Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • Page 1

THE TEMPERATURES Yesterday's High 44 High Year Ago 41 Low 28 Low Year Ago 26 BEATRICE DAILY SUN THE WEATHER Partly Cloudy. "If You Didn't See It In The StJN It Didn't Happen" Member of The Associated Press XLD BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 1944 No. 173 Thinks Tokyo Stunned At Atrocities Radio After Silence Broadcasts Domei Dispatch To This Country. ENEMY PROPAGANDA' ENLIST 16 FUTURE AIRMEN WASHINGTON, Jan, '29 lapan's delay in replying to docu- rientfid stories of her soldiers' bar- mrities on Bataan led some in the mpttal tonight to think that per- laps Tokyo officialdom itself was lurprised at the details. This could be true because of the oose control which the Tokyo war iffice commonly exercises over the llsciplinc of ti-oops far afield, and Because the Japanese army tra- litionally has done what it pleases combat zones, without letting Jie government and people know.

The Tokyo nearly 12 hours silence broadcasted a IDomel dispatch beamed to this pountry, but apparently left the Japanese people, as usual, in the llark. Domei quoted "high military Ijuarters" as labeling the American (irony and navy charges "vicious propaganda," and countercharging American "butchering of wounded soldiers perpetrated (in, Guadalcanal," and "brutal as- imults on our helpless hospital Few Knew Details The full horrors Jap troops com- Initted in Nanking and many other olaces in China were made known few Japanese. Officials who recalled this, and lilso that the Japanese people were told of indignities heap- upon British civilians in 1939 at Tientsin, see some possibility of Bataan-Corregidor atrocity htories leading to an eventual improvement of conditions among orisonera of war. They point to the traditional hensitivity, rooted in pride, which the Japanese always have shown Toward any reflection on their ability to behave in a civilized manner. But they added that the publicity might cause the arrogant field pommanders to react first with Wen harsher treatment in their j'age at having the truth about rtemselves broadcast to the world.

Some of Tokyo's leaders already -if hand-writing on lie wall, it is held, and therefore lay act to curb their blood-thirs- troops who have been torturing arisoners. If and when this happens, the proof will be when international tnm of ne mc led Cross inspectors are allowed! We still have fai th in the peo- visit the camps where these and be eve an to their itrocities have been taking place, patrlotlsm will lnducc them to War Bond Sales nake a nvC8tment Beyond expressions of -horror bond pui chasing has md anger which the Japanese the fact tnat 1(l ai eas inspired, one reaction of fi ere the soliciting has becn per civilians produced what sistent and tnorough reaulta havc treasury called an apprecia- been ITA wrM.ift-" ivt inrlitridllol vira Vinnf I Sherman Near Top Of the 27 township leaders in the Largest American Armada Hits Reich British Force 18 Miles From Eternal City Americans Within Artillery Of Vital Point Of Cislerna. REDS PUSHED BACK ROAD OF DEATH Phctu I A fMlf fXHIIIIIlllllf IMinill. llfl 111(1 II O-ll 11 114 I V'I IIMVJ Capt. Frank V.

Ke in the army air forces to 16 youths at a ceremony at the senior high Robert Siilir, James Van Arsdale, Russell Cummins, Charles Elwell; Bayne ninrnan. Kaipn Wilson Georsrc liamson, Norman Earl Weiss, Donald Theobald; ttiird row: James Gil'nore, Vincent Mooney, Anthonj UJIson, Oeorgc Nicholas, Ralph Damkroger. Vernon John Bond Drive Lag Can Be Cured "Americans United In War' County Committee Has Faith In People's Voluntary Buying To Meet Quota. The executive committee of the county war- finance organization met iast evening and considered ways of stimulating action on the bond front. "We do not approve the methods used in one Nebraska county to threaten non-mvestors in bonds with discrimination by the draft board and the ration board," said Ed C.

Austin, county chairman. "We all realize that'if the voluntary buying fails, there WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 President Roosevelt said tonight that the outpouring of American dollars in the fourth war bond campaign will serve notice that "we Americans are irrevocably united in determination to end this war as quickly-as possible in the unconditional surrender of our enemies." In a midnight broadcast, the chief executive coupled his war loan appeal with an expression of gratitude to the thousands of citizens who are contributing their dimes and dollars in the fight against infantile paralysis. As a participant in an hour's radio program. "America Salutes the President's Birthday," the president contrasted the care of children in this country spurt purchases.

in individual war bond sales in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massa- bhusetts, and New Jersey. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau expressed confidence that "the people will subscribe even more heavily" as they become more aware pf the seriousness of the war. In Wisconsin, the Rock county lothers, wives and other kin of a compulsion. But it is-not the bus- jt that of the handicapped in iness.of our committee to do any- enemy Invites Royalty "In Germany and Japan," he said, "those who are handicapped, in body and soul or mind are regarded as unnecessary burdens to the state. An individual's usefulness is measured solely by by the direct contribution he can make to the war machine by his service to a society at peace." President and Mrs.

Roosevelt invited Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to the "cuff link" dinner at the White House intimate family a-ffair that has been held each year since 1921 to observe the president's birthday. drive, only nine had reported in writing to the county committee to yesterday. A few have given verbal reports but without definite figures. Sherman township, Walter Brickson captain, reports 90 per cent of its quota pledged. Amount of bond sales is $14,891.

Fourth war loan bonds totallingj $2,200 were purchased by the! ink battalion captured by the teachers and students of the Beat- apanese when Bataan fell, sent to President Roosevelt id Secretary of War Stimson de- landing "adequate reinforce- nents" for General MacArthur to liberate the sodiers from pris- pn camps. Jap Areas Disturbed At Tu.lelake, six miles (from a segregation center housing Japanese, angry citizens gathered on street corners and voiced demands that the center be placed under military control. Japanese evacuees in the Man- inar'center in southern California vere "very much In Arizona relocation cen- jters, the guard was tightened and Evacuees were forbidden to lea.ve grounds. Warren H. Atherton, national ammander of the American Lem, said at Boston that deportation of all Japanese sub- Ijects in the United States.

The Legion, he remarked, believes that the Japanese never could be as- laimilated. A-thertolr criticized withholding war news by government sourc- ss and in Albany, Richard P. Dyess, father of the late Lt. Col. (William E.

Dyess, said he was sor- his son's story of Japanese brutalities had not been released ear- jier by the army and navy. Hsplay Of 4-H Club Awards In Beatrice Announcement has been re- Reived by Extension Agent Ken leed of Gage county that 4-H awards and the medals will be on display all week in the win- ow of the Weigel Jewelry store. The winners were: Dairy medal, loward Barnard, Beatrice; silver Wayne Graff, Beatrice, Victory Gardens medals to Ceith Leber, Bunny Albrecht, irmon Martinez and Eugene teyers, all of Cortland, Clothing medal to, Howe of-Barneston. Livestock medal-to Ifames Hayes, jr. of Diller, erving in the navy, have a limited number of tried religious calendars, free lot asking.

Phone or write. Harfe Johnson Funeral Horae. when he rice high school. Miss Eula Ree Merwin, chairman, had charge of delivering the bonds, and H. L.

Beal handled the money, assisting a war loan representative. Students will have another opportunity to buy bonds next week, Stamp 40 Valid For Sugar February 1st WASHINGTON, 29 To take care of the needs of housewives who wish to can early fruit, stamp no. 40 in war ration book four will be valid for five pounds of sugar beginning Feb. 1. the office of price administration (OPA) announced today.

The stamp, good through Feb. 28, 1945, will be the only one issued this year buying sugar for hqrne-canning, but additional amounts will be made available on application to local season, two five- pound stamps were validated for home-caniiing. OPA said today's preliminary action was designed to provide sugar in the south for canning- such early fruits as' strawberries. The complete plan for alloting sugar for 1944 canning will be announced later. Results In Mudecas Tourney At Adams (The Sun's Own' Service) ADAMS, Jan.

the crowd taking up 25 per cent of the floor 1 finals were played in the Mudecas tourney with straight away baskets. In Clans Avoca won over Sterling, 31 to 18. Adams took the Class championship by defeating Elk Creek, 83-36. Leading all the way, Clatonia defeated Walton, 33-19, to win, the Class championship. TAL.BOT FUNERAL MONDAY LJNCOE-N, Janl 29.

funeral services for A. R. Talbot, who died aged .84, will be held of his celebrating today. Tomorrow the president and first lady will receive at luncheon some of the movie, stage and i adio stars participating in tonight's birthday ball program, including a series of hotel dances visited by Mrs. Roosevelt, to promote the raising of funds for the paralysis fight.

Twenty-three other guests were invited to tonight's White House dinner of what has become known as the "gang." This group gets its name from cuff links given by the president to a small group associated with him in his 1920'campaign for vice president. Few of the original "gang" are T. Early, Kirke L. Simpson and Stanley Prenosil, newspaper men of ilat, 2 He was na- of the Modern opdmen of- America fronT 1903 Some Governors May Run For U. S.

Senate WASHINGTON, 29 A half dozen or more governors in widely scattered sections may step out as candidates for the United States senate this year, a survey indicated today. Twenty-two democratic and 11 republican will be at stake in the November voting, with 29 18 democrats and all 11 to stand for reelection. Three democrats, Senators Gillette of Iowa, Reynolds of North Carolina and Walsh of New Jersey have said they would not be candidates and' a vacancy exists in the seat of the late Senator Van Nuys, IIH diana democrat, which Samuel D. Jackson of Fort Wayne is to fill until November. Jackson was appointed Friday by Gov.

Henry Schricker, the only major state officer elected by the democrats there in 1942, and the governor himself may enter the race for the democratic nomination. that period; James P. Sullivan, of Boston, and Charles H. McCarthy, now a Washington lawyer. Part Of Family Present Members Of the Roosevelt family listed as dinner guests were Col.

James Roosevelt of the marines; Maj. and Mrs. John Boettiger and the latter's two children by a former marriage, Curtis and Eleanor Dall Boettiger, Others were Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau, Maj. Gen.

Edwin M. Watson, military aide- secretary; Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, personal -physician; Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, naval aide; Maj. Henry Hooker, a Hyde Park, N. Y.

neighbor; Mrs. Harry L. Hopkins, Basil O'Connor, head of the national paralysis and the president's former, law partner; Henry Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt's nephew; Samuel I. Rosenman, presidential special counsel; Robert Sherwood, speech consultant; Miss Malvina Thompson.

Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary and Miss Grace Tully, a presidential secretary. Advise Farmers To Check Repair Needs Due to the' shortage of new farm machinery, farmers are advised to finish their winter inspection of old machinery as soon as possible and notify implement service men of their needs in repair parts so that orders can be sent in early and congestion avoided. This advice comes from the Gage county AAA office, where it is stated the supply of new listers and haying tools will be very small fact, there will be shortages in al kinds of farm implements. For this reason, it is stated, it will be up to every farmer to use his old machinery if at all posisble to get it into this will require time.

Hours utilized now will mean and better crops later, and the last-minute will be vaoided. rush Air Force Returns 70 Colleges To Civilians WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 The army air forces will return to civilian users 70 colleges utilized in the college training program and 14 civilian contract schools used in the pilot training program. 'The war department, announcing this tonight, said that students now in training at these institutions will complete their courses but that in future no new AAF students will be accepted for train- Fail To Reach Tax Agreement Two Disputed Amendments To War Contract Act Prevents Approval. WASHINGTON, Jan.

29 UP) Two disputed amendments to the war contracts renegotiation act prevented a final agreement today on the $2,315,800,000 tax mil. Senate and house members of a joint conference committee worked until late afternoon in a fruitless effort to resolve their differences, then announce'd they would try again Monday. Approve Revenue Sections The renegotiation amendments holding up final action involve definition of-a. sub-contractor, smd the right of a contractor dissatisfied with his renegotiation to a court appeal, regardless of whether the has been marked closed. The senate measure provides for appeal to the court of claims only when the contractor and the interested government agency have not signed an agreement.

Revenue sections of the bill already have been approved by the conference. Nearly half of the new revenue will come from increased excise taxes and higher postal rates. Individual income taxpayers will be called on for $664,900,000 more, and corporations for $502,700,000 additional. OPA Rule Incentive To Buy Farm Pork Direct The new plan of releasing meat ration coupons now for the purchase of pork, from farmers direct, allows a purchaser to buy around 100 pounds of pork with each ration book, it was stated at the Gage county war price and ra.tion office yesterday. The plan encourages farmers to slaughter on their own farm, and cuts down the number of hogs coming into congested markets, as well as permitting purchasers to lay in a supply of fresh meat at prices usually lower than retail.

To the 12 red stamps No. 8, lettered from to with a total value of 120 points, now can be added all the brown stamps remaining in book 3, totaling 96 points (unless needed for butter or other meats). This makes 216 points-in all which can be used for pork from the farm, at the rate of 1.9 points per pound with the hog's head left on, or 2.1 points per pound with the head off. Find. Farm Youths Not As Healthy As Cousins Associated The allies have expanded the beachhead south of Rome in drives which have placed British troops within 18 miles of the eternal city and Americans within light artillery range of the vital point of Cisterna, 14 miles northeast of Anzio and 33 miles from Rome, allied headquarters declared in a special announcement Saturday.

It was probable the din of battle were sounding in the ears of the inhabitants of Rome. The British advance went three miles beyond Carroceto where a railway bridge 18 miles south of Rome was captured. "Light artillery range" in connection with Cisterna, might mean anything from small mortars with a range of a few yards to a 75 millimeter field gun, so' it was not known here -just what this position was. But it was considered certain the Germans were unable to use either the air field, the Ap- pian Way or the railroad in the area. The air' war over Italy reached 'a new peak of intensity in which allied planes of all types flew 1,500 sorties and blasted 37 enemy planes out of the skies against a loss of five allied aircraft.

It brought the allied two-day total The out over the beachhead where allied LUZON 0 25 STATUTC MIUS 1,800 Tons Of Bombs Hurled On Frankfurt Bombers Shoot Down 102 German Fighters; 31 U. S. Planes Lost. The broken line from Mariveles to San Fernando indicates the. route over which thousands of American and Filipino soldiers were forced by Japanese to walk in what survivors called "The March of Death.

A report by Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, since killed, said some pris- ners were taken in crowded rail- oad cars from San Fernando to 'arlac, then marched to Camp O'Donnell (underlined), a prison amp. Later they were moved to Jabanatuan concentration camp.

AP Wirephoto) to 87 nazi planes destroyed. heaviest air fights broke ing at these establishments. COLUMBUS. Jan. 29 popular that farm youths The department said the move are healthier than the city cousins fighters in six hours knocked down 21 out of 100 German.planes which attacked invasion fleets landing reinforcements and The British advance 12 miles north of Anzio placed allied troops within eight miles of Castel Gondolfo, summer home of Pope Pius XII and brought up the possibility of the fighting damaging papal or church property.

The Red army lost ground to a bitter German counter-attack in the south Ukraine in the fiercest fighting on the long Russian front Saturday, while other Soviet forces in the north advanced to within 22 miles of the border, cleared the great Moscow- Leningrad railway, and captured the rail junction of Novosolinki. 70 miles from the Latvian border, Moscow announced The nazis lost 2,800 men and 86 of their tanks in their Ukraine counter-offensive east of Vinnitza said the Moscow midnight com- munique, recorded by the Soviet monitor, but "our troops by ordei of the command, withdrew from several populated places-and took up positions more advantageous for defense." The Germans, who have been at tacking steadily in this area Jan, 12, were throwing all theii weight against Soviet forces which not only menaced the approaches to the Rumanian frontier bu threatened the main German sup ply artery into the Dneiper Bend the Odessa-Lwow railway Abandon Smela At the same ti(ne Berlin an nounced it had abandoned th Ukrainian railway junction Smela 150 miles east of Vinnitsa a possible hint the Germans wer preparing to move back from thei easternmost salient in Russia. Major Russian successes wer Rus- Tokyo Admits Rabaul Loss reneral MacArthur Reports More Than 400 Jap Planes Destroyed. Associated Preis Rabaul is doomed. Tokyo radio conceded today (Saturday) as General Douglas MacArthur reported more than 400 enemy planes have been: destroyed at that New Britain fortress this 13 FIGHTERS DOWN LOND'ON, SMitday, Jan.

30 UP) than 1,800 tons of bombs were hurled on Frankfurt, many, in daylight yesterday by more than 800 U. S. Flying resses and greatest armada of heavy American bombers ever sent into action. They and their fighter escort, totalling more than 1,500 planes', shot down 102 German fighters, it was announced in a joint com- munique early today from U. S.

headquarters and the British air ii ministry. Thirty-one U. S. bombers and 13 fighters failed to return. The Americans flew an 800- mile round-trip by daylight to' deliver their blows less than 12- hours after the night fleet, attacking in great strength, handed Berlin its thirteenth heavy the second in two nights and ac- cording to Swedish reports one' of -the most damaging of the -war.

The leaflets the Americanif, dropped on Frankfort were copies 1 of the Atlantic charter printed -in the German language. The reverberated through for hours afterward because'- the? bomb-loads included delayed-ac--; tion high explosives. ,1 With the two attacks lin and the one on allies in a little more than, hours staggered the German home-. land with three crippling main- blows and in addition engaged a number of secondary ing and bombing: operations were exceptionally entire effort involving well over 2,000 planes. month.

even lhe slightest optimism" for Rabaul, Tokyo admitted in a broadcast for consumption. Twenty out of forty defending fighters were shot down by American bombers and fighters raiding Lakunai airdrome Friday. This brought the month's total to approximately 420 knocked out. Six American planes werd lost in that attack but heaVjr bombers making a later sweep on a nearby supply dump encountered no interception. Two direct hits sank an enemy cargo vessel at nearby Kavi'eng, New Ireland.

Tokyo radio brushed asidrf the increasing American bombardments of the mid-Pacific Marshall islands, on the eastern wing of Rabaul, as a diversionary action, Japs Are Tough Whatever encouragement Tokyo's broadcast may have had for Americans was offset by a sobering house military subcommittee report declaring and even longer casualty lists will be a rude awakening to the realization that victory is yet to be bought and at a heavy price." The Japanese "are tough, their defenses are deep and strong," added Lieut. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commander of the marines. Chinese troops were pushing back Japanese patrols in northern Burma and spreading out into jungles.

Allied planes raided Burmese targets from Rangoon in the south to the Hukwang valley in the north where the Chinese were opening a pathway for a new road to China. In nearby Thailand Japanese Tonight the German Iransmittersrihctudtnr 'the try's largest, went off the air, suggesting night raids on German territory and perhaps the third in a row was in conforrnance with General H. H. Arnold's recent report in which he stated that "as the war continues, emphasis will naturally shift from training df vast numbers of new men to the training of replacements." M'COOK ELKS FIRST OMAHA, Jan- 29 Elks lodge at McCqok was the first to report to J. C.

JTr'avis, state chairman for the Nebraska Elks war bond committee, that it had attained $300,000 in war bond sales during the current drive, Membership of the lodge is 284. Injuries Fatal To Mrs. E. Flickinger Mrs. Elizabeth Flickinger, 84, who suffered a broken hip last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Kimball Failing, 1701 High street, died Friday evening at a local hospital. She had lived in Beatrice ten years. Her husband, William C. FJickingerj passed" away in Beatrice in 1936. Besides her daughter, Mrs.

Failing, she leaves a 'graTRldaughter living in California. Funeral services will be at 2 o'clpck Monday from the Bergmeye? chapel, the Rev. C. Interment is to be in Evergreen Home cemetery, hag been refuted by selective service figures, Dr. A.

R. Mangus, rural sociologist at Ohio State university, said today, He urged the farm population to do something about it. Rejection of farm workers In the 18 and 19-year-old age bracket is running 62 percent above the average for other registrants, and is higher than any other major occupational group in the nation, Mangus said. B. S.

SPEAKERS PLACE WESLEYAN MEET LINCOLN, Jan. -In the Wesleyan Uni. two-day high, school public speaking tournament, ended today, the three high individuals in oratory were Brent Brozell, Creighton David Graf, Beatrice, and Ann Reddan, Omaha North. In extemporaneous speaking. Bill Eyth, Beatrice, tied with LeRoy Stoefz, Lincoln, for 9th and loth, DID YOU LOSE A BLACK.DOG A smallish black dog, -evidently lost, is at the police stating waiting for a claimant.

He's homesick. sians, fanning out from the Leningrad area, reached the town 'of Zagoritsi, 22 miles east of the Estonian border, and moved westward all along their line from the Baltic coast to the Narva railway. More than 2,000 Germans were killed in this fighting, and in an ambush the Russians wiped out a column of German artillery men, captured 60 of their heavy guns and 100 trucks loaded with ammunition. The captured guns then were turned on German units stationed nearby, Moscow said. war to build a military to southern Burma.

Maltreated and Orientals Chungking report said, died by the hundreds and werft "buried where they fell like dogs." Tokyo radio dismissed disclosures of Japanese brutality toward war prisoners as "a mere recurrence of the enemy's vicious propaganda." Berlin. 47 Bombers Lost The RAF, flying "in very 800 kept their bombing "well trated and large areas of fire were' observed," the air ministry nounced. Forty-seven of the bombers were lost. Swedish dispatches reported' great fires raging In the Ger- man capital after the two of assault, and one report said the Tempelhof airport apparently was knocked out, The authoritative British association speculated, that it might require a half men and 20,000 bomber win the battle of Berlin. It es mated the cost might be 6,000 and 800 aircraft and noted th more than 250,000 persons in this air or at British bases alrea were participating in the att "which is believed now half Tears Right Wing Off Among the American es lost today was one from below by a German that it had knocked out of Sgt.

Roger D. Palmer of Grani; Island, gunner in a plane, said. "The fighter was'hi' by the ball turret gunner, li zoomed upward and rammed 1 ij fort, tearing the right wing Italian Politicians Plan Demo Government BARI, Italy, Jan. 28 (Delayed) A suggestion thaWtalian political parties may organize a democratic government in opposition to the regime of King Vittorio Emanuele appeared today in a statement' by one of the Rome delegates to the all-party congress, and it is believed that a unanimous demand for the king's abdication will be drafted at the sessions here. (The predicted resolution was adopted Bad reported in "a- broadcast recorded last night by U.

government monitors. The resolution asserted "the moral and material reconstruction of Italy presupposes the immediate abdication of the king responsible the tragedies' that Owner please call for him, have the Beasley, Jenson Give Selves Up To Officers After driving about Beatrice in an automobile taken from a parking spot at 15th and streets in Lincoln, Kenneth, Beasley and Clarence Jenson, gave themselves up Friday to Mrs. Ben Goble, matron of the county jail. Beasley, aged 16, is a Beatrice boy now serving time in the reformatory at Lincoln. Jenson, aged 20, had been committed from.

Hastings. Both were trusties and evidently had planned their escape as they had secured a change oS clothing and had discarded their prison garb. They stopped at a. filling station, in West Beatrice and endeavored to trade an -device fj gasoline. 1 This but the boy's selves tie pletely off." In Bern it was announced that three American bombers, apparently from he attack, crossed over Switzerland- at midday and that Swiss-; fighters took off "to drive away the foreign aircraft.

While the record force of- es" was blasting Frankfurt, medium Marauders again i stabbed across the channel at crej; fortifications blocking shortest invasion route to EuropfyV It was the 28th in day-old campaign to obliterate, these defenses along the nfi northern France, which have be hit at least once every week. The Marauder raid was plemented by sweeps carried (Continued on Page 2, Col n.7 Submits Soldier Voting WASHINGTON, Jan.129 Senator Danahev out a compromise ase voting plan tonight -wMcihk use federal procedure. state ballots to everyjjne, form in the, United Under his propoi ed in the, senate jrtobUfes.ba 1 Jsftti t' fj.