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THE TEMPERATURES High 41 Yesterday's Low 81 Year Ago High 45 Year AKO Low 37 Precipitation 05 DAILY SUN WEATBEft Snow, "If You Didn't See It In the BUM It Didn't Member of The Associated Press VOLUME XLIII BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY. JANUARY 21. 1945 Single Copy So "Total Victory, Durable Peace" Pledge By F. D. R.

Inauguration Simple With Select Crowd Ceremony Stripped Of Usual Glitter. Pompecl By Grimness Of War. SPEAK AT OF OVER IN MINUTES WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 UPV-In a ceremony of solemn simplicity Franklin Delano Roosevelt embarked today on his fourth term as president of a United States dedicated to victory and lasting world peace. Standing on the south portico of the White House, he repeated the 37-word oath of the president for the fourth time, and set the theme of his new administration in these words: "In the days and years that are to come we shall work for a just and durable peace as today we work and fight for total victory in war." A select crowd of 7,806 by the official count at the gates stood in the snow of the White House lawn to witness the inaugural of its usual glitter and pomp by the grimness of war.

The whole thing was over in 15 minutes, climaxed by Mr. Roosevelt's 551-word fourth inaugural address. A few minutes before the president repeated the oath after Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, bespectacled Harry S. Truman of Missouri was sworn in as the third Roosevelt vice president.

He took the oath from the man he succeeded, Henry A. Wallace. Clad in a dark blue suit, and blue-gray tie, the president stood with one hand upraised and the other on an ancient Roosevelt family Bible to take the oath in what he called "a period of supreme test." "Must Live As Men" "We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace, he said, "that our own well being is dependent on the well being of other nations, far away. "We have learned that we must live as mtn, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger." With Mr. Roosevelt, on the portico were members of his family, close friends and government associates.

As he has for each Inaugural, the president moved up to the inauguration stand on the arm of his oldest son, James, a tall, thin marine colonel and the only one of the Roosevelt boys who could get here for the occasion. The president spread his hands wide on a reading stand as he delivered an inaugural address to the hushed assemblage. "We Americans of today, together with our allies, are passing through a period of supreme test," he said. "It is a test of our courage of our resolve of our wisdom, of our essential decency. "If we meet that successfully and honorably we shall perform a service of historic importance which men and women and children will honor throughout all times.

"As I stand here today, having taken the solemn oath of office in the presence' of my fellow countrymen in the presence of our God I know that it is America's purpose that we shall not fall." jn slow, deliberately chosen words, the president said we can and will achieve total victory and a durable world peace. F. Robinson Chamber Plans Annual Dinner F. W. Robinson, Union Pacific Official, Main Speaker Of Evening.

F. W. Robinson, senior vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad company, will speak "What's Around the Bend Transportation" at the in Truman Takes Over Office Of Vice-President Friends Confident That Wallace Will Be Commerce Secretary. BOTH MIDWESTERNERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Harry S.

Truman buckled on the harness today as the vice president while his predecessor, Henry A Wallace stepped back temporarily into the ranks of the common man whose cause he has espoused. On the snow-encrusted south portico of the White House at noon, the 60 year old Truman bundled up in a and carrying his hat in his hand, saic a firm "I do" after Wallace hac intoned the oath of office. The two midwcsterncrs, Missou ri's Truman and Iowa's Wallace held the center of the stage onlj a brief moment as a preliminary to the real business of the President Roosevelt's fourth inaugural. Receive Congratulations That over, they joined a crowd of notables at a White House luncheon where the bespectacled new vice president received congratulations. 'There also were some couvert congratulations for May Moves To Protest Farm Labor In Rule meeting of the Chamber of Com- allace, from those who thought merce, Feb.

6, CC President John tney knew tnat he woull be ap Bauer has announced. Thomas E. pointed next week as secretary ot Adams, will be master of ceremonies. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 24.

Forrest Kitch, has been named chairman of the ticket campaign assisted by John Crone as vice-chairman. Kitch says that "a block-by-block canvass will be made, and that the interest and enthusiasm being shown in the future of transportation for the local community indicates a capacity crowd will fill the basement of the city auditorium for the meeting beginning at 7 p. m. with a dinner served by the Navy Mothers club." The com merce. Wallace was reported to have been informed in a conference with President Roosevelt yesterday that he is to succeed Jesse Jones of Texas in the imposing secretary's office at the mammoth commerce department building that Herbert Hoover built.

Friends Confident Wallace's friends were confident that the cabinet portfolio would carry with it all of the present secretary's authority over the government's far-flung lending operations. If true, he thus would hold the purse strings on $13,000,000,000 worth of loans and commit- tickets will sell for $1.25. Reserva- ents, with more to come, tions should be made early, at the Chamber office, with Kitch at the While the appointment might be in line with President RooseveltM observations that he would operate Insurance a little left of center in the fourth term, there were many who found it hard to believe that the 70 year old Jones would be moved out, bag baggage, from the rcconstruc- years. There was talk that the 6 foot 2 inch Texan might be offered a place on the federal reserve board, but the bettine' odds favored his rejection of any such proposal it made. WOLF HUNT POSTPONED The wolf hunt scheduled for this afternoon west of Plymouth has postponed for one week.

Further details will be given later, RECAPTURE WANTING CHUNGKING, Sunday, Jan. 21. (flft The Chinese central news agency reported today that Chinese troops Saturday recaptured the Burma road town of Wanting, last major obstacle to reopening of an overland supply route to China. Iowa-Nebraska Gas or John Crone at the Crone Agency. Program Many items of interest will have a place of the program.

President Bauer will present a brief activity report over the past year, as well as a report of finances; entertainment features will be presented by the music and dramatics classes of the high school; presentation of the award to the "Outstanding Young Man of 1944" in the Junior Chamber, and the balloting on five men from the ten to serve a term of three years on tha Chamber board of directors. Nominees The following ten men have been declared nominated by the election committee composed of three outgoing directors, Charles Harman, chairman of the committee, Marion Morton and William Wiegel; Mike i John Crone, manager, Crone I ma be innil fore the res nc i ent miners contract expires. Insurance Agency; Merle Jones, At the same me steel dustry endorsed "work-or-jail" legislation. Industry leaders, speaking thru the war production board's industry advisory committee, declared: "The coal supply of leading steel To Reemphasize Work-Or- Jail Legislation The Principles Of Tyding. 0 IN RECESS WASHINGTON, Jan.

20 In a bid for farm bloc support, the house military committee moyed today to re-emphasize in work-or-jail legislation the principles of the Tydings formula for deferring farm wprkers Although the committee was in recess, Chairman May (d-Ky) said it would write into the legislation requested by President Roosevelt a proviso that nothing in the bill shall be construed to set aside the operation of the Tydings act. The Tydings act blueprints for draft boards the procedure for considering draft deferment of farm workers. Take Action Monday The action, May said, will be taken Monday when the committee resumes its study of the legislation, which already has been changed substantially and faces more revisions before, its expected arrival on the house floor late next week. May's move is designed to cut in ahead of a farm state group's plan to do the same with stiffer language. Should the farm amendment appease representatives from the agricultural districts, the legislation still has a big hurdle ahead of it in the form of Objections.

Monday's committee session may bo prolonged by a move by Representative Stewart (d-Okla) to prevent unions from requiring membership of workers shifting into war jobs at the behest of their draft boards. Not Force-t to Unionize The Oklahoman said he wants to be certain that a man following the directions of a draft board shall not be forced to join a union, even if the board directs him to work in a "closed shop" war plant. The committee already has decided not to expand the age group affected by the legislation and has substituted the penal provisions of the draft act for an original proposal to induct into army labor battalions men who won't work where draft boards direct. It also has given to the office of war mobilization authority to determine what jobs are essential, instead of leaving this determination to the director of selective service. But it hasn't decided whether to give draft boards power to "direct" a registrant into an essential job or to limit the boards' authority to a "request." Russians 210 Miles From Berlin; French Aid Yanks In Saving Alsace Capital SMS Yanks Driven Back 5 Miles By Nazi Troops REDS ONLY 210 MILES FROM BERLIN Ask Lewis To Present Now Any Wage Demands WASHINGTON, Jan.

20 CT) The steel industry, expressing concern over declining coal supplies, tonight invited John L. Lewis to HannafoTdTmanager, cTpenney Present any new wage demands he a inn before the res- vice-president, Store Kraft Mfg. Tom Adams, Steel Tank Mfg. L. C.

Crittenden, secretary, State Savings Loan Maurice Hevelone, Hevelone, McCown Law Firm, Cy Reed, C. M. Reed Insurance A. W. I producers is down to a point to Eyth, Eyth Farms.

Judge C. B. I seriously threaten steel mill ope- Ellis, district judge and Don Stevens, Stevens Wholesale Co. Five of these men will be elected at the annual meeting by ballots. The five outgoing directors are: Marion Morton, George Steinmeyer, Charles Harman, Ross Lincoln and William 'Wiegel.

Those having one year to serve are: John Bauer, Ed Austin, Orville Glass, Joe Klump, and Fred Lentz. Those having two years to serve are: I. G. Christenson' Marion Dole, Al Dowliher, Ray Middlekauff and Dick Trefz. ENSIGN WOUNDED WASHINGTON Ensign Edward Dysart McDonald, band of Mrs.

Ruth McDonald, Beatrice, has been wounded, the navy department announced. rations." "Expressing grave concern over this situation in view of the expiration of union contract arrangements between coal operators and miners on March 31, 1945, the committee urged that this condition be met head-on" said WPB's report of the closed committee session, held here Thursday. ALFALFA CEILING PRICES Many farmers have been inquiring as to ceiling prices for alfalfa. For the month of January ceiling prices are $20.50 per ton for loose alfalfa, and $25.50 per ton for baled alfalfa, according to Chief Clerk M. W.

Ryan of the Gage county War price and rationing board. Ceiling prices are likely to change in February. Allies Sign Peace Pact With Hungary WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 UP) The allies signed an armistice with Hungary today, narrowing Hitler's list of European' cohorts. Announcement of the pact came first from Moscow where the document was signed by Marshal Klementi Voroshilov for the United States, Britain and Russia.

Although the armistice strips the nazis of a major ally, the Germans still are sponsoring 1 a Hungarian government under Count Szalasi, and there remain German stellites in Slovakia, the Boehemi- an-Moravian protectorate and in northern Italy to bolster the German case. The text of the armistice between the allies and Hungary will be made public at 11 a. tomorrow (central war time). Strasbourg Threatened As Well As Alsace; Assault Is Surprise. GERMANS POUR IN PARIS.

Jan. 20 UP) the French First army struck a powerful blow for Alsace's liberation today with a new offensive on a 25-mile front that rolled three-mile gains 70 miles south of where Ameican comrades-in-arms battled to save the imperiled capital of Strasbourg. The French jumped into the mounting with the fate of Alsace and Strasbourg in the balance, after tank-led German troops drove U. S. Seventh army lines back five miles and threatened to undermine American positions in the northeast corner of France.

The assault, rolling out under the cover of a blinding snowstorm from the Vosges eastward to the Rhine in the Mulhouse area, achieved complete surprise and still was pressing forward tonight against that tough German core known as the Colmar pocket from which the enemy was menacing Stratbourg from the south. Germans Pour In Associated Press Correspondent Robert C. Wilson said the. French were attacking all the way from St. Amarin.

16 miles northwest of Mulhouse, east to the Rhine where the French- already hold an eight- mile strip of the west bank above the Swiss frontier. The Germans were pouring more and more troops and tanks across the Rhine north of Strasbourg to exploit the five-mile pentration of American positions. Tank-led attacks broke out yesterday, raged through the night and. on into today. Hurdling the Zorn canal, the Germans fought into the of Weyersheim, six miles west of the Rhine and nine miles north of the Alsatian capital in the deepest penetration from their bridgehead.

One More Supreme Effort It is here, apparently, that Field Marshal Karl von Rriudstedt has decided to make one more supreme effort to upset allied plans on the western front after his costly Ad- dennes failure. Again the weather played the German tune as in December. Mists shielded the-pontoon bridges from allied air power, and enemy tanks were rumbling across them in considerable numbers. At the opposite end of the 300- mile western front, the British Second army ran into enemy tanks for the first time, but plowed on three miles into western Germany (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Bou.hen T.ii now KRAKOW Teschen CZECHOSLOVAKIA Three Soviet Armies Fight Inside Reich Force Warta River; Other Spearheads To Southwest 6 Miles Inland.

TILS I IS SEIZED In a swift 30-mile sweep along the high road from Warsaw, the Red army forced the Warta river 210 miles east of Berlin. Action For Eighth, Fifth At Standstill ROME, Jan. 20 Action on the Fifth and Eighth army fronts ground to a virtual standstill today. Even patrol activity in the Fifth army sector fell to the lowest point in several days as rain and snow- left lakes of slush through the mountains below Bologna. Beaten back in an attempt to establish a bridgehead across the Senior with a 100-maYi force in the vicinity of Fusignano, the enemy continued his infiltration efforts in several places on the east bank of the stream, in the Adriatic sector, but all patrols were repulsed.

American Fifth army patrols reported little contact with the enemy. Alert Ships Sailing Out Of Pacific Ports 7,800 Canadians Drafted For Overseas Duty Go A. W. OTTAWA, Jan. 20 of a group of 15,600 Canadian home defense soldiers drafted for overseas service went absent without leave before embarkation, and 6,300 still are at large, Defense Minister L.

McNaughton disclosed today. Some 1,500 of these 7,800 returned voluntarily or were apprehended, he added, and about 500 of-them sailed for Britain along with the others who -did not take unauthorized Cleaves, Will Be Deserters He said this total of 8,300 conscripted men sent was by "the full normal quota of reinforcements" m-en-who had volunteered for service abroad. The' 6,300 still absent will be classed, as deserters if they do not return within 21 days. Gen. McNaughton said the troop movement began Christmas But the majority of men have not been classed as deserters yet, he, added.

The 15,600 troops in home defense were drafted for overseas duty under a policy of partial conscription adopted by Canada in November despite vigorous protests, principally from the French-speaking population of Quebec. Previously, Canada has sent only volunteers abroad, The first disclosure, of the high percentage of unauthorized leaves came last night in the form of a censorship directive first issued as a confidential guide for editors, and then released for-publication. Punishments ranging from life imprisonment to discharge and- forfeiture of pay could be meted out to any of the draftee absentees who might be classed as deserters. BROTHER IS MISS1NO T-5 James Rogers, brother of Mrs. H.

A. Kempker of Beatrice, has been missing in action in Bastogne, Belgium since Dec. 15, according to word received by his paijents, Mr. Mrs. George Rogers of Exira, Iowa.

He had been overseas one month with the 106th armored division, the outfit with which Pfc. Bob Hille was connected at the time he was listed as missing. Rogers SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 Tacit admission that convoys sailing out of Pacific coast ports have been alerted against roving Japanese submarines came today after the navy disclosed the loss of the Liberty ship John A. Johnson and ten of its crew in a torpedoing and life-boat strafing attack.

The- sinking arid machine-gun attack came last November between the mainland and Honolulu about 400 miles east of Hawaii. Of the ten American seamen killed most of them died undei of bullets fired, survivors said, by frenzied Japanese who danced on the submarine's deck shouting banzais and cursing the "Yankee Five men were seriously wound ed in the machinegunning. Sixty Americans survived thi harrowing night. They watchec the sub shell the sinking Johnson then circle the wreckage strewn water in attempts to ram 'raft and boats. Resistance On Flank Breaks apanese Lose 'Heavily In Trying To Slop Yanks On Left Flank.

Aisoclatecl Press The crumbling of Japanese re- istance on the only Luzon island ront where the Nipponese have up a real fight was reported )y Gen. Douglas MacArthur late Saturday, The general said the Japanese fighting on the left flank were breaking -up into disorganized roups and that they lost heavily men and equipment as they staged uncoordinated counterat- The Yanks destroyed 23 ankg and many field guns as they swept to hill positions northeast of the town of Rosario. American ines were pushed eastward to San and Asingan and into the oothills of the Benguet mountains north of Pozorrubio. On the eastern side of the cen- tal Luzon plains Japanese resist- ince collapsed in the Cabaruan rill and the Americans seized the of Villasis, Carmen and its nearby airfield, and San Manuel Cuts Foe in Two The Yanks now control 37 miles of Luzon's main north-south highway from Paniqui to Sison. Genral MacArthur said "this practically cuts the enemy in two, sever- ng his forces in northern Luzon 'rom those in southern Luzon." One American spearhead on the center of the line continued to ad- ance from Santa Ignacia toward Tarlac, on the road to Manila.

Yank fliers relentlessly blasted Luzon airfields, destroying ana damaging Japanese planes. They also attacked communications wrecking- a number of locomotives 25 freight cars and many truck's The communique said "practically half the railroad stock on Luzon now has been destroyed." Japanese troop columns moving northward were strafed by air patrols. The Japanese radio, quoting the agency Domei, said an American invasion of Luzon to the south ot Manila may be developing. has been in March 1943. the service since THE ROAD TO BERLIN 1.

Eastern front: 210 miles (from Kolo, Poland. German reports say Russian troops have entered fcfamslau Silesia, 200 miles from Berlin.) 2. Western front: 310 miles (from the Linnich-JuHch Duren area). 3. Italian front: 544 miles (from I Rerto'river).

BUTTERFAT IN ICE CREAM As a war measure, the legisla ture two years ago reduced the legal minimum of, butterfat con tent of ice cream from 14 percen to 8 percent. Now the industry is asking a continuation of that rule The matter is up for a hearing Tuesday, and the ice cream inter esta will present their cause. A number of senators are favorabl to a higher percentage, may seek Senator Ladd Hubka said yesterday. The neighboring state; all have a higher butterfat requirement than Nebraska's war emergency law calls for. ELAS Release Most All Their Prisoners ATHENS, Jan.

20 OP) Clarl fication of the British attitude and reports of release of a higl proportion of hostages held by the ELAS brightened the political as pect of Greece's troubled true today. An International Red Cross dele gate from returning to Athens tonight after ten day in ELAS territory, said ELAS cen tral committeemen had authorize! the- chief of the International Re Cross committee mission here to take possession of all hostages except those which ELAS considered responsible for bringing about the crisis among the Greeks. Memorial To 5e Dedicated Official Dedication Will Be Held Monday Night At Junior High. Official dedication of the Colins Memorial industrial arts build- ng will occur tomorrow night at the Junior High auditorium at ight o'clock, followed by open house at the school's shops, the ill appear C. E.

A. Johnson, of the vocational advisory Mrs. Margaret Collins Weston who will make the formal presentation of the new shop, and H. E. Sackett, president of the board of education, who will accept the building.

Other addresses will be made by Arthur Guenther, W. B. Morton, and G. F. Liebendorfer.

Dr. E. L. Novotny will preside. Appropriate music will be supplied by the Beatrice Senior high school band under the direction of C.

M. Stuchlik. See page 10 for story. Russians Will Meet Eastwall Obstacle Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces. Paris, Jan.

20 (fl?) Russians sweeping ahead now, as General Eisenhower's armies swept through France in August and September, eventually will come up against solid eastwall. Little is known here about the eastwall. It from the Bohemian highlands to the Baltic sea and, in parts, runs along the river Oder. Its construction is said to be similar to the. westwall, an almost endless series of pillboxes and dragon's teeth, but it does not have the advantage of such natural features as the westwall has.

LONDON, Jan. 20 Red army in a swift 30-mile sweep along the high road front Warsaw forced the Warta river 210 miles east of Berlin today and the German high command indicated that other Soviet spearheads to the southwest six miles across th6 Silesian frontier only 200 miles from the Reich capital. Another Soviet army toppled the big German stronghold Of Tilsit in northern East Prussia', penetrating 46 miles inside crumbling junkers province 17-mile advance, while the 6eiv mans announced that other Soviet forces had smashed into southern'', East Prussia on a 37-mile Road Hub Premier Stalin announced that Marshal Gregory ZhukoV crack First White Russian arn had made the crossing of ta 100 miles west of turing the strategic road LONDON, Sunday, Jan. Red army, killing or, capturing 00,000 Germans week of its lightning' offensive; across Poland, yesterday forced; the Warta river, 210 miles east of Berlin, and the German radio- said early today that other let spearheads to the had crossed the embattled sian frontier only 200 miles fromC the Reich capital. Kolo, 210 miles due east of Berji Striking along Wawaw Berlin trunk motor road and railway these units were miles from last big western Pol ism fortress city barring the way to the heart of Germany.

Other units of Zhukov's army captured Wloclawek, 85 miles northwest of Warsaw, and 30 miles southeast of vl road center controlling communV ications into the Polish (., seven miles southwest of Wloclawek, alsiji was overrun, putting this Sov spearhead within 223 miles A late German high report indicated, that spearheads of Marshal Ivan S. Konevlsi; First, Ukraine army already ed six miles inside industrial Siles- ia after sweeping up to'the border in western Poland i 3 Armies Inside Reich It said that one Russian had "driven into the Kepno area." Namslau is six miles inside Silesia, 27 miles east Breslau, and 200 miles southeast of Berlin. Kepno, on the side of the frontier, is-17 miles to the northeast. '-Thus there appeared to be ments of three Russian now fighting on German spil. Premier Stalin in an order of day announced the fall of the biggest prize yet taken by 1 'Marshal Ivan Third White Russian army.

These troops also drove to 'within nine (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Direct Word From Son In Jap Camp HELD BY GERMANS -LONDON, Jan. 20 King Leopold of Belgium and Edouard Daladier, former premier ot France, are being held by the Germans at Godesberg, the Paris radio said reports. File Charges Against Two Fur Disposers MACON, Jan. 20 Macon County Prosecutor George Davis said todky he has filed grand larceny charges against Earl WaUin, and Charles W.

Sisk, 23, in connection with what he said was their disposal of furs valued at in Macon and La Plata, Mo. Davis said the furs had taken from a store and at Lincoln, but Sisk and Wallin denied of the alleged fur theft. Monitors and civilians on the west coast listening for short wave broadcasts, picked up Radio Tokyo and the following message intercepted by them on the "Your Postman" broadcast on Jan. 13, gave Mr. and Mrs.

M. B. Smith of Beatrice their first direct word from their son, Seaman 1-c Wayne. D. Smith, since he was captured on Wake island, Dec.

1941, A recording of Smith's yoice was made by a communications office in California. Four other messages containing the gist of the communication reached the Smiths from California civilians who were also listening in. The message "I hereby make known my wish that Benjamin and Vivian be placed in the immediate care of my mother, Mrs. Alice Smith, with complete jurisdiction until my return home." Concerning his children, indn oates he has received letters from his parents of wife's death which" 1943. The sent with their- curred Mrs, Kenneth, at Cal, who had a he arrived, on in 194i.