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End of Battle of Cologne Plam Burn Bridges El&"hl dead, tilteen Injured In Novy Department B not I ad to som thana Uk th Dayton. Ohio plane cra h. B1 IUlUlB L. IMPSON &Os are backed by ev dence that 10 Inl mal revolt aaainst continu - Acknowledges Loss Aaoelaled Pr War AnIJ,..t the Nazi effort moblllz all Ger­ H~wkeye basketball team de­ m n citizenry Into a last dilch lion of the useless laught r til t U, S. Ninth Army Of 2,050 Morines The thunder of Nazi demolition people'. army Is provlnlr larg Iy a terminal d the last war. cide aaainst a epllng tourna­ Charges blowing Rhine bridges Joins Canadians m nt bid. fu til gestu reo Aliled Troops U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD­ all Ih w y trom Coloane to We el UlUe Dulre With aliled troops on the low r At Rhine River QUARTERS. Guam. Tuesday (AP) Ipells the end at the battle of the The will to light has been nota­ Rhine from Bonn to Arnhem in _A number of Japanese attempts Cologne plain. bly lacklnlr in such units once the HoUand, and Ru sian forces now PARIS (AP) - United Stales to infiltrate the lines of the U. S. Russians Surround It may well spell the end of allle<! WehrmaChl troopers were pulled manning the Neis. e-Oder line tanks drove more Ihan a mile marines on Iwo Jlma Monday hopes of seizlna any river ero Ina out. The citizen oldiers how Uttle Virtually from Ihe southern Sude­ yesterday Into the toUerlna Rhlne­ were broken up and the battle Intact to expedite establishment at dlspo Itlon to IIl crlfic themselv s t n mountains to the Od r estuary lond melropolls of CololrOe, seized positions remained substanlially 200,000 Germans; East Rhine bridgeheads; but It also in battl -to-th -d ath rcar lrUard th finol two-front br akthroughs one-fiflh of It. and the largest unchanged. Admiral Chester W. probably doomed many thou ands action. the function apparently c nnot be far away. With ali German City ever to be stormed Nimitz announced today. Seize 1SO Localities of Nazi troops sun on the west reserved for them by Ihe Nazl Rhine brld, destroyed by the by the Allies seemed virtually Thus. for the second straight bank 10 death or capture. command n. once the fear of Germans aJl m probaul If not within AmerIcan ara p. day, Nimitz reported little change Lure Groups Wehrrnacht cuns at their backs I IIlr ady sC\'ompl' hcd, It may t ke The charae of American tankJ In position in the bitter fighling, Gross-Tychow, How lonl the grim Nazi buslne ended. tim for G n r I Ei nhower's trom the north to within two miles 110W In its 15th day. for the stra­ Yonk Prison Comp, of abandoning large lrTOuPS of That 19 a hlal1]y slgnlfl Imt Indi­ arml s to brlna up all th equlp­ of th bl, HohenzolJern brldlre In tegic little Island 750 miles south troop to their fat:!, liS allied and cation of the uowlnlr def tist m nt they will need to force thal the hellrt. ot the clly forced the re­ of Tokyo. Liberated by Reds RussIan forces press on Into the mood omone the German people lost Nazi western clefense moat. malnlnlr German lrarrlson-estI­ Hea.vy Fire heart of Germany. C:1I1 ao on with­ 09 distinct Crom the Nall policed Eastward. however, there ems mated by one staff otrlcer to num­ "The enemy made a number or LONDON (AP)-Russlan troops out producilla a complete CQllaps German army. It ImpJl that a every reawn 10 exp ct immedlple ber only 1.000 men-to full back. crack in, strain is d veloplng Russian r n wal of th dlr ct attempts to infi ltrate, aod sub­ captured Stettln's outer defen In German army morale Is open From West wllhln Germany that w!l1 certainly drive ot B rUn. Th OJ) ration thllt Jected the marines to heavy small city of Storaard Monda,. as they to conjecture. There are Increasi~ Other American forces were limit sharply the extent and serl­ split Pomerania opart to Ihe Bal­ arms and artillery fire," Nimitz ripped throuah 150 localities 10 sllnJl of Impend!nl enemy mllltary ,moshlna In !rom the west, and Nazi lines In the corner of Pomer­ dlslnle,ratlon detectable In field ousne of guerrilla operotions tlc seem to hav fully let the east­ a flyinlr column began cuttlna said in his communique. "All et­ after oraanlzed resistance ends It If ern war stoee for just that. forts were broken up. There was ania east of Stettln Bay. and U,ht­ reports from both fronts. ,These three miles southwesl of Cololrlle ened their hold on possibly 200.- no appreciable change in the lines ,, to complete Ihe nclrelement. on March 5 (Monday)." 000 Germans trapped In another This column last was r ported pocket far to the northeast. Plane Croshes- ouout five and a hal! miles from No mention was made of the Russians artillery pounded the positions of the third. fourth and Negotiators F.D.R. Names the Rhln outh of CololrOe. suburbs 01 SteWn. Berlin's port, /ifth marine divisions last reported ON THE EDGE of the Rochwald torest In Germany, la t belt of the La,.- City Sle,rrled Line forUflcations protecting the northern approaches to as tank columns !ouaht close to Cologne Is the lar,est city In pressing the Japanese toward Alt-Damm, East bank Oder cross­ cliffs on the north and northwest the Ruhr, a. BrItish tank a.dvances throu,h the rubb~e of Uedoem. road Rhenish Prussia. normally with a Junction southeast of Calcar. captUred by British troops of the Cana­ ina town just opposite Stemn and Discuss Lewis' Eight. POpullltlon ot 768,000 which ran edl/e of Iwo. Fred Vinson dian First army alter a bitter aU-night battle. This Is an official 15 miles west ot fallen Stargllrd. her once-busy war tactories, , but 2.050 KUled. British radiophoto. To the northeast another Rus­ most ot the clvillana had tied now Navy Secretary Forresta l said in sian army In 10-mlle ,alns cap­ ----------------~ or cowered In b ements as the Washington that 2,050 marines al­ tured 80 locallUes. Includine Wies­ * Administrator battle swirled around them. enthal, seven miles southwest or Wage Oe~and Kill:~ reldy had been killed on Iwo but Simultaneously, the United the loss was not out of proportion Schlawe, a stronahold on the rood Two Women Killed, DAYTON, Ohio (AP)-Eleht WASHINGTON (AP) - Prelll­ Stalell Ninth army strut"k Into the 10 the importance of the island. France Balks to Danzia, and Gross-Tychow. site WASHINGTON (AP) - Co I center of the shrlnkln, Rhine persons were killed and 14 hurt d nt Roosevell y terday noml­ He had just returned from Iwo of an American prison camp 18 min w ,e negotiators cent r d pocket to the north, filhtln, Into Seven Injured miles soulh or captured Koeslln, their dl cusalon. ye terday on yesterday as a two-enained C-60 noted Fred M. Vin!lOn. now eco­ where he said the enemy wos put­ cargo plan crashed and exploded Rhelnber" one of the chief terry ting \lP the "most thorough and a Moscow communique announced. John L . Lewl ' demands for a to­ nomic IItabJlizotion dlret'tor,' to at Wright field. settinlr fire to take ov r.. Ih Federal Loan ad­ points lor an timated 50,000 Jkl1lfu]" defense. At Sponsoring Whether any Amerkans were cent per ton royally and for 0 cut­ German oldlers Lryina to fiaht In Head-on Crash freed wa not Imm dlately mad baek to as hour. In 'lhe ,!rallht hangar In whjch a number or ci­ mlnistratlQn jo~ whlt'h the senote Nimitz ,reported yesterday that vilian. w re worklne. WOI.Ildn't let Jl nry wanoe have. their waJ to the east bank of the known. time work week. river. 1~,as4 Japanese dead had been Two Iowa City women were The public relations oWCe at the The appointment. which the sen­ coun\ed up to 6 p. m. Saturday and Russian troops on the Baltic No declslons of any kind w re ebe Control Parley killed and seven other persons in­ stormed the stronghold of Kolber, reached, it was under.tood, thouah field, headquorLers of the air tech­ ate Ie med ready to ('on firm 81 prisoners taken.