Western New Britain freed of Japs as U.S. forces join
Guadalcanal Marine veterans and Army troops join to eliminate Nippon’s Bataan victors
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Allied big guns break up start of beachhead attack
Concentration of Nazi tanks and infantry smashed; thrusts hurled back
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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U.S. Army losses placed at 118,128
Washington (UP) –
U.S. Army casualties for the war up to Feb. 7 totaled 118,128, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson disclosed today.
These include 19,499 killed, 45,545 wounded, 26,339 missing and 26,745 prisoners of war. Of the wounded, 24,289 (or over half) have returned to duty. Of the prisoners of war, 1,664 have been reported by the enemy to have died in prison camps.
The Navy Department’s casualty figure as of today for the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard was 39,737. That makes the grand total of War and Navy Department casualties 157,865.
The breakdown of Navy casualties showed 16,506 dead, 9,322 wounded, 9,491 missing and 4,418 prisoners.
Ramspeck under knife
Washington –
Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D-GA) was reported in satisfactory condition today after undergoing an emergency operation for appendicitis at the Naval Medical Center.
Light workers in Sharpsburg stay on strike
Outside help repairs wire, restores electric service in borough
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All-male jury is chosen to hear mercy killing case
Socially-prominent lawyer charged with electrocuting mentally-deficient son
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The people must know –
OWI should be taken into full confidence of the high command
If this had been the case, the Patton incident never could have upset U.S. morale as it did
By Palmer Hoyt, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Action on plan to demobilize is needed now
Over million men have been discharged from Army and Navy
By Arthur F. Degreve, United Press staff writer
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Soft-hearted Marine – that’s Gen. Smith
Atoll-buster pounds men into mighty weapon
By Boyd Lewis, United Press staff writer
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Dewey withdraws in Wisconsin
Albany, New York (UP) –
The drive on behalf of Governor Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican presidential nomination continued today despite his withdrawal from the Wisconsin primaries.
New York supporters said Governor Dewey’s request that his name be withheld from the Wisconsin fight for delegates had not changed their position and that they would continue their campaign.
Governor Dewey in telegrams to each of the 24 Wisconsin delegates who had filed petitions in his support, said the use of his name met his “strongest disapproval.”
Some political observers interpreted it as a move to avoid a showdown with Wendell L. Willkie, who defeated him for the Republican nomination in Philadelphia four years ago. Mr. Willkie, it was pointed out, is in a position to make a personal campaign for support in Wisconsin while Governor Dewey is tied up with state affairs. These observers also placed significance in the fact that Governor Dewey did not withdraw from the New Jersey primaries or give a reason for his Wisconsin withdrawal.
In Washington –
Approval due bill to extend credit agency
House anti-subsidy bloc not to fight Commodity Corporation measure
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Soldier-vote conferees locked
Washington (UP) –
House-Senate conferees resume discussions tomorrow on the soldier-vote bill with still no sign of a break in the long deadlock between advocates of state and federal ballots.
Senator Theodore F. Green (D-RI), a Senate conferee, indicated the status of the talks by saying that the nearest thing to an agreement yet came yesterday when conferees “came very close to voting to disagree.”
At tomorrow’s session, Rep. John E. Rankin (D-MS), ardent advocate of a state ballot, will offer a proposal to give the federal ballot only to soldiers from states with no absentee voting laws – New Mexico and Kentucky – provided their legislatures confirm they will accept it.
This would in effect kill the federal ballot plan “with kindness” and Senate conferees were not expected to accept it.
Japs demand ‘rights’
Lamar, Colorado –
A petition signed by 3,340 Japanese-Americans at the Amache War Relocation Center demanding full restoration of “civil rights” was sent to Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority today after five young men at the camp were arrested for refusing to report for Army induction.