Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

v'PRICEJIVE CENTS VOL XLI I No 184 i Prison Camp Shelf Gamef?" 486 Yanks reed River in i' KING Ahlschwede civilian Eureka bottleneck pjyssaga o1jl 2S WjaO CajAhM cSrt the the WAR AT A GLANCE ef WIE BATAAN SURVIVOR HEARS THAT SAE they followed a American lines and grass lined 43 to 41 Senator CAPTIVES GIVEN BIG RECEPTION ATER RESCUE tenses But at the center of his spear (Continued on Page Seven) meeting broke up that he would move to put the Senate into execu tive session to cinsider the nom ination This would be In direct vari ance with a program laid down by Majority Leader Barkley (Ky) who told the conference that he wants the Wallace nom ination held up until Congress can pass a bill divorcing the (Continued on Page our) CHURCHILL HAS POSTWAR PLAN 1 The Byline of Dependability SUBIC BAY HELD BY YANK UNITS gopo Taken As Japanese Abandon Pillboxes i (jp) Japanese Would Amend Tax On Insurance irm OKLAHOMA CITY eb Attorney General Randell Cobb advised today the state law levying a four percent premium tax on foreign insurance firms should be amended so as to apply the same levy to both' outside and domestic concerns Otherwise the attorney general by letter told Gov Robert Kerr and the chairmen of the House and Senate committees on revenue and taxation the state faces the likeli hood of a flock of recovery suits by the foreign firms Cobb pointing out that 16 such companies already had filed suits for recovery of $220454 in pre mium taxes they believed unjusti fied said a supreme court decision last year led attorneys for most of the 450 foreign companies doing business in Oklahoma to be lieve such levies were invalid Superforts Raid Singapore Area or Third Time PvHtakW Snn Bwalas (Sxevpt Stirfarlka S4w SUrvlvs hr Mliad Nvwa SwvrS PvMlaldun Ce (Im) riday Lowest tern night 15 to 20 middle in west WASHINGTON eb Superfortresses bombed military installations in the Singa pore area today for the third time A press Hash from the 20th air force headquarters said of Brig Gen Roger 20th bomber command struck by day light from India bases Details of the mission would be announced when operational reports are re ceived Once called of the Singapore was seized by the Japanese in 1942 and con verted into their principal naval base hi the Malay Netherlands East Indies area On nearby Penang island the Japanese maintain a big submarine haven Both Singapore and the Georgetown naval base on Penang are key distribution points for sup plies and merchant shipping plying the Japan East Indies sea route The round trip flight largely over a encompasses more than 8500 miles is 39 miles from the capital and it seemed more likely that a point in the Kustrin vicinity was meant The eastern edge of Kustrin it self one of the chief defenses of the German capital was reached by the swift Soviet punches rap idly spreading the fires of war to the heart of the Reich said Thousands of Soldier orm Parade To Honor Their Return GETS A BILL INSTEAD TOPEKA eb William Ryan Mo engineer who set out after a multi million dollar pot of gold in 1943 wound up today with a bill for $30740 court costs from Harry Washing ton clerk of the district court of Kansas i Ryan was ordered to pay the coat by Circuit Jiylge Walter A Horman who found for the defen dants last Jan 13 in uit charging fraud In constructor the Sunflower Ordnance wotk De Soto American Warships Near Corregidor? (BY TBB ASSOCIATED PBBSS) American warships are nearing Corregidor while others in Subic bay are shelling Northwestern Ba taan peninsula in the Philippines unconfirmed Tokyo radio broad casts reported today enemy is sending warships to the vicinity Of Corregidor is one broadcast said "rom Corregidor (at the entrance of Ma nila bay) cruising of American shipping in the adjacent waters is ive Nazi Sentenced to Die In Killing Sixth NEW YORK eb ive German prisoners of war have been sentenced to death by a court martial Newsweek magazine says because they beat to death a fel low prisoner they suspected of giv ing valuable military information to the United States Newsweek in its eb 5 issue declares the men killed a comrade at Camp Tonkawa Okla Nov 5 1943 and now are awaiting doom in a federal The dead man was identified as Cpl Johann Kunze The five men all non comfnissioned officers were identified as Walther Beyer Bert hold Seidel Hans Demme Willi Scholz and Hans Schomer the articles of war court had no choice but to pronounce the death the magazine says Nazis appeared entire ly The men admitted their part in Kunzes liquidation magazine adds miles from Manila Well fortified Grande island the guarding the entrance to Subic bay was taken without opposition Tues day by Eighth army troops Units of the Seventh fleet then steamed into Subic bay Other elements of Lieut Gen Robert Eighth army moved by road along the inner rin of Subic bay to capture the Olon gapo naval base which before the war was an American depot Gen Douglas MacArthur said in his communique today that are now using this excellent an chorage and development of a na val base is already under Olongapo was well outfitted with Japanese dugouts and pill boxes all empty Similarly Grand island 48 abandoned ty the enemy its American guns discensolately out to in the words of Associated Press Correspondent Hutcheson Sixth army troops 35 miles to the east meanwhile reached the (Continued on Page Seven) BULLETIN WASHINGTON eb CPU The administration defeated all out foes of Henry Wallace today by forcing a delay in Senate con sideration on his cabinet nomina tion Through the delay which may extend into weeks Wallace backers hoped to win ultimate confirmation of the former vice president by stripping the Com merce department of it huge tending agencies Beating down on a vote an attempt by Bailey (D NC) to force immedi ate consideration of the appoint ment the Senate leadership ob tained right of way for the George bill 1 AIRIELD CONTRACT WASHINGTON eb Award of a $4846405 contract to th Standard PavingCoTulsar for conatructfon of runway extend aion taxiway and hanjrer turn out at Roswell Amy airfield ha been announced by the Wardepartoienf Advocate our power Control Of German Ruhr Rhine land I Report By JOHN A PARRIS JR LONDON eb 1 Prime Minister Churchill is taking to the Big Three conference a plan for a four power government for post war control of the German Rhine land and Ruhr an unimpeachable source said today The plan is un derstood to call for separation of the Rhineland and Ruhr from Ger many and placing them under eco nomic and political control of Great Britain Russia the United States and rance The same source also said British Russian and United States representatives have signed an of surren to be presented to the Ger mans when they capitulate This was signed by Ambassa dor John Winant Sir William Strang British undersecretary of state and yodor Gusev So viet ambassador to Britain The document formulated by leaders of the European Advisory commission is so secret only a few officials know its contents It lays down specific terms to which Germany must conform The source said the Big Three also would discus zones of occu pation President Roosevelt was understood to have proposed last August that American troops occu py northwest Germany and main tain only a token force in Austria But now it is reported the Presi dent favors having an equal share with Russia and Britain in occu pying Austria The rench were understood to have asked the Big Three powers for permission to share in the Austrian occupation and thia source believed Roosevelt Churchill and Premier Stalin would agree to this There were increasing indica tions that the Big Three meeting may already have begun Oy 4 JL KANSAS Cloudy fight aanow west and extremes north central Increasing and spreading over re mainder of Mate tonight except rain and enow mixed along South border Warmer extreme east to night Lowest temperature middle 20's Snow with little change in temperature riday 7 Colonel Key Given Vital Assignment WASHINGTON eb 1 Maj fen William Key former army commander in Iceland will head this four man mili tary delegation on the Allied Con trol commission for Hungary The War and Navy departments announced today the other mem bers will be Col Dallas Town send Col rank Gillespie and Navy Capt William Dietrick Lieut Col Henry Simmonite former New York and Miami la attorney will serve as executive officer The commission composed of So viet British and representa tives was created to supervise un der Soviet direction the enforce ment of armistice terms for Hun gary Key was warden of the Oklahoma state penitentiary from 1924 to 1927 when he entered the oil and construction business in Oklahoma City He served as provost mar shal general of the European the ater from October 1942 until June 1943 when he became commanding general in Iceland BULLETIN LONDON eb The Russians have broken into Kus trin vital traffic junction on th Oder 41 miles east of Berlin a German military commentator said tonight OKLAHOMA CITY eb hardly dared breathe the hope that my husband was one of the lucky men to be So spoke Mrs Ralph Hubbard today when she was informed her husband Maj Ralph Hubbard was among the 513 soldiers rescued from a Japanese prison camp by Yank invaders of the Philippines Caught in his undershirt as he was about to don a gown for an operation Dr John Hubbard the father was so excited his fingers neat out a rythm on his desk and he had to look through the telephone book three times be fore he could find the number of the hospital where his daughter in law works as a aide been on pins and needles since the early announcement that some prisoners had been he said wife is down at the USO and go plumb nuts when she hears all right TWO MEN RULED INELIGIBLE OR STATE POSITION OKLAHOMA CITY eb UP Names of two appointees ruled in eligible by Attorney General Ran dell Cobb to serve on the board of regents for A and colleges will not be submitted Gov Robert Kerr said today The Eddie Okla homa City miller and Dr An drew Potter state Baptist Reader held ineligible because of a provision for board member ship disqualifying any person who has held a state office of any nature within two years of hia appointment Potter had served on the State Board Agriculture and Eddie on the Planning and Resources board Kerf would not Say however whom ho planned to nominate as A and regents The Senate late yesterday approved a bill by Sen ator Robert Burns of Oklahoma City prescribing a set of qualifica tipns which could not be by most of those appointed last year by Kerr after the people passed an amendment creating the board Burns' bill seen as an anti administration gesture was for the purpose of vitalising the amend ment There was no hint as to it fate in the House The appointees to the board must be connrmea oy Senate Bruce Carter to Meeting at Capital Bruce Carter president of the Northeastern Oklahoma (Miami) A and college left today for Oklahoma City where he will at tend a state wide meeting spon sored by the board of regents for higher education Educators from over the state will gather riday to discuss edu cational opportunities for return ing servicemen The Miamian will also attend a meeting held by the state board of regents for Oklaho ma A and colleges The local college prexy and Dr A Nash chancellor of the board of regents will inspect the vocational educational department of the federal reformatory at El Reno Saturday El Reno educational insti tution is considered one of the model training plants in the na the Miami educator said Nearly 10U vere so weak from malnutrition disease and three (Continue on Page Seven) Pvt Richardson Is Killed in Action Word was received this morning by Mr and Mrs Jess Richardson 19 street southwest from the War department saying their son Pvt William Richardson was killed in action Jan 12 in Belgium The 20 year old paratrooper is also survived by three brothers Sgt Winford Richardson who is stationed at Miami Beach la Sgt Lloyd Richardson AA Sheppard ield Tex and reddie Richardson stationed somewhere in England Private Richardson attended Picher schools and in March of 1943 he entered the Army He embarked for service in the European theater of operations last March BULLETIN PARIS eb Patrols of the fighting irst division broke into th first ramparts of the Stevfried line today 11 mile southeast of Monschau end found only a flicker of life in concrete western fortifi cations The irst army troops crossed the first row of dragon teeth tank barriers in a section of the Siegfried line never be fore breached arther north 37 miles of th line have been conquered by the Americans in the Aachen Roer river sector sector where a whole three mile section was captured earlier in the week Third army jfifantry men seized four more German towns An eerie silence covered the big Nazi guns in the lines but American artillery of both th irst and Third army laid a bar rage on th fortifications along a 40 mile sector opposite Bel gium and Luxembourg The heaviest enemy resistance was limited strittly to small arm and accurate mortar screeningTgfiops frankly were amazed at th eomolete lack of artillery and in most cases the reluctance to stand and fight The rench irst army fought into Horbourg eastern suburb of Colmar in the shrinking pocket below Strasbourg The Poilus captured seven towns including Gerstheim a mile from the Rhine (Continued on Page Seven) Kansans Protest Wallace for Post WASHINGTON eb Senator Reed (R Kae) has sub mitted to the Senate a petition signed by 86 citizens of the Wich ita Km area mostly cattlemen opposing confirmation of Henry Wallace for secretary of commerce and head of the Reconstruction inance corporation Reed told the Senate the peti tion wm sent him by Ludvig Nel son prominent citizen of Kan Los Angelo Captain Say He'll Never orget Arrival Of Ranger By DEAN SCHEDLER GENERAL HEADQUARTERS Luzon Jan 31 UP Capt James Prippe of Los Angeles whom I last saw when he was tunnel provost marshal on Corregidor said the of see ing greenclad Rangers storm into our prison camp last night will never quite leave Lieut George Green Au burn Ala former Manila broker and reserve naval intelligence officer said: was captured when the last organized Ameri can resistance ceased in 1942 They wanted to take me to Japan but I was saved by ill Green got up and not only walk ed but ran last night for the first time in years when he forgot his arthritis upon hearing American Rangers yell for all prisoners to make for the camp entrance Pvt Walter Laverne Sioux City la formerly with the Twentieth airbase at Nichols field said: went through the bombing to Corregidor to sweat it out My heart almost broke with the first burst of fire last night because I thought the Japanese had reached the end of their patience and de cided to wipe up "I am too happy to said Pvt Thomas lowers Scranton (Continued on Page our) ror Cabinet Job By JACK BELL WASHINGTON eb 1 UP Se'ator Bailey (D NC) Baid after a Democratic caucus today that he would seek to force a test vote in the Senate this afternoon on the Henry Wallace cabinet nomination Bailey an opponent of the ap pointment told reporters as th i Milton Campbell Dies at Age of 18 Milton Campbell 18 son of Mr and Mrs Paul Campbell 202 street southwest died after retir ing last night He was found in hi bed shortly after noon today A graduate of the Miami high school young Campbell attended the Oklahoma Military academy at Claremore before entering th Army He wm medically discharg ed from service about a month ago Surviving beside Ma parant are two sisters Mary Lou Camp bell and Mrs Allen Chandler and two brothers Lawrence Campbell and Gordon Campbell all of tbs home uneral service will ba ammOo cad by th Cooper uneral home i Test Vote Near On Wallace Bid SIGHTOYANK UNITS THRILLS GALLANT MEN Weather Cloudy with little ehang in temperature tonight and riday Rain except mist and snow in extrema north today beginning tonight and continuing riday Lowest I temperatures tonight 40 south 32 north Increasing cloudi ness and slightly warmer tonight followed by light snow beginiilng Commerce Point To Osage County Case Claim Vic tory Over Miami Commenting as to what effect the recent state supreme court rul ing in the Osage county annexa tion suit would have on the Miami Commerce school litiga tion Jesse Martin Commerce school superintendent said today: the Osage county suit parallels the Miami Commerce case the decision of the supreme court probably end the Miami Commerce By his statement Martin in dicated that when the case be tween Miami school district No 23 and Commerce independent school district No 18 is re viewed by the supreme court a decision in favor of Commerce would be handed down On Jan 25 the court settled the Osage county school suit when it decided that a part of a school dis trict may hot be annexed to an other district except in cases where the area is being annexed by th district from which it was de tached The" fight between the two school districts arose here last March when Miami school offi cials were charged by the Com merce' board education with attempting to annex certain ter ritory which woulfi remove "ap proximately 30 percent of the assessed valuation and land area from the Commerce school The Miami board of education in refuting the Commerce school board charges declared it has per mitted children in the affected (Continued on Page our) Garman Say Soviet Now Ta Bank of Mighty Driva By JAMES LONDON eb UP) Russians with their fMt paced tanks and infantry have smashed to the banks of the Oder northwest of Kustrin at a point about 39 miles or closer from Berlin the German high command announced today It was possible that the Russian were even closer than 39 miles for the German communique did not give the exact location of the pene tration to the river The Oder swings to within 28 miles of Ber lin northwest of Kustrin But im mediately northwest of Kustrin it mnmmnf MiamiD ailyNewsRecord Ottav County PPJtia SB 35849 the undersigned citizen of Kansas sincerely ask you to op Pom the confirmation of Henry Wallaee to secretary of om mere and th petition aaid A Partial List Of American Men Rescued GENERAL HEADQUARTERS Luzon eb 1 CH Army prisoners of war rescued from Japanese prison camp by American Rangers in clude: Pfc Don (Adams Artesia NM Sgt Ermon Addington Harrison Idaho Pfc William Thayer Neb Dean Albee Mont Sgt Louis Albin San An tonio Tex Pvt John Alford Pensacola la Capt rederick Amos Hum boldt Kas Sgt Harold Amos Afton la Gunner Sgt Harry Arold Liberty Mo Pvt Uriah Ash airmone West Va (Continued on Page our) (BY THS aSSOClAIXD PRESS) The Western ront: Nazi withdrawal from Siegfried outposts hinted Americana advanced with artillery support: Nazi aban donment of Rhine bridgehead north of Strasbourg suggested by AhiericaH capture Of Gambsheim rench dosed in on Colmar The ront Berlin said Russian reached viemity of Kustrin in Oder vally 89 miles or less east of Berlin as crucial Oder battle loomed Russian captured Beyersdorf 63 miles north east of Berlin grip on Konigsberg tightened Germans said Oder in Silesia wm croaaed at several places Russians drove farther Pomerania province VThe Italian ront: ifth army patrols stabbed deep into Nazi lines east of Serehio river in bitter five hoar fight The Pacific ront: Americana held Alongapo naval repair baa controlling Subic Bay other Americans speared to within 2S road i mile of Manila Seventh fleet steamed into SdbiaBajr By Daring Ranger orces on Luzon By RUSSELL BRINES SIXTH RANGER BATTALION CAMP Luzon Jan 31 (Delayed) There is a long dusty twist ing lane near here which should become a war monument for today it bridged two worlds It leads across the plain toward the death camp where 513 prisoners of war were rescued by American Rangers and ilipino guerillas A eonvoy of ambulances and trucks transported the rescued captive back to absolute safety and except for two of the 513 who died enroute No men ever received more sincere homage than these lean ragged captives who had come back from death or four miles lane outside the riding in vehicles ilipino carts Thousands of sol diers from the reinvasion army formed an impromptu parade in their honor flanking both sides of the return route No man ever tried more vali antly to regain the pride which the Japanese had smashed and to control their emotions as these captives whose first glimpse of the almost forgotten outside world came this evening Behind them wm the awful hopelessness of Bataan and Cor regidor and nearly three years of (Continuej! ouPpge our) a that traveled thou sands of miles finally reaches the ear or which it was in tended Mary Ida Mouery of St Petersburg la got a big sea shell from her boy friend in the South Pacific with in structions to listen to the whis pering in the shell Judging from her expression in photo above the was a welcome one CorregraorAnd A vvAn 4 YVT I rv i 4 OKLA THURSDAY EBRUARY 11945 GENERAL HEADQUARTERS Luzon eb 1 Subic bay and its naval re pair base of Olongapo dotted with pillboxes but inexplicably aban doned by the Japanese were back in American hands today as un blunted Yank spearheads to the east rolled clear of a dangerous SCHOOL DISTRICT DISPUTE ENDED? YANKSADVANCE hofWzfguM 'Siegfried tine ing Enemy Moved 1 arther Back By JAMESM'LONG PARIS eb The Amer ican 'irst 'army advanced within plain sight of the strangely silent Siegfried line on a broad front to (Jay tamid growing indication that the Gepnans had withdrawn far ther back 1 Overnight advances generally reached 4 miles deeper into Ger many Village after village fell Patrols entered the fringes of the Siegfried lifie in the Monschau By YATES GENERAL HEAPQUARTERS Luzon Jan (Delayed) (AP) Men of Bataan Corregidor and Singapore 513 of them were snatched from under the flaming muzzles of Japanese guns last night in an exploit of unmatched daring Some 400 picked men of the Sixth Ranger battalion and ilipino guerrillas made a commando raid 25 miles behind Japanese lines to empty a prison camp and par tially fulfill one of the objectives closest to Gen Douglas heart They took Japanese guards by surprise and rescued 486 Americans 23 British three Netherlanders and one Norwegian all that were left in the prison camp inNueva Ecija province of Eastern Luzon Many more hundreds of more able bodied war prison ers had been sent to work camps in Japan Hundreds of others had died All but two of the men were brought alive by the 121 men of the Sixth Ranger battalion who stormed into the prison stockade under command of Lieut Col Henry Mucci of Bridgeport Conn Their enfeebled heaits flickered Naval Repair Base of Olon cut when they were in sight of The Rangers attacked with such ijerman broadcasts merciless precision that not one Along a 70 mile front Marshal of the Japanese stockade guards Gregory Zhukov massed waves of was left alive or able to resist tanks and infantry for a quick And they attacked with such care smash at greatest de that not one of the prisoners was scratched Within a matter of minutes all had been released and were on their 25 milc journey to free dom walking carried on backs of husky Rangers or riding in 1290 Sooner on New Casualty List (or AMocunp ras iotal of 1290 Oklahoman were Hsted a famltiej by the War department during January a compilation showed today In cluded were 251 killed These djgur0 may be compered with 191 Oklahoman and 190 eMualtie of all categoric Dated in December January report showed 227 men aliasing in action 86 prisoner of war and 726 wounde 3r Japs Expect Yank Landings in China CHUNGKING eb Lieut Gen Albert Wedemeyeraid today Japanese dispositions and operationaindicated the enemy expected Ameriewu to land some where on th Chin coast and assure you we be disappoint ing him in hia At a pre conference the commander 'in (China said the Iom of some S14th airforce bases east of the Uhina hido China Cr ridor he added that he was happy the fields were' lost earlier a their use "help ed the operation in the Philippine archipelago a great IRE INWICH1TA WICHITA Kaa' 1 ire eauaed a' eiitfinafed $15000 damagb early thlsy morning when flame swept a building in the downtown business section JAiremen fought the blase which was discovered at 1:45 a more than three' hears before it wm broughtjtmder control The building housed uniform company and a linen store ORCES ARE39 MILES OR LEGS ROM CAPITAL 5 i 7 3 "Lia'WL 'rT wa1 'i' V'i a i fl rT ML 1 It! i 1 A jrestjxJ peraiun The Byline of Dependability Dependability.