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dn favorable terrain. “fhits" were compelled their own bridges and roads + » Our advance was a continuous mass of material: relentlessly gweeping ahead like - an ‘ava- + janche. Thousands of motorized vehicles: were rolling. en several lanes on ‘4 dozen parallel highWays, ' Luftwaffe Shuns Daylight 3. Around the clock hundreds’ of fighters, bombers ands assault plands swept the. skies. Flres blazed everywhere, The artillery ‘eahnionade did not cease for a “Engle minute, Motors’- roared “yer our headt carrying tons of i deadly gifts westward. a The Luftwaffe also was active, dropping parachute flares over our lines. But they dared to fly only at night. our air superiority being so everwhelming. +* *PHere was great enthusiasm *‘améng our Soldiérs as they drove “within sight of their four years’ tgoml. Their lips burned with one word, “Berlin,” Two days ago at 6 p. m, I stood “of the eastern edge of Bernauy, in * the course of that night Bernau eR igang our tank foyces were ordered to. proceed. Corpses Litter Road

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numerous rifle and tanks djvisions protecting the Nazi capital : Suddenly an unparalleled barloosened the enemy posi= tions. Hundreds of planes simultaneously © dropped their bomb loads. Guns of all calibers standing hub to hub covered the field as far as. I could see. I.saw the first group of prison= ers, all of whom told of the hys-

| -terical appeals of their command- { ers to fight to the last drop of

blood and under no circumstances admit the Russians to Berlin. The characteristic feature of this offensive has been the secret concentration of forces, the skillful establishment of overwhelming superiority, the seizure of initiative, and the -development of progressively stronger massive blows from land and air All men and officers today smashing into Berlin know allied troops also are uninterruptedly marching eastward: The more fiercely the enemy guns thunder, the more savage the opposition, the more passionate is their desire to end the war, Copyright, 1048, by United Press

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44 DECATUR SENIORS. Sense, Nof Politics, Dictated Leaving Berlin fo the Reds |

|The Rev. Alfred Backus. will give]

RAILROAD EMPLOYEE

WILL GET DIPLOMAS By DAVID M. NICHOL, Times Foreign Servile Writer. |Patton south towards Regensburg; Seldom have two independéht KILLED UNDER TRAIN Til Russian entry into Berlin ahead of the western:allies probably re- and the Danube, Ty campaigns been so integrated. | IN |

Forty-four graduates at Decatur flects less high politics than common sense on the part of sominanders, The Red army faced a similar | Capture of Berlin itself has symCentral high school will Ther mais aim Bl end the war in Europe as quickly as possible and | problem when it reached the Oder bolic more than military value— i with as little sacrifice as is necessary. lo ite Berl , rticularly since. the punishing diplomas om nt : ys opposite Berlin late in January, pa rly e I g oma In rummeneIIe | Even through censorship, correspondents have been able to make | “poocimable it too could y. Jpn of early February which seem was dead today from injuries re= cises at 8 p,m. today i the schoo plain that U. S. 9th army forces could have crossed the Elbe river. Per- {plunged on and, perhaps haves to have destroyed those portions of ceived while. switching freight cars : haps they could have made prog-! =~ NNN rr ; 4 | central administration machinery in the N. Y. C. West side yards.

! . ; {reached Berlin. : ; tess in the drive on the reich cap- blunt fact ‘that the central pore { which had survived five and a half| pellow employees said Mr, Fergu« ital. ¢ [son apparently slipped to the rails

[tion of the allied line has been By tts eager Jaye Jeagtied the| years of war. far i rive .. (hard way that the Nazis are tough Do repondenia Seno 8 In 18 Ge nko Ge ook: aoe Tie BN of the Red amy was Under mong ca he bd. nh Jare 2180 Dou sanih the Nazis have powerful and | Toe, secured their flanks north| ang it got the go sign. our i, lifelong resident here. Mr. bial bride chend. a armed forces, 13; Stein ard SOUL mom, to the The juncture between the, west- | Ferguson was a member of the aver the Elbe] (Yc . We Americans to have gd- gp zechoslovakia.| allies and the Russians at best Trainman’s union. The body is at river near Mag- vanced on Berlin would have been | And for two and a half months | will pe ticklish, delicate business. | the Conkle funeral home, 193¢ W. deburg Ww as a spectacular gamble. Its results they massed men and equipment for| yt will be much” easier achieved if Michigan st. : smashed by a) 00d have been horribly costly ihe big push, lone force is holding relatively sta-| Survivors include his wife, Hazel; German. counter- | '*9 it failed. | Russian preparations tied down! ble positions. two sons, Ernest of Indianapolis attack. | Allied commanders have shown large portions of what remained | To have stormed Berlin simul- and Carl, a serviceman in the The second—: they were aware of this situation by of .the German army and made it| taneously from both sides would Philippiies; and a sister, Mrs, near Barby a lit- by their reluctance to press across impossible for the Nazis to transfer! have been suicidal. | Gertrude Besson, % tle: farther souih ihe Ihe This po is idioniey by Szeable units to the defense of the, Another praétical consideration is eided tak ho Russians. shogld Nr Ae sli ir the decisions te turn Fie arshal | West. | that Berlin falls entirely within the ussians Am uaa ert, Sapnenfield. ==his S¥panded only sugistly: in-ten Montgomery's armies north to the The allied advance from the |zone of Russian a Mh as out- Dave the opportunity to take the Murihe, Nase, Yin Wesley gays: . : great port areas of Bremen and Rhine made it equally difficult for| lined at the Big Three conferences. 2°88 they Will hold in the future. ren and Doyne Woliver Behind the apparent delay is the Hamburg, and the 3d army of Gen. the Nazis to re-inforce the Oder. Allied commanders may have de- | “Pi ie Chioagn Daily News Ine.»

A veteran of 33 years with the New York ‘Central railroad, Claude N. Ferguson, 57, of 1445 King ave,

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gymnasium. President W. G.. Spencer of Franklin college will give the principal address and Hollis Adams,| principal, will present the diplomas. |

the invocation and benediction. Graduates are:

Bailey June Barbara Bray, Cecil Bray, Brown, Clara Butcher, Pat Cochran, Rosemary e Cass,’ Carol Cox, Louise ' Virgil Doan, Robert Dorrell, Roland Dyer. | Doris Frazier, Margaret Frazier, Ralph Helen Hamilton, Glen Hied, Emma | 1 Evelyn Horner, Nathaniel rjorie McCay, June McDafe, | Morris Mills,. Virginia |

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was reported Oslo radio. It said th taken &* “gr stricken city's Show 8S Stockholm i ported the e and the trapr bers of the N: to witness th davastated ca The Nazis Adolf Hitler fense of Berl tainted with ties. Soviet fron defenders of beginning to up, In one 600 men sur: Russian and ers were ems of the centr: the Red arm All" account desolate wast organ Red 8 showing So through rub where not: a |

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but the tanks smashed on with- shot in the arm yesterday with one An Izvesti : out air support. contribution alone. chaos and c ® 1 rode a jeep right behind the | M. A. Morris of Morris Brothers the German. tank column which entered the Co. 447 E Washington st., gave 5 where the * northwestern ¢ity limits of Ber- (decks in memory of his brother, some semblal 1in. The whole @dy panzers burned Jack A. Morris, who gave his life f by terrorism. "like torches and leaps of Ger- his country in Nov. 1943 Red Star s ‘man corpses littered the roads. And delivery of the cards to dreds of Rus At practically each halt there |hearby military hospitals was put the Stettin a were heavy barricades, which into actual operation yesterday as and demolish tank-borne sappers demolished 500 decks were presented the Red engine and I under murderous enemy fire. All Cross at Billings general hospital. | on the Berli the roads-and fields were densely = The drive closes Saturday so drop Gas | mined. - - ul that extra deck at “the public Gas plants 1 inspected Col. Grekov's battery, library nearest your home out Panzers which opened fire on Berlin at —,—————r avenues, and 12:30 p. m., shelling bridges span- GATES T0 ADDRESS inipassable, a ning the Sprea and the 8tettin ent said.

REAL ESTATE BOARD

Governor ‘Gates will address the

Zhukov's ta fantry broke

northern railway stations. At 12:40 I was told the vans

guards had broken ‘into "the |Indianapolis Real Estate board at railroad into northeastern limits. of Berlin in the luncheon meeting at noon | north, east a the Weisensee district: Taik- Thursday at the Hotel Washington | They now x men reported by Jadio that prac- | Wendell M. Hicks, president, will the city, ble tically every step’of Berlin's cen- he. in charge of the meeting and out nests of tral streets was barricaded. Ger- Henry E. Ostrom will introduce the Volkssturm r mans were firing Mitensely from |speaker. Carl G. Seytter is in and hideouts the houses. charge of program arrangements. Boviet. artill On high buildings dominating — — after row of the capital's skyling, tankmen Some 50 n unfurled the Red flag. SCHRICKER TO SPEAK! the north I saw the massive preparations | service id, which preceded the Berlin offen- | AT CHURCH DI NNER Servite Pi sive. In the past few days, I wit- | Former Governor Schricker will } the area of nessed great masses of military ddress the congregational dinner! .. of Stettin,

tomorrow at 6:30 p. m. in the] University Park Christian church. |

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In the area of the projected The dinner is dedicated to the’ “The Sovi blow were concentrated-hundreds |father-son relationship. = Music and Sm———— of giant Stalin and some Sher- Other entertainment are scheguled. man tanks and an extraordinary | ~ quantity of artillery. Thousands LUNCHEON SET FRIDAY of motors roared at the Oder The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the.Orcrossings. der of Rafiway Conductors, Divis- STR Heavy tanks and self-propelled 00 103, will" holds covered ‘dish guns blanketed the jumping off lunchéon Friday at the home of place on a small patch of land Mrs. George Dienhart, 32 N. Arlingon the west bank of the Oder. oP St The battle. for {his bridgehead | : We : ‘ JOHN COs 8 i reged furiously for many days. | OHN COSSELL STRICKEN 1" . Ps | John Cgqssell, after whom Cossell Passionate to End War ird. was named, suffered a stroke At some. pqints the width. of yon a W, Washingion streetcar tothe bridgehead did. mgt exceel QEF Hawg 12 and was takenrto - ‘three kilometers. Facing us wefe 'his home at 4836 Rockville rd. > ae a 4 LS ve vod )e v A i. *