Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1945 — Page 6

"3d Amy my. 120 Miles F rom Berlin: 9th at Weser River

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southwest of Berlin, and were closing east on Erfurt, 130 miles from eneiny capital. Mr to th¥ north, the American Sth srmy’s ‘second armored divisiop broke loose on a 20-mile run eaft or the Teutoburgér forest to teach the Pied Piper town of Hamlin on the west bank of the Weser < There they were 232 miles

woithwest of Hannover, Germany’s

128h, city, and. 157 miles due west of 0. 8. 5th armored division

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United Press War Correspondent Robert Richards reported that authorities in Gotha were preparing a headquarters there for a oth army, shifted to Field Marshal number of German “big-wigs” en Sir Bernard. L. Montgomery's 21st|reute frpm Berlin when American afmy group command during the | tanks broke into the town. battle of the Ardennes last Decem-| The unknowh Nazi dignitaries) ber, had been transferred back to might already be trapped in tlie byGen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th army passed ‘city of Fisenach, 18 miles group. | west of Gotha. A small hand of 88 The shift brought well over|troops was still fighting “inside 1,000,000 troops of the U. S. 1st,|Eisenach early today with a fanat3rd, 9th and 15th armies under|icism that suggested a prize more Bradléy's direction, giving him the valuable than the city wdS at stake. largest field command in American! Richards said the German .com- | military history. | munications and supply system

was no “sign of a major Germany attempt to break out, Gen. - Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters revealed that the U. 8.

the Biitish-Canadian advance was going ahead so rapidly that many German towns webe untouched. At some points the British rounded up newly-arrivéd German troops from Denmatk who still were waiting to be issued weapons. Nazis Abandoning Holland? The sudden German collapse west of the Weser river pointed up reports brought back by allied fliers that the Gérmans were abandoning all of Holland and northwestern Germany ahd falling back for a last stand behind the Elbe river, which loops back within 43 miles of Berlin.

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at Uffenheim, 36 miles west of the | Nazi shrine city, Fifty miles to the southwest, {he 7th army's 100th infantry division | broke into the northern and west-| ern outskirts of Heilbronn on both sides of the Neckar river, There | the Americans were only 23 miles north of Stuttgart, which already was menaced by French 1st army troops who captured the Rhine city | of Karlshure, 36 miles northwest, |

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Moving on Erfurt throughout" the 3d army frdnt apThe 4th. division’: Was moving | Feared to have broken down ‘com-

against Erfurt, 130 miles southwest | RS Row otf Pattorr’s of Berlin, after capturing the air- : craft manufacturing center of Enemy Forces Spli¥ Gotha, 13 miles to the west. Fourth| THe enemy forces were reported armored columss Also were riding|split up into isolated bands, many | Sanu on the Prankfurt-Liepzifi-| ot them out-of touch with their | Dresden, supehigh vey unin 1) commandos and edhced 0 besiing other units of the division took| food and supplies from _openlyOhrdruf, seven miles south of | hostile German farmers. At.many Gotha. points, including Eisenach, the Ger-

imans appeared willin 1 The 11th armored division was on | | the Ep fight, Re Tuning)

{and perhaps across the Werra river| in the Ahlstadt area, 27 miles south of Gotha and little more than 60 miles from the northwestern corner

toafille. Unoonfifmed reports said | vin 50 miles of the Ems estuary, [°F Osechosiovakia. The 3d army captured an. estiOn the 4th's north flank, two|mated 4000 prisoners yesterday, ruh«

the Tommies. crossed the 80-yard-wide Wesér in a strike for og Canadians Push Ahead tre | CONTI of’ the 6th armored raced | ning its bag for the past two weeks| 43. miles to the northwest. fox i iiidjan 1st ester Hank oa hele 2 miles to enter Musi {to 83 000 captives—almost onelal ( i V . 3 German resistance was melting jo cceral Sono against stiffen-| The 6th: division was ‘crowding taken br - the allied Armies in| away _pefore the: north-bound Brit- ing opposition. Late dispatches saidiclose on the heels of a Nazi ti "0p YRS porto : ; ; . ish’ and on the Canadian Ist army they were actoss the lower Rhine column retreating eastward with Mh. Paes Waeraburs {sont farther to: the east, where St and west of Arnhem 22 miles 3000 “allied prisoners ‘of war, and|{ On 3d army's southern flauk, D@minion troops won a new cross- or less from the Zuider Zee, there was a possibility the Yanks|the American 7th army captured ‘ing of the Twente canal and ad-| An advance to the Zuider Zee overtook the cqlumn in Muenj- jw uerzburg, 62 milks northwest of vanced six miles bey. ond to eapture | would split and trap perhaps 50,000 hausen. Nuernberg, and sent tank columns | Almelo, yermans along the V-bomb coast Nazi Leaders Trapped? stabbing east and ;southeast-of the “The fall of Almelo cut one of the|to the west. There also was a possibility that|city. soldiers worked for 40 minutes fo two main railway lines still open to] Another 150,000 Germans were a number of high-ranking Nazi lead-| There was no confirmation of &|féscue her from a raft in the At-| the German 25th army in western |pocketed in the Ruhr basin to thelers.or mémbers of the German high|Radio Atlantic report that the Tih [antic ocean. Helland, south. American 1st and 9th army|command were trapped or in im-{army was only 28 miles from| She Was playing on’ the raft on United Press War Oorrespondent {troops were grinding steadily intojminent danger of capture By the|Neurnberg.- Latest field dispatches the Staten Island beach when 1 Richard D. . McMillan reported that!the trap from all sides and there{rolling 4th dtyision. ‘placed the closest A American forves| drifted out to sea.

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22 mirline miles orth of n, 32 miles west of Hannover afd 174 miles west of Berlin. X winding 40-mile stretch of the Weger's west bank extending from north of Minden to south of Hamlin. was in American hands. Front i tehes, telling of collapsed Gerresistance, indicated that a

Headquarters spokesmen cautioned, however, that there has as yet been no’ definite evidence of a Nazi evacuation on that scale, be yond the aerial reconnaissance reports of a large German transport movement eastward from Holland and the Bremen area. The conibined British and Amerifulscale drive across the river was | .,, forces at Minden were only 52 impénding, miles south of Bremen and 97 miles Beyond the Weser, the northern | yest of Hamburg, Germany's road to Bern lay wide: open for | two largest ports. They were in poa stretch of ‘aimost 100 miles back | sition to drive across ‘thé Weser and to the Elbe river. | northward against the seaports or British airborne troops raced 36... for Hannover and Berlin. miles east of captured Osnabrueck er British forces to the west to. Join the Americans at Minden, | were advancing rapidly northward and wheeled northward seven miles| oth sides of the Ems river

worth guest, the child, were” the maids night when Miss Hutton threw a party for her personal maid, it was revealed today, And after the party was over, Miss Hutton and the Baroness pitched in and did the dishes, an employee of the heiress said. Guests ‘at the party were 50 maids, butlers, chefs’ and valets. The party was given for Miss Hutton's maid; Simone Chibleur, who was married to Harry Leach, the heiress’ chauffeur for a -dee= ade. . Champagne, a -huge cake and all the trimmings Served.

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were stranded far behind Patton's armored vanguards and: were being | mopped up rapidly by supporting | American infantry,

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