Council Bluffs Iowa Nonpareil (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, Council Bluffs, Iowa WO RID HEWS fC COUNCIL ESTABLISHED IN 1657 VOL 23 COUNCIL BLUFFS TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 23 1945 PRICE 3 CENTS Americans in Manila March Moving Fast Now Only 54 Miles From Capital and 11 From Clark Field Itv Associated Press War American warplanes beat a bomb trail from Formosa to the main Island ot Japan American and Japanese forces reported day an tho Hth army corps rolled past the halfway maik on its wny to Manila Some 70 Super- forts struck at the Nagoya aircraft center on Japan's Honshu island In their first mass flight under command of youthful MnJ Gen Curtis K Lo May Tokyo said they were over the city for two hours Japanese broadcasts reported 100 Liberators and presumably from the raided Formosa In tho of the fifth carrier strike against tho land this month It WHS the first report of such a land-based raid on Formosa where 3rd fleet carrier planes destroyed 140 Japanese planed damaged 100 and heavily damaged and shore In- One major U S ship WHS damaged Tokyo said thf carrier planes swept on toward Japan the next day sending 450 sea-borne Okinawa Island In the fjr nine hours A For- mosa rier planes were nlmt and in the two Damage to facilities was admitted Onu Ship Adin VV said American air losses were light The damaged ship was the ird fleet vossel officially reported as hit In Iwo months of ing Formosa inul Hie China const The two-pronged American ad- vance on Island in the rolled unopposed to points within M miles of Manila and U trom Clark field They are mole than halfway to Manila from I he gulf shores where they landed two wenks ago On Douglas chose to the com- position of forces on full sions and attached units Only one group the rangers ly action In tho Philippines whore seven other divisions have been employed spearheading Mth corps composed of tile and di- visions advanced more than 10 from Tarlac to capture Capas and Simla ca A coastal column swept down the road toward Hainan to ta beyond Dusol bay U Us the 1st army corps that has boon mooting all lion along the Hank Tho Illh and divisions boat off small tank find tion attempts to extend a new linger toward an inland road to Manila The division and regimental combat loam inched painfully closer tn heavily defended I I cilo It was that ranger two small islands the entrance of gulf in advance of tho sion duplicating the maneuver thoy made In throe off gulf to protect tho In n long truck convoy to roll out of the first war over the road to China ir two years was declared totally open foi military traffic with the junction nl Chinese forcus from Burma ami China Con Le US sot a ord when ho flow miles from Calcutta to in H hours am to take command of tho I'd bomber command succeeding Brig Hen S Con linger II 37 sun May as ol tho Ulh bomber command ing from Chum and Wo will hit Japan more am May said until thoy de- culo have hail r 54 MILES TO MANILA troops continue their almost unopposed advance across the central Luzon plains on a front less than 11 miles from the vital Clark Tarlac Luzon's second largest city and La Paz 10 miles to the have been overrun by the 6th army drive which has can led on southward and the Yanks are now loss than 14 miles from Manila NBA by Publisher Killed Minneapolis Gunmen Arthur weekly newspaper and pamphlet was shot and killed Monday mght gunmen in a nun ing automobile poured bullets in his body The assassins fired ns man and an unidentified woman i stood near oar They had just left a as one of the gunmen H weapon through tho car door ind firms Slugs en- us and abdomen ing him instantly Police said the woman being ni a j she denied having seen the automobile GOP Approves Brownell Plans Given Free Hand for Next Two Years By Jack Hell INDIANAPOLIS Heibert Jr had a free hand day to run the republican party for the next couple of years Just any way ho The OOP national chairman who laid his chips on the line at a midwinter session of the national committee luy emerged with almost vl authority over personnel gram policy He had behind him a vote of confidence taken boldly only a more than two months after lie party's unsuccessful foray at he polls 111 November u considerable amount of Individual grumbling In the ranks about close association with the ed presidential candidate Gov Thomas K Dewcy of New York only minor opposition voices were raised at this midlands meeting to his retention of the ship Most said a new sort of harmony appeared to have grown up within the party Ob- some of them did not to see Dewey keep oven a hand on the party reins Hut they had no single standard berrer around whom they could rally As n result Brownell came out of the conference with unanimous approval of his plan to establish u organization which will take a leaf from the CIO action committee book ami will work continuously Instead of only about four months In ad- vance of the election hereafter Despite this obvious heavy gation of power to the New Yorker who first sank Ins teeth Into national politics with his election as last mer at Dewey's suggestion most committee members appeared with the results of the ing to Continue at Democratic Helm By Harold Oliver WASHINGTON cratic national committee and the CIO political aition committee will probably carry on independent campaigns in the 1046 congres elections This was indicated Tuesday by Democratic National Chairman Robert K Hannegan as he laid plans for an early swing across tho country On this trip he plans to discuss mutual assistance pacts with democratic state chairmen to united action in the elections two years hence Hannegan announced plans for year-round educational and raising activity Monday without waiting until just before tho eloc lions ns is usually tho case He will slay on ns national chairman at a year and not go in tho postmaster generalship as had been rumored Hannegan said he had had no discussions or made any plans with the PAC either for 1046 or ISIS He indicated the Thousand Dollar club also would work independently of the national committee Smiling as he reported a 000 balance in tho party treasury With no collectors hanging at Inauguration Hannegan announced plans foi Jefferson day dinners in the states April 13 to hike the place of tho customary Jackson day Textile Controls to Be Tightened Supplies Dwindling Costs Are Rising WASHINGTON T h government Tuesday u textile anil clothing program designed to cut con- sumer costs i to 1 per cent and to supplies of low ami medium priced essential ments By Sterling F Green WASHINGTON for broad new textile controls were duo for announcement Tucs day as two government agencies attacked the dual clothing lems of rising costs and dwindling supplies With the avowed aim of ing supplies of needed civilian ments at low and moderate the office of price admin and the war production board opened a conference with representatives of all branches of Lite textile Industry WPB Chairman J A Krug and Price Administrator Chester Bowles arranged a joint news con- ference a m cwt ing the discussion with the and dealers Especially involved are dren's clothes men's shirts and shorts and inexpensive dresses foi women Anticipated Trade sources indicated their be- lief they were in for bad news in tho form of increased military de- mands arid unprecedented re- straints on their freedom of duction ami As to prices OPA acknowledged that It would make suggestions for broad action to hall the increase in the cost of living duo to rising prices of textiles and apparel OPA pledged to set easily en- forceable ceilings at retail on every item of clothing for which WPB sets specifications and makes special fabric ments gave notice Monday night that retailers and wholesalers would have to absorb their share of cost increases wherever instead of passing them on to tho public stores are making dollar profits before taxes roughly ten times their earnings Bowles said while both retailers and wholesalers of clothing and hardware are highly favorable earnings I Wanle Labor Braces for Battle on Service Outlawing Imposition of Union Membership Bitterly Opposed By P Arbogast WASHINGTON labor braced Itself Tuesday for its first big bottle of the ninth manpower legislation Loser in a preliminary skirmish in the house military committee it set out to defeat on the house floor next week a limited national ice for men 18 to 45 The carries the threat of induction Into the army or a stiff fine and im- prisonment Particularly objectionable to bor organizations is a clause to outlaw of union on men taking jobs in essential industry The military committee approved this clause Monday ns it ly endorsed the entire and di- Its legislative staff to draft a new measure The new draft em- bodying changes approved by the committee will be submitted for final approval Wednesday and may reach the house floor late this Carries by Vote The amendment went into the measure on a 14 to 10 vote and tended to stiffen the tion of organized workers ly it provides that no man ing a job at tho request or tion of his local draft board shall bo required as a condition of em- ployment to become a member of a union Chairman Mead D -N Y of the senate war investigating com- said meanwhile that mi tional service legislation isn't what is needed is an end to what he called a tremendous waste oC manpower Mead said this la apparent In army arsenals navy yards and also in uniformed manpower Rep an he would make a fight to remove the shop amendment He contended would abrogate contracts made ily between labor and management The CIO the AFL and the way brotherhoods Philbin said are opposed to the amendment as well as to another proposal which would ban picketing Other The military committee also has approved amendments Reaffirm the principle of the Tydings act blue printing for draft boards the procedure to be lowed in deferring farm workers Provide for travel and ence Allowances for men leaving home take jobs at draft board requests And emphasize that despite al provisions for violators the army and navy may use them for general service The latter amendment restored to tho measure some semblance of its original work or fight goal by allowing draft boards to induct Immediately men who disregard work orders Presumably only men of draft age and in suitable sical condition would be inducted others would face the possibility of a five years prison sentence and a flue i The committee's decision to re- assert the Tydings act principles removed most of the farm bloc op- position It came as the house committee worked out with Draft Director Lewis B shey a new directive to draft boards underscoring the ity of the Tydings act RUSS ARMIES ROAR AHEAD GERMANY fk PRAGUE A Soviets Break Into Poznan 137 Miles From Berlin as Allies Win on Western Front Other Units to Oder Farther South From Belgian Bulge Turned Into a Rout Russians overrun historic and announce the capture ol only 57 miles from the key East Prussian fortress of In a driving advance of 16 beyond Powerful 1st army is racing across the Polish plains for Poznan 138 miles due east of Berlin as other red tank columns close in on tho Oder river and the German city of Breslau in a drive to cut off the industrial area NIC A The Weather By the U S Weather Bureau Council Bluffs and Fair Tuesday afternoon Tuesday night and Wednesday No decided change in temperature Low Tuesday night near 20 Temperatures will average above normal with rapid minor fluctuations Precipitation will be of little consequence Temperatures will above normal with little trend Little or no precipitation Hourly Temperatures Hrs Degs a m a m 26 a m a m 30 a m a m 36 a m p m 37 a m n m p m Humidity Wet bulb 22 32 Dry bulb 37 Wind velocity 10 miles per hour Maximum temperature in last 24 hours degrees at p m Tuesday Minimum temperature in last 24 hours 20 degrees at a m Tuesday Total precipitation 44 inch Total deficiency 03 Inch Himmler Sent to Eastern Front LONDON Adolf Hitler has sent Heinrich Himmler and his best army commanders to the eastern front with full powers to make drastic decisions and to guarantee their execution the lin radio announced Tuesday Himmler gestapo and commander of the German home army was dispatched to the east because the situation at focal points called for iron-willed men like said the broadcast by Transocean news agency im Paper Wallace Revolt Grows in Senate Committee Opens Appointment Hearing By Francis J Kelly WASHINGTON senate rustled with revolt turning the government's huge lending agencies over to Henry A Wallac Tuesday as a began consideration of his ment as secretary of commerce Opposition among southern democrats and republicans was strong The only apparent of averting a bitter fight over confirmation Deemed to lie in a proposal to strip tho commerce department of those agencies and make them independent once again This was advanced by Senator George in a resolution which If approved would leave the former vice president only the routine responsibilities of the com- merce post Chairman Bailey C d the commerce committee into a session to discuss he Wallace and corge Bailey expressed belief however that the committee would not ye around to either matter until after- noon because the first item on its is a discussion of proposed amendments to the rivers and Sentiment Divided Members who regard Wallace ns a left winger still were rocking from the impact of President Roosevelt's latter requesting Jones to give up the post so he might award It to Wai lace for services to the democratic ticket in tho recent campaign His opponents view Wallace as unqualified to handle loans and commitments aggregating 30 or 40 billions dollars because of his lack of previous experience However the senate's sentiment on Wallace's confirmation is by no means unanimous nor is strictly regional Three southern demo cratie senators Hill of Alabama Maybank of South Carolina anil Bilbo of Mississippi announced they would support the president's nomination President James G ot the national farmers union said a statement that the Wallace nomination brightens the for the survival of genuine free enterprise for all and that a vote against Mr Wallace's con- is a vote against 60 lion jobs and a just and durable peace Sunny Weather Here Continues lowans continued to bask in a warm winter sun Tuesday as the weather bureau for the first time In several weeks had no report qf precipitation in the state skies will continue Into Wednesday the bureau said with little change expected in tures Low here Tuesday was 20 after a high of 35 Monday with 8 degrees wan Iowa's coldest city Spencer had 38 for hich day Germans to Make Stand on the Oder Decide on Supreme Effort to Stop Reds By Thomas Hawkins AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER Marshal Von German generals from front and high nazi party chieftains mei at supreme German headquarters Saturday mid decided to make every effort to defend tho Oder lino on the Russian front private reports from Berlin said Monday The high command wis said to have agreed if possible to try to aave the industrial area oven If Poland and eastern Pomer ama must be abandoned It was not known whether Hitler attended the meet Ing to which the conferees flew ii special planes and returned the same day The generals were said to liav taken important decisions on th use of reserves from other fronts Details were unknown a re port was revived that withdrawn from northern Italy was consideration again Some moderate withdrawals arc said to have been made from tin western front It was reported tlin two divisions recently In Norway appeared In the east of Frank furt on the Oder river of other divisions from was rumored In the Breslau area mln crs were Into the Volk sturm to Increase this forces Some It was said to enter buttle and 400 of thel relatives were arrested and abou 100 hostages were shot The conscripts were protesting that they lacked am munition Germans Transfer War Prisoners LONDON Stockholm dis patches reported Tuesday that th Germans had transferred allied war prisoners from camps I Poland and Silesia to central Gcr many because of the threat of th advancing Russian armies Uncertainty continued however concerning the status of prisoner in Stalag Luft 7 at i upper Silesia which has been cap by the Russians any of the include American civilians and RAF per still there when th Russians arrived was unknown Kit Fund Over Need More to Reach the Goal The fund for kits for soldiers mounted to Tuesday as an additional was received by tho fund chairman Mrs J A Lytle chairman of the League for Service Men of the kits urged Tuesday that people the town assist in the collection of the fund So far most of the money col- has been donated by larger she said We feel that ihc small donors those who wish to give from to will want to help us too for the work is being done for their sons and daughters No sum is too large or too small to be accepted We feel that we are merely the representatives of Council in thin matter and that the people of Council Bluffs want us to go thead The Nonpareil is acting as collecting agency for the grou and will accept cither cash dona tions or checks All checks shoul be made out to the league fo service men and may be sent i to the Nonpareil office or brough in The collections to date are Previously ledged Council Bluffs Mutual Building ami Loan sociation 25.0 Mrs John P Davis Strand theater 10.0 Mr and Mrs Harry Voss 10.0 Women's Missionary ciety of Grace terian church P 0 1.0 By Austin PARIS First army Into St at dawn and American fighter for Hie straight day continued on German In rout from Hie Ardennes St apparently during the night Tho 7th armored division wan expected to capture the lust Belgium road center from the lly JaniON M PARIS U S 1st army tank smashed Tuesday into the of St last German in the Ardennes allent following air attacks lay which turned the enemy Into a rout Men of the 7th armored division by Brig Gen Robert V Hasbrough entered the com- center just a month ml two days after Field Marshal Von captured the place ind thousands of Americans St Vith is Uie hub of seven ways and two railroads and the Germans were fighting desperately o hold it their last stronghold of consequence in the last five o six-mile strip of the bulge The whole perimeter of the Ar- dennes salient was under attack and the Germans rushed up lank m an effort to hold back he attackers while pulling out the ast of their infantry and supply columns Third Army Advances LONDON army troops have thrust within 22 miles of com- gigantic cut-off of all Ensl Prussia and the trapping of perhaps 30 German divisions Pre- disclosed day Reports from Berlin meanwhile said the Russians hud burst Into Poznan 337 miles from Berlin on the direct route and Stalin an- tho capture of Bydgoszcz southern guardian of the Polish corridor Biting halfway across the orn end of Prussia the 2nd While Russian seized fold only two miles below coastal town last land scape gnp for Germans in Runt declared In cm Icr of the dny Soviet there but 50 miles southeast of Danzig Total to On the southern flank ot the Ar- dennes lird army troops pulled up to within a mile of and he German border in advances up to five miles The Brit- sh to the north now three miles from the Rocr river menaced the last Gorman road center west of the stream by moving to within two miles of The Germans were against the U S 7th army In Alsace but supreme quarters said thai Die front from lo to substantially unchanged with actions limited to local en- There was no mation of n Berlin declaration that Ihc Germans had captured I ho ma or base of 15 miles north of Strasbourg French poilus attacking the southern rim of the Colmar pocket the main suburbs of and Cernay They overran German strongholds elsewhere along the line First army patrols which en- tered St at daybreak had been checked temporarily by road Mocks On the south elements of the 3rd army's 17th airborne sion closed lo within nine miles southwest of the town The 7th armored division and supporting infantry captured Monday night and moved over Intervening yards into St Vilh early Tuesday Given Fearful Drubbing The loss of St Vilh would rob the Germans of the last remaining strategic advantage gained by their December offensive which before Monday's massacre had cost them casualties 600 tanks and assault guns and 710 by allied count Beyond St Vilh there Is no natural defense short of their original starting point Despite unfavorable weather planes continued pounding the Gcr mans Tuesday Tho Germans were subjected to terrible attrition by the allied sir forces and by ican artillery Heavy wai poured into nazi ranks from long terns and heavy howitzers The Infantry en- tered Ihc road junction of Bcho seven miles southwest of St Vith To the west of St the division captured Never Before Equalled In ruin surpassing that in the gap massacre ican pilots Monday said they de- or disabled pieces heavy German equipment in a mile stretch from the Luxemburg border to in Germany This score was claimed by pi- Destroyed Damaged Motor vehicles Tanks 65 62 Railcars 853 440 Locomotives 18 Horse vehicles 40 Gun positions 49 13 Totals Iowa Girl of Sponsors WASHINGTON of Sheffield In is one of 24 civilian workers In tht navy hen to act of 12 Handing the navy Tuesday to Stockholm Tuesday de- clared soviet troops had broken nlo Poznan and were in he streets of the big Polish city ust 140 miles from Berlin A German broadcast meanwhile aid I ho to Iho south night temporarily reached he Oder river in tho heart of Silesia but had been knocked back rom thai water barrier east Germany The Moscow radio placed army 150 miles from Berlin Tho German high command Marshal Gregory Zhukov md reached the area cost of the more than half way from on the direct route to Berlin Other soviet armies driving to seal off Kust Prussia were re- within 37 miles of the port of in the northwest corner of the junkers province on the Say of Danzig The capital of Konigsberg was menaced with en- The German high command Marshal Gregory Zhukov's cross Poland drive had reached the area cast of 140 miles from Berlin Tho Moscow radio did not specify the reached within 150 miles of the relch capital A French broadcast said men were already in out- skirts LONDON Berlin dis- Toward In German Silesia the communique said were Hacking heavily on a line 15 miles cl Breslau but claimed blows were cheeked lau lies on Die Oder river Berlin placed the soviet attacks between 15 miles northeast of Breslau and 28 due east Moscow dispatches said Marshal Silesia which runs from Oels to to at five placed and were within of the Oder shelling enemy fortifications on tho bank of that last big river barrier before Berlin Oder flown through the heart of Silesia and Brandenburg province the sea at It with In 40 miles of Berlin red army ives rapidly wore carving up Prussia Zhukov's army had cut half way cross the base of the Polish corridor Marshal sky's double pronged into Prussia from the south hammering toward only 33 miles southeast of and had closed off a main German rail escape route Hitting In from the east shal Ivan heads were within 25 ot Only 70 miles separated and forces in East Prussia At minimum they and Zhukov were trying to break off East from the Polish corridor before the week-end a Moscow said The red air force the Immense offensives in dawn to dark spectacular armored carrying half way or more Warsaw to Berlin In was battering ahead at a SO mile a day pace and the Germans can halt It on the of the relch It carries the of unrivalled catastrophe Moscow reports said It Can Happen Just Once More Only twice in a century can date be written liy of the above consecutive of 2 3 4 Tuesday and again next S Next Jan SS 2046 we'll run thX JEWS PA PER I IN SPA PERI
