3,000 U.S. planes end lull in raids
Heavy bombers hit seven Rhine bridges
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Bombs rip Japs fleeing Mandalay
Greatest fleet ever to strike in Burma
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Presidential seizure threatened –
Beer essential, WLB rules brewery strike must end
Parties to jurisdictional dispute told suds are vital for armed men, civilian morale
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Steel output holds despite shortages
No effect felt yet from fuel ‘crisis’
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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U.S. expected to end break with Finland
Two representatives sent to Helsinki
Washington (UP) –
The United States is expected to begin preparations soon for resumption of full diplomatic relations with Finland after a six-month break.
The actual restoration of normal relations and exchange of ministers plenipotentiary may be several months away, but the first step in that direction was taken yesterday with assignment of two foreign service officers to establish an American mission in Helsinki.
Upon their first reports probably will depend the decision whether to invite Finland to send similar representatives to this country preliminary to establishment of formal relations.
Finn sent home
It will be six months next Wednesday since the State Department denounced Finnish Minister Hjalmar L. Procope as persona non grata for “actions inimical” to the United States. This country formally severed relations with Finland June 20.
Maxwell M. Hamilton, former minister counsellor of the American Embassy in Moscow, will leave Washington soon to become the U.S. representative in Finland with personal rank of minister. He will be assisted by Randolph Higgs, who probably already has left Stockholm for Helsinki.
Never declared war
The United States never declared war on Finland, the break in relations having been followed within three months by Finland’s capitulation to the Russians and the signing of an armistice. But Russia and Great Britain are still technically at war with Finland pending completion of negotiations and signing the peace treaty.
The Soviet and British governments were advised in advance of the American decision to send two diplomats to Finland. Finland, however, was not. She learned of the decision through the department’s press announcement which was presumably forwarded to Finland through Switzerland, the protecting power for U.S. interests in Finland, or through Sweden, the protecting power for Finnish interests in this country.
Representatives there
There were no indications yet that the British and Soviet governments contemplate moves similar to that of the United States.
They have not restored diplomatic representation in Helsinki, but have representatives there as members of the Allied Control Commission, the body set up under the Soviet-British-Finnish armistice terms.
Simms: U.S. to offer pact extending grand alliance
Little nations look to Roosevelt
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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1,300 combat doughboys return on ‘battle leaves’
Overseas ‘old-timers’ and outstanding heroes return to USA for 30 days
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Connally denies attempted gag
Ball to speak next on foreign policy
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Strikers restore Cleveland power
Union ends walkout as U.S. seizes plant
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Phone workers win $4 weekly raise
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Perkins: Labor leaders see chance of wage revision
Roosevelt waiting for Vinson’s report
By Fred W. Perkins, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Miss Perkins warns unions to assume responsibilities
Secretary, in what may be swansong, takes slap at WLB stand on pay, living costs
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War needs slow spot reconversion
But WPB promises to fill civilian needs
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Frances Farmer found again
Reno, Nevada (UP) –
Frances Farmer, former movie actress, was back home today, with her aunt, Mrs. Edith Castlings, who had reported her missing from her Yerington, Nevada, home Thursday.
The blond, ex-movie star was returned home by Reno police yesterday after she was discovered in a movie theater. Police said Miss Farmer, who recovered from a mental illness last July, had spent Thursday night at a Reno hotel and had been in the “Reno area” for about 24 hours.
It was the second time she had disappeared from home within a year.
U.S. handling of prisoners angers Yanks
French also score soft treatment
By Helen Kirkpatrick
Paris, France – (Jan. 13)
American treatment of German prisoners of war continues to embitter the people throughout France and has even aroused the anger of G.I.’s.
American information services have issued lengthy and careful explanations to the French showing that German prisoners are treated according to the Geneva Convention. They eat the same food as the American soldiers, it is pointed out, because the convention so prescribes, and to feed them otherwise would create an additional supply problem.
Frenchmen understand and accept that. Only the most unreasonable continue to argue that neither the American, nor (particularly) the Frenchmen, who are prisoners in Germany, get even adequate food.
Nazis get cigarettes
But instance after instance is reported from all parts of France of German prisoners receiving cigarettes and chocolate at a time when the American troops were short of smokes, and when French children were not getting chocolate. During my recent trip through Alsace and Lorraine, French feeling was almost at fever heat on this subject.
That aspect has not bothered the average combat soldier much. Recently, however, the Germans’ cold-blooded shooting of American prisoners has created a new feeling among the G.I.’s. It was about the time that this feeling was growing that the November issue of an American weekly appeared with pictures and a description of German prisoners’ life in a camp in the United States. The reaction was instantaneous and violent.
The pictures showed well-dressed Germans in reading and recreation rooms, and described their daily movies – in German – and their hobby and workshop quarters. Shown also were Army issue towels and clothing on their comfortable beds.
Offers phone numbers
Even the most unimpassioned G.I. has learned by now that nothing like this awaits him if he is captured. He knows that he will live, in what he has on his back, in unheated camps, and will have to rely on Red Cross packages for clothes and for food to eke out a sufficient diet.
“I think I’d better write some of those Jerries and give them some telephone numbers. Maybe they don’t know any girls and aren’t having a good time,” one G.I. said bitterly.
Many of them commented on the lectures and educational courses being given the Germans by their Nazi leaders in these camps.
“We are supposed to be ready to die so they can keep their Nazi ideas alive while living on the fat of our land,” another said.
SOS to airborne troops brings aid to First Army
Soldiers on leave assemble quickly to rush into line during German breakthrough
By Jack Bell
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