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A Weekly Sizeup by the ‘Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

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are flooding ih from mothers, wives, imploring action to prevent men who have ‘‘done their sharé”’'being sent off to fight again, . Congressmen, already stumped as to how to answer, jexpect the flood to grow worse. Se

. ” » Ready to Beat Japan .Hard Way : ; BASES IN CHINA? Adm. Nimitz's old prediction—landings on | China coast--takes on new meaning as reports continue of attacks, perhaps landings, in the Rvukyu islands, Some here’ think when the Jap homeland is really worked over by our bombers, the Japs' will to fight on the mainland of. China will { subside, This school also predicts Tokyo can be reduced to lifeless | ashes this summer. {

But QMC orders, rail shipments west, indicate we're getting ready

SE ileany Fw

'REPOR

| gasoline or

[last two thousand years.”

To End War. .

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food for the troops! and that the same situation could | be expected on the Eastern front| when the Russians launched their, hig offensive. | A Zurich report said that all Nazi gauleiters and their families were en route to fortresses being set-up in Bavaria. Hitler's newspaper, Voelkischer Beobachter, urged every German to stand firm and said that “we are in the most severe crisis of the

“At the end of the meeting,” the

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HITLER TALKS | PEACE

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points: Are the Japs in China really

these mainland factories?

An army can live on, je country, but after we rip up their trans- |I€ the authenticity of the report portation, how effective will they

Whatever the answers, militar the time of the war in half if we fight on the mainland. Note: Rail authorities here predict that civilian passenger traffic to and from West coast ports will be practically 90 days from now; that military travel, transport, will require ail facilities, » s » SOME NAVY men satisfied if our post-war fleet— that is, ships commissioned and ready fo go—were only one-sixth of the present fleet.

| 8-8 n Spunds small, but It would 518 | WASHINGTON lobby & or ure Oui 10 be a Sane ah | ganizing to remove income tax f g on e exemptions now granted farm of all other Besis somes. | and other co-operatives. Cam- |

=» DON'T EXPECT any sensations in house veterans committee investigation of conditions in vets © “rans' hospitals. -

Visits will be made by con- | of | _ whom don’t qualify as medical |

gressmen-volunteers, most experts, and Chairman Rankin (D. Miss.) has put hospitals on notice to be prepared for inspectors. . Rankin already has defended veterans’ administration against critics and isn't Jikely to emphasize any unfavorable reports. ” » ”

Reconversion Issue MAJ. GEN. Lucius D. Clay, assistant to War Mobilizer Byrnes until his selection to be civil affairs officer for Germany, was

transferred because he clashed | too often with Byrnes” advisory |

board. If the board—composed of 12 labor, management, farm ‘members—has

Germany fs defeated. They favor, as, the new assistant, either a top

civilian or a reserve army officer | . . With -eivilian -viewpcint.

2 = Fe SOME BIG industrial concerns are weighing a significant step in ‘post-war business—construc-

~tion of plemts alms Shere, with “lower labor costs, they believe |

they could compete more. effec-

non-existenc -|

would be.

its way, ‘Clay's suc- |

self-sustaining ?

be? y men say help.from Russia

could cut ing abroad: Avoid labor organizations, tariff barriers.

n » J Tariff Fight? MEANWHILE, Midwest Republicans in congress are getting | ready for an old-fashioned tariff fight. They'll say 60,000,000 jobs can’t be created without tariff | walls. They're also preparing to gang up pn any maove to let down immigration bars:. will .urge -that 1924 quotas be tightened

paign, also aimed at taxing gov-ernment-owned corporations, is being pointed toward tax revision bill expected to be taken up after V-E day.

are enlisting congressional aid in their campaign against the 80 | per cent restriction on consumers laid down by the solid fuels administration. They maintain

| that increased production and not |

decreased consumption should be the government goal. = - ” FINANCIERS are Jittery over proposal of Marriner 8. Ectles, federal reserve chairman, to impose 90 per cent tax on profits from securities purchased since | Jan. 1 and resold within two | “years . One , argument they're giving congressmen is that Germany and Vichy, France, tried the same plan as curb on inflation—with | reverse results.

-economic affairs, is tapped to-go to |

| the Philippines as high commissioner, it will come as a surprise. Mr. Taft is telling friends he knows nothing of such reports, hasn't been consulted. He's brother of Ohio’s senator.

2 4 8 =o ~"REP. Jed Johnson of Oklahoma

tried on his court job just for size |

before he got it, according to a story “going “the rounds in con-

“tively with products - of other | gressional cloak rooms, countries. > Just before he was nominated In the past. some industries, | to be a judge of the U.S. customs

notably autos, have had assembly plants abroad, but current talk is about complete production overseas, : Some U. S. leaders say this country’s technological edge, which used to swing the balance =n our favér in industrial World,

“markets; fsn't as great sites war"

"has given other nations knowhow in our own methods.

Other reasons for manufactur-

INDIANA RAILROAD BUS DRIVERS STRIKE

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authorities * who assigned govern- their gasoline rations after the near Litchfield.

ment - busses to run between post—and the traction terminal All strikers were requested by union officials to attend a rank and file meeting at 3.30 p. m. today to discuss conciligtion moves A federal conciliator here said the union struck in protest against the supervision of Barlow Neely, superintendent of intercity bus operations on the I. R. R He sald strike charges submitted by the union assert that the bus company managemeént has continued to employ Mr, Neely despite the umion's frequent demands that he be ousted. The conciliation department spokesman quoted company officials as asking the unidn “to submit grievances against Mr Neely, in order that such grievances mav be taken to arbitration in accordance with terms of the present working agreement.” . Lloyd Rosencrans, president of the Anderson local, ‘said urion officials had tried to prevent the walkout but added that a vote .taken by ali locals last night was -54-28-in- favor

the

all s

court, Johnson heard of the pos-

. sibility. oy

He went to New York, visited

the customs court, tried on one of | the black robes its members wear, |

and marched up to the bench, just to see how he'd look—if, and when, Results were satisfactory. Both jobs pay the same—$10,000 a year —but a judge doesn’t have to get elected every two years,

SEES AN INCREASE IN GAS“AFTER V-E DAY

LOS ANGELES, March 31.(1. P.). —Clvilians today looked forward to a possible 50 per cent increase in

defeat of Germany. Ralph K. Davies, deputy pétroleu administrator - for’ war, held out “distinct hope’ for the 30 per cent increase 30 days after V-E day and said the PAW “earnestly hopes” 10 go out of business 90 days after Japan and Germahy are defeated. Davies - told a ‘press conference the ration increases would be na-tion-wide

Speculation here centers on these

Have the war fac: tories they've moved there been able to produce enough munitions? {aught ” Do they have ithe necessary stockpiles here? Can-our planes get at lied onslaught

| Boos and Fauls, state police said, groups

farm.

Zurich dispatch said, “Hitler him{self faced up to the fact that the | high command possessed no means |to deal with the overwhelming al-

| There was no way of ascertainlof the war council meeting, but Hront

dispatches - and neutral | Good Friday services |

Before the Cross . ... Thousands of persons yesterday despite the rain attended

Thousands Attend Way. of Cross Services in Rain

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the

2500 PLANES

traditional of the Way of the Cross at the Obelisk Square in the Indiana War Memorial plaza.

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ently in the Karlsruhe area. They pushed ahead against fairly stiff resistance. : Nazi Reserves Gone The Germans still were fighting hard at some points along the French and 7th army fronts. In the north thelr front appeared to have broken down completely. Clark reported that half the Nazi combat forces in the west already had been killed, wounded or captured. The remnant§ were so badly disorganized that they no longer were able to function as a coherent army. German inter-army communications. were in complete chaos as a result of the slashing American 1st and 3d army drives into their rear.

{the Nazis no longer were resisting.

. | sources told of increasing: disorgan|ization and panic behind the German lines. { Rumors reached Switzerland that!

{ Goering had committed suicide and | that Kesselring had been deprived HIT OKINAWA {of his rank because of the collapse | | of the Western front. { Expect End in 3 Weeks A Zurich dispatch quoted reports from Berlin that the Germans gen- | erally expected the war within three weeks. So-called “well-informed” sources

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Ships Knocked Out.

to end { | By UNITED PRESS

week or 10 days. A high German officer captured

was open all the way to Berlin| 390 miles from the Japanese home- tion. |with no possibility that the Ger- land. | | mans could organize effective re{sistance west of the capital.

could spend Easter Sunday in Ber- Other large scale attack by B-29 dictated. | in. | Superfortresses which attacked the | home island of Kyushu. Radio Paris said Albert Von Hin- | Japs Jittery denberg, nephew of the late presi-| The unrelenting. attack upon the

Ryukyu islands has continued for dent of Germany, appealed to Ger | nine straight days with the jittery

Urges Troops to Quit {national affairs but

squared with western ideals. Thrown ‘Out of Gear’

man troops to lay down their arms Japanese proclaiming each day that Ment over voting comes another

ideas of a fair working arrangement {in the control of world affairs. Russia's seizure of territory, im{position of Soviet-controlled gov-| Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today re-|ernments, ’m Secret Operations Inj which all w : 6 3 , ported that 47 more Japanese ships {all political moves on her borders i Made guessed Sat Germany have been sunk, probaly Sunk or |has created a atmosphere of dis-| Would collapse SOMmPplelely WHHID 3! samaged In the Pacific fleet's gran. | trust painfully evident or todays 'scale attack apparently preparatory | revelation of the plan for control-|

on the 3d amry front said that road | © 8 landing upon Okinawa, only ing the world security organiza- (i un: at a conference table with |

la majority vote being final?

Under a system of voling that =; obviously cannot work both more than 1300 Flying Fortresses in and south

| The fleet attack, upon Japanese| Would give the three great POWErS| ways ships and installations around Oki-| 12 votes whilg other smaller nations| eu | Another German prisoner said nawa still was in progress, Nimitz) fold ORLY ons, ihe Revisions of. mal} ALSO: Coal trade associations | that if the Americans wished, they révealed, and was bolstered by an- . Pe ?

This, no doubt, fits perfectly with | | the Soviet methods of deciding its E cannot be

to, be expected. No doubt the other Eo ‘ 2 nations can meet at San Francisco Nimitz Reports 47 Japanese distrust for British and American 4,4 try to reach agreements that {will be binding on-the democracies the Soviets arent by

jand let | wireless.

But some time,

U. S. WARSHIPS Russian Fears Seen Threat To World Security Parley

’

free expression of opinion and fair |

Within a few days or weeks, the {whole political setup of the world into the attack. {Is going to undergo an unprece- Mounted strong forces of Lancas|dented change. The actual government of a great uropean nation, pass into the hands of the joint allied military commission. There will be representatives of Britain, On top of the exasperating argu-| Russia and the United States on | that commission and later perhaps

Germany,

land. save Germany from destruc-| American landings are about to or | move on Russia's part that will/a representative of France.

tion {cause trouble.

! “There is only one reason to pro-|

long the war,” he ‘said, “and that | is to prolong the-life of the man in power, who has deceived you and | the whole world.” Von Hindenberg refused to flee! {when the allies occupied Alsace] {and has been confined in a French | |internment camp, the broadcast said.

| { already have started.

damaged another 15. were shot down, destroyed. on the |

12 U. 8. planes and six pilots. Close Range Firing

The fleet engaged in close-range | throws everything out of gear.

columin which ‘could ereate confu- tinuing on fiercely.” sion when the allies could launch| “surface and air units” had sunk 30|py Stalin. a decisive attack. ‘allied warships and damaged 20. The men, most of them soldiers’ Japanese resistance in the cenwhose homes are in Berlin, entered tral Philippines was reported colBerlin in tanks and -otHer, vehicles Tapsing before. American assault Anthony Eden, which had .been captured by the forces which have swarmed over Stettinius, and o Red army. : all but one of the major islands. Travelers from Germapy afriving) Negros Island TRVAGEL in Spain said German morale was | :

: Assawly troops landed on Negros, Jat its Jowest ebb | the fourth largest island of” me STIMSON REGRETS a group,. and tiny Cahallo island In| ao : THREE FROM HERE | Manila bay. Bohol, between Cebu! ’

and Leyte, is now the only large | island remaining in Japanese hands. |

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|ridian st.

| with Boos” family.

ance andt hen split into three much

{had been employed by a local plain: ed | bakery. Stringer worked at a war | | plant. State police said the two ported by

week at the Boos home. Mired on Dirt Road Illinois ‘state police, the FBI and local authorities barricaded, “Defense Collapsing” (bridges and roads. but the men| Gen. Deuglas MacArthur, in aneluded them until their car became nouncing the landings, said the en-| = mired on a rain-soaked dirt road emy “seems bewildered and His de-|> fense is rapidly collapsing.” When the car got stuck in the, On southern Luzon the 11th air-{ families of our ‘mud, the men entered the home of borne and 1st cavalry division linked | Nevertheless it farmer Henry Stamer and held his up at Lipa, south of Laguna bay, despite the careful inspection family at’ gunpoint while they and continued to push east. shaved and ate. Pauls and Stringer Japanese resistance was fled when police closed in on them. three miles south of Lipa. Boos held the Stamer family as| Philippines - based bombers con-+ hostages for seyeral hours before he tinued widespread attacks on enemy from the office of the qu surrendered. Fauls and Stringer shipping and positions from the general were captured later at a nearby Dutch East Indies to French Indo-!vou and . China and the China coast.

into tunnels ahd caves on the west- | war departmerit,

ern side: | Deplores Incident

is ‘deplored

)

Sys

Instead of sending Nimitz reported that fast carrier t© San Francisco the secretary of forces on March 28 and 29 sank 1g foreign affairs as the other nations

| sented by the ambassador to wy : United States, Andrei A. Gromyko. t 7 i In adattion #7 Japanese plaies After six weeks of wrangling at| |ground or damaged with a loss of | Dumbarton Oaks and, endless planining since then for a decisive con- | [ference at San Francisco, the at-| O3ks and now those coming up for 'tendance of a mere ambassador |S8N Francisco are to be used, the 2 government of Germany will become

lines into Berlin to organize a fifth bombardment of Okinawa was “con- back to Moscow and considered there | It claimed py Molotov, the foreign secretary or

|. Delays and aggravations would be | the only result of having an ambas-

has caused additional and unneces"The landing on Caballo was sup-, sary grief and anguish to the pardestroyers and artillery ents. * Please express to them my older men had lived for about a | guns from nearby Corregidor. The | most profound. regrets,” for myself |

|understanding for the feeling of the

“I understand that two officers many

| “ The Russian general on that com-

‘the attached copy of a letter writ- | ten* to the family by the quarter-|and the American ship lagged. be-| master general, expressing his deep’ hind the convoy

! MEN AL ATI 3 .!have cleared Duelmen, 17 miles STAINED CLOTHING régréts that this incident occured. | ¥ith a hard and fast rule, the con southwest of Muenster.

{ I can assure you that every pos|sible step will be taken to prevent |

WLB ORDER AWAITED TPHALT COAL THEDp 2 = 5% Bu Site

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cept - with the {Soviet chieftains. It looks more and more as if the

ss . : | western democracies wi v sador sitting with Foreign Secretary! 0 il have to do

Secretary: of State thers of that rank. J Such disappointing maneuvers are

A Very Tedibus Rule

How will the commission's meet{Ings be ruled? How can 70 millions Jap ships, probably sank 14 and Intend doing, Russia will be repre-|, "0 010 vo governed for the next three years or more by three generals when one of them refuses to

{abide by. a majority vote! If- the methods of Dumbarton

. ; Wo A Brussels broadcast said 2000 | bombardment of Okinawa, breach-| At Dumbarton Oaks, Gromyko |® very tedious affair for the allied Sear a hoy ie E Yo Pointer. | ‘Surprise’ - " |men of the Soviefs¥ponsored. free ing seawalls and hesvay pummeling | could not agree on anything, even on | 1°n control. : 8 issues at stake is reconver- + Germ ‘committéé had been gun positions, bridges and airfields. | the state of the weather or : | IF Charles P. Taft, state ‘te« A s . a : 1 JT missi 1 ; on BGR board th ; is wrong. | fr , ; { A Tog on would be: forced to refer all A winthg to hp partment’s director of wartime | SOUS rough ‘the: German, .A-Japanese unique said the! Everything. had t6. be wirelessed

all the compromising in governing | the enemy countries.

TET 10 SAVE REFUGEES

and The-Chicagc Daily News, Inc.

of Negros Thursday under support a sacred duty to protect from fur- the Ocourrence of any similar in{of the 13th air force and naval|ther suffering the families of our |Cident unitg, They quickly secured a 25- men who have made the supreme where they had roomed mile beachhead against light resist-|sacrifice in the war and I am very I awafe that the disposition to fan out over the coastal of the captain's personal effects

'Invaders drove the 500 defenders personally and on behalf of the question of financial foand ‘We'll Get Along’

to pay the®retroactive pay.” Denies ‘Falling Down’

mines

| “The army effects bureau has| O'Neill denied that the operators thandled -many..thousands of titese fell down on a 1943 agreement: He ad cases with efficiency and tender sald the retroactive pay promise! |was the product of an agreement | {which “Mr. Lewis made with Mr. | deceased soldiers. | Ickes.” that | “Mr. Lewis’ men can be assured | -|that if we say we will pay them | Fierce tem, even one garment should have [retroactive wages the reportedibeen permitted to leave in such on payday as usual.” condition as occurred in this case.| O'Neill warned ‘the board that |

would

the principles on orld problems must be decided will come up for debate. Will it be by the arbitrary wish {of one man in Moscow or by the

will

y get their-pay|

down | kill most men. lartermaster rather than run the risk of indefi- | one of those who died. have personally called on nite -retroactive labor costs under | discussed the matter in an unlimited exténsion of the pres- Henry Bacon's crew survived and detail. You may be interested in ent contract.

A New World Order? Api U. Professor Looks at Dumbarion Oaks

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bership in the general assembly will be on a democratic basis, but in the curity the Big Five (United States, Britain, . Russia. France and China) will hold all the permanent seats, and other

powers will serve, by turns, for two-

council

SIX

year terms Of cdurse the weaker powers will outnumber the Big Five in both the general assembly and the security

Japan have been defeated, the role dreanied of a new world order in|law, they claim immunity in ad-

of villain in the unfolding drama of! which reason would supersede force, nations will be relegated to oblivion, plowshares would be or, that,

vance for acts of violence they may substituted | commit, in the name of self-help, | if anyone assumes that for the sword, and the reign of law | defense of vital interests, manifest

role, it will be some minor power, would sunplant the reign of an- destiny. and other euphemisms that to

easily squelched by the might ‘of "archy. Is that the sort of thinglare often made like charity, the ever-righteous Big Five? envisioned by the Dumbarton Oaks! cover a multitude of sins. Do the methods employed by, plan? Britain in India warrant such a . 8.8 to be an conclusion? Does Russia's absorp-| LET US examine some of its jistice: Does not this tion of the Baltic states and her |Provisions. ‘In Chapter VIII, Sec-| eign of law? designs upon Poland justify such tion A, Clause 3, occurs this lan-| ihe the Dumbarton Oaks plan. sublime faith in the Big Five? And Ruage: “The parties to any dispute what of French policy in Syria in|the continuance of which is likely | fairly recent time, to say nothing of to endanger the maintenance of American imperialism in the Carib- | internationa}

But, it may be argued, there is international court of suggest a Let us again exam- |

in their thinking with are

people ‘who

age,

“commitments,” “interpretatipns,” “reseryations” and | the like that humanity's patience

nearly

| becomes exhausted.

u 5 ” CLAUSE 6 of the chapter and H peace and security | section cited above reads as follows: | of politicians, with differerit for-

of striking council, but there is a little joker He declared arivers hat jog the arrangement concerning vot- ’ i 1 Hbhodlied . z Ng powe Mr. Neely's “attitude” and said: the ‘8 Power

men had made. unofficial allegations

them with “abusive language.” "We're doing oyr best to get these nisses . Rosencrans,

Any one of the Big Five, by votthat the superintendent addressed mg against any contemplated coetcive action against itself, can pre-

vent such

aggression.

action, rolling = again” said ‘Mr. | ten Builty of ah at Df anes)

even if

Conciliator Ingles conferred this attack on Ethiopia In: 1935, Ger. morning with J, T. Martiti of the In. many’s invasion of Poland in 1039, diana tailrodad’s executivé office with 4 Rusts Onslaught Ypor "Fin. a view towafd arranging an early | ne in *10),.0. :

arbitration session. { + Mr. Martin said the union's de-

on SUCH VETO

A.B power puts each

mands for removal of a company. Member of the Big Five above the

supervisor was diction

em mma SPEAKS TOMORROW = |

“beyond fts' Juris-

Dr. in Cbira and Mved there most his Jife will speak at 10045 & m.

generally

the great powers er ones, :

world's

it has!

{law and #bsolves. it m-advances from | punishment for any crimes it might [later ‘be tempted to eommit, ‘and, speaking,. the Worley, whe was born peace and security have been enof | dangered much more frequently hy

than by the sfall-

bean region, until: the “good neigh- | should obligate themselves, first of | “Justiciable dispute should normal-| mulae, some new catch-words, and

: : ati with which to fidbor” policy gave a different cast’ to all, to seek a solution by negotia- ly. be referred to the international B erent ow DIFP:

our treatment of Latin-America? o n ” FURTHERMORE, is there any evidence of a disposition on the part of the Big Five to restrict or modify national sovereignty in any way?” The Moscow declaration of Oetober, 1043, gives. no hint of it.

“They (U. 8 Britain, Russia and China) recognize the necessity of

establisliing at the earliest practi-

cable.date, a general international organization, based on the principle of: the sovereign equality of -all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large

and small, for the maintenance ‘of | lv expelled from the league, but ‘it

: 4 the Mt. live Methodiss Ro ee 'internationa . The Rev. C. H. Loveland | Po we have adequate Tab Sor | Wor centifties prophets, philoso-| the $n concluding that when Germany and phers,” 5 and have:

Its language is definite and specific.

,she brutally attacked Finland? |

tion, mediation, conciliation, arbi|tration, or. judiéial settlement, or other peaceful means of their own | |choice. The security council should |- (call upon the parties to settle their | dispute by such means.” | Splendid, if, the, disputants are small powers. easily controlled “or over-awed by the major powers. ! But suppose a major power (one of the Big.Five) has a dispute” with a 4 | smaller power; and disregards {ts solemn pledges, as Russia disregarded her obligations as, a League {of Nations member in 1039, when

so» » 4 [ OF COURSE, Russia was prompts

{

Jonge. iar

tion?

|eourt of justice.”

But what is a Jjusticiable quesIt is one which may be de|cided by the application® of defi|nitely established rules of law, However, the disputes which have | generally led to war have generally been of a political and economic, rather than of a legal character.

” » ONLY A strongly

|to-peace that will large and small, to submit all disputes ‘to peaceful adjudication, and ‘to ‘abide by the decision, even if it [conflicts with “vital interests” or “manifest destiny,” |8Bive us a-.lasting peace.

Such a peace is but a chimera of peace and security.” Was almost the last official or Utopt pease 1s us

” developed will- | lead nations, |

will actually

politicians,

| who always seeing the light a defy

up,

“WE WANT PEACE,” the plain

people of the world are saying. to-

day.

“Give us peace, even”if it

costs us something—it surely can't cost as much as war: “We want peace, even if.jt brings our own nation under discipline; even if America and Britain, and

Russia

(the principal

objector)

have to bow the knee to law and authority; even If the virtually absolute power of the greater nations has to be modified by the creation of a super-government with gradually expanding powers: even if national sovereignty ultimately be-

comes an obsolete the whole world living under

expression, with fer law strong enough ‘to ‘the.

the plain always | saner than their so-called leaders. The politicians are so incurably accustomed to maneuvering, and jockeying, and phrasing neat rhetorical expressions, that they often| tyfa and

get lost in a mass of tangled verbi-| Bavarian mountain region from the | “formulae,” | north,

| |

| Ways uppermost in Soviet military] Then comes a sharp reprimand, a

ouse-cleaning, and another gropp

| ROCK GERMANY

Faltering Nazis Are Dealt Another Shattering Blow.

LONDON, March 31 (U, P).—A huge aerial armada of at least 2500 American” and British planes rocked some of Germany's biggest industrial cities today in a shattering blow on the faltering Reich. The heavy assaults by the U. 8. 8th air force and the R. A. F. bomber command lashed prime industrial targets as close as 30 miles (to Berlin. Nazi submarine yards {at Hamburg were ripped for the

[second straight day. Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle sent

(and Liberators, with an escort of {850 Mustangs and Thunderbolts, The R. A. FP.

ters and Halifaxes with Mustang | fighter support. The British aerial forces concentrated on the Blohm and Voss

burg, one of the main targets of ‘a big American attack yesterday. The 8th air force, in hitting Germany in strength, for the gecond successive day, hammered at oil plants and rail yards stretched east vf the Western front. —They hit the synthatic ofl plants at Zeitz, southwest of Leipzig, the

Brunswick and Brandenburg, just! east of Berlin. : i -The daylight assaults followed | another night attack on Berlin by British Mosquitoes. The clandestine Radio Atlantic meantime reported that 58 German | U-boats were destroyed by the big) American fleet which raided Bye- |

decisions back to Moscow. He would | men,” Hamburg and Wilhélmshaven have. virtually no power to act exe

permission of ‘the!

yesterday.

15 AMERICANS DIE

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after the transfer had taken place

In accordance

| voy maintained course. | Then the lame duck was attacked | {by 17 German torpedo planes. Five | of the planes were shot down by |the ship's ack-ack but it suffered {heavy damage and all but one of its lifeboats were ruined. Knowing that his ship was going to sink, Capt. Alfred Carini, Jsster |

| put their women into the last life{boat and pull away.

“We will get along with the rafts,” Capt. Carni told them. Five of the American crew went! along in the lifeboat and all those

Later the Henry Bacon sank and those still alive took to the rafts] lin a rising storm. Fifteen of them | perished. : What Capt. Carini knew when he| gave his lifeboat to the Norwegians | (was that a few minutes in the| Arctic ocean, in wintertime, will Capt. Carini was!

Twenty-six ‘members of the|

Tanks Running Wild Along Northern Roads to Berlin

Clark reported that at most points

submarine building yards at Ham- | - |

in it were finally rescued. [modifications should be made .

The enemy's strategic reserves had been swallpwed up in the week» old battle for the Rhine crossings. Only a handful of tactical reserves were believed to remain between the allies and Berlin,

LONDON, March 31 (U. P.) == The German high command said today that American 9th army troops have entered Bottrop, on the north bank of. the Ruhr river 315 miles north of Essen.

The fall of Kassel would leave the Germans no defensible line short of the Elbe river at Magdeburg, 105 miles to the northeast and only 60 miles from the German capital.

‘Road to Berlin Open’ A high-ranking German officer captured by the rough-riding 3d army told. his captors glumly that the road to Berlin was wide open.

The officer, whose name was withheld, said no organized Gere man resistance was left in the path of the allied armies. He was understood to have vole unteered the information that Pate ton’s men could spend Easter Sune day in Berlin if they wished. Londen press dispatches quoted the.pofficer as saying that the Ger= man army deliberately ‘was letting the western allies through while fighting desperately to hold the Russians in the east. Fanatical Resistance Only on the U. 8. 7th army front to the south were the allies. meete ing the fanatical resistance that Nazi-spokesmen had boasted would face them on every mile of the road to Berlin. : The 7th army captured the fae mous university city of Heidelberg {with relative ease, but 30-odd miles to the north ‘they ran into a fero= cious battle along the Main river of Aschaffensburg. German regulars, volksturm units and even teen-aged girls swarmed {back into Aschaffenburg where all {resistance appeared to have ended | days ago. They fought viciously |from house to house against dough boys of the American 45th infantry division. Miniature Siegfried Line The motley German defense force |also was fighting back hard from |& miniature Slegfried line east of the Main. river just south of Asche | affenburg. Front dispatches said the Nazis | had strong artillery and tank forces In action there, possibly to cover

rail yard at Halle to the north, and | ® German retreat into the southern rail and industrial targets at both |™Mountains of Bavaria.

German women and schoolgirls were reported sniping at the Yanks inside Aschaffenburg with rifles and” bazookas. They repeatedly hurled

| grenades down on the heads of

Americans. One 15-year-old girl was shot while trying “to fire a bae oka at a column of passing Americans. Nevertheless, the Tth' army cone tinued to make steady if unspece tacular® progress. They regained most of Aschaffenburg and cleared HofIstein, Hausen, Rossbach, Worth, Amorbach .and Elsenfeld. ~ Srattered Opposition Late dispatches said 7th army troops ‘advdhced nine. miles east of

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tion in the Hirschhorn area. Montgomery's British 2d army tanks officially were disclosed to °

The American 9th army's 8th armored division, just south of the British, cracked through the German lines along the Lippe river and raced ahead 12 miles or more around the northern flank of the Ruhr yesterday.

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that there will be no separate peacs, it was necessary for them to discuss between themselves what, if any -" before their reply could be formue lated or communicated to the Gere man officer, he was no longer availe

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