Brownsville Herald, The (Newspaper) - January 5, 1945, Brownsville, Texas The Weather Cloudy light rain drizzle on Page 2 Year No 159 Siesta Edition Brownsville Friday Jan 5 1945 Price 5 CenU Serving The Rio Grande Valley For Over SO 3 ALLIED ARMIES LOCK British Capture Port Of Akyab 69 More Jap Ships Knocked Out PLASTERING JAPAN'S FRONT at the mercy of 7th Liberator bombers in the photo above is the Island of Iwo Jim a in the Volcano group only 650 airline miles from Tokyo Smoko from bomb bursts covers the main airfield In center of the Island and another field Is visible to the right From Iwo Jima Jap bombers have made raids on our at Saipan Carrier Sunk Formosa Raided Winter Clamps Down Icy Grip On First Army Soldiers Slogging Way Through Blizzard Face Toughest Of WITH THE U S FIRST ARMY IN BELGIUM American ploughing through winter blizzards in Lt Gen Courtney H Hodges great and stirring First army counterattack have under- taken perhaps the toughest BY LEONARD MILLMAN Press War Writer British troops have seized handed any U.S armored Burmese port of Akyab in in this war first operation on the we could put those Shermans lone road back to Singapore while skis we would have the American secret weapon of the war said a craft and PT boats knocked out veteran tankman who fought in the Japanese ships in a three-day sands of Africa and tack coordinated with tains They were less of a problem carrier raids on Formosa Radio Tokyo claimed that a U.S aircraft carrier and two battleships or cruisers were sunk in western Philippine waters as com- than the snow ice lush and mud of the Belgian Ardennes like to work on firm rolling ground with plenty of cover a few streams and rivers They the air war i like such country because it swirling around invasion them room to maneuver and flank ed Luzon and the advanced enemy defenses instead of ing them headon ican base oh Mindoro New Convoy Reported Gen in- But Arc S lino tin ir Targets in this wintry fairyland directly confirmed Tokyo reports where forests are of continuing shin movements ward Mindoro casters said another transport con- voy had arrived Adm Chester W Nimitz verified ed like a million modernistic Christmas trees armored columns must crawl like ungainly beetles along the center of roads There they become Monty Directs Yank 9th Army WASHINGTON iTTi Field Sir Bernard L ery has been Riven command of the American Ninth army and most of thn First army as a result of the emergency created by the German break-through in Belgium Luxembourg Making this known today a War department spokesman said con- of the arrangement will he left to the discretion of General Eisenhower supreme Allied com- mander Assignment of the Ninth and portions of the First armies to Montgomery left Lt Gen Omar N 12th army group com- mand with the Third army and elements of the First army and units which were pushed to thc south by the German assault Next War Loan Due In Either June WASHINGTON A zard of bond money has buried every quota In the Sixth War loan As a result the Seventh loan probably won't open until around May or June That's the word from ury Secretary who these final sales ures in the drive Series E 000 These are the only bonds the average citizen knows anything FDR Will Stress Foreign Affairs WASHINGTON AD President Roosevelt will lake to the air tomorrow to Japanese reports that the carrier ing gallery for well placed attack on Formosa enemy air enemy guns troon and fleet assembly grounds I Even so weather and the north of the Philippines carried i rain cause us more trouble than into its second dav the German said one ar- On Formosa and Okinawa j mored commander I have lost the est of the Ryukyu islands con- lack of details indicated- the attack was still underway Adm Lord Louis Mountbatten announced that seaborne Indian use of more tanks from weather since this offensive began than I have from Von anti- tank guns When one of mv tanks slides and English troops swarmed ashore off these slippery roads it is likely on Akyab island off southwest to throw a it takes Burma early Wednesday some repairs to get it going WHERE GERMANY IS map shows where al Von is carrying out what may well prove to be greatest gamble of the war The had as its original objective the great Allied supply port of Antwerp tion and supply center for most of the Allied armies on the front Breakthrough to Antwerp would divide the Allied armies forcing those from Aachen north to fall back or face encirclement Conversely the drive to thc south could roll up the entire southern end cf thc Allied line But on thc face of today's S thiS bUC mileSi of i The First army driving from the I north and the Third army from i thc salient in thc lern flank have narrowed the of the bulge to scarcely 12 miles Field Marshal Sir Bernard L i Montgomery's forces went into yesterday in the area NAZIS Bloody Battle Shaping Up On Western Front Belgium Bulge Weight Of Stiff Blows Of British Infantry Br WILLIAM L Associated Press War Editor Three Allied armies and possibly fourth hurled their weight J German armor and infantry in tha Belgium bulge today and a front dispatch said all present Indications were that the main balUe yet to come would be the bloodiest taa Front yet has seen Armor nnd infantry of the Brit- ish Second army was flung into vha buttle of the bulge at an fied point The sector of the Allied on the Nazi flank has been widened to II and pains were described as slow and steady despite blizzard conditions fog Ice and snow i Headquarters remained silent on the German claim that the 0 S thrown into j battle to aid American First and j Third Facing the Allies were ths Filth and Sixth German and the Seventh i army Main Battle A wailed A delayed from Western Front dated yesterday said the main battle for the bulge had not yet been led but that it was expected in the Germans Wage Terrific Fight To Hold Budapest marine to the nation his with the 1 again about Sales were behind schedule of the union lo be to congress earlier in thc day WASHINGTON XP ident Roosevelt will include a j comprehensive discusion of j foreign affairs in his annual sage to congress tomorrow It is not expected however that he to define drives for two years of the The j When Japanese garrison had pulled on one of the narrow logging j Yanks Hold Island halted Vehicles which pull off Invasion troops landed from j trail and try to go around three directions and today likely to bog down It I hold thp island and the city takes minor engineering third largest aort in Burma get broken vehicles out of line j and thc coal of British jungle the attacking column can keep from the Danube west of thc bigj bend entered its third day It appeared daringly liberate remnants of State European political at first but steadily Improved and I finally forged 15 per cent over ems the quota Thc executive is i2 Grand a's to keep This Is per the for bargaining quota It is a new I Prime Minister Churchill In the Philippines MacArthur moving And this warfare is a toush on announced 35 more enemy ships the men as it is on their tanks have been sunk or severely least half of them went U.S Doughboys riding along with them can reduce peril by knocking out ambushing antitank guns But Sellers Inspects Valley Industry Inside Budapest Russian storm i other units attacked Birc rushed to th said front at the first sign of danger to communique said Vm I Tnc German cd offensive and MERCEDES Ashley Sellers northwest of the city was fed by j American lines until yesterday Allied Big Bombers In Huge Assault LONDON Allied bombers I blasted a communications center on tho northern flank of the j man in Belgium and positions behind the front in full-scale assault today Mitchells and Bostons of Field Marshal Sir L Montgomery's air with j the western coastline of for the infantrymen who tramp War Food administrator panzer and air force reserves they went on the offensive and I Luzon Four more were destroyed j beside the tanks or the crews who j of Washington D C is in directly from thc Reich c Armies Engaged world a financing Door Premier Stalin in the forthcoming by PT boats operating in ride inside them there is no relief j valley today for n two-day visit ithe Russians said and they were six Allied and German armies Thc previous mark was Three conference Caters west of island This from the cold This i as lne of Y L Joiles recklessly into battle in a thus committed to the rung up in thc I his initial taiks with ran the Japanese ship losses for vast Ardennes battlefield has few Mercedes desperate bid to break the Soviet battle being fought in Fifth War loan them he should know more ex- rst days of the year to homes or buildings where troops sellers who prior to his line clamped around the log and miserable terrain than at since the fio ta planes over Luzon and nine j can snatch a few hours of at Abilene of the worst fighting conference a year ago 1C torpedo boats rest I spent Thursday and today The Russians asserted they had of the thc Allied the de- struction of 37 enemy planes Twenty destroyed on the ground as ators continued the reduction of Clark field 75 miles from Manila In Chaplin Case LOS ANGELES Joan what arc their plans and poses with the smaller countries of Europe and the ex- tent to which basic American policies already enunciated may be put into practice there -On the basis of that tion it Is expected that quent to the conference he w There was no interception Twelve were wiped out bv Mitchells and fighters Cebu End Negros None Injured In Crash Of Autos at Abilene spent Thursday and today agricultural and days in the relatively broadened to 35 miles be able to define thc KAF second planned to concentration of German material motion today for an new just how near St Vith before noon trial of her suit contending Huge formations of U E Chaplin Is thc father of nir force Flying Fortresses and daughter Liberators Jabbed at mil and road lave centers despite thick clouds which hcr attorney Joseph Germans when a deadlocked jury was dis- 1 missed yesterday It stood at 7 to in favor of n verdict V-2 Rocket Fire I that the film iman did not beget Joan's ne more ln Philippines ne Three raiders were shot NlDDonMc on traffic trial leaders of the Valley in an i effort to acquaint himself about 20 miles Field reports also announced that fully with food production troops of a fourth Allied army the processing in this area and Rcd Scar frontline dispatch S Ninth army had been with lie farm labor supply waves of German tanks beat gaged in the battle but ic He conferred with Jim Ward Russian defenses in the was not disclosed whether they manager of the Bio Grande and the were in action lev Farm Bureau in regard Danube Nazi 1 With slow steady gains on a to the crowers tions of 15 to 50 mile front on thc north side of the of 15 to positions obscured targets highway Tokyo i Chief DepUty will Eisenhower Appeal Drive of thc stars of the successful Sixth War loan drive was not even In this General Dwight D J sent back ful appeal just before ihc drive Chaplin had no comment ransport convoys followed by the force f I T Tokyo reported four LOndOn and harassing within a 75 miles radius of two trucks for delivery to the kin Motor Co here were being behind two for Brownsville HARLINGEN persons Yugoslav Partisans Menace Nazi Lines j rocket fire i Nagoya last I on has been stepped upland today Yesterday the night I the last 24 announced about 40 Mauldin 11 The first truck was badly Moscow iin collision with a car owned liberated Writer Is Denied Inspection Of A group of American at Red army salient Lt Gen Courtney H U S First army in its iday old attack had whittled down f I thc German escape gap between No SerioUS Injury and Grandmenil to t ei scarcely 12 miles In AutO On the south side of the salient held by three German armies Lt recently has ted portion of Indication of thc an forces have crossed thc Austrian launched man high command announced obtained excellent results in person causing the day i a surprise daylight raid on truck to turn loose and turn Tlie German broadcast gave no kok transportation center and completely on thc highway by but being driven and Lublin its capital J of he was driving was in a yesterday T but his front was substantially unchanged the number of capital of Thailand hit for the first truck then went out of against Poland T f mC whc nnd arc menacing a a British communique A Chinese army spokesman the War F mince was con nrc between and only that there has been enemy ported that Japanese commanders led in about a shortage of Marshal Tito announced activity directed against are regrouping approximately rn England damage and j divisions of control over the side of thc road i provisional government of j The car was struck on right rear wheel by thc Levy The Moscow bureau of the at a street crossing and was Press applied for the i turned completely around mi- o iiic corner 01 j f der the auspices of the newly East Harrison and Third Street Aachen area to bolster a attack but Supreme sd no comment on this report Moving up under terrible Scc ALLIES Page Two a rush DON PEDRO Talks WEATHER DON PEDRO looked funny when he arrived at thc office today and he used thc back door What nre you made up we I am working out a new formula for he But what Is that funny col- ored stuff you arc we questioned A secret formula which I may never divulge fis I refuse to predict any change In the weather before Monday 1 hurry home to my sun lamp and sc goor day to were words as he left through the shop Detailed Weather Report on t ns had cut the Graz railway line in many places j TEXAN HONORED apparently in the areas of i Leibnitz and A of In addition the announcement has been awarded the sald thc rail line from Flying Cross posthumously for to paralleling the against Japanese forces in der Just inside Yugoslavia was the Marianas and Bonin islands over a long stretch areas from June II to 20 1944 close thc gap in the fjg jow railway Texan Given Job Of Routing Japs Oscar C Sander Native Here Dies struck a telephone pole and Correspondent Daniel field The car was ln Sroup The Associated i with Levy were Mrs A J Levy off trie road and skidded informed at one time Sgl Jos T Phillips City Police i onto the lawn of the W I permission home make thc trip truck said but was not ex- I formal written requests for an damaged explanation of this discrimination The first was badly far havo obtained no reply and the left side of the j Vigorous protests have been Tlie car was crushed said ilo thc representative of j cow radio announced tonight that was not in thc car Lublin regime and to Boleslaw the Soviet government had Driver of thc first truck w President of the Polish thc Polish provisional tried in Justice of Council at Lublin in Lunlin Peace Court this morning was I Soviets Recognize Polish J i Charles Sander 75 last liv SOMEWHERE IN THE General Saito committed hara-kiri on Saipan two Marines on combat patrol were given thc task of bringing thc body back for burial in accordance with the Geneva convention To carry their mission Staff Sgt Dallas Andrew Jr of Little Ark and Sgt W C Gray of Tex had to fight their way through a fanatical group of mourners who had taken in a cave on Saipan The two sergeants and other members of the patrol found the cave 500 yards off the road in the hills The Marines spread out and approached the cave only to be met by a shower of concussion grenades After a two-hour fight the Japanese defenders of the es were wiped out and cave Inside they thc body of Saito and seven other officers All had committed suicide The general was buried with full military honors ed on charges of reckless ing Brown a Dallas resident is i employe of United ring member of the old j Incorporated of Oklahoma Rifle club and lifetime of drivers of the car srid ident of Brownsville died truck involved were not ob- day in the home in which he was this morning J born at 1205 S E I Among survivors are a niece and j nephew Elsie and Ralph i Schmeling both of Brownsville Funeral services will be held Will Fernando Highway from Darling's Funeral chapel an 10 tomorrow Rev William T be in Buena vista cemetery FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Press Jan 5 1941 Germans drop in- Youth Is Charged In Theft Of Auto W E Rowland 19 WHS hended in Kingsville yesterday and has been charged with theft of Sherwood will officiate Burial will car belonging to Captain McClain of Harlingen Chief Deputy i iff Will Cabler said today The youth allegedly took the car a 421 convertible coupe night before last I Cabler said He tried in bombs on London but court of Justice of the Peace J I vilian spotters snuff them -IN Acevedo Aguilar of Tamaulipas will inaugurate the Fernando stretch of the Victoria highway February 1 The Tamaulipas executive will declare thc road formally opened during special ceremonies to be held at thc Victoria and the San Fernando road terminals Delegations from Matamoros San Fernando and Victoria will attend A delegation from Brownsville will possibly be present de- pending on weather conditions it was said The Fernando stretch of highway is now entirely paved and bridges over thc Corona and Purificacion rivers will be built during 1945 San Fernando lies about 90 miles southeast of Matamoros and the road linking this border city with the intermediate stop on the road has been but Is not paved and Is virtually unpayable during wet weather SPY SPOTTER Harvard rill Boy Scout and high schol student or Hancock Point Me ob- servation of 2 men during snow storm aided FBI agents in their as spies put ashore from a German sub to engage ia activities
