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VOL. LX1II, NO. 31
WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1945
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ON TO TOKYO
YANK SLOGAN
FOR PACIFIC
BY FRANCIS MCCARTHY
Manila, February 6.—(UP)
— Three American divisions
encircled fanatically resist
ing Japanese remnants in
Manila today, virtually com
pleting the liberation of the
Philippines and setting the
stage for the next phase of
the march on Tokyo.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
officially proclaimed the fall
of Manila, capitol of the
Philippines and largest city
yet liberated in the Pacific
war, and said the motto of
his command now was:
“On to Tokyo!”
He said the “complete destruc
tion” of the doomed enemy garri
son of Manila was imminent and
revealed that another 1,300 Ameri
can and Allied war prisoners and
civilian internees had been freed
yesterday with the capture of an
cient Blllbld prison.
Other Amercan forces avenging
the bitter defeats of 1942 sealed off
Bataan peninsula and were believed
preparing for an early assault on
Fort Corregidor in Manila Bay.
Australia Safe
"The fall of Manila marks the end
of one great phase of the Pacific
struggle and set the stage for an
other," MacArthur said in a state
ment accompanying his dally com
munique. **
“With Australia safe, the Philip
pines liberated, and the ultimate
redemption of the East Indies and
Malaya thereby made a certainty,
our motto becomes, "on to Tokyo!’
(Writing off the eventual loss of
Manila, Japanese propagandists
heard by the FCC said that the com
ing of the Americans to Manila was
■exactly what our side waited for,
and our bleeding tactics will now
enter the positive stage.’’)
(A Japanese communique acknow
ledged that American forces had
“penetrated into a corner of Manila
city” and said Japanese troops were
“locked in hea v fighting with in
vaders.’’)
The 11th airborne division com
plteed the strangehold on the bat
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3 Dead In
Maine Fire
Lewiston, Me., Feb. 0 — (U.P.) —
In this area’s second flash fire In
six days, an 18-year-old brother and
two teen-aged sisters were burned
to death or suffocatd early today
and their parents and another sis
ter were hurt when flames leveled
their home here.
A fourth sister escaped unharmed
from the general alarm flre only a
mile and a half from the scene of a
tragic nursery flre In neighboring
Auburn which took 17 lives Wednes
day.
The dead were:
Henry Lamarre, 18.
Noella, 16.
Dorothy, 14.
Hospitalized, but said not to be in
critical condition, were, Mr. and
Mrs. Antonio Lamaree and Jeanne,
21, while 17-ycar-old Blanche fled
uninjured.
Firemen said the 2 1-2 story
wooden house on Rosedale street
was enveloped in flames when they
answered the first alarm shortly
after midnight and it was impos
sible to aid the victims who appar
ently were trapped In their rooms.
Frozen hydrants further handi
capped tlie firemen, many of whom
had gone to the aid of the Auburn
Department at the nursery holo
caust across the Androscoggin river
last Wednesday.
Even as this second flre caused
multiple deaths in the twin mill
cities of Lewiston and Auburn, a
secret inquest was being held In the
latter city to investigate the nursery
flre.
Last night, Lewiston health au
thorities ordered all baby homes in
(Continued on Page 4)
They’re a major issue
for the 79th Congress
to tackle!
Peter Edson, our Washing
ton correspondent, analyses
the proposed reforms—from
the screwball to the sublime.
The first of a series of six
articles appears today in
Peter Edson's
Washington Column .
(m rage • Today
Wash Time In Jap Internment Camp
NEA Telephoto from U. S. Navy.
This picture, taken by a Jap serviceman and found in a Japanese barracks in Tacloban, Leyte, after the
capture of the town by U. S. troops, portrays life in the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila. In
ternees are shown as they washed themselves and their clothes, using an old fashioned tub as a sink. Now,
after three long years, some 3,700 American and British civilians are being evacuated from the camp by the
conquering American troops.
Zukauskas Claims Devil
Handed Him Murder Guns
10-Year Film
Suit Ends In
Boston Court
Boston, Peb. 6—(UP)—After liti
gation that extended over a 10-ycar
period, a suit involving eight of the
nation’s motion picture film organi
zations has been settled out of court
for a sum reputed to total $330,000,
it was disclosed today.
Federal Judge George C. Sweeney
.reported the out-of-court settlement
to a Jury that completed hearing
evidence last Friday and appeared
in court today to be charged.
The suits, in which charges of
monopoly in the distribution of mo
tion picture film and of restraint of
trade in violation of anti-trust laws
began in 1935.
Principals were the commonwealth
amusement enterpiises, Inc., vs. Col
onial Theaters Co., Inc., of Nashua,
N. H., and others: and Nashua
Theaters, Inc., vs. Colonial Theater
Co. of Nashua.
Involved in the suit were Para
mount Pictures distributing Co., Inc.,
Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr Distributing
Corp.; Fox Film Corp, Vltagraph
Inc. RKO Distributing Corp.; United
Artists Corp.; Universal Film Ox
chunges, Inc.; and Columbia Pic
tures Corps.
Voluminous testimony wus given
before a master but the defendants
were dissatisfied with his report
alter the 220-day hearing and moved
for a trial that ended Friday after
two weeks.
Army Private
To Be Hanged
Vancouver, Wiish., Feb. 6— <UP) —
Political convictions against war im
pelled Pvt. Henry Weber, 27. to dis
obev his officers at Camp Roberts,
Calif., and brought ubout his sent
ence to be hanged, his wife, Grace,
said today.
8he said the Army was aware of
Weber's beliefs against killing be
fore his induction last July, and, in
fact, she said, one officer advised
him to object whenever ordered to
carry a gun.
The condemned man was held at
the Camp Roberts guard house
pending final review of his general
court martial sentence, allegedly
precipitated by a refusal to drill with
his squad. Camp Roberts officials
said the sentence was imposed for
violation of the 04th article of war,
(Continued on Page 4)
(By ANNE ZKMAITI8)
Francis P. Zukauskas, who claims
the devil handed him the guns he
fired at Mrs. Stephanie Plungis the
night of Nov. 1, started his fight
for his life at 12:30 today, when the
state rested its case in the first de
gree murder trial.
Comments by Zukauskas that he
was guided by the devil the night
he riddled Mrs. Plungis' body with
bullets from two guns were intro
duced as state’s evidence by County
Detective Thomas F. Laden, last
witness to testify for the state.
Brief testimony by Deputy Police
Superintendent Fred Hickey and by
Robert Platt, manager of the South
ern New England Telephone Corn
pan, featured the opening of the
defense.
Laden's testimony, based on
statements Zukauskas made to him
shortly before 10:30 the night of
Nov. 4, was filled with revelations
of the state of mind of the de
fendant at the time he obtained the
death-dealing guns and killed Mrs.
Plungis. The state's witness read
the statements from a transcript
made by a court stenographer.
Wife Breaks Down
Reading of the transcript of Zu
kauskas' statements raised the high
est pitch of emotion noted yet in
the eight-day-old trial.
Mrs. Edna Zukauskas, wife of the
accused, who remained unruffled by
state’s evidence of her husband’s
fervid infatuation for the slain wo
man, lost her composure completely
today. She sent sob;; across the
courtroom, and appeared on the
verge of collapse when Sheriff Chris
Olsen and Policewoman Mary Nor
gren led her sobbing uncontrollably
from the courtroom into the wait
ing room outside.
Tears streamed from the eyes of
Zukauskas who appeared ready to
run to his wife's side and many
handkerchiefs were raised in the
spectators’ section of tire courtroom.
The statements- of Zukauskas
were introduced in an evident move
to clear up the question of pre
meditation, as the state began to
wind up Its case of first degree
murder against Zukauskas.
In those statements Zukauskas
told of his decision to get Ills guns
and traced the moves lie made from
the moment he met Mrs. Plungis
Nov. 1 shortly after 10 o'clock on
Poplar street to the time he riddled
her body with bullets and then sur
rendered to police.
But in those statements also Zu
kauskas told of being crazed with
rage at Mrs. Plungis, who allegedly
spit and swore at him and accused
him of talking about their relations
to other men.
Perpetual fear of Zukauskas that
his wife might be drawn Into the
cast were evident in the statements
he made to the detective. Through
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Citrine Claims Allied Big 3
Meeting “At This Moment”
BY PHIL AULT
London. February 6. — (UP) —
The Allied big three arc In session
at “this very moment,'’ Sir Walter
Citrine, general secretary of the
Brltslh Trades Union Congress, re
vealed today.
He made the disclosure at the
opening session of the World Trade
Union Conference In explaining why
Prime Minister Churchill could not
address the meeting.
Churchill had promised to speak
at the conference, but Instead sent
a message of greetings to the dele
gates.
"He Is at the conference of the
three great powers taking place at
this very moment,” Citrine said.
Speculation continued over the
whereabouts of the Big Three meet
ing, with most sources suggesting
the Black Sea area or possibly
Stalingrad. One theory was that
some sessions ut leust were being
held aboard a warship, perhaps
American with President Roosevelt
as host.
The Japanese betrayed Increasing
ccnccrn that Premier Stalin may
align Russia with the United States
and Britain against Japan at the
conference.
They obviously feared that Stalin,
wlushed by victories over the Ger
man army, will give President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill a definite promise to
throw at least part of the Red Army
against the Japanese alter Oermany
has surrendered.
Tire influential Tokyo newspaper
Asahi, as quoted by the Germun
Transocean Agency, said the ques
tion of Soviet participation would
‘most certainly be raised," since
the Pacific war situation was
"nearing the decisive stage."
Priests'
Venality
Condemned
Moscow, Feb. C.—(UP)—Soviet
newspaper today dLsplaycd prom
inently an appeal by the Council
of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox
church to world Christendom urg
ing: prayers for speedy victory and
advocating a "stern sentence against
the Fascist criminals."
With the bishops' appeal the gov
ernment newspaper Izvestia printed
a pastoral message condemning the
growth of the anti-religious senti
ment, neglect of the church ritual,
and venality of certain priests.
Such matter had not been pub
lished In an official Russian organ
since the Bolshevik revolution.
“Brothers and Christians of the
whole world, it now Is clear whose
arms the Lord Jesus Christ blessed,
and whose arms He did not bless,"
the bishops' message said.
"Our Red Army is bringing and
already has brought liberation to
many neighboring countries. We be
lieve that the one and only ruler
of heaven and earth, Who qulted the
wind on the Sea of Galilee, soon
will quiet the world storm.
“We will see the Intervention of
divine Justice when the blessed
hands of the victors write on the
pages of history a stern sentence
against the Fascist criminals."
The pastoral letter said there had
been a great religious revival and
unification of practically all non
conformist sects under the dominant
Russian Orthodox church. It ended
with the invocation:
"Let now, as in times past, the
glory of the holy name of the Father
and Son and Holy Ghost prevail
over our land."
Spies' Trial
To Be Secret
New York. Feb. 6—(UP)—A Ger
man and w CcMN-xtlcut Yankee ap
pear before a U. S. Military com
mission today to be tried in secret
on charges of espionage and sabo
tage on behalf of Adolf Hitler's
Reich.
William Curtis Colcpaugh, the
American, and Erich Glmpel, Nazi,
faced their examiners on Governor’s
Island. Press and public were bar
red, and the army planned to Issue
statements on trlul procedure twice
dally.
Deuth was the mnxlmum penalty
if Colcpaugh and Glmpel were
found guilty of three charges of es
pionage and sabotage. The alleged
spies were arrested in New York by
the FBI less than a month after
they were landed on the Maine
coast by Oerman submarine last
Nov. 29.
Colepaugh, a native of Nlantlc,
Conn., will face a former classmate
at Admiral Furragut Academy,
Tom’s River, N. J„ during the trial.
Edmond Mulcahy Is a chief witness
for the government. Colepaugh al
legedly visited Mulcahy before ne
was arrested, and their conversation
will be Introduced by the prosecu
tion.
Today’s procedure duplicated the
pattern for trial of eight German
spies convicted in 1942 before a mil
itary commission.
The prosecution was expected to
use statements reportedly taken by
the FBI following the defendants’
arrest in a mid-town New York ho
tel. The FBI described Colepaugh
as a draft evader who, under pres
sure, enlisted In the navy only to
bo discharged for possible disloyal
ty.
He joined the merchant marine,
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2,000 GERMANS
BEHIND ALLIED
LINESTRAPPED
BY BOYD D. LEWIS
Paris, February 6.— (UP)
— American Third Army
troops broke through the
Siegfried Line at a number of
points in Germany’s Schnee
Eifel forest today and closed
in on the west wall bastion of
Prum along an eight-mile
front.
Twenty-five miles to the
north, infantrymen of the
U. S. First Army were locked
in a hard fight for the Roer
river dams and the last belt
of the Siegfried pillboxes
covering the approaches to
the Cologne plain.
At the southern end of the front,
American and French troops splint
ered the German pocket around
Colmar Into Isolated groups and
laid a curtain of shellfire across the
enemy’s Rhine river escape bridges.
Thousands of Nazi troops were
reported In full flight across the
Rhine from Alsace under heavy ar
tillery fire, leaving 1.500 to 2,000 of
their number hopelessly trained be
hind the Allied lines In the high
Vosges Mountains.
Methodical Advance
Pied dispatches said the American
First and Third Armies were grind
ing steadily forward through the
eastern fringes of the Siegfried line,
bursting through that barrier at
some points In a methodical ad
vance that was beginning to Uneat
en the entire German position west
of hte Rhine.
German resistance was stiffen
ing, however, particualrly on the
Third Army front where Lt. Gen.
George S- Patton’s infantry division
ran into lncreasingy-heavy coun
ter-attacks.
Patton’s troops hammered out
gains of a mile and more on an
eight-mile front before Prum, cap
turing Habscheid. seven mies west
southwest of that communications
center, and Schlausenbach, six miles
to the northwest.
Three miles below Schlausenbach,
the doughboys pushed: to within 3
1-3 miles to Prum after a two-mie
advance from Buchet, while still
farther south they captured Brand
scheid, only to run into a sharp
(Continued on Page 4)
Bank Group
Okays Bill
Washington, Feb. 6— (UPi —The
House Banking committee, respond
ing to pressure from Democratic
leaders, today approved the George
Bill after rejecting three Republican
amendments to Impose further re
strictions on the Department of
Commerce.
Supporters of Henry A. Wallace
are seeking to push the bill to en
actment in its present form—
whereby it would divorce the federal
loan agency from the Commerce de
partment. They believe its approval
would lend to prompt confirmation
of the former vice president of sec
retary of commerce.
The senate passed the bill last
week. It then deferred action on
Wallace's nomination until March
1, pending developments on the
George bill.
The house committee considered
the measure for an hour. Then it
voted unanimously to recommend its
passage by the house.
Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott. R , Mich.,
ranking minority member, offered
the three rejected amendments.
Votes on all three were almost en
tirely party line divisions.
Wolcott’s first proposal would
have repealed the power granted to
President Roosevelt under the sec
ond War Powers act to transfer ex
ecutive agencies by executive order.
It was rejected, 15 to 11.
His second amendment would
have broadened the George bill pro
vision requlerlng audits by the gen
eral accounting office of all corpor
ations wholly owned by the govern
ment to include corporations owned
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Seven Japs Give
Red Cross Blood
B as ton, Feb. 6—(UP)—Charles W
Fracottl of Milford, state com
mander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and father of a soldier killed
on D-Day, today protested against
the donation of blood to the Red
Cross by Americans of Japanese an
"I personally disapprove of the
action and I believe the association
as a whole would disapprove too,’
he said. ”My son, Lt. Robert Fras
cottl, a Mustang pilot with tin
Eighth Air Force, was killed re
turning from a mission on D-Day
I wouldn’t have wanted him to
have had any Job blood in him."
Frascottl said the organization
would consider the matter at »
meeting In Boston tomorrow. A
Milford school employe, Frascottl
served In France as an Infantry
sergeant In World War I.
The VFW commander* protest
came a* result of a blood donation
in Boston yesterday by seven Amer
ican-born young men and women of
Japanese uneextry—the first occa
sion of its kind in New England.
Americans Recapture Manila
CaboMftM*
MILES J,
(NEA Telephoto)
American 1st Cavalry enters Manila from the east, and 37th Division
invades from the north, as shown on this map. MacArthur's forces
freed 2,700 prisoners from Santo Tomas Prison Camp. Meanwhile, the
11th Airborne Division moves rapidly from the south after a parachute
landing at Tagaytay Ridge, threatening 10,000 Japs below Pasig River.
Governor’s Choice
May Break Deadlock
Hartford, Conn., Fob. 6.—<UP)—
Democratic State Chairman Adrian
W. Maher said today that "speedy
action will be taken’’ on Governor
Baldwin's recommendation that Ad
miral Thomas C. Hart be appointed
interim U. S. senator from Con
necticut, after party members in
the state senate assure themselves
that the admiral’s views "on the
making of the peace coincide with
those held" by the President, Sen.
Brien McMahon, and the majority
of tlie electorate in the last elec
tion.
Strongly indicating that the gov
ernor's recommendation would end
the deadlock in the legislature over
a bill empowering the chief execu
tive to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Francis T. Maloney by
direct appointment, Maher said:
"The Democratic party fee's that
its stand on the filling of the va
cancy. . .lias been vindicated by Gov.
Raymond E. Baldwin’s submission
of the name of Admiral Thomas
C. Hart.
"Our chief concern always has
been that the people of our state
were entitled to know whom the
governor intended to name to the
U. S. Senate in event he was so
empowered by the General Assem
bly. He having publlcally an
nounced in advance the selection,
we now leel that the Connecticut
Senate can intelligently consider
the individual instead of speculating
on possibilities."
The governor, in a special radio
broadcast last night, suggested Ad
miral Hart and said that if the
general assembly found the high
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Fifth Takes
4 More Towns
Rome, Feb. (UP)—Fifth Army
troops have occupied four more
towns in advances along the Serchio
river in the west sector of their lines,
headquarters said today while im
proved weather brought an increase
of patrol activity along other sec- j
lions of the front.
Caslel Vecchio, cast of the river, j
was occupied Sunday night by forces [
which later occupied Alblano. Larni i
Di Sotto and Calominl, west of the ;
Serchio Valley, were recaptured;
Monday.
Fifth Army patrols encountered j
slightly increased enemy resistance ;
along sectors to the east.
Activity on the Eighth Army front
in the Adriatic coastl secor was re
ported light.
Planes of the Mediterranean
Allied Air Force continued to pound
the Brenner route and communica
tions In northeast Italy.
Reconnassanco photographs show
ed that the Brenner and other main
rail routes out. of Italy to the north
east had been blocked thoroughly
desple eorts of German repair crews.
Ardennes
Cost Foe
Big Toll
By JAMES McGLINCY
Paris, Feb. 0 — (UP.) — The
battle of the Ardennes was closed out
officially today as a major Allied
victory that stripped Germany of
her last strategic reserves on the
eve of the Rd Army's Berlin offen
sive. It cast the Nazis more than
220,000 casualties.
Disclosure of the German lasses,
almost 80. per cent of their attack
ing force, coincided with the head
quarters announcement that Lieu
tenant General Omar N. Bradley has
resumed full control of the 12t,h
Army group, now comprising the U.
S. First and Third Armies.
Part of Bradley's command was
shifted to Field Marshal Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery during the Ardennes
battle when the German break
through severed communications
between the Third Army in the
south and the American First and
Ninth Armies In . the north. The
Ninth army remains under Mont
gomery’s command. Headquarters
sources said this shift was planned
long before the German counter
offensive and had no connection
with the Ardennes campaign.
It was Indicated that additional
American forces would be added to
Bradley s command to bring it back
to parity with Montgomery’s.
Bradley, it now can be revealed,
resumed administrative and opera
tional control of the 12th Army
group at midnight January 18, two
days after the First and Third
Armies re-established contact at
(Continued on Page 4)
Superforts Rake
Port Kobe Twice
Washington, Feb. 6. (UP)—Lone
Superfortresses bombed the big Jap
anese port of Kobe twice early to
day, Radio Tokyo sold. In a follow
up to Sunday's heavy raid.
Two other B-29s flew over Kobe
at 11:30 p. mi., the broadcast said, but
It did not Indicate whether they, too,
dropped bombs.
A dispatch from 21st bomber com
mand headquarters ut Gaum said
reconnaissance photographs showed
one Important Industrial plant had
been "substantially destroyed" by
fire tn Sunday's raid.
The raid as a whole was consid
ered only "moderately successful,”
however, the bomber command said.
Though 34 flr.se were left burning
In Kobe, all had been put by the
time reconnaissance photographs
were taken 24 hours later.
Senate Wants Explanation
On Blaze’s “A” Priority
Washington, Feb. 6 — (UP.) —
Senator Harlan J. Bush field, R., S.
D., demanded to day that the sen
ate be given an eplanatlon of how
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt's dog Blaze
got an ‘‘A" priority on an army car
go plane before It votes on promo
tion of the President's son to Brig
adier general.
Bushfleld late yesterday forced
postponement of a senate vote on
the promotion for one week. He told
reporters he was ' hopeful" that a
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Investigating alleged air priority
abuses could meanwhile turn up
some evidence on the Blaze Incident.
The sub-committee on priorities
wus appointed after It was disclosed
that Blaze, a bull Mastiff, held an
"A" priority on a flight from Wash
lug ton to California ami "oumpcn
three service men on leave en route.
Senator Tom Stewart. D., Tenn..
sub-committee chairman, was du
bious about Bushfleld's getting the
Information within a week but Sen
ator Styles Bridges, R., N. H., who
proposed the Investigation told re
porters he would press to meet the
deadline. Bridges Is a member of
the sub-committee.
Bush field said it was the dog inci
dent which prompted him to de
mand a week' delay on the Roose
velt promotion. Because Senate
Democratic Leader Alben W. Bark
ley of Kentucky refused to single out
the Roosevelt promotion for delay,
action waos held up on the entire
list of 78 nominations to Brigadier
general.
REDS SWARM 1
WELL BEYOND
ODER RIVER
BY ROBERT MUSEL ' j
London, February 6—(UP)J
— The Germans reported
today that the Red Army had
seized three bridgeheads
across the Oder, 32 to 35
miles from Berlin, and had
captured the Silesian citadel
of Steinau west of the Oder.
Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s
shock troops stormed across
the Oder south of Frankfurt
and “have been able to build
up two rather small bridge
heads’’ while a third was
established at Kienitz, 10
miles northwest of Kustrin.
A Gennan military spokes
man said.
The unconfirmed Nazi reports in
dicated that In smashes through the
Oder River line the Russians had
been able to grab more or less solid
footholds which, if developed, will
serve as springboards for a plungn
over the last lap of the road to
Berlin.
The two new bridgeheads across
the Oder on the Berlin front—the
one at Kienitz was reported yester
day—were between Frankfurt and
Furstenburg, the military spokes
man was quoted by the Berlin radio.
They were located as two or three
miles south of Frankfurt, the last
great citadel before Berlin, which
was threatened by any flanking
drive Zhukov Is able to develop
from these reported crossings.
The Nazi spokesman said the
“Main movlet masses” already were
fighting on the Frankfurt-Kustrln
line of the Oder, suggesting that
Zhukov’s major units had moved up
to the river and were ready to re
sume the push on Berlin, tempo
rarily checked by the Oder defenses.
Defense Crumbles
The entire Oder River defense
line through Silesia appeared to be
crumbling under the triphammer
blows of Marshal Ivan S. Konev's
First Ukrainian Army.
Farther northwest. Marshal Gre
gory K. Zhukov’s first White Ru*«
slan Army was storming the Odcf
line in front of Berlin. The Ger
mans reported he had forced a cros
sing 32 miles from the capital. Mos
cow dispatches .'.aid his lisock troops
were believed to have reached the
west bank at some points.
The fall of Steinau, Key City 139
miles southeast of Berlin and 34
northwest of Breslau, was reported.
In a supplement to the German
communique, issued from Adolf Hit
ler’s headquarters. It Indicated
that Konev’s forces were well be
yond Steinau in reporting that the
city’s garrison had fought its way
through to the German lines.
The troops “defended Steinau in
(Continued on Page 4)
Nazis' Fate
Up To Big 3
By LYLE C. WILSON'
Washington, Pel). 6—iUP)—The
big three conference apparently
must decide whether to put Ger
many publicly on a par with Japan
for point punishment as an outlaw
disturber of the peace.
Severe punitive commitments al
ready have been Jointly made with
respect to Japan by China, great
Britain and the United States.
There lias been ns yet no similar
oint undertaking by the Soviet
Union, Great Britain and the Unit
ed States to impose specific penal
ties on Germany.
When President Roosevelt. Prime
Minister Churchill and Generalis
simo Chlang Kai-shek met in Cairo
! in November, 1943. they let Japan
■ have a big bundleof specific bad
news
Their communique, dated Dec. 1.
provided, among other things:
1. Japan shall be stripped of all
Pacific islands seized or occupied
since the beginning of World War
I—August 1914.
2. Territories “stolen” by Japan
from China shall be returned,
specifically mentioned were Man
churia, Formosa and the Pescadores
islands.
3. Japan shall be expelled from
all other territories taken by
“violence and greed."
4 Korea, a Japanese vassal
state, shall be freed.
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