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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1945
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GREATEST ALLIED DRIVE ON
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Americans Push 8 More Miles on Luzon Reds Open 3 Great Offensives^ Nazis Say
Cleveland Light Co. Seized
90% of Strikers Come Back Fast As Army Threatens Quick Induction
Where Yanks Landed on Luzon
Cleveland. ,Ian. 1.1. iUP>—Acting on orders from President Roose- vtlt the Army seized control of the Cleveland Klectric Illuminating Company today and rr.-'iored full power service to this > ital war- r-nii,if.iriiirinr I'cnter with a "work or be fired' ultimatum to 4UU strilt- ing CEI   employees.
The strike, a "wildcat' walkout rrecipllatcd by a union shop steward who ref u.sed to accept n change in his work schedule, was slowly paralyzing war production and threatening to blark out vir¬ tually nn entire five-county area around Cleveland with a popula¬ tion of 2,000.000 persons, includinc 300.000 war workers. Hirlkera Asaailed
Col. E. A. Lynn, chief of the Cleveland district Army ordnance department, marched inlo the CEl's main oiffice, accompanied by a staff of eight officers, and posted the President's aeizure notice on the premisM.
Lynn is.siied his back-to-work order within minutes. It was the fostcHt White House action in a aeizure   case.
Acting Secretary of War John J. McCloy, in announcing the prejiidcntial order, condemned the strilte aa "a direct violation of law and labor's no-strike pledge" and said it showed "a callous disregard
Poland Mi^Believed Past
Announced By Stalin
70 Miles from Germany; Berlin Reports Others In East Prussia and In Czechoslovakia
Agno River Line In Manila Push
20 Miles in on 16'Mile Front; Also Cut Highways to North Where Japs Fear New Landings
By WlLLl.XM B, DICKINSON Gen. MucAithur's Headquai'ters, Luzon, Sunday, Jan. 14
By BRUCK W. MUNN
Ixindon, Sunday, Jan. 14 (UP)—U.S. 6th Army tanks and infantry, advancing eight (UP)—Tlie Red Aniiy has 1 miles against light .lapanese rcsi.stance. have driven "20 miles opened it.s winter offensive in into northeastern Luzon and reached the .\gno River line
Attacking To Cut off Nazi^lge
Three-Way Pressure On Main Resistance; Retreat in Scramble On Secondary Roads
By JAMKS F, McGLINCY
Here Is an aerial view showing  I northern approaches of Ungayen town  of   San   Fernando,   on   tho   | Gulf, in Luzon of the Philippines.
AMERICA MADE SELF-SUFFICIENT
Asks for Careful Disposal of Our Surplus Property
I nr .MeQt'OWN WRIOHT
I Sevantii Bomb Group Base, I Somewhere In India. Jan. 16 (UP)- • ;One of tile greatest striking forces j of heavy, medium and dive bomb- i ers ever assembled by the Eastern l Air    Command    blasted    Japanese
troop   concentrations   nnd   supplies   2'C  John   Franland,   19,   of   Salt
retreating from Mandalay in cen tral Burma shortly after noon to¬ day.
The enemy supply columns were set afire by explosive bombs and| ncendiarips    and    pilots    reported
Pari.s. Sunday, Jan. 14 (UP)
Allied   armies   opened  a
soutli-cential Poland, crashing! near the town of Bayamluing, 87 miles northwest of Manila,I supreme   offensive  Saturday
2.'i miles throujrli Nazi lines to'it was announced today. |to wipe out the Ardennes.sal-
Iwithin 70 miles of industrial!   'I'o tne northwest, two omer coiumiis or Li. utn. ".Vii'.ci K.-iayvrf.'.'^nt :'.r.i  g.vnr.'i  yp t,''.  tJMacui
I southeastern GeiTnanv,  Mar-i^'"'*'""" "'"'">'•'•'''l'"^''°^*"''""^ •'^nks of the Agno along its north-1 miles   in   a   two-wav   drive
.,       .,       ,,i,„i    i„.„*   C4.„i;„   „.,'.,„..„ jiward course into Lingayen Gulf, hammered out gains of four to eight | ..„„,.•   _ .„ „...     ,« r^.-'u  ».
II  was  near  this  area  that   the    siial   .lo.sef   Stalin   announced mUcs along parallel higliways and extended the American lines ten to ,'^feV",'? *" '^"*' °^^ ^'^'^  '^'*'"- U. S. Forces made their landing,    la.st   nijrht,   and    Berlin   .said 20 miles into Luzon on a IB-mile front. jshal    Karl    Gerd    VOn    Rund-
tliat    virtuall.v     the     entire!   The   advances   cohered   action ——————^-^—^ stedt's panzers at the base of
the bulgre while U. S. Third Army tanks crashed acrose the enemy's lifeline at two points southwest of Houf« falizc.
Lt. Gen George S. Patton's forces at the same time drove within 51/;! niiles of a junction with the First Army in the waist of the wedge and the converging artillery blasts of the two armies also blocked off a stretcli of the Germans'
I ¦¦ * M.     &^        * J n Iv'.stein    Front    was    blazing i'trough Thursday night and it ap-
Heaviesf Raid on Burmo mto action,.     'lrnr.^rx,^*pV%rna't^h'a^n
Hammers at Jap Refreat
enemy said, was developing along the 600-niile front from the Baltic Sea to the Balkam;. The Red Amij* also has open¬ ed a full-scale offensive in East Prussia, Berlin said, and Aboard a Carrier Flagship off a Romanian Communique con- Luzon, Jan. 13.   (UP)    Seaman | firmed enemy reports that a
Only One Way To Run on Flattop
-,   . , .,, -   ,    . ,       —  •  attempt
Alajor,   bitter   fighting,  the minor   delaying  actions   along  the
Agno line, and perhaps not even that. One officer said Saturday that reconnaissance units had crossed the Agno at aeveral pointa. lap Relnfortsemrnta Bunk U. S. warplanes, halting poasibly
Washington.     Jan.     13.     fin>> ^.  ^,
of their   (the strikers'i   obligation.^. Presidential    Adviser   Bernard   M.'mol^e «n<l <lust rising a mile highl
fo their  country  . . ." Baruch  called tonight  for a policy, after   the   warplanca   had   finished^
C%nie  Bark Fast i "f surplus iimncrlv oi.sposal which  their work. j
Lvnn immcdiatclv called upon all! will promote ".self-containment" ot     The raid waa one of the heaviest j
atrii<.rs   to rclurn'to work  on   thc'the Anirrian r, onomy in the post-  air  blows ever delivered  in  Burmal
next regular shift and warned that war period. , «"d contained  probably one of the
"hose Ao failed to do so would bcj     Baruch's   call   for   national   self-  LY«t.    .'"^   '^ f'Tl f ¦      ,hu'
•immediately referred  to the  state .sufficiency was made in re.ilv to .•«! ,''°'"^""  i.hl%l'l?",'^?'^f„,.'" H„n^ -•^-- — '- - ~       _..    „.. llieatrc.    Iho Liberator formations
Lake Ci'j, Utah, ia back on the flattop he fell off last night, none the worse for wear, but with the loud noise of shipmates' heckling in his cars. Seems   he   was   sleeping   near
third big drive was underway ' in Czechoslovakia.
I At the same time, other actiona ! were reported on four widely- spaced fronts-three in Poland I along the Vistula River from 30 i miles south of Warsaw to the Car- patliians, and the fourth around the
his lookout post on the s'.arboard   i Baltic port of Mcmcl
I catwalk when general quarters sounded.   Leaping up, he grabbed
j a lifebelt and ran a few steps— in the wrong direction -to plunge 50   feet   into   thr   sea.
j      A  destroyer,  hearing his yells,
director   of   .Selective   Service   for letter from Sen. Edwin C. Johnson. '"""'•¦•    '"»"°"'Y°!"^ h?m ^o hi^ ship'by breechw^'buoy
reclassification   in   fvent   he   holds D.. Colo., high-ranking member of '"  '5.,J,t    ^       ^ '"day.
an occupational  drfrrmrnl." the Senate military affairs commit-|-^" ' .r"'"* •™'     ..„„,.,„j i„.. ,,„a   -~ —_—_^__-_^___.
Lynn issued his back-to-work or-   tee.   rcqucstinR   advice   on   surplus',     No planes were reported lost and der within minutes of the property, properly     disposal.      Johnson    re seizure   nt   hAT)   a.   m.   lEWTi,   17j leased both letters to the press to hours after llic .strike started, and I day. It   brought   an   almost   immediate | |,|,„ f,, p,^^^
crnro7Vhe'^^'irikrr«'rad''?et''urned''to      "Efforts should be made to hnvc  and  ineffective, work  Lt th"   on%a  vs  tir^^^^^ '""""'^y   'i^'-^'^P   «'lf,:<^"nl«"V      The    record    mission    waa   con-
r,/ii,,»   ,l«ni«   7«n   s^eam   nllnts m'"t 'n a^'f^^^ '"    destroy    enemy    troop.s
•rating   planl.s.   t«o   steam   plants ^^,^^^^  Johnson.    "Thi.,  should  not withdrawing    before    the    British
p.!' ob.scrvers   said   that    the   mission
was   exceedingly   successful.    Only
ia    few   Japanese   fighters   rose   to
lonposp the Allied armada and anti>
aircraft fire was reported moderate
BRITISH TROOPS LAND ON WEST BURMA COAST
Greatest Drives of War
London observers saw these ac¬ tions as presaging the greatest Red Army offensive of the Eastern war — an offensive whirh Moscow dis¬ patches have termed "possibly the last winter oflensive" and one which the Moscow press hss said may wind up in Berlin.
American cast flanli along the Llngayen Gulf had been extended six miles north from San Fabian to the town of Rabon. widening the beachhead to 26 miles from Rabon south and west to Labrador. At Rabon the Americans were five miles west of the big Japanese air baae and supply depot of Roeario,
_ . ,   which   waa   pounded   by   unlta   of
another Japanese attempt to rush'v,^, j^^ Thomaa C. KInkaid's reinforcements into Luzon, sank 50 ...     »«    .       m,- ui
coastal vessels Wednesday near the U"» ^**^- ^h* warship guns port of Vigan, Aft miles north of the caused explosions and fires and Lingayen Gulf beachhead. On apparentlv hit a Japanese ammu- Thursdoy, naval units had sunk or _i,|-_    j,!„,_
damaged 4« vessels near San Fer-,"''^°"   °"""^' ,     ^ .   ,,   ,.   .,
-   '    The   Japanese,   in   one   of   their      ,        i    r n     <r i:
.  ;.   1-  -„ A-,.,i,-.„ .hin  escape road east of Houflfahze.
heaviest attacks on American ship-1 '^
_i„™ -i.,— .i-i«  r ..mn  inva.in,,   he'    Thousands   of   Germans   of   the ping since the  Luzon  ln^aslon   he- ,,,.j^^   ^^^   g,^^^   p^^^^^   Armle*
gan Tuesday, lost 20 planes in a ro,.hed by shells and with their rrarplalni"knd"that'"t'hrc'nemV""is."*Blit "^""'^ "^'ch caused minor columns torn for the first time by as yet either unable or unwilling to damage to our vessels. strong forces of  Allied  planes,  re-
seriously challenge our offensive.'
nando, A4 miles south of Vigan
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's daily war bulletin said that the Amer¬ icana were moving forward awiftly in their drive down the Luzon cen
The  bulletin   said  that  a  strong! ^•""'•ji'^; "^j'^*"".''''^^^^^
[Scramble to get out of the pocket patrol   force   of  tank*  and   motor-j by   secondary  roads.   At   least  100 ized infantry had pushed eight miles! tanks   and   other   vehicles   in   the southward from Malasiqui to Bay-1 milling   mass   were   destroyed   by east   of   San   Fsblan.    There   the|ambang, to reach the Agno for the Pj^n" "j^ne. Japanese   were   fighting   hard   to first   time   at   the   point   where   itiSm«"" roclcet. Forming
...... . ., .1       ...1 „i»i_. »,„.». .oa.i      other  and smaller pocket* wer*
prevent the Americans from «trik-| crosses the central plains from «-ast| ^^^^j^^ ^^ ,^^jj^^^ ^.^j;^ ^^ ^^^^ „^^
The only Japanese resistance was being met by troops on the east flank of the beachhead in the hills northwest  of  Pozorrublo.   10  miles
At Allied headquarters in ParU, in^ westward and cutting off their Ito west before bending northward jXnicd   attacks   spread   around   80 e news  of the   Russian """"'vel highway links with northern Luzon.]intn Ling.ayen Gulf. |miles of the budge perimeter. Ona
At    Bavambang   the   AmericansI was in the Champion area 12 mileg
southwest of Houffalize. where tha
th
was greeted with enthusia.sm: ,
Moscow's   midnight  communique I Bemcfchead Now 26 .Mllea
said that  in the  first houra of the
Soviet   offensive   German   positions
* UP)—Allied I captured   by  the   Red  Army  were
j "piled high with thousand.s of Oer-
Calcutta.   Jan.    13. troops,  covered  by  strong air and^   . _
naval   forces,   have   landed   on   the I man dead and with smashed equip _._....-„   , .   fiilliwrotc  jonnson.    -inia  snoum   ii"l wiindrawing     nciore    me     nniisn  -Moybon Peninsula in Hunters Bay | ment. guns and ¦war material."
Kiid several ^\»[^''"''^" """.""'j be done for the purpose of injur- nth Armv. which now stands less "n the we.st coast of Burma and Little more than 24 hours after power serMcp was resiorca cNcry i,,^ ^ny pther counlry, but of giving ti,H„ ,-^0 miles north of .Mandalay established a bridgehead in the! Berlin first announced that the Red ^'"'"¦''- constant evidence of our ability to  ,„ ti,e shweho area.    It is e.stimat-  '^cc   of   heavy   Japanese   artillery | Army's winter offensive was under¬
go War Plants Affecled ,    take   care   of   ourselves   if  we   are ed   that  Japanese   strength   in   the'o"^  machinegun   fire,  a  communi-i way. Marshal Stalin confirmed the
At least 40 war plants had their f^yppj ^o Jo gp     It is not a threat  Mandalay    area    includes    a    fullliue    from    Southeast    Asia    head- report In an order of the day. »Ieclric  power reduced by ns much Jo   peace.    It   is   a  threat  against; division. | quarters    in    Kandy,   Ceylon,   an-1 Aimed at Silesia
A United Press dispatch said the
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286 Ships, 703 Planes Hit by 3rd Fleet Planes
75 per cent before the strike •nded. Capt. R. T. Hanson, dircc lor of naval material inspe ' the C'levcland district, sa production was reduced hy cent, but Army officers declined to give an official estimate nf the loss. Most of the strikers were main¬ tenance men and coal passers. The latter feed coal into bunkers which in turn pulverize the fuel and pass it on In an automatic process into the generators, which build up elcc- (Continiicd  on  Page A-ID
Targets Included Sagaing village   nounced   today.
Marshal    Ivan     S.    Konev's    1st
liey ing that  they may later be  repur¬ chased, Baruch said. Wateh Foreign Holdinga Such    surpluses    should    be   re-
N'reded Bridge (ione Allied   forces   landed   Friday   and'snw.  was  moving  toward  the  rich
At Sagaing the enemy troops dc-1dispatches  said  tonight  that  some Sileslan coal b.i.sin of Germany and layed   crossing   the   river   because' units  had advanced  up the  penin-: toward   the  ancient   Polish   capital they   lacked   a   bridge   and   Alliedisula to within  a  holf mile  of  the lof Krakow on a 7-mile front, Stalin raids prevented the construction of {town  of Myebon,   two  mjles  north | revealed. tained  for  use  in  case of war,  he.a temporary .•pan.   They have been of  the  landing lieaeh.   The   tip  of      In  an  order nf the day  only  24 aid.  adding: 'crossing    in    small    boats    at    this jthe     peninsula,    approximatrly    .12; hours after Ihe first reports of the
"Consideration   should   be   sivenpoint,   which   is   the   only   logical miles   southeast   of   the   captured  opening of the Red Army's winter
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Two Years in Philippines
U. S. Sailor Wandered Islands; Saw Jap Cruelty
island.    He also was  rescued later. ,cted   at   the   same   time   one  night "We just went around in circles,"! when   Ihcy  were  caught   trying  to
port of Akyab, juts out into Hunt-'oiffensive were brondfsst by Berlin ers Bay. an inlet of the great Bay,Stalin announced thnt Konev's nf  Bengal. <rontiniiecl   on   Page   A-3)
In 11-Day Sweep; Japs Hint Fleet May Be Sent out
By MAC R. JOHNSOX
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters. Pearl Harbor. Jan. 13. <UP)- Adm. William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carrier planes, cutting deeply into Japan's    Philippines    lifelines.    de-
Miami, Fla.. Jan. 13. (UP)—The atory of a sailor who spent more than two years in the Philippines with "nothing to do but just keep hiding and living" was told here for the first time today.
Charles O. Watkins. 23. of fit rctersbiirg, Fla., is the hero of the epic tnlc. He witnessed prison camp mas.sacrcs, escaped from the Japanese, wandered from island tn island meeting numerous groups of Americans like himself, engaged in a hand-to-hand battle with a be¬ trayer, fought malaria for cieht months and was finally rescued.
During the 106 weeks between his escape and the rescue. Watkins was alone for only six weeks. For aeveral months he was with Sailor Joe Paul Little of Seattle, with wnoni he escaped from a camp in August of 1942. In the next Janu- arry, Little left him to try nnother
In Today's Issue
(lammed  A—19
Kditnrial   _  « —2
Movie*  .4—111
Serial     B—«
Sporta    B—I
Outdoor     n .1
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.    ..   to Watkins said, hunting for means of sneak  back   into  camp  with some communication    with    the    outside  food    they    had   stolen    from    the world.     Previously,    in    November stocks   the   Japs   had   taken   from of    in42,   he    and   Little   had   run, us. .   . , across  20 Americans  with  a radiolp^j Qwn braves receiving set over which they heard'     ,.t-,„    ,     _ ... ...
news   of   the    invasion   of   North   ..,T^'«;'«|'«„.""lf"t   '<>'"•   ""l^iers ., , 'who   attcmp.ed   to   escape)    and
• tied   them   to   posts   at   the   camp
Recapture by the J,ipanc.sc w.os always a danger On one occasion Watkins nnd two companions fought and killed a Jap synipalhizrr who contrived to betray them. He suffered a leg wound from a knife. for which he was awarded the Purple Heart. Tales of .lap CVuelty
He hsd tales of horror n   d Japa
entrance. I first taw them at 10 oclock in the morning. Tho next afternoon at four, the Japs un¬ bound them, gavo them a glass of water and a cigaret each. They were marched over to four freshly dug graves, and were made to get down  in  them  and  st,\nd.
"The   graves   were   about   waist deep.    Four  Jap soldiers  stood off
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nese cruelty to equal others which; and   shot   them.     The   men   fell   in have rome out of the Philippines:   | the  graves,   the Japs walked up to
"1 was .standing 40 feet awavi ^tj^ R""^- "l"" t"° °f'"?"' P'''"\'''» when nn American sailor was shot 'h""'' 8"'" ^"J" «"<! «hot again, and killed on the .sunt hv a Jana-1 They left and .some other Japs nese officer who was anKcre.l that j''hoveled the dirt in. the sailor wa.s eating a can of food Watkins and his two remaining pivcn him bv a Japanese soldier soldier friend.i were rescued on Aug. . . . another Jap .soldier hit a,31. 1944. He reached home on Oct. Marine acro.s.s tiie b:H It villi ;'!3. to make his mother "the happiest rifle stock because the Marine' woman in lire city." He Is now couldn't understand his oide,-.<. . . . I stationed at a Miami naval Inatalla-^
"Two  of  our  boya were  boyon-'tion.
UE.STKRN FRONT—.Allies cut la.st enem.v lifeline through Belgium .salient, .spiid iiowerfiil ,spearlieadR into t\vo-\va.\ attack aimed at slicing German wedge at base.
PHII.IPPliNES—Three U, S. columns push toward .Manila against light opposition; Yank.s widen inva¬ sion beachhead to 266 miles.
PACIFIC—Carrier planes .strike new blows against enemy's Pliilippine arteries; Tok.vo hints Japanese navy may steam into action.
EASTERN FRONT—.Soviets lunge 25 miles through Poland to within 72 miles of Germany as powerful winter offensive flares on six other fronts.
AIR—JMore tiian 1,10(1 U. S. warplanes attack seven rail bridges in Rhine and join RAF to bomb rail yards behind front lines.
IT.\LY—British capture dO prisoners, kill 20 Gemians in Comacchio lagoon sector.
SOl'THKA.ST ASIA—Allied troops land on Myehon Peninsula on west coast of Burma and establish bridgehead under heavy enemy tire.
CHINA—Chinese close in on Wanting, strategic Bunna Road junction as U. S. warplanes help repulse enemy counter-attacks.
stroyed    or    damaged    28fi    enemy I go home after their discharge "and ships and 703 warplanes in sweeiLsUiork    in    peace    like    any    olher of the  Western Pacific  and China k,„pri^,_,„-. ^^.itl,out being molested. .Sen.   it  was  disclo.sed   loday   as  his' operations   entered   their   llth   dny
I Third   Army,  gaining  up  to three
miles on an cisht-mll'' front, moved
within  two miles of Briti.sh  forcea
I striking south after mopping up the
toe of the sock.
Flghter-l>ombcrs ranged east and northeast against huge German columns whioh had run the Houff¬ alize gantlet and carried out at¬ tacks on ".something like the Nor¬ mandy scale," pilots reported, tn reference to the piling up of tha Oerman Seventh Army in its re¬ treat across France. Von' Rundstedt now was trying i=- J.J   I.-.,..,. i™«,.i„onito run his armor through St. Vlth,
Pour   wounded  Japanese-AmericanL^^,,^^^^ ^^ j^e entire bulge front veterans    of    the     famous    442nd g„,j   objective   of   the   new   Allied Combat   Team   now   under   treat-  drive across the base of the salient, ment  at  Fitzsimons  General   Hos-|Soth Division l..raedlnf pital  near  Denver,  Colo,  want  to'    Infantrymen of Maj.  Gen. I*  S.
Hobbs' 30th U. S. Division touched off the offensive, striking south on
WOUNDED JAP HEROES JUST WANT TO^GO HOME
San   Francisco   Jan.   13.   (UP)
shadowed in official secrecy.
Adm. Chester W. Nimilz, giving no hint of whore the next Amer¬ ican blows might fall, announced in his latest communique only that .American land-based bombers had attacked two .Innai .se bases in the Kurilcs Jan. 11-12 while Halsey's fliers were riddling four enemy (onvoys off the coast of Indo- China, some 4,000 miles to the south. .*rniy Flanes Hit Formosa
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an¬ nounced that hi.s long-range heavy bombers, striking at a baae from vhich   tlie   Japanese   might   harass; t
The War Relocation Authority in .Shu Francisco released the ator>' of thejie veterana of the Italian campaign  today.
They  included:   PFC  Harry  Ya
a 10-mile front below Malmedy and Stavelot across soil hallowed by the blood of many of their comrades mowed down in the first German winter surge.
The   30th   goined   1,500   yortla—
ncorly   a   mile -in   the   flrst   few
hr.urs while Third  Army tanka  of
naga,     26,     Fort     Lupton.     Colo., I the Sixth Division and  35 DivlaioB
wounded   bv  artillery  fire  in  both doughboys hacked out i»»three-mil*
legs, both shoulders and one wrist.
BRIG. GEN. A. C. McBRIDE, BATAAN HERO, IS DEAD
gain in a synchronized attack froA Ihc south. The Third Army drove beyond Bras, five miles east of Bastogne. and had mopped up tha last enemy remnants In the Tar* champs pocket aoutheaat ef togne.
About 25 miles separated the
Washington, Jan.  13 iUP)--Brig., Gen.  Allan C   McBride.  ,^8. one of I armies ns measured across the he heroes of Bataan. died last May  of   the   salient   after   these   ivno.
Berlin said that Patton's army had expanded In heavy attacks aaat- ward   to  the  Sure  River  1» milea
Third   Fleet  operations   as  well   asj9   in   a   Japanese   prison   camp   on American forces in the Philippines, Formosa, his widow, Mrs. Avis Mc-
had  bombed  Formo.sii   in  midweek. I Bride, said tonight. j k   j »,..<- . ..,.«h.i.
starting fires with a night raid on! Word of McBridc's death reached, f',°'" Bras and ':'«'|.'^\^''.,* ""?.'^' Ihe important enemy air base at l here onlv recently, Mrs. McBride ^ ?'P«"';^''^'°";i'" ^"l* )J1''^ •f^.,^ Heito. said,  in  a  letter  from  another  in-|^"'"'";'~"'"?..''"P^'   "'"f^T'li:
Tokyo   had    Indicated   that   the  terned   officer.   Moj.   Gen.   George 1 ""'"^  f'^°"> German operational re> Japanese fleet might steam out  to  Parker. There has been no confir-, "'''^¦'"''
challenge the American Marauders which have virtually blocked off .scalnnes from Japan to southeast Aain and the Philippines.
Coincident with the openinf ef the climactic Battle of the Bulge, the U.S Seventh Army threw «• Germans   onto    the   defensive   in
Illation from the International Red Cross. McBride. Artillery Chief of Staff
Nlm-Uz anno'uncV3''at"noon .Pearl   -J" .„V'r,"„ .I^^Xun.^i^hed'se;'  NoXe"aSt AUaceTnd "biirtl'e'd Wk Harbor  time)   that  llth  Army  Air ^ «» a^«r.le ' •'^^^^^ I'orcc  Liberator  bombers  attacked !y'= tro*' '" 19*- fof heroism dur- „^,    ^.^
„ir   facilities near  Kurabu  Zaki   at I'"B   '''^ evacuation   of   Americans "''^^^"«" the  Maginot   Une
11,0   southern  end   of  Paramushlru ; from _^ Bataan ,«j-rOy_^.befo^re_^ itaj P^»"^«^^ ^.,„ of ^H.gu.n.u.
in   the   Kuriica   Jan.   11 lioif)      and     that     all
iJananeie  '¦'^"l"f<'    As a lieutenant colonel in
Anierican   World W.ir I be commanded a field I ><uch In Mop-up Stace
planes returned. arlillery  battalion.
The   next   day,   llth   Air   Force I     Mrs. McBride lives at 21.13 Tun- Mitchell   medium   bombers   started] law  Road with her two daughter.^, fires on Toriihima Retto. jiouth ofi Mrs. Clifton F. Barr and Susanne. Paramushiro,  and attacked  enemy I Her snn. Lt   Andrew C. >T'-Bride. is (ConUnued on Pace A-3) in the Coast Artillery, '
The main bulge now r«semt>M a big truncated cone taperinirwest from the base to a width of only eight miles along the line of the Bastogne-Houffalize-Liege hifht " iContinued on Pafa B-U>