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machinery.
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compares with approximately 6 authorizations of 32 billion,
blliog bid year, plus contract »
All this in spite of the fact that our navy believes the Joie have
"Jost from one-third to one-half the - » .
ships it had at Pear] Harbor time. o ” ~
JAPS ARE suffering, also, from losses of cargo ships, targets for
our submarines, surface craft and - difficulty keeping in contact with ‘empire.’ This might mean our blockade sooner than expected, especially a
airplanes. They're Having great what remains of their conquered
of Jap home islands will pay off |
fter our planes begin to use air-
strips at Iwo Jima—and we take other islands such as the Ryukyus, which navy planes have started bombing,
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Lesson Learned on Heavy Production
CONGRESSIONAL SOURCES
don’t put much stock in reports |
that materiel used in Europe will not be suitable for the Pacific war.
They ‘think it will, with siight cha
Therefore they expect large quantities to be moved from Europe |
nges in some cases
to the Pacific as soon as V-E day comes, -and ships are available,
But this doesn’t mean slowing down of production here.
European
war taught the need of ‘having more than any original estimate called
for. & ¥ »
GERMAN SURRENDER will
~ » 5 bring repercussions on the labor
front, despite all that can be done-to convince union leaders and indus-
trialists that there's another man-
Size war yet to be won
Feeling here is that management and labor will be disposed to retrieve the ball bats they've been more or less hiding behind the
door since Pearl Harbor, and to st Unions, already talking about rescinding the no-strike pledge, may decide all such restraints are off. Displeasure of both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. with war labor board is likely to boil over into a real effort to make it ease wartime wage controls. » » s
JOHN L. LEWIS, up to now unusually peaceful in coal wage negotiations, may risk public displeasure and possible prosecution. by causing strikes, if it ‘ends quickly in Europe. And despite senate filibuster on war manpower—slow motion in hopes V-E day would end necessity for compulsory controls—ad-
_action will increase after V-E day. = ” »
Contradictory?
REPUBLICANS OPPOSING use of lend-lease program as post-war méthanism will stress Prench agreement calling for $1,675,000,000 in raw materials; food, oil and freight charges and $900, 000,000 for locomotives, ships and
G. O. P. spokesmen, who want lend-lease authority continued only until next July, say French past contradicts Roosevelt statement last November that lend- . lease “should end with the war.”
art swinging at each other.
other - former. champions, Jack Dempsey ‘and Gene Tunney, have commissions in the coast guard
and navy, respectively. Louis is now-a- sergeant. 4 8 8 PAMPHLETEERING OF the
P. A. C. campaign type apparently is proving effective in the Harry Bridges deportation case. Capitol Hill opinion is that Attorney General Biddle's deportation order either will be rescinded by the President or over-ruled by supreme court.
But even in C. I. O. there's a -split on the question—one group calling Bridges a “Quisling” for favoring national service legislation. » = = ORGANIZED CO-OPERATIVES are wary of small business hearings on taxes to begin in the house
them. Chairman Patman (D. Tex.) assures them fears are groundless. = = ”
Labor Trend
WITH C. 1. O. preparing to capitalize on its operations at the London’ World Trade Union Congress with a big New York mass
~ » » FORTHCOMING INTERSTATE commerce commission decision on control of Chesapeake and- Ohio railroad family will” define ICC attitude on rail holding companies. ICC examiner has recommended that Allegheny Corp. a top holding company of the fabulous Van Sweringeni pyramid,” “be forced to divest itself of control ‘ of C. & O. Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette. ; Th Allegheny got control of the roads in 1930 and control of Allegheny successively passed from the Van Sweringen brothers to George Ball, Indiana fruit jar maker, and to syndicate headed by Robert R. Young, New York broker. LTT, vr If ICC orders divestment, it probably will provide for trusteeship operation for fixed period to protect Allegheny investors from losses of a forced sale. - ” n
kee
Plenty of Coverage STATE DEPARTMENT esti mates that at least 500 news writers will. go to San Francisco to cover united nations conference, by far the largest group assigned to any U. 8. international confer-
ence so far. And there's accom- There's more profit for dealers |; modations available for only 425. | all along the line on the fancy | a a | goods. And on the material AN ARMY commission for Joe | that's bleached white, there's Louis, heavywcight champion, is more profit if it is made up into being sought by Rep. Powell, Ne- | ‘table cloths, doilies. -eté.. than gro minister from New York. In | white shirts.or underwear a letter to President Roosevelt, Meanwhile’ WPB . stands pat, Rep. Powell pointed out that two | ‘Watches first results
meeting Monday night, A. I L. shows signs of giving most its, international attention countries in this hemisphere. If the trend continues, it may try to become more influential with labor bodies of South and Central America, leaving to its rival the more -hazardous job of trying to ‘work with European groups.
of to
8. 8 8 EXTENSIVE SOCIAL life of Vice
-y-Rggsident Trumari begins to worry
Democratic . congressmen. They're afraid he may head the ticket some day; see his partying. with top-flight socialites during wartime as bad handicap.
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. WPB and Clothing
WILL WPB help relieve white shirts, all members of the family?
clothing program shortage of men's
Consumer and labor groups s2y no because it isn't tough enough. Retailers say no because it will cause “extreme economic distor-
tions.”
This is the problem: There's a |
limited amount of “gray goods” —trade name for raw materials from textile mills, Gray goods
can be bleached white, or dyed | get
into fancy designs.
Senate Prober Says He Saw
200 Men Idle in One Plant
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are women, and that it considers this “too high a percentage” He said army PeDesentotives
agree with company experts that “too many women retard efficiency.” ‘He said the obJections were that “because women are not interested in careers, their absenteeism is too high, and there are too many jobs they are physi-| cally unable to perform.’ | 1
Walter Reuther, U. A. W.-C. I. O.[t
employment
vice president, was scheduled to testify this afternoon Yesterday management ripped
into the unions, the unions handed it right back, and both ¢nllaborated with enthusiasm in attacking the
. bungling and ineptitude of Wash-
ington officials running the war program. The investigation is being made | against & background of a new out- | break of work stoppages. Some 35,000 ‘workers were estimated to be le from thelr machines. in’ the latest series of ros. —~Manageent copténds the unions are trying to musclé in on its “functions, authority and responsibility,” and says the result is decreased SB But the unions claw i claims of labor hoarding
wr Muro
example-—of—slack government rection of the war to jar them most Mr. Thomas described how. at =a aiscussion in Washington regarding the critical need for greater foundry
diJob that ._seemed
production, - he had told officials 3 " 3 1 Y q that the Ford plant's big foundries here were operating at only: about
| half-capacity
When he returned to Petros, Je said, war department officials h thanked him for to the matter Mr, ' Thomas
calling a
sald he wondered [Why the army had no system which would turn up such facts. The
senators wondered, too.
U. , WILL AUCTION CIGARETS (NOT HERE)
LOS ANGELES, March 10 (U. Po, U.. 8. customs office will be
the miost crowded place in Los Angeles next. Thursday, i Some” 230 cartons of “cigarets, |
seized by officers or unclaimed, will be put on the auction block then. esse nes
FORUM PROGRAM POSTPONED |
The Indianapolis Catholic Forum | which was to be held tomorrow has been pdstponed to. Maich - 18, Frank J. Sheed and Maisie Ward Sheed will speak at the forum
ich will be field at 3 p, m. in the d War Memorial auditorium.
next. week, fear an effort to tax |
of |
low-cost clothing for |
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Crewmen Jubilant. Following Record” Raid by 300 B-29's.
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before the raid was over,
stretch from the moated Imperial palace to the Sumida river and an-
bank of the river literally were a | “sea of flame.”
|age extended to ‘such vital railway centers on the edge of the target {area as Joban Ueno and Central Tokyo stations from which radiate the main lines serving Honshu island. The Marunouchi telephone ex{change with thousands of lines and
automatic equipment may have been
damaged. Thousands, perhaps tens of thou{sands of war workers’ homes -lay {within the area, Apart from those | killed, the evacuation of the sur[vivors was expected to have a seri[ous effect on employment in the war | factories.
‘Like Night Football Game’
“There will be a lot of cold, shel{terless people in Tokyo tonight,” said Maj. Robert Irwin of Esther{ville, Ta; a unit commander. “The {city was burning to beat hell.” Irwin flew over Tokyo about midway in the raid and found the area assigned his unit burning so furiously that he moved to another area. “Tokyo was lit up like a football field at a night game” he said. [Smoke was pouring up to 2000 to {7000 feet. Fires were spreading | fast.” Brig. “Gen, Thomas Power, com{mander of the Guam-based ralders, spent two hours shuttling over the {capital. He said the flames were burning so furiously -he doubted {that - fire equipment could {brought in, The target area was laced with fire breaks—wide, straight boulevards designed to prevent the spread lof fires—but the area was so thor{oughly saturated that nearly every | building within the 15-square-mile larea hit probably was destroyed or damaged.
Photographs Awaited
| “It was the greatest show on jearth, and the damndest thing 1 ever saw,” Power said. “We did 50 times more damage than on Feb. 25, when we burned out 240 city blocks.” Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Le May, com{mander of the 21st bomber com|mand, said the operation was “very {much the most successful to date.” “However, we must await photographs for final determination,” he said. “Flight reports indicated excellent results.” * The Superfortresses took off for {the first announced time from Guam, as well as the 6ther Ameri-{can-held islands in the Marianas, | Tinian and Saipan.
LEGALITIES SLOW
OF TOKY KYOBU
engulfed another five square miles 8
Crewmen said the mile and a half || other huge area on the opposite]
It was possible that the fire dam-
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stowed upon him “for special distinction in the field of American fiction” during the past five years. Equally significant is the fact that his latest novel, “Image of Josephine,” has been selected by
i po Literary Guild as one of its
books-of-the-month. Already it's a best seller.
AND NOW Mr. Tarkington has plunged into dictation of another novel—"“a short one.” This, in addition to the numerous magazine articles, pamphlets and other brochures he drills out largely in the interest of a practitcal international policy organization. He's immensely pleased with the Howells medal because it comes from fellow-artists of highly discriminate tastes. And of course he's delighted with the favorable public acclaim accorded “Image of Josephine.”
= = 5 BUT HE'S a little worried about the Literary Guild. This group.--sent. him a. ques
secrets of his success. For instance: “How does he feel after he's completed a novel?” This one isn’t too difficult because Mr. Tarkington admits he prefers to forget all about his creations after they're on paper. But then Tthe queries. become personal, “sounding like a police
WIEDENHOFT TRIAL
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| ously testified that Ora was his wife. The case in which Charles DeGraphenreed is on trial for the slaying of Gus L. Wiedenhoft, Sout h
side florist, last June 30.. became |entangled - at this point with legalities. ? : | * Court in Recess { Judge William D. Bain refused
{to allow the introduction of a | marriage certificate in evidence. Haskins previously had testified | that ‘the day-following the murder |
{he and his wife, Ora, were. told by |
|the defendant that he had parti- | cipated in the Wiedenhoft fand - had injured his in the | away. | | The court recessed the trial un- | tilI 9730 a. m. Monday; Judge Bain upheld {he state's
objection that a statutory provision |
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murder
leg
requiring that notice of an alibi] defense be filed 10 days in ad-| | vance of trial The court, however, allowed de-| lferise attorneys to comply by fili ing | la belated notice today. He expressed |
the belief that when a defendant | races the death penalty he should |
{have every opportunity to make his | defense, The fitst defense witness cated | yesterday testified that DeGraph- | enreed had spent the evening of the murder at a private home at 600 W—28th. st. Raymond Harris, 1218 W. 25th st., said*Hé was there with the defendants and several
others until unt) ghout midnight,
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had handled a
family migration without the help of Papa AscoH, former member of the British econular vice in Belgium. A poultry expert, he is now assistant maniger of the Federated Co- roperatives | of Quebe¢ province.’ The familylived. in- Jamaica four Vears. | Before the’ train pulled out,
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| Hke kerosene.
record.” : $ W's ACTUALLY, his life is relatively serene and sheltered. . He dictates two hours. a day midst the rich color and brocade of his splendid. collection of 17th and 18th. century European antiques, paintings, statuary and objects d'art. His secretary is Miss Elizabeth Trotter He's been out in the yard but a few times this and goes downtown only to attend symphonic concerts and meetings of the board of the Herron Art Institute. The Hoosier writer says he has to take it easy because 16 years ago his doctor, warning of a heart condition, - informed him that he could do little more than “ooze.” “I've been oozing ever since,”
winter winter
he smiles. “As a matter of fact, I1.like it that way, , . . I'm terribly lazy.
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HE LIKEWISE was supposed to
| refrain from smoking, but continued instead .to make himself “immune to any harmful effects.” In his day, Mr. Tarkington
was known to has e indulged now and then in a little Rair of the dog, especially” with his friend, James Whitcomb Riley, But now he declares he hasn't touched the’
stuff since 9:40 a. m. Jan. 16, 1912. ‘I remember the exact time,” he reminisced, “because it. was
then, right here in Indianapolis, that I suddenly decided I preferred to die sober. Got so-I1
{ craved a drink before breakfast | and
that's not good. But as it turned out, it required surprisingly little will power to climb aboard the wagon. Couple of days later 1 was in the University club and a fellow asked me to have a drink. I took one whiff and it smelled That was that.” ” - o MR. TARKINGTON has never attended, a talking picture, largely because of failing eyesight. He passed up Orson Welles’ film ver= sion of his superb novel, “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Several other of his books have
. been screened, including “Penrod” and “Seventeen.”
Among Tarkington’ s Treasures
tionnaire seeking the innermost,
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This 17th century Venetian lute is among a treasure trove of valuable period pieces with which Tarkington's home is furnished. One of his favorite pastimes is trading and bargaining with antique dealers.
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The Gentleman From Tadiond Is Now 'Oozing Out’ Winter
But Rudolph Valentino's spongy portrayal of his “Monsier Beaucaire” many years ago thoroughly disillusioned him as far as Hollywood is concerned.” *I don't know what Mr. Valentino was doing, but it certainly wasn't what I tended in the novel.” s » » EVEN in ordinary conversation, Mr. Tarkington reveals his deep absorption in international affairs. He argues for a world peace plan ‘with a fiery passion. He refutes accusations that Indiana is “isolationist” by poiriting out that some of the earliest world co-operation movements were based here.
“The. thing about Hoosiers,” says he, “is that they have very definite ideas one way or the other. . « There's always the stress and strain of conflicting opinions.” He believes that in the present war “nature is whipping us into the realization that we have to make a permanent peace or else.” He insists that civilization can outmode war as it has duelling, | to draw a personal parellel.- Or human sacrifice in the religious field. ” n n MR. TARKINGTON also disclosed information—imparted to him by diplomatic . sources—that scientists already are experimentIng with atomic power as a con-
jroled explosive -agent.- If this is perfected, he declares, these | sources say a large city, such as
New York, could be destroyed in a single blow. : A world traveler whose works are printed in scores of languages, Mr. Tarkington is still a, Hoosier. “This is my home,” he explains. “I once thought of living abroad, but a man loses something of his character when he loses his native roots. Indiana is my soil and my roots are pretty strong.”
= n » HE CONCEDES he's overwhelmed by Indianapolis. “You see so many strange faces, $0 many strange names. When I was a boy here, we even. knew each others’ horses. That was when we had the old place down on 11th st. Then we moved out here, but it wasn't far enough. We're still enveloped in smoke. But this city will clean itself up. You can be sure of that.”
almost the growth of
RESERVES HOLD FATE OF REICH
{Allies Racing to Build Firm Bridgehead on Rhine's
East Bank.
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which has been sustained, but thus far with little effect. The bridge, taken Wednesday afternoon, was a small air target to begin with, It is now protected by anti-aircraft and fighter cover las impregnable as we can make them, Its location. in a region where the heavily forested eastern bank of the river rises sharply to 1200-foot heights, the nearest of which were
ing U. 8. 8th armored infantry. men, gives the bridge considerable immunity to directly observed ar tillery fire. Moreover, its rugged construction makes it unlikely that a lucky hit or two by the heaviest caliber shell would do more than close it to traffic temporarily. The Germans, in addition to stepping up their attacks, may try to employ gadgets such as mines and human torpedoes, as they did against the Nijmegen bridge, but those have only the most forlorn "hopes of succeeding.
Nazis Need Réserves > The only real hope the enemy has of- sealing off what looks like a greater threat to his ability to continue waging war than all the rest of our race to the Rhine is to rush great quantities of his own armor and infantry to the scene immediately. If he has not these forces avallable, then it is just too bad because we have. And we are pouring them across. It is the old, old war-time story of~getting there “fustest with the mostest.” Right now (it's D-day on the Normandy beaches all over again. It's the race for the buildup. If the enemy lets us build up and gain elbow room to a point where we are in a position. to drive straight on east in the Reich's heart—on the north and south along the splendid patterns of highways which lace the Rhine's far shore—his doom is imminently inescapable. 1st’ Running Wild
The 1st army is running wild up ‘and down the magnificent “auto{bahn” that skirts the Rhine's east bank, paving the way for .Gen. | Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadian 1st army, Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson’s U. S. 9th army and Lf. Gen. Gtorge S. Patton's U. 8. 3d army to come across from their sectors. That is the possibility that Field {Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt {must be contemplating today with {emotions at least as strong as mellancholia. How swiftly have the fortunes of twar changed! In Decembgr it was
swiftly captured by the hard-driv-]
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corroboration in any other. quarter.) Now 6 Miles Wide
By Nazi account, the bridgehead now extended six miles from Honnef to Linz east bank towns.
The German DNB news agency said that a mid-day a strong German force, supported by heavy tanks, opened a ‘counter-attack against the northern flank of the bridgehead. After “extremely flerce fighting” the Germans claimed they threw the Americans out of Honnef, The Nazis said strong U. 8. infahe try and tank forces pushed north along the east bank ‘of the Rhine to Honnef, and added: “Simultaneously other American forces under cover of a strong ums, brella of gunfire crossed the Rhine south of Honnef in rafts in order to link up with the forces which advanced from Remagen.” Berlin also reported stiff fighting east and northeast of Lina, and said the American push in that direction had been stalled.
Another “Anzio”
SHAEF reoprted that Marshal Karl von Rundstedt rushed several hundred troops strongly supported by tanks to the perimeter of the bridgehead. But they succeeded only in slowing the advance of Hodges’ forward elements. A dispatch from Bradley's headquarters said the bridgehead was “taking on an Anzio aspect.” It was around Anzio below Rome that the allies established a solid bridgehead which they held until they burst out of it to link up with other allied forces driving toward Rome from the south. While the battle of the vridgehead picked up momentum, newly linked forces of the 1st and 3d armies west of the Rhine engaged in a mass roundup of perhaps 50,000 Germans trapped in the Eifel mountains,
Hint Highway Cut
(Radio Paris broadcast an unconfirmed but possibly correct re-port-that the 1st army already had stabbed eight miles or more east of the Rhine to cut the broad, high-speed military highway linking the Ruhr and Rhineland to Berlin and central Germany.) The university city of Bonn, on the west bank of the Rhine 13 miles north of Remagen and 12 miles south of Cologne, was captured by the 1st army's infantry division yesterday. The 1st also’ took Beag, miles to the south.
Casualties Heavy
three
Bonn fell after a savage street battle in which casualties on both sides were reported heavy. The Rhine bridge in the town was blown up, however, before the Germang quit.
Unofficial {ntormation,. reaching
itiative,. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges commander of the U, S.| 1st army, was the goat then. Now the whole German war ma- | chine must dance to Hodges’ tune. Von Rundstedt already is doing just that. He is driving his columns full tilt for the Remagen railroad bridge. : He is’ lashing’ them on ; ‘the darkness with their headlights blazing—something the German never does if he can help it in view of our air might. Bad flying weather has enabled him to get away with it] s0 far. Big Battle Brewing
There will be a battle, somewhere on the east side of Remagen bridge. Int will. be a big battle, if Von| | Rundstedt has enough left to make it a big battle. It may be the decisive battle. Parts of a panzer division have |already appeared in the bridgehead | perimeter. - Other divisions are undoubtedly en route. A certain panzer army, if it has not gone to Russia or been destroyed in the Ardennes melee, may be following on behind. But then what will the Germans {have left to restrain Patton and! [Simpson and: Crerar from jumping’ over to the east bank? All this because. we captured, quite unexpectedly intact, one of
In summer and fall, Mr. Tark- . ington resiges in Kennebunk- jhe last of the Rhine's great bridges | Copyright, 1945, by The IngiInapols Tans port, Me. 4 | I The Chicago Daily News, Inc
Mama Ascoli called the roll. “Rose-=
{Mary " she” warned quietly. *So-" | lange~this way.” “Then, “Rene, { Marguerite, Marte<Gladys, Marie= Therese, Gabrielle, Julma, Mare-
Edw ard, Blanche, #awrence, Lillian,
Elizabeth, Jacques and Francois.” | Airline, railway and civie offici {who greeted the family here were confused when 15 children’ appeared. Only 14 had been expected. Mrs. Ascoli explained that Rene, 25, was discharged from the British ‘army just in time to make the my So he. was plane, the
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ist. army front across the Rhine, said the bridgehead opposite Rema{gen last night covered an area of more than 50 square miles and was being built up steadily against sporadic and still disorganized German resistance. The Rhine breakthrough revived
{rumors that Field Marshal Karl von
Rundstedt had: again ‘been removed from the German Western front command. The U. 8. army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, quoted Nazi prisoners as saying Rundstedt had been replaced by Field Marshal Walther von Model. = Bomb Narrowly Misses Span Seven German fighter-bombers, some of them reportedly jet-pro-pelled planes, struck at the Luden-
|dorf bridge yesterday in a futile {attempt to choke off the flow of
German hinterland. Six of them were- shot down in flames by hundreds of anti-aircraft guns massed around the bridge, and not’ a single bomb hit was scored on the vital invasion gate. One enemy bomb missed the 1300-foot span by inches, splashing water
_ SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1048 Berlin Reports 2d Crossing Of Rhine in Assault Boats
‘being’ pounded to ‘pieces by the
h rE) von Rundstedt who seized the in- heagquarters from the blacked-out
50 feet into the. air in the faces 8f doughboys marching across the bridge. The 1st and 3d armies linked up yelterday around the river town of Brohl, 14'2 miles north of Coblens and 7% miles south of the Remagen bridgehead, forging a loosely-knit trap around ‘five to six German divisions pocketed to the west in the Eifel mountains. The 117th armored division ate tached to Lt. Gen, George ® Rate ton's 3d army sealed off the Nazi pocket with a whirlwind dash of more than 21 miles northwestward from Kelberg to the Rhine.
Tank and motorized ~ infantry task forces of the llth, following up the 4th armored division's breakthrough * near Coblenz,. cap~ tured Mayen, 15 miles west of Coblenz, swept on to take the Rhine town of Andernach and then ade vanced another 4! miles north along the river to seize Brohl
Virtually Ends Resistance
The . juncture between the twa armies cleared virtually all organe {zed German resistance from the west bank of the Rhine for a distance of about. 125 miles from Coblenz on the Mosel to the Dutch town of Nijmegen, except for the shrinking pocket at Wesel, now
Canadian 1st and American 9th armies. Field dispatches from the nowe joined American 1st and 3d army lines revealed a picture of spreade ing chaos and demoralization in the ranks of the pocketed Germans. Cut off from the Rhine crossings and with American armor closing in on them from all sides, the Ger=mans appeared to have abandoned all semblance of order and were.try= ing desperately to break through the southern arm of the trap and escape across the Mosel,
Nazi Division Surrenders
More than 12,000 prisoners were captured on the Western front yesterday, and well over 6500 of them were credited to Patton's rampaging tank columns. At one point along the Rhine a German divisional general, his entire staff and 3200 officers and men surrendered to the 3d army,
Units of the 4th armored division captured Karlich and Ruebenach, four miles northwest and two miles west of Coblenz, and German broadcasts said the Yanks were storming Coblenz itself in a bid to capture intact the Hermann Goering bridge there.
Other 3d army infantry and are mored divisions were pushing out steadily along the northern and southern flanks of the 4th and 11th armored leaders, broadening the salient on both sides of the Mosel and rounding up hundreds of bye passed Germans. The ominous lull on the American 9th army Ss Rhine front before the Ruhr valley remained unbroken until a late hour last night as Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson deployed his divisions for a crossing attempt that German spokesmen said was imminent. 9th Continues Barrage Hundreds of 9th army fleld guns were spreading death and. ruin through the arsenal cities of the | Ruhr as far east as Essen, however, ina tremendous rolling barrage that obviously was intended to blast | a path -across the Rhine for the waiting ground troops.
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| Busses were able to cross the bridge | American men and armor into the again to Bellaire, O. {
The Cincinnati area breathed easy | again. At Louisville, Ky. the task | of cleaning up debris and ree habilitating refugees was being die rected for a long string of river communities. In some places, plants still were shut down, but the watep was receding.
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