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A Wolly Sizeup by the Washington Stel of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers

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of letting Japan emerge partially intact, capable of coming back industrially. Japan would count on continuing economic penetration of China. . = =» . 5 =u Bretton Woods Meets Difficulties ; BRETTON WOODS agreement on-world turrency stabilization and

reconstruction—first major step toward post-war collaboration—ist|

running into trouble in the house banking and currency committee. Here's the picture: As the agreement came out of last summer's Bretton Woads® ‘meeting, it was pegged on two main sections—an infernationad<fund to stabiiize cirrencies and an inter- 8.8 » national bank to aid world recon- TOUGHEST PERIOD’ struction. Each would have a kitty of about 10 billion dollars, with the U. 8. contributing about three billions to each. State and treasury departments have gone to bat for the plan in Capitol Hill hearings; the American Bankers’ association has sought to whittle it down. Briefly; the bankers would accept the reconstruction bank, but would have the same agency handle currency stabilization — and with the overall capital at 10 instead of 20 billions. Today's size-up by friends of the agreement places most committee Republicans against it as it stands, and they probably will have other votes with them; looks as if the committee might line up 13 to 12 against accept-

heavy duty tires must be stepped up. Experts say wasting rubber by

civilians still improper

are in-

35-mile maximum speed. Meanwhile cars going Into Junk yards at rate of 4000 a day will put extra burdens on transportation systems. » » 5

Wallace Man

Henry Wallace's favorites, , 18 department, He's now bureau fiscal analyst, was in agriculture department long before Wallace, under Republican retaries. Watch for other Wal-

for car owners. Civilian tires are | street, going to be scarcer; production of { mobile.”

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slated for high post in commerce su budget |

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W. SIDE PEPER FATALLY SHOT

§ Allison Foreman, Father of

Two, Dead.

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neighborhood,” Syverson told police after the shooting. “For the past three nights somebody has been peeping into our windows and last night I decided to wait for him. I heard a car pull up in front and saw a man get out ahout 10:30 o'clock. I saw him [look into several windows, then I saw his face in our bedroom window.

{to shoot, firing two or three times.

ahead I saw the prowler run across the auto-

then. fall "into his

Mr. Syverson said Craig told him and Ralph Sharer, Edward Barnaby and Reed Wallen, Berwick st

residents, that he been looking into

flation of tires, failure to observe the windows on the street for the

past three or four nights. Anderson Craig came here with his family

two years ago from Anderson. His|

“I was in the kitchen and started |

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| the main weight of our attack will fall. Waiting Was Tense My crossing of the river was almost am anti-climax after the days and hours of tense waiting. In the hours before the kick-off possibly the world’s greatest ar{tillery barrage had crashed down on the Nazi positions across the river, flattening their strongpoints around the defenders’ heads. But as we crossed the Rhine ‘it was deathly still, Only the quiet lap of the water against the sides {of our boat could be heard. Later | there was a burst of small arms fire all around but none seemed to be coming our way. Pick Up. Prisoners

THE. INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Eye-Witness: Assault Boats Chg Across, Spill Troops on 'Berlin Bank' of Rhine

men swung down the dirt road while the jeeps and trucks turned back to the assembly point to await their priority urn for rafts and bridges.

Heard British Barrage

Our battalion was well ahead of schedule, A couple of miles down the road we halted. “And through the stillness we could hear the sulleh, distant and continuous rumble of the British 2d army, barragé that started’ fat midnight.

At 1 a. m. on the nose the 9th army's massed artillery roared into action with a-deadly time-on-target salvo that crashes down with precision every few minutes on the trans-Rhine objectives. Between these crescgndos came the bark and growl of individual guns, firing

singly. Windows on the nearby houses, rattled and the K ground trembled | | perceptibly. But it didn't satisfy the infantrymen. The infantrymen | are never satisfied. : They Were Wrong

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cocked. The colonel grabbed the lugér and the doughboys took the disarmed German forward a few paces where he persuaded a second German to surrender in his pillbox, I spoke to the prisoner in German and he said there were three more Germans in the pillbox who might or might ‘not surrender. We called a couple of times but the Krauts were lying low, “We “got business,” sald one doughboy. "Let ‘the rear echelon pick them up.” » So we continued down the em‘bankment. In a shelter the battalion commander got A and B companies rounded up and learned that C company was still assembling at the river's edge. Against the kindof resistance we had met so far it seemed that two companies would be enough, al{though the battalion was now on its own, swinging out ii flank and scrimmage line beside the battalion which crossed ahead of ws. A company and then ‘B eompany, followed by the command post,

They growled that the barrage wasn't sustained enough to kee down the German machine gunners and artillery. As it turned out the]

|wife and the two children, a girl expected to be the first German line | infantrymen were wrong.

11 and a boy 2, survive.

He had been a trusted employee yas the capturing of some stunned’ again. DR. LOUIS H. BEAN, one of |at the Allison plant and had a pass | prisoners,

leave at will, plant] ards told detectives. The body will be taken, to the [Baker Bros. funeral home at An-

derson for services and burial.

{to enter and

[still active

| of resistance. All that happened |

From a railway embankment be- | vond us and from both our flapks| there came the occasional chatter | {of machine guns. And snipers were | in the darkness be- | {hind us. But the famed German artillery |

At ‘2 a. m. we started forward, And the infantrymen had] | the answer to their complaints. The | barrage really started - into high. The roar was so continuous that you had to put your lips to a man’s | ear and yell to make yourself heard | above the thunder. “ The ground was shuddering under the shock of the explosions and |

ing the stabilization fund as of

AIRMEN CALL RHINE

lace men to turn up in key

in a forthcoming com-

{and even the bristling Ruhr valley | | the sky was lighted by huge flashes the |

crossed the . embankment and {fanned out on the ‘other side. Still there was no resistance. Small arms fire reminded me of! {the snipers and I decided I had | ' better get back with this dispatch | before daylight gave them a chance | to pop away at me.

SKY TROOPS NOW IN REICH TRAINED HERE

Troop carrier command airplanes | and gliders which dropped thou-

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PARACHUTISTS STRIKE RUHR

Hundreds Are Seen Floating Down to Battle.

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confused when we approached the bridgehead.

I kept minute-by-minute notes, however, which showed we flew over the wreckage of what once was Xanten at 11:05 a: m. No Enemy Planes We didn't see a single German plane over enemy territory and we were very happy about that, It had been expected that the Luftwaffe might make a desperate effort to break up the airborne landings with Nghters, Suddenly, I heard, “It won't be long now,” and I grabbed for my crash helmet, which I should have had on long before. Looking out, I could see a clearing so filled with collapsed parachutes that it was hard to see any ground betwen them. Right at this point we heard the first flak, There was a short concentrated burst of what: probably was machine-gun fire, mingled with what sounded like riflecracks. We were plenty low to be vulnerable to that sort of fire. Sat on Flak Vest It is not a comfortable feeling to | sit crouched as I was on half a flak vest spread on the floor as armor, | peering through a window literally | down the German's throats,

This airborne show is Using “1500 |

today. places Administration people are wor- | merce housecleaning. ried; say there's danger that the | 2 2 8 first test of U. S. co-operation . . 2 with the world may go against Presidential Bug? . them; urge that modification will SENATE CLOAKROOM gossip mean rejection by other nations, | says presidential ambitions have Already they compare this fight | smitteh Senatdr Harlan J. Bushto that over ‘league of nations. field (R. 8. D.). G .O. P. scouts talk of Bushfield-for-President |

3 - = n Harmony Goal movement in Midwest. The ex-governors fight against |

OUR DELEGATION to San “confirmation of Aubrey Williams

0 i§ trying to assure harmony among members in’ both {as rural-electrification head; plus administration - inspired attacks

deed and word. They'll be unfettered for the next month. but | on Bushfield for accepting eastdelegates have agreed that after | ern millionaires’ financing - in sessions open, none will make | campaign, could have presidential statements for the press until | implications. : after these have been cleared % & = through a central control agency. GOVERNMENT ISN'T taking That agency will not edit state- | any active part in the important ments, but it will give all a chance | coal-wage negotiations going=<on to see what's being said before the | here (deadline a week away), but words appear in the papers. all the same it is the powerful background force that is driving

= s = . THERE ‘WILL be a lot of talk | mine operators and John L. Lewis at San Francisco about the voting”| toward an agreement. system in the united nations or- Neither side wants to risk anganization, as agreed upon at | other federal seizure of mines, for Yalta, but it will be approved. this time government control More ticklish, however, will be | might be maintained until the

| flak guns were opening up with only occasional fire in the sector

{where I am writing this dispatch. Earthquake Bombardment

which he flew “came home over ou mans S20 ToujIE soto the most terrific ground battle I|'8 Tiver e at p

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BATTLE ‘COLOSSAL’ |

that seemed to tear apart clouds of smoke. | Front in Flames | After the first few moments of the intensified barrage the German | positions are wrapped in great

sands of airborne troops across th | transport planes. That is "aside p 8 | from the thousands of escorting

|carrier command, with headquar-

| | |

lever hope to -see.” Capt. Louis Wieser, Hammond, Ind, a Liberator crewman, said

flames and a dull red glow marks | the German lines, The infantry moved across the] flat ground, completely devoid of

The outfit I jumped off with crossed the stream an hour later {than_the neighboring 9th army unit That gave

|hundreds of allied fighters were Just to the north of us. | diving and gunning over a “tre-|Us the benefit of an extra hour of

‘mendous-battle® __legrthquake bombardment of the! “The ground surface east of the Nazi positions. . Rhine was covered by planes that| But we had also figured that the looked like gliders,” said 1st Lt.|Germans facing us would have an Charles Shimm, Bartlesville, Okla. joxira hour ‘to get ready for our Observers at Folkestone said an | attack. Whatever they did with hours-long glider tow force flew that hour they didn’t use it to brace over the straits in brilliant sun- |themselves. Perhaps they used it shine. Fighters darted around |t0 Withdraw to the east.

cover. It was guided by white tape! on the ground. The moon, nearly |

full, was beginning to be blooded t the doctrine and training developed

by the haze and smoke. The col- | umns closed up with a distance of only five to 10 yards between the men. Silhouetted against the glare of] the fires we moved like a strange | snake-dance past German farms.

Rhine and behind German lines | [this morning were trained, rehearsed and sent out by the I troop

ters at Stout field, Brig. Gen. William D. Old, commanding general, announced. “The immensity and effectiveness {of this new airborne attack,” Brig. | Gen. Old stated, “are the results of

here in Indianapolis.” He said this fourth major troop carrier attack in the European theater “confirms our belief in the | deadly precision of this newest weapon of the allied military might.”

fighters, the fighter-bombers and the mediums, lights and heavies prepared to plaster the battle zone. This was the first time in combat that C-4T's simultaneously towed two gliders, and the first time that two “serials” or squadron formations of glider-towing C-47's flew together on the same mission. “Good luck” was the word-of every airman, every-.infantryman, every ground man who sent us off with the hope - that today’s operation would mark the beginning of the final battle of Germany. No Wishful Thinking

But these troops, carrier men and glider infantry were old hands at

their flanks in strong force. One observer said the air formations spread over .a wide area, and it appeared that “thousands” of planes .were overhead. They included two-motored and- four-mo-tored tow planes, in formations up ! to 50, flying wheeling protectively overhead. Harry + Hickingbotham, United Press correspondent at Folkestone, |

low with Spitfires | pull back everything but outposts

When daylight broke over the Rhine it was obvious that the main Nazi forces have not gone into action. May Be Manpower Crisis Possibly the desperate German manpower crisis has forced them to

‘along the river and to hold their main forces further back for a possible counter-attack when the pat-

We moved through a bank of| “Though still black smoke, still rolling northward {troop carrier-airborne operations from yesterday afternoon's air at- | nave become our most effective tacks and came ahead of the ar- weapon of surprise.” tillery belt. Now we could hear | Glider pilot training of the troop the machine guns pumping away carrier command is carried out at and the dry cough of the heavy the Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air mortars. : base, Maxton, N .C., the only school

in their infancy,

war. They know too much about -it to indulge in wishful thinking. They were prepared for a tough battle. I watched them huddled on wooden benches in a barn-like building takes notes through an hour and a half briefing Friday afternoon.

They were expectant but not

Looking for Holes of its type in the country.

The enemy shells were more au-| Other troop. carrier command

tense. There were some wisecracks, but they approached this first air-

dible, too, and at each halt the | training bases in the United States |

{borne invasion of Germany in a

the problem of fitting regional agreements—such as that set up at the Mexico City conference for, this hemisphere—into the general united nations erganization. Hope of home leading American delegates is that the problem can be settled this way: If there is a flare-up in the Western Hemisphere, for example, first efforts to settle it would be immediately made by the nations of this hemisphere. ‘Only if they ‘were unable to quiet the trouble would main organization be called on to help. They hope thi&t in any. region, local troubles can be settled locally, and united nations organization called upon only in rarest instances.

¥ 5 ” Wait Taft's Views MUM TO date, Senator Taft of Ohio will disclose his views on 8 ‘world peace organization in a major senate speech prior to opening of the San Francisco conference. (Taft is chairman of the senate«G. O. P. steering committee). While he has been vigorously anti-administration, the senator's friends expect him in the end to be on the side of whatever is agreed to at San Francisco. He has family precedent for this. His father, William Howard™F Taft, fought side by side with Woodrow Wilson for the League

reported: “Crowds gathered on the. sea front beginning at dawn to watch

end of both wars; operator cir- 5 cles fear it might even be permanent.

Great Britain talks nationalization of coal mines and first steps in that direction have been taken. Operators don’t want to bring about a situation here which might precipitate it. And as for Lewis, his experiences- in dealing with government .as nominal .employer have not been completely to his liking, = s 2 -

sweep across the channel.

over this town on-any one. set of operations during ‘the last five years of war. Ruhr Blasted

“Without exaggeration there must {have been thousands of planes going - out since dawn over a very short stretch” of coast.” Front dispatches said allied planes ‘blasted 30 target§ in and ] {north of the Ruhr yesterday, and barriers: Four legislatures have |dozens of towns and villages blazed increased size or” weight limits like torches all night on motor vehicles so far this year | In the day's first announced —Arizona, North Dakota, Ten- [strike by. the American heavies,

nessee, wyom ing. |more than 850 fighters went along | 2 =» | STATE DEPARTMENT and railroads have taken step to make

transportation available for dele-

Trade Barriers SCORE ON removal ‘of state

on escort duty and to patrol over | northwest Germany, It was the fourth straight day of

ihe biggest giz armadas of the war | I never | have seen so many airplanes pass |

| barks.

térn of our offensive bécomes clear.| MeN glanced around trying to spot But there are guarantees that the S0me handy hole or dif just - I { Germans won't be able tg mount a|°35¢: . ° ; - | counter- -attack as fast as we build Finally, came an. yncomfortahle up our bridgehead. A walt in the open for our turn to| First of these is the great width 8° across. The storm battalion | of our assault. The second is our Jumped off at 3 a. m. in two waves. overwhelming air and artillery ef-| We waited for their boats to ref ‘hi i urn. 0%, Wen has isolated the assault Finally, guides led us on the dog And third is the speed with which trot across the last couple of hunour troops are pouring across the| dred yards up the dikes and down Rhine and plunging ahead into the | ithe other side into-the boats: : interior We were lucky. Our motor caught L The 9th army isn't waiting for on the first pull and we were on navy craft, ferries, barges, bridges, jour way across the Rhine.

{ he crossing was strictly antirafts, infantry support weapons—o T. oy anything. ¥ Suppo P z |climax. Both banks of the Rhine

It is storming across 'as fast as were a pandemonium of noise but the racing storm boats and asasult | 1° pve joes was Suter There Vas craft with outboard motors can| y ® ghugsing npise .0 e

shuttl motors and the slap-slap of the ® between the two Rhibe(yosis null against the waves.

Some Delayed

And a ‘minute actually seemed det like 60 seconds instead of hours, as

Hiding in Villages The assault went like tihs:

aerial assault on‘ the Ruhr and-its SIroRs. The processions continued thour on hour, rivalling and perhaps Dy those of D-day. During the night, R. A. F. heavy| {bombers smashed at German troops Only those with state depart- oo Tr a hint i " ment approval may travel—and Dank of. ihe Rhine north of the} only delegates, correspondents Rubr ‘va Ss er formations! sng others Officially corinected f oe hs 5 a pe with ti 1 All be. ap. 10 pe = to Se SOplerese Wi Se 4p [block-busters on ‘Berlin for the 32d Only fast, direct-route tras straight night. are invol Ived, though. Would-be

travelers west from Chicago may follow a roundabout route with W M N BADLY HURT |

gates to the San Francisco cons | ference by freezing space on trains {rom Chicago to the Gol den Gate from April 17 ti ough | April 23,

For the last two days or so we have beeh billeted in hiding in {hamlets and villages half a dozen miles back of the river, w aiting with {our vehicles and weapons for D- -day land H-hour, About 10 p. m. after the men have finished a late supper, checked and re-checked their equipment, they

I had expected. . Some units were delayed in getting off and when we got to the west bank it was no longer a’ cohesive battalion as we joined up on the sandy beach bank for the .march inland. Small groups punched in ahead with the rapid crouching, round(began strapping it on. Trucks are|shoyldered stumble of the infantryrolling up to battalion headqaurters. man—not sure what was ahead and Headquarters personnel took the | expecting fire any moment from any [as deep drags on their cigarets, |direction. | crunched them out under their| There was plenty of small arrhs | heels, climbed into the trucks and| fire all around but none seemed to

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|are located at Bergstrom field, Tex.: {Sedalia Army air field, Mo.: George field; Ill; Baer field, Ind; Pope | fileld, N. C, and Lawson field, Ga.|

SEES BRIGHT FUTURE IN TELEVISION WORK

Television may become a 10 bil-! lion dollar: industry after the war in 'the opinion of Dr. C. B. Jolliffe,

vice president tn charge of — thet”

RCA-Victor division laboratories. The Princeton, N. J., executive spoke last fight at the World War memorial to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the In- | stitute of Radio Engineers in Indiana. Citing a bright future for elec“miracles,” Dr. Jolliffe pre-| dicted that such innovations as frequency modulation in radio reception “may entirely revolutionize our Me He also predicted a widespread | use of civilian ‘“walkie-talkies” whereby persons will be able to contact each other in all circumstances by simply ‘pressing buttons. The research expert thought {it might be possible to replace our present communicative wire systems with a network of radio transmit=!

{ters spaced 25 to 40 miles apart and

“carrying messages simultaneously; through the ether from coast to coast.”

‘| serious business-like: manner.

| automatic {and supplies, including plasma.

‘MUNITIONS OUTPUT

| —The war production -board re-

When the chaplain, Capt. Sumner W. Johnson of Terryville, -Conn.,

opened the briefing with a- prayer,..

{ every one of several hundred pilots, | crewmen and paratroopers bowed their heads.

Different Uniforms:

” re was an amazing variety of |

It seemed that every man | Many.

hing. Plot an individual costume.

were stained from head to foot with. ..

grease and oil It didn't look like a church con-| |-gregation, but I sensed more re-| ligion in that barren barracks than| in any cathedral- I ever have | visited. 2 It called for skilful maneuvering to get safely into the air the scores of planes, each tugging two gliders (ladenswith airborne troops. Some of the gliders carried two jeeps. Others had British sixpounders. Others artillery and weapons, ammunition

UP 20 PCT. IN MONTH

WASHINGTON, March 24 (U.P),

ported today that American assembly lines hit their stride last month and turned out munitions most needed -at a daily rate 20 per cent higher than in January. On top of ‘that, all segments of the munitions program that were

of Nations.

IF THIS RAMBLES, BLAME THE SPRING

Mom went down to city market to buy some meat and came away with a sweetpea nosegay instead.

Sis, outfitted in pink and blue, may have just been. unable to cope had her picture shapped in front of | with the situation. the monument with her serviceman | date from Oswego. Kid brother is turning over in his Ie mischievious mind the possibilities of S0ULh of Mainz and 142 miles southgetting the car for tonight, |east of the Wesel bridgehead

Pop stood around in the backyard! About 150 Germans were quick for awhile staring at what he hopes! rounded up in the firs may be a victory garden, then went | down into the basement and mulled aver some fishing tackle Later, he might go down to the | corner tavern for a bock beer, but! they won't have any. It's another | Over the bridgehead nor do war casualty. {Streaming along both Anyway, it all adds up to:spring| | dirt road from the river saw and even the wet weather report German soldier today The Weatherman R. M. Williamson put {man army had just vanished out~today shouldn't dampen your| 4Today the cross ne i is rap: spirits. It said: ferrying “Showers tonight and tomorrow. | river Blightly warmer tonight.

REPORT SCOTCH AND

{ out hindrance

Patton Thrust Sends Germans

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Berlin placed Patton's er in the Oppenheim area, 10

sing

few hours after the crossing, but that apparently was the end of the opposition - Foe Vanishes = Neither airplane spotters wh nnoyvs sides of a

one

point on any Boats are moving -in every | direction and only the smoke from

a nearby town is giving evidence of war, ;

Our artill tood by d g BOURBON STOCKS LOW OR ana, pieoy tre oo) i

NEW YORK, March 24 (U.- P;y. Mans at the slightest provocation. —Diktillers warned today that the but if: never arose and they did| nation ill face one ‘of its worst little shelling. While ‘Patton's feat was ‘accomLiquor Industries, Inc. said | plished with about no opposition, Scotch and bourbon will be practi | officers cautioned against over-opti: cally unobtainable because bourbon mism. =.

Stocks were 40 per vent less ta

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r “Republicans are on trial in In-: tere erst iana and are striving to give the ROTEL i DIES [state an exemplary administration,” 401 N. Arsenal said Mrs. Pern Norris, reporter of | '| the supreme and appellate

normal and importation of Scotch |

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Mrs. Dora Gaddis Delaware st.,

pavement “at nsylvania sts “The driver, 16-year-old Angelo | Venezia, 608 S. East st ' excited because he had just taken | his br other to the navy, recruiting | ation at the Federal building and tarted up suddenly as Mrs, Gaddis was crossing with the light. He was charged with ing aud failuretp give a pedesthe right of way. Mrs. Gaddis Methodist hospital with a

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INTO LUZON HILLS

MANILA, March 24 (U. P).—|

4 | Japanese troops were reported fee. |

ing into the western Luzon hills today before American 33d division forces which overran Naguilian and | its airfield and thrust to less than | 10 miles from the enemy strotgs. {. Baguio, Naguilian, which had a prewar’ population of 15000, was taken | against only minor resistance. Its airfield provided another base for Douglas MacArthur's bombers which sank or damaged 11 more {Japanese ships, including two destroyers and a minesweeper, in new attacks through the China sea. Baguio, former Philippines summer capital, is headquarters for

Japanese forces in the Philippines. EE —————— i p—|——— ——— a

DON'T OVERPAY TAXES « NEW. YORK, March 24 (U. P.)).— ‘William 8. Webb, district: supervisor for the state department of taxation and finance, told stet# income taxpayers today to be certain Hot to send too much money in with retur

omobile ar i knocked 10 feet on |

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reckless |

the first small column was, rolling toward the Rhine in the dense blackout. “Timed to Split Second Everything hal been timed to the split second. As the lead car passed the company area, the woods, thickets and | barns erupted with more trucks and Jeps, joining the procession until the whole battalion was in line, It took only a few minutes to drive to a point four miles from | the Rhine where the battalion dis{mounted from the trucks and began the last march-in,

be coming in our direction. Orders Advance

We got to the shelter of an embankment without event, The battalion commander with his walkie-talkies man and a couple of colored flashlights for signalling, ordered one company to advance. The colonel and a couple of men decided to take a look ever the embankment. As we neared the top a helmeted figure rose in silhouette against the sky -and snapped al challenge in German: “Who goes there?” The German didn't even have

In a long column of twos the

his luger out of its holster, let alone

Montgomery:

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a parachute army, 5th’ panzer, 15th army and the 7th army. The 1st army further to the south is now. being added ‘to the list. b

“In the Rhineland battles the | 150,000

enemy has ost about prisoners and there are many more to. come. His total casual«ties amount to about 250,000 since Feb. 8. “In the East the enemy has lost all of Pomerania east of the Oder, an. area as large as the Rhineland, -and three more German armies have been routed. Russian armies are within 35 miles of Berlin, “Overhead allied air forces are pounding Germany day and night, It will be interesting to-see how much longer the Germans can stand it. “The enemy in fact has een driven into a corner and he cannot escape. Events are moving | rapidly. Complete and decisiv of the Germans

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“The 21st army group will now cross the Rhine, The enemy pos-° sibly thinks he is safe behind this great river obstacle. We all agree that it is a great obstacle, but, ‘we will show the enemy that he Is far from safe behind it. “This great allied fighting machine composed of integrated land and air forces will deal with the problem in no uncertain manner.“Having crossed the Rhine we will erick about in the plains of northern Germany, chasing ‘the enemy from pillar.to post. The - swifter and more energetic our action the sooner the war will be - over and thatris what we all

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CONFIRMS JOLSON’S iia so, WPB said, despite the fact PLANS TO MARRY that practically everything went

| wrong—floods, manpower shortages, LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 24] [sudden production changes and (U. P.).—Mrs. E. F. Galbraith today | some “bad” nusiance strikes, | confirmed reports that her 21-year- - — old daughter, Erle, was about to become Al Jolson's fourth wife. Previously Mrs. Galbraith had declined to comment. But today she admitted hearing a month ago of the 56-year-old comedian’'s desire to wed her brown-eyed, black-tressed daughter, a budding movie actress.

CHEMISTS TO MEET Martin Share of the Allison division’ of General Motors, will speak on “Ethylene Glycol” at the luncheon meeting of the American ‘Chemical society at..the Warren hotel next Tuesday, March 27.

SCHOOL 40 GETS FLAG The schools-at-war flag was presented Thursday to pupils of school ‘40, 702 N. Senate ave., by William A. Evans, director of war service activities for Indianapolis public schools.

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such he parcélled out origifial beer wholesaler franchises as part of the

Democratic spoils when they took .-

over in 1933. The wholesalers ase sociation is predominantly "Democratic. Plan to Re-Apply

In displaying a “co-operative spirit,” the Indianapolis wholesals ers have decided to re- -apply for licenses in - April, then bide their time while waiting for the G.O.P. to “get things lined up.” Mr. Fitzgerald said both Repube licans and wholesalers realize that, under present conditions, any shakeup of the beer distributor business would “involve many complex factors.” Although the factors weren't specified, they includé WPB and ODT restrictions against new coms petitive businesses and transportas tion facilities and the availability of equipment. The new alcohol tax structure has also complicated mate ters, especially where the imporse tation of outstate beer is concerned.

Political Reports Political reports hereabouts have it that some Republicans are seek ing to get into already-established beer wholesale companies. Firms dropping out of the state wholesaler association here were listed by Mr. Fitzgerald as: Advance Beverage Co., Best Beers Distributors, Capitol City Supply Co.,, Dunn Beverage Co., Universal Beverage Co. Klee & Coleman, Purdy Parsons and Barney Beer Distributors and the Marion Coun« ty Beverage Distributing Co.

EUROPEAN VETERAN COMMANDS VESSEL

Lt. (jg) Harold H. Bredell, son of Mrs. Flora Bredell, 4740 College ave; has been appointed commanding officer of the U.8.8. LSM 462, commissioned this week at Great Lakes, Ill. A veteran of the European war,

tt Bredell is a member of the law

firm of Miller & Bredell. His wife and two sons reside at 130 Berke ley rd.

SPEAKS BEFORE ROTARY Dr. John G. Benson, general secs retary of Methodist hospital, will speak on.the subject, “A Layman Looks at Medicine,” at the meeting of the Rotary club at 12:15 p.m, Tuesday at the Claypool hotel,

OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY

The Past Noble Grand club of Myrtle Rebekah lodge will observe its eighth anniversary Monday, Members have been requested to bring cookies for the U.8.0.

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