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_IDLE-IN DETROIT

New Strikes Bring Total

Of Absent Workers To 34,000.

- DETROIT, March 2 (U. P).— Btrikes spread to three more De-

troit war plants today, bringing to! financial powers exercised by his

seven the number df factories. shut! down by “walkouts of 24,300 United Auto Workers (C. I. O)) niémbers. Two other plants’ were down be- - eause of a parts shortage caused by | the strikes, and scattered layoffs through other Chrysler factories brought the total of workers off the | Job to more than 34,000. Latest plants to strike were the DeSoto Warren unit, where - 2800 employees were protesting use of a ant material former-

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'» ers; Briggs eight-mile plant, where 850 were off in sympathy with Mack avenue strikers, and Briggs Meldrum, a storage plant employing

WLB Given Warning

Briggs spokesmen Said they expected their Quter Drive and Hamtramck plants to close momentarily. “THe eversgrosing: threat. to war

action by‘ the national war labor __ board, who earlier received a warning from U: A. W.-C. I. O. leader that a complete war production shutdown was ‘bossible.. A regional WLB spokesman said the Detroit situation was now under consideration at Washington. - He ~said that union leaders and management representatives probably would be summoned to Washington tomorrow to work out means of ending. disputes over disciplinary discharges, . Richard T. Frankensteen, U. A. W. international vice president, told the WLB that the policy of firing workers was cause for the strikes at the Chrysler Corp. and Briggs Manufacturing Co. “Unless your policy in handling

"disciplinary discharges is changed,”

Frankensteen told the WLB in a telegram, “A general shut-down will occur in the Detroit - production area.” U.. A. W. Officers Booed

Frankensteen and other U. A. W. officials were rebuffed by union members last night when they urged the strikers to return to work. A mass meeting of the 13,600 Dodge plant strikers booed the U. A, W. officers ‘from the platform, and the meeting broke up in noisy confusion. * Both Dodge strilcers and 5800 strikers at the Briggs Mack ave. plant said- they ‘would not return —to- work unti] discharged workers were reinstated. Eight workers at the Dodge plant were discharged last Saturday when the company charged them with

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Walloce Takes Up Commerce Duties; Jones Is Through’

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —Henry A. Wallace became secre|tary of commerce today and immediately went to work on the problem of post-war jobs. The former vice president, taking his third oath of office under the New Deal, stepped into a job divorced by congress of the gigantic

predecessor, Jesse H. Jones of Houston, Tex. President Roosevelt, meanwhile, | disclosed that Jones would exercise those powers no longer, even though they have been removed from the commerce department. The President added - that he planned to name a new low administrator soon. _ In his first statement since the confirmed his nomination vesterdav.. Wallace said he was. appomverg A CUMLGII0OT KF frees waeceeeiars for small business “to do its full share in furnishing maximum employment” after the war. Wallace's overall goal is 60,000, 000 jobs.

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Mine Operators Estimate Demands Would Add $400,000,000 to Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 2 (UP). —Bituminous coal mine operators estimated today that new demands of the United Mine Workers would

nation’s annua] fuel bill, The operators’ reply was presented by Charles A. O'Neill, president of the Central Pennsylvania Operators’ association. The union demands presented by John L. Lewis included a royalty of 10 cents a ton on all coal mined. This was termed “absurd” by an operators’ spokesman, who declined to permit use of his name. This spokesman said the royalty, together with other demands, would make Lewis the most powerful labor czar in America. ‘Asks Careful Study O'Neill told the conference that only careful study of the proposals would -show how much more than the $400,000,000 would be added to the cost of production. He suggested that the union and operators set up a committee to make ‘a careful study of the demands as a basis for negotiations. Until a detailed study is made, O'Neill said, the operators “take no position on any of the demands at this time.” O'Neill said the request for the

add more than $400,000,000 to. the

‘|Four Others Are Wounded,

and some—very probably—would be dead. . . .”

FOR AGREES ON GERMAN LABOR

_ Soldiers Can’t Help Re-

build Russian Area.

WASHINGTON, March 2.(U. PJ. —President Roosevelt at his first news conference following his return from the Crimea agreed today with the idea that German exsoldiers should be used to repair war damage in the Soviet Union. The President also said there would be. a number of treaties to be submitted to. .the senate for| ratification, in addition to the world | security charter which “will be

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IE Earn der are mostly with what: te described as] small details. .

Slavery Not Intended

In his report to congress yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt said that the United States does fit friténd slavery for the German people. A questioner today pointed out that the Russian point of view is that ri i ¥hould provide «labor. FEE war-tertl ‘peyie of the Boviets, J Union. Mr. Roosevelt said that he did not think it was a bad idea—affer what he had seen of German destruction in the Crimea—to get German exsoldiers and use them for rebuilding and repairs in the Soviet union. The press conference’ discussion did not go into the matter of whether German labor should also be used to repair war damage in other countries. The President ‘would not say whether the ceding of German territory to Poland would require a treaty such as the Versailles treaty of the last war, but said that he

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Hoosier Heroes=

LIST TODAY INCLUDES 3 DEAD, ONE MISSING

Four Prisoners.

Today's casualty list includes three local men who have been killed, a missing flight officer, four wounded men and four prisoners. A gunner previously reported missing has. returned to his base. KILLED First Lt. Jack T. Smith, 514 Campbell ave. over Berlin. Sgt. Delbert C. Ping, 32 Adler st, in Europe.

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LABOR . ., By Daniel M. Kidney Free Men Produce Best, Pew

Says, Scoring

WASHINGTON, March 2. — . Joseph N. Pew Jr, Philadelphia oil' and shipbuilding magnate, who was called a G. O. P. fat-cat during the lean years, praised both

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Work or Fight

management and labor today for its combined opposition to “work-or-fight” legislation. His views appear in the. Farm Journal and -Farmer's Wife, a Philadelphia publication tp which he is a stockholder. : They are in the form of a letter , to Editar Graham Patterson and [yn Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.)

| Bradley ave., on the Western front;

A Park ave., of Germany,

8. Sgt. John D. Dora, 236 Cecil st., in European theater.

MISSING Flight Officer Carroll D. Trotter, i454 N. Holmes ave. over Hungary. WOUNDED 8gt. Woodrow R. Shepard, 622 River ave. in Belgium.’ 8. Sgt. Miton E. Warner, 338 N.

Pfe. Garland Warner, Willow Branch, on the Western’ front, 8. Sgt. Paul W, Zahn, 1827 Fletcher ave, in Luxembourg.

PRISONERS 8. Sgt. Leonard ;Fix Sr,

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8. Sgt. Francis L. McEowen, 1125 N. Arsenal ave., of Japan, 8. Sgt. Bruce Ii. Moore, 2142 Dexter st., of Germany. First Lt. John H. Belcher, 4909 BE 10th st, of Germany, ; SAFE ~ §-8gt. Lewis H. Waters, 1810 N.| Alabama st. ©.

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Sees No Reason Why Nazi

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The President said these other : treaties arising for Sesislons, of the|

“The start of a B-29 mission, from a spectator’s stand point, is almost a ple of the Indianapolis race.”

» nn By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent. : IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed) —I've always felt "the great 500-mile auto: race at Indianapoli§ to be the most. intriguing event—in terms of human suspense—that I've ever known. The start of a B-29 mission- to Tokyo, from the spectator’s stand--point, is almost a duplicate of the Indianapolis race. On mission day people are out ~»to see the start. Soldiersin groups

Danzig-Stettin Life Slashed by Russians, . Berlin Says.

co ORERT | MUSEL "United Fresh SIA Corresponaenc ‘LONDON, March 2—The “German high command-said today that.

“|the Red army had plunged & spear<

head through Pomerania: $0 Danzig-Stettin coastal railroad. This is the last land life of ‘éscape for an estimated 200,000 German troops. A Nazi communique reported that to| Marshal Konstantin XK. Rokossov-

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REPORT SOVIETS. CUT OFF 200,000

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tribute. ta. their. sisters already in

sit on favorite high spots around | thé field—on tops of buildings, on tops of bulldozers along the | runway, on mounds that give a" better view, * A few -bold souls even stand at the very end of the runway to snap amateur pictures 4

as the thundering planes pass just over their heads. As the planes: taxi out, it is

just like cars at Indianapolis Jeaving their pits to line up for the

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Nurses Receive

NINTH

ARMY

CRASHES TO

RHINE

BANKS

Atterbury 83d Opens Duesseldorf Duel As Patton Captures Trier; 3500

Planes Plaster Reich.

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“— WITH 21ST ARMY GROUP, Western Front, March 2 (U. P.)-—The U. S. 102d division has Sapiired Krefeld,

German city of 165,000,

By BOYD

D. LEWIS

United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, March 2.

YANKS CONGEST ROAD T0 RHINE

‘Observer Repurts Salvos Smothering Duesseldorf Area With Smoke.

By CLINTON B. CONGER YI'nited Press Staff Correspondent .

WITH THE U. S.-83D DIVISION

Military Badges In Tribute Meet,

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Seven newly commissioned army |. and navy nurses received their in-| signias of rank last night, as the, 11th district American Legion paid

seat evcane: BE i At Hr 0.

War Memorial. Brig.,Gen. William D, Olds, commanding officer of Stout field, presented the insignias to the nurses after other armed forces and home Hront representatives had lauded the record of the nurse corps. “There's a need, a tremendous, crying need, on the fighting fronts and’ at sea for trained nurses.” said LA. Omgr. John D. ‘Hugties; Indians

ROME, March 2 (U, P.).—Mar- * shall Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean, has visited: the headquarters of Marshal -Feodor I.

Tolbukhin, commander of Russia’s 3d Ukrainian army, it was announced today.

sky's army cuf the road between Koeslin and Schlawe, That 28-mile stretch of the trunk line runs along the Baltic seven to 12 miles from the coast. The ‘drive cut off all the German troops in northeastern Pomerania, the northern end of the old Polish Corridor, and the Danzig Free State: Their only exit from these and Baltic pockets was a Dunkerque retreat by sea. The Nazi communique also acknowledged a penetration of “our

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SENATE GROUP VOTES!

AGAINST WILLIAMS

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —-The genate agriculture -committee today voted 12 to 8 against approving the namination of Aubrey Williams to be head of the rural electrification administration, Committee: Chairman Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) sald the nomtnation will be submitted to the senate next week "with an “adverse report.” That was the way the senate commerce committee .submitted the nomination ..of Henry A. Wallace to be secretary of comimerce in January.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

apolls ‘atboriey ‘Heckiily - retarned from the Pacific front. ““Thelr skill and courageous service every day are saving American lives on the battle front.”

| catching hell from the massed ar-

{ON . THE RHINE, March 2.-—I | climbed to the top floor of a bat-| talion command post today, pushed aside two tiles on the roof and

stand seat for the battle of the| Rhine. The gas works and freight yards | {in Duesseldorf across the river are

tillery of the U. S. 19th corps. We have roared up to the Rhine 50 fast that entire divisions are git RAC A the. right to use one Toad. a To get anywhere fast you have to weave in and out of convoys, ride on the soft shoulders of roads and talk fast to military policemen.

Heavy Fire Exchanged _Our present position is close to Neuss. As I poke through the roof of the command post and look out I can see thaf the Germans are laying 4 heavy; fire across the riyer. we) are giving It" back’ Vo Cierra everything from 240-millimeter guns on down. Our timed salvos are landing in the southerfr part of Duesseldorf.

Speaking on behalf of the nurse recruiting drive, Walter Leckrone, editor of The Times and member of the local recruiting committee, lauded service nurses as the “unsung | heroes”. of the war. “Asking no odds, shirking no duties, their courage and heroism are

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SINGAPORE BLASTED BY-YANK SUPERFORTS

Palawan Invasion Slices Jap Empire in Two. |

By UNITED PRESS American ‘ Superfortresses raided the great naval base of Singapore today as U. 8. marines punched closer to the north coast of Iwo and American troops virtually cut Japan's stolen empire in two with an unopposed landing on Palawan in the Philippines. War factories and naval installations’were hammered by the B-29s in their fifth daylight attack on Singapore, crossroads of the Japanese empire. - At the same time, the invasion of Palawan, westernmost of the Philippines, opened the way for additional assaults from the east on Malaya peninsula as far south as Singapore. © The 275-mile long is-

gon, in French Indo-China. The landing was carried out Wednesday by elements of the veteran 41st division Which quickly

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h ~ MEXICO CITY, March 2—The solution of the Argentine problem lies on the banks of the River Plata, The issue cannot be settled here. The Chapultepec conference is split over Argentina just as it is split, over Spain ‘and’ for much the same reasons, ;

WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By Wiliam Philip Simms Can Mexico City Delegates . Untie Argentine Knot? No

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to take, a more drastic stand’ +against the Farrell-Peron regime in Buenos Aires. a However, they are divided among ' themselves. Some want the U. 8. and the rest of the Americas to throw their weight on the side of the Spanish Republicans: who overthrew Alfonso. ' ‘Others regard these latter as 100 conservative. They would like

land is only 750 miles east of Sai- |=

The gas works and the freight yards are smothered with smoke. The noise. is terrific. First you hear something like a roll of thunder stretching over an entire minute.] That's one of our salvos. Then you hear a whistle. That's German shells coming toward us. Then you hear a drone. Planes—our planes. This force of American troops is a long, skinny finger thrust out to touch the Rhine. As Lt. George Jackson of Eagle River, Wis, puts it, their position “consists of practically nothing but flanks,” - “We were cut off yesterday,” he said. “We were ‘cut off for awhile again this morning.” Our forces are somewhat exposed, but we are in good position to put covering fire right across the foot of the Rhine highway bridge that leads to Duesseldorf,

Corregidor Flag Raised

By M'Arthur

By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent

CORREGIDOR, March 2.—Gen, Douglas MacArthur today completed fulfillment of his famed “I shall return” pledge with a tour of the island fortress of Corregidar, where 30,000 ill and starving American. troops surrendered to overwhelmi n g Japanese forces May 6, 1942. "<M ac Arthur's return to Corregidor came less than two weeks after U, S. ~ paratroops : spearheaded a Gen. MacAnhur landing on, the island which guards the entrance to: Manila bay. MacArthur in ceremonies at the Corregidor parade ground’ paid tribute to the troops who

‘wrested the - “rock” “from its Japanese defenders. » . ~ » .

HE ALSO paid ‘high tribute to the fortress’ heroic = defenders under Lt. Gen. Jonathan Waiinwright three years ago. see. the old flagpole stil

ruined castles, is one of the greatest

[to 75 feet. At the two prime Ameri-

—American 9th army forces

{a through to the Rhine today.

Doughboys of the 83d

Ru. stronghold of more

division (trained at Calnp

itr Ind.) opened a big-gun duel across the river with the German defenders .of Duesseldorf, key

than 90; LO Ty)

The ancient! city of: Trier, citadel of the weslerninoss German bulge against Luxemburg, meanwhile fell to the

American 3d army.

The 3d is én-the right wing of Gen. D —- -.

ihower’s grand; offensive aiffled at destroyi..

forces west of the Rhine.

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The allied left wing blazed into action with the capture (of the'Dutch stronghold of Venlo.

Report British Join Push Nazi broadcasts said Eisenhower had sent the British

2d army-into the showdown

battle of western Germany.

Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's U. S. 9th army was

Isetti » for ig push. [od Tost svi + grab a. Setting the pace for the big push

It broke through the last defenses west of the Rhine

land surged onto the bank of the river across from Duessel-

dorf.

to the outskirts of Krefeld.

sweep” TOWara ure Trrime;”

tos, of bombs into Cologne.

shock troops fought to ‘capture the city. Upwards of 1200 Flying| Fortresses and Liberators

nitz and Dresden, Saxony strongholds before the Red army in Silesia, They also hit an oil refinery at] Rositz sould ,of Berlin; a tank factory at Magdeburg; and an oil plant south of Leipzig. Never before had any such gigantic force of hedvy bombers struck in such a dovetailing of the Eastern and Western front tactical operations. In all, probably more than 3500 bombers and fighters flew from Britain against Germany. The British carted around 5000 tons of bombs to Cologne, the Americans some 3600 tons’ to their targets—a totaltweight of 8600 tons. On the land front, the capture of Trier, city of 76,000, birthplace of Karl Marx and once overrun by Caesar's’ legions, was less spectacular than the 9th army sweep. The defenders did their fighting

(March 2, 1945)

WESTERN FRONT=U 8 9th army reaches Rhine and cuts Western front in two.

EASTERN FRONT—Nazis report Danzig-Stettin rail line slashed, cutting off 200,000 German troops.

PACIFIC~B-20's blast Singa Marines drive through ‘main

By. UNITED PRESS The Rhine, a river of song and legend and crowned with crags and

natural barriers allied troops in Europe face: ) Controlled dams, the river varies th depth up

can targets—Cologne’ and Duesséel-

\bombed rail yards at Chem-|

at ‘some points by!

dorf—it’ normally 1s- about 50 feet )

The 9th also dashed 16 miles under a security blackbut

: Simpsons headquarters wig ‘that his Sanks and lintaatry,. rolled. un, Substantial

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1000 Bombers Rock Cologne : Behind them big guns loosed a shattering barrage on vital industrial targets beyond the Rhine. .. ; More than 2200 American and British heavy bombers swarmed into the battle of Germany. : About, 1000 British héavy bombers poured some 5000 They levelled great patches ! of Aiba Rhineland. industrial’ capital’ 8% American Ist. army

on the outskirts, collapsed after | Patton’ s troops broke into the town, and surrendered’ several “hundred strofig. . United Press Correspondent Robert Richards drove through Trier in. a jeep at noon and saw no sign of resistance. He said civilians waved and {cheered as the Americans moved 3 through Trier—one of the few cases of an opportunist or actual welcome accorded the Americans in Germany. In a week of blazing attack the Americans shattered Hitler's Rhine land front and cut "his western armies in two. The 83d division spearhead, shoot ing from thé turrets of tanks, from trucks and armored cars, reached the river bend near the crossing city of Neuss after a dash along - | the Juelich-Duesseldorf highway. Hundreds of tanks and upwards of 100,000 veteran American fightIng men Were moving on the Rhine in the wake of the 83d's shock troops. This drive to the Rhine was the

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On the War Fronts

fenses to within 1200 yards of north coast of Iwo, American occupa~ tion of ‘Palawan in Philippines cuts Japan's stolen supire in two,

AIR WAR--2200 big Bamber blast Cologne and Eastern front targets in support of American and Red armies.

e. ITALY—Action remains confined to

patrolling

River of So g and Folk kore. The Rhine Is Natural Barrier

Rhine present a Big obstacle, some good bridges were believed still intact across the river.