
lican member of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee, today laid
before the Senate an immediate
three-point war and peace pro-
gram.
| First a hard-and- fast treaty be-
| tween the major Allied Nations,
pledging the use of all force to
keep Germany and Japan demil-
itarized in the future-without re-
ferring the matter back to Con.
gress.
Second the early adoption of the
Dumbarton Oaks agreement for an
international organization to pre-
serve peace-with a specific right
to review temporary unilatera1 de-
cisions regarding liberated territory.
For example Poland and Greece.
Third definite statements to the
Axis peoples that "the quicker
they Internationally surrender the
cheaper will be unconditional sur
renders price" This, without any
suggestion of appeasement.
Need for Unity Reiterated.
The Michigan Senator, who has
taken foremost role in Republican
councils on the problem of interna-
tional relations, reiterated the abso-
lutte need of unity among the Allied
Nations for the prosecution of the
war and in the peace that is to fol-
low. He spoke without partisan
rancor, although critical of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's handling of the
controversy over the Atlantic Char
ter.
Once and for all, Mr.. Vandenberg
disassociated himself from isola-
tionism, declaring that international
collaboration alone can prevent a.
third and more devastating world
war.
/ He called, however, for a frank
statement by the United States
Government to our Allies on our
aims; for reaffrmation of demo-
cratic ideals which recent events in
the diplomatic field appear to have
obscured, if not eclipsed. 80
/ Mr.. vandenberg said that "a great
American illusion" seems to have
been built up that America dare
not discuss the knotty foreign
problems for fear of contributing to
international dissension.
Two Wars Still to Be Won.
With two great wars stiIl to be
won, Mr.. Vandenberg insisted that
the United Nations must never, for
any cause, permit military unity to
fall apart. This is an obligation, he
said, which rests no less on our
Allies than on ourselves.
I'VE not only have two wars to
win, he continued, I'VE also have yet
to achieve such peace as will JUS
tlfy this APPALLING cost. Here again
an even more difficult unity is indis-
pensable. Otherwise we shall look
back upon futile, sanguinary sham
bles and-God save the mark!-we
shall be able to look forward only
to the curse of World War number
three"
/ Snarling recriminations will not
cure the differences between the Al
lied nations nor prevent these diff
lferences from driving a wedge into
the Allied lines, Mr. Vandenberg
asserted.
"On the other hand" the Michi-
gan Senator said, Il hold the belief
that honest candor, devoid of preju-
dice or ire, is our greatest hope and
our greatest necessity; and that the
Government of the United States,
.S
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Nozis Reported Moving
Prisoners to Interior
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 10.-Mass move
ments of prisoners of war inside
Germany were reported last night
from neutral sources.
Swiss reports told of mass move
ments of British prisoners" to the
interior from camps in Western
Germany.
Americans captured during Won
Rundstedt's offensive also were re-
ported to have been moved out OF
an area where an Allied break
through might iberate them.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Services, War PIonts
Seek l,600, 900 Men
In Six Months
BULLETIN.

The House Postwar Military
Policy Committee today de-
ferred action on a universal
military training law request
ed by President Roosevelt.
The postponement was de-
cided on to enable the House
to devote full attention to war
manpower legislation.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

Declaring that the armed
forces and war industries will
need 100000 men in the next
six months. Undersecretary OF
War Patterson and UnderSecre-
tary of the Navy Bard today
urged Congress to enact national
service legislation.
Mr.. Patterson told the House Mil
itary Affairs Committee that a min
imum of 100000 men are required
for military duty and the remaining
Evening star., 1945-01-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.-An
American Airlines passenger plane,
with 81 passengers and 3 crew
members, was reported by airline
officials as missing somewhere in
the San Fernando Valley early to-
day after being prevented by fog
from landing at Lockheed Air
Terminal at Burbank.
A spokesman for the airline said
the plane, which left Ell Paso, Tex,
at 11:10 pm. (Mountain war time),
was due at the air terminal at $40
am. Pacific war time) and arrived
on time, but was unable to come
down. The plane then headed for
q desert airport at Palmdale, Calf !,
but was not reported there.
The plane had fuel to last only
until Gas am.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Il Soldiers, ; Of Crew
Killed in Plane Crash
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK R.-Twenty-
one passengers, all members
of the armed services, and a
crew of 3 died today in the
crash of an American Airlines
plane near Burbank. Calf.
the company officers here an
nounced.
Evening star., 1945-01-10

CONTINUED on Page A-8, Column 81
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tSee MANPOWER, Page A-l5D
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(See FOREIGN POLICY, Pr. Al. ]
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(See INDUSTRY, Page
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(See SUFFRAGE, Page A-4.)
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(See WESTERN FRONT, P. A-3
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Guide for Reoders

An Associofed Press Newspopel
Evening star., 1945-11-30

E Frederick de Cordova who directed
Too 81 Young TO KNEW seems not to
have bothered to explain TO Mis-
youthful cast sthat these were sup
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Joan Crawford Again on Top

fered her what he thought was an
excellent starting vehicle. Joan
turned it down. Then, in a mo-
ment Of haste, Warner kicked over
the long term deal and substituted
a three-picture contract, with the
story she didn't do now supplanted
by "Humoresque." Mildred Pierce
was the first. The Secret" will be
the third. Then Joan can move of
the lot and free lance at her own
figure. Chalk up mistake No. 2.
The name of Rudolph Valentino
still has its charm in Hollywood
and auctioners around these parts
have MIXED it to the limit.
Ten years ago Rudy's furnish
ings in his famous hilltop domain
known as Falcon Lair, were sold on
the block. Since that time several
other tenants have occupied the
premises. In turn, they've sold their
effects, always making use OF the
charmed Valentino name.
Big ad In Daily Variety this week
announces another such sale. Flar-
ing type is used on the Valentino
name and If you search into the
agate lines you discover the items
to bes Huctioned comprise the fur
nishings 81 Falcon Lair, formerly
the estate OF :"
Newspsper Alliance. 1nc)
lReleased BY the North American
Evening star., 1945-11-30
Too Young to Know Warns
Young From Altar--Casually
BY JAY CARMODY.

In oo Young Warner Bros adoniing the
something at which take fling
which motion picture should fling either Examined
approach in the picture the Earle to the
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