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Yanks Expanding Bridgehead After Capture of Rhine Span
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guards’ fumbled the planned dynamiting of the bridge and fled back across the river, leaving the douhle-
self was in peril from ‘the new breakthrough. - With the doubletracked Ludendorf bridge in American hands, the 1st army was in po-
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Crucifixion Is .Believed the
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and Berlin, was bombed heavily: for the second time in 12 hours today
lashed ‘to a nine-foot-high cross
tear gas. Herbert O. Parsell, the| while
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Americans were battering at the| two miles southeast
gates of Linz, of the bridge, and tactily admitted
Dispatches from sthe east side of the Rhine said that Hodges’ cotky doughboys were clearing out town
cruised by in a squad car. He was taken to St. Joseph's hok-
: ital, where his condition was deanother ‘doughboy = column had after town in a fast. drive south- Pp } : WHITE driven two miles north to Unkel.| iio ooo the crossing point. scribed as serious. That town, one Berlin commentator Walscher was unable to shed any P.).—N : “reeaptuted” Many of the captured towns were .).—North= said, has been “recaptured. completely undamaged, indicating|light on the crucifixion when ques"in 20 years The entire 110-mile Rhineland ; the speed and tactical surprise of|tioned by Police Capt. P. B. O'Conhat weather front from Coblenz north fo the : ng ‘ animalg border burst into flame in the crossing, which many observers|nell. -He said he was in his room hite possum pen o> i the sensational first|Peleved would shorten the war by|in the basement when a man came covered cate e kthroug! i months. in and told him there was an autoBH liek pa “There isn't even a threat of our|mgpile accident down the street and placed In a Headquarters revealed that an-| .....™ ives” out» Cunningham amily cat. other army, the 15th, had arrived » to come at once.
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on the continent and been placed under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th army group command with the U. 8. 1st and 3d armies. With the 15th, Bradley's command embraced more than 1,000,000 Amer can soldiers, giving him tactical] control of more combat troops than any other. leader in modern military history. The arrival of the new army came | at what was obviously the critical] hour of the battle. of Europe. 9th Shelling Ruhr
More than 250 giant field guns flashed back
fo | rows,
western |
reported. Young Officer Led “Attack
He revealed that a youthful 1st
army officer; 2d Lt. Emmet J. Burled a smal force of Yanks across the Rhine shortly before Inightfall Wednesday after a hur[ried reconnaissance had uncovered la weak link in the German deTenses. Cunningham said Burrows took the decision on the spot and rushed an entire company over to the east bank, Word of the dramatic crossing to divisional head-
of the U. S. 9th army massed before quarters and in a matter of hours
Dusseldorf and Duisburg opened a |Powerful
tremendous artillery barragg on the | packed factory cities of the Ruhr | in what appeared to be a doubleedged blow aimed at flattening the | industrial basjn and blasting. a path | across the Rhine for Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's armored and infantry divisions. ” Berlin military commentators also
reported without confirmation that!
seven to eight British 2d army divisions, about 85,000 to 120,000 men, were deploying along the west bank of the Rhine near Emmerich, 35 miles north of the Ruhr. The British, Berlin said, were moving up to the river behind a
‘great smoke screen in preparation | into the|
for a full-scale crossing northwestern German plain. -
Pay-Off Battle Opens
German broadcasts and heavilycensored field dispatches from the
Rhine left little doubt that. the pay-|
off battle of the western war had been joined. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American 3d army appeared on the verge of striking for a crossing of the
Rhine néar Coblenz, and the ro
of shells plunging info the*Ruhr in-
supporting units were
[rushing up to exploit the unexpected | breakthrough. “Hell if you have something given to you the best thing is to [take it,” Burrows said. (Cunningham said: “It. begins to look as though the entire course of |the war in the west is being lchanged.”)
| Morale Spurts Word of the breakthrough spread with electrifying effect through the ranks of the three American armies and the Canadian 1st army battering against the Rhine on a 110-mile front from Coblenz north to the Dutch border. It sent the four armies surging forward with new: power and fury all along the: battle line.and field dispatches indicated the few remaining German. pockets west of the Rhine were collapsing. Hundreds of wearied, dejected Germans surrendered without a fight to the 1st army forces on both sides of the Rhine crossing, and were permitted to wander back unguarded to prison enclosures deep inside the American lines.
. Foe's Army Disintegrates
‘dicated strongly that the 9th army | |
too was ready to join the march onl Berlin. The Nazis said German troops were counter-attacking furiously north of Linz and at other points around the menacing salient jutting into the southern flank of the industrial Ruhr basin some 25 miles southeast of Cologne. Heavily-censored United. - Press|
The spreading . disintegration of the Nazi armies was pointed up by the fact that the prisoners apparently were coming from a multitude of jumbled units all | piecemeal. | A dozen miles north of Remagen, lanother crossing attempt appeared to be in the making at the university city of Bonn. , First army in-
thrown in
‘Forced ‘to Drink’
He followed the man down the street, he said, and was seized by & group of men who threatened him with revolvers and nailed him to the cross. They forced him to drink something, which apparently eased the pain when they drove the spikes through his hands, he said. He could not identify any of the men. “There were three men all togéther,” Walscher said. “They asked me if I was willing to die for war or world revolution. I told them I was willing to die for my ideals.” “‘We will not kill you,” he said they told him, *‘if you will submit to crucification.” Then they lashed me to the cross and drove the spikes through my hands.” Police said the nails were only driven into the cross about a quarter of an inch and Walscher could have pulled them out himself if he had tried. Police estimated he had been pinioned to the cross between 10 and 30 minutes when he was found.
His Story Doubted
Police said they doubted his story and would question him further. O'Connell said several pamphlets
a world utopia and some anti-Nazi literature were found in Walscher’s room in the basement of the tavern where he was employed. A crudely printed ‘sign above his head .on the cross said: “Peace on earth. The brother of Jesus is choosen and sacrificed for a noblest and greatest and finest inspiration for world peace. Let’s all follow for the good of all menkind.” (Signed) Unknown world controllers. Police said the crucifixion apparently was performed by religious fanatics. However, somoene who had a knowledge of surgery must
because” the spikes were driven through Walscher’s hands in such a way that they did not bleed.
Southport Pupils To Present Play
outlining a new economic plan for|
have. bad a band in it they ‘said.
front dispatches revealed, however, | AnUymen cleared" practically the that Naz} resistances still was weak °otire city by daybreak today: after} all along the assault arc and that ® 24-hour street battle and broke the. Rhine bridgehead was solidly through to the west bank of th§
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Yanks Hold Heights High ground can hands and the bridgehead was described officially as beyond the reach of German light artillery—a ,range,of about four miles. Berlin military spokesmen railed | angrily at the “accident” that left the Ludendorf bridge wide open for a crossing.
German spokesmen said bitterly | |4th armored division was
that the 170-yard-long bridge at Remagen “accidentally been destroyed” by Nazi engineers! ~—an oversight that indicated the spreading disintegration of the German Rhineland armies. Front Collapsing Their entire Rhinel caving in under the blows of. Jlour
allied armies and the hinterland It- |
RATIONING OF COAL ORDERED BY ICKES
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east of-the Mississippi, and also to Minnesota, North Dakota, South |
city and county of St. Louis, Mo. Ickes warned that the coal situa-
overlooking the! river from the east was in Ameri-|
and front was! Rhine there.
| Rhinein and on both sides of Bonn. Radio Paris.'said the city already had fallen,
of Bonn, and the site of an “appeasemeént conference” between | Adolf Hitler and the late Britis Prime Minister Neville ig in 1938, also was cleared of all but la handful of Nazi rear guards early | today.
3d Exploits Breakthrough
Patton's rampaging exploiting (to the hilt its 60-mile breakthrough
Meanwhile,
had not t, the Rhine north of Coblenz.
German military spokesmen said (the Yanks already were storming Coblenz, apparently. hoping to cap- | ture intact the great Hermann | Goering bridge which spans the Official reports from the partially-blacked out 4th di- ! vision, however, said only that the Yanks were pushing north along the Rhine bank to the Andernach area, nine miles north of Coblenz and 10 miles south of Linz. . Patton's men captured Kruft, (Kettig, = Miesenheim, Bassenheim and Muelheim, lying in a rough arc|
| three to 10 miles west and north-!
| west of Coblenz. Coblenz itself was within drtil-
Louisiana and the lery range of the Americans and
| front reports indicated the Yanks | already were shelling the city, occupied by the U. 8, 3d army at the
tion is getting worse and that pro- | close of world war I
duction this year probably cannot | meet demands.
Householders will have to file declarations, before any deliveries can be made of anthracite, bituminous coal, coke, briquettes or packaged or: processed solid fuels. They must show the amount of solid fuel normally required in the building in which it is used, the kinds and sizes ordinarily burned, and the number of rooms to be The filed with dealers. Consumers of more thany25 tons a year will be required to count the fuel in their bins on April 1 as part of their next year's quota, Con-
-sumers of less than 25 tons. will not
be required to do so. Consumers filing a. declaration before May 15 with their regular retail * dealers and “accompanying it with an order will-be entitled to get at least 30 per cent of their normal requirements. before Oct.~1, ‘However, this delivery "will be made only if the consumers agree to take delivery of any usable solid fuel the dealer has to offer at the “time, Dealers generally will ‘be ‘prohib-
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declarations will be
EVENTS TODAY’ ; Indianapolis Town Hall, English theater, 11 a.m i
Boy Scout Office Secretaries conference, Lincoln hotel, Red Cross war fund campaign. Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, club, noon,
Columbia
EVENTS TOMORROW
Indians’ Federation of Business and Professional Women, board meeting, Lincoln hotel. Boy Scout Office Secretaries conference, Lincoln hotel,
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school at 8 p. m. today at the school. Heading the cast will be Georgia Pitcher, Dolores Layton, Robert Carter, Lee, Schriefer and Lewis Doll. Others in the play will be Thelma Phillips, Norma Conner, Barbara Montieth, Benona Kloess, Colleen Osborne, Jack Nunley, William Nolte, William Doll, Louis Sanders and William Clampitt. A chorus of 55 voices will be accompanied by two pianos played by Irma Swickard and Fred Koehrn, director of the production. A matinee performance for students also will be given tomorrow:
STOUT FIELD PLANES CARRYING SAND BAGS
Two C-47 cargo planes took off yesterday from Stout field carrying 25,000 empty sandbags to Portsmouth, O., where the Ohio river is still rising. At another troop carrier command, Malden field, Mo., three aircraft dispatched army mattresses and blankets to Wright field, Dayton, O., for the use of flood refugees. A complete troop carrier squadron was alerted at Lawson field, Ga., and held in readiness to supply
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