January 22, 1945; Sovits Enter Insterburg, Prussia:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 22, 1945:

MIAMI, OKLA., MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1945

Insterburg Taken;

Nazi Attempt To

Slow Drive Fails

LONDON, Jan. 22—(AP)—

Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky'sThird White Russian army has captured Insterburg,

second city of East Prussia, Marshal Stalin announced today and the German communique indicated that two Soviet armies driving into the old Junkers province from southwest and northeast were only 80 miles apart. A junction would slice the stronghold of Prussian militarism in two,  Insterburg, a city of 40,000, is only 50 miles from Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia, and is 37 miles inside the province.

Stalin announced the fall of the key railway center in his, 18th order of the day in six days, and praised 40 Generals for taking part in the capture.

3,000 GERMAN

VEHICLES GIVEN

HARD POUNDING

Plane* Blast of Supply Units

Attempting to Escape

Ardennes Salient

By JAMES M. LONG

PARIS, Jan. 22 —(UP)—

 Allied warplanes caught 3,000 German vehicles, the bulk of transport of an entire army, in an attempted sneak away from the Ardennes salient through the Siegfried line to the Rhine, and tore them to pieces today in a ruinous daylong attack.

The planes attacked with bombs, rockets and machine guns.

The Nazis had waited too long to run the gauntlet down the snow drifted escape roads and were caught on two highways in concentrations so thick that the Allied pilots said afterwards "we couldn't miss."

There was every indication that the ruin would be the greatest since the wounded Wermacht fled for the Seine through the Palaise gap. The destruction of equipment

promised virtually to immobilize at least one of Field Marchal Von Rundstedt's two mobile reserve armies.

TWO AIRFIELDS

CAPTURED WITH

TARLAG'S FALL

Mat Arthur's Forces 0nly 65

Air Miles from Manila;

City in Ruins

G E N E R A L M'ARTHUR'S

HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 22-(UP)—

Tarlac, with Its two airields only 65 miles from Manila, fell to the swiftly advancing Americans, General Douglas Macarthur; announced today. The once

proud city, most prosperous in the Central Luzon plains, was reduced largely to smoking rubble by the fleeing Japanese only a few hours before the Yanks arrived.

Seizure of the important rail and highway junction put the Americans nearly half way to Manila from their Lingayen gulf beachhead and within 22 miles of Clark

airfield, largest of the Philippines.

Adjacent to Clark field is Fort Stotsenburg, major military post. Tarlac, a city of 55,000 Including its populous suburbs, was devastated by the Japanese, who evidently sprayed every building with gasoline and applied torches as the Americans approached down two converging highways. Only bewildered,' homeless Filipinos met their liberators.