La Grande evening observer., April 20, 1945, Image 1

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Soviet Vanguards
Are in Hangelsberg,
7 Miles from Capital
I LONDON. April 20 (UP) The Red army announced to
night that it had captured the bijr Berlin outposts of Bad
Fi'cinwalde, Wriezen, Seelow and Lebus in a great offensive
which the nazis said had broken into a village seven miles
cast of the graVcly threatened reich capital.
A Moscow communique announcing the fall of the forti
fied towns 23 to 3'1 miles east of Berlin also revealed that
Russian forces have crumpled the German defenses in the
Spree valley southeast of the capital, were threatening to
outflank Berlin on the south, and were within 1!) miles of
Dresden, toward which American troops were pushing.
"The battle for Berlin has reached the decisive stage,"
German broadcasters said repeatedly during the day in de
scribing the struggle at the gales of the bin ning and shell
swept city.
The left wing of an intensely concentrated mass of Soviet
tanks and men charging straight in against Berlin was re
ported by the Germans to have pushed into the streets of
Hangelsberg, on the Frankfurt highway seven miles short
of the city limits.
Pendleton Woman
Elected Head of
Area Presbyterial
Mrs. I. C. Bowser of Pendleton
today was elected president of
the Eastern Oregon Presbyterial
society and her home city was se
lected for the 1046 meeting as the
eighth annual session came to an
cud in the First Presbyterian
church here.
Other officers of the organiza
tion, composed of women of the
Presbyterian churches of this
area, were elected and installed
cs follows:
Mrs. Oral Hogoboom, Pendle
ton, first vice president; Mrs. S.
P. Morgan, La Grande, second
vice president; Mrs. J. R. De
Spain, Pendleton, recording sec
retary; Mrs. Arthur Lorenzen,
Echo, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. A. W. Sandford, Baker,
treasurer.
The following departmental
secretaries also we-e elected:
Mrs. Florence Jasper, La Grande,
literature; Mrs. Henry George,
Dayville, missionary education;
Mrs. H. S. McKenzie, Pendleton,
membership; Mrs. Clarence Hil
'Ver, Fiiot Hock," spiritual life;
Mrs. H. H. Cleaver, La Grande,
spiritual life; Mrs. W. Snyder,
Dayville, missionary sewing; Mrs.
Sydney A. Walker, Baker, young
See PENDLETON . . . Page 3
District Leader
jt To Be Named for
scout Movement
A district chairman of I he Boy
Smuts of America will be elected
tonight at the spring meeting of
tlit? Eagle district committee
which will be convened at 7:30
o'clock in the First Presbyterian
church.
The chairman will be elected
t succeed Rev. Aithur J. Stan
ley, and a chairman of the or
ganization and extension com
mittee will be appointed to suc
ceed Hal Altman, resigned.
The selection of a local cam
paign site, waste paper collection
drive, comporce and summer at
tendance, also are slated to come
up. .,
Troop chairmen and other dis
hict officers will be present and
each troop is expected to have
a representative at the meeting
'' obtain inhumation on the
"ice ting of the individual
8ups.
Fred Patlon will be temporary
'''airman.
HEIRESS GETS DIVORCE
RENO, Ncv., April 20 (UP)
Cioria Vanderbilt Di Cicco, 21-Kar-old
heiress, was granted a
jivorce today from- Pat Di Cicco,
5. Hollywood actor's agent on
founds of mental cruelty.
Baseball Results
National
frooklvn DM mil 1110 (i 10 0
York 303 001 I2x 10 13 1
Seats, Kine (31 Hathaway (H
and Owen: Fedlman. Adams (8)
kM Lombardi. HHR Wcintraub
'' 1) Stanlev (Bkn B) Fcldman
(NY 6) Weintraub (NY 8).
Chicago 120 100 010 4 0
filtsburgh 00J (NO 01 5 14 1
Wyse, Pinea (8) Ami l.ivings
':n: Sewell and Loz. fliiEl
Ubott Pgh. ). o
Kmaricorii
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b'istim O mi) Mti ii'in !
Rlaidi) anci Mam: tfct)inV
I-eill (ji anil Itoim VHll L
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D'C0R ft0' 100 0003 II 2
Batteries: Hollingsworth and
'ayworth; Lopat and Trcsh;
'm LopiChi El. Clary (StL
An earlier Moscuw dispatch
said U. S. third army and Soviet
patrols probably had met in the
Dresden sector. Allied supremo
headquarters tonight broadcast a
message saying that the gap be
tween the eastern and western
allies would be closed "in a few
days."
Thc captured towns of Bad
Frcinwaldo, Wriezen, Scelow and
Lebus were the anchor "posts' of sll0re f Mo,' e"lf'
Berlin's first line of defenses' At 1,e sam0 lime other u- S.
west of the Oder. All lie in the i Iroops occupied without opposi
Odcr valley west of the river, j ,ion Balabac island, south of
except Lebus, which is on the : American - controlled Palawan
Oder six miles north of Frank-, nnd only 45 lnilcs from tlle north
furl, ern tip of Borneo.
The communioiie said that in I In a- series of shore-to-shore
the Neisse push the Russians
:verran Klitten, 37 miles north-
cast of Dresden; Niesky, 45
northeast of Di esden and II
northwest of Goerlilz, Sprem-
crg, ij west of Cottbus on tr.o
Spree; and Hoyerswcrda, 12
southwest of Spremberg and 35
northeast of Dresden.
The Russians approached Kam-
enz, 19 miles northeast of Dies-
den, and Bautzen, 30 northeast
ef Dresden and 25 west of Cott
A Moscow dispatch said the
outriders ot the Russian and
American armies probably had
made their first contact around
Dresden.
Junction Rumor Scouted
Relayed to Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton's third army front, a
high-ranking source denied that
any such mc'iting had taken
place, "unless", he added joking
ly "some of our troops deserted
us."
The nazis were paying most of
their attention to the Berlin
front, where 'iheir radio com
mentators said the Russians had
driven into the capital's "defense
zone proper."
The German high command,
acknowledging widespnad re-
er in the fortifications in front
I Berlin, said frankly that "the i
siluation has di tci iorated." i
I Other nazi broadcasts reported
Soviet tanks and infantry were
moving directly against Berlin
between Muenchcberg and Wrie
zen. Their center hail reached
Strausbcrg, nine milts from the
capital, and lower wing was at
Hangelsberg.
More Low-Priced
Clothing- Sought
Iy U. S. Agencies
WASHINGTON, April 20 (UP)
The return of low-priced cloth
ing by ialc summer was predict
ed today as the government at
tacked the clothing shortage from
.i new angle in its efforts to get
pioduetion up and prices down.
Stabilization Director William
H. Davis last night approved a
fi e-eenls-an-hour wage increase
fnt 50.000 CIO textile workers
and tied iiis decision to the ne
cessity for producing more tex-
nies to noici uown me cosi n,
, . ..,-!
At the same time Puce ,Imin- I
istrator Chester Bowle-s announc
ed one of the last major steps in
the government's program to roll
b.-.ck the retail cost of clothing
1 y at len-l six per cent for low
er and middle income f.inulies.
The OPA chief issues an order
icquirint! clothing manufacturers
to sell their goods at no more
than the average puce received
in 1(143.
Churchill Home It
ftamaffed Ay ft
-The
I to- j
,i:ffiee of censorship ivvnlf--iav
th.n No. fh ITowniiVB
In et,
olficSl residence of YfV prim-'-1
.minister, had been.il V a homo
(jkirl was propped
some time ago
Hi p . ith w
'j-len supporye, t
rmar. i
Ot raicMiainaer
oSf H it,, for the damage was ; m Swer twat. r lumnwi par.ois. vjy ouajv-iiiai ivici. My . or.
but no date lor tne a.imagc 1,,, bascd Midland I year-el Washrngtoorresp. Q$
It was announce, however, j ur
that an entire stick of burnt" ,0n
in Whitehall in Febiuaiy, 1943.
ESTAHLISHKD 1896
Nuernberg
Japs Put Up
Little Fight
On Mindanao
MANILA. April 20 (UP)
American troops thrust across
unopposed across Mindanao to
within 80 miles of the big port
of Davao today.
The drive was moving nearly a
mile an hour and already had sc-
, cu!',cd an "pProximatc 400-squarc
unit. uLULiiuau uii iiiv i-uati'iu
hops from the original landing
beachhead, assault forces pushed I
5 miles southward to capture'
the towns of Cotabato and Ta-'
j n.ontaka on the north and south j
.s"n,es oi me minaanao river.
The river positions were quick
ly consolidated -and under a
! hea-w air cover the trooDs drove I
22 miles inland on both sides of
the river to the road junction of
Lrmopog.
OFFENSE TEMPO RISES
GUAM, April 20 (UP) Ameri
ran h-nons limned to within
can troops lunged to
three and a half miles north of
.Naha, capital of Okinawa) in the
I mosi nnwerful offensive of the
Pacific war today.
Radio Tokyo said other troops
attempted to land on the south
coast of Okinawa about eight
miles southeast of Naha yester
day from a 30-ship invasion fleet,
including 20 transports and sev
eral battleships.
Such a landing would deeply
outflank Naha, a city of 05,000,
inel clamp a pincers on its garri-
son of 00.000.
' Three army divisions possibly
-l.'i.OOO men smashed deep bulges
into both flanks of the Japanese
line across southern Okinivfi
yesterday under cover of the
creates! coordinated ship and ar-
lillery bombardment ever given
Amorican troops for the size of
the target anywhere in the world.
State Officers of
Farm Bureau Are
.Local Unit Guests
Dean Peavy, former president
i f Oregon State college, address
ed the La Grande farm bureau
on the Dumbarton Oaks confer
ence and the coming San Fran
cisco conference, at the monthly
meeting last night in the K. of P.
hall.
Officers and directors of Ha
state farm bureau federation
v ere introduced by Mac Hoke of
Pendleton, stale president. Hoke
gave a brief report of the accom-
1 plishments of the stale organiza
tion at a directors meeting in La
j Grande yesterday afternoon.
Preceding the business meel-
j ing, a potluek dinner was served
40 members and guests. Miss
Juliiinnc WisC- county homc
demonstration agent, was chair-
. .. ,innop rnmmiMn
Harlow Speckhart, program
chairman, introduced the speck
Max Inge-rson played violin
numbers, accompanied by Mrs.
Sf.eckhart.
Armv Transport
Crash Kills 20
SWEETWATER. Tex. April 20
(UP) Between 20 and 25 pas
sengers aboard a twin - engine
transport plains wer (tilled toilay
when it crashed and bwflt 'i trf 'c
,r,ilcs south of here.
Armv oMrdlls . r 'W-'1
fli, i9-lcase ie iimlrer ?)f men
jxilvaid the plane i.
ril.mc irtltil art) w-euro
dies coulrt' tig,
made
but lo.J urerta! s mUh
'-f'that "more thVn S8) bodies vjgre
r. ,. l..n.Mnl n-,rlr. (
mv air field, was en rout? ItfVllent for the St. Louis Fosl-Ui
New Jersev destination wne'rfwaicn, win oecome nis press sec-
it clashed steii.y alter C:3UVn.
if,
LA GRANDE.
Hunger and Cold Were Greatest
Problems of Yank Prisoners of
Nazis, Says La Grande Officer
"They talk about all the homesickness in prison camps, but most
of us were too busy trying to keep warm and gel enough to eat. It
was a big job just to stay alive,"
Thus does First Lt, Donald R. Hunker of La Grande succinctly
cum up some four months experience in a German prison camp noar
Metz. He is expected home this week end for a visit with his wif
imJ4
LILYBET HAS BIRTHDAY
Here is the latest picture of
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra
Mary, heir.apparent to the
British throne, who will be 19
years old tomorrow. She is
serving with the ATS, British
equivalent of the WAC, where
she is learning to drive and
service trucks.
La Grande Folk
Urged to Prepare
For Salvage Drive
Urging La Grande residents to
prepare old newspapers and mag
azines for collection by Boy
Scouts, Dennis Miller, chairman
c f tlie paper salvage committee
of the junior chamber of com
merce, today issued a reminder
that the "clean-up day" for this
phase of salvage activily is next
Wednesday.
Boy Scouts arc already picking
e:p paper at homes -throughout
the city, Miller said, and lliey
must have it all at their various
depots sorted and bundled ready
for shipment on Wednesday.
He requested that anyone who
I. as olel papers or magazines tie
them with strong string in bun
dles of not more than 50 pounds
to facilitate handling.
Miller said present plans arc
foi the scouts to collect all the
paper from homes prior to Wed
nesday, thereby eliminating the
necessity for house-to-house culls
en that date.
Stores will be closed Wednes
day afternoon and employees will
hi ve the half-day free to assist
in the salvage operations.
Cans to be Collected
Simultaneously, tin cans will
be collected by trucks donated by
the three local garbage collection
opertators.
Lynn Bohnenkamp, co-chairman
of the general salvage com
mittee, issued a reminder to
housewives that cans should be
e'ean, labels and both ends re
moved, and pressed flat with the
e-ttds inside.
They should be placed in car
tons or paper bags which the sal
vage truck crews can handle con
veniently, he said.
Three New Scarlet
Fever Cases Listed
Thrce cases of scarlet fever i ing, professor of piano at Whit
were the only communicable (lis- man college.
roses reported in Union county j The contest is under the gen
l.ist week, when i2 cases of nil i rul direction of John M. Miller,
I.vjn's of such ailments were re
corded in the weekly- bulletin
o' the state board of health.
Sva- scarlet fever casts in the
Mat totalled an cmipared
with 147 during Hit tnnr,prlile
ln.l of It11
Tln fiv of
wfifiulant 'ttvor it, M.si i'tv -
ly nd 't'iuee in 't.inn oiriC'..
WASHISnN, jfiril 20 JJI'I
rresijcient Trp.iyian ar(ni)uncea
' - J "
p!:irv on M:iv I S
,ljV"i!H!Kr;riTlj,'",M,l,!,llf!l'jh
Unioi and Wallovo Covafiti
OREGON FRIDAY EVENING,
Captured
and 18-mo.iih-old son.
Hunker, an infantry officer in
Gen. Patton's Third army, was
captured November 10, but was
first reported missing in action.
The camp where he ani other
Americans were held by the
Nazis was the first to be captur
ed by the American forces.
That they had difficulty in
keeping alive is no wonder, due
to the menu they received.
Meager Fare Provided
"Want to know the daily
menu?" queried Hunker at
Fort Lewis, Wash., where he
and 17 other former prisoners
were checked in this week en
roulo home.
"For breakfast, a glass of hot
water; for lunch, a pint of ruta
baga soup; for dinner, three
potatoes and, a sixth of a loaf
of bread."
As he talked, Lt. Hunker look
ed out of a window (at Fort
Lewis) where German prisoners
of war were mowing lawns.
"THEY look pretty fit," lie ob
served dryly.
First Lt. Edin H. Patterson of
Seattle, didn't want to talk to the
reporters, says a United Press
dispatch from Fort Lewis, which
also included the following inter
views with other returned pris
oners: "I have some -friends still back
there in prison camps. Let's just
say I walked out. I can't tell how.
They may be trying it, right
now."
Patterson was thin. "I've gain
ed weight, though. When I hit
the Anzio boachhcael where I was
captured, I weighed 170. Two
Sec HUNGER . . . Page 6
School Musicians
Will Meet Here
For Area Festival
Vocalists and instrumental mu
sicians from eleven schools will
asicmble in La Grande April 21
for the Eastern Oregon high
school music festival which will
be held at Eastern Oregon col
lege with soloists and groups
from the? following schools par
ticipating: Baker, Burns, l'.eho,
Enterprise, Hermislon, McLaugh
lin, La Grande, Pilot Rock, St.
l-'rancis academy, St. Jose'ph's
academy and Union.
Solo events in strings, wood
winds, brass, piano and instru
mental ensembles will start at 0
a. m. Vocal solos will be at 10
a. m., and the afternoon will be
l iven over to vocal solos, piano
solos, vocal ensembles ami chot -al
groups.
The evening program will start
at 7 o'clock and will be composed
of class D, C, and Ii orchestras
and bands. The afternoon and
evening concerts will be in the
auditorium of the administration
building.
Judges will be Edmund J. Mar
ty, band director of the Univer
f.ity of Idaho. Wallace H. Han
rah, head of the music eleparl-
ment, Vancouver, Wash., Wayne
S. Hertz, head of the music de
partment at Central Washington
college, and Alice Peterson Xar-
director of teacher training at the
college and executive secretary
of the eastern Oregon high school
music festival.
Lrtl& Of fern ManiUi
$5JHMt Uxiitdinfj fund
J'fltiTLAM), Auril 20 (UP)
loafer (ii, l.ttde, of Ji'leii.-f.)
.t)A, past gr.-njil wortiV t-.-:,i-de
nt $ the Frij'nial 3lor of
EagT),' todaf) sa the Eagles
(hj'o $5,000 for the Sasted city
or Manila, provide, it can locate
an officiaUof its M!nila lodge.
The mvw)y would In used in
rebuilding the city.
AI'RIL 20. 1915
Drive on
Munich Is
Opened
PARIS, April 20 (UP)
Gen, Dwight D, Eisonhowor
F?id today in an order ol lho
day that tho "ragged remnants
of Hitler's armies of the west
now aro loitering on tho thres
hold of dofeat,"
Enonhowor's order of the
day was addressed to "every
member of the allied expodi
lionpry force" on the conclu
sion of the battle of the Rhur,
where more than 300.000 Ger
man troops were trapped and
eliminated as a fighting force.
PAIMS, April 20 (UP)
Tliu American .seventh army
captured .the ruined nazi
shrine city of Nuernberg to
day and struck south for
Munich to open the battle for
Hitler's last retreat in the
bavarian Alps. ,
All organized r e s i s tance
ended in Nuernberg after a
savage, house-to-house battle
that front dispatches said had
gutted the once-beautiful me
dieval city.
The last survivors of a nazi
olite guaid corps surrendered to
the Americans inside the old
walled city in the center of
LONDON, April 20 (UP) A
special mossago broadcast by
supremo headquarters tonight
to Russian and Polish nation
als in tho corridor between the
Russian and Anglo-American
armies told them to slay whoro
they woro, because iho gap
would be closed "in a few days
rr.oro."
Nuernberg late this afternoon
ironically on the 50th birthday
ef the fuehrer who had ord.'ied
his party shrine defeneleel to the
death.
Race Toward Munich
Armored vanguards eif the sev
( nth army were racing 25 mill's
and more beyond Nik rnberg anel
si ruck within 70 miles or less
of Munich, cradle of the nazi
parly and northern outpost ol
the Bavarian redoubt where llit
.'r had boaste'd his followers
would continue (he fight even if
i ll else in Germany fell.
In the north, Canadian first
,'iimy troops completed the liber
ation of northeastern Holland and
whc.'led nortluast and west for
tin' naval base of Emden and the
V-bomb coast of western Hol
land. Bremen Escape Cut
liritish second army forces
sealed off all but the sea I'seape
louto for the Germans in tile
burning port ol Bremen, riuunied
an armoied spearhead within
thn e mii 's or less south of Ham
burg, and battled lor a crossing
of the Kibe fewer than lo hull's
See NUEHNUEHG . . . Pag.. 2
OPA Has Plan to
Boost Meat Supply
WASHINGTON, April 20 (UP)
The office of price administra
tion expects to announce next
Monday or Tuesday a revised
subsidy program inlcnde-d to in
e, ease- the meat supply, it was
learnerl today.
At the same time, congression
al food sources said Hie war food
adrnini.sti.'ition is working on a
plan to pay a subsidy directly to
cattle feeders. A high WFy offi
lial expressed doubt, however,
Ihat such a subsidy would be put
into effect.
A Hud Soldi t r it tt
(it t II, H, i'ifMwt
:;W Vtetltt, April 2!? (UP)
Amvl foifti Ojo America's allies
VIP!, gel Ui0 ,000.(100 lell(l-ll ai
cieWets ill 1!M5,
Joseph Kolud -
ny, executive secretary of the
N.'o&tyia) Association ) Tobacco
Ddftibutijyjid today.
Kach ;(lt smoker in the
United Slates will lose 2:!i packs
riuiing the ytar as a result of
lend lease, he said.
erucr
by Yanks
Connordale Tract Chosen
As Site for War Housing;
Erection to Start Soon
Plans for the construction of 40 units of public housing",
in La Grande appeared well underway today with allocation
by both city and county governments of sites in nnd adjoin--'
ing the Connordale tracts at the southeast edge of the city.
Allocations of the sites was I
made after conference witli Ed
11. Ford, city manager, and Ken
neth McCorniick, county judge,
held by F. H. Wilkinson of the
project planning section of the
reeleral public housing authority,
Donald W. Edmunelson, Portland
architect, and Norman B. Plum
mer of the land acquisition sec
tion of the federal public housing
authority.
La Grande will lease lots 1 to
12 in block three of the Connor
dale addition and the county lots
I to 11, block 11, and 1 to 12 in
block 8 to the authority.
U. S. Leases Site
The government will lease the
lots for $1 yearly, plus additional
payments to both city and county
equivalent to and in lieu of nor
mal taxes on the property.
The housing will not be of new
construction. Units will be dis
mantled at Pressor and Sunny
side, Washington, and will be
brought to Lu Grande for erec
tion. Buildings will house four
to eight single family units and
will bo of single story type. Total
cost of the project hero is estim
ated at $100,000.
Building Bids Sought
Wilkinson told Raymond Grey,
president of the La Grande chain
See WAR HOUSING . . . Page 2
Military Honors
Are Paid Pyle at
Okinawa Kurial
OKINAWA,- April 20 (UP)
Ernie Pyle was buried on Ie
Sliima this morning beside some
of the doughboys he glorified,
As n chaplain read u brief bur
ial strrviee anel spoke the final
words, a squad of riflemen fired
a volley of shots and the flag
r'raped coffin was lowered into
the ground.
The lovable war cfUTcsponel
ent was accorded a military fu
neral when it was discovered he
was a seaman first class in World
War One. That, and not the
fighting he did with his typewrit
er in Ibis war was elecieled upon
a:; the official reason he was en
titled to be buried with "appro
I riate military honors."
Here in the ftyukyu islands, as
on e?very American fighting
front, the G. I.'s still mourned
the loss of the man who told
I heir story belter than anyone
eise.
Boom of Allied
Only Salute on
LONDON, April 20 (UP)
Adolf Hitler, the defeated dic
tator, passed his 5(ith and prob
ably last, birthday today.
There were no celebrations
in his dying empire for the
In rosponso to an invitation
from lho German logalion in
Stockholm to a "muss moot
ing" to honor Adolf Hlllor's
birthday loduy, 12 persons as
sembled at lho legation head
quarters, "A dramatic appoal to lho
pooplo prcsont to volunteer for
service in tho reich was un
successful," said a broadcast
horn the Amorican broadcast
ing station in Europe. "No
body volunteered,"
mo .t hunt I in.ttl in history.
The only victory salutes came
from the guns of allied armies
l"7"K " '""
Berlin, where in Hitler's hey
day the Red flags with the
black swastikas flew and his
storm troopers paraded, echoed
with the artillery of the on
coming Red army, repotted
Weather
Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m.
April 20:
Temperature:
Maximum 75
Minimum 40
Forecast: Cloudy tonight and
Saturday.
FIVE CENTS
E
rnie
Pyle
Mosquitoes, Fleas
Make Okinawa
Unpleasant Place
(Editor's notei Ernie Pyla,
wroto his daily columns sever
al days ahead of publication
date as a means of preventing
unbroken continuity in the
event of temporary delays in
transmission. The following it
one of those he wrote but a
few days before he met death
at the hands of a Jap machine
gunner. Others will follow lor
several days.) . . ' 1
By ERNIE PYLE y V ,
OKINAWA Thai "was brie'of
tho most mlscrublo damn nights '
out of the hundreds, of mteraijle
nights I have spent in this war. ',
Bird Dog and Gross and I turn
ed into our sacks just after dark.
So did everybody else who wasn't,
on guard. It was too early' to go ,
to sleep, so wc just lay there in .
the dark and talked. You could
hear voices faintly all over the '
hillside.
We didn't take oft our '
clothes, of course) nobody does
in the field. I did take off my
boots but Bird Dog and Gross
loft theirs on for they had to .
stand watch on the field tele-,
phonos from 1 till 2 a.m.
The three of us lay jammed tip
against each other, with Bird Dog
in the middle. We smoked one
cigaret after another. We didn't
have to hide them under the
blanket for wc were in a pro
tected position where a cigaret
couldn't be seen vciy far.
Right after dark the mosqui
toes started buzzing around our
heads. These Okinawa mosqiii-,
toes sound like u flame thrower.'
They can't be driven off or
brushed awuy. !
I got a little bottle of Mos
quito lotion out of my pocket and
douse! my face and neck, though
I knew it would do no good. The
other boys didn't even bother,
After u while the hillside grew
See MOSQU1TOKS . . . Pago 3
Guns Hitler's
56th Birthday
only nine milers away.
The German radio, which
once boomed Hitler's birthday
speeches from Berlin, had only
news of fresh defeats to offer.
There was no indication the .
fuehrer would make a birthday
broadcast, although a Swiss re
port saiel 21 gauleiters had
asked Geebliels last week to
persuade Hitler to speak for
the sake of morale. The same
source, saiel Goebbels and
Himmler had re fused "( act.-
The fuehrer was believed to .
I' at his mountain retreat at :
Bcrchfcsgaden, planning a:
"twilight of the gods" finale to :
his career of conquest. ' 1
yhe nly birthday greeting
to Hitler made publicly was by;
the Luxembourg radio, In " J
broadcast directed to tho fucli-
rer persDitnlly. Said Ltixem-'
bourg radio: ; ,
"If the diito is remembered '
at all it will be with horror
and disgust. You have had the
war you planned, the one you
said you would rabuer have at
50 than at 60. And now the
war will end long before
your sixtieth birthday, which
you will not live to see." '.
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