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U.S. 10th Army Invades Ryukyu Isles LIEGE EDITION Time Don't forget to set your watch Sorry one hour ahead. The Stars and Stripes will be Double Summer Time came reduced to four pages for a few in this morning. Daily Hews paper of U.S. Armed Forces «5» ^■<-^^^ in the European Theater of Operations days because of a shortage of news- Vol. I—No. 73 Monday, April 2, 1945 print. Ruhr Industries Isolated As 1st. 9th Armies Link Landing Is Tanks, Men Pour Ashore 325 Miles At Japan's Front Door Americans 100 Mi. WITH TENTH ARMY ON OKI- Off Japan NAWA, Apr. 1 (AP)—Streaming From Czech Line; ashore directly in the face of a GUAM, Apr. 1—Veteran Army and rising sun, American troops quickly Marine divisions of the new Tenth established beachheads on this French, 7th Join island, "front porch of the Japanese U.S. Army surged ashore this Easter homeland," today. morning on Okinawa island in the A terrific naval bombardment had torn The great industrial Ruhr was completely cut off from the rest of Ryukyu group—only 325 miles from holes in a sea wall, permitting entry Germany at 1530 yesterday when the Ninth U.S. Army's Second Armd. tile Japanese homeland—in the largest of tanks and other armored vehicles. Div. linked up with elements of the First U.S. Army's Third Armd. Div. amphibious operation of the Pacific war. Troops drove inland rapidly against scant at Lippstadt, 20 miles west of Paderborn. Fleet Mm. Chester W. Nimitz dis- initial opposition. closed the invasion, which was suppor- This afternoon, waves of troops were The American encirclement deprived Germany of its last; important ted by the world's greatest sea force. digging in for the night, while landing concentration of war plants. Gen. Eisenhower had predicted at the Nimitz said that within two and a half craft poured more men and supplies outset of the trans-Rhine offensive that organized resistance in the Reich hours following the initiial landing, a into the coral approaches. Americans rapid advance inland had begun and two camped in a small farm area amid wheat, could not continue long once the Ruhr was lost. Meanwhile, far to the airports, at Yontan and Kadena, had radishes, cabbages and beans. southeast, spearheads of two American peen captured. Equipment was landed without loss of armies slashed to within 100 miles- of More than 1,400 ships were involved in a single landing craft. Hundreds of Czechoslovakia, and the Third U.S. Ar- the operation. The landings were preced- amphibious tanks and landing craft mov- Night Slows mys's Fourth Armd. Div. shot almost to ed by heavy gunfire and carrier planes ed to the shore without opposition. Eisenach, 140 miles east of the Rhine and provided close-up support for the ground The landing was so easy that it looked 160 miles southwest of Berlin. .troops. Strategic support was being given as if the door had been left open for Swift Armor The First French Army, which had Iby shore-based aircraft of the Southwest American troops. crossed the Rhine at Speyer, linked its Pacific and Pacific Theaters and by the ten-mile bridgehead with the Seventh {20th AP. U.S. Army ten miles south of Mannheim, Hundreds of aircraft had been employ- To Short Jab giving Gen. Eisenhower a solid four-army ed to soften the island's defenses and Reds 33 Miles From Vienna, chain covering the greater portion of the they were joined by warships in a ten- By Errest Leiser Reich south and southwest of the Ruhr. day bombardment. Several attacks were Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Thousands of Nazis Trapped made on Honshu, Shikoku and Formosa Get Aid From U.S. Bombers WITH SECOND ARMD. DIV., The ringing of the Ruhr, accomplished to neutralize airfields there. Nearly Mar. 31 (Delayed)—This is the way in four days after sensational dashes by 1,000 Japanese planes were destroyed in Red Army forces rolling forward in Hungary yesterday captured First and Ninth Army tanks, trapped these operations. the armor knifes across Germany. an undetermined number of German sol- Nimitz said the invasion actually be- the stronghold of Sopron, 33 miles southeast of Vienna and 19 miles from It move;, by day and by night. diers as well as depriving the Wehrmacht gan last Monday when elements of the the Austrian city of Wiener-Neustadt, important center of German air- By day, it strikes out in bold, roar- of desperately-needed materiel produc- Tenth Army landed on the tiny Kerama- craft production. tion. ing columns, cutting over the roads at a Retto Islands, west of Okinawa's south- Marshal Stalin announced the fall of Early yesterday, thousands of Germans lorn tip. steady rate. When It hits road blocks caught inside the American trap attempt- C47s Fly Fuel Sopron to the northern forces of Marshal or sectors of resistance it either colls Nimitz' communique said the capture Feodor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Ar- ed to flee before the escape gap was clos- of Okinawa "will give us bases only 325 along the road while a small task force ed. However," the speed of the linkup my, some of which already have invaded cleans out the opposition, or bypasses it miles from Japan, which will greatly To Fast Armies Austria. Other forces of the Third, driv- made it unlikely that any large number an and keeps on rolling. intensify attacks of our fleet d our ing for the Austrian communications of Germans escaped. air forces against Japanese communica- 12th ARMY GROUP HQ., Apr. 1 (AP) center of Graz, last were reported at the At night it's different. The armored Even before the trans-Rhine offensive tions and Japan Itself." —U.S. Annies In Germany have been Austrian-Hungarian border. fingers reach out tentatively In the opened less than two weeks ago, Allied The Tenth Army is commanded by Lt. moving so fast they now have to be Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's Second dark, groping toward towns and roads planes had largely Isolated the Ruhr JSen. Simon Bolivar Buckner and includes supplied with fuel flown in by Ninth Ukrainian Army, advancing toward Vien- and withdrawing quickly with any signs from the rest of the Reich by a program the 24th Army Corps, commanded by Troop Carrier Command planes. na from the east, captured the Slovak of resistance. Then, after an hour or of bridge-blasting which had cut virtual- Maj. Gen. John Hodge, and the Third Brig. Gen. R. G. Moses, Army Group town of Svenc, about 15 miles from Bra- two's wait, the fingers start reaching ly every rail bridge leading into central Marine Amphibious Corps, under Maj. supply officer, disclosed today that tislava and 47 from Vienna, Stalin an- uncertainly out again. Germany. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, veteran marine several hundred C47s flew approximately nounced. Strikes In Darkness Early reports yesterday indicated that aerial operations expert. Gen. Buckner 400,000 gallons of fuel in "jerricans" to The Soviet forces at Sopron were three Last night, after Brig. Gen. "Peewee" the Germans were making desperate commanded the Seventh Inf. Div. which hastily-prepared fields in Germany and miles from the Austrian border. Their Collier's combat command had rumbled efforts to hold the zlg-zagglng tanks drove the Japanese from the Aleutian returned with casualties. operations, and those inside Austria, were over a bridge laid hastily over the and infantrymen of eight Allied armies Island chain off Alaska. Although supply problems have multi- supported by U.S. heavy bombers of the water barrier, it struck out into a no- east of the Rhine. Areas of stiffest re- The Tenth Army numbers perhaps plied quickly with the armies bursting 15th AF, which flew from Italy to attack man's land of blackness. sistance were north of the Ruhr, In the Ninth U.S. and Second British sectors; 100,000 men, and is opposed by a Japa- through lightly defended territory, it was the Maribor rail bridge, in Yugoslavia Moving clong in what you thought south of Paderborn, where the First Ar- nese garrison estimated at 60,000 to reported that no column had had to about 35 miles below Graz, and the St. was the main column, you came in the (Continued on Page 4) 80,000. check its advance so far because of a Pol ten rail yards, 35 miles west of Vienna. dark to a handful of scout cars, half- The landings were made along the supply shortage. Stalin also announced that troops of tracks and peeps and were told you'd bet- southern shore of 65-mile long Okinawa. Marshal Ivan Koniev's First Ukrainian ter stop—unless you wanted to spearhead Nazi Traffic Heavy Indications were that the Americans Army had captured Glogau, in Silesia 55 the whole division push. intended to drive across the island, cutt- U.S. Escort Carrier miles northwest of Breslau, and taken This was the point of the combat com- On Netherlands Exit ing off the well-populated and industrial Sunk, 300 Men Lost more than 8,000 Gejman troops. Glogau, mand's Task Force "A", 1/Lt. Edwin southern section from the mountainous a bypassed German strongpoint, had been (Continued on Page 4) HQ, 12th ARMY GROUP, Apr. 1—RAF Oiorth. ALAMEDA, Calif., Apr. 1 (ANS)—More under attack for weeks. pilots, returning from flights over Ger- than 300 men were lost In the sinking No Room for PWs man-occupied Holland, reported heavy B29s Return to Tokyo of the U.S. Escort Carrier Bismarck Sea eastward road traffic, which was inter- ATC to Fly to Istanbul WITH NINTH ARMY, Apr. 1 (AP) — off Iwo Jima on Feb. 21, survivors who preted to indicate a wholesale enemy WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (AP)—A large ANKARA, Apr. 1 (AP).—The Amer- Valksturm troops captured by the Ninth Jorce of Superfortresses today hammered arrived here yesterday revealed. withdrawal from the eastern Netherlands. ican Army Transport Command operating Army are being set free because there Is There were 400 men In the group of British tactical air units caught con- military targets In the Tokyo area, lt between Cairo and Ankara will be extend- no room for theim in the Jammed PW survivors which arrived by transport ship. voys headed toward the German frontier •was officially announced. Earlier it was ed to Istanbul, as soon as a weather cages. The Army has adopted the view They said that a third of the vessel's crew in the vicinity of Enschede. The convoys disclosed that B29s yesterday attacked station and other facilities are establish- that it Is better to send the men back Nagoya, Japan's biggest aircraft produc- drowned or were shot by Japanese pilots, were of a size unprecedented in previous ed. From Istanbul ATC is scheduled to to their homes since they don't want to tion center. after the vessel had been struck twice. isolated withdrawals from the Nether- be extended into the Balkans. I flgbt anyway. lands, Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, April 2, 194 Army Leaders Ike and Task Force Spurrier GenEisenhowetf Warn Against Tells Germans 'F Letdown Now How to Yield Somebody Please Tell Him We were recently at a German castle WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (ANS)— By Jules Grad with a duchess anFrance. command are to cease hostilities. The A fine does not mean much to the Stimson Thanks Troops units are to be assembled and until average American soldier, especially when Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson | further orders, the present command- in a country like Germany where there voiced gratitude to the troops for a Job i ing officer of each unit Is responsible " is nothing to buy. for the discipline of his men." I Here's a suggestion that would aid the well done, but said the pressure of war : prohibited a celebration. 2. —"Surrender of troop units takes I jenforcement of the non-fraternization place by sending an emissary to the policy. When an officer or enlisted man "In these days of crisis the Army cannot pause to take full part in observance nearest Allied command post, under I is found guilty of fraternizing, send a the protection of a white flag. The ' letter to his nearest of kin stating the of the occasion," he said. "Our efforts Gen. Eisenhower congratulates S/Sgt. J.J. (Task Force) Spurrier, of are directed to pressing home the attack surrender must take place in an order- / facts in the case, bringing to their at- Bluefield, W. Va., first man in the Ninth Army to be decorated with the ly manner and with observance of tention how the soldier is aiding Hitler. on our enemies in Europe and In the Pacific. The pressure must not be Congressional Medal of Honor. military discipline." Even send a letter to his home town 3. —"Units out of contact remain ! newspaper too. relaxed. Gen. George C. Marshall, Army chief under the command of their officers A little shame In the eyes of the home until further orders. The units are. ; folks would make the enforcement of of staff, said the war against Germany was moving "toward the successful con- Home of Leica Camera Taken to be assembled and commanding offi- non-fraternization a lot easier.—Captain, cers remain responsible for the disci- 1 Uord Dept. clusion for which we have worked and pline and supply of the troops under 9£ S£ fought so long." their command until further orders.". "In the Pacific our forces have already Red Hot and How! virtually liberated the Philippines and Intact by 1st Army Armor 4. —"Scattered units and Individual To all Triple A Battalions and FA have been brought to bear against the Wehrmacht personnel report to the rrachine gunners in the Ninth Army: last outposts of the Japanese homeland, By Dan Regan nearest Allied troop unit, while observ- Ihe whole damn bunch off you should go but the urgency of the military situation Stars and Stripes Staff Writer ing the customary signs of surrender, t ick to aircraft identification school. i.e. unarmed, and without helmet, or i requires that we Increase pressure on WETZLAR, Germany, Apr. 1—The huge Leitz factory, home of the web equipment. Collecting points are It's sure easy to tell who slept in what the enemy by every means within our Leica camera, was captured intact by the First Army. c.asses in training. I'd be ashamed to power," he added. along the main highways, and tho- be called one of you trigger-happy bums. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, AAF commander, Employing 3,000 workers, the eight-story factory was manufacturing roughfares." ' When you see an enemy plane you said the fighting men in all branches binoculars, gun sights, microscopes and < The instructions end with a griml never lead, you're always behind. You're were "adding new luster to our military other critical war material only three wanning: damn fools enough to waste ammunition "These above orders take effect imi history and are giving Army Day an days before the town of Wetzlar was cap- mediately." shooting before the target gets in range. enhanced meaning." tured by Gen. Hodges' armor. ETO Magazine Worst of all, damn you, I've seen you StUwell Praises Doughs Within a few hours after the town was saoot at our own Allied planes. Don't Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander taken, AMG men from the 99th Div. had For Servicewomen wy» ^ 1 Folks at Home Send Thes) you know the difference between a P47 rSirlllS Gla Swift News at 8'.] of Army Ground Forces, paid tribute to taken over the plant and were joined lu and a Mel09. the doughboys, saying: "By our bril- " Stork's Arrivals You better wake up or the Air Force later by others from the Second Div. liant, deep cutting armored attacks, by Comes Out Today T»FC Clarence W. Miles, lola, Kan.—Janis Is apt to blow us all to hell just for the fierce, steady advance of our infan- Army engineers Immediately started to spite. Yeah, I'm only a recruit with try and by the shattering concentration survey the plant and its contents. Some Elaine, March 8; Sgt. Eugene E. McBride, Gen. Eisenhower and Mrs. Roosevelt Ravenna, Ohio—Margene Ellen, March 25; twenty-two months combat service. of our artillery—by all these, combined doughs were disappointed because they S/Sgt. Curron D. Davis, Pickens, B.C.—Lowell If you bums keep on fouling up, we with the warfare of a bigger team, we couldn't get new binoculars. However, send messages to American women serv- Kenneth, March 7. yi:ll be jacking empty guns again like We have destroyed German armies, German the army now has thousands of dollars ing in the . ETO in the first issue of QGT. Robert H. Radcliffe, Lonoke, Ark.—girl, did back In training. cities and German hope." worth of valuable lenses and machinery "Overseas Woman," illustrated maga- ^ March .29; T/5 Robert E. Dynes, Brooklyn You're darned right I'm mad, but I'm Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, commander- in perfect working condition. zine for nurses, Wacs and Red Cross —Renee Marie, March 27; 1/Lt. Arthur L. speaking to only you bums in the Ninth of the Service Forces, said the satisfac- The two Leitz brothers were operating girls, which makes its debut today. Hihdley, Monticello, N.Y.—girl, March 27; Lt. Army. That's where I am and that's tton with progress in Europe must be j J^P1^ when AM3 took over. Ludwig Published by ETO Special and Infor- Monte Levin, Brooklyn—Marjorie, March 27; Leitz remained at the plant all day obey- Sgt. Otto O. Pasaneu, Portsmouth, N.H.— where I've seen you mess up the works. tempered by realization that a long Pa- mation Services, "Overseas Woman" Wayne, March 28; T/Sgt. George B>. Tolpo, •—A Red Hot Kansas. cific war was ahead. j ing AMG orders In a sullen, but coopera- aims to be a link with t: home-front; ! tive manner. He spoke English quite Chicago—George Reardon, March 21; Pfo well. His general manger, Maxmilliom a channel oi introduction to our conti- George E. Spange, Forest Park, 111.—boy, nental Allies and their countries, and a March 28; Pvt. John E. Daley, Amarillo, Tex* Wielding,* who had been a London agent —girl, Jan. 7. for 11 years, was with him. He spoke, bond between all American women hH S&T.PICH wimmr dressed and acted like an Oxford grad. stationed here. In the first issue, an article on Hitler's American Forces Network AMG Tours Plant women throws new light on the role Nazi Leitz and Wielding agreed to conduct women played in the war, and Vercors, (First Army) the AMG men on a tour of the plant. French author and illustrator, who 1447 Kc—207M The work starts o.n the ground floor with directed a publishing group in Paris the unfinished glass prisms and proceeds, during occupation, depicts Frenchwomen operation by operation, to the final "Heroines of France." TODAY I assembly section on the top floor—the Fashions of war, military and civilian; 0555 -Opening Prayer. 1530 ■Combat Diary. > same system used in many American fac- book and theater reviews; cartoons, and 8601 -Rise and Shine. 1545 ■On the Record. tories. tips on how women can make Army life 0712 ■Progr. Summary. 1630 Strike Up Band. Because of the American bombing, som 0715 -Song Parade. 1701 Jack Carson. e more comfortable are all in the first 0730 'Return Engage. 1730 Eddie Contton. - of the more vital war work was moved number.' The magazine also contains 0801 -Combat Diary. 1755- Mark Up Map. to the basement which also housed a servicewomen's news from the other war 0815 Personal Album. 1815- Supper Club. ,i part of the town's hospital and iiving theaters, and artieles from the home 0830 -Modern Music. 1905- Novatime. quarters for factory executives during front. 0910 GI Jive. 1915- Orchestra. air raids. 0925 -James Melton. 2301- Duffy's Tavern. Distribution to the ANC and ARC 1001 -Morning After. 2030- Canadian Band. Most of the work In the plant was 3kil hospital workers will be through the 1030 Strike Up Band. 2103- First Army New* led labor and they employed Germans chief nurses of hospital units; to the 1101- Home News. 2115- Top Ten. living In Wetzlar, which has a population 1106- Duffle Bag. WAC through COs of detachments, and 1145- Piano Parade. 2145- Johnny Mercer. of 20,000. About one-third of the workers to Red Cross girls through ARC channels. 1202- Concert. 2201- Home News. were foreign, "slave labor." 1310- Sports News. 2206- Calif. Melodies. "They were very happy here with us," 1315- Movie Music. 2235- Fred Waring. Damson Appointed 1401- Village Store. 2308- Hit Parade. T said Leitz. 1430- Let's Go to Town 2338- One Night Stand* French workers in the factory, however, WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (ANSI.—The 1510- Melody Roundup. 0015- Sign Off. greeted AMG officers with: "Vive les House committee on Un-American Acti- TOMORROW Americains. When can we return to Pa- vities, has named Ernie Damson, 55, Pittsburgh attorney, as Its chief counsel. 0555-Opening, Prayer. 1510 ■Bandwagon. ris?'' 0601-Rise and Shine. 1530 Combat Diary. I Leitz said he was glad the Germans 0712-Progr. Summary. 1545- On the Record. had not demolished hlg plant. Asked if THE STARS AND STRIPES 0715-Song Parade. 1630 ■ Strike Up Band* they had been aware of the trends of 0730-Return Engage. 1700 -Nelson Eddy. the war, both Leitz and Wielding admitt- Published dally by and fo* the O.S 0801-Combat Diary. 1725 -Dunninger. armed forces at the plant of La Meuse, 0815-Return Engage. 1755 -Mark Up Map. ed that they had listened to the BBC -GI Supper Club. Liege. Belgium, telephone Llege Switch 0830-Dance Music. 1815 as well as the German radio. 74 for editorial department, 76 tot cir- 0910-Melody Roundup. 1905 -Music Hall. "Of course we didn't believe either," 0925-Music. 1945--Yank Bandstand) culation department. ICOl-Morning After. 2001- Dinah Shore. Wielding said. "But we tried to balance Contents passed by U.S. Army and 1030-Strike Up band. 2030 Band of the AEF* both stories and reach a decision," he Navy censors. Entered as second class 1101-Home News. 2105-■First Army New»j added. matter Mar. IS, 1943, at the Post Office, 1106-Duffle Bag. 2115 ■ Cass Daley. Commenting on the quick invasion of New York, N.Y., under act of Mar. 8, 1145-Piano Parade. 2145 ■Johnny Mercer. Germany, Wielding said, "You must not 1878. 1202-Concert. 2201 Home News. f Other editions at Paris, Nancy, Nice and 1310-Sports News. 2203 ■Hit Parade. I think that we like having you here. But London, under auspices of Information 1315-Kay Kyser. 2235-Pacific Mnsie. 'J we are hopeful that it will end the war and Education Division Special and 1343-Sound Off. 2308- Front Theater. soon. We feel toward you as you would Information Services. ETOTJSA. 1401-Blondie. 2338- One Night Stand* feel in America if the Germans marched Vol. I. No 73 1430-Swing Session. 0015 Sign Off. "Quiet burg, isn't it. In." x (News every hour on the hour.) _ Monday, April 2, 1945 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS This Happened in America Last Week: Page 3 1 Hurlers Carry Unbeaten Miler Peace Rumors Swept Land Toronto Puts i First-Division Montreal Out | AsNation Counted itsDead Hopes of A's ■^TEW YORK, April 1—-This was the week in which people felt the Of Ice Series J-^ exhilaration of a 20-minute phony peace, but the flood of better (This is the 11th in a series on major and better news kept everyone from too severe a letdown. league prospects for 1945.) TORONTO, Apr. 1—The Toronto Maple Leafs, third-place club in the , It was Holy Week for both Jews and Christians. Churches, chapels FREDERICK, Md., Apr. 1—Connie final standings of the National Hockey; ' and synagogues were full of worshippers with hope and gladness in Mack, apparently satisfied he has a League, accomplished the outstanding their hearts. But on Friday the nation counted its dead—230,541 since Pearl squad capable of doing betjter than upset of wartime professional hockey; Harbor—and realized that for every thrilling headline there were a hundred the fifth-sixth tie his Athletics tragedies. competition last night by eliminating thai achieved last year, has shaved his Among the rumors was one that Germany hoped Japan would sue for World Champion Montreal Canadiens from! roster to less than 30 men and will spend the Stanley Club playoffs with a 3-2 peace shortly so that Germany could claim she was never defeated—just let the remainder of the training season victory, their fourth triumph in six games down by her allies. . v whipping the squad Into better condition. over the Canadiens. The Maple Leaf* It was a global war on the editorial pages, but hometown papers told how The pitching staff looks good on paper will meet the winner of the Detroit- America's war effort came from every community: "Many Georgians, in and is shaping up fairly well In early Boston series in the finals. Rhine Crossing," "Assault' Boats Made in New Orleans Used for Rhine workouts. Loquacious Louis "Bobo" The champions, picked to walk off witU Crossing," "Chicago Paratrooper Leaps Into Germany." Newsom, who won 13 last year, broadcasts the playoffs, got off to a bad start losing " to all who lend an ear that he'll win 20 their first two games, then the fourth In 1945. Russ Christopher is the No. 1 and sixth. The sharp-shooting front Una Spring Wasn't Late veteran on the mound with Jonas Berry, of Dave Schriner, Lome Carr and Gua Y\TE enjoyed an early spring last week. Don Black, Jesse Flores and Car Bchelb Bodnar, and the great defensive skill oUi 1 Washington's cherry trees were blooming and 23 twig-snatchers were the other holdovers. Woodrow Crowson Goalie Frank McCool, enabled Toronto to and Luther Knerr are up from Toronto. outfight and outsmart Montreal in the pinched in one day. The apple blossoms were out in Virginia. Pishing started Frankie Hayes will do most of the short series. in Chicot State Park Lake, La. Tappers were busy in the New Hampshire catching with Lou Parisse, of Lancaster, The first period ended In a l-all tie aa sugar bush with perhaps the sweetest crctj on record. Farmers were afraid and Jim Pruett, of Milwaukee, his Johnny Morris scored for the Leafs anil . the crops fooled by the premature spring would be nipped by frost. That understudies. Maurice Richard for the CanadienSt. Bottt • already had happened with fruit trees at Las Cruces, N. M. Even the staid The Infield Is well fortified with Dick were made solo. Schriner shot the pucK ', New York Herald Tribune, affected by the season, headed a piece about shad Slebert, Bill McGhee, George Kell, Irvln past Goalie Bill Durnan at 7:11 of tha ! being caught unpreeedentedly early, "Shad Mistake." Hall, Edgar Busch and Joe Burns back second period on a pass from Carr, thenj from last year's team. Bodnar put the clincher past Durnan at On the swollen waters of the Mississippi, a house, floated into a Budgely In the outfield, Hal Peck has been Jimmy Rafferty 1:53 of the third period on a pass fron* . (Tenn.) farm, and nobody has claimed it yet. . . A blade snapped off the brought up from Milwaukes, where he Babe Pratt. Emile Bouchard took a pass world's largest windmill on Grandpa's Knob, Green Mountain Ridge, Vt, and swatted .345 last season; Ed Levy, formerly from Leo' Lamoureux for the Canadiens1 hurtled a thousand feet. of the Yankees, Larry Rosenthal, Charley final tally of the year at 16-26. District Judge Herbert Rhoades, of Omaha, came out with an Easter Metro and Bobby Estallella. The A's lost RaffertyWins a lot of power when Mayo Smith, who hit gift to children with the remark: "The trouble ',7ith this country is that we .340 for Buffalo and topped the Interna- have too many bathtubs." tional League batters in 1944, suffered an NagsWillRun attack of rheumatic fever during the Buffalo Race Press Featured Airborne Activity winter and retired for the year to regain his health. BUFFALO, N.Y., Apr. 1—When Gunder TJOTH Time and Life featured Maj. Gen. Matthew Bunker Ridgeway and Haegg, Swedish distance rumer, telegraph- After V-E Day his 18th Corps of the First Vllied Airborne Army, and Newsweek (published ed AAU officials he couldn't compete In a spread on airborne activity. Life also traced a reinforcement from the time A's Belt Tars, 15-7 the feature invitation mile at the Buffalo WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Horse racing, he stood with chalk marks on his helmet on some TJ. S. dock to the day he NORFOLK, Va., Apr. 1—The Athletics Armory last night, because he couldn't blacked out In" the United States slnca went in the line. clubbed out 19 hits yesterday to beat the make plane connections from California, Jan." 3, will be resumed with the defeat TForfolk Naval Training station team, A book called "Cartels" is climbing on the best-seller lists, indicating a little Jimmy Rafferty, who has beaten of Germany, War Mobilization Director, 15-7, scoring six runs in the first two Gunder the Wonder thrice In a month, James F. Byrnes said yesterday. Attribute growing interest in the post-war world. A biography, "Eisenhower," by F.T. innings for Jesse Flores, who started on expressed keen disappointment. But ing the racing ban to "lagging product-! Miller, also is selling well. the mound. Jimmy didn't stop long to commiserate. ion", Byrnes said that this and othefl 1 The fiction best-seller is still A.J. Cronin's "The Green Years," despite He ren a 4:10.9 mile to win the event and restrictions will be re-i the competition of the lusty "Forever Amber." Robert Frost, 70-year-old poet, established a new meet record. moved on V-E Day. has produced another tome, "A Masque Reason," in which biblical characters Vince DiMaggio Ed Dug'gan, Dayton, Ohio, star, defeated ' 'Lagging production! discuss war in terms of the poet's own friendly, skeptical philosophy. Haakan Lidman in the 70-yard high has made It necessarji hurdles and set a new American indoor for various conservation Goes to Phils in record by topping the timbers in 8.3 measures to be placed) Soldier Voice in Peace Debated seconds, one-tenth of a second faster into effect to include al T EGISLATURES of 11 states adopted or were considering resolutions urging than Allan Tolmich's 1940 mark. The reduction In travel, the " Gerheauser Trade Swedish hurdler came back, however, to suspension of racing, al Congress to give absent servicemen a voice in shaping the world organiz- beat Duggan by 18 Inches In the 100-yard reduction In the use of ation to preserve peace. PITTSBURGH, Apr. 1—Vince DiMaggio, invitation hurdle race. Duggan Is the electricity In • night > George Gallup came up with two polls showing that homefront beefing, eldest of San Francisco's famous baseball National AAU indoor 60-yard high hurdles lighting and the closing ; though audible, wasn't too serious. Eighty-five per cent of those polled said brothers, has been traded by the Pitts- champion. of places of entertalni the present income tax was fair, and 82 per cent approved of the midnight burgh Pirates to the Philadelphia Phil- ment at midnight"* ' curfew—but don't think there isn't a lot of beefing about both. lies for Al Gerheauser, southpaw pitcher. James F. Byrnes Byrnes said In his The nation was perturbed about the possibility of a meat shortage, DiMaggio's appetite got him in bad with Orval Grove Joins report tQ tn(j presldent Pirate officials last year and Gerheauser and Congress on WPB progress. although nobody could see why there should be one. has been holding out, "These measures are of an emergency! Distillers warned of another potential shortage—whisky—and in Atlantic dissatisfied with the White Sox Staff nature and, with the exception of the City, proud of its golden-fried pullet, cafes advertised a specialty. "Chicken contract offered him travel measure, should be withdrawn on, necks and dumplings." after he won eight and TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Apr. 1—Jimmy V-E Day". lost 16 In 1944. Dykes, manager of the Chicago White Harry Pharr, president of the Thorougai In Charleston, W. Va., a butcher laid down his cleaver and vowed to try bred Racing Association, said he ex-* something more stable. In 1933 he was out of work because people couldn't Vince's difficulties Sox, lured Orval Grove into a hotel room with the Pirates start- here last night and came out with pected the tracks to resume 90 percent) afford meat—now they can't get it. Maybe he should go to Miami, were they ed over a meal check Grove's signature affixed to a contract, operation within 30 days after Germanj| pay dishwashers $150 monthly plus room and board. presented to the club thus relieving his No. 1 holdout heada- falls. last summer for some che. TN Cambridge, Mass., cops arrested a 19-year-old youth who organized a outlandish amount, in- Grove, who lives in Mayood, 111., joined Len Dodson Ties Penna group of juvenile burglars. He also organized himself a 15-year-old "Queen cluding entertainment the other Sox pitchers immediately. He of the Gang." And in Maiden, Mass., they were looking for a baby carnage tax. The club com- won 14 and lost 15 with Chicago, which At 139 in Durham Golf finished seventh last year. thief—ten have been stolen this year. plained and DiMaggio Someone asked Bob Hope what it was Bing whispered when Hope handed said government poli- DURHAM, N.C., Apr. 1—Len Dodson, of Vince DiMaggio cies regarding tax on Giants Sign Two More San Francisco, shot a par 70 yesterday to Crosby the oscar. "He said, 'Let go'," said Bob. . . Nat Burton, who wrote entertainment were none of his business, tie with Tony Penna, of Dayton, Ohio, for the words of "White Cliffs of Dover" and "Don't Ever Change," died last; LAKEWOOD, N.J., Apr. 1—The New but that be got hungry after night ball York Giants came to terms with Catcher first place in the Durham Open golf week. . . Pat O'Brien was trying to sell studios on letting him make a picture games and it wasn't his fault If music Ray Berres and Infielder Billy Juriges tournament. Each has 139 at the halfwayi on the life of the late Al Smith. went with the meals in the Pirates' hotel. today. mark. Byron Nelson's 69 yesterday put him one stroke behind the leaders. By Courtesy of Unite*. Feature* By Al Capp Others with a chance to cop top honors Li'l Abner were Sammy Byrd, 141; Jim Guantt, 142: Jug McSpaden and Craig Wood, 143; Gens SO YO' IS JH' VARMINT Kunes, 144; Sammy Snead, Joe Zarhardt, WHO TELLY- fcRAPHEb Bobby Crulckshank and Eddie FurgoL, ME T'COME T'NOO YAWK 145. T' PUFFAWM A r-lARRYIN'. • HMM — YO' LOOKS RICH.** Dedicate Field to GI Killed on Belgium Soil CAMP LEE, Va., Apr. 1—Baseball officials, including Ford Frick, president of the National League, will participate in ceremonies here Friday when the camp baseball field will be dedicated to the memory of Sgt. Hank Nowack, former St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher. Nowack, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., and former Camp Lee pitcher, was killed in infantry action in Belgium New Year's Day. 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DUISBERG, Apr. 1 (AP)—Herr By Frank Woolner Reject Soviet Gunfher Knappe, manager of the Curfew, Race Stars and Stripes Special Writer Reichsbank, blustered Into the office WITH THIRD ARMD. DIV., Apr. 1—There are no non-combatants in of the Allied Military Government. the drive which has taken this tank unit to Paderborn in the First Army's The Reichsbank, said Herr Knappe, Ban—Byrnes Bid on Poland campaign to encircle the Rhur. Even the CG, Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, of did not have enough money. He had 2,000,000 marks but 500,000 must be WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—The nationwide Denver, Colo., engaged the enemy—with his pistol. WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Political obser- paid in pensions to Wehrmacht widows midnight curfew, ban on racing and On a lonely stretch of road near Rehe, the Germans had been flushed vers today said hopes that the San Pran- and family allowances. A larger sum brownout will end as soon as Germany isco World Security Conference would from the roadside into a nearby cemetery when Rose and his driver, T/5 Glen was needed by local firms to pay wor- is defeated, War Mobilizer James F. Byr- Shaunce, of Albert Lea, Minn., and Maj. Robert Bellinger, of Brooklyn, came pen April 25 In complete Allied harmony nes announced last night. lave received a setback in the form of kers' wages along. Why, coaxed Herr Knappe, could he He defined V-E Day as "the day we ta dispute between the Soviet government A second jeep, carrying Col. Frederic Brown, division artillery officer, of not Ue allowed to print emergency cur- are advised by Geh. Eisenhower that or- flDn the one hand and the U.S. and Britain rency to be recognized by the Ameri- ganized resistance of the German Army Britton, S. D., and his driver, Pfc A.C. Brazeal, of Flint, Mich., was close at %>n the other. cans? has ceased." hand. 1 Soviet demands that the Warsaw govern- Added Knappe, threateningly, "If However, Byrnes held out no hope for The five men, armed only with tommy guns and pistols, engaged an ment of Poland be permitted to send people do not get their money, there an early increase in food rations—parti- delegates to San Francisco have been cularly meat, predicting the available estimated 15 Germans. By the time an armored car and two motorcycles rejected by Washington and London, on wlU be a revolution." arrived, 12 of the enemy had surrendered. The Reichsbank has been closed. supply would drop and demands increase tithe ground that the Warsaw regime has in 1945. Rose helped herd the prisoners with his .45. faot been reorganized according to plans In his second report to President Roo- 'approved at the Yalta conference of Presi- sevelt and Congress on war mobilization dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and conversion, Byrnes said American tlftnd Premier Stalin. Pilots Down factories would be free to produce almost Warm Sunshine Yanks Seize Moscow radio stated that "the Soviet a third more civilian goods within nine J government has informed the U.S. govern- months after V-E Day—a slower conver- Marks Easter in ajment that it expected an early reply to 79 Nazi Craft sion rate than had been anticipated last |0the proposal concerning the invitation of fall. He added that munitions deliveries Negros City would drop 40 per cent within a year ^"Poland." Ninth AF flew 564 fighter-bomber Most of States U.S. Hopes for Solution after Germany's collapse. sorties, striking enemy transportation MANILA, Apr. 1 (ANS)—The 40th Inf. This brought from a State Department The report was submitted "with high Div., moving so fast that the Japanese and airfields on the Western Front yes- hope for an early victory in Europe, mix- NEW YORK, Apr. 1—Easter was sunny official in Washington the comment that terday in weather that curtailed heavy were unable to explode prepared demoli- ed with profound sorrow at the sacrifices and warm in most of the States except the proposal has been rejected by the bomber operations over the Reich. tion charges, have captured Bacolod, ca- U.S., although hope is held that it may which must be made to accomplish this for scattered rain in Texas and the Tactical pilots destroyed 44 enemy pital of Negros Island, Gen. MacArthur be possible to have Poland represented victory and to defeat Japan." northern Rockies. announced today. planes and damaged 35 in attacks on He said unemployment after Germany's Prayers and tributes for soldiers and at the conference by a government which MacArthur also reported that land- airfields in the Kassel and Mulhausen defeat would be "temporary in nature, ' veterans keynoted the day In thousands meets the terms of the Yalta plan. based planes, continuing their blockade areas. Thirty-five more planes were because the "tremendous backlog of ci- of communities and military installa- The British Foreign Office summed up downed over Austria and Czechoslovakia of the China coast, destroyed 14 Japa- vilian demand with savings, including tions. Its reply to the Soviet proposal as—"No." by 15th AF fighters, bringing th day's nese ships, including three destroyers. e war bond holdings at a total of 140 bil- Col. Alfred OOliver, Jr., Army chaplain The Russian broadcast asserted that bag to 79 destroyed. reorganization of the provisional Polish lion dollars, should quickly provide em- recently freed from a Philippine prison The 40th Div. seized Bacolod (papula- government as provided at Yalta cannot ployment." camp, participated In the Arlington tion 50,000) Friday, second day of the Partial industrial conversion after Ger- Cemetery services he originated 15 years invasion of Negros. Only three Philip- be completed in the "near future." The British Apologize many's surrender would mean more au- Yalta agreement was that the Warsaw ago. Soldiers at Ft. Benning formed a pine cities of comparable size—Bagulo tomobiles and refrigerators for civilians and Legaspl on Luzon and Davao on regime, successor to the Moscow-sponsored For Hague Bombing living cross in the post stadium. and "perhaps a small increase in the On Easter eve in New York, a double Mindanao—remain In Japanese hands. Lublin Committee, was to be reorganized basic gasoline ration," Byrnes said. rainbow, appared In the east. MacArthur reported aerial attacks In such a way as to include members of LONDON, Apr. 1 (AP)—Netherlands Despite his prediction of heavy food against Baguio and Legaspl, and said •11 Polish democratic factions. government officials said today they had demands next year, the war mobilizer In particular, representatives of the received from the British government a said "we will not be hungry and our American troops had driven closer to Baguio. remnants of the pie-war Polish govern- "handsome apology" for an accidental diet will not be deficient. We must Meat Plant Shut ment which has been exiled in London bombing of Hague, March 3 which, they tighten our belts a little." He added MacArthur announced that more than throughout the war were to be includ- said, killed 800 Dutch civilians, wounded that "we must prevent disease and 300,000 Japanese had been killed in the ed in the reorganized government. This 1,000 and made "a great number" home- unrest in areas where American troops By 10-Man Strike Philippines October. exiled government is still recognized by less. are stationed." the U.S. and Britain as the legitimate Polish regime, but Moscow has no | NEW YORK, Apr. 1—A strike by ten relations with it. men in the power plant closed the Swift Armor — Allies Were to Help Ruhr Industries Isolated — Armour packing plant at Kansas City, (Continued from Page 1) The Yalta plan was for a committee (Continued from Page 1) Kan., yesterday and all gates were pick- composed of Russian Foreign Minister eted. The plant employs 3,500 workers. Riggs, of New York, explained. A recon Vyachislaw Molotov, and the American my's Third Armd. Div. was battling fluid front, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch An Army Quartermaster Corps spokes- platoon of the 66th Armd Regt., they »nd British ambassadors to Russia— against a dug-in foe; and In the vici- shot infantry and armor of his Seventh man said deliveries on government con- had stopped to Interrogate civilians at respectively W. Averill Harriman and Sir nity of Kassel. Army south in a new thrust. The 63d tracts had ceased. Government inspec- this crossroads town to find out what Archibald Olarke-Kerr—to bring the At the northern end of the Western Inf. Div. pushed south of Heidelberg tors entered the plant and super- lay ahead in the night. Polish factions together in a single go- Front, Canadian troops drove northwest while other armor and infantry forces visors remained inside to insure refige- vernment that would be recognized by ail into Holland, presumably the region from nearer to the Rhine licked up with ration of the meat stock. To the left of the road a sleepy civilian, opening the door to a blackened three of the dominant United Nations. which German V-bombs have been troops of Gen. Jean de Lattre de The Army said refigerator cars were house, said that up ahead wa a bridge, Following its assertion that the new, launched against England. Tassigny's First French Army at Hochen- waiting to be loaded with 300,000 pounds s prepared for demolition and guarded by Unified government cannot be formed In The news blackout on the Ninth U.S. heim, ten miles south of Mannheim. of meat for shipment overseas. Home of Krupp Industries time to name'delegates to the San Fran- and Second British Armies, pushing east six or seven German last-ditch defenders. The Ruhr, home of the great Krupp Reason for the strike In the power There was a gun emplacement near the cisco conference, the Moscow broadcast above the Ruhr, was still in force last plant was not given. said exclusion of the Poles from the war industries, is the largest and most woods up ahead to the left. night, but Reuter reported the British In Detroit officers and stewards of the Conference would be an "unfair and were 70 miles beyond the Rhine. potent of Hitler's arsenals. The other Cars Go Ahead principal industrial areas were the Saar United Automobile Workers Local 154 •.bsolutely unjust insult to the Polish German Radio said the British were at and Silesia. voted to end a strike which has kept Riggs called a couple of his men over. people." the edge of Munster, due north of Dort- Russian armies cut off Silesia last 13,500 Hudson Motors plant workers idle "This is the way we'll work it," he The broadcast pointed out that the mund in the Ruhr. U.S. and Britain should have no objec- winter. The Saar was over-run last month since Wednesday. said. "We'll send a couple of vehicles Meanwhile, armored spearheads of the tion to the attendance at San Francisco by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U.S. Third dashing ahead down the road to try to of a government which they have not First and Third Armies were driving on and Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's U.S. surprise them. Then the rest of the recognized, since Russia has agreed to Kassel, key communications center on Seventh Armies. Mussolini's Rescuer platoon will follow." the participation of India, Bolivia, Pa- one of the main roads to Berlin. With his forces battered west of the You waited along the road a little, and raguay and other nations with whom the Unconfirmed New York reports last night Rhine, Field Marshal Albert von Kessel- Reported in France the rest of the recon moved hesitanly Soviet does not have diplomatic relations. put the Third Army tip only five miles ring had made a supreme effort to pre- up. Then the rest of the armored co- Nazis Exploit Opening from the city. vent a link-up between Hodges' First PARIS, Apr. 1—Capt. Skhorzeny of the lumn, half the men sleeping in their The new development in Big Three The announcement that two American Army with the Ninth and Lt. Gen. Sir Nazi SS, who participated in the rescue seats and the other half trying to see relations came closely on the heels of the armits were only 100 miles from Cze- Miles Dempsey's British Second Armies of Mussolini after Italy's surrender in through the night, moved up. choslovakia was made at SHAEF, but 1943, is "somewhere in France," the Moscow announcement that the Soviet in the Paderborn sector. You didn't ever fear how Riggs' pla- there were no other details. However, delegation to San Francisco will be head- Both of these forces were speeding Paris newspaper Ce Soir says. toon would make out. But other reports ed by Andrei Gromyko, Russian Ambas- the Third and Seventh Armies previously across the plain north of the Ruhr. Publishing Skhorzeny's photo under the had been reported in Bavaria, striking filtered back that a "column, Identified sador to the U.S. rather than by Molo- In desperation, Kesselring had thrown caption "Have You Seen Him?" the news- transport, all lights showing," was being tov, whose presence would add to the toward Czechoslovakia from the Wurz- paper asserted he is "reported to be in burg area. SS reserves, tanks and SP guns into strafed in the road ahead. prestige of the delgation, observers said. Paderborn to keep open this vital road Paris Just now" and is being "actively German propagandists seized on the The enemy was battling hard in sought" by civil and military authorities. Nothing materialized. At four o'clock center as an exit for the estimated ten the order to pull off into the fields came. dispute to trumpet that the San Fran- spots near Aschaffenburg, where the U.S. He was described as "corpulent," six feet Seventh Army's 45th Inf. Div. was still divisions now trapped amid the blast Cisco conference threatens to collapse furnaces and rolling mills of the Pitts- three inches tall, with a saber scar on the Then came the order, "Mount up on even before it begins. fighting for the town. the road—we're moving east again." On the southern flank of the great, burgh of the Reich. left cheek. By Milton Caniff Nazi Tea Party Ends Terry and the Pirates By Courtesy of New Syndicate

In GI Shooting Party SEEM HEALTH V... AND I THINK IT ONLY JUSTICE^ F'BOT WE KNOW THE YANKEES HAVE1 Koo WITH 17TH AIRBORNE DIV. EAST ESTABLISHED A RADIO-BEACON TO TELL>OU THE IMPERIAL A6EOLTUEAL BUREAU OF RHINE, Apr. 1—The sonndness of NEAR. THE INDO-CHINA COAST.' C5UAECS ON THIS ESTATE WERE FOLD TO EXPECT THE AKMV TO tfey AND SPY ON THESE £XPE»MENT5...|/V£ the Army's non-fraternization policy BY A PEOCESS OF ELIMINATION was proved to the satisfaction of three USE HERB POISON ON TRESPASSERS. JT IS ONE Of OUR- WE KNOW IT MUST BE air doughs of the 17th Airborne Div., LAgORATORY TESTS...A HORRIBLE, LIN6ERIKS P£ATD...j ■who became suspicions of a German invitation to tea and cakes. The men were members of the 194th Glider Inf. and bad Just finished clearing their third house when offered the Invitation. They posted a fourth man outside the house to cover them. He noticed the 13-year-old youngster of the house slipping out to warn Nazi soldiers hid- ing In a haystack. The ensuing fight resulted in liquidation of the tea party and proved the soundness of the policy.