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U. S. Isf Army Captures Roer River Dams; Raid Tokyo Affer Earthquake Hits Japan
1st Widens Gap in Way To 10 Miles
Occupation of Germany Important Question for 'Big Three  Conference
Reds Want to Use Free German Group; Paris Radio Claims deGaulle at Meeting
By ROBERT D0W80N
London, Feb. 10. (UP)-Diplo- matic quarter* believed tonight that the "Big Three' Allied lead¬ ers ware reaching decisions which will be final in regard to aecuring European peace, but will be sub¬ ject to approval of other Allied governnienta  where   necessary.
There was little doubt that theae decisions call for immediate and prolonged Allied occupation of Germanv and its adminiatration by Allied   troops.
The meeting of the Big Threei — President Roouevclt. Prime Min-' Ister Churchill and Premier Mar¬ shal Stalin -- IS proceeding some¬ where in the Black Sea area, ac¬ cording to last official announce¬ ment.    It   was   believed   hero  they
SAY LEWIS READY TO TAKE HIS UMW BACKINTOAFL
His Problem Is To Retain Power; Making Concessions
Miami,   Fla.,   Feb,   10,    (UP)— John L. Lewis  bushy-browed presi
may be able to adjourn during the coming week despite enormity of their  task.
Occupation und administration of Germany was underatood to be the most import.int of three major pointa under discus.sion. Ranked behind   it   were   the   quviiions   of
dent of the United Mine Workers, begins hla 64ith year Monday with a major victory and with one nt the most difficult phaaes of his stormy career.
The victory will be an Ameri¬ can Federation of Labor charter for the union Lewis took from the AFL in IDS.*). The job is to fit the miners back into the Federation picture without losing the power on which hc thrives, Anatvrr AwMlted
Lewis   was   In   Washington   tO'
A Bridge for General Purposes
chance with   the  AFL,   while  the Federatlon'a  executive   council
^Slittcal   and   economic   -ettlemcnt r'«'^i„,=°"''*If''"«.f "r'i•"'^n^^hrr of   European   squabbles,   and   the ""   billing   to   make   for   another earlieat   possible   establishment   of internaUonal   peace   organiaa-
t*»n. ...
With Radio Moscow increuslnKly publicizing the Sovlet-apcmsored Free German Committee, there ap¬ peared grounds as newsp;ipers here suggested for believing Stalin had put forward thi.s move¬ ment ns H possible nucleus for post¬ war German  adminiatration.
The movement is headed by Field Marshal Kriedrich von Paulus — the loser at Stalingrad - - nnd Oen    voti    Glewitz.    and    includes
Yanks over Pasig River In Manila
General Douglaa MmcArtbur ta .•ibown aitUnK cooUy in aeat aa jeep  atarta  on^Kfc^rioua  croaa-
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waited herl to read hla anawerj >n( over a fKkitjr bridge at ano vote him bach. Hia return te the fold was regarded aa certain, provided that he atlck by commit¬ ments made privately to AFL President William Green. They were said to be:
1. Lewis and the miners will be reinstated immediately, ao that he will have AFL backing in new mine contract negotiations starting Mar. 1. His new strength may aid settle- {ment before the Mar. 31 deadline,
CamlUnf on Luzon. Tb* Tank in foreground guidea tha vehicle with a Arm hand while soMler in the background livea "coma-
on"* glgaaL Plaaka wwr* baitty itntched teroM tbe bombed-out brUgt  to   pamlt  the  gtnaral'a
croasinf.
Jap Caplfdiis Given Heaviest Raid by B-29's
. . , .. Lewis will retain jurisdiction 40,tKX) to «0,(K)0 oerman., who have -^,pr j,,^ UMWs catch-all District renounced Nazism. Most of these, j^„ ^^ „„,^. j,„(i| ,^p ^p^ de- •urrendered to the Russians. With i^rmine-s what existing trade unions British and American consent theyL^r tresp.is^ed against bv the mis- may be used to adminuitcr partsl.p,|^„pou, ,j„j„„ „f pheriiical, coal, of Germany occupied by the Red!d„,ry and farm workers. *!!i^*- .,¦     r^, . J      i    3-   Jurisdictional disputes center-
Thc  Big  Three  was  also  under-,,      ^^,„^J^^ District f.O will be sf tiled atood   to   have   given   considerable, bpi„.een the UMW and the various conaideration   to  neutrals   policies. „„;„„, j„ conference, exhausting the  qLiestlon of asylum     4   _such   disputes   as   cannot   be for  war  criminaLs, ,   settled go to the executive cn-jncil.
lay Control Ihtrdam-llea which ha.s the final word and may
Ankara reports indicated the Big'lake     M  nw.ny  from  Lewi'. Three   was   dlscus.ting    control    of|To AVnrb Progresnlve   Miners the Bosphorous and Dardanellea as;    .t.   The  AFL's  Progressive  Mine
PLANES HELP ALLIES DESPITE BAD WEATHER
Ry DOtUALD WERNER
I..ondon, Feb. 10. (UP)-Fort¬ resses of the U. S. Eighth Air Force braved • vicious" weather to¬ day to bomb a motor fuel depot at Duelnicn in northwest Germany, where main highway and railroads lead to German forces facing Gen Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's of¬ fensive on the northern end of the Siegfried  Line.
More     than     ITiO     Britain-based
well    a«    the    demilitarization    of | Workers,    strong   in    Illinois    '"id h^^^.i^ ^^^i^j ^^^ ^„,„„j r„„„,,. land    on    each    aide     thus    ending 1 Indiana,   will   he   absorbed   by   the  ,|,p.clock  aerial   offensive   Into   its
I .il    .   TlV"'-       *"""* ."''^"   "¦" ,1^       "",i "^"T' """'T  "P'"'"'"".'?."" I Ihird day.    Pari of them hit Duel- Mason to believe preparations were  tlon  on   the   mitne  scale   committee ;„,p„   ^v   Instrument   and    the    -- being made for a world-wide con-iand other UMW bodies, ference   on   the   Dumbarton   Oaks'     For   2!i   years   Lewi.'?    has   been Bcale   Rt   which   various   interna-1 president of the miner.i.   He made tional  questions  would   be discuss-  one   bid   for   the   AFL   presidency •d I but    failed    to    unseat    thp    late
The ministry of infonnatioii; .Samuel Gomoers and thereafter meanwhile issued a communique, supported Green a UMW member, questioning authenticity of a broad- until he walked out from the CIO. cast by Paris radio that Gen. How he and Green, who exchanged Charles de Gaulle had been In- bitter charges during the estrange- vlted to attend final phases of the ment. will work together again ia Black Sea  talks. a   question,   hut   Green   has   been
Authoritative Paris  sources said, strongly   for  re-sfflllation,
according to the best  available  In-1 	
formation,  no  Invitation had  beenfSa.va CIO Conununisia
received. .%re Dividing Ijihor
Rooaevelt  >lav Vli.lt King Miami. Fla., Feb. 10 <UP> -Presl-
Uauallv    well    inrormcil   sources <'''"<  William  Green of the Amer- tContlnued  on   Page A-lOi iContiniird   on   Page  A-ll> !
mainder struck submarine nens on the Dutch coa.st at Ijmiiiden throuRli a heavy overcast.
Two American bombers were re¬ ported missing.
Reconnaissance photograph.s tak¬ en over Berlin on Thur.sday show¬ ed the downtown section had been wrecked hy last Saturday's massive assault. Some sections were still burning, five days after the 1,000- bomber raid.
The air mini.str.v announced that RAF Spitfire bombera attacked V-2 storage and firing sites in the Netherlands loday. encountering heavy anti-ain raft fire, while other
ALLIES TAKE PRINCIPAL TOWN ON RAMREE ISLAND
Calcutta, Feb. 10. (UP)-^ British and Indian troops completing a 30-mile march from the Northern shores of Ramree Island, have oc¬ cupied Ramree Town, the principal center of population, it was an¬ nounced today, while in Central Burma other Allied forces com¬ pleted the reduction of Kule, which gave them a bridgehead on the East bank of the Irrawaddy just north of Singu.
In the Arakan Valley, a trap was being closed around Japanese forces caught between the Allied road block at Kangaw and West African   troops   advancing   South
Big American Force Has Perfect Weather; Tremors Reported 'Fairly Severe'
Washington Feb. 10. (UP) — Superfortresses gave Tokyo prob¬ ably its heaviest pounding in per¬ fect da.vlight bombing weather to¬ da.v, less than an hour after an eaXhquake shook the main Japa¬ nese island of Honshu and Hok¬ kaido  Island  to the  north.
One of the largest foree.s of the giant B-20's ever to hit the Japa¬ nese capital flew 3.000 miles round
vvnrii frn™ Mlnk^o     TU- £»...i,._.. I''''''  'f«m   the  Mariana  I.slands  to aX   r^^m.iH^ ;^r^   ?'°u'li''*s.M blast industrial  targets with   'good Asia   Command   communique   "a'd to excellent results" "—   two   groups   were   but   seven'      ''^'^ciient results.
the
miles apart. Minbya Is approxi¬ mately 29 miles inland from the important port of Ak.vab.
Kule was occupied following a heavy air strike. Other troops re¬ captured a village temporarily lost to the enemy just south of Nabet, in the vicinity of the confluence of the Chlndwin and Irrawaddy rlvera.
The.v     encountered    only"   light fighter  opposition.
Reports from Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Le May's 21at Bomber Com¬ mand indicated that this eighth major attack on Tokyo was one of the most successful. One spokes¬ man said the force was as large as any group ever to hit Tokyo and probably was the largest. Earthquake Hits Hard
The    earthquake    which    fortuit
^lifs Is the Story of a German Cirl Who Loved a Handsome Yank In' 18
By RORKRT RICHARDS : menfolk  of  these  women   were  in
With     Third    American     Army, the   German    Army.     Finally    the
Western Front, Feb. 10. lUPi    Old l captain   could   stnnd   it   no   longer.
women  have  a tale' to  tell  in  the One day he said lo the old woman:
German  town  of Dieklrch. "See   here
This is It: [to   me?'"
When   the  Americans  entered  a
few   weeks   ago,   ofhcers  and   men
THE ROAD TO BERI.IX
Eastern   Front—31   miles    (from
^WWe™''Vmnt    ooa mM».   (fr^m ' """'v  Preceded  the  raid  shook  the .Spitfires  nnd   Mustangs  conducted, nrarvti^iefe" "^'"lentire ea.,tern  and  central  part  of
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of Tokyo  and   Yokohama,   at  1:50
and Holland.
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War KiiniinarT
took up quarters in homes because of the bitter cold. One captain vent to live with a gray-haired woman and her 28-year-old daugh¬ ter.
His was H happy mind and hc liked a friendly atmosphere. So when he came into the house he said  "Hello."
Neither the mother nor daughter answered.    They turned away. Al\\-a.^-s Ignored
Day    after    day    the    American
came    into    the    house   and    said
"Hello"  and  each  day  he  was ig-
_*rred.
J Perhaps, the captain thought, the
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"Because    we she   replied.
"But why? What have we done to  you?"
The old woman lold him. In Ihe last war nnnthei- American captain came  to live  in hor home.
"I was young and he was liand- some." she said. "He said things and I believed him. Then 1 married him. When the war ended hc went away, and soon I found he had an¬ other wife in America.
"There  was  nothing  I  cnuld  do. This girl  .vou  see here with  me is his daughter.' The Climax
This new captain told her how unhappy ho fell that his coiintry- iimn hnd tre.itcd her so hadlv.
"Do you have a picture of thi.s i i-nn." he asked,
"Oh  yes."  the woman  replied.      |
.She KOt the photograph. He look- d and was staggered it was of his irother-in-law.
At hast that't bow the Dlekirch women tell iu
WESTERN FRONT—Yank.s seize Roer River dams as Canadians reach Rhine at Miiling^en and drive to witliin two miles of Kleve.
EASfteRX FRONT—Soviet.s drive within 90 miles of Dresden, capture East Prussian fortresses of Elbing and Preussisch E.vlau.
PHUJPPINES—U. S. Cavali-.v tioops cross Pasig River in outflanking maneuver;'drive canies three miles fioni Manila Ba.v as trap tightens around Japanese in southern Manila.
PACIFIC—Superfortresses blast Tok.vo in heaviest assault of war as severe earthquake shakes Japan home islands.
AIR—Kl.ving Fortresses bomb moter fuel depot at Duel- men in support of Field Marshal Sir Bemaid L. .Montgomer.v's drive on northern end of Siegfried Line.
1T.\LY—Gennan opposition increases along entire Fifth U. S. Anny front.
CHINA—Japanese occupy Kanhsien, former American airbast.
p.m.. according to Japane.'ie broad-1 casts.
Scismopraghs at Kordham Uni¬ versit.v in .New Yorlc Indicated it was "fairly severe" but not as severe as the tremors which shook the Japanese mainland last Dec. 7, causing tidal waves which ad¬ mittedly caused heavy damage.
Forty minutes after the quake started, and possibly while it still was in progress, five waves of Superfortressts - numbering ap- proximatel.v 90 planes, according to Tokyo -loo.sed their explosives and incendiaries on Tokyo and Yo'^i- iiama. Knem.v broadcasts said air¬ plane factories were the principal targets. Raid Huecessfnl
A second raid was reported seven hours later by Tokyo radio Super¬ forts this time were over the Yoko- suka naval station, south of Tokyo, heading north.
The Domei news agency said the B-20's In the first raid remained over Honshu for about an hnur. Bul they "beat a retreat" after meeting "stiff opposition ' from in¬ terceptor planes, the agency con¬ tinued. An official enem.v com¬ munique admitted "some damage to "jroiind installations."
Returning crews at 21st Bomber Command headquarters were en- thuiiastir. Observers said the fact that "good to excellent' results were reported signiflcant. B-29 headquarters ordinarily does not (ConUnued on Face A-10)
Move Trapping Japs; Hint Ships Gathering To Attack Corregidor
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON^
Gen. MacArthur's Head-; quarters, Sunday, Feb. Ill (UP) _ The United States', First Cavalry, liglitening the trap around Japanese holding out in southern Manila, hasj crossed the Pasig River in a| wide outflanking maneuver j southeast of the capital andj is within three miles of Manila Bay, it was announced today.
Troops of the 37th Division, widening their bridgehead across the Pasiff in the center of the city, pushed ahetd in house to house fighting on i front ahuost two miles long and within a mile and a half of the southern edg« of Manila.
As the Battle of Manila entertd ita aecond week, Oen. Douglaa Mac- Arthur's dally war bulletin an¬ nounced that the Japanese had con¬ verted houses and public buildings Into pillboxes and fortified strong- points and were using artillery againat the steadily advancing Americans.
The Bulletin disclosed that Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge's 1st Cavalry, which made the first penetration of Manila last Saturday, had advanced five milea in its outflanking drive around the eastern side of the 14-square mile city. Can Trap Enemy
The cavalry struck eastward through New Manila, a northeast¬ ern suburb of the capital, and then plunged four miles southward to foroc the twisting Pasig near the town of San Pedro Makate, a mile southeast of the city's lower bound¬ ary and five miles southeast of the river's mouth at Manila Bay.
Near San Pedro Makate, Gen. .Mudge's men were in position to strilie three miles westward to reach Manila Bay just below Manila and hopelessly trap the enemy still holdins parts of the jity south of fhe Pasig. The drive, >'arricd almost to the edge of the .Vielson Airfield and within three miles of the llth Alrbrone Division troops waging a hard fight with the Japanese in the Nichols Field area.
The crossing was made yesterday (Saturday) by highly mechanized unlU on the First Cavalry, and once over the river they turned westward toward Manila Bay. Japa nghtlng to Death
Dispatches  said  the  Japanese  In Manila were fighting fiercely, hold¬ ing out to the death in "each strong- point.     Snipers   frequently   turned (Continued on  Page A-10)
Report MacArthur Being 'Sidetracked*
Washington, Feb. 10. (UP) — The Army and Navy Journal said today that (~U!n. Douglas Mac- ArOiur is being "sidetracked" in current planning for the final assault on .lapan and that Under¬ secretary of War Robert P. Pat¬ terson has been chosen to head U. S. representation on the post¬ war Allied control commission in (jermany.
"Plans for the (Japan) Inva¬ sion which have been approved," the   Journal   said,   "contemplates
the cleanup job In the Philip¬ pines and the assignment of an¬ other ofHcer as the commander of the invading expedition."
The Journal, which has no oHIclal status, did not mention any other possible commander's name. It said that "what the President's final decision on this question will be is not known." But the publication urged the American people to oppose a sub¬ stitute  for MacArthur.
Before Fleeing but Tidal-Wave Flood Threat Has Passed
Reds Aim at Baltic Coast
Surge Towards Stettin; May Outflank Berlin; Prussian Cities Fall
By BOYD D. LEWIS
Paris. Feb. 10 (UP)—Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' American First .'\nny won the bitter week-old battle for the I Roer River dams today by capturing Schwammenauei while the Canadian First Army, gaining three miles, reached the Rhine River at Millingen and drove double spearheads to within two miles of Kleve. (Map on Pagt A-3.)
American patrols nuked tho Tktery of tke 4uM ly stibUng for the maim Roer River in the area of HuoafeM uiiiier an intenae artUeiy bar* rage. The German radio aaid other crossings were being at¬ tempted all along the river.
The Canadians were ad¬ vancing steadil.v to the north. They captured three vital towns and assaulted a fourth, widened their front to 17 miles and smashed through the GeiTiians' first line of Siegfried defenses guarding the VVest Wall anchor for¬ tresses of Kleve and Goch.
A fourth vital Siegfried bastion appeared alx>ut to fall 115 miles south of Kleve aa Lt. Gen, George S, Patton'a Third Army drove within a half mile of Pruem in a double two-thirds   encircled   Breslau envelopment and  Spread  the
et tanks smashed into the heart   .1,.     ,        ••     .    . ,     .       :,
Allies   widest breach  in the West Wall to a 10-mile gape.
The battle of tiie dams was won with a thunderous artillery barrage that drove the defenders of Schwammenauei Into retreat, but the roar of the guns was accom¬ panied hy the din of German de¬ molitions. OermaiiH Open Flood Gates
Knowing the battle wm iost, the Germans opened the floodgate-; 21 hours before the dam was taken and exploded a charge in th" gata mechanism, preventing it from ba- ing closed.
Although ths bulk of Schwann- menauel's pent-up waters were re-
GERMAN 19TH ARMY WIPED OUT AT COLMAR
By t'lJNTOX B. C¥)X«iKB
.Sixth Armv Group Headquarters, Feb. 10. {UP)--The German 19th Army has been eliminated as an effective fighting force with the destruction of six Infantry divisions and one armored brigade In the three-week Colmar lainpaign. l» wns announced officially today.
Preliminary reports said the 19th lost mnre than 23.000 men. .Vl tank.' and self-propelled guns, and 66 ar¬ tillery pieces while pri.soners taken numbered 17,000. One highly au¬ thoritative source estimated that 75 to 80 per rent of thr Germans in the Colmar pocket- .'lO.OOO to fiO.OOO tioops had been killed, wounded or captured.
The Germans had right divisions find one panzer brigade in the Col¬ mar pocket, the announcement said. The F'rench 1st Army, in it? n'fensivc. destroyed tho Scond Mountain. l.lPlh. IRflth. lUSth. S.ISth^ Uld 7l61h infantrv divisions a,ni' thr   106th   Panier  Brigade.
The Colmar victory shortened llie upper Rhine front from 17' miles to approximatelv 8". r-iA ¦¦¦•¦ leased Allied units for use else¬ where It also aecured Strasbourg from any co-ordinated plncer at- tadt, the announcement said.
By ROBERT SIL'SEL
London. Sunday Feb. U.  (UP)—
(ted   Army   troops   urged   toward
Stettin   and   the   Baltic   Coast   of
German  Pomeranla on a  111-mile
front   yesterday   and    Berlin    ad¬ mitted they had plunged 24 miles
beyond  the  Oder  River  northwest
of Breslau and advanced to within
90   miles   of   Dresden.     iMap   on
Page   A-4.) In   encircled   East   Prussia   Red
Army soldiers captured the fort- ' ress cities of Elbing and Preus- j sisch   Bylau.   eastern   and   western
ends of a 900-square mile pocket : ol German resistance in the almost-
.onquered Junker province. I    Elbing   was   a   big   U-boat   and I torpedo    boat    production    center, I Moscow said.    Before the war fac¬ tories   there   turned   out   six   sub
marines a month.
Thirty-five miles west northwest of .    .        _     -
Sovi
of the important Lower Silesian in
dustrial    city    of    IJegnitz,    Nazi
broadcasts acknowledged.
May Outnank  Berlin
The enemy said that other tank spearheads, by-pa.ssing Liegnitz on the north, had rolled to Kotzenau. 17 miles northwest of Liegnitz and 90 miles east northeast of Dresden. Nazi broadcasts said the Russians appeared bent on outflanking Ber¬ lin on the south, by a drive across southern German.v.
Along a 220-mile stretch of the Oder River, battlea for Germany's "last ditch" defense line reached new hights of ferocity, Moscow dis¬ patches said the Germans were be¬ lieved throwing in their la.1t avail¬ able reserves to gain time to bolster the defenses of Berlin,
Before the Nazi capital itself, j bitter tank and artillery battles continued a.i the Red Army Iftid siege to Berlin's outer defense for¬ tresses of Kucstrln. Frankfurt-on- , ,, , , . the-Oder and Fuerstenberg along a, Ihe river novv will rise slowly in- 40-mile arc 31 to 43 mile.s from the, ¦''"•^d °f roaring through the valley pj(,.                                                            m a destructive 18-foot flood.
Violent Battle Begins
Mar.shal Gregory K Zhukov's 1st White Russian Armv swept toward the Baltic coast on a 111- mile line extending from Zaecher- Kk. on tiie Oder's ca^t bank 31 miles northeast of Berlin, to the village of Knacksce, 10 miles south of the Pomeranian rail center of (Continued  on   Page  A-4)
leased, raising the Roer three feet and flooding a 375-foot wide area of the river valley north of Duren, the river began to fall at noon to¬ day and dropped four Inches in lesa than 12 hours. The German decision meant Ihat
The rise may delay slightly any Allied plans for a fuU-acaTe assault along the Roer River north to Roermond, but it cannot long hold the impending blow. The Alliea now know the problem they face and can plan to meet it without the threat of a tidal wave hang- Ing over their movements.
Front reports from the Flrat (Continued   on   Page  A-8)
British Plans Ready To Throw Power at Japs
London. Feb. 10. (UP)—DeUiled blueprints already have been drawn for a mass transfer of British land, sea and air power to the tar Kant the moment Germany Ihaj been defeated, it was ieiriicd I tonight.
I    The   transfer   of   sea   power    al- I ready has reached the point where I most   of   the   Royal   Navy's   newest nnd   most   powerful   striiting   units -  aside    from    those    retained    lo Kuard   the   convoy   route   to   Mur¬ mansk    have joined either the East Indies   Fleet   commanded   by  Adm. Hir    A.    .T.    Power   or   the    newly- formed   Eastern   Fleet  under  Adm Sir  Bruce   Fraaer. The fall of Oonnaay will be tfaa
I starting signal for what one ta- formed source called "the biggest removal job in military history." It was learned that Britain's military planners already hava figured the exact number of divi¬ sions they will be able to use figainst Japan, the number of hea\-y bomber squadrons to be sent and even where the bombers will be based.
It  is  logical  to assume,  hcwevsr. that British  forces who have been
I under flre on the Continent wlU be given a reasonable home Isav^ l.ssued new equipment and trained In jungle and possibly amphlbioii* warfare before (oin( to ths Fef KmU  .^