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Sweater Mystery
, Tops Cop’s Trial
(Continued from Pace 1.)
Imperial Package more at 21 Con
gress avenue, testified he did not
remember seeing Zukauskas on Nov.
1. He said he was called by Officer
James Little to post a ball for Zu
kauskas.
Michael Croce, operator of a gas
Station at Congress avenue and
Bank street, testified Zukauskas
came to him without coupons for
Kiollne one day. He said It might
ve been f ov. 2. Zukuuskas told
him his child was sick, the witness
Stated. He gave him a gallon or two
of gaaolne, lie said.
John Waltulonis of 125 Congress
•venue, owner of the Koyal restau
rant on Congress avenue, said Zu
kauskas was In the restaurant on
Jfov. 1 between 5 and 6 p. m. He
Said the accused had about three
or four beers, and did not look
drunk. He supplied the defense at
torneys with names of other per
sona who were at the bar that af
ternoon.
Edward Leonard of Meadow
Street, one of the patrons at the
restaurant, said he entered the es
tabllshmcnt with Zukuuskas that
afternoon, but left first. He said he
had been a close friend of the for
mer policeman for 19 years und on
cross examination testified the de
fendant always had a good reputa
tion.
Mrs. Zukuuskas, wile of the ac
cused, became noticeably weary ut
this point In the proceedings. A
sheriff brought her a glass of wa
ter and offered he. cough drops as
she began to cough. Zukuuskas,
appeared Indifferent to the pro
ceedings and spent most of the
morning session reading a trans
cript of evidence taking prev.ously.
Anthony Rumanuuskas of 185 Al
der street testified tie saw Zukau
akas between 7 and 7:30 a. in. Nov.
2. No Indication was given what
further use may be made of that
testimony.
Other wltnuesses called Included:
Lieut. William Foley, Officer Ray
mond T. Grady, Officer Anthony
Lombardo, Officer Leo McKenna,
William Nole ol the Modem Glass
Shop, and Thomas Magner of the
Personal Finance Co.
River Search Described
Lieut. Foley described the unsuc
cessful search In the Naugatuck
river for guns Zukuuskas allegedly
threw there after the shooting.
Officer Grady told of the discov
ery of one revolver shell and two
rifle shells off Spring Lake road,
near Lakeside boulevard Nov 5.
Defense Attorney W. W. Gager
questioned him about hunting in
the section, In an evident, effort to
show the shells may have been left
there by hunters,
Officer Lombardo told of selling a
.32 caliber revolver to Zukaavkas
during Christmas week of MM3, lie
said Zukauskas had asked him to
find a gun for him hi connection
wtth his work as a supernumerary.
Magner, manager of the Personal
Finance Co., 199 Hank street, who
testified that Zukauskas made a
loan of 1100 on May 13. 1944. too
of which remained unpaid, on
croaa-examlnatlon, Magner said Zu
kauskus said lie made the loan to
pay a personal debt. He said the
payments had been made regularly
up to and including Oct. 1944.
nnru ■ cjenuiira
Detective Oruriy Identified a 32
caliber shell which lie said lie found I
on Bradley avenue, Nov, 5. Officer
John Flaherty testified that lie ob- j
acrved a cur going from Com;reus
avenue to Chase Parkway at about ;
36-40 miles an hour, as he rang the
box at Highland and Walsh avenue j
Nov. 1 at 11 p. m. A iKillce cruiser. '
111 which were Detectives James
Stack and Paul Moynlhan and Po
licewoman Mary Norgren, was
parked alongside the box at that
time he said.
Among the Items Identified by
Coroner Homlck yesterday after
noon and tills morning was a blood -
•talned towel found off Lakeside
boulevard with the cluthlm; of Mrs.
Flungbt. He also Identified a shovel
as the one which Zukauskaa told
him he used to bury evidence of the
slaying.
The coroner was recalled to the
stand Just before l p. m.
Coroner Homlck at yesterday
afternoon's session completed the
reading of Zukauskai.' confession to
the slaying, and then told of visits
made with the accused on the af
ternoon of November 4 to various
spots Involved In the slaying
He told of being let! by Zultaua- i
less to the location In Mlddltbury j
Where the accused said he had j
broken glass from the Plungis cm. |
The two of them, accompanied by
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other investigators, then drove to
the burial spot on the isolated bridle
I>ath off Shatluck road, the witness
stated,
Defense Attorney flager objected
when the prosecutor then asked who
directed the course the group took.
Hie lawyer stated the defendant
"was compelled to give evidence
other than under tlte due process of
law" and that he at, that time was
being Illegally detain'd by the police
The objection was overruled, and the
coroner then told of being led by
Zukauskas to the place where the
unclothed body of Mrs. Plungis was
found.
Objections Overruled
Coroner Homick said Zukauskas
located the burial spot., arid while
officers dug for the body the group
left to look for the place the cloth
leg was buried off Park road on
Lakeside boulevard. The defend
ant located the spot willingly, the
witness said.
Attorney Gager objected repeat
l i dly to admission of question*, but
| each objection was overruled
'Hie defendant pointed out the
place where he had "scattered the
shells and bullets and car keys In
every direction," the witness stated.
In the course of the trip the group
visited the point on Bradley av
enue where Zukauskas said he had
fired the fatal shots, and the re
cused tried to show approximately
where the Plungis car wax when the
bullets were fired, the coroner test
ified .He likewise pointed out the
spot where Stephle allegedly has
spat at him while driving on Brad
ley avenue, It was disclosed.
The next stop was at the Beacon
Fullx-Naugatuck town line, where
Zukauskas pointed out the approxi
mate place In the Naugatuck river
Where he had dropped two guns,
Coroner Homick related.
Then the group returned to Mld
dlebury to the burial scene and
found the body had been exposed,
the witness said. The car was sloped
adjacent to the grave, he pointed
out. He testified the return trip was
made at about 5 p. rn
Sergeant Joseph McCarthy was
driving the car, and he had Miss
Florence Eceles, stenographer, sat In
front, he said. Sitting In back with
Zukauskas were Chief Inspector Jo
xeph Bendler and Officer George
McKlilgott, he testified.
Zukauskas was sitting In the back
seat at the part nearest the grave,
ana attempted to get up when the
vehicle drew closer, the coroner
stated. Someone told the defendant
to stay in the car and he sat back,
the witness testified.
Identifies Body
Medical Examiner Edward Kirsch
baum approached the car and stated
to Zukauskas, "Is that the body of
Stephle Plungis," the coroner slated.
Zukauskas' reply, he said, was “It
Is."
Attorney Gager In conducting
brief questioning on admissibility of
the testimony asked the coroner how
much the group had driven The
reply wax "about forty miles." The
coroner likewise disclosed that the
accused iiad not eaten any lunch.
The defense Counsel stated the ac
tion by Zukauskas resulted from
compulsion. He pointed to the fail
ure of police to give him anything to
eat, and said an effort had been
made to break down hlx resistance.
His objection was overruled.
Ai. the close or th e afternoon ses
sion Coroner Homick told of a sec
ond trip made to Lakeside boulevard
to obtain the vctlmx clothing. He
Identified each garment piece by
piece as the prosecutor presented
the clothing to him. He also stated
tin- articles as presented In the
courtroom were In about the same
condition as they were when they
v.eri found.
Earlier the coroner testified that
Zukauskas himself dug In the hole
with a stick when they searched for
the articles A blanket was among
the pieces Identified.
Earlier In the trial the clothing
was Identified by Mrs Ann DeHella
as belonging to Mrs. Plungis and by
Sergeant Joseph McCarthy as being
the clothing found In the hole In a
wooded section off lakeside boule
vard.
Barber Submits
Insurance Bill
Hertford, Conn., Feb. 2 < UP/ -
Sen. William I*. Barber, U , Putnam,
offered a health Insurance bill in
the general assembly today, Lo nuj>
phment benefits now obtainable un
der the social security, workmen's
comijensatlon and unemployment
Insurance acts
Unlike the other plans, however,
It is all-inclusive Employer* would ■
pay one per cent ot an employe’s j
earnings Into a state fund, with the ;
state contributing a matching
amount The worker would contrib
ute nothing, Half-employed persons
would be protected under the same |
contributing arrangement.
Cash benefits would he compara- i
ble lo those made under the other
systems. Additional benefits would
provide for medical and hospital
expenses. Persons protected by al
ready established systems would la
extended the added protection of
health insurance
Tne bill proposes administration
ot the plan by a 13-member com
mission and a commissioner of
health Insurance An appropriation ,
of $10,WO would form tiie nucleus
of the fund
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Yanks Rescue Prisoners Of Japs
Juat northeaat of Civile, 513 prlaoneia of the Jijm including many
aurvivora of ISataan and Corregldor, were boldly reacued by American
Kangera. Map aliowa where American tornea have captured Olongapo,
naval baar on Hublc Hay, and (irand faland, while to the eaat other
Yanka have taken Lubac and C'alumplt.
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Headed Rescue Raiders Back From Bataan
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l.t. Col. If. A. Muecl wan In
command of the daring 121 mem
bent of the Glh Hanger Battalion
and 286 Filipino guerilla* who
raided the Jap prison camp at
Cabantuun In Neuva Eclja prov
ince on January 21, rescuing 510
Allied war prdiitoners, mostly
American survivor* of Bataan and
Corregldor.
One of the first survivor* of
“bloody flalaun” to rejoin II. S.
force* on I.uzon U I’fc. Jose I'm«,
above, of Washington, II, C. A
member of the 31*t Infantry Kegl
ment, he escaped capture by Jape
and ha* fought with Filipino guer
rlla* since the Island*’ fall
Bill Sponsored On
Teachers’ Salaries
Proposed Measure Would Equalize Compensation for
Men, Women; All Connecticut to Be Involved
(By I.F.GI8LATIVE REPORTER)
A bill decking equalization for
women teachers of Connecticut
eliminating all differentials based
jo sex Is taring presented to the leg
islature today by officials of the
Connecticut State Teacher’s Asso
ciation.
The bill Is predicated upon the
need for salary adjustment both
from the standpoint of the present
nequallty status being detrimental
o future pensions and to salaries,
l'he bill Is said to provide tor final
•ffectlveness July 1, 11*47 with the
Ex-Prisoners
Tour Country
New York, Feb. 2 -<UPi More
than 9,000 next-of-kln ot American
urlsoners of the Germans and Jap
itnese swarmed Into the 17th llegl
inent Armory last night for first
hand reports on Axis prison camps
from 12 repatriated soldiers.
Hons, husbands or brothers of
most of the assembly were in Ger
man hands, but they listened with
iarllcular attention to the stories
>1 two ex-eaptlves of the Japanese,
Cpl. Willard E. Hall, of Baker, Ore.,
formerly Interned at Cabanatuan
line, Luzon, which was liberated
his week and H-Bgt. Donald I. Mc
Pherson, of Lincoln, Neb. Both made
heir escape from a torpedoed Jup
inese transport last Heptember.
They told of supplementing their
Jally handful of rice with snake
'rted In shaving cream, and Hall de
icrlbed the 14-day march to his
jrlson camp after the fall of Cor
egldor. The early bad treatment
if captives by the Japanese was
'due to a misunderstanding," Hall
;ald he believed and relations im
iroved as American prisoners and
lapanese guards learned a little of
ach others’ languages.
Last night’s meeting began a nu
lon-wlde tour for the ex-prlsoners
aider the auspices of the Army
ilid the American Hed Cross. They
v 111 meet with prisoner next-of-kln
n Boston on Holiday and In Buffalo.
M Y., Wednesday.
Sermons Evacuate
7 Million To Date
Zurich, Feb. 2(UP) —Responsl
lie sources estimated today thal
r,000,000 Germans had been evac
lated from the eastern provinces
md occupied territory overrun ot
hreatened by the Russian offen
live.
'Die migration was believed to In
dude 1,000,000 Germans from the
iVarlheguii or Posnan urea of
Western Poland, 1,600,000 from East
Prussia, 1,000,000 from Hllesla. ftOO,
too from other purts of Poland and
t.000,000 Berliners, who had been
noved east of the Oder Lo escape
dr raids.
Evacuation of localities west of
hr Oder has begun on a large scale
nformunts said.
I)H. CUTTER IHKH
Chicago, Feb. a. -'UPl-Dr. Irv
ng 8. Cutter. 00. health editor o»
rhe Cfdcago Tribune, and former
lean of Northwestern University’s
nedlcal school, died today at Pos
lavant hospital where ha had been
i patient several weeks.
He was born at Keene, N. H„ Dec.
>, 1876 but later hla family moved
-o Lincoln, Mebr. ' .
understanding Unit In the Interim
prevailing between now and that
time gradual revisions may be ef
fected so that by 1047 full equaliza
tion will have been secured.
If adopted this bill will enumer
ate Connecticut us the first slate
In New England and the 12th In the
union to prescribe such a law.
Waterbury teachers will view with
Interest the proposed measure rel
ative to their long and sincere ef
fort to gain salary equality in this
city, u measure sharply opposed by
the administration and the major
ity of the education board.
It Is said that New Haven teach
ers have been Instrumental In fos
tering the state pro[>osed bill
Also up for presentation today Is
the proposed bill said to be s|xm
sored by the C. I. O. calling for a
form of hospitalization and state
medical care not unlike the much
disputed and opposed Wagner
Murray federal bill calling for so
cialized medicine. The state bill is
being sj»oken for by Atty. Mar
guret Connors of Bridgeport un
successful Democratic candidate op
posing Cong. Clare Boolhe I,use lust
fall.
It Is understood the j/ioixatal was
presented at a caucus yesterday of
Democratic solons at Capitol Hill
most of whom opposed Its adoption
on the grounds of Us constituting
•'socialized medicine."
The bill Is said to provide for
contributions by the state and the
employer.
Auto License
Bill Entered
Hartford, Conn,, Feb. 2 U/P)—
The final day lor the introduction
of bills saw hundreds of documents
poured Into the hoppers of the Gen
eral Assembly today.
Meanwhile, the house ratified by
a vote of 157 to 1 the renominatlon
of Common Pleas court Judge Wal
ter M. Pickett of New Haven for
four years.
House bills proposed:
A $120,000 appropriation to con
trol the Dutch Elm dlscuse.
Reduction of motor vehicle opera
tors licences to 50 cents a year.
Elimination of tolls on the Gro
ton-New London bridge.
Ear defenders for workers in fac
tories "where the noise Is loud.”
One hundred scholarships for
needy high school students.
Memorializing Congress to pass
universal military training legisla
tion.
An appropriation of $270,000 to
set up a saale - owned educational
KM radio network.
Payment of $4000 to Frederick
Ferente, Norwalk, for loss of a
hand while employed by the state
A pension system for Middletown
city employes.
Establishing a state mental health
plan.
Appropriations of $80,000 for radio
equipment for use In Are prevention
wark; $25,000 for maternity care of
wives of members of the armed
forces: $18,000 for a University of
Connecticut Infirmary building; $3,
800,000 for a university expansion
program.
Appointment of John J. Casaie as
Judge, and William Kilinartln as
deputy of the Torrlngton city court;
Michael Strauss and Max famwlrth
Chase Sends
2 Executives
(Continued front Page 1)
puny at the lime Chase Brass Sc
Copper Co. purchased their business
Interests. He was later transferred
from Baltimore to New Orleans
where he opened the Chase ware
house In that city In 1927. As South
District manager he also opened a
warehouse lit Houston, Texas, In
1937, which under Mr. Evans’ super
vision. In 1940 he was transferred
to Waterbury as Sales Promotion
manager, which position he had
filled ever since.
Mr. Coe, a native of Waterbury,
began his business career with the
American Brass Company and be
came associated with the Chase
Brass Sc Copper Co. In 1924. Since
that time he has had wide experi
ence In various branch offices. In
cluding New York and Cleveland,
as well as In various executive po
sitions at the Main Office of the
company In Waterbury. Since the
beginning of the present war, Mr.
Coe In addition to his other duties,
has been responsible for all priority
and C.M.P. (Controlled Material.!
Plan) activities, and has been a
member of the Brass Mill Industry
Advisory Committee which works
with the War Production Board In
Washington.
City Bills
Introduced
(Continued from Page 1)
lined In 'Die Democrat, was Intro
duced by Rep. Membrlno this morn
ing, also.
Sen. Egan, likewise, filed two bills
which would allow the City of Wa
terbury to set up a sewerage fund
and also to allow the city to levy
charges for use of the sewage dis
posal system. These are enabling
acts that would enable the munici
pality to put Its proposed sewage
plant on a partially self-sustaining
basis.
Japs Execute
20 Prisoners
(Continued from Page 1)
Jects among the prisoners.
Private First Class Blprano Grelgo
Albuquerque, N. M.„ who made the
death march from Bataan to Camp
O’Donnell said:
"I’d hate like hell to repeat some
of the things I saw. I saw the Japs
order American soldiers at the [joint
of guns to bury alive two soldiers
who were too weak to move. The
men screamed ’please don’t.’ Bo
the Jups ordered the other to lilt
them on the heads.”
”We went four days without food.
Once we stopped at an nrteslan
well and everyone tried to get a
drink but they bayoneted or hit with
gun butts anyone who got out of
line. We were two or three days
without water.
"Once four officers were too tired
to walk. A Jap put them in trucks
and gave them fame When we
reached O’Donnell another Jap no
ticed them and took them away.
That was the last wo saw of them.”
Private William Duncan, Trout
vllle, Vu., was also on the death
march. Ho said the Japs once ’ hot
ten men at the prison camp because
one man had escaped. Another time
five were shot for the same reason.
Legislature
In Stalemate
(Continued from Pune Jj
the Senate at any moment," Sul
livan fluid.
Sullivan offered three suggestions
which he believed might quickly
end the stalemate.
"The governor could go on the
rudlo, directly to the people of the
state, and nume the man he Intends
to appoint; we could have party
caucuses to discuss the senatorial
appointment and then submit our
recommendation to the governor for
his consideration, or we could have
a joint House rnd Senate session to
discuss the question In a rational
and candid manner with all cards
laid on the table.
"Any one of these procedures
would have broken this problem,"
Sullivan said, "but none of them
were ever tried,” It Is a pity and si
shame that the people should see
we are unublc to discuss this situa
tion without bringing politics Into
it."
Sullivan warned that "deadlock
must be broken within the next
week or we ure heading straight for
a special election, and a special
election of Jasper McLevy,” Bridge
port's Socialist muyor.
No action was possible today on
either the Senate matter or the
governor's request that lie be given
emergency powers to Intervene In
the critical fuel situation, Inasmuch
as both Senate and House have
voted to designate Fridays as non
controverslal days.
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS
The following marriage Inten
tions have been filed at the bureau
of vital statistics, town clerk’s of
fice:
t runk Hunt, Merchant Marine,
H> Mlukeslee Circle, and Henrietta
Jones, 10 lllakeslee Circle.
William P. White, I3« West
Main street, and Mary T. Blodgett,
41 Prospect street.
Giving a Pottigcse youth in the
Azores »4 to get a few bananas, l,.
A. C. Stanley Jordan of Evesham,
England, received a cart full of fruit
—and no change.
judges of the Bridgeport city court;
Marjorie Farmer, Darien, and Maye
C. Allen. Bridgeport, as Fairfield
County Commissioners.
ltestoratlon of forfeited rights
were proposed for Charles E. White,
Wllllmantlc; Jacob Struuxs, Htam
ford; Raymond J. Williams. Win
chester; John H. Crary and Thomas
A. Shanahan, Waterbury.
Senate bills recommended; A $3,
000 Increase In the salaries cf
supreme, superior and common pleas
courts judges and a salary for re
ferees amounting to two-thirds of
the amount received from the court
from which they retired.
A $30,000 appropriation for a vet
erinary science building at Univer
sity of Connecticut.
RESIGNING
FREDERICK H. CHASE
Frederick H. Chase, former
president of the Chase Bran A
Copper Company, Inc., who is
gradually severing active assocla
tiona with local Institution*. U re
ported planning to resign as presi
dent and am a member of the board
of agenta of the Bronson Library.
A formal announcement will be
made at the annual meeting of
the board next Tuesday afternoon.
Two weeks ago Mr. Chase resigned
as president of the Waterbury
Boys’ Club After many years of
activity Mr. Chase Is planning to
enjoy a rest from all official duties
and responsibilities.
Eisenhower,
Aides Meet
fContinued from Page it
tenant General Jacob Devcrs, Sixth
Army group was rolling forward
steadily to Its old positions.
Field dispatches said the Germans
were abandoning entire sections of
their first-line Siegfried defenses
and pulling back Into the main for
tifications three to four miles far
ther east without a struggle. The
withdrawal, apparently dictated by
the need of reserves to meet the
Rod Army push in the east, was re
ported most pronounced northeast
of Monschau, where the Germans
were known to have built a double
wall of defenses covering the Col
ogne Plain.
In those sectors, advancing dough
boys found rnuny pillboxes abandon
ed, along with the guns und equip
ment of their garrisons, Indicating
the Nazi retreat had been hasty
and perhaps panicky.
At other poltns, however, the
enemy was reported fighting stub
bornly along the outer fringes of
the Siegfried line with mortars,
machine guns and rifle fire. Ger
man mobile field guns behind the
west wall were maintaining a spor
adic Are all along the front, while
giant American lM-mllJImeter long
'I'oms opened a heavy barrage In
support of the attacking doughboys.
Far to tho south, the French First
Army cleared ul German resistance
from tho west bank of the Rhine
for a distance of 30 miles south of
Strasbourg and closed In from the
north and south on the remnants
of the Nazi pocket around Colmar.
Patton’s Third Army veterans
pacing the assault on the Nazi west
wall expanded their bridgehead
across the Our river to a width of
seven miles, with their Vanguards
some five miles Inside Germany.
Ileckhiischeld Falls
Tile biggest gains were carved out
at the northern end of the bridge
head, where the Americans advanc
ed on a fivemlle front to take gross
Langenfcld and Heckhuscheid, sev
en to eight miles southeast of St.
Vith.
More uian 100,000 American
troops were on the move acroM or
up to the German frontier on both
aides of the Our bridgehead on a
line extending from northeast of
Monschuu down almost to the Lux
embourg border town of Vlanden.
The Americans pushed forward
as much as 2 1-2 miles In the pant
24 hours, hampered almost as much
by a sudden springlike thaw that
turned roads and fields Into a
morass as by enemy fire.
Stlffest fighting was reported In
the Monachal! forest, where the
American Ninth and 99th Infantry
divisions were closing In from the
northwest and southwest on the
German border town of Wahher
scheld, five miles sontbemt of
Monachal).
A Ninth division combat team
fought Its way Into Wuhlerxcheld
last night and was reported firmly
on trenched In the cross-roads town
early today after a deep penetration
of the Hlegfrlod line.
At some points, south of the town,
American patrols reported that
German gunners were Infiltrating
back Into pllboxea previously re
ported abandoned.
A few miles to the southeast,
however, the. U, H. First Infantry
and B2nd Airborne divisions overran
scores of Siegfried line pillboxes
and anti-tank barrlrrs against weak
resistance. Many of the enemy po
sitions were found thinly-manned
or abandoned entirely, and units of
the B2nd advancing Into Losheim,
Just inside the German border 18
miles southeast of Malmedy, cap
tured 12 Nar.l B8-mlllimeter guns
complete with ammunition und fir
ing charts.
Four miles north of Losholm, the
Americans advunccd almost four
miles east of Kldnkelt to within a
few hundred yards of the German
border without meeting Important
opposition.
Seven miles south of Ixishchn and
six miles due east of St. Vlth, Lt.
Ocn. aeorge B. Patton’s Third Army
troops captured the Belgian town
of Bchonberg and pushed on two
miles across the Nazi border to take
Laudesfeld.
Southeast of fit. Vlth, other Third
Army elements seized In German
villages of Wlnterscheld, Winters
pclt, Ihr#n, Kngelscheld and Heck
halenfeld and were reported moving
eastward with increasing momen
tum.
Keacli Brundscheld
One Infantry column was reported
2V4 miles east of Wlnterscheld late
yesterday, apparently reaching
Brandacheld, only six miles west of
the German communications cen
ter of Prum.
That advance put Patton's troops
as much as five miles Inside Ger
man soli and widened their bridge
head across the Our river to about
seven miles, from the Wlnterscheld
urea down to Bchlebach.
On the Alsace frout, French and
American units of the French First
Army continued their systematic
reduction of the German panhandle
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Germans Fear Big
3*s New Demand
(Continu«d from Pag^ 1)
ind decisive teats of strength were
prospective.
Stockholm relayed a dispatch from
Berlin saying:
"Berlin now Is a front line city
n the fullest meaning of the term.
Berliner* have been made to real
ise that they must expect fighting
n the streets.
"Barricades are being built fever
shly In a number of streets, tn
dudlng the center of the city In
.he presence of bewildered onlook
rrs. The explosions from blowing
ip bomb-wrecked liouses are adding
.o the fateful atmosphere, and might
won merge with the thunder of
runs In the east.
"Berliners are deeply Impressed
>y the sight of marching Volks-1
iturm (home guard) units with their I
•lfles and tommy guns. A general
.cnalon Is noticeable. People tear |
newspapers from the hands of the ]
tendors "
The Hovlet high command, how
ever, placed the First Army in
(trength only at Llbenow and Duhi -
nshof,' B() miles northeast of Bor
in and 18 miles northeast of Kus
.rln. Both towns were captur'd
yesterday In a seven-mile advance i
from I.andsberg. j
Berlin claimed that, a thaw had
slowed the Soviet udvance, turning,
'rozen roads Into quagmires of
mud, hut held out no hope that the
Bed Army could be halted short of
the Oder, If there.
Indirectly conceding the possibil
ity that the Red Armv may force
Hie Oder wlhtln a matter of days,
the German Transocean Agency
said Berliners were digging u sys
tem or trenches around the capital
In “feverish haste.”
“After their day’s work,” Trans
pceun said, “Berliners who have not
yet been sent to the front are being
trulned In the use of antl-tarik wea
pons and machine-guns.’’
Fresh reinforcements of tank col
umns and Infantry were streaming
through Berlin toward the front,
the Nazis said.
Though the frontul advunce on
Berlin dominated new* from the
eastern front, the Russians also
encircled the Pomeranian border
fortress of Bchneldemuh, 180 miles
aortheust of Berlin and made a new
invasion of Silesia 138 miles south
east of the capital.
Tlie two thrusts were designed to
itrengthen the Hovlet flanks against
possible enemy counter-attacks
threatening the main columns east
)f Berlin.
Far to the northeast, Soviet arm
ies tightened their encirclement of
East Prussia and reduced the Cler
nun pocket south of the east Prus
llan capital to 1,300 square miles.
Advances up to 12 mlleH were re
ported by the Soviet high command
n the frontal assault toward Ber
In. The fall of Llbenow and Dur
ngshof, on the north bank of the
IVarthe river 80 miles northeast of
Berlin, put Zhukov's forces 32 miles
ixtendlng from Colmar up along
the west bank of the Rhine to with
n about ten miles of Strasbourg.
Allied tanks and Infantrymen
captured Mure kola he tin and Mack
inhelm, 10 and 11 1-2 miles north
mat of Colmar, and drove ahead
to the Rhine about two mile* south
last of Marckholsheira.
inside Oennany In strength.
South of the Warthe river, which
merges with the Ober at Kustrln,
the First Army captured Hammer,
21 miles cast of Kustrln, and Kon
igswaldc, 67 miles cast of Berlin and
28 miles from the Oder at a point
midway between Kustrln and
Frankfurt.
Manila Fray
Near Climax
(Continued from Pane 1)
nlhllated Inside the city. Their only
other alternative was a flight to
Corrsgldor for a death stand on
"The Hock.".
(A broadcast from the Japanese
controlled .Singapore radio sal<f
enemy units entrenched along th(. \
Manila highway were strongly sup- '
ported by tanks and artillery units.
American spearheads, the broadcast
claimed, are "completely cut off
from communications and are re
ceiving Insufllclcnt supplies by
air.’’)
As the battle for Manila moved
Into Its final stage, fierce fighting
In the foothills of the Zambales
mountains 80-odd miles to the
northwest, where several thousand
Japanese were being bombed and
shelled out of thir hilltop positions
Just west of Clark field and Fort
Stotsenburg.
At lust accounts, American planes
and artillery were cutting the
enemy force to pieces with an
almost-continuous bombardment,
clearing the way for an Infantry
assault to dislodge the Japanese
survivors.
Tlie communique said another 60
enemy artillery pieces of various
calibers had been captured or des
troyed In the Fort Stotsenburg area
In uddltion to those already re- ‘
ported.
Considerably weaker resistance
faced the U. H. Eighth Army spear
heads advancing eastward across
the 18-mlle-wldu base of Bataan
Peninsula from the recaptured
Olongapo Naval base at the head
of Subic Bay. Vanguards of the
Eighth Army were reported near
ing Dlnaluhlpan, 13 miles east of
Olongapo, where they were expect
ed to seal off the Peninsula by join
ing Sixth Army forces moving
down from Luboa, 10 miles to the
northeast.
Far to the north, other Sixth
Army forces beat down savage
Japanese opposition northeast and
east of the Llngayen Oulf beach
heads. An enemy column was am
bushed and destroyed on the
Umlngan-Bulungao road near the
easte end of the American line. The
Japanese suffered heavy casualties
and eight of their medium tanks,
eight artillery pieces. 15 tracked
vehicles and many supply trucks
were destroyed or captured.
In the “Upper Agno river sector
10 miles north of Umlngan, Ameri
can troops drive four miles east
of Tayug to the Natlvad area
while three miles -farther north they
captured San Nicholas after a als
mile advance eaetwvd from San
Manual.