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C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 20, 1945 associated press features nea features PRICE HVE CENTS Tank MMks Shorn 7 th ftrmy Back Five Mes acmni FINAL rfaUiftaBaUMMaateMMaiiiM A TH TT5) .11 Tftn I T7TTI A Kem iijanag; penim jl-j MHies Away ROOSEVELT SEES INAUGURAL MEDAL BERLIN JIEPORTS RUSSIANS IN SILESIA I a May Seal Off East Prussia. Strasbourg Goal Of Heavy Punches Doughboys Driven Back to Weyersheim, I K0rftrtiLm for yiii.i Battle 10,000 Nazis in Rhine Corridor; British Cross Maas Unopposed, Seize Vil 1 Rolling Tide of 3,00 0,000 Russians Pulverizes 'German Defenses on 800-Mile Front; Stabbing In to Reich at Several Places lages in Roer Area BY JAMES M. LONG Paris.

Jan. 20. (AP) Three powerful German attacks have driven V. Seventh Army troops back five miles to Weyersheim, 8 1-2 miles north of Nazi- MieQ POLAND GERMANY qJ (f'jT i IdtCHOSlOl aki, V' menaced Strasixwrg. The Germans, reinforced with tanks, charged with the fly The Associated Press Jomlon, Jan.

-0. I ht- ttussuins, driving to ut off Ka-a i'rpssia, havt- pt-npiiaUd within C2 miles of the Gulf of Danzig in the junkers plovincc and have smashed to witluii 21-1 miles of tierlin in th" the German communique tiM-lusttl Uidity. The Germans told of. fierce battling against a rolling lied army tide of men everywhere along a blazing tiUO-mtie irunt as Mom-ow bioadcasts indicated a iresh seric of victory announcements mignt be loithwming tonight center of their newly-consolidated cross-Khine bridgehead northeast of Strasbourc. The fate of the Alsstlaa capital was apparently at stake as doughboya battled the furious Canadians Go own me isremnn.

AWOLBefore Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Armv reached me area or iepno (Kt'murr) in a U-mlle advance from Embarkation vieiun northwest of captured Krakow. German home guard battalions, the olkssturm. were battling to stop th Arrows on this map sltow the cjmw of Russian army drives In Tnland. The broken line Is the batUefront as described Friday by Moscow. Berlin says the Russian have swept across bordm of Upper 8ileals and Krakow.

North of Warsaw, they were puiih. Ing toward East Prussia. The shaded areas represent the Oerman frontier, AP Wlephoto Map). 1 fcinasn along the upper hilesian border, llerlin said. Kepno punches, powered by up to 1 0.000 enemy troops.

The Germans hold a solid corridor on the Rhine's west bsnk to within seven miles of Strasbourg, and are 10 miles from the city on the south. It was evident that the Germans had swung considerable armored reinforcements Into striking positions on this new battle-front. Foe Rolled Bark on Itoer At the northern end of the western front. British assault troops is omy nine miles nxn tne frontier and 18 miles northeast of IJreslau. the chief industrial center of German Silesia.

Only 704 miles lie between Kempno and llerlin. Ottawa. Jan. 20 Half of a 'group of 15.400 Canadian bora soldiers drafted for ses service went sbsent without leave before embarkation. an1 JO itlll are at large.

Deftns A. 0. McNaughtoa discloaed today. Borne 1.500 of three 7.800 re- Cross Into East PruKsia Northwest of Warsaw' Marshal Konstantin ftokossov. Yanks Win Tank Fight II Kky'g Second White Russian Army reached or crossed the southwestern border of Kast Prussia on a 35-mile front anl crossed the Maas (Mease) river On Luzon Left Flank In Holland below Roermnnd un stabbed to Gilgenburg, (52 mllejj from the Gulf of Danzig.

Gilgenburg Is only five miles from Tannenburg, where Pnidrnt Ruostvelt lcoks at' iinugtira'l medal. if sued to rotriw morale his fourth InauiursMcn, in the hands of Sculptor Jo Davidson fright, in the White Looking pn are members or tho Medal Committee. Mclvin D. Hildreth (left) and Alfoiu Wlrephotoi. i opposed last night, expanding the Second Army'a push which is roll-las: Germans bark on the Roer river line, it miles west of Dun- BY MPKMtTCR DAVIN General MarArthur's Headquarters, Lnton.

Jan. 20. fJP Lt a turned voluntarily or vera appre beaded, he added, and about COO tailed for Britain along with- lite other who did not take unamhor-' tied leaves. lie aakl thia total of 1.300 con-scripted' men sent, overseas was accompanied by full normal auota of reinforcement" ore- the memorial to Von Ilindenburg victory of the Masurian lakes In the First World War was erected. The Raglans also reached Neidenburg, eight miles in-ide East Prussia, and Chorzelle on the East, Prussia the Germans announced.

Gen. Krueger is Important -battle of the 'left FDR Pledges TO Work aeldorf. Other British Second Army salts fought 1 1-1 miles deeper today Into Germany's western, pan flank. Hla Sixth Army Is smashing Japanese tanks, silencing artillery concealed In caves and going after enemy soldiers In 10-foot-deep holes with flsmethrowers. It Is the first real fight since the Yanks landed at Llngayen gulf Jan.

9. Mew Hreaks la Outer In the center of the blazing front Marshal Gregory K. mimably wen who had volunteered For A Durable Peace seizing Breberen, eight tor scrvire abroad. I The MOO still absent will be koVs First White Russian Army was pouring toward the Polish Oerman news agency, declared that the present Russian winter offensive "will deride the fate of Germany It has outreuchud anything hitherto known." There was no indication that the Germans would be able to sal voire their disintegrating forces for a stand anywhere short of the homeland. Twenty Japanese tanks have been knocked ont and (00 Nippon corridos 4wtween the Vistula and WaKhington.

Jan. 20. (At) Franklin U. Roosevelt began his fourth presidi'ntlal term today Kith a pledger that "We sball work for a Just and durable peace as today we work and fight for a total Warta (Wart he) In new breakthroughs and tbe Germans said fighting was raging against the onrushlng line of Red army tanks. The Russlaoa had reached the I vi.

tory in war." 3 miles from the Roer river. A half-mile adranee above Hongen overran the village of Saeffelcn, late- front dispatches said. Nazis Crows Zorn fan I The Oerman push above Strasbourg carried over the Zorn canal, which links with the Zorn river. A Germ: Bridgehead on the Zorn river was wiped out earlier by counter-attacking Americans. The first Qerman attack led by 10 tanks, opened late yesterday.

classed as deserters If they do aot return within II days. Gen. McNaughtoa said the troop movement began Christmas week, but the majority of men have not been glassed aa deserters yet. be add- d. i Army authorities anticipated lata arrivals and absentees, the announcement and moved enough troops to porta to "en i We ran and we will achieve Inauguration such a Roosevelt said after taking the oath lu an unprec- ese killed some of them 23rd Division troops from Manrhurla In a three-day period along the left flank.

That Hank Juts into the hilly, eastern aide of Pangaslnan province. Th broader It gets the more effectively It isolates Japanese forces on the north around Bag-ulo, Philippines summer capital, from other enemy forces on the south defending Manila. Significantly, since the fight edontet rermnony on the south area of Plock, Vistula river fortress 125 miles from Pomernla. The Russians were 538 miles from Berlin In this esctar. Moscow announced officially More Towns Fall To Reds In Slovakia London, Jan.

20 (V Marshal I'etrov's Russians in the' Polish Carpsthians have captured Nowy Sac. 10 miles from the old Cse-choslovak border, and Presov In Slovakia, Premie- Stalin announced in an order of the day. Kaasa also was captured by Pc-trov In his five-day-old offensive. sure embarkation of the full com plement of reinforcements." but waa stopped old with sli tanks knocked out. In the deepening dusk, the enemy lashed out twice more with stronger attacks Simple But Impressive 0 Douglas B.

forarll Washington. Jan. 20 President Hoosrvelt ixKn another four years In the -White House today ard, In a sternly simple dedicated the nation In sluKhinK to the Sllcslan frontier, Soviet troops severed th railway linking the Baltic port of Dunzlg with the German industrial area, and seized other towns from nine to four miles from the border on a 2S-mlle front between Wlelun and Ostrowy. nine miles southwest of fallen Cxexto-' chowa. The Russians also mounted their Ihreut to overrun Silesia from a 5 front southeast of Ostrowy to Krzesr.owlce, a town It miles northwest of fallen Kra-Itow.

portico of tlm White House, Before lit tn iho, smallest iuaugural crowd years had scuffed a light snow off the White House lawn. About htm on the portico were gathered thV' government's top leadc including the" new vice priwiJeiit. Hairy Truman of Missouri, Text of Inaugural Address The text of DroUahlr the short- led by 17 to 18 tanks. The ar mored and Infantry thrust five ing flsred up on the left flank, there has been scarcely any official word of a further push in strength southward by Yank col miles to the outskirts of Weyer last night that Marshal Ivan S. Konev's troops captured t'je town of Prssftka, on the Industrial-rich Slleslan frontier, cliinaxlug a day of unprecedented developments that saw the fall of Lod.

Po'and's second city, and Krakow, capital. The RussIpus scored their great-eat gains of the war with the capture of 2, towns and villages. shelm. The battle continued to day. Yanks Gala at HI.

Vltli Just below the British opera Forts, Mustangs Pound Nazi Rails London. Jan. 20. More than 750 D. a Flying Fortresses with 600 Mustang escorts hammered rail networks and Shine bridges supplying the Oerman forces in Alsace today after a one-day lapse In heavy bomber air assaults.

The targets were freight yards at Hcilbronn. north of 8tuttgart, and at -fthelne, north of Munster. and a highway-rail bridge at Mannheim. to achieving "total victory in jest Inaugural address in history: anil "a durable peace." I Mr. Chief Justice.

Mr. li'A)ulrlrtiil i fl rt 1 "r- Capture of Presov and Kassa on the railway from Tarnow, Poland, to Hungary, meant the Germans had withdrawn from the eastern fl.th of the tip Slo Hons, U. 8. First and, Third Army troops drove In upon St. Vlth, iuiiint ca nni You will understand and.

I be Hungarians Sign try white and under leaden skies, highway stronghold In. the dlroln Ishing Belgian bulge, and ad vane ll Mere, agree with my wish that Mr. Roosevelt solemnly umns last reported approaching Tarlac. 66 airline miles from Manila. Many Small.

B'tter Clatliea The battle o' the left flank Is not continuous engagement of massed forces but rather a scattered scries of small-scale, bitter clashes. The Americans are Unking up a solid line along the Ms-blla-Baguio road In a 30-nlle stretch from near Rosirl6 r.i'the north to the Agno river on the his hand ed norjh of captured Dleklrrh. 80 th); form of this inauguration be simple and Its wo 'ds hi let. Bible and reneateil after Chief i miles to the south In Luxembourg, vakia. These Russian vanguaids were 12S miles from the border of Moravia, thf Cfoch Fall of Nowy Sacs represented an 18-mile westward advance In a day from Gorllce, Poland, to the Dnnajec river.

Justice Stone the with that made We A merles ns of today, togeth- him America's first fourth-term our Allies are pacing PteKii'en'. through a peiiud ot supreme test. British assault troops crossing theMaas by boat selted Stevens-weert opposition. The ripping through collapsing Get' man lines from the Baltl to Budapest. tn rapid-fire order of the day Marshal Stalin disclosed that the Third White Russian Army opened a new offensive In East Prussia with a 27-mlle brak-through In five days, while s'lll another Russian army plunged ahead GO miles in the Carpathian region in southern Poland.

To Decide Gerniaay's Fate Early today DXB. the official MT SOLE! HOW SHARP It Is a test cf our courage of our crossing added about two miles Peace With Allies LoiiCjn, Jan. 20, tJP Soviet the United fltates ivid Britain have signed an armu.cice with Hungary's provisional government, the Moscow radio announced today. Moscow said the terms would published later. The Hungarlar regime is headed by Col.

Oen Be Is Mlklos. and is seated at Debrecen in Russian-won territory. The precedent-making oalli was i I resolve--of our wisdom of our to the seven-mile assault arc of administered in what the Presi I Farts, Jan. As Mrs. PrarJtf Davis was talking to a gro--rrerv clerk, a nendl behind his ear white camouflaged tanks and troops bulging Into German lines within eight-to 10 miles of the essential dency.

If we meel that testsuccessfully and honorably we shall perform a service of hlntorlc Import-: a nee which men am women and. children will honor throughout south near Villasis. From the north to south In that area, today's communique and Associated Press field' dispatches reported: The Japanese threw night counter-attacks at Yanks In the out dent termed "a period of supreme test." He sale'- "If we meet thnt test successfully and honorably we perform soi vice of importance which men and fell In such a way that it pierced the rhoe leather and imbedded itself In her foot Roer -river. Page 3 Column 7 all time. women and children ill honor Electoral College Gives As stand here today, having I skirts of Rosarlo after a push east from coastal Da mortis.

Tho Nipponese were repulsed but ar Realism Needed As Big 3 Taclde Europe's Problems J' taken -the solemn oath of offi throughout all tfme." Park lull of Spectators in the presence, of. my fdllpw roun- OutDipl Condition Worsens Of 'Dead End Kid' III In Columbia Columbia. Jan. CP) The condition of Pobby Jordan, 28. or Heck ley.

W. one of filmland's "Dead End Kids," worsened todciy at Columbia hospital where he has been under treatment for. pneumonia. Jordan's attending physician said pneumonia hud developed In both lungs and that the young man's temperature had risen to omas the south iioitlro of the Pn 6 rnliimn 4 tillery duels are continuing. Four miles southeast.

Yank White. House, which be himself columns moving north on the selected for ihe scene of the fonvoVc Pacific third wartime inauguration in VUllvuja -II uia i i By Oewitt MacKeasie A' sedated Frew War Analyst Manila-Bagulo highway which history, the President surveyed a AlCrtCu AfairtSt leads In behind Rosario captured Bison. By Tom Kredy Washington, Jan. 20. Tho electoral college gave out the diplomas last alght.

No "college" ever had the Illustrious audience for Its com Interest after the war." and that President Roosevelt had been kept 'constantly Informed." Britain, he said, has one principle about the liberated or repentent satellite countries. That Is "govern You've got to have a lot of faith, hope and' charity that nusneii pars inn or speciaiors. Roving Jap Subs Lawrence of the Metropolitan Opera company sang. Bob Hope quipped. Edward G.

Robinson couldn't find a seat. Chairman onnally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee spoke of the war and peace proh- standing In slush and snow. Further southeast down the there can be anything like a whole wle application of the principles cf the Atlantic Charter to Europe, vbich' already Is, rapidly slipping ment of the people, by the people. lems ahead. The President him Around him were members of Ban, Francisco, Jan.

20.... --r his family, high dignitaries of Tacit camliit.ion IJiat convoys sail-government. ns vf Pacific ccast ports havo "In the days and in the years alerted sgainst roving Japan-that are to come." he declared in I nubmarcs came today after history's briefest inaugural ad- the Navy disclosed the loss of the dress 551 words "we shall work liberty fchip. John A Johiwon nd highway past Posorrublo, where one stiff engagement of the left flank battle was fought, the Japanese tried an ambush at Bins-Page 3 Column 3 106 degrees. He has been treated since Wednesday when he collapsed shortly before scheduled to go on the.

stage for a personal appearance performance. for the peopte." The world at large accepts Mr. Churchill's as sincere. back -into Its naughty poUttcat ha self sent a message in which he ald It was a fine thing that the bits of pre-war daya. 4i rhdt presumably Is -one of the delicate problems which will come It notes also that not only he but nation can have elections, and such things as electors.

In tho Marshal Stalin has subscribed to the mencement day as this one, though. Fifteen hundred people Jammed the grand ballroom of the Mayflower hotel, sipped champagne and nibble at lobster thermldor to keep alive once' more' the Illusion that presidential electors cast the vote for the chief executive and the vice president. 'Even a lot of the Republican electors- tor Dewey were there. tenents of the Atlantic Charter before Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill middle of a global war.

Hemo-ratle National Chairman Robert and.fitaOn at their forthooming which. signed or unsigned, still Nip Counter-Attack Repulsed In Burma Southeast Asia Command Head ten if its crtw In a torpedoing and iifebont strafhig attack. The Kinking and machine-gun struck came last November bctircn the mainland and Honolulu, about 400 miles of Hawaii, Of the ten American seamen for a Just aud durable peace as tpday we work and fight for total victory in war. "We can and we will achieve, such a peace." Glitter or Fanfare Not since Lincoln's day had K. tlanneran, was equally grave.

Wallace KleaU the Know Sumter Woman Is Suicide At Police Headquarters, Sumter. Jail. 30 Mrs, Margie Rodrtque of Sumter and Bt. Paul, who was. fatally wounded at police headquarters here Thursday Zones of Inflweno Already Feraalng However, without Impugning the It remained for Henry Wallace quarters.

Randy, Ceylon. Jan. 20 to touch off tba eiwborance that rfeetlng. If the problem la solved It certainly will require a lot of what euphemistically call ''realism." i Churebm Baeaks Blaatly prime Minister Churchill Thursday' nailed-, his position to mast In a fighting speech which was cne of the most forceful of his bril personal motives of any of Europe Big Shot naewta, Hlngrrs, Speakers prevailed then for the rest of the (T) The first Japanese counter-attack in Burma in weeks was repuls leading statesmen, the cold fact la Did this town think It waa-im- ed by Indian troops holding a that circumstances are forcing the bridgehead on the east bank of the arjht, killed herself, ra corortert breaking, up of the continent Into rpbercs of Influence. 1 Jury ruled yesterday.

i Irra waddy river, near Slngu, td Washington seen a wartime inauguration. Gone were the glitter and fanfare, and. keying the event to the times, spectators were lluif.cd to five or six thousand guests, mostly government officials or Democratic party executives. They were packed onto the: killed meat cf them died under lravs cf bu'lt Ilrcd. survivors said, by frenzied Japanese who df need on the submarine's deck, shouting baneals and cursing the -Yankee The survivors told how' they spent two terrifying hours submerging themselves and hiding behind wreckage to kep out of the rine Police OJef W.

C. Klrven said Call It power politics If you want miles above Mandalay, tt was an nounced today. He got up to eay how he wasn't going to be vice president anymore and be hoped Truman would have as much fun as he did. The crowd liked it so much everybody stood up and cheered. Then Henry stopped the show by Inadvertently calling It the "electrical college." Page Column to.

And when sonea of Influence art portaat? Guests included General of the Array George C. Marshall; of the Fleet Ernest J. King, Mrs. Roosevelt, tba Supreme Court Justices, tho cabinet, retiring Vice President Henry Wallace, and so on ad Infinitum. laming Hatfield, and Marjorie Mrs.

Rodrtque shot herself with a pistol she took from an officr The Allied east bank bridgehead established, then the small countries within those nones lose soma or all liant career. He told the world bluntly that he and Stalin had agreed on a Joint policy for the Balkana to prevent future wars. He declared, that "this evreement raised no question of dl felons of territory or spheres of coat lying on a table In the room poses a strategic threat to Japan eae 'communications at Ithlo and of their independence. spacious south i where she waa being questioned tn connection wiht an Investigation. Page Column 7 southeastward Into Thailand.

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