BIGHT HERALD AND NEWS
' Thursday. '" '
Hitler's Strategy
May Be Thrown Off
Balance By Red Push
FDR Inaugurated as President for Fourth Time
By JOHN HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 0P
Hitler's grand strategy for the
prolonged defi'nse of the fortress
ot ijermany pu:Muiy una umi
thrown completely off balance
by the terrific impact of the
Russian offensive.
This is the opinion of some
military authorities here who
are Beginning 10 wonaer now
long now Germany will be able
to hold out under the onslaught.
Estimates that the European
war would last until late sum
mer or fall as a result of the
German west front offensive in
December now are being scrap
ped. At the moment there is an
open-minded attitude on how
quickly and in what manner
Germany may be defeated.
Defeat could take the form of
unconditional surrender by the
army high command if the com
mand splits with the nazi politi
cal leadership or could be evi
denced by a fairly rapid breakup
of organized resistance with a
long period of guerrilla warfare
following.
The last several days have
TRAILER USE EYED
SALEM, Jan. 25 OP) The
house-approved bill to prevent
the use of mobile trailers tor reg
istering war workers for elec-
tions in Portland is a "direct slap
at labor," opponents of the bill
said last night at a hearing by
the senate elections committee.
Opponents included represen-
tatives of labor, the democratic
party and the Oregon League of
Women Voters.
Stanley Earl, state CIO secre
tary, saia passage or the bill
' would be interpreted "as a di
' rect play by the republican party
to cut down worKer registra
tions.'v -
Mrs. R. W. Rasmussen, presi
dent of the Oregon League of
Women Voters, said the bill
would nullify the league's efforts
to get out the vote at elections.
She said the league waj active
in obtaining the use of trailers
because registration facilities
were inadequate.
Broad Power Opposed
For Optometry Board
SALEM, Jan. 25 VP)- The
state board of optometry's bill to
give the board jurisdiction over
persons wno give eye exercise
treatments would give the board
too broad powers, opponents of
the bill said at a hearing yester
day before the house medical
committee.
Dean Vincent, Portland, assert
ing his daughter's vision had
been corrected by such treat
ments, said the bill would make
it impossible to get such treat
ment. Ralph Campbell, Salem at
torney, said the bill was so broad
it would prevent him from tell
ing his son to put on dark glasses
before going into the sunlight.
Logger Boots
8-inch with boot heel.
OREGON WOOLEN STORE
800 Main
brought no evidence here of a
German attempt to surrender.
Diulomatic sources report the us
ual crop of unofficial rumors and
inauiries in ueutral capitals
about peace but see no particular
significance in tnem.
Hitler's grand strategy, based
on the hopelessness of the nazi
position, and on a desire to split
tne allies in orcier to moony
peace terms, initially contenv
plated a defense on the borders
ot tne reicn. ...
Thus, when allied - armies
broke out of the Normandy
beachhead last summer, the Ger
mans were unable to halt their
advance and in fact had evi-
dently prepared no line of de
fense west of the Siegfried line.
Actual detailed information on
eastern front operations is so
slight as to make it impossible
to say now wnere the enemy
planned to make his final stand
against the Russians, but cer
tainly the Oder river figured in
those calculations.
Confronted with the necessity
of fighting off attacks on two
fronts this winter, the Germans
launched their December coun
ter-offensive.- They - hoped to
cripple the offensive power of
the western allies, but met with
only limited success. The Ger
man thrust inflicted heavy dam
age onsome American units and
perhaps blocked a threatened
offensive move byr General El
senhower. It failed to deal a
crippling blow by knocking out
the supply port of Antwerp nor
did it cut the allied supply trunk
from France -in the vicinity of
Narriur: In consequence, the Ger
mans must now realize a reborn
danger of powerful assault ac
tion by, Anglo-American forces.'
Compulsory Military ;
Training In High
Schools Proposed
SALEM, Jan. 25 (VP) Compul
sory military training for high
school students for one hour each
school day is provided in a bill
to be introduced by State Rep.
Paul Hendricks, Salem, he said
today.
No funds, are provided in the
bill, but Hendricks suggested
that civilian defense funds could
be used.
OPA Attempts Ban
On Newberg Store
PORTLAND. Jan. 25 UPI The
district OPA sought Wednesday
to Dan a Newberg store from
dealing in ceiling-priced articles
ior an entire year.
In a suit filed in Yamhill coun
ty circuit court, the OPA
charged that Abraham Wolfman,
proprietor of the Newberg Trad
ing Post, has sold two articles
above ceiling prices and failed
repeatedly to keep pricing and
posting records.
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oath of office administered by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone on the south portico of the White House. Left
to right: Justice Stone, Charles E. Cropley (holding Bible), Supreme Court clerk; President Roosevelt, and
the President s eon, Colon e'. James Roosevelt, USMO. ,
Jap Military Prison Turned
Into Graveyard for Yanks
(Editor's Note: This story of a
military prison camp which the
Japanese turned Into a mass
graveyard is the. first story writ
ten bv Russell Brines after his
return to the Philippines where
he was held for two years in a
concentration camp.)
By RUSSELL BRINES
CAMP O'DONNELL PRISON
CAMP. Jan. 23 (Delayed) (fl")
Rotting, burned ruins of Camp
O Donnell and the untenaea
eraves of thousands of heroes of
Bataan is all that remains of one
nf the most notorious pestholes
where the' Japanese herded 80,
000 prisoners of war.
A Filipino colonel ' who sur
vived O'Donnell's horrors esti
mated 40,000 American and t Ml
Dino soldiers half of the 80,000
imprisoned had died of disease,
malnutrition and mistreatment.
In the early days after the in
famous "Death March" of Ba
taan several hundred died- daily.
The touch of those doomed, de
spairing men hangs heavily over
this camp. ,
Tall erass grows over the
eraves of some 4000 Filipinos.
Scores of American bodies lie in
the American cemetery about
700 yards northeast of the main
buildings. Deep in the thickets
of grass, I found small crosses
made of unpainted laths. Dog
tags of the dead were fixed to
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the back ot the crosses. That was
all. -
The trail leading from the
camp's administration buildings
to the cemetery is thin and near
ly overgrown.
In the center of the cemetery
stands a large white wooden
cross, "In remembrance of
Americans who died here
erected by the imperial Japanese
army, 1942. ' ' ,
The Filipino cemetery is reach
ed by a wooden bridge over
marshy ground a breeding
place for mosquitos which now
is collapsed and partially
burned.
' The front part of the cemetery
is labelled: "Officers Plot." Indi
vidual graves are marked mostly
with white painted, unnamed
crosses. A few contained names
and the words "Rest in Peace,"
hacked out by surviving com
rades. Some were printed in ink,
some burned, and one hammered
in tin.
Most of these officers died in
1942. Behind 25 rows of officers'
graves 15 to a row were 30
rows of larger mounds divided
into lettered plots and grouped
in 39 sections.
: Each grave might have con
tained five men, or more. Much
of the thick grass growing over
the mounds is blackened by fire
and some of the crosses are
burned.
In the center of the cemetery
was a stark white plaster monu
ment erected "In deep remem
brance of the Filipinos who died
in this place. The hearts and
thoughts of friends and comrades
are with them."
Thick white ashes' on rolling
ground north of this cemetery
were all that remained of the
flimsy prisoners' barracks. Posts
stood at one end of a barbed wire
area enclosing the ashes. One of
the rums was still smouldering.
Fresh automobile tracks told
of the flight of the Japanese oc
cupants. Margaret Culkin Banning,
American novelist, has been
abroad lit the outbreak of three
wars in London in 1914; In San
Sebastian at the commencement
of the Spanish Revolution; in
Paris for the first mobilization in
1939. -
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Belgian Spinster Describes
Murder of 8 Yank Tankmen
By EDWARD D. BALL
LIGNEUV1LLE, HHulimi. J".
25 (VI A mUUIIcuKOd Uflln
spinster who said she saw n Oi'r
man non-cominlssiom'd oHIcer
murder olKlit captured Anu-r c-im
tunknivn, one by one, led n u. t.
burial squad toilny to tho froron
bodies which lay In R roadside
snowbank. , '
On tho snmo day, December
17, the same Qoi'miin reconnais
sance battalion of im niinoicd
SS division moved up tho road
two miles and slaughtered some
100 other Americans in nn open
field.
This nail elite Kiiard outfit has
been bhimcd for n number 'f
other atrocities against Ameri
cans and civilians all across Ucl
gium. Wile. Marie, who keeps house
for her farmor brother, told the
story of the murder of the eight
Americans to Capt. George W.
McBurney of Tuscaloosa. Aln
assistant inspector general of the
30th division; LI. Homy SchmlU,
New York, a 30th division offi
cer, and Sgt.-Mark B. Curl of
Chnmbersburg, Ph., McBurney's
assistunt.
"1 was milking, December 17,
when the Germans camo ilown
the road, marching 24 American
prisoners before them," Mile.
Marie said. "Tho Germans, all
of whom were young and loud,
were shouting at the Americans
and knocking them about.
"About 20 yards from our
house they halted tho Americans
and ordered eight of them to dig
graves for three Germans who
had been bumed to death in a
knocked-out tank in front of tho
house.
"After the Americans finished
digging tho graves, tho eight
were lined up along thn roiiil.
The Gi'rnmn non-commlsaloncd
officer then stepped out mill shot
them In tho fucn one lit n tlino,
The Gi'iiniins then kicked the
bodies over the hill Into u dllrh.'
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In surrciiili'i' when tho bodies
were found.
In the shirt pocket of one 10-yeur-old
snudy-linlrod tank mini
wns a letter from his girl buck
In Now York state, received only
a few days hrforc. It was dated
November 13.
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