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I 4 4. fcav hn an advance eroUD nf" Truman Takes Up 2 RENO EVENING GAZETTE January 22, 1945 TO START WAR 4 British Papers Interpret Speech LONDON, Jan. 22. CP) British newspapers today interpreted President Roosevelt's "Inaugural speech as an Indication that the United States is prepared to cooperate fully with other nations in the postwar world. longer does the American president fear to use the word 'ally'," said the London Times.

"The Americans have learned they are citizens of the world, members Tide Turns on Western Front; Nazis Retreat (Continued from Page 1) heavy troop train movements had been observed earlier. The other was taking a secondary road eight miles north of Die-kirch, apparently bypassing Vian-den, a road junction close to the Luxembourg-German border which already was under American artillery fire. 4 Still a third group of vehicles, by no means comparable in size with the first two, was attacked southwest of Euskirchen. This might Tarlac Taken, 63 Miles From Luzon Capitol (Continued from Page 1) slowed left flank, they captured Rosales and drove eight miles bedrid to the east. They hammered another wedge into the main Manila highway by crossing the winding Agrio river at Santa Maria southeast of captured Binalonan.

Santa Maria is the easternmost point of penetration. Here they were only seven miles from the foothill highway. At Moncada, 20 miles north of Tarlac, the Japanese counterattacked at night but were turned back with heavy losses. Fighters based at the Lingayen air field staged a surprise low-level attack on Tuguegaro air field in the Aparri valley of northeast Luzon, destroying 15 grounded planes. Other fighters and bombers heavily pounded the network of enemy military roads stretching out from Manila, raking railroads and trucking.

Long-range patrol bombers reached across the China sea to score a direct hit on a large ship in a convoy off Amoy, China. They also bombed the Heito and Oka-yama airdromes on southwestern Formosa. Headquarters issued a recapitulation of dead on bloody Leyte island showing 68,839 Japanese have been killed and 692 captured a ratio of 25 Japanese for one American. A total of 610 Japanese were killed on Friday in the continued mop-up of the 2000 to 3000 still believed hiding in the hills. Rolling Red Army 37 Miles Inside Prussia (Continued from Page 1) Deutsch Eylau in east Prussians only 45 miles from the Baltic and 64 miles southeast of Danzig.

Allenstein, to the northeast, is 30 miles inside east Prussia and the fighting in that area represented the deepest penetration of the province from that direction. It was evident that the Russian offensive was rolling on unchecked, for the deepest penetration announced by Moscow was about 19 miles. THE ROAD TO BERLIN 1. Eastern front: 195 miles large (from west of Sampolno). 2.

Western front: 310 miles (from Llnnich Jullch Duren area). S. Italian front: 544 miles from Reno river). LONDON, Jan. 22.

UP) Stockholm dispatches said today that a large part of eastern Germany is in panic, with refugees streaming from Danzig Poznan (Posen) and Warthegau in the face of the Russian offensive. Despite efforts to restrain them, refugees are storming trains in defiance of orders that bar civilian travel without special permission, the advices said. Stockholm reported Berlin had been showered with emergency decrees. The Volkssturm was called up, armed and shipped eastward by the thousands. Women were ordered to take "extra rapid training" for military service.

Wounded soldiers in western and central Germany were being reexamined for military service. A Berlin broadcast said the east front fighting was on a battlefield so great the west front "loses interest" by comparison. Vast number of workers were reported being sent to build fortifications along the Oder, and digging of aniti-tank trenches outside of Berlin itself was said to have been started over the weekend. New Senate Duties WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.

(JD To hearty applause, Vice President Harry S. Truman todav assume his new duties as presiding officer of the senate. Colleagues with whom he had served for 10 years arose and gave him a big hand as he entered the chamber at noon and mounted the dais of the presiding officer. Truman called the der by banging a cherry wood gavel sent him by "the folks back in Mossouri." His next official art wac tn swear in Frank P. RnVirc nt Ma.

con, as a Democratic senator to fill the remaining two years of his own unexpired term. Snow Ties Up Italian Front ROME. Jan. 22. Snnwfallc on already snowbound mountain positions limited even patrol activity along the Italian front to day.

The first anniversary of the historic landings at Anzio. In the Adriatic sector, an enemy raiding party penetrated two and a half miles into Allied lines northeast of Alfonsine after a heavy artillery barrage, but were thrown back to their original positions' by 8th army troops. Further southwest patrols were active on both sides of the Senio river, to which the Germans are clinging as their defense line in the 8th army sector. A few Allied patrols operating in the 5th army sector northwest of Vergemoli, three miles west of Gallicano in the Serchio river valley, reported only light contact with Germans. ENDS TONIGHT 3 CO-HIT vfXdvenf ure STARTS TOMORROW IT'S Wonderful! GARY GRANT JANET BLAIR NEWS EVENTS Fourth Term Begins With Ugly Quarrel (Continued from Page 1) dictated by Sidney Hillman and his Communistic comrades whom are running the country." The Jones-Roosevelt letters, dated Jan.

20, inauuguration day, were released by the secretary last night. He refused to discuss them further, the White House had nothing to say and Wallace was not reachable for comment. Jones, as did several senators who backed him, spoke disparagingly of Wallace's "abilities to handle th multi-billion dollar agencies now grouped within the commerce department. Jones said on this point: "I have had satisfaction in my government service because I have had the confidence of congress, as well as your own. I have had that confidence because I have been foithful to the responsibilities that have been entrusted to me.

For you to turn over all these assets and responsibilities to a man inexperienced in business and finance will, I believe, be hard for the business and financial world to understand The background of the 56-year-old Wallace is predominantly agricultural. He served previously as secretary of agriculture and was Ifnnwn for his scientific experi ments in the farm field, notably with corn. He has published farm publications and written otherwise, besides traveling for Mr. Roosevelt in South America, Asia and elsewhere. Senator Muurray (D-Mont) commented that he regards Wallace as one of the ablest men in the country.

He said: "I think he will make a very good secretary of commerce and loan administrator too. He will have men as his assistants who have been familiar with details of the work for many years." And Vice President Truman, even before the letters were disclosed, had commented that Henry Wallace is an able man. I have the highest regard for him." Incidentally, the tone of critical comments on the development indicated that right at the start, Truman will have a job cut out for him in his self-assigned role of keeping relations harmonious between the White House and the senate. Wallace is known to have told friends last week that he knew some neorile regarded him as a poor administrator but that if he got the commerce assignments, he intended to make a record lor er- ficiency. Senator McCarran (D-Nev), a member of the commerce committee, declared Wallace had shown nr evidence that he is Qualified either.

by "training, experience or aDiiity to succeed Jones. Hp shared Jonps own views that the ousted administrator has no place in a diplomatic post such as the president suggested he might take. "Jesse Jones doesn't know the language of diplomacy, McCarran said. "His laneuace is that of a hard-fisted American business man. He talks straight from the shoulder.

In turning down the thought of an ambassadorship, the 70-year-iold Texas financier and newspaper publisher said, "I can best be helpful in the line of my life's work business and finance but I seek no job." Veterans Favor War Training WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. UP) Ed N. Sheiberling of Albany, N. national commander, told the house veterans committee today the American legion favors universal service in war time and compulsory military training in peace.

However, he gave no specific endorsement to proposals now before congress for work-or-fight, work-or-be-drafted, or work-or-go-to-jail. "We hold," he said, "that all persons, regardless of station in life, who accept the protection and benefits of a free government owe a part of their property, money, opportunity and life itself to the preservation of that government." of the human community, and they accept full responsibility for that role." The Yorkshire Post commented that Roosevelt's words signified "a new hope dawning on this stricken world," adding that some of the worst dilemmas confronting the Allied powers would disappear if they could be certain of American cooperation in the establishment of colelctive security. Anti-Union Amendment in Work Legislation WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. UP) The house military committee wrote an anti- closed-shop amendment into manpower legislation today and refused to specify agriculture as a critical industry.

The amendment, which members said was approved 14 to 10 in a closed session, stipulated that no man taking an industrial job at the request or direction of his draft board shall be required to join a union as a condition of employment. Opponents contended the amendment, offered by Representative Andrews (R-NY), would violate closed or union shop contracts between industry and labor. The committee likewise turned down an amendment by Representative Stewart (D-Okla) to write into the work-or-be-jailed legislation a directive to selective service to "consider agriculture as a critical war industry" and to issue at once a directive to local draft board ordering them to follow the letter of the Tydings amendment. This portion of the selective service law spells out conditions under which farm workers may be deferred from induction. 1 I NOW I Out Of China Comes a Song of Freedom! NOW If I on the novel by Pearl S.

Buck JOT L. inim Matinee 1:45 Evening Start 7:00 Phone 5131 TODAY-- Here Come the Rookies and Their Cookies KUWH HNY WHIIAM ANMt IONDI TRAVELS? MINCE KING Plus Barney Bear's "POLAR PEST SOMEWHERE IN U.S.A. WORLD NEWS PAT CARROLL if tMAI 1K OUT Wi tOtSf M( I A A GM VOV lOVl I column trying to get through PruV' to the Rhine. A competent military authority at supreme headquarters said that the destruction visited on Rund-stedt's armor fleeing the Ardennes salient probably represented the equipment of an entire army. One force alone, of several air units attacking, reported before noon the destruction of 228 motor vehicles and the damaging of 65 others.

The same unit reported knocking out 16 tanks and armored vehicles. One pilot said a single rocket hit destroyed three vehicles, so closely were they jammed on the lce-sheathed road. The English language has been renamed "Koango" in one Japanese Malayan area. Matineea P.M. DIRECTEO (Y GEORGE CUKOR MlaMtCAtv InmMi 3(t EdmtfOlm.JMM-ScllfetlM PARAMOUNT WAR NEWS ssr ress and Comedienne IF SCHEN0NE MOW 1 FLY I NO STRAIGHT 1 INTO 1 YOUII IIIABTI I TS HART'S i Ilk MOfiUCfB IT DARRYL F.

ZANUCK DIHCTE0 (Y I I CiTuY-roi jf BO MAY BE CRIME LONDON, Jan. 22. LT) The United Katiops war crimes commission has recommended that-, the preparation and launching of this war be recognized as a crime, and that the guilty persons be treated as criminals, responsible sources aid today. Three government New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were said to have approved the recommendation, with Australia expected to do so. No statute in present international law covers persons responsible for beginning or preparing a war.

The recommendation is considered one of the most significant yet made, but there might well be knotty problems of naming all persons directly or indirectly responsible. Terrific Losses In Belgium Area (Continued from Page 1) hand of the impending shelling. By' daybreak of Dec. 17 the Germans had thrown two divisions into this part of the front. By mid-morning enemy columns swamped the 422nd and 423rd regiments and the 424th was forced to withdraw.

The two regiments continued to send back reports of the fighting until radio contact was lost. -At 3.35 p. m. on Dec. 18, the radio supttered that all units of the two regiments were in need of ammunition, food and water.

Because of the fog, parachuting supplies was out of the question. The last message came from the 422nd at 4 p. that day and from the 423rd at 6 p. m. Both said: "We are now destroying our equipment." That was all, and presumably most of the two regi ments were taken prisoner.

The Germans then headed for St. Vith. They were stopped temporarily by the 81st and 168th engineer battalions, fighting heroically under Lt. Col. Thomas Riggs of Huntington, W.

Va. Early on Dec. 18 division headquarters began moving west out of St. Vith. Some units were halted by English-speaking MP's who turned out to be Germans in American uniforms.

One of them fired a rocket which signalled the opening of a terrific barrage against the di visions halted vehicles. The Germans occupied St. Vith at 11 p. on Dec. 21 after a stiff fight by the 424th, one com bat command from the 9th ar mored division, Riggs' fighting en gineers and the 112th regiment from the 28th infantry division.

Exhausted and sorely depleted, the 106th pulled back to reorgan ize on Dec. 23. The next day the men were thrown into the line and helped halt the Germans on the north side of the salient be' tween Stavelot and Champion Roper Killed in Fall DENVER, Jan. 22. UP) Clyde (Sagey) Burk, 31, world's cham pion calf roper from Comanche, died early today at St.

Luke's hospital of injuries suffered yesterday when a horse fell on him at the national western stock show rodeo. Burk, not entered in the bull' dogging event that brought death to him, was hazing steers on horse back for other bulldogers. His mount, owned by another cowboy, stumbled and threw Burk. The Oklahoman tried to regain his seat, but the. horse, attempting to elude a steer, slipped and rolled over him.

Burks head was injured. Burk own horse, for which he paid $2500 at the Denver rodeo in 1942, was resting for the day's roping contest. Only last Wednesday the rodeo association of America named Burk the champion calf roper and one of the 10 leading cowboys of 1944. He also held the roping title in 1943. RENO'S FINER HOMES GUY MARSH Realtors Dial 8300 29 East First St.

A. HINDS Age Need Apply "Fluke Fillets'1 Flounder to OPA WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. UP) Another kind of fish, fresh fluke fillets, goes under price control Saturday. The OPA, announced this today, said the move is necessary "because of the evasive practice of selling other species of flounder fillet at uncontrolled fluke fillet prices." The agency set cents-per-pound ceiling for processors and said retail ceilings would be announced soon.

Continuous From Noon Starts Today BING CROSBY in II GOING MY WAY' fit with RISE STEVENS BARRY FITZGERALD Plus II Bar 20 with WILLIAM BOYD as HOP-A-LONG CASSIDY Today and Monday II THE MERRY MONAHANS II with DONALD O'CONNOR PEGGY RYAN JACK OAKIE features The GOLOM PROUDLY PRESENTS ANOTHER WALT GOLDMAN VARIETY UNIT (Which Brought to Reno the Sensational Cooper Slsteri, Recent Colombo Hit) German Defenses Key to War End LONDON, Jan. 22. UP) The German defense plan now unfolding in the eastern Reich holds the key to whether the Russian tidal wave, engulfing Poland, Silesia and east Prussia with amazing speed, will end the war quickly. There are indications the Nazis may have extricated the greater part of their 135 central front divisions in the east and pulled them back into the Reich for a do or die stand before the Oder. There has been no news of any large pockets of Hitler's troops left behind, nor big supply dumps overrun.

Moscow dispatches report a feel- 4 ing in the Soviet capital that the great winter battles will be fought on the snow-covered plains east of the Oder, where Hitler is said to have built an "east wall." If this is the German strategy, it is evidently aiming at an attempt to hold off Soviet forces until the end of March when spring turns that sector into slush and mud too formidable for even the mobile Red army. Such a plan would envisage the surrender of East Prussia to es tablish a line running from Dan zig, through Poznan to Breslau and along the Oder on south to Vienna. If Russian armies are able to crack these German defense plans, and if Allied armies can smash the Siegfried line, the end will come as expressed aptly by a Moscow broadcast: "When two titanic waves of steel and men roll from east and West toward Berlin, that will certainly be the end of the German army: Scientists to Develop Weapons WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. UP) A plan for the government to keep leading scientists busy after the war in continued development of secret new military weapons is gaming neaaway congress.

The idea is a corollary to compulsory military training among those who feel future war can be avoided for the nation with the most efficient and best equipped army. TONIGHT'S SINGING SENSATION is this handsome gent with drum-stuff in his justly; famous voice. Jerry Wayne is his nameand he's on tonight on Borden's new radio Starring lovable Ed Wynn, with Mark Warnow, and Elsie, Elmer and Beulah. KOH, 1:30 PWT. Adv.

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