
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 2, 1994                   TAG: 9402010139
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: EXTRA7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
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REPORTS SAID WOMEN 'APATHETIC' ABOUT WAR EFFORT

An "apathetic attitude" by American women was hindering the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of women critically needed by the armed services, vital war industries and civilian agencies, the War Manpower Commission said. Officials estimates put the number of women already in the armed services at 176,000.

The Red Army lost ground to a bitter German counter-attack in the south Ukraine, while other Soviet forces in the north of the long Russian front moved to within 22 miles of the Estonian border. The Germans lost 2,800 men and 86 tanks in the Ukrainian attack.

New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, Wendell Wilkie and Gen. Douglas MacArthur were the three most popular GOP presidential possibilities - in that order.

The Axis invasion of the United States began 10 years before Pearl Harbor, charged a group in the U.S. House of Representatives investigating un-American activities. The group, singling out Japan as being particularly subversive, recommended legislation to stop foreign influences aimed at destroying the country.

Speaking on the NBC broadcast "The State Department Speaks," Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, R-Mich., said he was sure the attack on Pearl Harbor was not "one- tenth as much of a surprise to the President and State Department as it was to the House and Senate and the country."

Thomas Jenrette, director of the Roanoke recreation department, said a plan for the city's adults to work with boys and girls rather than dictate to them was the best solution for the city's "teen-age problem."

Staff Sgt. George O. Sibold of Roanoke, a winner of the distinguished flying cross and air medal who had spent the past 19 months in China under the command of Gen. Clare L. Chennault of Flying Tigers fame, said Roanoke was still the best place on earth.

The office of war information reported that U.S. casualties since the start of the war totalled 146,186, including 33,153 dead.

The first piece of the pre-war Japanese empire fell to American naval, and air forces captured Roi and Namur Islands in the Marshall Islands with their strategic airfields. U.S. seaplanes bombed Japanese-held Wake Island.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. on Church Avenue in Roanoke advertised work pants for $1.98, plaid flannel shirts for $1.78 and undershirts and shorts for 49 cents each.

The proposed halt to the Roanoke College naval aviation program would mean a loss in Salem and Roanoke of about $2,000 a day, said Charles J. Smith, college president. In order to make up for the loss in revenue, Smith proposed increasing the number of female students at the school.

Dr. H.T. Penn, a black man and one of six candidates for two Roanoke City Council seats, announced a platform calling for better schools, more playgrounds, development of Carvins Cove for recreation and enlargement of council.

American and British troops within sight of Rome stubbornly held off a fierce German counter-attack on the Anzio beachhead south of the city.

by CNB