Las Cruces Sun-News (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Las Cruces, New Mexico MAY SHE FLY OVER TOKYO Las Vol 277 SOUTHERN MEXICO WEATHER Fair tonight and wanner Lut 14 High Low Las Cruces 60 23 State College 57 17 Jornada Range 56 18 PRICE CENTS Bulldogs Touch off Tourney With Win Over Alamogordo BIG PUSH OPENED By WALLACE PERRY The saddest tragedies of the war so far are the three sinkings by American fire of Japanese son ships carrying American soners of war from the pines to the Nipponese homeland In the first which occurred in September but which wasn't re- ported until weeks later 83 out of the 750 aboard in the cond reported last week as curring in October only five are known to have escaped out of a tal of in the last disclosed as occurring in December the roll of rescued out of aboard is believed to have been cut to two although nearly half of the total recaptured still may be Japanese prisoners Reporting the last one in Wash ington yesterday Navy Lt Georgi Karl asserted the that even if American warplanes hadn't sunk the ship most of them would have suffocated reaching Japan so crowded were they in poorly ventilated holds Aside from that last week's report of the sinking said existed also in that only con- solation relatives of the lost can cling to is that all first two sunk by submarines the last by unavoidable No submarine commander we readily realize and no bomber know in advance attack the target ship ried American passengers On the brighter the Allied point of the re- ports in repatriated Americans and a Swedish war correspondent just out of Germany tragedy also is being ed in wholesale upon the Axis aggressors who brought on this tragic war Transportation in Germany is all shot to Capt Harry Stephenson of New Rochelle N Y one of the repatriates is ed as reporting The food situation there is tical And Granberg a Swedish ru flit who from lin by trading two old suits some socks ties and two pounds of fee for an automobile writes that he German is a network of barricades as the Nazis convert the city into a frontier fortress He pictures Berlin as choked with German refugees from front areas and deserters from Nazi armies The plight ot Germany plus the tightening about the ponese homeland at least inspires increasing hope that the multi- plying tragedies of war sometime soon will come to an end Hurley Deming Win in District Cage Meet Here Las Cruces Union high school's Bulldogs touched the district four tournament here this morning by a smashing defeat of Alamogordo in the first game of the first play Other morning round tors were Hurley and Deming high school fives Cliff Go Down Hurley defeated Cliff by a score as imposing as that by which the killed off Deming turned in an set score of against the md entrant from Otero county Hurley win had been ex- But the realizing hat they had a tough team to leat grabbed off a lead in the irst few minutes of play and it until the final quarter when Deming's Wildcats went wild and in a hustling finish crowded six points to the good Stark High Man for Dogs The Bulldogs game with neighbors from across San Augus tin Pass was a walkaway from the start they were never in danger Paul Stark was high point man for the Dogs with a total coun of 19 while Burch led the visitors with 14 Anthony an aggressive gang from the southern end of Dona Ana county had drawn a bye in last week's pairings so this morning's schedule was limited to three matches Tonight As a result of this morning's victories Las Cruces meets ley at the start of this evening's p Deming is pitted against An- thony at 8 This afternoon's games starting 2 p m were to decide which teams meet in the lower second round after Silver City plays Hatch Hot Springs Animas and Lordsburg Monticello Virden now state champion also drew a bye in the ngs will get going at 10 tonight the winner of the game Consolations meantime will start tonight at Junior high gym among losers in today's games TO SPEAK HERE Yanks Capture Iwo Mountain Hit at Airfield By ELMONT WAITE U S PACIFIC FLEET on Guam reb 23 AP American rines reached the summit of Mount Suribachi at the im tip of Iwo Jima today and j I began a renewed drive on the central air field after ing two Japanese counter- attacks Most Costly Marine Action The Stars and Stripes were raised over the volcanic Suribachi fortress 97 hours after the costly invasion began and marines began cleaning out Japanese still ing to the crater with throwers TAKES YANKS NEARER TOKYO Little progress was made W E Fisher above will be the principal speaker at the an- meeting of the National Farm Loan Assn here day W E Thorpe treasurer announced today The meeting is to be held in the farm bureau assembly room at the Temple of Agriculture Mr er was secretary of the federal land bank of Wichita when the Valley Farm Loan Assn was organized in 1022 he now is the bank's vice-president Failed Prison Break Applies Death Penalty Name Chairmen For R C Drive Names of chairmen of the communities in Dona Ana county to conduct the annual Red Cross drive were announced day by Tom Graham chapter chairman Communities south of Las ces and the chairman of each are as state College C L Park Mrs Ar- thur Barker old Mrs Grace Mrs Roy Mesquite Mrs Billy en Vado Mrs Cecil ino Mrs Carl Price Anthony Mrs L A Burns La Union Mrs A R Bogart Ramon La Mesa Mrs T L Eslinger San Miguel Mrs V D Stahmann farms Mrs Dean Stahmann Chairmen to serve in northern communities Mrs SAN QUENTIN Calif Fell 23 Alfred convict in nn attempted prison break J A- Griffin East Picacho Mrs yesterday died List night on Kenneth Ann operating table at the prison hos-j Mrn M L Linton Radium pital while a was Springs Mrs W J Stewart ing a bullet which hud entered his on Mrs K T Hodson intestines Tho area including Salem Cavazos and two other field and Hatch will be under all under sentence made n try for freedom The county drive outside of while men in death row were ing permitted to in a Community Fund In Drive Las Cruces Community finance next year's work of Scouts of America Girl Scouts and Recreation scribed in one-day campaign Drive Chairman Jack Bowen revealed today May Go Over The various organizations had sited a total budget of hey got the basis of turned in by p m and Mr Bowen aid that with some reports in- the grand total may go a high as or more ian was asked The total subscription Bowen dded will be the basis of budgeted these Boy Scouts 58 percent Girl Scouts 17 percent men's Recreation Center 25 cent Saddles Are Awarded The prize where in the most costly fight in which the marines have ever been fight that cost American casualties including 644 dead in the first three days Attack from Rear Fails Japanese swimmers made a less attempt to attack American forces on the western side of the island from the rear last night They were mopped up on the beaches this morning Carrier aircraft sweeping over the Bonin islands in protective sweeps to eliminate repeated en- emy attacks on American shipping assembled off Iwo shot down three Japanese planes In Brilliant Action Surmounting of Suribachi was brightest spot in the entire Iwo The leathernecks won command of the height from which the Japanese had cast down a deadly mortar and artillery fire in other marines spread out over he south third of the embattled Bland Its capture eliminated the threat o the rear of three devildog attempting to drive north where the main strength of the nemy garrison is dug in Adm Chester W con- the drama into this special The regiment f U S marines was observed x P 4 Continued on page 2 Americas Apply Yalta Charier By FLORA LEWIS MEXICO CITY Feb 23 The American republics began plying aims of the Crimean con- ference today to the strategy ion a hemispheric fight against man want and oppression Settling down to the real ness of the inter-American ence delegates from 19 countries were largely guided by a point program proclaimed last night by U S Secretary of State Edward R Stettinius and el New Island In Philippines Mop in Manila MANILA Feb 23 UP Doughboys or the di vision heroes of battles in th Solomons mopped up Japanes today on little Capul Island of Die south tip of Luzon after a new Philippine invasion aimed at clear ing tho shipping lane from the United States to war-torn Manila Only Light Opposition Con Douglas MacArthur an nouncing the Yank landing 01 Capul Wednesday said those Yanks of the American eighth ar- my encountered only light tion The island lies in San dino strait between Luzon and Samar island Capul lies 260 air miles from Manila whore other Yank fighters are locked In battle against Japanese Manila Hotel City Hall From the shattered southern portion of the capital AP War man and top cowhand in their efforts today turned out to be toy saddles miniature vehicles death Nazism and Fascism whenever and wherever they may appear support for an organized peace the Atlantic mcn nallon an living standard no more than three inches long but highly decorated in bonier color They awarded Bowen said as Top ranch to Keith Circle which turned in a total of top Faces Firing Squad foreman Lestur Lackey PaDe anJ ed on the Circle Dollar whose rOr alm team led all others in tho NOGALES Sonora Fell top Individual j Judge Felipe Betty Tank i Jr today sentenced Lulu By ranches these additional I Leyva Alvarado gures were reported I cr be executed by a firing with Adlai Feather as boss j for the rape slaying last Double-Cross Billy November of two-year-old girl Smith in Cananca mining town near L Gill boss here Correspondent Fred Hampson ported division infantrymen had seized the Manila hotel the city hall and all of the general post office except tlic basement The hotel was he said after a and cor- fight through the succeeding floors The office was no less difficult Opco Gate for Tanks The three-story city hall near the where the nese are making a fortified last stand was won after the Yanks had withdrawn from the building four times in the face of gun fire The first cavalry pounded with Howitzers and cannon at the vy walls of the Intramuros to pre- pare tunneled paths for its tanks Simultaneously the borne division advanced along the west coast of de Bay southeast of Manila to cut off the of trapped ese by barge The Yanks reached the town of Mop Japs in Meanwhile thy extermination of Continued on page 2 Dog Gets Reprieve Trial for His Life After Killing Child LOS ANGELES Feb 23 dpi The Staffordshire bull terrier Woof has won an eleventh-hour reprieve from his scheduled ex- today for the killing of a baby last Feb 13 Judge William R McKay sued a temporary restraining order loat night prohibiting the city animal shelter from ing the dog in a gas chamber until a hearing has been held March 30 Marguerite Derdenger daughter of and Mrs Charles P Derdenger was choked to death in tho dog's jaws while playing with the pet at her home Son Becomes a Major Raymond K Unwell n son of City Patrolman has promoted to the rank of jor hts father Major Howell a of in France when last heard from has been over- Turks Enter War Against Axis LONDON Feb announced today the Turkish had voted o declare war on Germany an apan as a result of a decision o he Big Three to qualify as As all lake up arms against th before March 1 The assembly alao voted to adhere to the Unit Nations declaration The disclosure that a declaration f war waa the price of n Beat a he San Francisco on security in April was made by the Turkish foreign Soviets Seize Poznan Strike Toward Berlin BULLETIN LONDON Fen Russians have captured an- In Poland Mondial Stalin tonight LONDON Feb sian troops having almost cled fortress in nn smash through reinforced German lines today were reported massing along an arc 30 to 50 miles east and southeast of Berlin for nn stroke triumphantly by Premier Marshal n Kayo Near Germans Arc Told Complete victory over the mans now is near Stalin declared ast night In a lay special order of the Husband's in Jail Wife Gets Divorce While Duarte waited in a term for and battery because of a re- cent disturbance Judge Numa C this morning granted a divorce to Margarita Duarte She alleged merely lity an grounds for the action Dial Ally W T Jr who represented Mrs Duarte said Duarte once served a abort term on conviction of beating her she got him pardoned from finishing the term he ad- Jed The Moscow radio early today up the Stalin order with broadcast de- the zero hour has struck It Is up to the German people i the army and factories to stoo he the broadcast said Peace will not be negotiated with the Dead In Drive Stalin yesterday assorted that Soviet and Allied armies have Roer Is Bridged Push on Cologne Berlin Reports PARIS Feb 23 APJ man broadcasts said tonight General Eisenhower had started his grand scale sive toward the Ruhr and had bridged the Boer at several places and ad- two miles east of the in shattering power with anks artillery and infantry On Front Supreme headquarters complete silence on any new The Germans said the big push ad been by a our artillery barrage by ands of guns The enemy said the attack was i a front all the way rom Roermond to Dueren ami as mounted by the American nth and first armies The Germans said the main were at these points The British second army last reported in the Roermond area where the Roer flows into the maas was said by lin to be fighting alongside the Canadians In the tor farther north Fogs which blotted out parts of tho battlefield at dawn gave way to good weather An early wave of takeoffs Indicated the Germans were In for another paralyzing bombing onslaught such as Patton Crosses the Soar Both south and north of the Roer sector the American third and Canadian first armies made gains Still farther south the American seventh army moved to within a mile and a half of the Saar capital of and won two-thirds of Forbach U Gen Gco S third army advanced up to two and a half miles In the Moselle valley and to within four and n half of ancient Trier their and are successfully com- the rout of the German fascist army Stalin's proclamation orating the anniversary of the Red army said the Russians had killed Germans and captured since Jan ft He said the Germans had lost 3.000 planes tanks and self-pro- guns and other during that time fur The Berlin radio said that a final all-out Soviet offensive was now that Marshal Ivan 9 first Ukraine army has drawn up Marshal K first White Russian army on a battle line along the and Oder rivers Konev's forces yesterday cap- tured 80 localities south of and reached the river at points along a winding Continued on page 2 88.0001 keystone of German defenses be- fore the middle Rhine Tho third army forced n third crossing or the river west of and started fighting in the Siegfried line which lies Just cast of the Saar river In the Pruem sector the columns squeezing the German salient cast of Luxembourg moved to within eight miles of a Junction Town after town fell Scots Canadian first army gains on the north flank of the roer river front were up to a mile and a half The fortified road bastion ol LONDON Feb ques Doriot French was killed when Al lied attacked his In southern Germany the ridor and beat and stabbed Prison Guard A The third convict In the escape attempt was S 1 Kelso 25 Los Angelos murder conviction is now on tn have Hod m the today Magic next Friday Las Cruces will begin March I and continue throughout the month Mr Graham said The quota for the outlying dis- is Oil OUTPUT INCREASES TULSA Okla Feb 2.1 1.11 United Stales crude oil production increased dally in the week ended Feb 17 to 000 barrels dally the Oil and Gas Journal said today look Sigurd boss 101.75 raise for Ranch Hands Mr Bowen expressed deep preciation for efficient work of his wranglers i 20 months his father said Berlin radio said today RED OFFICER CALLS UP BERLIN BURGOMEISTER MOSCOW Feb 23 i I la reported with glee today that The competition he n Red army major had talked by added a lot to the fun and the telephone with a Nazi secretary in success of the drive And we couldn't have got he without publicity given by lack 11 city hail Everything Is true In this ry said the account Mot long ago one of our and the j after successfully out- Nanking a small German town I It sn suddenly the tants did not know what had hap- until they drew their tains the next morning Two hours later a train from the and WIFE ASKS FOH DIVORCE Ramona J Molina filed suit in court today flaking n co from Molina She logon Incompatibility the chief conductor threatened to complain to the of railways when ordered to halt his departure for the west Surprised the Gorman son had not had to disrupt communications and at the tele- phone station operator placed a to Berlin for one of our MaJ who knows German When Berlin he ed for the burgomaster He was informed the was ab- sent but the latter's secretary in tho burgomaster of the major How iro things jotting The they've come quite clone already wan the answer How is It with Oh fine One hour ogo the Soviets our so I'll complain to tne the Berlin official said You're welcome to complain to hi mi said thn This ti a officer you soon Herr List 12 Million Vazi Casualties By Proas Premier announcement that tho Soviet winter offensive Had cost the Germans more than l.lfiO.OOO in killed or captured to at leant the which the imy the Germans have on the front In nearly four years of war Stalin announced on Nov that the Germans hnd tout men in Tour months Ad- ded lo thr claims of previous com- thin brought total man casualties to fi Or April 24 1044 A Soviet com- reported a total of 000 tiormnnn killed and captured during the Soviet winter and spring offensive On Nov 10 1944 Soviet com- had reported Germans killed find captured In the over-All campaign bo- ginning June 2.1 Slowly wna invested Scot vanguards pushed a half down the road fanned out to the north find moved a mile ami n half toward the subsiding Monty Starts The German radio said Marshal Montgomery had bun new breakthrough attempts at the northern end of the Allied lino in coordination with Un- American attacks in the setter but did not name the nct point of Montgomery's The Eisenhower offensive wus the Germany said in the wake of great norial lows and following barrages by uf Supremo headquarters as yet not confirmed the Berlin counts of the new offensive but that the big not fur off If it had not actually Jump Off at Dawn The battering by in the 48 hours was by Allied and said with armies at a m on Hoor river front on both widen of JJS miles west of Cologne I he M Gen Win H U S Continued on page 2 Son of Justice la German Prisoner SANTA KB Fob 23 pfr ThomM J Buddy Mabry II of Albuquerque who reported Jan Id lo have boon in action Dec 23 was captured ufter being wounded In tho many offensive his friend today wrote Justice and Mrs T J
