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-s YiYv-YVY 77 i r'i' --AS i a J- I- is' --vv -vi V- -'f o- -V 7-i 1 -v 'x -V-v -it yv- 4 1 VIS it CV- A1 1 1 11 Vf f' s' A 'Vi' 4 i T'i-" 'jA r' AT7-J v-- I -v yv- -v-TT'-r- v-v Buy Stdnpt aiM Bonds 4 -7 i ris CLOUDY V- J- Save Used Fats TJn Cans I 7 'if 55 i -t -7 -V f- ESTABLISHED 1825 VOL NO 18 AUGUSTA: MAINE SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY 20 1945 vt gX ten paoeb PRICE FIVE CENTS J-v vr i MB' f-If- 4 WESTERN FRONT Gains oii All FD Today Jf Yean Are the Hardest GERMANY BT TOM UIDT Washington Jan lft-jPH-PresWent Roosevelt closed the full terms In the White House and got ready for his foufth lnaugura- ledger tonight on three with a grin and a quip tion tomorrow at noon While all was hubbub In the White House for the mo- president himself had ta be almost usual piled high with war prob- mentoua occasion the his desk disinterested Mr Roosevelt served up his attitude toward what may be After all ho said the first LT NORMAN HAYDEN BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR Paris Jan -The Seventh Army struck back today at German forces north of Imperiled Strasbourg where the enemy earlier In the day massed 10000 troops broke from the Rhine bridgehead and Joined up with other forces farther north on a solid 75-mlle front Planes Rip Nasi Lines Flghterbomben ripped Into enemy armor and doughboys drove the Oermsns back across the Zorn River acme nine miles north of the Alsatian capital other American Mows showered down on the front In a grim attempt to keep the Germans from out-flanking all American positions In northeastern France The British Second Army and the First and Third Armies held the Initiative elsewhere on the flaming SOO-mlle front as both sides rushed to get stalled offensives into gear In the critical winter months when the Reich faces crushing blows from east and west The British slugged ahead 'two and a half miles eastern Holland and western onnany the 8 First Army seised aU command- by "short wavs radio ceremonies however Aw nrtimi iffebt-- ths AugUStd OfflCCr -esldent Is -sparing only 20 gdni UgMqiU VllUV1 president utes of his crowded day for the lems Two weeks short of 6: famous smile however the toughest four yean 12 years are the hardest Qalet AffSIr The war has turned this next Inaugural topsy-turvy Instead of bis parades and ceremonies at the Capitol It will be a quiet affair on the porch of the White There will be 5000 fueats of the usual 25000 or mort spectators AU but a handful wip stand on the lawn i -t Even a good part of Mr Roosevelt's Immediate family will (be unable to attend His four sens are In the armed forces and only Marine Col James Roosevelt seemed able to get here He was enroute from Burbank Calif -but badfly-lng- weather 'made It uncertain whether he'd he on hanL The other boys may heir the years is his of alL NEW GERMAN to the Allies on tha Western Front was 'met The War Department this week notified Mrs lforman Hayden malltleay there wu heavy work be lng done on the program Workmen rolled up the hard-to-re-1 theater oV'wartJeu? place White House carpets- csrpen- HvdiSrrtled lSf airiSd1! ten hammered here and there and the domestic- staff bustled hither 1 IVence and and HUU1CBUC M5AA VUSIWU 5MMKI yon getting set for the 7 Xttday as the Seventh Army struck back at a fierce German bid to retake Strasbourg and outflank all Allied forces to the north Elsewhere however bitter Allied blows drove the foe back the British gaining two and a half miles In eastern Holland and western Germany the 8 First Army seizing aU commanding heights north and west of St Vlth and the Third Army smashing ahead through northern Luxembourg damp New Pincers on East Prussia Biggest Red Day Yet BY HSPCHER London Saturday Jan The Red Army opening two more massive offensives reached tho German Silesian frontier 225 miles from Berlin yesterday In Its sensational surge through Poland captured the bastions of Lodz and Krakow and clamped a huge pincers on East Prussia In great new break-through Into that ancient Reich province The Red Armys first contact with the border of the main body of Germany from which Adolf Hitler's legions Invaded Poland to start the second World War Sept 1 1939 wta an- nounced officially In the midnight Moscow communique Unofficial reports said tho Russians already had plunged across the frontier and were fighting on the NaxIsV beleaguered' homeland- ti It was the First Ukraine Army one of five powerful Soviet armies estimated at 3000000 or more men that reached the frontier of industrlally-rlch Silesia with the capture of Fraszka 50 miles east of the capital at Breslau These troops also toppled the six-way road junction of Wlelun 12 mMes northeast of Prasska and also 225 miles southeast of Berlin Scoring their greatest gains of the war the Russians captured 2750 towns and villages as they ripped through col- lapsing German lines on a twisting 800-mlle front from the' 1 Baltlo to Budapest Fsie Of Germany In Balance Early today DNS tbs official German news agexicy declared: present Russian winter offen-1 slve will decide the fate of Oer- -many It has outreached anything hitherto i Lri There was no Jndlcatlon what- ever that the Germans were able ta -make a stand anywhere 'along the vast Polish plains which extend Into Germany On-the eighth day of the gigantic push the Russians already had swept 150 miles west of the Vistula more than half-way to Berlin and the Soviet tide still was rolling arid being reinforced hourly Soviet bombers' were lashing Breslau and Berlin said lt waa the Seatesfc air force ever cent ateft by Russians The planes ftm coordination with artillery were laying down a carpet of fire on German soil of the tank-tipped Soviet spearheads Cat Dsnslr-Gydnla Railway In alashmg to the-Silesian fron-( Continued on Jap Plane Plant On Honshu Island By VEEN HAUGLAND B29 Headquarters Guam Jan 19 Poores of Saipan-baaed Superfortresses today made their first sweep over the Kobe-Osaka Industrial area on Honshu Island Japan leaving Mg fires rising from the sprawling Kawasaki aircraft factory after the daylight raid (While 20th Air Force headquarters at Washington said only that a force" of the B-29a attacked the modem factory at Abash! ip miles west of Kobe the Tokyo radio set the figure at 80 plaxies and admitted waa done) All the Superfarts returned home psg OoL 0) person buffet that will follow oath-taking (Continued on Page Col S) from Cony High Institute In I was graduated School and Wentworth Boston He married Jessica Garland N- of this city They have four children He was employed by Western union In Boston and at the time he applied for Volunteer Officers Can didate training In 1942 wae employ ed by the Standard Oil Company I In Auguata I Lieut Hayden took his basic I training at Fort Monmouth I In 1942 and was commissioned In the Signal Cons at Fort Monmouth I in May 1943 He studied long lines I construction at Fort- Monmouth that summer was transferred to the combat engineer! and sent -to Fort Belvolr for further instruction (Continued on Page CoL S) pr 'JAMES HUTCHESON General Headquarters Luzon Saturday Jan (JP) Bloodily throwing back 1 counterattacks Sixth Army Infantrymen forced the Japanese into the hills on the stubbornly-held Lunin left flankr while 'other YankSwlped out a fierce ambush of' 12 medium tanks In a new flareup at Blnalonan headquarters reported todqy lng heights west and north of vital St Vltn in the withered Ardennes salient and the Third Army was knifing through northern Luxembourg r-1 Snow rain 1 and a low overcast limited Allied air support but more 500 flghterbcxnbers lashed at the nmy in Art crucial Rhine corridor of northeast Ranee where pilots reported tanks and motor- vehicles knocked out -Felling to break across the Zorn out of the network of rivers on the- northern approaches to Strasbourg the Germans tiled to widen their bridgehead with an attack In two to three-company strength-at RohrwlHer three miles west of the Rhine 14 miles above the capital Yank Fire Halts Fee i Tli ey were stopped by fierce American fire and withdrew leaving 60 dead In the The Germans to the north renewed their assault on Hattea with armor and Infantry but bare In the (Continue on Page 1 Ool 8) Hii- iy dreth his twin brother' Charles caused considerable confusion In Washington today the Governor of said former Oovernor iiouls Brann of Maine In the Mayflower Hotel and Without looking Maine Democratic Committeeman Harold tfubord said and looked and laughed beckuse it was Charles Have Busy Week End Jr Presque Isle Block I A -v In short order Baiookaa disposed at the other two 1 (This reference to Japanese at Blnalonan suggested the enemy had re-entered the highway town which MacArtnur reported Sunday) Oorresporidenl Gen Douglas captured last Aasodated ur with Mns HUdrethl and Mr and Mrs Charles HUdreth Ravaged DV rlatTlPS arrived today for the lhsugurstlon I uy tiouin Bpeaeer Davis wacer Davla said the Japanese (Continuedcn Page CoL 7) Held Bail Murder Bitter S-Day Scrap The counter Mows capping 'at least five days of bitter fighting In the area occurred Wednesday night near Rosario on a mountain highway loading to Baguio summer capital of the Phflipptaes Anodated Press Correspondent A1 Dopklng reported 'the counterattacks' were merely In the nature of pin-prick harassing blows and not In strength which could have pushed back Lt Gen Walter Krue-gerk army --'v-- To the aouth at Blnalonan along the same highway' Associated Press Correspondent Dean Bchedler re-American column wi 12 enemy medium tanks hlklden under nlpa huts facing the town square The Japanese were unable to depress their guns sufficiently to dean out the 8 troops hugging the ground however and Yank 105 mm artillery knocked out ID tanks Me Preeque tele He Jsv KWff) raged through the three-story 'Northern National Bank building here early today and It was feared the structure would bo a total lose with unofficial estimates placing damage as high as $200000 The building- housed the Northern National Bank a radio station (WAGN) a theater and several clothing stores Flro departments from Presque Isle Fort Fairfield and Man Hill fought the flames in 10 below sere cold Cause of the fire was net determined immediately East was March James Col! 4 Brownfield sawmill operatoi held without ball today for Jan 19 66-year-old Road to Berlin By The Aseoclatod 1 Rtuslmn FTentx 225 miles (at Praaaka and alee at Widen a gain of 75 miles In feer days) Western Front: S9I miles (from near Daren) Dnngarlan Freni: S34 mOee (from Hren River) Kalian- Front: 144 (from Rene River)- grand jury action on a change he last about having encountered ante fairly- light aerial and antiaircraft opposition The crewmen reported 'every plane in the formation hit the target Perhaps the reason for the ini' nially good preliminary reports for the raid better than any made immediately following previous Honshu was duo to the fact that the planes came over their target several thousand feet lower than had been the earlier practice and the bombing was dona visually at a comparatively low altitude The crewmen had special Interest In Masting the factory since it 'Is believed that the Kawasaki plant turns out engines for the enemy's Tony and Nick fighter plaxies which have been Concentrated against Superfarts In previous raids In hitting the Kawasaki plant today the Superfort crewmen -had a target 200 miles short of the 1500-mile hop from Saipan to Tokyo The city of Akashi ia one in a cluster of communities In the heavily populated Kobe-Osaka manufacturing and ahlpptn area on south coast Osake (Continued on Page S-iJoL S) of President Roosevelt Saturday! and wUl stay through Sunday Mr Dubord here for the tea and din ner today for Robert Hannegan Democratic National Committee chairman and the Inaugural festivities at the White House wifi leave Saturday night for New York to visit his son in the service Rep Margaret Smith of Maine entertained Mr: Dubord at luncheon at the Capitol tot governor iff Maine is li and would like to join you at said the dining room hostess We thought he looked a little heavier but we said do you respectfully and then laughed emor came down the restaurant aisle amused at the -little plot he had concocted down to lunch having missed breakfast until eleven because the train diner was too crowded even for a governor to eat and even the Mayflower Hotel -was -standing notables In for meals life raphen Intrigued semblance came up for permission to taka Dictum After' luncheon Mrs Smith beck oned different 'members to sit a while and chat with the governor and his brother and Mr pectfully everybody laughed as the real gov-1 down the restaurantl at the -little plot be Setbacks of War murdered 'Gerald Osborn 51 Monday during Jan argument a woman 3 Osborn' body a bullet woind In the head was found In the blood-stained snow of a Brownfield road linear a sawmill where he was employed Municipal Court Judge Shaw found probable cai Mrs Phoebe A Stacy 50 years housekeeper fled under examination by I Attorney Theodore Gonya th bert came home Monday and told her: shot Gerry The defense did not pri witnesses Colbert pleaded Tuesday Under cross-examination fense Attorney XL Walker ey XL CkurcliiU Wins Confidence Vote As Eden Announces Big-3 Plan I TT-- I vvr 1311116 Draft Would Cut Food Output Contemplated Induction 'into the armed forces of young farm workers -help but reduce of foodstuffs' In this state Maine Agricultural Commissioner I Carl Smith predicted Friday aUUJIig tnem EOItn Rogers OI MIS-1 rvwhmlulniwr Smith ufH that sachusetts born In Saco and Rep Heseltln of Massachusetts born in Fairfield Maine Commissioner Smith said that he was the decision to Induct farm- help but that he considered to call Brewster USfNeedsjWbrld Gommunications New York Jan iS-H-Senatbr Brewster (R-Me) said today needs and must have an all-American communications system extending around the would to tell the story of America to other peoples of the earth undiluted and He told the Bar Association of tha State of New -York that such a- communications system also was needed "to enable America to receive: undiluted anduneenaared the story iff the other peoples of the earth" j---- too he sjdd communications have been depending upon a collaboration of other 'fv Senator Brewster continued: also needs and must have an all-American air system to use the air bases which we have developed throughout the world at an expense of He said assodation of nations is not necessarily a guarantee of enduring and added that peace be had without such an isodatioo although we desire Senator Brewster commended the state department reorganisation and declared finally have what seems to be a team driving ahead so that we will have some sort of consistency and continuity far our foreign By The Associated Imperial Diet (Parliament) reconvenes today (Sunday man Tlme( confronted with battle setbacks around most of the dwindling empire and political unrest at home The of the war situation was mentioned by Sadso Iguchl spokesman of the Japanese board of Information in a Dome! News Agency wireless dispatch recorded by the Federal Communications Commission Iguchl said the Diet which has been In recess since Dec 27 may be expected to consider and such matters as the (Continued on Page CoL S) Mrs Stacy testified Colbert tcid her nil i1 i that By JAMES KING London Jan 19 CP) Prime Minister Churchill woo a 340-to-7 vote of confidence today after Foreign Secretary Eden announced hat President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin would be asked to Join In creating Immediate International machinery for dealing with problems arizing in liberated lands Eden disclosed that the appeal for creation of machinery with teeth in lt to and quickly with International political problems would be laid before the forthcoming meeting He made the disclosure at the dose of a two-day war debate with blunt demand that the- House of Commons show whether have revolver which this Colbert grabbed bis wrist 1 (Continued on Page when 5) It caQ for a- vote of confidence cams over the protests of a small faction of Laborites who Charged -the government -with putting them on the spot as techni-the balloting was on a 14000-war appropriations bill -members announced flatly beforehand that while they were bitterly opposed to policy they would not vote against the government Tory I to say we voted against war -While the vote for the government was Impressive it was pointed out that government supporters made an all-out effort to muster full strength for the expected test the tenth the Churchill government has survived Five Laborites a Communist and an Independent cast the seven votes against tha government-while two Commonwealth party members recorded themselves in opposition but dld not vote since they acted as tellers it his duty attention to the reduced production wUl surely be the must make anr Important decision soon as to whether these men are needed most In the armed forces or to -maintain food needed mast us are on the UB on £3 Th? cominlttee meeting 'behtod rtovuW hamper closed doom substituted the clvllisnlwgg- Asks Nurse Draft 5-Year Approved Army Life Rises from Warsaw Rubble As Is Broken your support or He asserted that he wanted 'to show the world that the Churchill ment was not Wnshirgton Jan AV-Hraft oodfer-' a maxlmixn of In revealing the Agenda for the woo wilfully Mntlal war Jobs pThls or any other version manpower control bill hoyrever streets dealing the debris The sound of beating hammers 'echoed as the great task of rebuilding was beguxi Now and again the roar of German mines blowing up drowned out conversation In Warsaw's streets and squares Tbs frosen Vistula ires bridged again k-Official of the polish Lubin provisional- government were setting up 1 administrative offices -AU the ruin wae not caused by forthcomln Eden Iran! not mg iluy fuuy i To Draft Every Replacjeable Man 26 to 29 Washington Jan Tb Jobs In civilian Job of a draft registrant lobs I In the' 26 through 29 age jproujp board through doesn't matter if a essential but not critical (3) registrants- whom finds to be employed ia relatively unimportant jobs in critical admitted that satisfied with the existing' machinery for International cooperation on the political plane workers hold thkt a trained farm worker can be replaced by anyone at All Is highly erroneous: They are Just not replaceable and that is all ther he added It was pointed out that while Bath Fir eep wax Army labor penalties are expected to be set up Monday for-men who refuse to take war jobs on draft board orders Committeemen said the amendment-by Rejx Kllday (D-Tex) regarded as same members as the first test on national service legislation was approved by -a comfortable margin However the committee postponed until Monday a final vote on whether It 'trill report a national service Mil to the House for con (deration (Continued on Page CoL 4) harvesting 'could be done by un-Page CoL 4)- The correspondent for Pravda said the Germans Warsaw with the frenzy of sadists" (Continued on Page Col 7) BY EDDIE GILMORE -Moscow Jan OF) Life was returning today to- the- dbeolatlon that once was Warsaw Thrice ravaged In tills war ancient capital was desert of wreckage" one Moscow correspondent said when triumphant Russians and Poles entered the city MOst of the thousands of civilians oho had survived the attack of 1939 and were caught ln the final ordeal of liberation bad been herded off to Germany Yet a few residents survived in the Incredible destruction and stood before the ruins of their- homes as the Red army tramped through the rubble choked streets -s- Now the red and white flags of Poland once more fly over the wilderness of broken buildings shattered telephone poles snarled electric and telephone wires and uprooted street car tinea- met us with terrible oqe: Russian correspondent And yet so-tough Is 'the human nee so well does )t survive the greatest catastrophes that one writer was able to ur today that streets are becoming unusually Tractors roared through' the availbale to do It This was made dear today by i JsJ Gen Lewis Hershey director of Selective Service who told ocal draft boards they face their difficult and important task1 in providing young men for the armed forces without impairing war -Vi 'I A i -i Jen lit -own Swrlcsi women were carried to aueto by shipyard workers When out the upper floor of pethk only commercial laundry WM idw 8 it Describes More Spies on Way to America Washington Jan S-A man who clicks his false teeth is adept at 'languages and sleight-of-hand tricks is one of three Nasi agents agents the activities: registrants whom the local board finds to be engaged in relatively more important Jobe in essential activities (5) registrants whom the local board finds to be engaged in more important Jobe in critical activities Hershey said the supply of men in the age group IS through 25 is The only major source of men under 30 other then thtee who beoome 18 each month is those now deferred in Industry or la agriculture he added Washington WI Here by divisions is the War Manpower Cont- ar Hoover said for America 1 ate today: i irney were among so woment em-ffyea driven from the tmoke-fUled 1001X1 0X1 Die first floor of Laundry plant on Street near the approach' to gw Carlton Bridge over the Ken- V5je River fire nude considerable head-VV before It was discovered The wi not determined I frv SStor Maurice Hones Continued on Page CoLiS) -y Hershey sent to the local boards he War 1 Manpower Commission's list of essential sctivlUes now divided into two sections to indicate the activities regarded as most critical in the war program and James Byrnes five-point guide for de- the order or induction of men in the 26-29 age group however you find that a re-dacement is available for a regia-rant he should be classified as available for Inductioif regardless of his place In the groups Hershey wrote S-' Following up the Byrnes reodkn- Byrnes up to Japs Machinegun Ship Survivors Ban VTandsco Jan The I Navy today- disclosed loss of the lUbertv ship John A Johnson and I ten of lts men in the Pacific in Blaine Saturday slowly increas-1 November 1944 by action of a Jan-ing cloudiness followed byjnow 8at aum submarine whose flrensler uiffay night and Sunday Not so cold I crew shouted and danced on its turdsy night turning coiderldeck and poured machinegun bul-mday 1 1 lets at the helpless survivors stSda? Wgb 1 eeriously followed bymow Saturday after- as SS day night Snow ending Sunday andl Siinrlvtyi telling their stories to In-tuming colder Itervlewen In the presence tf naval Massachusetts" Rhode Island -and officers related how they spent two Connecticut Saturday mostlylterrtfying hours submerging them-doudy followed by Intermittent I selves and biding behind bits of ight snow Little change In tem-1 wreckage to keep away from the perature Intermittent light snow rampaging boat and Its guns 7 and not so cold Saturday night1 They said the Japanese dancing Sunday clearing and turning cower (Continued' on Page Cot A) -'k rt Inrcstmcnt units 'of i BENEFICIAL INTEREST 's (Prospectus on request- Whiting Weeks A Stubbs Principal Underwriter'-3S FEDERAL STREET BOSTON A Ralph Webbr Leeal Representative C' TeLl4S3 -Augusta -ii FBI Director today may be Hoover f-M the barn agents had been' associated aa with two men -who were arrested by the FBI last- month after coast ber The FBI announcement said the men are tinder Nad orders to enter the United States and it asked that the nation be on the lookout for 4 4 J'1' Hoover described the men thus: Max Christian Schneemann 44 formn' glass factory worker In Colombia where he was reputed to be a Gestapo agent Trained as a wireless (Continued on Fan 1 SoLJjl list of essential activities as distinguished from those which have been given status ed to tbese in the jobs AGRICULTURE AND COM- MERCIAL FISPDNG A AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE SERVICES Agriculture' and animal husbandry senricea such as cominer-dal poultry hatcheries seed processing breeding crop dis ease-protection services initial services such as go- (Continued on Page 3-CoL OPENING JANUARY 24 AUGUSTA HOUSE DARDER SHOP New Management" rv HANSON Fspvleter new TIRES i RECAPPED TIRES HOLT-SNELLli TIRE ca Augestals Newest Recapping Flan' 8Uts gt TeL 399 Augusta toultht to follow the fullest extent this order in inducting men 26 through 29: -(1) Registrants not employed in i activity appearing on the essen-d activities list (2) registrants whom-the local-board finds to-be employed ia relatively unimportant mendations HershtMA the f-1.