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USBGAIN Incident Takes Thought From Income Tax Reporter Finds : Bodies of Germans Prey - -- 'v ' ' - ' - IL (Ilenry Shapiro United rress Moscow manager gives the first eye witness account by an American of the disaster overtaking the axis armies on the Stalingrad front In the follow- i Jilts - - -if Xs By MURLIN SPENCER ' - & ' N - x WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA Dec 22 (Delayed) (AP)-- Like innocent bystanders In a street rot Tillman Durdln of the New York Times and I hugged the ground for 45 minutes today while Americans took potshots at us from one side and a Japanese sniper fired from the other The incident guaranteed to take 10 years off a life and to make one forget such things as incoma tax worries climaxed an unusual chain of circumstances With Major C G M Clarkson of Macon Mon we had been inspecting which the Ameri a new air-strcans had just captured We decided - ing dispatch second of a series He alone of American corres-- 7 pondents In Russia has actually keen the battlefields) By IIENRY SIIAPIEO United - Press Staff Correspondent la h" ip VArJL '"" v WITH THE RED ARMY ON J : THE STALINGRAD FRONT Dec 24 (UP)-i-Fhundreds of juar In (miles around this battle-groun' the Don river bend there stretches J "' a mammoth axis graveyardRed army salvage squads have been working day and night for ' " " f t" v " weeks removing war materials of all sorts to base points in the rear whence they will be thrown Into action against the enemy soon FOR FREEDOM Sergeant William Ford of Ellensburg Wash sits astride the motor ot a Burial Squads Out in the China zone as Corporal Thomas J Fisher' of Chicago works on the motor from army plane Burial squads have been collectother angle Picture radioed from Chungking ing and burying the bodies of men or d the American Medical association has adopted resolutions to shorten the period required for a M D degree from eight years after graduation from high school to five years This shortened curriculum as reported by the A M A Journal wiU be In force for the duration of fthe war FREAK BURLEr - A-2- ip 1 DECEMBER 24 194? TO TRAIN St D'S QUICKER CHICAGO (UP)— The council oa medical education and hospitals of to return over the strip to headquarters saving a hike of nearly three miles We left Clarkson and headed across the field Durdln stopped to inspect a piece of cloth and Japs found it was attached to an And as If that hadn't been bomb We retreated a sniper In the area the enough Bombers Sweep "Over Japs were holding was attracted Then we entered high kunal by the commotion and began grass as 0 bombers swept over But his bullets weren't close firing the field with the doors of their We didn't count the number of bomb-bay- s open Fearing they shots— we were too busy figuring didn't know that our men had just how to get out I had a funny feeland that they ing in my stomach as I started captured the air-strwere heading for a bombing of it pulling myself along the ground we hugged the ground but they toward the edge of the grass passed over and bombed Buna moving in the direction from which mission we had come Durdln and I started on only to While it was only 75 to the hear the rattle of a rifle as an edge of the high grassyards seemed it American In a tree to the left- cut to take hours to get there And loose witn wnac sounded like a then we saw that the grass on the p Kad been cut too low for tommy gun Thinking It was all a mistake we arose and started concealment- a got up attempting to be as again The gunfire resumed and ed Carrion Crows Wild Cats To v ' ' r the bullets seemed to cut close Wt flattened out onct more Then Durdln jumped up and waved his arms and there was a veritable fusillade of shot So again we hugged the ground The gunners apparently thoutht that our previous action in the face of friendly planes was strange helI was wearing an old-itymet and DurdSn was wearing the new bupcket type which looks something like those worn by the Neivsmen Escape Japanese And American Cross-fir- e in China P-- 40 THURSDAY EVENING STANDARD-EXAMINE- D A air-stri- which along with those of horses and the wreckage of machines lie In the snowdrifts prey to carrion crows and wild cats Military police are rounding up tens of thousands of German and Rumanian' prisoners The moment I crossed the north bank of the Don to enter the territory wrested from Germans and begin a tour toward the east 's bank where General L N red army Twenty-firis steadily pressing the Germans toward the Volga it became evident that the axis had suffered an immense rout The axis losses already surpass those of last winter when the red army made its first historic and crushing winter offensive My observation confirms reports that the Germans bore tha brunt of casualties In the battle which is estimated to have cost the axis so far iOOjOOO men killed wounded or captured Rumanians Suffer But the Rumanians in their small segment of the line have suffered perhaps the greatest mill tary disaster in their modern history one which may prove castas-troph- ic to Rumanian home morale Rumania had lost enormously in previbui operation! probably Cirhs-tlankov- st £ 1 uXJjJ Here's wishing you a jolly time during Merry Christmas days and the New Year! 28TH STREET MARKET 730 tth Street " Phone 4780 more than any other axis vassal put In the front line from the very start They lost heavily at Odessa and at Savastopol This time they were crushed Scores of Rumanian prisoners officers and men talked to me as they were escorted as prisoners toward the rear "When the people at home learn the real extent of our tragedy there will be hell to pay" an Infantry colonel said "It may mark the beginning of the end of Rumanians-wer- e (Marshal Ion Antonescu is the Rumanian dictator) I met my first batch of Rumanians at a railroad junction northwest of Stalingrad not far from the front A whole trainload of assorted axis prisoners were being shipped to prison camps' The Russians had seen so many German and Rumanian prisoners that they paid little attention to this batch In Gaudy Uniform An elderly Rumanian general in a gaudy comic opera uniform escorted by a red army lieutenant was pacing up and down the rail road platform chewing sun flower seeds The general was awaiting the Russian equivalent of a Pullman car allotted by the red army to high axis officers though many Russian officers ride in box cars because of rail congestion For day after daythereafter I saw thousands of Rumanians captured In this sector alone weird apparitions in green uniforms with cone-shapfur caps drawn over their ears choking the snow-cla- d roads and village streets They marched four abreast in groups of several hundreds each Russian motor vehicles passed back and forth ignoring them The prisoners replied eagerly to my questions when they learned I was an American newspaperman One clear impression emerged: Misled By Nazis Rumanians from generals to privates feel not only that they have been defeated but that they have been misled by the Germans and their own leaders and that their country and the axis is pro-ax- you and yours! w I ? -- mm MS 1a-l'¥ JJ ' "lirt £4W§) v3f Ogden Utah for the sako of every Mother's Son in Service Give THE PRESENT WITH A FUTURE vv ah 4zJ r 1 : 1 TO ALL f Whether these stories were told from conviction or to seek favor it was impossible to tell But Russian Brigade Commissar Alexander Vorobiv told me that the Rumanians had given the red army valuable military information "Hitler kaput — Antonescu kaput" has become a universal greeting phrase of these prisoners who always try to start conversations with the Russians they meet They proceed to tell tales of woe and misery to proclaim the existence of open enmity between themselves and the Germans Their first complaint usually is of mistreatment by the nazis Hitler's Through translation (Kaput in rough means through — Hitler and Antonescu are through) There is an air of suspicion at the front regarding the loud protests of the Rumanians that they really like the Russians because of the Rumanians conduct before v iftir itim f niawara ariey Anderson son of Mr and Mrs Parley L Ander son 307 Parry radio technician third class Is home on leave un til Dec 28 after finishing a three month radio course at the naval training station In Stillwater Okla with a 948 per cent aver age When: asked "How does the navy treat you?" Anderson related he'd gained 13 solid pounds during his first three weeks at Treasure island Another five months of technical training will be received on Treasure island Anderson attended Weber col lege on scholarships and edited the Weber college Signpost news paper He graduated last spring and was affiliated with Phoenix club Lambda Delta Sigma fraternity and the honorary Orion club Before joining in August he was a part-tim- e employe at the California Packing Corp plant Z v i i - V I fc J ' lJ r w n- - F s 3 3 ! '1- ' - -- The Greatest Business Year In Ogden's History (Eclipsing Even the Good Old "Cut-of- f Days") 1942 —and warm greetings for the holiday season and the New Year to come! 1943 Victory and Peace! E C RANDALL and J W RANDALL PIONEER GOAL & LUMBER CO 19 Harrisville Road Dial Jirri FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYES OF THE E C OLSEN COMPANY" JIANUFACTUREBS OF BOXES AND BASKETS Thirty-firs- Ml"-7- - mn IP® fc&U 377 V)TZQ W EDWARD P ANDERSON Takes radio studies their surrender Oft X V:: i " Villages which they occupied along the south arm of the Don bend present the same picture of ruin and desolation as those held by Germans and Italians Every peasant hut and barnyard has been stripped bare Not a single chicken was left In any village I visited Scores of ruined peasants testified ' to an Italian brutality and plundering equaling if not surpassing that of the Germans A3IERICAN CAN COMPANY Mi "U is doomed —to Obtains Leave at An-tonesc- u" ed f ooo - v t Stret - snr :mm y-- a''-' - j joj ij- -j i lull : u BIERRY CHRISTMAS AND HiPPY NEW YEAR FROM YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS EDWARD ' S AUNDllES HAR3IAN PEERY CJommissioner Blayor man as possible inconspicuous and started walking I could almost feel the sting of a bullet But the crawl had taken us out of the line of sight of the sharpshooters and we got safely and thankfully to our lines P-4- Finish o£ Course A tive assistant for the Minidoka national forest stopped to help right a hunter's turned-ov- er automobile As the car bounced back en in wheels the shotgun inside the vehicle wa discharged the shot riddling Herndon's hat J 0 an-- (UP)-- who practices and preaches safety In hunting narrowly missed death In a freak accident near here recently B K Hem don administra- f - ACCIDENT Ida ATLLIA3r WOOD Commissioner |