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VOLUME No 37 DOTHAN ALABAMA RIDAY ATERNOON JANUARY 19 1945 NUMBER 103 Red Drive Unchecked As Lodz Wrested rom Hum Push On "Peeple would have thought I Warsaw Liberated As Nazi Line Cracks de act Distortion the Lu govern i the i ms said Labor Shortage Am Gen high Chi more not will be trsmp na had exiled al! the Inhabit' i 4 shall state at of Hoover Warns Of Radio Station WAG Three Saboteurs It Gets Mutual Hook Up budgeting three men II I I I only invlta Lodz 65 miles from Polish German Iron the southern at Supreme increasingly Hoover tor three who he to enter have and Communist pally news story was broadcast by the the Polish from Lub and over whose second approximated from Krakow and to LocU Kutno and to work copper be the com criti of Gen flank Dothan's only commercial radio broadcasting station WAG re No this the will on commit said the name a for the 3rd Army Russian forces have captured Warsaw in a drive which has taken them to within forty miles of the Nazi borders Black ar rows indicate the main points of attack on the new NEA Telephoto factions forth conference ederal Communications Com mission to operate on unlimited Uns has signed a contract with the Mutual Broadcasting System to join the network station of ficials anounced today It is expected the officials said that network service will begin when technical details have been worked out At the same time WAG joins the network it will also begin night operations ounded in Dothan on Dec 14 123 WAG increased its power in 144 from IM to 35 watts when a new transmitter was Installed and operates on Its assigned fre quency of 1400 kilocycles The station serves the entire Wlre graso area troops are west along correspond SPOKANE Wash (AP) Con fronting a burglary suspect with time That compares with 25000 or 0000 hi peaceful years Most of th on the invitation list will have to stand out in the yard to see going on No scats are being provided Just plain spectators will have io stretch their necks from behind an Iron al least 200 yea rds away The boys may hear a groadcast of the ceremony as will millions of other people around the world adlo has arranged short wave descriptions In English rench Portuguese and Spanish 'A committee has allotted twenty minutes for the twenty minutes of the time of a nation The City Democratic Executive Committee will meet next week to set the date for a City primary to nominate a City commissioner for a three year term beginning in October Smith Hall secretary and acting chairman of the committee said today The secretary said the former chairman Smith Deal had sub mitted his resignation but It had not been acted upon by the com mittee Whether the committee will take any action on re signation was not disclosed While no definite day has en set for the meeting of the tee the acting chairman members nrobably would date in March or April primary The primary last year was held on March 21 The incumbent Miles A Miller has not announced whether would be a candidate for reelec tion His present term expires the first Monday In October Although no candidates have announced for the office reliable sources said it was indicated that Commissioner Miller would have opposition in the event he announc ed for rejection WASHINGTON (AP) wives trying to stretch food ration points over a fast growing list of commodities requiring stamps had the added task today of for fats and oils They have three days job for the OPA last BY EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW 'A Pi red white flags of Poland floated the scarred and blackened city of Warsaw today as hundreds of Poles took up the gigantic task of bringing their ancient back to life Already officials of provisional government lln recognized by Soviet Russia were setting up administrative of fices in what one Russian cor respondent called desert Directors of the Dothan Cham ber of Commerce holding their first session of the year met with the president Bryson today to formulate plans for a program during 1945 Several proposals were taken under advisement and directors and members appointed to com mittees to study the proposals which will be announced at the annual banquet Tuesday night President Bryson emphasized that whatever plans were agreed upon Jor the yar he strongly favored a concerted effort to at tain the goal There must be action along with discussion he pointed out if plans are to materialize that they the ft WASHINGTON 1AP) The muzzle was on today In the mys tery of who assigned Col Elliott Roosevelt's dog an airplane prior ity ahead of three servicemen but Rep Miller (DCalif) had hopes of getting the facts Miller stepped Into the case be cause one of the servicemen af fected is a constituent Seaman Leon LeRoy of Antioch Calif The Congress member asked Secretary of War Stimson for a "complete report" on why the ser vicemen (iwth priorities) had to get oft a cargo plane of the air transport command to make way for high priority freight while the dog (with priority) was flown on At ATC Headquarters a report questions as to who asked the priority who assigned it etc drew only "No comment" Maj Gen Harold George of the ATC had said after a prelimi nary investigation that "an error of judgment' bad been made an error that hanpen again His aides said the ATC did not intend Miss Your Paper? If you miss your copy of Th Eagle telephone 1600 before 8 pm weekdays and a on Sunday and a copy will be delivered to you Di today Nazi said BY DOUGLAS CORNELL WASHINGTON AI Rugs came out of the White House to day more Roosevelts moved I and the President who has served longest toiled over what may hl to ry'i shortest inaugural ad dress In an ungarnlahed abbreviated ceremony at noon tomorrow Pres ident Roosevelt will take the oath office for and epochal fourth time then deliver the speech He Is aiming at 500 words Thus he may lower the lecord of the last wartime chief executive Abraham Lincoln Innugurnl address 000 words Hundreds nf feet Ing White House corridors tomor row So hard to replace nigs were rolled up and put In temporary storage Some 1500 guests the top strata of American officialdom pips diplomats and a handful of outsiders are expected st a buf fet luncheon following the inaugura tion ceremony on the south porti co Another 1000 persons are sche duled to attend a reception and tea later In the afternoon or the ceremony Itself 5000 or 6000 persons have 16000 Soldiers Shifted To ill tomb of Cho epty prosecutor Clarence Smith asked the prisoner why ke previously had denied serv Roosevelt Aiming At Short Inaugural Address Tomorrow American Warplanes Supporting Advance BY YATES MCDANIEL GENERAL HEADQUARTERS LUZON (AP) mobile guns mortars and armor smashing a cleverly concealed concentration of Japa nese tanks and artillery in a 24 hour batyc captured the Highway Three town of Urdaneta yesterday In the first bitter fight of zon invasion Seizure of the key town Douglas left opened the northern section of the a I Manila Baguio highway to the Yanks Meantime an American column 3) miles south along the same vital Highway Three captured the road and railroad junction of Pan iqul In a five mile gain and pressed on toward the important city of Tarlac 70 road miles from Manila Another Infantry force approached Tarlac obliquely down another road from Ciwniiing All advances were supported di rectly by American warplanes op erating off the Lingayen airdrome ormosa and even parts of the China Coast now are within reach of long range fighters i The ormosa domestic radio warned today that large scale enemy air raids "will be intensi fied The orrpo an nouncer said "the ferocity of the war now raging Is unprecedented In war annals of the world and plained the record eta speak far Spokane Burglar Was Too Modest to do the night until Monday all retail sales of lard other shortening and salad and cooking oils When the ban fa lifted at that time each of these products will be rationed at two red points a pound The sales halt was ordered OPA said to prevent runs on short supplies while the trade takes steps to put rationing into effect OPA's action was linked closely with a War ood Administration directive requiring 4B per cent of BY JAMES KING LONDON I AP Laborite Aneurin Bevan charged that Prime Minister Chir chill' distorted fact and had "the worst record of intervention in other peoples' af fairs of any in a speech which drew protests from the House of Commons today is no single politician more capable of distorting facts than the Prime Bevan sa id In one of the most bitter attacks ever made on the Prime Minister ir Commons he declared secret commitments by Churchill were a factor in Greek Churchill's coalition government faced a new showdown on its policy in Greece but the rank and file of the minority labor party made It clear would go along with ment Representatives ot expressed hope that coming "Big would compose differences smong groups inside Britain as well as among the Allies In reply oreign Secretary An thony Eden announced that the government ewas fully satis fied with existing machinery for international cooperation on the political in liberated coun tries and that the question of over hauling it would come up at the parley of Prime Mini: ter Church Ill President Roosevelt and Pre mier Stalin He said government while pa per dealing with guerrilla bands in Greece was being prepared LONDON (AP) leading war correspondent report ed today that the Germans had exiled every living Inhabitant of Warsaw before yielding the Polish canltal to the Red Army Describing the newlv seized city as "one big ruin smelling of burn I Makarenko wrote in Pravda: single live human was among this devastation 'Die Ger mans The paper Moscow radio A graphic account of capture was given and Polish marching to the wrecked streets" the ent wrote "The inhabitants are coming back to a city which has practically ceased to exist "During the abortive uprising of last August the Germans wrought destruction with sadistic brutality methodically turning street after street to He declared a II the most widely known structures in the city were destroyed These included the Royal Castle Belvedere Castle (Presidential Palace) th the unknown soldier and the pin monument Second Largest City alls To RusdMS British Attack Entering 4th Day Widens In Scope BY JAMES LONG PARIS (AP) The Germans burst out of the northern end of the Rhine bridgehead above Stras bourg today and lined up with ether forces in northeast Alsace forming a solid front against the 7th Army along 40 miles of rar west as LONDON The German High Command announced today thi Russian troops bad driven Into I odz Poland's greatest Industrial city and foreshadowed the com plete liberation of Budapest declaring the German garrison had withdrawn from the Hungarian capita! Berlin said the "garrison of Bud apest withdrew to the western bank ot the a confirma tion ot Moscow announcements that the entire German force In Pest on the east bank had been disposed of The language of the Berlin com munique indicated however that the entire Budapest position had been written off in the High Com mand's books With the German communique speaking of the "onpushlng Rus in that sector It was evi dent that German forces In Btl da on the west bank were resigned to Soviet occupation of all quart ers of the city shortly Moscow dispatches said the roll of prisoners ruse from about 60000 this morning in Budapest Less than three per cent of Budapest was in German hands Jan 16 by Moscow account Russian cavalry was thrown In to the Soviet sweep of Western Pol and that has covered 70 miles from Warsaw to Lodz in two days Berlin admitted that several key towns shielding the German bor der had been evacuated and hinted that a general withdrawal inside the German border was underway A mighty frontal drive on Ber lin Is beginning to take shape said Moscow dispatches Lodz is 25 0 miles from the German capital ge troops ot Marshals Gregory Zhukov and Konstantin Rokossov sky In the center and north re overrunning the snowcovered coun tryside In fashion hardly mathc ed in this war with Cossacks and Hlberlan horsemen spearheading the wIvmc The Red Air orel out In the strength of 30000 sorties in the last 72 hours was reported master of the skies and was sweeping Ger man airdromes just inside the Ileicha border with massed raids The German High Command said a battle of the "greatest was raging all along the roti an line Czestochowa the Vistula Capture of the Central tier would provide the Russians an important base for developing their mighty offensive toward the heart of the Reich By Russian account Soviet spearheads yesterday driving toward Lodz from points 30 miles northeast and 22 miles southeast at al speed which could easily have taken them to the city in the 1 terlrn To the Southwest Russian tanks and advance units ot motorized in fantry grappled with Tapldly rein forced German garrisons on the Silesian frontier while other So viet units to the north Were 1 3 miles from Southern East Prussia border Moscow dispatches said Col Ernst Von Hammer Ger man Army commentator declared Silesian frontier while other a Krakow strategic base In South west Poland A nazl rontrolled Scandinavian news agency broadcast said the "extreme danger and Vie German retreat is "far from It said the Nozi High Command was mobilizing re serves in Central Germany and sending them to the Silesian fron tier The Berlin radio Intimated the Russians had crossed into Indus trfaliy rlch Silesia west ot capthred Czestochowa A Moscow dispatch said Soviet artillery and aircraft were laying down a terrific bar rage in that area only 78 miles from Breslau Silesian capital A Berlin account said Russian forces were "becoming entangled in East Silesian defense A German military spokesman de clared "at the Reich frontier the offensive will take on a different aspect" added that in th Vistula River bend the "German disengaging movements were gov ing according to plan" None of the enemy broadcasts denied the terrific power of the history making Red Army thrusts One Nazi homefront radio cried "The German soldiers never have experienced anything so horrible as this onslaught Moscow' communique announc ed that soviet troop had driven to within three mile north of Kra kow with the capture of Balce In an order of the day Premier Stalin said Marshal Ivan irst Ukraine Army had captured Piotrkow "an impr tnt communication center and strong in German defense 22 1 1 it Stalin alro dicloed that Mar shal Gregory Zhukov 1 1 it White Russian Army had toppiefl Sochaczew and Lowicz 30 and 40 miles west of Warsaw on the main highway to Berlin Lowicz 1 30 mile northeast of Lodz On the northern flank Marshal Rokossovsky's Second White Russian rrmy captured Przasnysz a strongpoint on tne waraw no nlgsberg highway 53 miles from Warsaw as well a Drogiszk on (Twb Te Ne 1 On Page WASHINGTON (AP) The Surgeon General said to day inadequacy of nursing care in the face of a 270 per cent increase in battle casualty patients makes it imperative that nurses be draft ed Since May said Maj Gen Nor man Kirk patients have increased from 260000 to while the number of Army nurses has risen only 2000 Appearing before the House Mil itary Committee the Surgeon Gen eral gave all out support to the nurse draft proposal made by Pres ident Roosevelt two weeks ago in hi "itate of the message to Congress "We are now receiving in army hospitals of this Kirk testified "30000 to 32000 patients each month as compared with 8 500 in the first half of 1944 This is an incretase of 270 per "Approximately 15000 leave the hospitals each month Thus those received double those relieved "The increased battle casualties added to those requiring hospital ization because of sickness and dis ease has greatly enlarged the de mand tor nurses It is to meet this demand that I now favor the application of Selective Service to fill immediately the shortage in the supply of testimony interrupted committee work on work or be drafted legislation for men between 18 and 45 And anti closed shop admendment to that measure is to be taken up by the committee at a later executive session Since last April Kirk said 27 000 nurses have graduated while only 2000 additional nurses have joined the Army medical force The Surgeon General said the Army has 42000 nurse now and "must have 60000 to meet present "If the 18000 are to be obtain he declared "it seemi clear that Selective Service legislation is required" Kirk told the committee that Army hospitals in the United States are understaffed because of the large number of nurses re quired overseas He said more than 60 per cent of all Army nurses are assigned abroad The nurse draft bill was intro duced by committee chairman May (D Ky) after President Roosevelt asked for it in his message congress on January 6 It would require the registration of every registered nurse between the ages of 18 and 45 and permit their in duction as privates under regula tions prescribed by Selective Ser vice officials It a a needed the President said to meet the armed reeds for 20000 additional nurses The President also asked for the work or be drafted bill the com mittee has under consideration and May said he hoped the com mittee would approve it by nightfall However committee differences thwarted hope for approval last night and there were some committee members who predicted an agreement would not be reach ed before next week The committee which yesterday rejected 14 to 6 a move to sub stitute a modified form of the orig inal Austin Wadsworth National Service Bill still faces many hur dles Rep Stewart (D Okla) drafted an amendment providing that no draft registrant taking a job at tne request or his draft board be required to join a union condition of employment To allay the fears of farm representatives the committee was expected to accept an amendment suggested yesterday by Marvin Jones War ood Administratorprotecting the draft deferment pro cedure prescribed in the Tydings Amendment to the Selective Ser vice Act The Tydings Amendment directs that essential farm workers shall not be drafted and some member had voiced fear that it would be rendered inoperative and that men now deferred on farm would rush into war industry l' WASHINGTON (AP) BI rector Edgar sounded an alert espionage agents are under orders United State Hoover said the been trained in espionage sabotage and were associated dur ing their training oversea with Erich Gimpel and William Cole paugh who were arrested by the BI in New York last month after allegedly landing on the Maine coast from a submarine in No vember Hoover asked the nation to be on the lookout to the men and to re port any suspicious persons to the nearest BI office He identified the men as Max Christian Johannes Schneemann 44 a former resident of Pereira Co lombia South America Hanz Ru BY JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) government official said today that the Army and Navy have lent some 16000 men capable of bat duty to fill labor gaps in cal war production These men adding up to than a full division of troops went from uniforms to overalls on such items as tires and foundry products The official who could quoted by name characterized present production situation akin to that in 1942 when the tion was straining at every seam to boost the flow of munitions to the war zone There is contention in Congress that the need for war workers can be met on a voluntary rather than compulsory basis But a resurvey of manpower re quirements was reported to have prompted President Roosevelt to ask legislators Wednesday to speed enactment of a pending bill to make deferred draft registrants from 18 to 45 subject to penalties it they refuse to accent essential jobs Mr Roosevelt had said pre viously he didn't think the volun tary methods would work The Army and Navy have esti mated that 600000 additional men are needed for overseas duty by June 30 while 1000000 replace ments are trained But first of all they want back in the fighting ranks the 16000 men they have had to muster out temporarily to fill critical jobs Reports that these men receive both Army and civilian pay has caused some dissatisfaction among the ranks of buddies left in uni form Gen George Marshall Army Chief of Staff and Admiral Ern est King commander in chief of the fleets estimated that a mini mum of 300000 new munitions workers are needed An official said this was due in part to swift change in the production pro gram in recent weeks Roosevelf Mastiff Sfill In Limelight A 23 year old deaf mute woman who was arrested by City police Wednesday night on a minor charge while hitch hiking through Dothan was released from cus tody last night records at the county jail where she was lodged revealed today The woman Paula Stacker ox Lorenzo Tex was en route home after a two week trip to Thomas i 1 1 Ga where she had gone with a girl friend to visit a wound ed soldier the girl friend's hus band who was under treatment at inney General Hospital The charge against the woman was dropped She gave her fession as a waitress and said she took orders by readmg lips Charged By Bevan To Prime Minister (By The Associate dPress) THE WESTERN RONT: Brit troops captured Hongen three inside Germany US Thirdiny soldiers thrust across the River in Luxembourg and up the German border Americans out of Herrlisheim and Ses enheim north of Strasbourg buteued two towns below Hatten THE RUSSIAN RONT: Red Army offensive clamps pincers on ouz Rus ans reported fighting at frontier Silesia in the north the drove to within 13 miles of Southern East Prussia frontier THE ITALIAN RONT: Small bridgehead across the northeast of aenza "hashed back across the river by 8hth Army counterattack THE PACIIC RONT: Ameri captured Urdaneta highway in 24 hour tank and artilleryJttle the first heavy engagement the Luzon Invasion opened Jthern section of main Manila highway Other AmericansMile south on same road cap the junction of Paniqui in Commerce Chamber ormulating Plans City Committee To Meet Here Next Week Oils rozen fy OPA Until Monday Stettinius Will Attend Conference Citizens Of Warsaw Exiled By Germans Capital In Ruins Manpower Legislation Deferred To Consider Nurse Needs the Maginot Line as Jitche The situation on front was regarded Headquarters a grave Into this potential spring board for another big attack the enemy was pouring a steady stream of reinforcements over ferries and pontoon bridges thrown across the Rhine from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe In Northern Luxembourg Gen George Third Army was on the move again un der fire of Siegfried line big guns sfter breaking the German Sure Biver line The Americans were pressing the enemy back against the Our River boundary within six miles of heavily fortified Brier His latest advances ranged to two miles or better The Third Army men fought in white camou flage suits blending with the deep Miow The British on the north captur ed Hongen two miles inside Ger many in theiT thrust from the Dutch panhandle between the Ma ss (Meuse) and Roer German stands on the north side of the bulge solidified within four miles of St Vith Between those forces US irst Army troops were blocked four miles north of St Vith key to the road chain through which ield Marshal Von Rundstedt first struck into Belgium through the snowy Eifel and Ardennes moun tains In Northeast rance the Ameri can 7th Army lost its toeholds in Herrlisheim and Sessenehim 11nd 16 miles north of Strasbourg but captured Auenheim and Leu terheim below Hatten in the area where the Maginot line closes up to the Rhine Rundstedt was trying to catch Ms balance between Luxembourg and Holland There American and British attacks ground up to two miles forward in slushy snow Any of the thrusts by the three Allied Armies in the north and center might burst at any mo ment into a full force onslaught' endangering Germany from the west as the Russians endangered her from the east The German commander had managed to get a few pummeled tanks and guns of his ifth and Sixth Panzer armies back out of the smashed Ardennes bulge but these constituted his only known mobile reserve (The German radio said the Al lies had opened a broad offensive on the southern flank of the Belgian salient between i 1 1 snd Wallendorf) Hongen which fell to the British Second Army with American artil lery support is 38 miles from Dusseldorf on the Rhine It lies shout eight from the Roer River along which the 9th Army held static positions within 26 miles of Dusseldorf an arsenal city of 540000 AH along the British front curl ing from Geilenkirchen to mond German defenses stiffened after the Tommies had gained more than four miles and driven the foe from at least eight vil lages The main Roermond Sit krd road was broken The British mossed that road from Echt and fought into Schilberg They also aeized Heide a half mile north of Echt German Infantry in battalion rtrength launched several attacks yesterday between Echt and Schil berg but were beaten off ar north in the flooded no land two miles north of Nijmegen a strong German fight ing patrol attacked British Posts and held their ground over (Twn to No 15 on Page 2) Woman Deaf Mute Is Given Release WEATHER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA NORTHWEST LORIDA: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday cool er tonight Industrial Centers Smashed By Yank Superfprtresses WASHINGTON CAP) tary of State Stettinius said today that he would accompany Pre dent Roosevelt to the i with Prime Mb ai ster Churchill and Marshal Stalin Stettinius told his news co" rence he would also attend the Sng in Mexlico City eduled for eb 15 but which may be de ihc secretary to any further detail on the ttainj Continues Advance As Allies Honshu Attacked Kobe Reported Hit WASHINGTON (AP) Super fortresses attacked industrial in stallations on home Island of Honshu today and Tokyo Kobe was the target General of the Army HH old commanding (he 20th orce said the 29s of Brig Haywood Hansells 21st bomber command based in the Marianas struck by daylight No additional details were noupced The War Department release another communique the raid when operational report are received Tokyo in indentifying the target as Kobe admitted 80 29s caused "some damage" It said the hour long raid was preceded by three lorays of Superforts strike rounds out 41 ma jor missions since last June and 10 since January 1 of this year against industrial and military targets of the Nipponese empire Small numbers of Superfort con duct frequent harassing and recon naissance raids which are not re ported by 20th Air orce Head quarter The Tokyo radio yesterday re ported reconnoitering 29s over Osaka and Kobe Some 250 mile southwest of Tokyo Kobe and Os aka are among prime in dustrial center Their contiguous factory areas produce tanks plane guns explosives and ship A city ox ()((xh Kone na railway marshalling yard previous 29 raids against city have been repryted by 20(h Air orce Possibly the Superior! gunning for Kobe's plane nlanf Aircraft plant are the highest priority target in Japan 29 trike against aircraft In stallations in Tokyo Omura and Nagoya already have forced the Japanese to move some plant un derground and to chart further large scale removal The World oday Yank Mobile Guns Smash At Japanese The Dothan Eagle Por I Heard Them Say 'Let Us Go To 37d7 StateLegislahire Will Make Study Of Petroleum Industry MONTGOMERY (AP) The velonment of th dustry in Alabama is up for study by the interim com mittee on agriculture and in dustries With authorization from Gov Chauncey Sparks the group has appointed two legislators to con duct a special study of the legal machinery which Mississippi Tex as and Louisiana are using to reg ulate the production of oil and gas Announcement that this survey would be undertaken came yester day during committee sessions In conferences of two other com mittees a pension system for state employes and an anti pollu tion bill also were proposed Named to conduct the petroleum industry study are Sen Orlan Hill lorence and Ren Thomas A Johnston Mobile Sen Garrett chairman of the Agricul ture Industries body said the Gov ernor wants "all available infor so that the state will be prepared for growth in pe troleum field The pension proposal was ad vanced before a welfare commit tee under the leadership of Rep Tram Sessions Similar to the present teacher retirement plan the bill calls for contribution of three per cent of a state salary to be matched by the state An appropriation of $230000 would be necessary to start the program it was estimated Under the plan retirement would be elec tive at the age of 60 and com pulsory at 70 except in the case of an employe named for a specified period of service The anti pollution measure was suggested before the Agriculture Committee Conservation missioner Ben Morgan in ad vocating the bill described it as a proposal to better the public health and to save "hundreds of th saids of worth of seafood and fresh water food and other wildlife Committee on Highways and Aviation was told by Mayor Leo Thompson of Clanton i self a flyer that development of air feeder lines would benefit farmers of the state He declared by way of illustration that cago could receive by air fresh strawberries grown at Clanton and he expressed the opinion that consumer would be willing to pay higher prices for better products He added that "airlines will fill a need that surface transportation can't particularly In the de mand for speed Cl ft r' irt vG i a sj 4 I IALTKSIA ft hliM JT PRUSSIA 1JSsfoiT lemio rdaoszcxX POLAND IERLIN I I Kokr JP 0 100 HUNGARY I i' ji fl 1 1 1 1 i I i 1 Il Bi if flfl If is i I ja EASTERN RONT 1 it I I I I I I i.