LIEGE EDITION Today Is THE mm Today Is D+298 Daily Mews paper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations D+298 Vol. I—No. 71 Saturday, March 31, 1945 Allies Closing Ring on Ruhr Reds Seize Hodges' Left Hook Flanks Ruhr Bocholt I 1st Army, British Danzig and 45 U-Boats Only 55 Mi. Apart; Marshal Stalin last night announc- ed the capture of Danzig, with 10,000 9th's Armor Loose prisoners and 45 submarines, and the seizure of five Nazi strongpoints in Complete encirclement of the Ruhr appeared imminent last night a» a 31-mile breakthrough along the tanks of the First U.S. and Second British Armies were within 55 mile* north bank of the Danube east of Vienna. of alinkup northeast of the last great industrial region of the Beich. Berlin announced at the same time that German troops had given up their The Germans were rushing armor and self-propelled guns into the hold on the west bank section of Kustrin gap in a desperate effort to block the junction, but latest reports said the, on the Oder, 40 miles east of Berlin. Allied spearheads were still unchecked. Hitler's troops also yielded their last foothold east of the Oder at Lengenberg, Meanwhile, Ninth U.S. Army tanks broke out of their lower Rhine northwest of Kustrin. Evacuation of the bridgehead and drove east, but their farthest advances were screened by neighboring bridgehead of Zehden, 28 security silence. The exact location of the British tanks was not disclosed, miles northwest of Kustrin, was announc- but the First Army's Third Armd. Div. drove into Paderborn, more than ed Thursday. Moscow dispatches,, meanwhile, made 90 miles due east of Wesel, and last night was pushing on toward a junction witM clear that Stalin's order Thursday night the British. announcing "liquidation of the German grouping encircled southwest of Koenigs- Heavies Hit Ninth Armored Near Kassel berg" did not, as first Interpreted, mean To the south, meanwhile, other armor* the capture of the East Prussian capital ed units of the First and Third TJ.Sj city as well. Naval Bases Army drove northeast toward Kassel, OB) A United Press dispatch from Moscow the road to Berlin. The First's Ninth Armd. Div. reached! said: "Though the capture .and annihilat- Twenty-three hundred American planes ion of 130,000 men southwest of Koenig- Fritzlar, 15 miles from Kassel, which put struck a triple blow yesterday at Ger- it more than 100 miles east of the Rhine sberg hopelessly isolated Koenigsberg, its Stars and Stripes Map by Brown garrison showed no inclination to surren- many's northern ports of Hamburg, Bre- and less than 200 miles from Berlin* Encirclement of the industrial Ruhr appeared imminent last night as First U.S. men and Wilhelmshaven. der, and Koenigsberg, like Breslau and The Seventh Armd. Div. was at a point Army tanks drove northward info Paderborn and armor of British Second and Fourteen hundred Flying Fortresses 25 miles from Kassel. Danzig, will have to be taken street by Ninth U.S. Armies smashed east from lower Rhine bridgeheads. Meanwhile, street." and Liberators, escorted by 900 Thun- The Third Army's Fourth Armd. Div* First and Third spearheads pushed northeast below Kassel, while another rolling against slight resistance, reached The first of Stalin's two orders last derbolts and Mustangs, composed the Third Army tip was beyond Main River in Aschaf fenburg area. Lauterbach, 35 miles south of Fritzlan night said Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's Eighth AF armada which attacked during and 95 miles east of the Rhine, and drove northern wing had forced the Hron and the afternoon. • ' At Bremen, B17s hit at the Deschimag seven miles northeast in the deepest Nitra Rivers north of the Danube and announced advance by the Third Army* captured Kormano, Nove Zamky, "Vrable, Shipbuilding Yards, where submarines Germans Blow Up Bridges Third, First Armies Join Suray and Komjatice, all 50 to 55 miles are built, and a highway bridge being east of Bratislava. That portion of converted for rail use. The Third Army's Sixth Armd. Dir. Kormano south of the Danube already B24s bombed the naval yards at Wil- reached Treysa, 30 miles southwest of was in Russian hands. Almost in Tankers' Faces helmshaven, long an Allied target from Kassel, and linked with the First Army** Ninth Armd. Div. Polish Flag Over Danzigr the air. Recent reconnaissance photo- By Frnest f.eiser graphs showed a large number of craft Encirclement of the Ruhr would bag The second order, addressed to Marshal at Wllhplmshaven. one of the world's greatest concentration* Konstantln Rokossovsky, disclosed the Stars and Stripes Stiff Writer The Blohm and Voss U-boat Yard and of war industry as well as more thaw capture of Danzig, "an important port and WITH AN EASTBOUND ARMORED SPEARHEAD, Mar. 30—Ninth ten enemy divisions left to defend it. first-class naval base," and announced a petroleum storage depot were the Ham. Army tanks have cut loose and today are rolling across Germany in the burg targets. In seven days, the Allies east of the that the Polish national flag had been general direction of Berlin. At dawn, after riding all night, the tanks Ninth AF yesterday sent 700 fighter- Rhine have gained control of an are*) hoisted over the city. Besides prisoners the size of the state of Delaware. ; ' , reached a water barrier only to find all bombers against enemy tanks and gun and submarines, the Russians toojj 140 The east bound Ninth Army tanks bro- the bridges down, almost blown up in positions while 275 medium and light tanks and self-propelled guns and 356 ke out of the bridgehead Thursday night artillery pieces. their faces by Germans scurrying across bombers raided tank and motor transport and were still rolling late yesterday., Of Marshal Peodor Tolbukhin's advance Royal Navy the plains in retreat. repair depots. Blown bridges checked the armor mo- Into Austria south Vienna there was While the rest of the spearhead toiled Twenty-ninth TAC pilots attacked ene- of mentarily, but lack of strong resistance little news. Moscow dispatches said he at the edge of the water course doughs my airfields and Ninth TAC flew 200 was moving toward Vienna alorjg at least RaidsRynkyii from an accompanying infantry regi- sorties against motor transport and rail- enabled the fast-moving spearheads te five highways, closing in on the Wehr- ment crossed the remains of one bridge, yards. (Continued on Page *) macht's main supply route from Vienna flushed out the Nazis from the eastern to Italy* and also the Vienna-Graz railway, GUAM, Mar. 30 (ANS>—Adm. Chester approaches, and made a a secure bridge- supplying troops In southern Austria and W. Nimltz announced today that the head for the engineers coming- up. Yugoslavia. British fleet struck its first blow of the Less than four hours after the infan- Races RightOff the Map war at the Japanese island empire Mon- trymen crossed, engineers had laid a day and Tuesday, adopting what some tank-bearing Bailey across the broken By Ken Zumwalt i Burgomeisters Guarded observers termed "revolutionary methods bridge, and the armor rolled again. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer of operations" to do it. The tankers got off to a slow start last After Aachen Slaying- night on traffic-choked roads filled with HOLZHACSEN, Germany, Mar. 28 (Delayed)—Dog Company of this British planes flying from "some of armored reconnaissance battalion is well out in front after racing'90 mile* AACHEN, Mar. 30 (UP)—Every burgo- the most powerful ships In the British other advancing units as well as their meister behind the American lines in Navy" blasted airfields in the 3akashi- own. But by midnight, armor, the half- in a little more than 60 hours, but that's about all tBe CO, Capt. Herbert ma group of Japan's Ryukyu Islands, tracks, Jeeps and trucks bringing up Zimmerman, of Wttliamsville, N.Y., knows about his position. occupied Germany in First and Ninth Armies' Jurisdiction has been placed j along the southern approach to the supplies were roaring steadily across the Holzhausen is somewhere in the Hesse-Nassau district, but just where under constant guard. mainland. moonlit, thin clouded and rain-swept fiat land. Zimmerman can't tell because he's outrun his maps. This follows the "parachute" assassi- The attack indicated a marked change Dog Company took out after the Germans early today and passed: nation of Pranz Oppenhof—the first di- from previous methods of supply. Never By dawn, the forward elements had rect Nazi reprisal against a German na- before has the British fleet used a float- hit the water barrier where the Germans through five villages before reaching Holahausen, largest place the company blew the bridges, one only a few minutes tional actively cooperating with '.he ing supply train large enough to permit has entered since it left Altenkirchen. Allies, according to a German radio such long range operations. before the first of our vehicles reached it. Another bridge went sky high as one The district is mountainous and many of the towns have steel smelter* broadcast, .which said Oppenhof's death Meanwhile. Tokyo reported at least 500 of our patrols was crossing. One man and railway terminals. There was a large mill at Oberscheld, while a* ■was ordered by a Nazi tribunal. carrier planes had pounded southern Ja- was killed and several were wounded. Herrnberg there was a large railyard and several intact freight cars. pan yesterday. Those Germans who remained behind White flags fly from windows. At Trigenstein the streets were filled Nimltz' communique disclosed that 20 sniped at the advancing Yanks from the See Any Newsprint? Japanese aircraft and one small coastal with civilians. Wallenfels was just a wide place m the road and Bottenhor* edge of the water course. was little larger. S&S Is Short Again vessel were destroyed and several damag- The decision was instantaneous. Get ed, and that the town of Ohama in the (Continued on page 8) At Holzhausen Zimmerman's trooper* were cheered as they passe* The Stars and Stripes is short of Sakashima group was left aflame. through—the first time they've been acclaimed since their race across newsprint again and urgently requests The British task force, including the Nurse Draft Bill Okayed France. There were many Poles and Russians—forced laborers—in the Information as to where some can be 35,000-ton battleship King George V, the streets here. Out to greet the company was the burgomeister, whe Is not m picked up. In the past, information 23,000-ton aircraft carrier Illustrious and WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (ANS)—The party member according to his school teacher niece. Holzhaosen'* popula- from units in the field led us to a other carriers, is commanded by Vice Senate Military Affairs Committee today Adm. Sir Bernard Rawlings. It is under tion is about 1,360. few hundred rolls. We are not parti- approved the House nurse draft bill after cular where it is or what it looks like. the operational control of U.S. Fifth amending the measure to include married The town yielded 32 prisoners after Do* Company doughs fired an MX Please telephone Uege 74. Pleet chief, Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. nurses among those subject to Induction, volley into the woods above the town. THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday March 31, !>$& ■Editorial Labor, Capital Hope for the Future Join in Code out Hem TTERE are seven points in a recent tribute to the gradual advancement of speech by Commander Harold E. the standards of living of the peoples To End Strife of the world, not as recipients of char- ]}Jnsung Hero Stiicsen, U.S. delegate to the approach- ing United Nations Conference at San ity, but as self-respecting men and wo- WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (ANS)— On the night of Feb. 27, a medical unit men .... driver believed to be assigned to the Francisco: Representatives of labor and Indus- 84th Div., rendered an invaluable service * * * ♦ » * try have agreed upon a charter to this organization, and, I feel to the "That we believe in freedom of in- That as a nation we will join with designed to lay the foundation for service as a whole. formation through press and radio and A high explosive hit a truck carrying our present Allies ... to build a defi- industrial peace in the U.S. school and forum. . . . gas, ammunition, grenades and mines. nite continuing organization of the Un- Eric A. Johnson, president of the U.S. Several other vehicles were jammed to- * * * ited Nations of the world, based on ju- Chamber of Commerce, CIO President gether with the burning and exploding That those who were aggressors in Philip Murray and AFL President Wil- vehicle. stice and law and insured by force . . , this war shall be stripped of all means liam Green are the sponsors. Only two men from this unit were left on the street; the others being driven to make war and shall remain so strip- They offered a seven-point "partner- ship" charter, which guarantees rights inside by the explosions and heat. This "That we do not subscribe to the ex- ped. ... unknown soldier immediately joined these treme view of nationalistic sovereign- to both management and labor. ♦ ♦ * The preamble says that management- two men and, without regard for his ty; that we realize that neither this na- personal safety, gave help without which That we are and propose to remain labor unity has lifted war production to they would never have been able to tioi nor any other nation can be a law a democracy of free citizens (and) will record heights, and must continue after remove tbe other vehicles from the in- unto itself . . . and that we are will- et plain our system to the world but the war to enable the U.S. to expand its evitable danger of being also set afire. ing to delegate a limited portion of will leave it to the peoples in each economy and provide "unlimited op- For his aid, I wish to express my portunities for every American." profound gratitude and the thanks of the our national sovereignty to our United nation to decide for thejnselves their men whose vehicles and equipment he Provides Joint Committee Nations organization .... Comdr. Harold E. Stassen owi- form of government so long as helped to save. He is, in our opinion, The charter provides for a committee one of the unsung heroes of this war.— * * * they do not trample on basic human of 15 or 20 representatives of business 1/Sgt. Allen D. Stone, Cav. Co. "That we consider the future welfare heppiness of the world. rights or threaten the peace of the and labor to promote the "acceptance * * » and sympathetic understanding" of and peace and happiness of the people * * * world. . . principles contained in the charter code. Busy Latrines of America is inseparably intertwined "That we will use the enormous pro- * » * The code would preserve the right of Why didn't someone tell us before? with the future welfare and peace and ductive capacity of America ... to con- Things are looking up. labor to organize for collective bargain- After eight months of front line litter ing and the "inherent right and respons- bearing, we are told we are eligible for ibility" of management to direct oper- transfer to the Ground Forces because our Up Front With Mauldin ations. collecting company is considered a ser- Other principles are: vice unit. After sweating out 88s and WarDeclaration 1—The rights of private property and mortars, dodging snipers and MG fire free choice of action under the system this order classifying us as a 4-F outfit Italian Front Rougher ^han West of private competitive capitalism must burns our collective posterior . . < , , Aids Argentina continue. None of us wants to be the wounded 2— A vastly increased foreign trade doughboy when a litter squad with flat must be achieved through expanding feet and assorted heart murmurs starts But Qets Less Publicity, Bill Feels WASHINGTON, Mar. 80 (ANS)—Early markets and elimination of unreason- On a three-mile haul under enemy fire.— termination of the "diplomatic quaran- able trade practices. tine" of Argentina by the United States Co. "B" Utter Bearers, (30 signatures— (When Cartoonist Bill Mauldin returned to his home office in Rome after 3— An International security organ- his recent tour of Germany and the Western Front, The Stars and Stripes and other nations was forecast today W-) following the Buenos Aires government's ization must be established to prevent (At ease, men! It isn't so. Maj. Gen. Mediterranean Edition asked him for his impressions of the war and the men up aggression. here. His reply follows: declaration of war on Germany and Taul L. Haiwley, Chief Surgeon, ETOUSA, Japan, 4— Labor and management must ttates that present policy considers You're asking for something tough. I having a tough time up there. But Th refusal of the government headed protect the individual against un- can't set myself up as an authority on e medical soldiers in combat divisions as there the guys have two advantages— by Gen. Edelmlro Farrell to break with employment, old age and physical essential in their current assignment.— comparisons between the Italy war and the feeling that they are the stars of the Axis had all but ostracized Argen- impairment. Kd.) the west front war because I only spent the game carrying the ball, and they get tina from the family of nations. This 5—Improved productive efficiency * * * a month up there. All I can do is give a lot of attention at home. Every divi- obstacle has now been removed and it is and technological advancement must you my own impressions, but you'd bet- sion up there la loaded with war cor- regarded as a prelude to Argentina Join- be encouraged. '{Tough Goin' Ahead respondent*. ing the United Nations and resuming Representatives of the groups worked After traveling 42 miles, about 35 of ter do like the radio people and say on the document for seven months. "The opinions expressed by the speaker her place in the community of American them on foot, from the Boer river to the Just a Visitor nations. Johnson, Murray and Green are conf- are his own and do not necessarily reflect Rhine, we were relieved from the line Since I had the feeling of a sort of The formula through which harmony ident it will be ratified by the Chamber tor a few days rest at a nearby large the policy of this station." minor visiting fireman whose home base between Argentina and her sister repu- board of directors and executive boards pity. After being there for one day, a T think the war in Italy is harder on is in Italy, I was interested in finding blics might be restablished was drawn of the OIO and AFL. training schedule was announced which the men who fight it than the war on out h7 the guys up there thought much up at the Mexico City conference. Included a two hour march daily. the Western Front. Why? Because man about the war down here. They have Second War In History JJ • . < Folks at Borne Send These I can understand an hour or so of GU Sw for man, and sector for sector, it Is about the same feeling for this fight as Argentina now finds herself at war 1)1 I* I IIK "t •*•»■ •» Calisthenics, but what in the hell do they • *^ Stork's Arrival: equally as tough as anything in Germa- the runner in a football game has for for the second time in her history. The oxpect us to gain from a two hour the players who run interference for nation's only previous conflict since its march?—Pfc S. Lowenkopf, 335 Inf. ny or Belgium or France. And they are /SGT. Eugene E. Ovlatt, Seattle—Sharon him. He is too busy to look around, but declaration of Independence from Spain S Lillian, March 18; T/5 Harry R. Menely, he has a feeling in the back of his mind in 1810 was a bloody struggle with Para- Rushville, 111.—Linda Kay, March 24; T/l that he wouldn't be running if it weren't guay which ended in 1876. Harry Paul Morehouse, Yonkers, N.Y.—Diana for nig interference. There has been speculation Argentina Catherine, March 22; 1/Lt. Charles Ware I found that a little annoying, and it might offer to play an active part in Blake, Hazard. N.Y.—boy, March 24; Sgt. Allied military operations. The Argen- Joseph Greenberg, N.Y.—Lou Ellen March 25; gave me considerable pleasure to remind Lt. Nicholas Caputo, Richmond Hill. N.Y.— them that the German divisions being tine navv. which ranked seventh in the world before the war, is understood to Nicholas, Feb. 24; Sgt. Harold Reeser, Peoria, tied down here would sure as hell change HI.—Douglas Bruce, March 20. the face of things if they were sent up be ready to play an active role. The Argentine army, trained by a German T>VT. Joseph H. Fitzgerald, Moorestown, N.J. there. military mission before the war, is nan —Joanne, March »; Cpl. Augustus P. The old divisions up there which fought dicapped, however, by lack of equipment. Dannie. Brooklyn—Marie, March 25; T/4 Tho- in the Italian campaign are still very mas L. Masters, Rochester, N.Y.—boy, March curious about conditions down here, and 15; Pfc Robert E. Golden, St. Louis—Robert when I informed some of the guys that E., March 2; Pvt. Ben Shaxf, Detroit—girl, Altenkirchen Was March 27; Lt. Stanley R. Millard, BronxviUe, this winter in Italy is just as rough as N.Y.—Sandra Ellis, March 37; Capt. Harry last winter, and possibly rougher in some Greenbaum, New York—Jane Anita, March 17; respecte, they shook their heads in hor- German Army HQ, 6gt. William L. Holby, Rockford, 111.—boy, ror. There was an interesting exchange Jan. 31; CWO Albert Holmes, Holyoke, Mass. between a man from a division which *—Guy Frederick, March 21; Lt. Simon Green- came in at Normandy and a man from So It Paid the Price baum, Philadelphia—Dale Ellen, March 10; Cpl. Ralph L. Ferebee, Portsmouth, V*.— my old 45th Division. boy, March 25; Lt. Frank J. McLaren, Staten Tall Tales By Hal Boyle Island—Terrence, March 25. Associated Press War Correspondent "If you don't shut pp about St. Lo," pFC Walter I. Muskam, Rochester, N.Y.— said the 46th man. "I'm gonna bore you ALTENKIRCHEN, Germay, Mar. 30— Ruth Ann, March 20; Cpl. Kenneth B. with tales of Anzio." If ever there was hell on Nazi soil It is Ritenour, Memphis—Sandra Jean, March 23; Altenkirchen. Cpl. Fiank H. Greenagel, Cambridge, Main. I was very curious about how the men —boy, March 20; Cpl. Francis L. Dunn, Long In Germany would feel and act toward This once lovely village 25 miles east of Bonn has paid the full price of war for Island City—Francey Ann, March 28; Sgt. Ro- the Germans. Since most of them came bert M. Mummey, Cleveland—girl, March 23; In since Normandy, and in terms of the housing a German Army headquarters. Pfc Harold H. Thresher, Miami Beach—Elisa- Italy campaign are still comparative Less than two weeks ago German offi- beth Kragh, March 26; Cpl. William L. Tra- newcomers in this dirty little game they cers worked day and. night trying to der, Ottawa, Kan.—girl, March 26; T/5 Ken- call war, I thought maybe they would organize defenses to contain the Remagen neth J. Lockard, Stroudburg, Pa.—Lanette feel a little soft howard the herrenvolk. bridgehead, then spreading slowly. Loretta, March 20. It ain't so. They have had some very On Mar. 19 the Allied bombers struck. tough fights in France, Holland, Belgium They came In waves, rippling slowly THE STARS AND STRIPES and Germany, and in a few months they through the skies. Scores of great bombs Published dally by and to' the U.8 have become pretty tired and pretty whistled down. And when the planes flew armed forces at the plant of La Meuse, seasoned They do not like Germans. I away Altenkirchen, headquarters for one Liege. Belgium, telephone Liege Switch walked through several German towns— German Army, had been wiped out. 74 for editorial department. 76 for cir- big ones like Aachen and small ones, Before U.S. Army engineers bulldozed culation department. too. Every town looks like Clsterna or Contents passed by U.S. Army and the rubble aside those streets were piled Navy censors. Entered as second class Oasslno, and the few civilians who are high and Impassable. So great was the matter Mar. 15, 1943, at the Post Office, left are very careful not to annoy any- destruction that even now only narrow New York, N.Y.. under act of Mar. 8, body. lanes have been cleared wide enough to 1878. After walking through hundreds of let First Army armor sweep through on Other editions at Paris. Nancy, Nice and wrecked towns in other countries, It was London, under auspices of Information its advance from the Rhine. and Education Division Special a a d very satisfying for. me to look at Ger- This was once a village of comfortable, Information Services. ETOUSA. "your rehabilitation program may be O.K. lady. But, since we'll many with the feeling that the war had tiny brick and plaster homes. Now It is Vol. 1, No 71 probably all be sent back to the front, I personally can't see it" come home to roost where it started. nothing but a series of giant craters. gsfeirday, March 31, 1945 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 1 Conductor Angered Wedding Unmarred by War Wound Fearing Riots, By Lengthy Applause Pork, Bacon

DETROIT, Mar. 30 (ANS)—Accus- MPs Patrol ing' the audience of "bad manners,'* Point Values Karl Krueger, conductor of the De- troit Symphony Orchestra, walked out Curfew Front on the season's concluding concert. UpinShortage Zino Francescatti, guest violinist, was applauded for 17 minutes after a NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (ANS)— solo and Krueger said the audience WASHINGTON, Mar. 90 (UP)— Fearing riots by angry servicemen knew Francescatti didn't want to play The national meat shortage was any more. "What did they think we barred from restaurants after mid- intended to do, hang around there all j reflected today in an announcement night, MPs are patrolling the Times night " he asked. by OPA boss Chester Bowles that Square area in "unprecedentedly" effective Sunday, the ration value of large numbers, the New York Post said pork sausages, bacon and other products today. would be increased one to three pointo The Post, lt said, was told by police PassLaborAct for April. officials that they had no doubt that the Bowles said there would be 2,000,000 Army and Navy ruling barring servicemen less pounds of meat available to consu- from all-night eating places which prior Quickly-FDR mers in April than March, but he added to midnight sold liquor would result In that the public would not really feel ths disputes between servicemen and civilians, pinch until May and June. Beef, lamb, WASHINGTON, March 30—President servicemen and their own authorities, and veal, butter and other red stamp foods Roosevelt yesterday sent a letter to Sen. servicemen and restaurant operators. will remain unchanged. Elbert D. Thomas (D-Utah), chairman of Meanwhile, Chairman Elmer Thomas (D- However, one source of possible trouble the Military Affairs Committee, urging Okla.) of the Senate Food Investigating was removed when the naval adviser to quick Senate passage of the compromise the British Information Services In New committee, said meat packers must be manpower bill. given some relief lest members of tho York announced that all British naval The bill, now before the Senate after personnel in Manhattan had been ordered armed forces be deprived of 60 per cent winning House approval by a 167-160 vote, of the meat they get now. He proposed to observe the midnight curfew in exactly specifies that every individual not in the the same manner as American personnel. that the OPA and the packers confer In armed forces shall have the obligation, an effort to solve the problem. The New York Daily News said the strict when called upon, to serve the nation in military interpretation of the curfew While the United States and Great an activity essential to the war effort. Britain announced that they were re- had caused servicemen to take out their "The manpower situation Is still appraising the entire food supply and re- resentment on cafe owners. As a result, serious," the President wrote. "In the quirements problem, Leo T. Orowley, cafe owners propose that the Stage Door days ahead of us, there will be great Foreign Economic Administrator, told Canteen be kept open from midnight to temptation for workers to leave war plants. Congress not to blame lend-lease for 4 AM, the News said. The owners are Failure to enact this legislation will make beef and veal shortages, since lend- willing to provide entertainment, food our conduct of the war even more dif- lease shipments of beef and veal In 1944 and kitchen help for the canteen. ficult." totaled only seven-tenths of one per cent The Post also said the police reported The bill gives War Mobilization Chief of the supply. a large Increase In prostitution, attributed James F. Byrnes an enforcement club of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. by them to the military order. Prostitutes Jail sentences and fines for either em- Wickard, another committee witness, know that servicemen have no place to ployees or employers who violate his said it had resulted from huge military go after midnight and sense a ready orders. demands. He said price increases would market, it said.- not boost production, and denied that So serious has the problem become, the Song Writer Dies the OPA helped to create the black mar- police told the Post, that patrolmen were ket by imposing price ceilings which HOLLTWOOD, Mar. 30 (ANS)—Nat meat packers asserted were making them ordered Into Navy uniforms to break up Burton, 43, who wrote the words for "go broke." tho expanding vice traffic One cop "White Cliffs of Dover," "Don't Ever Sgt. John Sebala, 23, of Chicago, who tost his right leg in France, is married Thomas Wilson, testifying as a repre- alone, disguised as a sailor, arrested seven Change" and many other songs, died of to his childhood sweetheart, Dolores Steffen, at St. Rita's Church in Chicago. sentative of one of the "big four" meat prostitutes. a heart attack. War Mobilization Chief James P. Byr- packers, branded the OPA's price control nes announced that he would withdraw or program as unfair and "un-American,", modify the midnight curfew "as soon as Islands Would Discharged Dough and said: "We can't buy livestock at con- the war's progress permits.*' However, trolled prices and sell at controlled prices! he added that he does not believe "any without losing money." useful purposes would be accomplished" Gets GI Loan for by holding a hearing now on the appeal Cut U.S. Ties of New York night club and restaurant Store Partnership Maternity Grant proprietors for extension of the ban in WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (UP)—Filipinos Manhattan. want independence on July 4, 1940, or sooner, despite the fact that the islands NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (ANS)—The Extension Asked No Lifting of Curfew have been ravished by war, Jaime Hern- first man in the New York area to get andez, Finance Secretary of the Philip- a $2,000 business loan under the GI WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (ANS)—COT For Servicemen in N.Y. pine Commonwealth, said today. bill of. rights is Joseph J. Coyle, 37, a President Philip Murray today urged that NEW YORK. Mar. 30—Despite com- "It seems to me that economic and discharged Army private who was wound- the emergency maternity and infant plaints of soldiers and sailors, the Second political questions are entirely distinct," ed twice in action in Italy and got program be extended to cover wives of Service Command and tho Third Naval Hernandez said. He was commenting on malaria in Sicily. veterans, widows of servicemen, and ins- tants born after the father leaves tho District today reiterated their Intention suggestions of Paul V. McNutt, former Coyle bought a half interest in a deli- service. of keeping servicemen out of restau- Philippines High Commissioner, that In- catessen store in Manhattan. He was In a letter to Rep. Butler Hare (D-S.C), rants with bars after midnight, even dependence be deferred until Congress wearing GI suntans under a white store- chairman of a House subcommittee is ready to proceed with rehabilitation keepers apron behind the counter when though the bans are closed. considering renewal of the program* measures. reporters found him yesterday. Coyle After conferring at Governors Island in Murray declared that limitation of tho "There is no question in the mind of stated that he borrowed the money from a meeting called by Maj. Gen. Thomas program to wives of enlisted men of tho any Filipino that he desires Independence the National City Bank of New York. A. Terry, commanding the Second Service lower four grades is working hardships at the time promised by Congress or The veterans administration as provided Command, the officials declared that the on many families. earlier, if President Roosevelt should by the GI bill of rights will pay $40 midnight curfew edict of James F. Wives of veterans should have assist- choose to advance the date," Hernandez Byrnes applies to all restaurants selling interest covering the first year of Coyle's ance for two years after the husbands said. liquor and "accordingly, members of the loan. He arranged to pay the rest of the are discharged, Murray said, because armed forces will not be permitted to obligation in 24 monthly installments, many veterans will not be able to meet enter these establishments after mid- although the law allows him to spread the expense of adequate medical care 1st the payments over a period of five years. night." Marine General the first two years. "As soon as we get time," Coyle said, "we're going to paint a new name in 98 of 100 Injured Named for * * * * the store front. It's going to be, The GI Negro Quint Survives, Store'." 1 Stillborn, Sisters Die WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (ANS)—Presi- Back at Navy Jobs dent Roosevelt today nominated Lt. Gen. Compromise Work Bill WASHINGTON, Mar. 80 (AP)—Threo Alexander A. Vandergrift, commanding of the quintuplet girls born to a 36-yeam general of the Marine Corps, to be a full old Negro woman, Mrs. Ada H. Turnoa, NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (API—Ninety- Approved by House general. At the same time he nominat- died today, four hours after a threo eight out of every 100 sailors and ed Vice Adm. Russell R. Waesche, Coast months premature birth. marines wounded during the first three WASHINGTON, Mar. 80 (AP) The Guard commandant, to be an admiral. One of the babies was still-born, bat years of the war recovered, Secretary of Senate confirmation will place four- House approved a compromise manpower biU yesterday by a vote of 167 to 160. doctors said the fifth infant probably Navy James V. Forrestal reported se- star officers at the head of the Marines The dissenters included 112 Republicans. could be saved. venty-five percent of the marines retum_ and Coast Guard for the first time im The quints averaged one and a haJi Th bill, a compromise between the ed to active duty. history. e controversial Senate and House proposals, pounds. AH were normal except fo* "I mention it," Forrestal continued, In addition, the President nominated went to the Senate today. It was approv- weight. "because there is a tendency to regard three vice admirals to be admirals for ed last week by a House-Senate Joint Mrs. Turner has ten other chudro% all casualties as fatalities. "It is easy, temporary service. They are: Richard including a set of twins. for example, to speak of our losses on S. Edwards, deputy commander of the committee. I wo Jima as 19,900, forgetting that of fleet and deputy chief of naval opera- this total 15,300 were wounded." tions; Henry K. Ewltt, commanding the Seven thousand of the wounded Mediterranean fleet, and Thomas O. 'Iwo Was Worst of All' returned to their division before Iwo Kinkald, head of naval forces under Gen. fell. Douglas MacArthur. BAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 80 (ANSI- they and the men they were attending would be helpless. Six hundred battle torn and weary Medal Honoring Dead "Returned veterans," said Eugansj Gable Goes to Hospital marines arrived here by ship from fight- WASHINGTON, Mar. SO—A medal ho- Williams, 25. of Boaz, Ala., a medical Florida Queen— Jeni Freeland, ing on Iwo Jima, and all described the noring the nation's dead of World War After Car Hits Tree corpsman, whose leg was pierced by m savage struggle as the worst they had II was proposed In legislation today. A named Miss Flordla in the annual Jap bullet, "had only one word for Iwo— "Awful." resolution, sponsored by Sen. Joseph O. beauty pageant air Miami Beach, will HOLLYWOOD, Mar. SO (ANS)—FUm ever seen. Many are veterans of several Pacific "It was like being In hell without O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) and Rep. Charles A. compete with the nation's beauties star Clark Gable, recently released from m campaigns, none of which, however, were drink of water." said Pvt. Conrad BoJ{ Plumley (R-Vt.) would provide an em- the Army after two years of service, was when they assemble at Atlantic City, quite as brutally vicious as this one. Taschner, 18, of Lansing;, Michigan. blem to be worn by mothers, wives and in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital today NJ. in the Miss America—1945 Japanese snipers deliberately shot at All men are convalescing at the Naval children of those who loss their Uvea in suffering from a gash on his right leg parade. received in an automobile accident. th« legs of stretcher bearers, so that both Receiving Hospital hoc* the armed services- Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, March 31, 1945 Baptism in the Rhine Yank Gives Nazis Isle Seizure Same Medicine They Once Forced on Him Gave Preview

By Art Force Stars and Stripes Staff W-iter Of Rhine Job WITH 79TH INF. DIV., EAST OF THE WITH SECOND INF. DIV.—A preview RHINE—Pfc Tom Lauer, with a grease of the amphibious assault across the gun 'hung over his arm, pushed open a Rhine unfolded in moonlight when farm house door three miles past the assault forces of the Ninth Regt. seized Rhine. Hammersteiiner Werth, a narrow, 1,500- It was 1730 and supper was being pre- yard-long Island in midstream. pared. In fluent German, Lauer told the From the island's low, sandy banks {Germans they had exactly one hour to German snipers had fired at American clear out. The 314th Regt. needed the vehicles on the west bank of the Rhine. house for a CP that night. In American hands it would offer an There wa*s no protest and a woman excellent vantage point for interception past 50 merely asked what they would be and destruction of mines floated down- allowed to take with them. A younger stream by the enemy to blast the Re- woman about 35 stared sullenly at Lauer magen crossings. but said nothing. Occasionally she glanc- A reinforced platoon of 40 men from ed furtively at a snapshot of a German' Co. E, led by 2/Lt. Stewart V. Bouck, soldier on a nearby cabinet. The fate of Euclid, Ohio, was given the mission RANGE* of millions of homeless citizens of Eu- of taking the island. At 1930 hours, the rope had come to Germany. This time Pvt. Loren D. Branch, of Morgan- men carried assault boats down to the It was the Germarjs. who had to leave. town, N.C., medic with the 334th water, Crowded into them with rifles, machine guns and bazookas and stood Asked if he didn't find It difficult to Inf., is baptised in the Rhine by order these people from their homes, by for the command to shove off. Lauer said tersely, "Not a bit. It hap- Chaplain Carl Jacobs, of Benton, HI. Easy Target for Enemy "But, cherle—what is thecs ''keeten' they chase all the time?" pened to me once." Up and down the vallley flares cast The) American, whose real name is not long paths of light over- the surface of Lauer, explained he was born in Germany 3 Sergeants Get the Rhine. Bursts of machine gun fire and! had lived there until 1939 when ha rang out high in the mountains across was put in a German concentration omp the river. To the enemy still holding American Cavalry Takes the crests the island was an easy target. for seven weeks. His crime? Being Jewish. Congress Medal The assault boats swung out into the He was forced to leave Germany and go river, and the current carried them WITH 35TH INF. DIV.—S/Sgt. Junior to England, he said, coming to the United swiftly downstream to the tip of the Two Trans-Rhine Towns J. Spurrier, of Bluefield, W. Va., G Co., States where he enlisted In 1940. island. Landing without opposition, the "I have no sympathy whatever for 134th Regt., has been awarded the Con- WITH FIRST U.S. ARMY—The first American cavalry attack platoon spread out and advanced toward these people," he declared. "Now they're gressional Medal cf Honor for single- the other end of the island. Several launched from German ground east of the Rhine picked up more than getting a taste of the bitter medicine they handedly destroying three machine gun hundred yards were covered without sign nests, two fortified strongpoints, killing three miles and captured two towns in a single lightning thrust. prescribed for the rest of the World." of the enemy. 25 Germans and capturing 20 last No- Jumping off after an all-night artillery barrage and a morning dive- Two lone Germans crawled out of a vember. dugout with upraised hands. They and bomber attack, the two-column armored spearhead moved against the Rhine Reception WITH SECOND INF. DIV.—Sgt. John J. f»ur others in a nearby dugout were town of Rheinbrohl, south of the First McVeigh, who single-handedly attacked the only troops left to defend the island, Army's Remagen bridgehead area. cleanup of the; buildings to assist in they said,, arid they led Bouck's men to handling the stream of PWs. four Germans with only a trench knife A tank platoon led by 1/L.t. Kenneth Rough for 102nd the other four, Who surrendered readily. For most of the enemy, the muzzles in order to keep his machine gun Operat- O. West, Sheridan, Wyo., checked by ing and help repel- a Nazi counterattack, With the island in his possession of American guns were persuasive Bouck set up his CP in a coal barge, in heavy fire and a road block, reduced WITH 102nd INF. DIV.—Playing hide has posthumously beerl awarded the Se- enough. But 1/Lt, William P. Bird, of the middle of the Rhine. them with fire from tanks and machine Washington, Conn., convinced the few and seek With a Tijger tank, sheltering a cond Infantry Division's first Congres- guns, moved past Into the center of delinquents from a propaganda tank, wounded buddy and sweating out Ger- sional Medal of Honor. town, where infantry dismounted, began man searching parties was contrary to equipped with a PA system run by radio He was shot to death after fatally Bunny in a Barrage {Blearing the streets from house-to-house, all expectations Lt. William P. Alley, of sergeant Herbert Johnson. wounding one of the Nazis with his sa- Oraslng pockets of resistance and From Rheinbrohl, West's tanks moved Roanoke, Va. had of the Rhine. vage knife thrusts. Relieves GI Tension Wrenching snipers from their positions. on to Hammerstein, where again the foot His mission with a platoon of F Co., 406th Regt. was to make contact with WITH 99th INF. DIV.—When Sgt. From the east, meanwhile, other units WITH 29th INF. DIV.—The first Con- troops dismounted and stormed the the First Bn. in Krefeld. Scouting Louis W. Chaudet, of Hollywood, Calif., Were flanking the town, wfith 8/Sgt. gressional Medal of Honor won by the streets. around the city he was passed by a truck used to understudy his uncle, Blackstone, Robert B. Jordan in command of the 29th Inf. Div. was awarded posthumously Sgt. Carl P. Galbraith, Ogden, Utah, the magician, he little dreamed some spearhead tank, driven by T/4 Herschel loaded with German soldiers. Then a to S/Sgt. Sherwood H. Hallman, of Spring took his tank into the Center of the Tiger tank opened up, hitting Pfc Wal- day he would be duplicating one of the I* Tate. town—with two Chicago men, Pfc Ri- City, Pa. ter J. Frank, of Beaverdam, Wis., in While a member of the 175th Inf. feats on some German battlefield. Prisoners Pour In chard Walsh and Pfc Lester Taylor, rid- both arms. Alley was trapped in the Chaudet and his I&R platoon of the Other mounts, under 1/L.t. Joseph C- ing the mount—before opening fire and near Brest, he killed four Jerries and center of a street but dived behind a forced 12 others to surrender. Not even 394th Regt. crowded into a barn with Mezga, of Cleveland, gnawed Into the securing the place. statue and fired four fast rounds, then The outfit cleared Hammerstein and scratched in this hand-to-hand fight, Odges of the town. Prisoners poured In hotfooted it back and rejoined Frank continued south, halting only when Hallman was killed in action the follow- •o fast that Pfc John H. Herbert, Chel- and Pfc Edwin J. Geary of North Kansas darkness forced them to consolidate ing day. sea, Mass. and Pvt Edward W. Bobigan, City. Chicago, had to stop their hand-to-hand their new-won gains. They retired to the rear of a building and found themselves surrounded by a Armor-Piercing .30 Cal. high brick wall. But they hoisted the Combat Spotlight 3rd Armd. Div. wounded man over it and waited nearby Kills Nazis Behind Trees in a grape arbor. A truckload of Ger- mans began searching the area and pass- WITH 102nd INF. DIV.—Thirty caliber ed several times within a few feet of armor-piercing ammo has proved its the Yanks. worth to T/Sgt. James L. Hansen, of an MG section from E Co., all trying to The group returned to their company Valley Springs, S.D., who was leading his escape heavy enemy barrage. As the next morning. platoon from F Co., 405th Regt., across a boys say, stuff was flying all over the field when three German MGs opened up place, one man was wounded, and on them, pinning them down. Hansen" tension was growing. Ordnance Unit Gets Plaque spotted the Krauts firing their guns behind The magician found a live rabbit in The 3508 Ordnance M.A.M. Co. has trees, and the platoon fired through the another part of the barn and presently been awarded the Meritorious Service trees, killing four of the Jerries. The was askjing, "Have you seen this one?" Unit Plaque for "superior tasks per- .30 caliber armor-piercing ammo had as he rattled off a few abracadabras, formed from Nov. 20 to Feb. 12." done the work. and produced the bunny "out of thin air." ...... aal sjl Hi It turned the trick .a Everyone , started At Brohl GIs Found laughing and the tension was off. The Town Outside the War 30th UnitT Takel 450 Nazis and Two Towns WITH V CORPS, Germany—Charlie amply furnished with overstuffed furni- Company's 4.2-inch mortars followed the ture. WITH 30th INF. DIV.—Smoothness of war to Brohl. But in the little town on Every hour on the hour, a chambermaid the 117th Regt.'s recent crossing of the the Rhine it was spring and, to the men entered to sweep, dust, empty ashtrays Rhine, which netted two German towns— of the 86th Chemical Mortar Bn., the and leave a snack for the men. Ork and Spellen—and 450 prisoners, was war seemed hidden behind the weather. S/Sgt. Jack Feldman, of Philadelphia, attributed partly to several days rehear- The war appeared to have made little browsed around and Lt. Bliss Price, of sal on the Maas river in Holland, it was impression on the 2,000 peeple of Brohl. Andover, Mass., found him behind an old- disclosed. . They were living there still, picking their fashioned bar. The veterans of the Vire and Wurm way without concern through the rubble- "Draw one, Sergeant," said Price. Feld- crossings took to the assault boats at filled streets, paying little attention to man smiled went through the motions, 2 a.m., following an hour and a half the guns that pounded both sides of the and found himself holding a glass of artillery barrage, and at 2:10 a.m. the; river. beer. first wave was over. Children played among the battered Band Music Men of the First Bn., wearers of tho buildings, skipping rope, riding swings The sounds of a band came up the Presidential Unit Citation badge, for their and see-saws. One group was clustered street from where Easy Company, of the stand at Mortain, were the first to about a kid playing an accordion, Ninth Inf. Regt. had set up. They were secure the beaches and other units follow- and the strains of "Ach, du lleber, Au- gathered in a courtyard while the outfit's ed closely behind. gustins" floated out on the warm spring musicians gave out with "American Pa- Approximately 150 prisoners were taken air. Off-duty GIs sat In the sun and trol" and artillery sounded the percussion in the first two hours of fighting. watched them. effects in the background. OP With Boom Service Two Red Cross girls drove up in their big truck to the Charlie Company CP. 125th AAA in Varied Operations With work to be done, a Oharlie The men drank their coffee and In fast-changing recent operations, the Company party picked out an OP com- munched doughnuts and looked across 125th AAA Gun Bn. has served as field manding a view of the river and of tar- the river to where Jerry waited. And artillery, deployed for infantry missions, get areas. It was On the top floor of a they wondered If it was spring across the set up straight anti-aircraft protection and hotel—the finest suits in the house, river. worked in buzz-bomb defense. Saturday, March 31, 1945 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5- I Vandenberg Riflemen March to Outpost 300 Forced Commends Laborers Set 9 TAG Pilots Free by 78th WASHINGTON, March 30—Nine fighter- WITH 78«i INF. DIV.—With the capturo bomber pilots of the Ninth AP, each a of.Hangelar, east of the Rhine, troops of specialist in a phase of tactical air ope- the 310th Inf. liberated nearly 300 foreign, rations, have been accorded special reco- workers who had been impressed into slavw gnition by Maj. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, labor by the Nazis. Ninth AP CG, the War Department an- A few had escaped through the lines on nounced today. learning of the American advance from These men were leaders in paying the leaflets dropped by Allied planes. Most way for advancing U.S. armies" by blasting of them had huddled for 12 days in tanks, bridges, tunnels, locomotives, con- bunkers, awaiting the Americans' arrival, voys, gun sites and fortified points in the while Allied and German artillery duelled path of the doughboys. for the town. The nine pilots commended were: 1/Lt. When the 310th freed them, they wero Bruce W. Carr, of Union Springs, N.Y., thin and pale. They had lived mainly on rations of bread and turnips, with, who destroyed 65 railroad locomotives; perhaps a cubic inch of meat weekly. Capt. Wilfred B. Crutchfield. of Madison- Their clothes were threadbare—In many vllle, Ky., who blasted a high score of « — .M . ., „„„ . „ . . . Photo by Jack Straus. Co. L, riflemen of the 331st Regt., 83rd Inf. Div. march in the streets of Neuss to their company outpost. T/Sgt. cases the same they had been wearinsj 850 railroad cars; Capt. Kent C. Gyer, of when the Nazis conscripted them at somo Borgers, Texas, knocked out 80 rail cuts; Erwin Wetzel, of Barto, Pa., is leading and On the left of the squad is S/Sgt. Cornelias Lackey, Kirk, W. Va. time from six months to five years befors* Capt. Francis P. Mclntlre, of Savannah, At the aid station, where medics of thai sealed six tunnels. 310th treated cases of injury and malnu- Capt? Irving I. Ostuw, of Passaic, N.J., trition, a 22-year old French bako* destroyed 65 buildings; 1/Lt- Henry B. FranKfurt Is Full of Fit fa Us explained that they had been employee Hamilton, of Winnetka, 111,, smashed 300 in an aircraft factory, in , mines and on . motor transports; 1/Lt. William J, Garry By Pat Mitchell ties when be answered, "Into Frank- dusk the complete Ninth Armd. Inf. roads. About one third of them wersi .\ of Winona, Minn., knocked out 32 tanks Stars snd Stripes Staff Writer furt to help out Charlie Co. They're Bn- had cleared about ten blocks. Then French, he said, the remainder largolg; and other armored vehicles; Maj. Frank WITH SIXTH ARMD. DIV. Inside one block beyond the bridge which it was Jerrys' turn: pitching 88mm air- Belgians, Russians. Poles and Italians. H. Peppers, of Brooklyn, destroyed 15 Frankfurt, Mar. 30—The men of Baker Task Force Lagrew took two hours bursting flak, direct high explosive 106 The medics improvised a staff of Inter* ago." single and double-track railroad bridges Co. were fooled by the smiling Ger- stuff, 120 mortar and 170mm shells preters from among themselves. Ops? Two blocks from the bridge, Baker in 24 months of combat; Capt. Carroll A. mans and the proffered bottles of wine they slammed, according to T/Sgt. Syl- Joseph J. Skotek, of McAdoo, Pa., talks* as their half-tracks roiled through the Co. dismounted and began to work its Peterson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., (report- vestia Swan, "The heaviest concentra- with the Poles and Russians. T/8 FraaK southern suburbs of Frankfurt toward way toward the river. Snipers and ed killed in action over Luxembourg tion I have seen for a long time." J. Ragusa, of Streater, 111., lnterpreto* Jan. 23) silenced 75 gun positions. the damaged bridge over the Main ri- long range machine gun fire forced for the Italians. T/5 Norman E. Relnokw ver. You don't pause as yo run Into "The nature of tactical air power which them to hug walls and go through u lng, of Greenwood, Wis., spoke German. Frankfurt across the bridge. You have attacks dozens of targets simultaneously The Second platoon's lead track back gardens. Every building was A Dutch civilian medic was bustlinfl to go slow when you come to craters has to be described in an impersonal and swayed gently and its passengers com- among the erpwd, but the other forelgnoaJ chipped and many houses had been or side step the up-twisted trolley statistical fashion," Vandenberg said. mented, "The war is over for these studiously avoided him. people." The cobblestone roads lead- caved in by bombs. Overhead trolley tracks. "However," he added, "tactical air- The little French baker spat on tks) ing toward the bridge were lined with wires had fallen to the street and There is a spare light machine gun cobblestones. power's total effect rests squarely on the German women, children and old men, bricks and roof slate littered sidewalks. "That one!" he said. "A true eoUa» personal skill and, achievements, of indi- barrel on the bridge, and some cases some of whom ran toward the rolling The men started over the bridge. of ammo, and lots of other important borator! He deserves a bullet in thai vidual pilots in destroying enemy material column with bottles of Rot Wein. The The structure itself was so badly cra- things that suddenly lost their im- neck." and snarling cpmmunication systems." men said, "Hello," and the young wo- tered neither tanks nor wheeled ve- portance When out-racing air bursts There were a few others tagged as i men smiled and waved. hicles could cross. When Lt. Cpl. Byrd borationists in the group. Mainly A sergeant grabbed a bottle on the became a necessity. Signal Con. Unit Gets Plaque Lagrew, of Lexington, Ky., took the were French women, several of fly, opened it and passed It around. When new arrivals come running in, pregnant. The 35th Sig. Construction Bn. has bridge he had three tanks on the way Then he turned to Platoon Leader 2/Lt. breathing heavily under their load of A Russian, who had been nursing H been awarded the Meritorious Service Unit over when the Germans detonated de- Richard G. Persotin, East Liverpool, mortar and extra ammo, they take bottle of German schnapps, suddf m Plaque for superior performance of duty Ohio, and said, "Where are we going, molition charges. only a quick look and duck into the burst Into a roar of song. The for the period 7 June 1844 to 6 August lieutenant?" Baker Co. got over, crawling low and building to get their wind back and looked on and smiled, but none of 1944. Persotin was thinking of the casual- moving fast. Able Co. followed and by think about Germans. joined in the singing. VVVVVVVVVVVVV*VVVVV*VVVVV*V\VV*VVVVVVVVV%VVVVVVV^ (

T>VT. THEODORE ,A. LONG, of HEN ELEMENTS of the 16th Oav. Seneca, Mo., who ate his Christ- w mas dinner in the U.S.A., has cap- bright moonlight across the Roar tured his first Germans. The First for Roermond, they carried all tho Div. dough, Co. a, 16th Regt. was necessary equipment for a small- scouting around Waldorf recently, looking for a "VJTHEN A 155 MM OUTFIT captures 19 pfc Donald J. Butler, who celebrated his ninth scale crossing against one of the most strongly- comfortable spot to spend the night. He enter- Krauts, I believe we're spearheading into year in the Army March 22, is a man of fortified and most heavily-mined towns along ed the front door of a house and faced an Germany," said Sgt. Robert J. Steck, of Day- many parts, according to reports from the First the river. elderly German woman holding five cups of ton, Ohio, gun chief for a howitzer outfit in Inf. Div., and has run the gamut of company Lt. Ocl. Garrett J. Dobbins, battalion CO. coffee on a tray. Seeing that Long and his the 666th FA Bn. bugler, chief regimental bugler, corporal, ser- observed the time-table for the mission, carbine wasn't going to do her any harm, the His outfit was trying to by-pass traffic near geant and squad leader, back to private again radioed to his patrol in Roermond. "Whafo woman left the house and returned with several Kleinenbroich, Germany, and moved out Into a (by his own request) just before the Tunisia cooking over there?" he asked. relatives. They led the GI to a basement where field. The tractors hit deep mud and stalled campaign. Now he's a runner for the company "Breakfast," was the reply. The men wore ha found two drunken Krauts among a pile of temporarily. In a few moments the group of commander Bn. Hq., 26th Regt., and orderly for heating K-rations in the center of the town empty beer and schnapps bottles. The prisoners Nazis came out of the nearby woods with their the Bn. CO. Which Jerry had evacuated the previous nigbt. were dragged to the CP, and lodged in the PW hands high. Moreover, Butler is a poet and writer of songs. His "Old Glory" song, a patriotic number he When the 30th Inf. Div. started its Rhinewaro cage. "They thought our runs, which happened to be pointing in their direction, were going to composed in 1942, was sung by Bing Crosby on drive with the jump-off aero* the Roer, S/Sgt. * * * Robert Radciifi'e found himself on familiar "Doc Casey, 1 Co. medic of the 26th Inf. fire directly at them," chuckled Capt. Everett a radio program. Regt., wa» making a house-to-house check for G. Alexander, of Lawrence, Mass., battery leader. Sfr Sp ground. Itadcltf.e had already explored the east Members of B Co., 771st TD Bn. were held up bank on two previous night patrols... Since its possible casualties when he heard a voice in by large shell craters in the road shortly after the basement of one of the buildings. "Who's One of the half-tracks of the mortar platoon arrival In the ETO less than a year ago, the the Roer crossing. They used the dozer at- 298th Signal Installation Co. has set up switch- down there ?" he asked. No answer. "Is that caught fire as the unit started across the tachment on one of the TDs to build their own boards with total capacity sufficient to handle you, Joe?" be inquired further. Soon there was hotly contested bridge over the Nord canal road, thus enabling the outfit to move rapidly the needs of a city the size of Tampa, Phoenix, a cry of "Don't shoot, don't shoot" and seven that night. The entire column of the Second to the next town and support the Infantry. or Spokane... Two winners in ADSEC's Tire Jerries gave themselves up to the Bryan, Bn., 67th Armd. Regt. had to halt. Pfc Anton Conservation Jingle contest were from a slug*! Texas, aid man who wfcs armed only with a M. Scheef, of Milbank , S.D. grabbed the fire * * * detachment of the First Civil Affairs Regt. PfoS hypodermic needle! extinguisher and succeeded in putting the fire Virhile acting as lead scout for Co. G of the Harry. M. Ware and Robert L. ScJuele took their out despite continuous artillery fire from the 1'' 16th Regt. in the vicinity of Hemmerlch, Pfc * * * trophies of three-day passes in Paris. FC DAL-i; B. 'WILLEY, of Harrington, Maine, German side of the canal, and saved the convoy Alfred S. Sousa, of Middletown, R.I., encountered First Inf. Div., had Just finished digging from being silhouetted against the light of the an enemy strongpoint bristling with 20mm When members of an .8th Cav. Recon unit his foxhole in the Butgenbach Forest and was burning vehicle. ack-ack guns and light MGs. The Jerries im- said they were going to burn the pants off tho at the CP when an 88 came in and blasted the 3£ *fr mediately opened fire, killing one man and Jerries they kept their word. An assault gun hole. He set to work digging another and finish- fc Donald Mattingly, of Enid, Okla. and the wounding eight others and pinning down the under Sgt. Joel Coolidge, of H*. stqn, Texas, ed it up in style; with an elaborate roof. Return- P 102nd Inf. Div., reports entering a town still entire company on the open terrain. came upon some Jerries crossing a field on the ing with a stove, he was forced to hit the under German control. In one building, he said, Sousa, with three machine gun bullet creases run. Cpl. James Brown, of Friendsvllle, Teraiu, ground when an enemy barrage came in. Finally "was a copy of the Stars and Stripes." He and across his face, played dead for three hours until fired twice, killing three; gunner Brown then he reached the new foxhole and discovered that Sgt. Daniel Quinlan, of Ardmore, Pa., had run sunset, and then went on a one-man rampage. fired a White phosphoro shell which literally it had been torn apart by shrapnel. into plenty of fire entering the town, and they With fixed bayonet and a single hand grenade, burned out the seat of a Jerry's pants. To cap everything off, his platoon sergeant were convinced no other Yanks had been in "the he charged the strongpoint and after silencing ran up and told him he would have to go on place. the ack-ack battery with the grenade neutralized * * * UT OP A WRECKED German cargo Carrie*, patrol in 15 minutes. No time to dig another. 3fr ffr $f the machine gun crews with bayonet and rifle. But he had better luck on the patrol. He killed "T>OP" ADAMS of Sunbury, Pa., is 52 but he The final score was 30 Germans dead, wounded, a wrecked German van and an amount of GI ingenuity, men of the 16th FA Bn. havo two Germans and captured five. didn't enlist for his second Just to be or captured and an important objective seized built a travelling battery CP. 1/Sgt. Edwin Wtt- * * * an object of curiosity. He came to fight, to do by Co. G. 1/Lt, Walter J. McDermott, of Jersey City, Is any dirty work required of a doughboy. son, Pvt. Clarence Rhodes and Cpl Elbert Ro- planning a letter to the Infantry School. It benolt salvaged the captured equipment and The other day, while attacking a hot spot, Enemy shells set fire to several buildings in will be a request to change the time-honored turned out an aluminum-over-plywood rolling some men in a machine gun squad of the 60th a III Corps area, and S/Sgt. John S. Woodard, gesture of upsweeping arms which platoon Armd. Inf. Bn. were hit by ac enemy shell. of Wilson, N.C. remembered that he had left home for five, with built-in bunks, lockers, ca- leaders use in urging their men to "follow me." 1/Lt. Albert M. Banta, of Houston, started up a load of chemical mortar shells and HEs binets, desks, map tables and a system of com- During the 58th Armd. Inf. Bai.'s drive toward partments that has reduced everything to pi- (to investigate. Two German snipers were about nearby. By the time he got there embers the Rhine, in his first moment of combat geon-hole caliber. to get Banta when "Pop" spotted them. He were burning into the boxes but he drove the action, McDermott started to lead his men in The only piece of American equipment in MM picked botb off in rapid-fire order with his Ml. truck away. Then Woodard returned to fight the traditional manner. Suddenly the upraised- outfit, which can be towed a command "Pop" is S/Sgt Earl A. Adams, a section leaden fire, and was badly burned. However, he's by emt arm dropped to his side. The letter will be back on the Job with the 90th,©hem. Bn. Is a salvaged trailer hitch. Written when the bullet wound heals. in Hq. Co. of the 60th. Vage 9 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Saturday, March SI, lt<§ This Happened in America Yesterday: OCD Now Aids Veterans, Oklahoma Ags Beat DePaul Helps With Victory Gardens Pirates Rich Mikan Fouls EW YORK, Mar. 30—The Office of Civilian Defense, which once had N 1,500 fulltime employes and trained 11 million Americans as air In Material; Out; Kurland raid wardens, fire watchers, airplane spotters, rescue squads, etc., is now • giving advice on how to help wa; veterans, how to run War Bond drives and how to raise victory gardens. Rely on Vets Has 14 Points With the TJ. S. pounding along the roads toward Berlin, the OCD's big Job is done, but Its director, Maj. Gen. William N. Haskell, retired, thinks (This is the ninth in a series on major By Jay Barnes there may be a psychological advantage in keeping it going. He says that as league prospects for 1945.) ANS Sports Writer long as people otlH do voluntary war chores, they won't get the idea the war MUNCIE, Ind., Mar. 30 (ANS)— NEW YORK, Mar. 30—The vaunt- Is over. Frankie Frisch is the only major ed "Battle of the Giants" didn't ma- Probably OCD's biggest job these days is gathering back some of the league manager who will return to terialize in Madison Square Garden' $54,000,000 worth of equipment lt gave out on loan, mostly fire fighting pumps. the same team he had in 1944, and last night, where Oklahoma A. and All the equipment Is being turned over to the Army or declared surplus. Fire in Frankie's case this means the M. defeated DePaul University of chiefs said the pumps were "not much good anyway. Pittsburgh Pirates, who were the hottest I Chicago, 52-44, in the unofficial national team in the business for the last month basketball championship game for the Poultm Shortage Affects Rites of the season. The Pirates have eve- ^THOUSANDS of orthodox Jewish families may have to waive the traditional benefit of the Red Cross fund. Before rything this season and they no doubt the game was 16 minutes old, Georga ' use of a chicken neck or wing in Passover ceremonies because of the figure that it's now or never. They Mikan, regarded as the country's out- nation-wide meat and poultry shortage. Rabbi .'ulius Goldman, secretary of have a good pitching staff with five standing collegiate center, was chased for the Rabbinical Association of Chicago, said pieces of chicken are used instead starters, a well-seasoned infield, speedy exceeding the personal foul quota and of the shoulder or shank of a lamb employed as a symbol of the Paschal outfield and excellent catching in two the Aggies lost their sparkplug and lead- lamb. The association has told orthodox Jews to use other types of meat, venerables of the mitt and pads, Al ing goal-maker. The capacity crowd of 18,000 saw Refe- if it can be found, during the ceremonies. Lopez and Spud Davis. Truett Sewell has demonstrated that rees Pat Kennedy and Hagan Anderson Remember the bag of jelly beans citizens could once buy at Eastertlme his blooper ball is in fine shape and put both centers in a ticklish position Cor a nickel? An Erie (Pa.), correspondent reports that times have changed, should head off anything accomplished during the opening four minutes when; mud that a pound of beans now costs 85 cents. by the Cardinals' Mort Cooper. After Lt. Bert Shepard they slapped three fouls on Bob Kurland^ Pan-American Airways announced that a Lockheed Constellation transport that the Pirates have Max Butcher, Aggies' seven-footer, and four on Mikan., — DePaul led, 21-14, when the popular Chi- plane had flown non-stc*> from Los Angeles to Miami in eight hours and five Preacher Roe, Freddie Ostermueller and Best Foot Forward The Wash- Nick Strincevich. cago player was finally charged with his minutes, thus clipping 38 minutes from the previous record. Capt. Victor ington Senators yesterday announced fifth foul and had to leave the game. Babe Dahlgren and Bob Elliott are Wright was the pilot. they had signed Shepard to a coach- Kurland managed to go the full distance fixtures at first and third, but there New York bootblacks were interested to hear that down in Buenos Aires ing contract. The former P38 pilot and scored 14 points. Mikan had nine will be a battle for the keystone spots. points. the bootblacks have organized a union and are petitioning the Government A battle, incidentally, which any who lost his right leg when shot down over Germany last year, is Just Another Ball Game for minimum pay, severance pay, sick leave benefits and vacations with pay. manager would love to have on his club. It was Just another ball game, howe- A spokesman said: "We, too, would like to go to the seashore. . . each sum- Pete Ooscarart and Frankie Gustine picturod rounding first base in the ver, with Mikan gone. The crowd had mer. . . and be able to have someone else shine our shoes." both play second base and Gustine also Senators' College Park, Md., train- come to see him battle against Kurland plays shortstop. That leaves Victor ing camp. all the way, and they wanted to see the America's Best Dressed Barnhart, who hit .310 last year at guy who could score an average of 43 Albany; Frankie Zak, who belted an points a game in tournament competi- even .300 in 87 games with the Pirates, tion. They were disappointed, for after and veteran Lee Handley to fight it Canadiens, the four fouls were called on him in tho out for reserve. first four minutes, Mikan became cau- Jimmy Russell, whose .312 average tious and didn't dare take any chances. was tops for the Pirates last season, DePaul managed will move over to center field from left Wings Win to cling to a five- and Jack Barrett, another veteran, will point lead at the be in right fiel 1. Frank Colman, whose MONTREAL, Mar. 30 (ANS)—The World half, 26-21, but that loud bat featured the Pirates' late season Champion Montreal Canadiens, faced with was erased at the drive last year, will play left field. the necessity of winning three straight start of the second Reserve spots will be awarded from to remain In the Stanley Cup playoff, half when Kurland among Al Gionfriddo, .330 hitter last slaughtered the Toronto Maple Leafs, set up three straight year at Albany; Tommy O'Brien, who 10-3, here last night to pull within one i baskets for Cecil hit .250 in 85 games with the Pirates game and two points of the Leafs in the nankins. Doyle last year, and Bill Rodgers, another semi-final series. Parrack hit a layup .330 hitter from Albany. The Canucks' murderous front line of on a pass from Kur- Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach and Toe land and Hankies On top of this array of talent, the got a field goal and Pirates have one of the game's best foul to put tha outfielders as trading bait. Vince Stanley Cup Playoffs Bob Kurland Aggies' ahead, 32-26, DiMaggio is still at home in California, First-Third Series the Chicagoans having been shut out for sore at the Pirates and declaring he W IJ I Pts five minutes. wants to be traded. 3 2 ■ 0 e With two minutes of the game remain- 2 3 0 4 ing, DePaul started a brief rally which carried the Demons within three points Second-Fourth Series of the Aggies at 47-44. Jack Allen* W L T Pts Whitey Kachan and Gene Stump, three Favor Angels Detroit . . . . . 3 S 0 8 DePaul starters, went out on personals at Boston .2 s 0 4 that point and DePaul was through. In last night's preliminary game, New In Coast Loop Blake scored 11 points in the rout, with York University, runnerup in the NCAA Richards' (three In the last period) four play, defeated Bowling Green, National SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 30—Baseball goals and one assist pacing the attack. Invitation finalist, 63-61. observers from Seattle to San Diego pre- dict one of the hottest races in the Red Wings Beat Bruins history of the Pacific Coast League this DETROIT, March. 30 (ANS)—Mud IrishMum on Cage [AMERICA'S fashion experts have made their annual selection of the year's year, with Los Angeles given the nod to squeeze through for its third straight Bruneteau's goal, his second of the game, best-dressed women in convention at New York'3 Hotel Pierre. Chosen pennant. The season starts tomorrow. at 17:12 of the overtime period, gave the Profits in Garden as representatives of various fields of feminine endeavor, winners of the Lou Novikoff and Rip Russell have been Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins here last night and moved •wards were, left to right: Carole Landis, stage; Maj. Juanita Redmont, sent out by the Cubs to strengthen the BROOKLYN, Mar. 30.—Ned Irish, Swansea, SC., Army Nurse Corps; Esme Davis, Wheeling, W. Va., journalism; Angels in batting, and Infielder Pete the Wings out in front, three games to two, in their eight-point senifinal series. basketball promoter at Madison Square Elko and Pitcher Japhet Lynn were Garden, appearing today for the first Tlvian Delia Chiesa, Chicago, concert; Lt. Gilrnan Spencer, Athens, Mich., Bruneteau belted the puck past Paul delivered to help the club defensively. time before the King's County court Wavy Nurse Corps; Mrs. Leon Mandel, Chicago, international; Jane Wyatt, Bibeault at 2:50 of the opening period, Hollywood, all-American; and Mrs. Walter Thornton, New York, business. The Seattle Rainiers have formidable investigating the Brooklyn College bribe pitching and good batting and must be with Joe Carveth and Carl Liscombe re- scandal, revealed cage doubleheaders at Hot present for the award, but also included on the experts' list, were: Ann considered a prominent contender, while ceiving credit for assists, and Herbie Cain the Garden had attracted about $1,700,000, Sheridan, screen; Mary Livingston, radio; Mrs. Harmon Spencer Auguste, tied it up for the Bruins on a pass out the local Seals will have to depend upon but he refused to divu'lge how much ha society; and Jane Froman, popular music. Manager Lefty O'Doul's savvy as the from Bill Cowley nine minutes later. personally made on the venture. pitching staff of 1944 has been sadly Flash Hollett put Detroit back in front Irish said he had been receiving Would Improve Sweet Potato depleted. Ken Brondell, of the Giants, at 14 minutes with an assist by Fido $12,500 a year salary, since becoming fJLEMSON COLLEGE is conducting a study of the possibilities of Improving and Ken Miller have been acquired to Purpur and it stayed that way until the acting president of the Garden, and that sweet potatoes—as if any improvement is necessary. . . At Portland, help on the mound. Portland, too, has final three minutes of the final period. he gets an additional ten percent of tho basketball "take," minus expenses. Ore., the three-year-old son of Lt. Kenneth Pinnon, whom he had never seen, pitching problems- Dolf Camilll's Oakland Oaks are dark Texan Uses Draft Dodge Hearings will be resumed Monday with yelled, "That's my daddy" when Pinnon spoke to him on his return from the Irish again slated to be the star witness. Pacific. Pinnon had sent home phonograph recordings of his voice. . . New horses with lots of good youngsters com- ing along and Buck Fausett's Hollywood To Escape Zivic's Fists •Tor* is considering s ban on the future .construction of skyscrapers along Stars are weaker than last year with Medal of Honor Winner, parks throughout the city; the plan has the backing of Park Commissioner Shortstop Tod Davis and Outfielder Frank AUSTIN, Tex., Mar. 30.—The fame Robert Moses and was the outgrowth of protests aver the proposed erection Kelleher gone. of 32-year-old Fritzie Zivic's fists Promised Card Tryout of • 30-story aipartment house on the north side of Washington Square, which The Sacramento Solons will have a apparently still carries fear into the PARIS. Mar. 30—S/Sgt. Junior James Greenwich Villagers said would ruin the sunny square where kids and pigeons strong club If Earl Sheely can get action hearts of his opponents. Proctor out of Gene Corbett and Jimmy Grant. Heinhold, young Texas middleweight Spurrier, the 134th Inf. Reg. Congres- Way- sional Medal of Honor winner from Blue- Corbett, slated for first base, hasn't shown champ, wired promoters he couldn't Even before the premature peace spree that took place Tuesday, playful meet Zivic here next week because field, W.Va., will have "every chance in up yet, and Grant Is out with Injuries. soldiers at Ft. Sheridan, m., had startled a buddy by awakening him in the he's being inducted at Oklahoma the world" to earn a position on the The consensus Is that Pepper Martin City. St. Louis Cardinals' plt;hin~ staff after middle of the night and shoving a copy of the local newspaper under his will lead his San Dleg* Padres into the nose. A foot-high headline read: "ARMISTICE SIGNED, GERMANY SUR- A phone call to Heihhold's draft the war. Owner Sam Breadon cabled Tha league cellar. Almost ?Sie whole of the board revealed that the champion Stars and Stripes last night. RENDERS." He was out of bed, half-dressed and running for a midnight 1944 pitching staff Is gone, and Pepper is—that's right, Joe—4F. The one-man gang had said his post- Celebration before his friends halted him. It was a 1918 newspaper. hasn't much left. war ambition was to pitch for the Cards, gainsay, MarcK S% 1945 JTHE STARS AND STRIPES Page f Terry and the Pirates Bv Courtesy of News Syndicate By Milton Can iff

PO M90 THINK VOUR Y IP NOT, THEM AR£ A FErV^-J FOR6EP PAPER'S WILL 1OTH6E AVAIL ASlE WEAPONS' STAMP IF UNPER JAP /- 6V THE WAY, DOES THE Alter waiting a month on a small Pa- cific island for a plane to take him to " ' EXAMINATION ? / HANPSOV1E RYAN STILL TMHK Australia, a flier was desperate. THE PRA60N LAPV MIQUT BE Someone told him that if he hitched SELUN6 Wfc RAPIO-gEACON a ride on a passing landing craft to the KBCORDIN&i TO THE ENEMY? next island h might get a plane from there. e The flier embarked—found himself at- tacking Morotai with the first wave and spent three days in a foxhole on the beachhead i » » » A pigeon came home very late for dinner one evening, with his feathers

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Pagfe 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, March 31, 1945 No 'Get Him Alive' Vandenberg Order on Fuehrer Bitter Fight in Frankfurt Spring Heat LONDON, Mar. 30 (AP)—There is By Pat Mitchell Records Fall Raps Parley no "bring L:ra back alive" order out Stars and Stripes Staff Writer for Adolf Hitler, at least so far as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Is FRANKFURT-ON-MAIN, Mar. 30—The local burgomeister wanted the Voting Plan concerned. Germans to declare Frankfurt an open city, but a fanatical gauleiter named For Easter Eden made that clear In Commons Sprenger had personal orders from Hitler to hold the Reich's ninth largest today when he was asked whether it ' WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (ANS)— city at any cost. NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (ANS)— would be the "duty of a British soldier The result was some of the bitterest, dirtiest fighting the Fifth Inf. and who sees Hitler to shoot him or try to St,raw-hat weather approached or % White House announcement that Sixth Armd. Divs. had ever encountered. the Big Three at Yalta agreed- that bring him back aiive." broke heat records in most com- Amid laughter, Eden responded: "I The doughs really hadn't expected too much of a fight. Before they ihe U.S. and Russia would ask for munities throughout the U.S. yes- am very cf tent to leave that to the crossed the Main River prior to entering Frankfurt, white flags were flying terday. three votes each in the assembly of judgment of any British soldier." from the city's windows. However, conscript laborers who slipped through the United Nations security organization Fruit trees blossomed early in Virgi- the German lines warned them that trouble was ahead. nia, and New England maple-sugar threatened today to spilt the American The slave-workers said Sprenger had arrived from German West Front delegation at the San Francisco confe- producers feared that the unseasonable rence. Yanks Invade headquarters determined to make a stand-or-die fight for Frankfurt. He warmth, checking the sap flow, would Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mlch.), impressed every man he could find—policemen, firemen ahd Luftwaffe ack- cut production 40 to 50 per cent. a delegate, declared that he would "dee- ack crews. This motley collection was backed up by fanatical SS troopers. Rains cooled the air in the Middle West ply disagree with any voting proposal The gauleiter's plan had been to let the Americans walk into an ambush and there were floods at Alton, HI., and which would destroy the 'sovereign equa- Two Islands, in the southern end of the city and to hold the river line with ack-ack- Sulphur Springs, Texas. A tornado Bty of nations' in the peace league as- injured seven persons Wednesday night levelled down against the U.S. ground troops. near Terrell, in east Texas. sembly as previously proposed at Dum- The plan fizzled when Sixth Armd. Div. tanks and armored infantrymen barton Oaks." Mile Off Cebu But temperatures in the 80s were ge- Vandenberg said that "this applies just captured a bridge intact and Fifth Inf. Div. doughs crossed the bridge to neral, and forecasters^at New York and reinforce the Sixth Armd. and extend the bridgehead. Pittsburgh gave the green light to Easter Mi much to extra votes for us as well as MANILA, Mar. 30 (ANS)—Ele- any other nation", and added: "thi as- But the fighting was tough. As Pfc Clyde Peters, of Parkersburg, W. paraders, with predictions of "beautiful" s weather. sembly must continue to be tomorrow's ments of the Americal Div. have Va., observed, "I can understand now what those Air Force guys meant when free and untrammeled town meeting of landed on tiny Mactan Island and they said the flak was thick enough to walk on." New York Record *he wortld. The voice of the great powers on even smaller Cauit Island just New York, packed with vacationers, will be amply protected In the council." recorded 83.7, topping Wednesday's 81 re- Under the Dumbarton Oaks plan, every off the island of Cebu, capturing a cord for March. Philadelphia and Was- ■Bomber nation would have one vote in Japanese seaplane base on Cauit and the hington were warmer. Baltimore, with main city of Opon on Mactan, Gen. Mac- Duisburg?s Steel Plants 89 degrees, set new records. the assembly. The Big Five—the U.S., Britain, Russia, France and China—plus Arthur announced today. Boston victory gardeners watched more six smaller nations chosen on a rotating The two islands, the 29th and 30th than three weeks early for peas to coma basis would have one vote each on the Invaded by American troops since Mac- Found in Twisted Ruins up. Apple trees in the Shenandoah Val- organization's council, according to that Arthur began the liberation of the Phi- ley of Virginia were expected to be in lippines, are less than one mile offshore Irian. By George Dorsey full bloom late next week. east of the capital city of Cebu. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Tennessee's spring was said by the Russia Asked for Extra Votes Meanwhile on Cebu itself other units The White House said yesterday that / WITH 79th INF. DIV., Hamborn, Mar. 30—The enormous Thyssen Weather Bureau to be a full month early, Biussla, at the Yalta conference, had of tl.e Americal division captured the and Nashville reported temperatures 10 important two-strip Lahug airdrome on asked for extra votes in the assembly e Steel Works, which occupy eight plants in the Hamborn section of degrees above normal each day this mile north of the city and the town of month. for the Ukrainian and White Russian Naga 14 miles south. Duisburg, are in ruins. Captured by the 313th Regt. of the 79th Inf. Soviet Republics, and that American Missouri's March was the warmest In In the southern part of Luzon Amer- -Div., the second largest steel empire In representatives had agreed, provided that Germany was a sea of twisted girders 35 years, but six and one-half inches of the U. S. also would receive three votes. ican advances continued against spor- adic resistance while in the center of wrecked machinery and churned up ma- rain left the Mississippi a foot and a British representatives also said they Red Praises sonry. half, above flood stage. would have no objections. Luzon the 32nd and 25th Dlvs. mopped Three Hamborn bankers, interviewed at In Rio Grande City. Texas, fruit and There was some disposition in con- up defeated Japanese remnants, counting an additional 1,300 enemy dead. the city hall, by Cpl. Harry Weilheimer, vegetable growers of the lower Rio Gran- gressional circles to discount the con- de valley turned to the State Department troversy over voting strength in the Y auk Speed of the 79th Div. military government sec- tion, testified that the steel works had to get help from Mexico to relievo assembly which, the Associated Press Superforts Attack operated but a single day since Jan. 20, drought conditions. The growers are said, will have little more than debating MOSCOW, Mar. 30 (AP)—Ilya Bhren- seeking a release of waters from the El powers. Singapore, Nagoya bourg, of the Army newspaper, Red Star, when they received a terrific aerial pounding. The one day of limited ope- Azucar Dam reservoir on the San Juan Immediately after the White House today wrote that "this spring will be fatal for Germany." ration—In February—was followed by River, in Mexico. announcement, Rep. Sol Bloom (D-N.Y-) WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 (ANS)—Super- "The Red Army is going to Vienna. another raid which finished off the one chairman of the House Foreign Affairs fortresses today bombed oil storage ins- - committee and a member of the San From the west, tanks of the American .producing plant. Pause in U.S. War Tasks tallations at Singapore and gave Nagoya, Third Army are swiftly moving ahead Once largely devoted to making armor Francisco delegation, called for six votes Japan's third city, its seventh attack !n in the assembly for the U.S. over good German roads. They are plate for Hitler's conquering legions, the Marks Good Friday five months, the War Department an- already in Bavaria. Ehren burg said. Thyssen works today presented a scene nounced. NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (AP)—Americans "American correspondents write that of silent devastation whose dreariness paused In their wartime tasks to com- Japanese broadcasts reported an attack tanks of Gen. Patton don't capture flies. was enhanced by the cold drizzle which U.S. Action Seen on To"kyo by approximately 150 B29s memorate the death of Christ with Good Americans love to travel fast, and now drifted down out of the spring skies. Friday services throughout the land. using a new type of incendiary. they can fight tot heir own taste. They Russian Slave Laborers Freed. Twentieth Air Force said the Nagoya did a good Job of breaking down German Still wandering among the ruins were In Mine Dispute attack made by a small force of B29s, VATICAN CITY, Mar. 30 (AP)—The defenses, excellently crossed the Rhine a handful of tattered Russian slave labo- was concentrated on a single unspecified traditional Good Friday mass was cele- and after this went riding. I don't want rers, some of them veterans of Stalingrad. WASHINGTON. Mar. 80 (AP)—Soft- target. to minimize their merit" brated today in the SSstlne Chapel In the enal wage negotiations today floundered They told of Nazi overseers who whipped presence of Pope Pius, eight Cardinals toward government seizure of the mines lagging workers and beat others when the and the diplomatic corps. and new wartime labor strife. Allies Closing Ruhr Ring — mood seized them. More than 150 Rus- For a few hours the stalemated con- sians, they said, had died after particularly (Continued from Page 1) vicious beatings. tract talks appeared headed for success 2,500 Allied Troops under the guidance of Secretary of Labor For all their boasted proficiency In find alternate routes or repair damaged from Kirehhain and by noon had reach- mechanical matters, the Nazis apparently Prances Perkins. However, the operators spans in record time. ed a line east and west of Frankenau could still take lessons from American to accept her proposals for new Freed as American refused a Just below the Lippe Canal, however, and about five miles south of Eder See industry. Lt. Col. CM. Sagmoen, 313th agreement to replace the one expiring at resistance was surprisingly stiff. The Lake and the Eder River. Yesterday Regt. executive officer and one of the midnight Saturday. Eighth Armd. Div.-—just released as east afternoon it was within half a mile of first soldiers to examine the main plant, Tanks Enter City Miss Perkins immediately certified the of the Rhine—fought off a company- Hemforth. observed a Carnegie book on steelmaking dispute to the War Labor Board, the first strength counter-attack supported by procedure lying open on a foreman's The Ninth Armd. Div. jumped off at LIMBURG, Germany, Mar. 30 (AP)—* step toward government control. The three tanks. Between 15 and 20 tanks desk. 0600 from Schweinswerg and reached The role of captor and captured was board is expected to propose that the were seen on the Eighth's front during This vast industrial section was captured Fritzlar after a 20-mile advance. Other reversed when spearheads of the Ninth present contract be extended, with any the day. Ninth Armd. task forces reached Borken, with the known loss of only a single Armd. Div. drove into this old cathedral eventual wage adjustments to be retro- Only ten prisoners were reported taken doughboy, who was hit by small arms lire on' the main Frankfurt-Kassel railroad, town liberating an ailing British major active. This, however, is a point to by the Ninth Army yesterday. Men while crossing one of Hamborn's canals. and reached Treysa, southwest of Fritz- general and approximately 2,500 Allied which operators have objected. returning from the easternmost point lar. Most of the German garrison had taken of advance told of speeding through off, or, as Maj. George B. Hamilton, of troops. The First Inf. Div. advanced two miles As the Allied tanks came Into view, quiet countryside without catching sight Tampa, Fla., stated, "They were sitting to positions within two miles of Siegen. Maj. Gen. Victor Fortune, commander of Blow Bridges — of the enemy or hearing a shot fired. The First Army counted 11,211 prison- around In bars, drinking and making the Duisburg, chief port on the lower Rhi- Britain's 51st Highland Div. and a cap- (Continued from Page 1) ers during the 54-hour period ending at best of things while they waited to be tive since June 12, 1940, and the German ne, was reported half cleared by the midnight Thursday. captured." Ninth. commandant of the Nazi hospital center the Infantry over, move the bridging Seventh Meets Artillery When the Americans entered Hamborn, walked into the yard with a white ta- equipment up, roll a Bailey across and The 134th and 137th Regts. of the 35th they were greeted with such a demonstrat- Inf. Div. cleared Gladbeck. Nearly 200 miles to the south, enemy blecloth between them to greet the li- gwt moving again. opposition south and southeast of As- ion that one GI said later, "We had to berators. Most surprising booty of the day was By noon, the infantry was lined out chaffenburg . stiffened before Lt. Gen. pinch ourselves to realize we weren't Other freed from the Limburg prison . •lone l^e embankment. At 1300 a short, three submarines, captured by 313th back in France again." Most civilians s Regt. Infantrymen on a canal running Alexander M. Patch's Seventh U.S. Army. camp included 2,000 Russians, 116 British shattering artillery preparation was laid There for the first time since the Rhine seemed overjoyed that their atrial by fire and Americans, 85 French and 40 East troops dashed across eastward ' from the Rhine just above down and the foot break-through German artillery was was over. Indians. bridge. The skies cleared at the Duisburg. The U-boats were believed to But during the night, Nazis tore down >fche coordinated in support of infantry troops. same time, and from the bridge you have been In dry dock. all the proclamations which the military eould see a squadron of Thunderbolts Meanwhile, two large cities—Frankfurt Between these shoulders, tanks of Lt. government had posted through out the Frankfurt's Capture divine; down on fleeing enemy troops and and Mannheim—were occupied by the Gen. George S. Patton's Third and Lt. district. hitting the few German tanks reported Third and Seventh Armies respectively. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First armies Called Vital Gain la the town Just ahead. First Army armor averaged 25 mile . slashed north and northeast while infan- < Planes Flush Germans advances all along Its front yesterday try closed up behind them. Tjilrd Army Petain Trial to Start LONDON, Mar. 30 (Reuter)—The cap- The Germans started popping out of against almost no resistance. Individual alone estimated it collected 22,000 priso- ture of Frankfurt ranks as a strategical a»tes and running across the fields to villages had roadblocks, s°nie local mine- ners yesterday. April 24, Minus Petain success second only to the fall of Ber- C«t away from the planes. fields and some community digging pro- Dempsey's Tommies and Canadians lin. By taking this industrial center Osr Infantry moved on through the jects, but none of it was on the large were officially reported between 35 and NEW YORK, Mar. 30 (AP)—Trial of with Germany's second largest railway ee-sn. Engineers got the bridge across scale encountered west of the Rhine. 40 miles east of the Rhine In the north. Marshal Henri Petain, former French terminal, the Allies assume strategical and • minute after the last plank: was Three more divisions—the Seventh and Forward tank forces, however, were still puppet government leader, on charges command of southwest Germany. •owa the armor was beginning to roll Third Armd. and 104th Inf.—were releas- speeding east under security wraps. that he was a collaborationist, starts The I.G. Farben trust produces preci- o»wr the bridge and snake across the ed as participating In the First -Army For the first time since the First Army Apr. 24, the French Press Agency said sion instruments, machine tools and flats again. drive. The Seventh was pushing toward broke out of the Remagen bridgehead, the today in a broadcast reported by the electrical equipment in the city's It's still a good jaunt to Berlin but Kassel, the Third wag in Paderborn, but Luftwaffe was up yesterday strafing the Federal Communications Commission. suburbs. The huge Adler Works, one of we're on the way and hoping our gas location of the 104th was not revealed. American tanks. There was no report on The trial will be conducted In absentia the Reich's biggest motorcar factories, The Seventh Armd. Jumped off at 0500 strength of the enemy's aerial attacks. before a special French court. also is in Frankfurt.

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