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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Rain or snow; Monday cloudy, warmer. 39TH YEAR, NO. 11 — 44 PAGES rMTF.D PRESS WlM NtW* Srrvlr* WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1945 PRK E TEN CENTS GREATEST ALLIED DRIVE ON ^ 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 iContinued on Page A-2) 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 iContlnued on Page A-ll) (Continued on Page A-ll) 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 lUdio .¦'Z.'.."„'.1..A—1« . .. 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 War Kl larv / 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>
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Issue | 11 |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Rain or snow;
Monday cloudy, warmer.
39TH YEAR, NO. 11 — 44 PAGES
rMTF.D PRESS WlM NtW* Srrvlr*
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1945
PRK E TEN CENTS
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 |
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Year | 1945 |
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