The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

I TH TATESMAN 81st Year 9 161st Issue ESTABLISHED 1864 Boise Idaho Tuesday Morning January 2 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS Price Five Cents Ceremonies Usher in Officials Aerial Blows Cost Nazis Total of 241 Aircraft anks Raid Manila Iwo France Signs United Nation Declaration WASHINGTON France became the 36th member of the United Nations Monday in a colorful ceremony at which the wartime coalition against the Axis was hailed as foundation of peace French Ambassador Henri Bonnet signing the United Nation declaration on its third anniversary pledged his whole-hearted cooperation in the creation of a world security system because France knows from experience that now on war once begun will spread over the entire Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr introduced Bonnett to assembled representatives of all the United Nations with a reminder that although France is the 36th signatory whole world knows that the people of France have in spirit and in fact been associated with Gossclt Eiglit Others Take Oath in Capital By JOHN' CORLETT United Press Correspondent Charles Gossett Nampa! farmer Monday became nineteenth governor its eighth Democrat chief executive He was inaugurated at high noon by taking an oath from Chief Justice James Ailshie Five additional new state! officials all Democrats a new justice of the state supreme court and two re-elected officials also were sworn in The two old hands are State Mines Inspector Arthur Campbell Democrat who began his sixth successive term and Edwin Holden of Boise re-elected supreme court justice who switched the chief justice mantle with Ail- shie earlier Monday Lt Gov Arnold Williams was to be sworn in Monday at the courthouse in his home town of Rex-burg by Justice of Peace Maryj Smith He decided on taking the oath there at request of his friends and townspeople He will serve as president of the senate the next two months Cannon Salute Missing The ceremony lacked the lm-1 pressiveness of those years when I it was combined with a joint ses- sion of the legislature though Gossett was accorded the honor of a roll and flourish of drums and cornets (For the second straight wartime inauguration the customary 19-gun salute for a new governor was lacking The military department was unable to secure the proper blank ammunition for its cannon) The elective officials and their sponsors gathered in the supreme court room located on the third floor of the statehouse at 11:45 a rti A few minutes before noon Aiishie and Justices Raymond Givens and Alfred Budge Sr took their seats on the bench The soon-to-be new officers lined up in front of the bench The chief justice at high noon said the time for inauguration had arrived In a brief statement Ailshie told the new officers that public office is a public Brig Gen McConnel Ida Third Army Advances Against Foe SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Paris UP) The Germans gambled men and machines in combined air and land thrusts at the Allies on New day counter-attacking against the Third and Seventh armies and attempting their greatest aerial offensive operation in three years It was a gamble for which the Nazis paid a staggering cost They sent out more than 300 planes in surprise attacks on airfields over a wide area behind the battle zones in a desperate effort' to shrink Allied air superiority The Germans lost at least 208 in these fierce actions and a total of at least 241 Damage Unreported What damage the enemy did to the airfields was not disclosed Allied air losses during the day were 25 planes not counting American heavy bombers which pounded oil and rail targets Their figures were not announced On land the Germans made a series of five attacks against the northern flank of the Seventh army and punched at the Third hold on the Bastogne corridor German forces gained some ground in a wooded region south of Bannstein five miles southeast of Bitche but were held or thrown back at other points along the Seventh army front Front dispatches said the assaults were launched on Sunday and were mostly in small strength Patton Advances These enemy blows came as Information on the fighting against the bulge into Belgium still subject to 24 hours or more delay for security reasons told of gains up to six miles by Lt Gen George Third army at the southwestern comer of the German salient In fierce armored battles on both sides of the Bastogne corridor the Third army destroyed or damaged 94 German tanks and smashed a counter-attack launched at the corridor from the east In the same area fighter bombers of the Ninth air force disabled 123 tanks and motor vehicles Britain Will Delay Action Commentator Says Lublin Recognition Not Now Planned Fleet Reports On Progress During 1944 By Associated Press Widespread aerial smashes against the Japanese in I the Philippines and throughout the Central Pacific were reported by American commanders late Monday as fleet 1 headquarters at Pearl Har-borf reviewing great Yank I victories of 1944 warned I that the' road to Tokyo will Ibe and At Pearl Harbor Adm Chester Nimitz touched on a previously averted subject responding to a question at a- press conference Monday by saying he would welcome Russian participation in the Pacific war our Deepest Strike Gen Douglas MacArthur reporting from his headquarters in the Philippines said American landbased planes made their deepest strike into that archipelago as they blasted Japanese shipping in Lingayen gulf about 150 miles northwest of Manila last Saturday Sunk or probably sunk were two destroyers a destroyer escort three freighter-transports and two cargo ships The Yank airmen hit a Manila airdrome blew up an ammunition train and strafed three others in Batangas area immediately north of American-invaded Mindoro island This might indicate a Japanese move to attack Mindoro from Batangas Airdromes west of Leyte island also were bombed Mopping up on Leyte continued Three of 15 Nippon airmen striking against Yank-held Mindoro Island about 150 miles south of Manila were shot down Iwo Jima Raided Nimitz reported his Central Pa-OGDEN Utah A railroad I cific fliers smashed Iwo Jima in fireman who dodged death which the Volcanos The Japanese have took his engineer may supply some I been mounting air raids on the explanation of why one Southern Saipan B-29 base from Iwo The Pacific train crashed into another island has been attacked daily for in one of the most terrible 24 days in a row rail disasters 48 killed 81 hurt The admiral also listed air raids I The second section of the west-1 the Palaus the Western Caro-the bound Pacific limited loaded with lines the Marianas and the Marsn-ferred express and mail drilled at high alls speed Sunday into the rear of the slowly-moving first section a pas- £ld sci lea senger train on a causeway cross- that car- ahanow 0t Great Salt Sed Amerfca into the LakC' Philippines and the Marianas and Engineer James McDonald 64 brought Tokyo and other Japanese of 0den died at his throttle as industrial centers under the bomb the ponderous locomotive ripped I sights of Superfortresses hntb a tail-end sleeper but the fireman Hardman of Ogden tttt Americans Win -j- ath7Si0r Sommocolonia Lgouted to the engineer Ogden 1 UUmillULUIUliia mortician George Darling said Army authorities had requested an I ROME (IP) American Fifth autopsy on body to de- vmy forces have surged forward termine the cause of the ln a miie and a half advance north of-1 death' of Bara to seLze Sommocolonia Twenty-eight of the dead and 40 A 1 lie headquarters announced injured were military per- Monday sonnel I advance coupled with those High as the death toll was offi- announced earlier represents a Le-1 cials said it probably would have gain of four miles in two days been worse but for Army and Navy spokesmen pointed out adding that 1 medical corpsmen aboard two ward Allied troops have virtually suc- FBI Arrests Spy Suspects Hoover Says Agents Landed From U-Boat Off Coast of Maine NEW YORK UP) Edgar Hoover director of the Federal ho adjutant general then read the I t-t-pr official certification of the offi-1 cials elected Nov' 7 and they an- men whon? be de- swered thir name railed i scribed as German agents landed from a U-boat on the coast of (Please turn to Page 3 Column 6) Maine on Nov 29 last Hoover said the men one of OPA Chief Sees LONDON A British foreign office commentator said Monday that Britain does not intend to recognize the Lublin provisional government of Poland at this time and expresssed hope that the question would be threshed out at a conference Almost simultaneously a friendly exchange of messages between King George VI of England and President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz of the London Polish government was released officially The foreign office commentator clearly implied hope that Russia would not recognize the Lublin group without consulting Britain and the United States He said that Britain will continue present relations with the London Polish government and has no present intention of sending a representative to Lublin and has no information to indicate that the Russian or American government plans to recognize the Lublin group The Polish national council voted Sunday to transform the Polish National Committee of Liberation into a provisional government and the Polish London government later attacked the action as an attempt against the sovereign rights of the Polish taken at a time when the Polish nation had no way of showing whether it approved Communist Chief Says Coalition Rule Needed Byrnes Urges Drafting Into ar Effort WASHINGTON UP) A plan to force millions of into military or war-supporting tasks was proposed Monday by War Mobilization Director James Byrnes in case present manpower measures prove inadequate Laws to put teeth into War Lab-or board and manpower edicts al- I so were suggested by 'Byrnes in a Lll LI LI massive report to President Roose- velt and congress which he elab- ILJT orated at a news conference ff LLI JLll He predicted increases in draft calls beyond the jump of 20000 men monthly which went into effect Monday to fill gaps in the ranks of the fighting forces and man new Navy ships And in the jarring report on his administration of the office of war mobilization and reconversion Byrnes swept the reconversion phase Into the background and decried last early on peacetime production If recent actions to tighten the war production effort fail Byrnes said he believed congress should clamp controls on those found disqualified for military duty so may render their war service in essential war Byrnes said he referred to 4-F men not now in war work He suggested they be drafted and then either used for limited service in the armed forces or channeled where needed into war industry He declined to give details saying congress should work them out Expanded reconversion activity must wait the report declared victory is within our grasp until our military men tell us they have enough supplies and that we can afford to reduce Increased calls -under the draft may require Byrnes said the reconsideration of standards governing the deferment of farm workers a group said to represent the largest remaining source of young men for military service In a report on government mobilization for war and plans for peacetime reconversion Byrnes praised farmers for stepping up production 21 per cent between 1940 and 1944 an achievement gained without he said a outpouring of additional ATHENS (IP) A delegation of Greek Elas organization con- throughout Monday after- noon with Lt Gen Ronald Scobie British commander in Greece but failed to reach an at reenenev to t0 store conditions to normal British and Greek government troops continued to mop up Elas guerrillas during the day and Ere SKSSTitf ohn Nixon rented that most of Ath- new government todaV Tdeeranh re ported toSt Elas leadlrs lid fered to cease ffre as soln baSic political questions were settled in order that negotiations might be- gin) Greek War Undersecretary onidas Spahis was called into the conference between Scobie and By Associated Press Traffic accidents led as the cause of holiday deaths as ties in the observance of the three-day new year week end reached 219 Monday night The death toll was swelled by the Sunday morning wreck near Ogden Utah of two Southern whom he said was an American citizen were landed from the submarine in a rubber boat near Hancock Point at Bay Maine and then came to New York City after stopping briefly in Boston Hoover identified the men as William Curtis 26 a native of Niantic Conn who he said was a former student at the WASHINGTON House Re-1 Massachusetts Institute of Tech-publican Leader Joe Martin ofpology and Erich Gimpel 35 a Massachusetts warned Monday native of Merseberg Germany against action lii the face The I head said the men of administration plans for enact- had in their possession when ar-ing a universal peacetime draft I rested short-wave radio special law this year ink for transmitting messages and Both compulsory military train- a quantity of fraudulent docu-lng legislation and tax revision ments which he said included should wait until after the fall of blank selective service cards dis-Germany Martin indicated in re- charge papers for the United viewing for reporters his ideas of States Navy and a Connecticut what the new Congress convening birth certificate Wednesday should take up Each man carried a loaded re- "I think there is any rea- volver Hoover said and together son to be stampeded into hasty had $56574 in American Martin said peace- renCy said the men had at-until after tended training schools for spies boys 8111(1 saboteurs in Eerlin Dresden -Perhaps he added the toys and The Hague Netherlands be- CO fore being sent to the United he was States He said their instruction J1 included radio operation photo- Sme-TalnlnB bdlevll 01 Wgh eX' should be ordered plosives At the same time Speaker Ray burn of Texas told reporters he I Tfing SttY Lone B-2 9 8 believed the peace-time draft was I certain to come before the new Raid Nippon Capital Congress although he did not think 1 it would be one of the first things considered WASHINGTON (IP) Three Martin pledged the co-operation American Superfortresses started of the 190 House Republicans on fires with incendiary bombs in in-legislation directly connected with I dividual flights over the Tokyo the war commenting that there area during the night and two would be many other things to Superfortresses based in China a I am AW A A a flew By CHESTER BOWLES (Written for the United Press) Americans know that 1945 will be a tough year There are scarcities now and the OPA has already had to tighten its food rationing program to see that everybody gets his fair share Inflationary pressures against price ceilings and rent ceilings are already great and they wiil undoubtedly be greater in 1945 The longer the war lasts the harder it will be to the OPA will have a bigger and more difficult job to do next year than ever before That job be easy Indeed seems to me that never since the early days of OPA have we had so many serious problems to handle They will be less serious however if Americans stick to the rules of rationing and play their part to help keep prices down both now and after V-E day In 1945 we must keep on the job to hold down prices of all essential commodities and to plan for reconversion so that industry will go to work and employ large numbers of Americans and sell goods at prices all of us can afford to pay With that kind of job ahead of us we need the complete cooperation of all Americans cars in the forepart of the pas- ceeded in restoring positions held senger train Within minutes after prior to the short-lived German the collision they hurried back to southward push in the Serchio the smashed cars flung like frag- river valley The village of Galli-ile toys across the double-tracked cano 17 miles inland from the Li-- 1 gurian sea la still in German hands however and is guarded by ains smaaxiea Logeuier onia of artillery-firing strong- points in the surrounding hills Sommocolonia a hill village a mile and a half north of Barga was the first position seized by the Germans in last counter-offensive which according to first reports appeared to imperil the CHUNGKING The immediate formation of a cdalition government in China is the only effective guarantee of victory over the Japanese Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-Tung said Monday in a 15-point statement urging a democratic spirit in the execution of all government hope all nations will request the government to change its present policies in order to establish quickly a Mao said in his statement which followed Generalissimo Chiang Kai promise to establish a constitutional government in China in 1945 whole network of Allied gains on west coast GOVERNOR AT 82 MADISON Wis Walter Goodland became the 30th governor of Wisconsin and the oldest man ever to be inaugurated governor in any state Monday when he was inducted into his first elective term as chief executive at 82 fight about NEWSMEN IIAIL FDR- QUITO Ecuador (IP) Fifty newspaper men meeting in Quito Monday named President Roosevelt 'as the important man of for the first time over -the I Kagoshima naval base in Southwestern Japan enemy broadcasts reported Monday American Fliers Sink Vessels in Yangtze CHUNGKING (IP) Fliers from the Fourteenth air force sank I Bear River bay The 'scene is' about 30 miles south 0f the point where the golden I gpike was 'driven to signalize the I joining of transcontinental rails 75 vears ard I Amongciyilian dead wasoneen I family of ather mother two Pacific trains from which 48 1 daughters uncle and aunt bodies were recovered I Only Idaho casualty among the Traffic accidents other than the identified dead or injured was train wreck resulted in 78 deaths Pablo Fonseca of Rexburg who Fires accounted for 49deaths Mis- was killed' cellaneous accidents caused 44 deaths Utah with 48 dead led the i TT ht States California was second with MU 9 iiOt tO -liecognize 19 Illinois Michigan and Penn-I 1 1 sylvan! a each reported 13 deaths Lupllll JupllSil K6gimc by accident Id: had six four traffic one fire- and one child i WASHINGTON (IP) Secretary who smothered in a crib Df State Edward Stettinius JrT The -1943 New Year holiday made jt ciear Monday that the death toll was from traf- united States has no intention of fic causes an Associated Press I recognizing the new provisional survey showed government of liberated Poland set up in Lublin by' the Soviet-spon- Chaplin Continues I al Liberation ation cy rr Asked whether this government offtv HI llosilltcit i was considering switching its rec- I I ognition from the London Polish government in exile to the Lublin HOLLYWOOD The Charlie group Stettinius told reporters Chaplin paternity case gets nearer I that the gbverhment continues to to a jury today with the 'former maintain formal diplomatic rela-mimic still in bed nursing hisjtions with-the one in London Inshin that he bruised trying to formed sources said the United break into bis own house Saturday States will continue to 'do so regardless of action taken by other hL' iver bay of Great Salt Lake niffht Officials Investigate Balloon ound Southeast of Portland Mysterious Balls of Fire Race Alongside Beaufighters Hainan island while in central Burma the versatile pilots stam Brokers9 Allegedly Operate Black 3Iarket WASHINGTON Existence of a flourishing black market in babies with some selling illegitimate infants to eager foster parents for as much as $2000 apiece was disclosed Monday night by Maud Morlock consultant on social services to the bureau She ascribed the booming illicit traffic in infants to combination of factors including a sharp rise in illegitimacy lack of adequate laws to deal with unscrupulous baby brokers and the fact that the supply of babies available for adoption is insufficient td meet demands of would-be foster parents 20 Live Bombs Litter Farmland iri Kansas governments peded a herd of 30 elephants be-J PORTLAND A large baling used by the enemy for military l00n probably of Japanese origin transportation it was announced found in rugged wooded country Monday some 38 miles southeast of Port- A communique said twp freight- land was the object of an inten-ers were destroyed in the river dur- sive investigation Monday by lighting an attack on Hankow Two lipped FBI agents and Army offi-enemy bombers were downed over cers the targets and two others were Discovery of the curious sphere destroyed on the ground Sunday afternoon by unidentified residents of the area lent added rrT-TF WF A THFR Significance to the finding of two A XX Aj tt X-JxX XXXjXV I other mysterious balloons recently forecast I in the Northwest For Boise and vicinity Partly cloudy I About three weeVa vi Continued cool today I WeeKS RgO a bal- boise weather loon identified as Japanese was 1 Max 36 min 28 Pre- found near Kallspell Mont The wkatiieb over the COUNTRY balloon presumably similar to the Pree one found yesterday was report-d large enough to transport four or five men and was further re-Trace ported to carry incendiary devices I It apparently was made of proc- essed paper Only last week a sec- Trace ond mysterious balloon was found os near Tacoma Wash but it has not -08 1 been confirmed whether it was of I Japanese origin G-men said it would be up the Army to announce whether the sphere found near here was Japanese The area in which it -was discovered -was near Estacada site of a large power plant 'and some miles away lies an important part of water system the Bull Run headworks There was no comment forthcoming from Army or other sources as to what purpose such balloons might be employed by the Japanese or as to where or how they were released It is recalled that Tokyo recently announced that Japanese submarines were again lundng off the Pacific coast of the United States It was recalled that a couple of years back when Jap subs were last reported off the coast a light mysteriously launched plane dropped incendiaries in a Southwestern Oregon forest area No large fire resulted but the plane was never apprehended and widespread belief was that it had used a Jap submarine as a carrier A NIGHT FIGHTER BASE France (ff) The Nazis have thrown something new into the night skies over Germany the weird mysterious balls of fire which race alongside the wings of American Beau-fighters flying intruder missions over the Reich pilots have been encountering the eerie for more than a month in their night flights Nq one apparently knows exactly what this sky weapon is The balls of fire appear suddenly and accompany the planes for miles They appear to be radio-controlled from the ground and manage to keep up with planes flying 300 miles an hour official intelligence reports reveaj are three kinds of these lights we call said Lt Donald Meiers of Chicago 111 is red balls of fire which appear off our wing tips and fly along with us the second is a vertical row of three balls of fire which fly in front of us and the third is a group of about 15 lights which appear off in the distance like a Christmas tree up in the air and flicker on and The pilots of this night' fighter squadron find these fiery balls the weirdest thing they have as yet encountered They are convinced that the is designed to be a psychological weapon as well as military although it is not the nature of the fire balls to attack planes picked me up recently at 700 feet and chased me 20 miles down the Rhine Meiers said turned to starboard and two balls of fire turned with me I turned to the port side and they turned with me We were going 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right up with another occasioh when a picked us up I drove at 360 miles per hour It kept right off our wing tips for awhile and then zoomed up into the Chaplin lost his house keys He tried to kick in the front door but instead banged his leg His physician examining Chaplin at Cedars of Lebanon hospital Monday said that the comedian was very but probably would remain in the hospital two or three more days This verdict means that Chaplin probably be present when a superior court jury announces whether or not it believes that Chaplin is the father of Joan 14-months-old daughter Carol Ann KITTEN SAVES 14 PERSONS ALBANY (ff) A four-month-old -kitten was credited Monday night with aiding 14 persons in escaping from a burning roomiiig house The cat roused Richard Haywood a third floor roomer who awakened the others and sounded the alarm One man James Froliente was overcome by smoke and taken to Memorial hospital where attaches described his condition as SAUNA Kas LT) Twenty live bombs jettisoned by a crew forced to abandon a big Army bomber were scattered over an area about 15 miles northwest of here Army officers warned Monday night The bombs were dropped from the plane abandoned by the crew last Friday near Salina The crew parachuted to safety and the plane crashed a short time later near Concordia Kas 4.