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The Dependability Byline of MIAMI DAILY VOL. XLIT, No. 184 Published Every Evening Morning by Miami News-Record cal, (Ines) (Except Saturdes) Sunday MIAMI, 513 Heroes of Bataan, Corregidor And Singapore Rescued From a Prison Camp REDS TO ODER RIVER, NEAR 9uoz BERLIN THURSDAY, A Partial List Of American Men Rescued GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 1 -(P)U. S.

Army prisoners of war rescued from Japanese prison camp by American Rangers include: Pfc. Don H. Adams, Artesia, N. M. M-Sgt.

Ermon R. 'Addington, Harrison, Idaho. Pfc. William C. Ahischwede, Thayer, Neb.

Dean W. Albee, civilian, Eureka, Mont. M-Sgt. Louis B. Albin, San Antonio, Tex.

Pvt. John S. Alford, Pensacola, Fla. Capt. Frederick Amos, Humboldt, Kas.

Sgt. Harold M. Amos, Afton, Ia. M-Gunner-Sgt, Harry Arold, Liberty, Mo. Pvt.

Uriah S. Ash, Fairmone, West Va. (Continued on Page Four) CHURCHILL HAS POSTWAR PLAN Advocates Four-power Control Of German Ruhr, Rhineland, Is Report By JOHN A. PARRIS, JR. LONDON, Feb.

1-(P) Prime Minister Churchill is taking to the Big Three conference a plan for a four-power government for postwar control of the German Rhineland and Ruhr, an unimpeachable source said today. The plan is understood to call for separation of the Rhineland and Ruhr from Germany and placing them under economic and political control of Great Britain, Russia, the United States and France. The source also said British, Russian and United States representatives signed an "instrument of der" to be presented to the Germans when they capitulate. This was signed by U. S.

Ambassador John G. Winant, Sir William Strang, British undersecretary of state, and Fyodor Gusev, Soviet ambassador to Britain. The document, formulated by leaders of the European Advisory commission, is so secret only a few high officials know its contents. It lays down specific terms to which Germany must conform. The source said the Big Three also would discuss zones of occupation, President Roosevelt, was understood to have last August that American troops occupy northwest Germany maintain only a token force in Austria.

But now it is reported the President favors having an equal share with Russia and Britain in occupying Austria, The French were understood to have asked the Big Three powers for permission to share in the Austrian occupation, and this source believed Roosevelt, Churchill and Premier Stalin would agree to this. There were increasing indications that the Big Three meeting may already have begun. American Warships Near Corregidor? (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) American warships are nearing Corregidor while others in Subic bay are shelling Northwestern Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, unconfirmed Tokyo radio broadcasts reported today. "The enemy is sending warships to the vicinity of Corregidor island," one broadcast said. "From Corregidor (at the entrance of Manila bay) cruising of American shipping in the adjacent waters is reported." FEBRUARY 1, 1945 CAPTIVES GIVEN BIG RECEPTION AFTER RESCUE Thousands of U.

S. Soldiers Form Parade To Honor Their Return By RUSSELL BRINES SIXTH RANGER BATTALION CAMP, Luzon, Jan. 31-(Delayed) -(P)-There is a long dusty twisting lane near here which should become a war monument, for today it bridged two worlds. It leads across the plain toward the death camp where 513 prisoners of war were rescued by American Rangers and Filipino guerillas. A convoy of ambulances and trucks transported the rescued captives back to absolute safety and freedom- -except for two of the 513 who died enroute.

No men ever received more sincere homage than these lean, ragged captives who had come back from death. For four miles they followed a lane outside the American lines, riding in vehicles and grass-lined Filipino carts. Thousands of soldiers from the reinvasion army formed an impromptu parade in their honor, flanking both sides of the return route. No man ever tried more valiantly to regain the pride which the Japanese had smashed and to control their emotions as these captives whose first glimpse of the almost forgotten outside world came this evening. Behind them WAS the awful hopelessness of Bataan and Corregidor, and nearly three years of (Continued on Page Four) Five Nazi POW's Sentenced to Die In Killing Sixth NEW YORK, Feb.

1-(P)-Five German prisoners of war have been sentenced to death by courtmartial, Newsweek magazine says, because they beat to death: a fellow prisoner they suspected of giving valuable military information to the United States. Newsweek, in its Feb. 5 issue, declares the men killed a comrade at Camp Tonkawa, Nov. 5, 1943, and now are awaiting "their doom in a federal penitentiary." The dead man was identified as Cpl. Johann Kunze.

The five men, all non-commissioned officers, were identified as Walther Beyer, Berthold Seidel, Hans Demme, Willi Scholz and Hans Schomer. "Under the articles of war court had no choice but to pronounce the death sentence," the magazine says. "The Nazis appeared entirely satisfied." The men "proudly admitted their part in Kunze's liquidation," the magazine adds. Bruce G. Carter to Meeting at Capital Bruce G.

Carter, president of the Northeastern Oklahoma (Miami) A. and M. college, left today for Oklahoma City where he will attend a state-wide meeting sponsored by the board of regents for higher education. Educators from over the state will gather Friday to discuss educational opportunities for returning servicemen. The Miamian will also attend a meeting held by the state board of regents for Oklahoma A.

and M. colleges. The local college prexy and Dr. M. A.

Nash, chancellor of the board of regents, will inspect the vocational educational department of the federal reformatory at El Reno Saturday. "The El Reno educational institution is considered one of the model training plants in the nation," the Miami educator said. WAR AT A GLANCE (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Western Front: Nazi withdrawal from Siegfried outposts hinted as. Americans advanced with artillery support; Nazi abandonment of Rhine bridgehead north of Strasbourg suggested by American capture of Gambsheim; French closed in on Colmar. The Russian Front: Berlin said Russians reached vicinity of Kustrin in Oder valley, 39 miles or less east of Berlin, as crucial Oder battle loomed: Russians captured Beyersdorf, 63 miles northeast of Berlin; grip on Konigsberg tightened; Germans said Oder in Silesia was crossed at several places; Russians drove farther into Pomerania province.

The Italian Front: Fifth army patrols stabbed deep into Nazi lines east of Serchio river in bitter five-hour fight, The Pacific Front: Americans held Alongapo, naval repair base controlling Subic Bay; other Americans speared to within 28 road miles of Manila; Seventh fleet steamed into Subie Bay. Office of Publication Street and First Avenue 486 Yanks Freed By Daring Ranger Forces on Luzon By C. YATES GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S Jan. 31-(Delayed)-(AP)-Men -Men and Singapore-513 of them -were the flaming muzzles of Japanese exploit of unmatched daring. Some 400 picked men of the and Filipino guerrillas made a behind Japanese lines to empty a tially fulfill one of the Philippines' Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's heart. They took Japanese guards by 486 Americans, 23 British, three Norwegian-all that were left in Nueva Ecija province of Eastern Many more hundreds of more ers had been sent to work camps SUBIC BAY HELD BY YANK UNITS Naval Repair Base of Olongapo Taken As Japanese Abandon Pillboxes GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 1 -(19-Subic bay and its naval repair base of Olongapo, dotted with pillboxes but inexplicably abandoned by the Japanese, were back in American hands today as unblunted Yank spearheads to the east rolled clear of a dangerous bottleneck passage only: 28 road. miles from Manila. Well-fortified Grande island, the "Little Corregidor" guarding the entrance to Subic bay, was taken without opposition Tuesday by Eighth army troops.

Units of the U'. S. Seventh fleet then steamed into Subic bay. Other elements of Lieut. Gen.

Robert Eichelberger's Eighth army moved by road along the inner rin of Subic bay to capture the Olongapo naval base which, before the war, was an American depot. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in his communique today that "wa are now using this excellent anchorage, and development of a naval base is already under way." Olongapo was well outfitted with Japanese dugouts and pillboxes all empty. Similarly, Grand island was abandoned by the enemy, its American guns "pointing discensolately out to sea," in the words of Associated Press Correspondent Hutcheson. Sixth army troops 35 miles to the east meanwhile reached the (Continued on Page Seven) Colonel Key Given Vital Assignment WASHINGTON, Feb.

1. (P) Maj. Gen. William S. Key, former army commander in Iceland, will head this country's four-man military delegation on the Allied Control commission for Hungary.

The War and Navy departments announced today the other members will be Col. Dallas S. Townsend, Col. Frank W. Gillespie and Navy Capt.

William F. Dietrick. Lieut. Col. Henry G.

Simmonite, former New York and Miami, attorney, will serve as executive officer. The commission, composed of Soviet, British and U. S. representatives, was created to supervise, under Soviet direction, the enforcement of armistice terms for Hungary. Key was warden of the Oklahoma state penitentiary from 1924 to 1927, when he entered the oil and construction business in Oklahoma City.

He served as provost marshal general of the European theater from October, 1942, until June, 1943, when he became commanding general in Iceland. GETS A BILL INSTEAD TOPEKA, Feb. 1-(P William V. Ryan, Bolivar, engineer who set out after a multi-million dollar pot of gold in 1943, wound up today with a bill for $307.40 court costs from Harry Washington, clerk of the U. S.

district court of Kansas. Ryan was ordered to pay the costs by Cireuit Judge Walter A. Huxman who found for the defendants last Jan. 13 in Ryan's suit charging fraud in constructon of the Sunflower Ordnance works at I De Soto, PRICE FIVE CENTS N. YANKS ADVANCE WITHOUT FEAR OF NAZI GUNS Siegfried Line Silent, Indicating Enemy Has Moved Farther Back By JAMES M.

LONG PARIS, Feb. 1- UP The American First, army advanced within plain sight of the strangely silent Siegfried line on a broad front today amid growing indications that the Germans had withdrawn farther back. Overnight advances generally reached 4 miles deeper into Germany. Village: after village fell. entered, the fringes of the Siegfried line in the Monschau BULLETIN PARIS, Feb.

1-4P -Patrols of the fighting First division broke into the first ramparts of the Siegfried line today 11 miles southeast of Monschau, and found only a flicker of life in Hitler's concrete western fortifications. The First army troops crossed the first row of dragon teeth tank barriers in a section of the Siegfried line never before breached. Farther north, 37 miles oft the line have been conquered by the Americans in the Aachen-Roer river sector. sector, where a whole three-mile section was captured earlier in the week. Third army infantrymen seized four more German towns.

An eerie silence covered the big Nazi guns in the lines, but American artillery of both the First and Third army laid a barrage on the fortifications along 40-mile sector opposite Belgium and Luxembourg. The heaviest enemy resistance WAS limited strictly to small arms and accurate mortar screening. Troops frankly were amazed at the complete lack of artillery and, in most cases, the enemy's reluctance to stand and fight. The French First army fought into Horbourg, eastern suburb of the Colmar, in the shrinking pocketing below Strasbourg. The Poilus captured seven towns, including Gerstheim, a mile from the Rhine.

(Continued on Page Seven) TWO MEN RULED INELIGIBLE FOR STATE POSITION OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 1-(P) Names of two appointees ruled ineligible by Attorney General Randell S. Cobb to serve on the board of regents for A. and M. colleges will not be submitted, Gov.

Robert S. Kerr said today. The two B. D. Eddie, Oklahoma City miller, and Dr.

Andrew Potter, state Baptist leader -were held ineligible because of a provision for board membership disqualifying any person who has held a state office of any nature within two years of his appointment. Potter had served on the State Board of Agriculture and Eddie on the Planning and Resources board. Kerr, would not say, however whom he planned to nominate as A. and M. regents.

The Senate late yesterday approved a bill by Senator Robert Burns of Oklahoma City prescribing a set of qualifications which could not be met -by most of those appointed last year by Kerr after the people passed an amendment creating the board. Burns' bill seen as an anti. administration gesture, was for the purpose of vitalizing the amendment. There was no hint as to its fate in the House. The governor's appointees to the board must be confirmed by the Senate.

Weather Weather OKLAHOMA- -Cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and Friday. Rain, except mist and snowing in extreme north today, beginning tonight and continuing Friday, Lowest temperatures tonight, 40 south, 32 north. MISSOURI- Increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer tonight followed by light, snow. beginning in extreme west tonight. Increasing and.

spreading over west portions Friday. Lowest temperatures tonight 15 to 20, middle 20's in west. Little change in temperature Friday, KANSAS Cloudy, light snow west and extreme north central Increasing and spreading over remainder of state tonight; except rain and snow mixed along south border. Warmer extreme east tonight. Lowest temperatures middle 20's.

Snow with little change in temperature Friday. FORCES ARE 39 MILES OR LESS FROM CAPITAL Shell Game "message" that traveled thousands of -miles finally reaches the ear for which it was intended. Mary Ida Mouery of St. Petersburg, got a big sea shell from her boy friend in the South Pacific, with instructions to listen to the whispering in the shell. Judging from her expression in photo above, the "message" was 8 welcome one.

SCHOOL DISTRICT DISPUTE ENDED? Commerce Points To Osage County Case, Claims Victory Over Miami Commenting as, to what effect the recent state supreme court rulin the Osage county suit would have on the MiamiCommerce school districts' litigation, Jesse W. Martin, Commerce school superintendent, said today: "Since Osage county suit parallels the Miami-Commerce case, the decision of the supreme court will probably end the MiamiCommerce controversy." By his statement, Martin indicated that when the case between Miami school district No. 23 and Commerce independent school district No. 18, is reviewed by the supreme court, a decision in favor of Commerce would be handed down. On Jan.

25, the court settled the Osage county school suit when it decided that part of a school district may not be annexed to another district except in cases where the area is being annexed by, the district from which it was detached. The fight between the two school districts arose here last March when Miami school officials were charged by the Commerce board of -education with attempting to annex certain territory which would remove "approximately 30 percent of the assessed valuation and land area from the Commerce school board." The Miami board of education, in refuting the Commerce school board charges, declared it has permitted children in the affected (Continued on Page Four) Japs Expect Yank Landings in China CHUNGKING, Feb. 1 UP) Lieut. Gen. Albert C.

Wedemeyer said today Japanese dispositions and operations indicated the enemy expected Americans to land somewhere on the China coast and "I assure you we won't be disappointhim in his expectations." At a press conference, the U. S. commander in China said the loss of some U. S. 14th airforce bases east of the China-Indo-China Corridor was imminent, but he added that he was happy the fields not lost earlier as their use "helped the operations in the Philippine archipelago great deal." $15,000 FIRE IN WICHITA WICHITA, Feb.

1- Fire caused an estimated $15,000 damage early this morning when flames swept through a building in the downtown business section. Firemen fought the blaze, which was discovered at 1:45 a. more than three hours before it was brought under control. The building housed a uniform company and a linen store, SIGHT OF YANK UNITS THRILLS GALLANT MEN Los Angeles Captain Says He'll Never Forget Arrival Of Rangers DEAN SCHEDLER GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 31 (P) Capt.

James B. Prippe of Los Angeles, whom I last saw when he was tunnel provost marshal on Corregidor, said the "thrill of seeing greenclad Rangers storm into our prison camp last night will never quite leave me." Lieut. George W. Green, Auburn, former Manila broker and reserve naval intelligence officer, said: "I was captured when the last organized American resistance ceased in 1942. They wanted to take me to Japan, but I was saved by illness." Green got up and not only walked, but ran last night, for the first time, in years, when he forgot his arthritis upon hearing American Rangers yell for all prisoners to make for the camp entrance.

Pvt. Walter Laverne, Sioux City, formerly with the Twentieth airbase at Nichols field, said: "We went through the bombing to Corregidor to sweat it out. My heart almost broke with the first burst of fire last night because I thought the Japanese had reached the end of their patience and decided to wipe up out." "I am too happy to talk," said Pvt. Thomas Flowers, Scranton, (Continued on Page Four) Superforts Raid Singapore Area For Third Time WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (P) Superfortresses bombed Japanese military installations in the Singapore area today for the third time.

A press flash from the 20th 'airforce headquarters said B-29's of Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey's 20th bomber command struck by daylight from India bases. Details of the mission would be announced when operational reports are received.

Once called Britain's "Giberalter of the East," Singapore was seized by the Japanese in 1942 and converted into their principal naval base in the Malay-Netherlands East Indies area. nearby Penang island the Japanese maintain a big submarine Both Singapore and the Georgetown naval base on Penang are key distribution points for supplies and merchant shipping plying the Japan-East Indies sea route. The round-trip flight largely over water- encompasses more than 8,500 miles. Would Amend Tax On Insurance Firm OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 1-(P) Attorney General Randell S.

Cobb advised today the state law levying a four percent premium tax on foreign insurance firms should be amended "at once" so as to apply the same levy to both outside and domestic concerns. Otherwise, the attorney general by letter told Gov. Robert S. Kerr and the chairmen of the House and Senate committees on revenue and taxation, the state faces the likelihood of a flock of recovery suits by the foreign firms. Cobb, pointing out that 16 such companies already had filed suits for recovery of $220,454 in premium taxes they believed unjustified, said a U.

S. supreme court decision last year led attorneys for most of the 450 foreign companies doing business in Oklahoma to believe such "discrimination" levies were invalid. 1,290 Sooners on New Casualty List (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A total of 1,290 Oklahomans were listed as: casusities by the War department during January, compilation showed today. Included were 251 killed. These figures may be compared with 191 Oklahomans killed and 1,290 casualties of all categories listed in December.

January reports showed 227 men missing in action, 86 prisoners of war and 726 wounded Germans Say Soviets Now Te Banks of River in Mighty Drive M'DANIEL HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, of Bataan, Corregidor snatched from under guns last night in an Sixth Ranger battalion commando raid 25 miles prison camp and parobjectives closest to surprise and rescued Netherlanders and one the prison camp in Luzon. able-bodied war prisonin Japan. Hundreds of others had died. All but two of the men were brought alive by the 121 men of the Sixth Ranger battalion who stormed into the prison stockade under command of Lieut. Col.

Henry Mucci of Bridgeport, Conn. Their enfeebled hearts flickered out when they were in sight of American lines. The Rangers attacked with such merciless precision that not one of the Japanese stockade guards was left alive or able to resist. And they attacked with such care that not one of the prisoners was scratched. Within a matter of minutes all had been released and were on their 25-mile journey to freedom, walking, carried on backs of husky Rangers or riding in Carabao, carte.

Nearly 100 were so weak from malnutrition, disease and three- WIFE OF BATAAN SURVIVOR HEARS THAT HE'S SAFE OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. hardly dared breathe the hope that my husband was one of the lucky men to be rescued!" So spoke Mrs. Ralph Hubbard today when she was informed her husband, Maj. Ralph Hubbard, was among the 513 soldiers rescued from a Japanese prison camp by Yank invaders of the Philippines. Caught in his undershirt as he was about to don a gown for an operation, Dr.

John C. Hubbard, the major's father, was so excited his fingers beat out a rythm on his desk and he had to look through the telephone book three times before he could find the number of the hospital where his daughterin-law works as a nurse's aide. "We've been on pins and needles since the early announcement that some prisoners had been rescued," he said. "My wife is down at the USO and she'll go plumb nuts when she hears Ralph's all Put. W.

L. Richardson Is Killed in Action Word was received this morning by Mr. and Mrs. Jess Richardson, 19 street southwest, from the War department saying their son, Pvt. William L.

Richardson, was killed in action Jan. 12 in Belgium. The 20-year-old paratrooper is also survived by three brothers, Sgt. Winford D. Richardson who is stationed at Miami Beach, Sgt.

Lloyd D. Richardson, AAF, Sheppard Field, and Pfe. Freddie M. Richardson, stationed somewhere in England. Private Richardson attended Picher schools and in March of 1943 he entered the Army.

He embarked for service in the European theater of operations last March. Kansans Protest Wallace for Post WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-(P)- Senator Reed (R-Kas.) has submitted to the Senate a petition signed by 86 citizens of the Wichita, area, mostly cattlemen, opposing confirmation of Henry Wallace for secretary of commerce and head of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Reed told the Senate the petition was sent him by Ludvig Nelson, "a prominent citizen of Kansas." "We the undersigned citizens of Kansas sincerely ask you to oppose the confirmation of Henry Wallace to be secretary of commerce and REC" the petition said. By JAMES F.

KING LONDON, Feb. 1- UP) -The Russians with their fast-paced tanks and infantry have smashed to the banks of the Oder northwest of Kustrin at a point about 39 miles or closer from Berlin, the German high command announced today. It was possible that the Russians were even closer than 39 miles, for the German communique did not give the exact location of the penetration to the river. The Oder swings to within 28 miles of Berlin northwest of Kustrin. But immediately northwest of Kustrin it BULLETIN LONDON, Feb.

1-4P)-The Russians have broken into Kustrin, vital traffic junction on the Oder 41 miles east of Berlin, a German military commentator said tonight. is 39 miles from the capital, and it seemed more likely that a point in the Kustrin vicinity was meant. The eastern edge of Kustrin itself, one of the chief defenses of the German capital, was reached by the swift Soviet punches rapidly spreading the fires of war to the heart of the Reich, said German broadcasts. Along a 70-mile front Marshal Gregory Zhukov massed waves of tanks and infantry for 8 quick smash at Berlin's greatest defenses. But at the center of his spear(Continued on Page Seven) Test Vote Near On Wallace Bid For Cabinet Job By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb.

1-(P) Senator Bailey said after a Democratic caucus today that he would seek to force a test vote in the Senate this afternoon on the Henry Wallace cabinet nomination. Bailey, an opponent of the appointment, told reporters 88 the BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-(A) The administration defeated allout foes of Henry Wallace today by forcing a delay in Senate sideration on his cabinet nomination. Through the delay, which may extend into weeks, Wallace backers hoped to win ultimate confirmation of the former vicepresident by stripping the Commerce department of its huge lending agencies. Beating down on a 43 to 41 vote an attempt by Senator Bailey to force immediate consideration of the appointment, the Senate leadership obtained right of way for the George bill.

meeting broke up that he would move to put the Senate into executive session to insider the nomination. This would be in direct variance with a program laid down by Majority Leader Barkley who told the conference that he wants the Wallace nomination held until Congress can pass bill divorcing the (Continued on Page Four) Milton Campbell Dies at Age of 18 Milton Campbell, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Campbell, 202 street southwest, died after retiring last night.

He was found in his bed shortly after noon today. A graduate of the Miami high school, young Campbell attended the Oklahoma Military academy at Claremore before entering the Army. He was medically discharged from service about a month ago. Surviving besides his parents are two sisters, Mary Lou Campbell and Mrs. Allen T.

Chandler, and two brothers, R. Lawrence Campbell and Gordon Campbell, all of the home. Funeral services will be announced by the Cooper Funeral home. AIRFIELD CONTRACT. WASHINGTON, Feb.

1- (P) Award of $484.646.95 contract to the Standard Paving Tulsa, for construction of runway extensions, taxiways and hangar turnouts at Roswell Army airfield, N. has been announced by the War department-.