Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1945 — Page 6

RHINE CROSSING EYEWITNESS —

By C. R. CUNNINGHAM get over: When that opportunity came, Maj. Murray Deevers, Hager+

; United Press Staff Correspondent H : Gerda EAST OF THE RHINE, Germany, March 8 (Delayed). —Victory is OE A OE its the air on this side of the Rhine, where American treops hit the “pay lcompany swept on into the “fay dirt” of Germany, {dirt” of Germany in a drive aimed And now with the Yanks across Germany's great river barrier, it| directly at the “heart of begins to look as though the entire course of the w war in the west is being | Reich. : changed, [——— Emre | These men who caught the Ger- » It can’t be told yet how the Amer-| It looks almost like the Anzio mans napping and crossed the great joans crossed the Rhine. But it took beachhead, except that here there Rhine were some “of those who took only 10 to 15 minutes to get at least is not even a threat of our getting it on the chin in the Belgian bulge one company of infantry over to the kicked out. Now the company has its head up eastern side yesterday afternoon. The crossing ‘was a case of spot-{and ready for more work. By tonight it is safe to say that [ting an opportunity and grabbing War had not 4ouched the countrywe have plenty of infantry and guns|it- As one officer put it: “If you/side in this sector. Apparently the across the river. They are being have somethisg given you, the best Germans never expected it, because followed” up’ rapidly by everything 'tliing is to” take it.” [there were no : DropRiey defenses. - in the 1st army's book. | Security reasons prevent disclos-. On the east side of the river, the The tactical move is to exploit ure of the crossing site, but judging terrain 256s up steadily into rich, the lucky grab and Lt. Gen. Court- from the way . the Germans are green woods, The high hill, quickly ney H, Hodges is doing it to the throwing their heavy artillery shells reached by the first troops over hilt. at us, they surely “must know by | stands out like a Gibraltar

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One of the few barges. in the river is full of Germans. They have ‘been huddled beneath their white flag of surrender and are. getting hungry. There were a number of casualties dead. and some badly in the ¢rossing. In conwaddled into “liberated”

Ome ‘5 wounded— trast, one doughboy the battle, tipsy from cognac The only opposition to the crossing was, from snipers and a few 20-mm. Buns, But near the el d of the crossing, heavy machine ns opened up. The only casualties from artillery. CASTLE STRIKE TO END] March 9 the Perfect

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Nazi Leader Chats That Pressure on Reich Is

‘Intolerable.’

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent

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‘message te German ‘troops that the| strain now has become, “well nigh! intolerable.” Foreign transmissions.of the Nazi radio -acknowledged an American the Rhine river. But there was no immediate indication] that the German people had been| told that their biggest defense bar- | rier in the west was broken, Nazi propagandists, in an aba. ent effort to offset word of the, Russian drive on Berlin, said Adolf Hitler had visited the Oder front within the last few days. Hitler was said to have “convinced him-|

German soldiers.”

The question of Germarf and” determination or lack rof it. was thrust to the fore also by Guderian. “We are not losing our nerve,” he said in the fMmessage to German [troops in which he conceded the almost “intolerable” strain of the tallied pressure on Germany. Writing in the. Voelkischer Beobachter, Guderian said that by far! the greatest part armed forces was assigned to the] Eastern front last fall to block the Russian threat. As a result, the Americans in the west are able to achieve today what they failed to do earlier. | Other enemy broadcasts said the allied offensive in the west was

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“The reports said all Nazi district leaders recently received a written order from Hitler, marked “strictly confidential,” ordering complete airangements for anti-gas defense, to be perfected not later than April 1 The measures were said to include anti-gas bunkers, cellars and shelters to accommodate all district staffs and their leaders

DR. LICHLITER ENDS HIS: LENTEN SERIES

“It is almost a law that back of the™ saint you will find a good other,” the Rev. James M. Lichliter of St 1oujs told the congregation at noon Len ten services in Christ church today. “The big men,” he continued, “never do the big things.alone. The little men have fo contribute their penny's worth, too. The Lord has his great ones to whom he whispers in the ear. They stand up as giants to shatter "the old temples and inaugurate new eras in the spiritual History of mankind. But the Lord

ness makes possible his dream for ithe world.”

This was the Rev Mr. Lichliter’s | concluding sermon in a series of four Nook meetings will contin ie

at Christ church from 12:05 to 12:: Monday through Priday, for the remainder of Lent.

VARIETY SHOW ‘TO BE PRESENTED AT 8 P. M.

A variety show sponsored by the Decatur. Central Booster club will ibe presented at 8 p. m. toda:

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i have volunteered acts for. the show ars Camby Communtty—church i Valley Mills Friends church, West | Newton P.-T. A and Hi-Y and { Sunshine clubs. | James Peck, Lawrence Shedd, Mrs { Dorothy Shelly, Mrs |-son, the Rev. Lela Cox and Mrs Mary Jane Steele will have ‘charge Jot the show |

ASSIGNED TO FT. HAYES Lt. Col. Jesse M. Dunn, former { Marion county superintendent of { schools, has been assigned as dit rector of the information and edu- | cation division of the 5th service | command at Ft. Hayes, Colum- | bus, O. Col, Dunn recently returned from duty as commanding officer of an ordnance battalion in \ Europe.

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SPERRY QUITS BELL POST BUFFALO, March 9 (U. P.). == Lawrence D. Bell, president of Bell announced today

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