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All WAR BONDS VOLUME 41 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED WIRE CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1945 AMERICAN HEAR THREi MEETING REPORT Debt Limit May i Be Hiked To 300 Billion By The Associated Press WASHINGTON. Feb. i and the American peo-: pie may receive a report from President Rooxcvc-lt on the IJig Three parley. Associates say the President, cheered by the military and politi-; cal concords reached in the Cri-! mea, probably will want to tell the home front how these agree- menis can hasten the war's end and bulwark of peace.

The President recognized Con-; gress' possibly decisive voice about American membership in a pro-; jected security league by naming; four legislators to the U. S. dele- i Cation to the United Nations con- ference. This meeting opens April 25 in San Francisco. The four: Chairman C'onally (D-Tcx) and Senator Vanclcnberg (R-Mich) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chair-1 man Bloom (D-NY) and Rep.

Eat- on (R-NJ) of the House Foreign; A I'fairs Committee. Secretary ot State Stetlinius will. the' eight-roan delegation, i Former Secretary of State Cordell; Hull will be a member and adviser. Thc other members arc-1 Lt. Comclr.

Harold E. Stassen. former Republican governor of Minnesota, and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College. THE "BIG THREE" AND THEIR AIDES AT CRIMEA CONFERENCE SOVIET TROOPS CRASH THROUGH QUEIS FRONTIER RED GROSS BLOOD STRONG ALLIED BANK TD BE HERE iFORCES ON WAY TO RHINE RiVER Gaps In German Lines Made By Konev Forces SMin Wimc Mini.lcr SMS po.nlir In a first hand report on the' historic gathering War Byrnes, just back from the Crimea, said thc Big Three military plans call "for a war involving more men than ever before in this conflict." The military chiefs, he said, "do not minimize the possibility of civilian collapse in Germany" but they are counting only on fighting to'the bitter end "with greater co- MINOR PATROL ni Withdrawal Of Germans From Front Seen Bv NOLAND NORGAARD 1 Southern To Meet Cape Teachers In i Basketball Game Southern Illinois Normal Uni-i vcrsity plays its last non-Confcr-) dice basketball of the win- ter this evening when it journeys i to Cape Girardcau, Missouri, to meet the Cape Girardcau Teachers I If 1.1 College in a return game. Earlier VUVI in the season, the Maroons defcat- thc Indians in Carbondalc.

I Three more I. 1. C. games re-, 1 main on the 1944-45 and CHILDREN'S LIFE AT SANTO TOMAS INTERNMENT CAMP IS TOLD BY 10 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF NEWSMAN 14 (A P) The clclei minc vhcthcr South wiu ULI Hj tut, lilUiUIL. L'U.

V' kt I i operation than has ever below cm irc Ualian trim subsided into £ey I1Hnois Statc isted." I minor patrol clashes and artillery, hors college will take this The declaration on liberated, ducls loday ilh the Germans NQ othci leam in tho areas, stressed Byrnes, means an )robing morc actively at AlllCcI rcnce hils a end to the danger of political rival-, linCsS ries between Russia and Britain! jj oanw Ci the Allied com-! would lead to development rcports noted a number cnk he six-year cham- of influence. ot Conditions under which an on-' ionshjp rcign 0 the State Normal imy withdrawal from northern By RICHARD KASISCHKE Feb. 'Army troops have crashed through -the Germans' Queis River line less -68 miles, from' Dresden, a dispatch said today, and Berlin declared armored units to the north had broken into Sorau, Junction City 83 miles southeast of Berlin. Marshal Ivan Konev's forces hitting westward "in a sensational treat to split Germany asunder 'south of Berlin" were approaching tho upper Neisse River, which 'runs about 50 miles from Dresden- la direct Moscow dispatch dcclar- 'ed. i Thc German high command said Konev's armor, beating northward toward a.

junction with other Red 'Army men along the Oder east of Berlin, had broken into Sorau, i eight miles northwest of Sagan land the Rober River. Sorau is five miles inside Berlin's Province of Brandenburg. Thc Swiss radio quoted German I sources as saying Konev already Roosevelt. ia( i un ec i 0 Sommerfeld, 13 his aides. President jl es northwest of Sorau, and 1 Marshall, American chief of staff, (within 17 miles of a junction of ohoto.) Marshal Gregory Zhukov's troops ion thc Oder.

Berlin broadcasts said Konev "inevitably is tearing gaps in our jlines," and that Volkssturm and "alarm units'' were being thrown nnto the fight to keep open retreat lines to the west. They also reported "massing strong forces" Frankfurt Fuerstenberj. along the Oder for an assault on Berlin. Menaced capital oi' thc old Kingdom of Saxony, was bom- 1 American Red Cross informed Mrs. i C.

S. Gill, Jackson County Blood i Donor'Chairman, that the Blood Unit will visit Murphysboro. April 23 and Carbondalc April 24.: Exceeding its quota for the fourth straight year, Basil O'Con- First Army cliarged be- -j or, National Chairman, says -De- mgssed and i- lame thi- 0 w- i spite this magmfacant record, wc Enemy Falling Back On AH Front Lines PARIS. Feb. ers today tu within a mile and a imust not let down.

The dram on of och i 3 wa German traffic is enormous and ic cenlei be wce tlie Rhine and jous cases have reported in aiid out flanl ed it on tlic 'W 0 en m0 by capU.ring Hassclt and Scots and i pints of blood everv week to. keep ons of Gen. Henry Crerars Aimj the armed force's fully supplied." advanced two miles or so. leaving In' reviewing lhe accomplish-behind all the ot the service, Mr. O'Connor 1 1 that the outstanding develop-, ed Gen)lan up thc was lhe in strong armo ed on -i vc wu Coast and five on the Canadian infantry closed are supplying both whole to the line of the Oucle plasma The whole blood is flown a tributary of the mam nv- riaily to Europe by the Army Air cr.

northeast of Kleve and sent a Transport Command and to the sirong raiding force from captured Pacific by thc Naval Air Trans- Kellen almost to the Rhine ferry Service, It supplements the' crossing facing thc industrial cea- use of plasma which has been' tcr of Emmerich. i widely hailed as lhe foremost life-: Tanks, huge sky fleets and nai-R- i saver of the war. chute troops powered the British Of the 5,000,000 additional pints i Empire assault steadily rolling up 1 scheduled- for 1945. approximately the soggy German positions bc- 4,500,000 pints will be processed! iween the Rhine and the Mtusc plasma and the rest flown and threatening defense on the overseas as whole blood. Both Cologne plain between the flooded ciuotas are being met.

jHocr and the Rhineland cit'i- Thero been some confusion os. resulting from reports that ser- urc ierous barrages were thrown overseas arc donating their -j-i lc Germans were pushe'd blood. It is true that military' i oas three miles east of Kleve (Editors Note: The following story on children's life in thc Santo Tomas internment camp was written by Joan Elizabeth Bennett, 10-year-old daughter of in! least three miles east of i 'to positions a dozen miles inside blood for the wounded in battle xi le foe appeared to be jbut this does not mean that ship-if a in )ac to a new line between from this country are jght miles sotiti lli CI i 11IJ LL JLUYUUiwLU ii i-v- v-A, I Mr. and Mrs. Roy C.

Bennett, barded by 800 RAF planes whose father is manager of the night, in demonstration of chance to nose Glenn (Abe) Martin's; lc Huskies, cither of! Advancing Among Ruins Strewn With Bodies last Allied Manila Bulletin). coordination. Moscow 'f st said. Konev was 18 By JOAN BENNETT j'miles or less from thc frontier of i- SANTO TOMAS. Manila, Feb.

Saxony, is hard' Konev's lower wing was only Congressional fiscal leaders Ita ly could be undertaken. Rqilbil cls uongi'cbMuntit I Saturday Southern plays its lucuntly concede that thc nation-; Fifth Army headquarters said) inst'Western al debt limit must be hiked to; the enemy was laying down. Teachers College in $300,000,000,000 very soon. But: smo ke-scrcens south of Boogna.i^ gymnasium. This will they believe a can be made -possibly to shield movement.

iuinois nnr! tlw, nl UL OUUUltl on years for us 500 children of Santo Tom' as to realize, we are free. But we know something wonderful has happened and we now are able to shout and laugh again. We climb all over American tanks, get hauled out from under of army trucks and tag bolide a start can be made -possibly to shield movement, and sq whittling it down about two i parties and the. laying Jo izalion 1 -s after the war's end. One milcs The Germans the past We at lhc 1 0 (Continued on 4) week dynamited gaps 1,1, lhc Semo Va wm as gucsl Rivers flood banks foimms alld A.

P. Speakers To Be On Campus Thursday Night Troop Commander Major A rllwli Murphy will bring his staff to the; tors campus of Southern Illinois mal University to conduct a Civil Air Patrol meeting which will be held Thursday, February 15, at 8 p. in room 303, Parkinson The significance of the meeting will be to explain to those interested ths working and advantages of a A. P. program.

Lt L. T. Baum will assist Major Murphy In' giving information on the adoption of a C. A. P.

unit here in Carbondale. Junior members arc age group 15 to IS years and senior members arc those over IS years of age. Emphasis is to be placed on the juniors but a sufficient number of senior members is necessary before a flight or squadron can be WcUn- Uj It'll Hill 10 River's flood b'anks forming ajversity water barrier behind with a with- drawal could be effected easily. barrier effective, against lose 'been sown freely by the Germans in thc past week along the Tyr-, coast and in, other scc-1 Worker JVlUed their coaches. They will attend the college game, and afterwards will be entertained at a get-together in Anthony Hall.

By C. YATES MCDANIEL MANILA. Feb. Yanks, advancing among ruins strewn with bodies of thc foe, loosed the decisive blow for Manila today at Japanese cornered in a three square mile area near the mouth after other the southern out avile naval base and two airfields. "The end of the enemy's trapped garrison is in sight," Gen navo a Christmas.

Douglas MacArthur announced on; Christmas Eve, 1941, we had tlie 12th day since his columns en some 90 miles from Prague. Czechoslovak capital. The conquest of battle-wrecked Budapest, whose siege cost the enemy 159.000! troops captured or killed, freed strong Russian forces for new tasks. Marshal Stalin significantly described the Hungarian capital cmywhere'aricrourgoodnalm-asa Bastion on the- route lo cd soldiers who pet us and feed us Jennj ca ndy. Moscow dispatches spoke of thc was not quite eight when.

thc i Germans' "growing debacle in Si-1 war started. Mostly, remember jle'sia" under Konev's blows, and fact is that whole blood is highly perishable and it is impossible for the armed forces to tell exactly how nii'cli 'they will need from day to day. i (Continued on Page-Six) GREAT BUBEB RAID MADE ON GERMAN CITIES 2250 Planes In Attacks Today; Dresden Hit our house being crowded with people wno were bombed out of their own homes and our attempt By HENRY B. JAMKSOX LONDON. Feb.

1.4 (AP) More than 2,250 U. S. bombers and 'fighters struck Germany in widc- spread attacks today, delivering a i of close to the southeast ol Kleve from- the Ruhr of More than 100 miles to the south, the American Third Army pained up to a half mile in cly, tortuous terrain through fresh in the Siegfried Line op- Ipositc northern Luxembourg. Sys- iiematic blasting by tank destroyers ''and sc-lf propelled guns carved avenues through the thickest part of the west wall and a slackening 'of German artillery indicated that I the Germans were pulling back to inew positions south of Prlcm. The breach was expanded to i 000 vards depth and almost 11 miles in width by lhc 5th, 76th and 80th divisions.

i Other fronts were quiet. Gen i Eisenhower had committed only Ismail fraction ol his strength lo jibe offensive. Clearing wcathe. over the entire Tie Plant; Inquest Thursday Evening Isiah Lomax, colored, 801 Barnes Street died cnroute to Holden I Hospital early this morning from liniuries suffered in an undctcrmm- Second Lieutenant Delmar it CQm all, son ol Mr. and Mrs.

Guy Love- cu pwvvinl pi an Local Flyer Flew Plane Shown In "Winged Victory" party in the house around tercel the city, which since has be- a troc 0r a le children of thc come the most dovastatcd battle-1 We went to bed at field of the southwest pacific cam-'. darkness. When the Jap planes paign. came over we went into an air Doomed to be aclded to the more raid shelter and "Silent were "still meeting poorly armed mobs of the Volkssturm sprinkled i with some police and SS detach-! ments." "The decision, attributed to ler, to hold besieged slrong-pc on thc Oder such as Breslau and Glogau doomel said his vanguards Hearing Saxony I Dresden which ws; ten ed 0 slow opcr already burning from a night aljoi1s ith ncreaso thaws anc sault by 800 heavy RAF bombers. Dresden is only 68 miles or less li'rom advancing Russian 11 v- oar 4 500 land is a nerve center of Nazi dc- ifenscs in central Germany.

The 'day and night air blows were homb cndL(1 direct and coordinated support of: great Alay the foe. and fighters in thc 24 to annihililation which otherwise army divisions might be reformed and used again Doomed to be added to the more raid shelter and sung "Silent might be reiormca ana usoa agdin 68000 enemy casualties in- Nighl" of all things'to drown out to establish a basic defense zone, nn Luzon' island in five the sound of the bombs and keep said Associated Press corrospond- all 007 South Forest Tie Preserving Plant. bomber Number 554 shown dited tomorrow night at 7:30 by Roy organized Everyone interested in flying liWi -(from any is invited to come to this meeting. THF ROAD TO BERLIN Associated Press) front: (from Zellin). front: (from Greithauscn).

front: 54 32 miles 300 miles Italian front: 544 miles (from River), WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued mild this afternoon and tonight; highest temperature to B-24 bomber Number 553 snown Countv Coroner, Roy in the current picture Ringed Ja lUl Jackson funeral Victory" at thc Varsity Theatre. fliztccl on Luzon island weeks, thc Japanese survivors within Manila arc massed behind thick walls of the cenluricsold In ings and among dicks. the sound of the bombs and keep us from being frightened. Other Christmases were not so nJce, After the Japs came into LJJlUIi ui mu (.1 ti-amuros, within government build- Manila they came and got daddy land took him away because he illlVl (.11111 W-'n. iiiiii Cavito, on the south shore of'had written things in his news- i 11 Til, 1 i.

i. i 1-, 4'No i iH Manila bay, fell Tuesday. The last Rising Sun warrior was killed at paper about them that they didn't like. We had no chance to say The'foliowing arc cxerpts taken Home. ac will bc' tcr days of Air-j Details oi the acciacni, wm ui, nl nn )hn crin) inn wns dear- from letter received by his parents from Lt.

Loveall: -When thc show 'Winged Victory" conies, don't miss it. Dillis and I saw tho stage play in Los Angeles, when they made it into a movie. We are going to see the movie tonight. They have some pictures on a B-24 Bomber Number 554. I flew that airplane just Nicholas Airfield near the city's goodbye to him.

southern outskirts, ending five bit-j For nearly a year and a jialf tcr days of Air-j we never saw him. Mother, sister the accident wui DO Qn the southcast) was clear-; Helen and myself were allowed to revealed at the inquest, accoiu-i rf Qj t)ic i Uvc jn convcnt because mother ing to thc plant superintcncicnt. lhe cncmy big nsi sil id thc wanted to shadow I within Manila have been silenced, i her to see if they could find out i Thousands of Japanese have died! something which would be hard I here, adding heavily to casualties on daddy. They never got a chance, 1 which during thc fifth week of thc Our 'second Christmas was Luzon campaign exceeded 20,000. made glad because we 'had ill T'lllf I Jn i I rt'Jf) Fount J.

Warren Was Rotary Guest Speaker Tuesday Fount Warren, Head of the -I. ULlllw 1 DC" DOH. -1 11CW UltlL CiUplUlHJ JU3I. i 41 the other day and I have flown it Department of Education at the before, in fact many times, so they Southern Illinois Normal Univer- must have come over here to March sity, was the speaker Tuesday Field to take those pictures for noon at thc Rotary Club. His topic thc movie.

We Hew that airplane was "The Needs of Education He thc morning of January 15. It's spoke of the need for consolidat- now ship. the small country schools (Next letter): Illinois into, larger units. He "I went to thc show last night, stated Illinois has more one- ui( "Winged Victory." When it comes room country schools than any rst calvary division of I want you all to go sec it. It state in the union, and is doln 8iM a j.

Gen. Veni D. Mudgc which really shows Cadet life. It shows less about it, with the exception ot orosscd thc Pasig on tne eastern some fellows going all thc way Wyoming. 23.

staces have, Qf Mani a and sk i ted through training and then finally abolished the country 5Ch oolana I devastated battle pit of the 37th, getting their B-24. The B-24 Num-jhave gone to a bigger unit ot act- lu thc way to Manila bay! Thirty Seventh division infantrymen of Maj. Gen. Robert S. Betght- ler, using flamethrower, rifle and moved on the Intramuros (walled city) after a slow push through streets and alleyways, over and around wrecked houses, churches, hospitals and cemeteries.

Many Japanese yet to be added to the casualty lists are buried in the debris. in sending of gifts to our soldier friends from Bataan. direct ana coordinated support 01.. Marshal Ivan Koncv's First Ukrain- HlggmS Jewelry ian Army. "Tn The RAF bombed Dresden twice i ito 0 in attacks three hours apart.

i Tomorrow iVlorning' Part of the American force, consisting of more than 1.350 Flying The Higgin's Jewelry store will. Fortresses and Liberators and 900, have it re-opening tomorrow, Feb- fighters, also bombed transporia-' rtiary 15. lion and industrial targets. The store iias been closed since Ciiemite. 35 miles southwest of 2 when firs damaged the Dresden and at Madgoburg, 70! building and merchandise, miles west of Berlin.

The store had been re-decorated i A fourth formation was assign-j throughout and new merchandise ied to knock out important been purchased and put in stock. The store, is one of the ent Daniel DC Luce in- Moscow. Moscow still iiad no official comment on German reports that Zhu- kov had thrown bridgeheads over the Oder within 30 to 40 miles of Berlin. Some of Zhukov's columns were driving on Chojnice, in thc Polish corridor 62 miles southwest of Danzig, and on Neustottin in Pom- KmjcK oui 1M lilllt 1X crania 35 miles west of Chojmcc. WcseJ ig mi cs ahead Youth Conference Held At Community High School Tues.

Under the able and enthusiastic direction of C. W. Blakey thc students of C. C. H.

S. participated Tuesday in a Y. M. C. A.

Youth iof thc Canadian First Army on the most beautiful of its kind in th'js Western front. i section of the state. i The RAF dumped perhaps 2.200 The public is invited to visit the I CLOUDY and mild. TEMPERATURE M. 1:00 P.

M. ber 554 is here at March Field. I ministration. have flown it many, many times. "The second need is the need of can recognize some of.

the seen-1 finances," he said, "Schools need day about cry in the background as that of more money at once, our tax sys- lowest Thurs-1 Field. Then it shows tho tern is 7.5 years old this year, and day morning'plane taking off from here. Be-he stated that we traveling in about 45; Thurs- sure and sec it and look good at modern days on a set-up ongmat- day partly clou- the picture of thc B-24. Number cd back on 1870. We are one ol dy to cloudy 554 for I have flown that airplane 16 states still relyuig on a general so many times.

In fact, I may property tax to support its public have been in the plane the day the services." 41 'film was made." I He stated that no citizen, should 55 The picture is being shown at object to paying his was released and we joined him at Santo Tomas. Most of thc people who had been here didn't like the placc but it was heaven to daddy and great for us because the family could be together again. The next big occasion was in September, 1943 when people left luevaswLuu the camp to be repatriated home. I plunged all the way to Manila bay i Daddy's name was on tlie list but yesterday through stirburan Pasay. he chose to remain here.

He said Below Pasay, the llth Airborne the Filipinos had stood so loyally division of Maj. Gen, Joseph M.jby the Americans were suffering Swing snuffed 'out all enemy reefer it and he'd not walk out and' sistance at Nicholas Airfield. Other leave them. It was. hard -for.

him elements captured Cavite, That na- mrant had OLU suiulUl j.i«... lUCSOily 111 i' 1 1 Thc generosity ot the Filipinos i on ercnco This was one of thc and neutrals was wonderful and many SUCn mce tings which Mr. gifts reached the prison camp akcy as devised to take the ifely Christmas morning, 1942. placc tho older Boys' Confer- In April of the next year daddy which have been, made im- 24-Hour Low I val base, which the'Americans de stroyed prior to abandoning 'Manila without, a fight in December, 1941, yielded 10 enemy seaplanes and a battery of three-inch guns. They were seized intact.

American casualties for the fifth (Continued on Page Six) I know because it 'meant we had too', but we all felt we- were' doing -our duty and were proud of it. year, was-not so bad for us possible by -war time transportation conditions. Thc meeting' began at nine o'clock with Glenn Brown, C. C. H.

S. senior, presiding. After a brief but enthusiastic session of pep singing led by Mr. Blakey, E. C.

Woolcott of St. Louis, spoke to the student body. Mr. Woolcott is a business man whose chief interest is the welfare of hopes, their fears, their failures, and their successes. He has devoted much of his time to traveling up and.down the country; helping young, people lo "find At the close of Mr.

Woolcott's inspirational address. the students met in class rooms for group dis- children. We went to school, liv- cussions. Seventeen under ed iri big dormitory rooms student leadership' discussed each person's space carefully'the following topics: rrnnHniipr! nn Paep Six) (Continued on page six) (Continued on Page Six) tons of bombs on Dresden, re-1 store during and after the it fugee-packed capital of Saxony opening. which controls railroads to Berlin.

Prague, Vienna, and Breslau, and.JLgjjjg.jj Season Is is the site of great engineering in- j' dusuics. Again; History- it was suggested unofficially of Lent Related in London that An- Marshal Sir Charles Portal, British Air Staff, worc Lent is of Anglo-SaJc- Chief who returned from Malta on origin, signifies spring, arid yesterday, brought instructions xefers to tlTe lengthening days. In from the Big Three to deliver this ie Christian sense it is that sen- and other blows in support of thc i son the ecclesiastical year which Red armies whenever possible. een set apart for the special Altogether the RAF dispatched consideration of our Savior's, pas- 1,400 aircraft to Germany during i on it comprises the forty-six the night. Other targets besides a preceding Easter, and is itf- self introduced by the tliree Sundays which precede Ash Wednesday.

The observance of Lent goas far into antiquity. The Dresden were a synthetic oil plant at Bohlen, south of Leiszig, objectives at Madgeburg, 75 miles solth- west of Berlin, and the railroad towns of Nuernberg, Bonn Dortmund. All the night operations -special ascetic was were at -a cost of 16 bombers mis- J10 doubt first derived from Juda- ism. Then the character of Easter, 'as one of: the high festivals of-the Church year, called for a peritfd of special preparation. the times of persecution led the.

Christians to have a vivid remembrance of- the Savior's sufferings: The duration 1 of the penitenial season was settled. -The Western Church, at; (ContinueC on page four)- j. sing. (More than 500 fighter-escorted bombers of the U. S.

15th Ail- Force based in Italy attacked railway yards in the Vienna and Graz- Areas of Austria and Maribpr, Yugoslavia, yesterday. (Fifteen Allied planes were lost from the day's operations, which included renewed attacks on the Brenner'.