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The Weather Beehive of Activity f'jrUv rloudv widHv sratlerrd ifctWITI todav nolrr tonight MMMI II MI4 RAK I II I RM) i 'ross-roads of 1 ho Western Pa ific carrying on the war against Japan are the Marianas and the laps can't do anything about it Read Ernie Pyle Page 11-A and see what's happening there I 5 If i II MidriiKhl II a 'ion No 82 Friday February 23 1945 Florida's Most Complete Newspaper 35th Year 26 Pages 5 Cents HAILED AS GAIN Harbor Bill Given OK In House Losses Rise At Iwo Jima 7000 Planes Hit 100 Rail Hubs elles Raps State Department Urcrnl PoliciCi In Latin America Mil By Former Diplomat In Beach A1 dress feme ni hi llerjld stall WrilJ-l Former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles Thursday night criticized the depart merit of state In caustic terms for recent policies involving Latin America Welles In an address before the Pan American League at the Honey Plaza hotel specified four counts on which he held United States HERALD lit KIM ISM Natl I'rcs- Mtfe WASHINGTON' Passage of the postwar ivers and harbors bill carrying a 85800000 appropriation for development of the Virginia Key airport-harbor project was hailed by Col Allin Miami port authority director bore Thursday as a gain of utmost importance to Miami Col Allin said that some of the projects already have been certificated imdcr'the bill In light of that he expects to spend several flays In Washington with Sen Claude Pepper pressing to get work on the project underway as early as possible The house by voice vote approved the senate measure without opposition The bill now goes to the White House Among other items it contains $1 for the intercoastal waterway from Jacksonville to Miami: SL830 ()()() for the intercoastal waterway from Miami to Key West and 181060 for Miami river work Photo on Page Greatest Air Assault In History 'Buckshot Blitz' Follows Favorable Turn In Weather 11 The AsMicintefJ lrrsv LONDON Allied air chiefs hurled an estimated 7000 bombers and fighters at approximately 100 azi communications hubs Thursday in the greatest simultaneous air assault in history a a i' coordinated blow to knock out Germany's railway system and the attack continued into the night The Berlin radio said 2000 Russian planes also had battered targets along the Eastern Front principally in past Prussia Altogether nearly 1(1(1(1(1 sor il rv jfljvfeb diplomacy responsible for "evidences of of the good neighbor policy The former undersecretary who left the state department 18 months ago cracked at Washington for: Refaaa! bj the state depart- Hu nt anil "-luhhorn opposition1 the calling (it 1 Pan American (in i-Ik of foreign ministers ir discuss mutual problems dur-ing the past three war years 2 The use of "non-recognition" as a "means of coercing Argentina" 3 tual it the stlte department "to consult with the other American republics prior to the meeting at Dumbarton Oaks" so that the lesliefl ol "an entire hemisphere" might he expressed 1 Failure to invite Argentina and Salvador to the eiurent session of toreign ministers at 5372 Total Includes 644 Killed Mi Snribacki On South Tip of Island Wrrstrd From Enemy Thr Ao i rd Prrs PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS Hard fighting United States Marine- who have paid i he Pacific's highest price for 58 hours of battle with 5372 casualties at Iwo wrested 316-foot Mt Surihachi on the south tip of the island from the Japanese Friday The United States flag was raised on the crater's rim at 10:35 a by the 2Sth regiment signalling the end of one phase of the five-day-old struggle From Suribachi whose slopes had been blasted by battleships and bombed by carrier planes the Japanese had raked Marine positions throughout the southern sector with deadly mortar and artillery fire Admiral Chester Nimitz announced the victory in a brief communique soon after one which had reported only minor advances throuch Thursday against fierce opposition The earlier communique covering Marine casualties only through 6 Wednesday disclosed that ()44 Marines had been killed 4168 wounded and 6S0 were missing Since then severe battles have raged In the same 58-hour period a total of 1222 enemy dead were counted invasion of the riiilie war lor a comparative period his o- vo Mi nis American casualties Tarawa previous-i considered the bloodiest ffKht ol the war Marine casuiltie- faff its entire 72 hours -blitlx exceeded SjOOS Hold Tight On Wages FDR Urged Keep 'Little Steel' Plan WLB Groups Say Bv The Associated Press WASHINGTON" Public members of the War Labor Board advised President Roosevelt to hold tight to the Little Steel wage formula so long as civilian goods and serv- Mexico Cit Welles called upon the state de- partment to revise current trends and return to the policies of 1933 through 1943 which "marked a progressive advance toward the consolidation of a practical and workable Inter-American svstem Associated Press Wirephoto AMERICAN MARINES invading the Jap stronghold of Iwo Jima Volcano Islands dig in after taking what was an "impregnable" enemy pillbox (center background) Note Marine in center digging foxhole and the bodies some in open partly covered by sand which were not identified See other picture on Page 8-A German Battle Nlls cloateo over triumph Patton's Men Toll 1150000 'Death March' Brutality Swarm Into ices must be restricted Inasmuch as the President has indicated he will rely- heavily upon the four public members' findings in deciding whether to crack open (the ceiling on base wage increases the report indicated no revision until victory is fully in sight es-j pecially not while hostilities continue in Europe The whole recent trend has been to channel more and more of the nation's capacity into war The public members reported at the President's request on the sta- tus of wages earners in wartime ties were tlowit iroin the west and south before dark but the peak was reached at around noontime when through careful planning and timing explosives cascaded down at an estimated average of ion tons a minute On D-day 13000 sorties were flown but these were spread over a period of 24 hours while in this historic new assault almost the maximum power of all Allied air forces in Europe was concentrated against the enemy wdthin a few hours 30000 FLIERS PARTICIPATE Some 30000 airmen from seven Allied air commands participated in the great obliteration raids the intent of which was to break up the entire network of enemy rail transportation at one blow The "buckshot blitz" an entiro-ly new idea which Allied air ebb fs had mapped and held in rca dines for a break in the weather was spearheaded by more than 1400 Flying Portresses and Liberator- and 800 fighters of the United States Eighth Air Force Two divisions of this gigantic fleet poured into Germany from the north and a third attacked from the south Over the Reich they broke up into wolf packs of up to 100 bombers each and hammered at least freight yards and other rail targets in stann neports (jf japaneSe Sickening 5aar easin Announces Materiel i lowns apuireu In Thret'-Milr Gain 1 HULL RECOMMENDATIONS "If unity is to be restored" he said "these mistakes must be understood and the need for rectification admitted" Specifically Welles recommended that: 1 The "so-called 'intermediate' and mailer' countries be given the fullest opportunity of sharing ni ill othei decisions which must he laid down by the international iirganiitinn" 2 A return 0 the 1933 pledge oi Montevideo through which ministers agreed that "no American nation will undertake to interfere in the internal and external affairs of its neghbors" of Lt Col Fflho))i sk at tlnrr yenrs ok ffuenrUla fighter in tht heart the Jmp-occupied Philippines after the fall of Bataan Ii the first article he told of those gruelling (lays when Losses Also Heavy riiLETIN iti 6 Little Steel formula kcy-of the administration's war- Th StolK time in nra in their Union fox holes held up the Jap arlraiicc into Luzon and of the final xurrendcr Today the story relates hoW the i riinn pha lit Japs In utility 'rented prisoners and prepared tin in for the "Death March" to prison camps and ot hair he csca)id to begin his long and exciting career as a guerrilla chief wage sia luliat ion policy allows tor 15 per cent higher LONDON (iS) The Red ei roil has completely captured I'oiian bj -passed encircled German fortress in northwest Poland Recording lo a Swiss radio report quoted bj The London Dallj Express pay than in January 1941 to communique reported the same type of bitter which has built up the totals Fridav more of fighting casualty GAINS aim: LIGHT By ANDERSON Hi-raid surf Writer The Japs had designated Mariveles field as the marshalling place for the surrender and Fol-som's instructions were to gather his patients and take them there Maj Ramon Navarro of hLs outfit to proceed By Thf Aoriatfd PtM LONDON' Russian troops clamped a siege arc Thursday around Guben key fortress town 51 miles southeast of Berlin as Premier Stelin announced in an order of the day that the Red A 11 i 1 1 i I'OLSOM make up for cost of living increases up to May 1042 The report accepted an earlier finding of the President's cost-of living COmm'ttee that living expenses rose 30 per cent by last December but it made no recommendation that workers be given another 15 per cent wage hike to keep pace Industry members of the board announced their concurrence with the findings Labor members in separate statements dissented The four public members are 'In other words recognie Argentina Pan American conferences of foreign ministers "be transformed into a more cohesive more regular and a more friendly established executive agency of the Americas" so it might well be all (l the Becaritj Council of the Americas" Welles' Miami Beach address was expected to stir comment through Latin America particularly in He detailed IU MJ I mi I I' 1 IL'l 1 CrljM 111 111 i the medical personnel and patients are to walk while he the heart of Germany during the noon hour Eight bombers end 10 fighters were missing from this phase of the operation In addition the RAF and Uniti States lath Air Forces sent out Turn 'I'o Page S-A followed up with three bus loads of stretcher cases "The Mariveles field scene was sickening" he relates "The Japs had set up a portable electric generator and strung lights around the prisoner area they were the first electric lights we seen in months In Chairman William 11 Plavis Vice Argentina and El Salvador and 'Into tin- nclosure bounded by Woman Killed Bv Tornado iiouwu uennam in ine great winter offensive "Complete victory over the Germans now is near" said Stalin In his order of the day commemorating the JTtb anniversary of the Red Army the Soviet leader said the Germans had lost SOtlO(K) killed ami IloOOOO captured between Jan 12 when the Soviet offensive opened and Feb 20 A total 3000 German planes 1800 tanks and Self propelled guns and 12(Mlo tiuns were destroyed or captnred in this same period he said The Red Army "together with! the armies of our Allies is success-fully completing the rout of the German Fascist Army' the Soviet leader declared twinkling lights we Americans anrl Filipinos defeated mutterably tired and dow nheai ted were herded by a mob of chattering grimacing arrogant little pel meted monkeys who represented the Jap victors BULLETIN LONDON 'f The Swi-s radio reported Bariy l'rila that United Stall's Third Army troops fought their way into Baarfci ueck-en Frldaj morning The report was nor confirmed Imniediatclj i Allied sources United PrM Lt Gen George Pat-ton's infantry invaded the rich industrial Saar basin Thursday forcing the Saar river at two points against slight opposition and cap-turing is new towns in maximum three-mile gains along a 50-mile front Warm (Irving weather in the northern Rhineland aided the Canadian First Army's drive for the Ruhr by hardening roads between the Maas (Meuse) and the Rhine All Germans rvcept occasional snipers were driven from Gocb and thr Canadians were closing in on Cilear still in flames from Hi air attacks Wednesday Swiss reports said the French First Armv was battering German defeases across the Rhine with powerful and sustained artillery fire and that an invasion of Ger-manv from Al-ace appeared imminent DRIVE ACROSS RIVEB Patton's infantry swarmed across the Saar river in assault boats under cover of fog at points two and one-half miles and five miles south of Saarburg His tank forces swept ahead two miles to reach the Saar- Mneiie river junction opposite the rail tow of Koliz Patton's offensive swept up foo prisoners Wednesday for a total of 2600 in the first 48 hours of his three-day-old Moselle i alone Within the past 24 hours the Third Army has captured 1025 prisoners along its entire aO-mile front for a 22-day total of 13000 In addition to capturing Saar burg Patton's armor took the low lis ot Kahreii Nittel Manne-bach and Tawern in its drive toward Konz It reported gains Thursday afternoon too slight to affect the virtual stalemate which developed Wednesday The three Marine divisions the Third Fourth and Fifth inched forward silghtlv on the north toward the enemy fighter base in the center of the island and constricted their lines around Mt Suribachi on the south tip The Japanese launched two powerful counterattacks on the flanks of the lories attacking the airfield Significantly mill did not specifically claim either had been COIlipletel) blunted Nimitz said that artillery and the supporting guns of United States Fifth Fleet warships "appeared to have repulsed the assault on the left" He added however: "No reports were available on the action on the right" RAINS BAMPBM W6MMNC On the extreme south tip of the island other Marines surrounded Mt Suribachi "and strong patrols were moving up the cliffs under attack bv the enemy who was using hand grenades and demo! tion charges" the communique said Chairman George Taylor who wrote the "Little Steel formula" two and one-half years ago Frank PGraham president of North Carolina university and Lloyd Garrison dean of the Wisconsin university law school The report four months in the making was submitted on the eve of John Lewis' threat to the formula in negotiations between his United Mine Workers and the bituminous coal operators scheduled to begin March 1 Both the AFL and the CIO have demanded Little Steel revision The public members told the President they "do not recommend Turn To Page 8-A countries that have been attempting to lay the groundwork for their recognition On the other hand it was expected to produce adverse criticism in some countries that are seeking a formula for refusing to recognize countries with tinges of fascism or those that have unconstitutional governments "We must frankly admit" Welles charged "that when the time came to consider the plans for international organization and to consider the terms of peace the department of state at Washington repeatedly blocked every effort on the part of the other American republics to resort to the process of consultation ATLANTA Ga (UP) One person was killed and several houses and a church were destroyed when a tornado struck Fairburn Ga early Thursday Mrs Stevens who lived in I een l-'airbm and 1 'nion CM Stripped Itx Japs THERE WAS CHAOTIC eon-fusion There seemed to be no Jap officer in charge We were kicked shoved bayoneted into impromptu Ir Jan non-coms who triooed Nazis Stiffen Lines In Italy ROM (UP) Press i ng or wa rd against growing German opposition Fifth Army forces consolidated their newly-wo i positions around Mt Belvedere and noarb ML Gorgolesco in the Etruscan Apennines Allied headquarters announced Thursday as other units gained over half a mile in a fresh breakthrough just east of Mt Belvedere With protective fleets of planet over the attack area American Doughboys began their push Wednesday and added the Mazzan' cana hill and three unidentified heights to Allied-held terrain Small-scale counterattacks were re pulsed northwest of Mt Belvedere died after being bit by falling hut the barest essentials when her home was of clothing I parted with my watch and shoes timbers leveled hope vision I "None of the other American Editors Flan "The Jap soldiers were absolutely beside themselves with triumph and they expressed their feeling In their own inimitable brutal fashion Any prisoner who failed to understand an order given in Japanese was bayoneted or mashed with a rifle butt abacs were afforded an oppor-kr expressing an opinion Vigil To Russia STRONGHOLD 1 ALLS As Stalin issued his order Soviet troops in a six-mile advance had fought their way to a point 34 miles south of Danzig and also had toppled Zinten one of the last big Nazi strongholds in East Prussia Threatening to turn the German capital's eastern defenses Marshal Ivan Konev's Firrt Ukraine Army captured oO localities smith of Guben and reached the Neisse river at various new points on a 25-mile front Schcnkcndorf Iwo miles south of Ouben was anions the points taken and Berlin said the Russians already were assaulting Guben Heavy rains hampered the fight- The storm skipped over Fair-burn's business section but a school building and the Fairburn Ice and Coal co plant were damaged slightly All power and communications lines were blown down but electric and telephone service into Fairburn had been restored Ly noon At Kellyton Ala 16 houses were reported severely damaged by high winds No deaths or in-j les were reported in: rlier ac iniiii ted the Fifth iiin ks Japanese planes now ledged to ha ve some damage units licet continued tin i Thurnda) ISTANBUL Representatives of the American Society of Newspaper Editors revealed Thursday that they plan to carry their campaign for world-wide freedom of the press Into Russia and the Bbtrated lalkan states Ralph MCOlll Of the Atlanta Constitution and Wilbur Forrest of the New York Herald Tribune said they hoped to visit Russia and the Balkans jf passport visas can he obtained in a reasonably short time New Allies Hinted Miami Sea Captain Feared Drowned BOSTON iP) Boston harbor waters were searched Thursday for merchant Capt George Fiizell 58 of Miami Fla believed drowned as he boarded his vessel Wednes-iav morning Police are working on the theory that Capt Frteel fell from gan way accidentally as he boarded the vessel "The confusion was so (treat there were so many of us and we were so exhausted thai it was difficult to see all of (he incidents "I think the most damnable thing I saw was a non-com Jap walk up ti dignified Gen King rip his stars from his shoulders and deliberately urinate on his feet "However in one of the few acts of military courtesy and decency I saw Jap officers perform that night a Jap lieutenant drew his sword and lopped the insulting sol-dier's head off "As 1 stood with my patients Turn To I'aue H- Reports that could The Russians were within 10 miles of Danzig territory and withm i miles of the former Free City with the capture the Polish 'corridor" village of Gogolewo Mae irlliur's Trtmps Invade Capul Island MANILA tPi Tenth corps units of the new American Eighth Army have landed again-f light opposition on Capul Island in the San Bernardino Straits between Turn To Page A not be confirmed here said Thursday night that most of the Middle Fast would be at war with Germain- ami Janan in line the week concerning the Dumbarton Oaks proposals until they had been made public to the world "It is no secret that the result of this policy on our part has been a very bitter wave of indignation throughout the new world" Welles said he saw hope in the fact that the American republics had been invited to the April 25 conference of the United Nations at San Francisco He paid tribute in his address to the "constructive achievements which the Pan American League has been accomplishing under the able leadership of Mrs Clark Stearns and her associates" He said it was "singularly fitting that the headquarters of the League should be established in Miami" Mrs Stearns was presented with a plaque by the league's board of directors commemorating the 15th anniversary of the organization Other speakers at the dinner were Charles Spruks representing the state department: Col Ernest Hall United States Army Intelligence and Dr Gabriel Saravia consul general from Colombia ill and Forrest along with Dean Carl Ackerman of Columbia Tin Russians acknowledged that end Usually reliable informants university have heon touring Europe and the Middle East as a three-man freedom of the press committee for the ASVE German counterattacks on Sam-I heard that Turkey Syria Lena-land peninsula west of Koenigs- non Saudi Arabia Transjordania berg had pressed back Soviet and Yemen would formally declare troops i war on the two Axis nations (Miami area directories do not list Capt Fiizell i Baby-Killing Dog Granted Reprieve LOS AM I ELKS (I'l'l Woof Thursday night won an llth-bour reprieve from execution for killing his 21-month-old mistress Mar guerite Derdenger The l-voar-old Staffordshire terrier was slated to die in the ga chamber of the am mat shelter Friday for her attack on the small child Feb II Sii( i ior lodge Willi on Mi Kav signed a show cause order at his home to delay action on the case until hearings March 31) at tin request of Cafe Owner Grady Terry self-termed "friend of all LIAir SHOUTS PRECffjTAjnE I ISI I i I Tivo Members Exchange Punches On House Floor VETERA5 Japs Report 3 1 IK I Superfortresses WASHINGTON (UP I Tokyo radio reported Thursday that Ma rianas-based Superfortresses were over Japan three times before noon and an American war fleet of approximately eight ships shelled Paramushiro in the Northern Kurile Islands Monday night The broadcast recorded by FCC said two Superforts from China bad Jlown over Korea Thursday coming in from the direction of Manchuria and crossed Keijo the capital GUIDE here To Find It Herald I 1 phone 3-4411 dogs" The order cited Mrs Drueilla Derdenger mother ol little Marguerite to show cause win a com plaint should not he issued for vio lation of a penal code section pertaining to the killing of animals Democrats spoke of introducing a resolution to expel Hook when the house meets Friday "If they do there might he an-other resolution too" remarked Hook his thoughts still obviously aimed at Rankin "If John Rankin would resign his seat I'd be more than happy to go with him for the good of the country" inj and ranting and get down and at least assist the good citizens of the CIO he would probably be doing a service to Ibis country" "Mr Rankin: Win-never I down to the gentleman's level as it is reflected down here by this FEPC and Communist party that he has been mixed up with "Mr Hook: You are a liar when you say Communist party That did it Rankin ripped O'lt of his seal Shouting "I won't lake those words" hurried down the aisle and tore al Hook flailing his arms as he advanced The MTMAJOR THOMAS NIAl ij Halt JnflNKk- 1 Efl War In Brief By The Associated Press YV A 1 1 I Shouts of "Communist" anrl "Liar" exploded into a fist fight between two Democratic congressmen on the flom of the house of representatives Thursday The contestants: Small white-thatched John Rankin of Mississippi ho shouted "Communist" and strapping Frank Hook New Dealer from Michigan who retorted "Liar" (The official reporter got Hook's remark as liar" but in the press gallery above the fight most reporters heard it as "dirty liar" In any event (he ugly word was stricken from the record) Tin-re wasn't one good solid MOW landed hut Rankin managed to gel in several short jabs Churchill Approve! LONDON tPi Amid sugges RANKIN HOOK confusion of angry words hefore Rankin the aisle lo Amuse 2-B Lowman 13-A Bell 1-B M'y-Go-R'd 6-A Bryne 13-A Obituaries 10-A Burns 4-B Parsons 2-B Citv Life 4-A Pennekamp 6-A Classified 5-10-B Pyle 11-A Comics 11-B Radio 7-B Crossword 11-B Roman 4-B Editorial 6-A Roosevelt 12-A Enright 6-A Runyon 6-A Fidler 2-B Serv Parade 3-A Food Tips 13-A Sports 4-5-B Fredericks 2-B Stokes 6-A Horoscope 11-B Weather 5-A Horse Sen 11-B Winchell 3-B Kofoed 11-A Women 12-13-A There was a shouts and short between the two plu nged dow at Hook' flushed face hefore IMS ualtiet mount lima Hundreds battle for com- Manila Page I than 7000 ai Feh 22 Marine in bat le for Iwo of laps slam plete control nt AIR More lied members separated tions that the government set up a special agency to make migration lib the Dominions easier after the war Prime Minister Churchill nodded approval in the house of! commons Thursday to an assertion 'that the country had better first other sta them grapple with Hook iiiii these are the word-- that led up lo Hie battle as the official reporters for The Congressional Record heard (hem: for As soon as the fight was over talking about disciplinary action started Although leaders hurried the house into adjournment to ward off a further flareup some) consider what to do about Us own declining birthrate clinched and heaved around Turn To Page H-A 1 1 a is rav- "Mr Hook: If th from Mississippi will quit Nick and Nora trail lied planes batter German rail lines in greatest aerial assault ever delivered Page 1 franof Patton Infantry Invades rich industrial Saar area at two points with slight opposition Page 1 Slit rl i tir INrxl Moiida In The MIAMI HERALD Gamhitta the Shoe Dr Remodels Shoes loosens instep takes in heel Repairs golf bags luggage renews hats 221 2nd Adv -Cold symptoms headache pain take as directed Sal Fayne 25c at "Music Miami can be proud of That's Melody Lane with Ellen Beda violinist to 6:00 Monday tin Frldaj Packard-Miami Co buys Usedj Cars all makes all models 1700 2nd Ave Phone Ad Visitors buy a car from Evans Motors on leaving sell it back cost very little Adv a killer! 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