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ULU LUULjD .. ; ... : J. . . - U ? ' .POUNono .165! . 4 , f . ,
When information was given
out at Yalta that Edward Flynn,
ex-Tammany boss of New York,
was in the presidential party the
statement was made that Flynn
merely was given the courtesy of
accompanying the president on a
journey to Moscow. He sort of
thumbed a ride as far as Yalta, so
it appeared.
, That immediately projected the
question of why Edward Flynn
was going to Moscow. He occu
pied no official position. He had
had no previous connection with
Russian affairs. And people do not
go to Moscow in wartime just on
a sight seeing tour.
It comes about, as was surmised
by alert reporters at the time, that
Mr. Flynn's errand was to attempt
a rapprochement between the
Kremlin and the Vatican. That is
a tough assignment to be sure. The
hostility between these two seats
of power has been long and bitter.
Recently there -have been ex
changes showing that the antago
nism has not been meliorated.
What .chance then would Flynn
the two? .
effort by President Roosevelt him
self. The president entertains a
warm . friendship for Flynn. He
(the president) carries on friendly
relations both with Soviet Russia
and with the Roman Catholic
hierarchy. Naturally ; he would
like to see an end of the mutual
recriminations between these two
great powers, one political and
geographic, the other primarily
(Continued on Editorial page)
Senate Turns
Down Williams
For RE A Post
. " i .. ."
WASHINGTON, March
The senate rebuffed President
on . 9 n
rejection of his. nomination of
. .r..-A. i i
nuL iiiumuu u luiai ucvui
fication administrator.
. I. A; 1
democrats joined to "blackball'
the selection of the ardent new
dealer for a job which in the
; WASHINGTON. March 23
, UP) - Washington's two demo-
cratie senators, . Mitchell and
: Magnuson, voted today to eon-
. firm Aubrey Williams as rural
electrification administrator.
Senator Morse (R-Ore.) also
voted for confirmation, but Sen-:-
ator Cardan (E-Ore.) voted
against.
early post-war period may in
volve lending up to a billion dol
lars to finance rural electric lines,
Voting for confirmation were 31
democrats, 4 republicans and Sen
ator LaFollette (prog.-Wis.). . i
President James G. Patton,
president of the Nation Farmers'
union, announced at a Williams
news conference that the organiza-
tion. would hold a "victory din-
ner in honor of Williams Wed-
nesday. He aid Mrs. Roosevelt
had accepted an invitation to
speak,'
Women Slow
PORTLAND, Ore., March 23 !
(JPy-The Oregon legislative cham
bers were so crowded with worn-
en this year that there is dan-
Legislature
ger of men being pushed out of caused by a defective oil broodi
the house and senate one of these r destroyed a brooder house, 2400
, years, the editor of the Oregon
Voter said today
Addressing the City club here,
C. C. Chapman declared he be-
lieves the session, longest In Ore-1
gon history, was slowed down be-
cause "every .time a member
wanted to confer he had to crawl
over some woman's legs or talk
across his wife's lap." i
He said the legislator's were-
tary usually sat on one side and
his wife on the other.
Easter Sunrise
Speaker Nanied
Rev. Dudley Strain, president of
" the Salem Ministerial association,
will be the speaker at the taster
sunrise service .Easter Sunday
morning at , jaeicresi memorial
. a. - ,
park.' t
The service is sponsored ny tne
Hi-Y and Tri-Y groups, the Salem
Christian Youth Service and the
Salem 'Ministerial association. t)r.
Willard Hall Mi cn airman in
charge.' Virginia ward wuott, tu-
Rector of the Presbyterian choir,
will be in charge of the music
Max. Mia. Bate
tun rraaelsee
Miieo .
faiem
m J ;
j-ortland
wnumrtte river 11 ft. 1 to.
f ORECAST: FrmV. S.watM
with warmer temperatures. Inereasiaf
ciondir.es, and iijht ram. pcU to
. vt . . n,iflir&riiT nuuoi
NINETY-FOURTH YEAR
731 Jap
Airplanes
Claimed
Tokyo Reports
U.S. Navy Blasts
Ryukyu Islands
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-
AITIOTTBC
Guam, Saturday,
down, destroyed or damaged 731
Japanese planes in the March
18-19 raids on southern Japan,;
the navy announced today in an
SAN FRANCISCO,! March 23
I (P)- More than 200 carrier
planes, presumably . from the p
same task force 58 , which
smashed southern Japan Sunday
and Monday, opened an attack
naj on utuuwi m me jb- t
. . . . A !?
yn isianas ana resumea u oat-1
arday (Japanese time), Tokyej
radl announced.
The unconfirmed report ; was
Intercepted by the federal eom-
municatiens commission.
amplification of earlier . reports.
Previous figures were 475 enemjf
planes definitely destroyed an
more than 100 damaged.
The new communique also sup
fU!?tnew, " to
land, targets damaged on Kyushu,
lT1 b
added nothing further to the earl
ier figures of It enemy warships
in Japan s inland sea. . . . -i
The latest total of 731 enemy
planes was made up- of 281 shot
down, 275 . destroyed on the
ground and 175 probably destroy
led or damaged before they could
get aloft.
The communique figures were
based on further reports from
Vice A dm. marc A. Mitscher's
task force 58 covering the period
of March 18 to 21.
Inasmuch as all previous official
reports have listed carrier attacks
on Japan only on the 18th anil
19th, presumably the aerial bag
also consisted of enemy planes
shot down
while the fleet was
retiring. . i
Tokyo radio reports have told
of such air attacks on the 20th
and 21st. , -1 !
The communique said the car
tier plane assaults
on Kyushu.
barring the southern approaches
o the inland sea, resulted in ex
tensive damage to air, installai.
Oita, Omura, Kanoya,
Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Saeki.and
Nittagahara. Kyushu has some of
the most extensive air defenses on
Japan because of its strategic po
sition
1
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$2000Fireffits
Brush Creek
SILVERTON Fire thought to
baby chicks and 50 hens late Fri-
U4y mgni.nere at tne nome oi
Hubert Esser, in the Brush Creek
district
' Esser, a poultryman who "lives
on the oldLCarl Benson place, es-
timated his loss at around $2000
j 50 per, cent covered by insurance.
The fire also caused the electricity
to be cut off in the five other
brooder houses on the farm,- and
may cause additional damage to'
the chicks in those houses.
FDR Assures IJ.S. Delegates j
Free Action at Peace Meetl
. By Jack Bell
WASHINGTON; March 23-(M-
. r
President Roosevelt was . reported
to have assured United States dej-
l esates today they would have
much freedom of action to chart
this country's course at the San
Francisco . world security confer-
The president talked briefly lo
five of the eight members of the
i American sroup . at the White
f erred with Undersecretary of
g tate .Joseph a Grew. Secretary
tary Cordell Hull and Comdr. Hat
Delegates atrjarently came awav
. Wh!l .. w5th
i " - -
j'impression that Mr. Roosevelt Lo-
j tends to leave largely to them the
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Salem,
on (S Ml
'-W" -: LI -i ,1 i ii.: i :- s. , ti-;z:-rz i
Berlin, Other BigGerman
Centers j Virtually Ruined
r. By Hieavy Allied Air Blows
LONDON, March! 2MVBerlin has been virtually ruined
along with the devastation heaped
precedented raids during the last
British bombers, the air ministry
It i is estimated i unofficially
died in the flaming ruins of the
made homeless. The center of the
city is. believed to be completely
wrecked. , : L. i.
"The effect of this campaign can
be estimated not only in terms of
material damage, but iij innumer
able signs of confusion and lack of
control in the enemy's war effort,"
the official statement said in a
summary of some of the recent
damage. j.. j .: .
Never before has air power been
exerted with such paralyzing ef
fect behind any war j front One
industrial and railway town after
another has been ripped for both
strategic and tactical; reasons. . j
Here is the chart on some cities
hardest hit by the American-Brit
ish teams: , i ! i
Berlin More than! 75,000 tons
of bombs have been, dropped on
the imperiled German capital on
ly some 30-odd miles west of the
Russian lines. Besides! the gutted
center of the city other heavily hit
districts include Steglitz, Wilmers
dorf, Schoeneberg, and Charlotten-
berg. f More than 100 of Berlin's
major war factories have been de
stroyed and heavy damage caused
on every large rail; station and
many government buildings. !
Essen The largest and one f
the most heavily bombed cities in
theRuluv It is called! the "town
ithat Krupp built" j because the
Krupp armament works which
attracted , the bombers covered
12150 acres inside the City limits.
jNot one of the hundreds of Krupp
buildings remains ! Undamaged.
Several other factories in the area
lalso are gone. !
Dresden The central, south
and eastern districts of this his
toric Saxon capital in the south
are almost entirely gutted. An air
craft factory, main ; railroad sta
tions, .Nazi headquarters buildings,
and' an arsenal are among the
placesheavily damaged. .
Chemmitz Great damage
throughout the entire city, which
is essential in the defense of east
ern Germany. ' Rapid fires set in
a series of attacks in the past 60
days have knocked it out as a key
communications base. Its pre-war
population was 370,000.
Judge Asks
Adair Deals
Investigation
, PROTLANTJ, Mar j zS-Fed-
eral Judge Claude McCulloch ask
ed today for an investigation j of
condemnation suits involving land
acquired by the government for
Camp Adair. ' - - . "
: Judge McCulloch previously had
charged he was "deceived by lat
torneys into overpayments for land
itnd that some land office ap
praisers gave false j testimony l in
i'4 cases involving $200,000. j
WiH H. Masters, chairman! of
the committee on discipline for the
Oregon federal court -district, was
asked by letter to start,: an inquiry.
"It has been known jsihee the first
disclosure two years ago that your
committee must investigate cer
tain aspects of the condemnation
cases," McCulloch wrote.
evolution of this country's pro
gram; at the April-May conference,
This was with the understanding
that they will work ; within the
general frame-work' of the Dum
barton Oaks preliminary formula.
The Big Three security agree
ments made at Yalt4 and : else
where were; said to be regarded
by the president as! projected! so
lutions of pressing security prob
lems which are open to modifica
tion if it becomes apparent such
actioh is neetssary to bring about
conference, harmony, j
In other words, the delegates
were given to understand that they
do not have to accept 'such agree
ments as that involving the Vol
Ing procedure of the proposed se
curity council as final and not al
terable, j. s ' !
Oracjoxu Saturday Morning; March 24, 1945
on other German cities in un
three weeks by American and
announced tonight
that more than 50,000 persons
Nazi capital and that 400,000 were
Mightiest Air
To Loud Climax
LONDON, Saturday, March
84- (JP) powerful force f
British bombers battered Ger-j
man troops and positions on the
east bank of the Rhine during
the night, it was announced to
day, i . : " .
LONDON, Saturday, March 24-
(ff)-History's mightiest aerial on
slaught roared to a thunderous
climax yesterday ! as more than
8000 allied warplanes battered
communications - in and around
the devastated German' Ruhr.
With the successful bridging of
ther formidable river barrier by
Lt Gen. George S. Patton's swash
buckling US 3rd army troops,
there appeared to be no respite for
the Germans from the aerial at
tack. "' '
The, German radio indicated
that Mosquito bombers were bver
the Reich In strength again; tor
night, blasting varied targets in
bright moonlight. . : ' .
The 19th tactical air - force
planes, formed a protective um
brella!; over the 3rd army front
and Associated Press Correspond
ent Edward D. Ball reported that
23 German planes were shot down
in; the biggest air battles in the
3rd army sector in months.
Gov. Snell OKs
School
Support: Bill
The' state school support fund
bill which originated in the house
of representatives during the re
cent session of the legislature, al
locating $8,000,000 .; annually for
the next biennium from surplus
state : income tax monies, was
signed Friday by Gov, Earl fenell.
Public schools now. receive $5,-
000,000 annually from that source,
so the; new statute provides an ad'
ditional $3,000,000 a yean
In order to apply the money as
directed for increase of teachers'
salaries (Salem's - share will be
approximately $100,000, it is esti
mated), a special Salem school
election must be , called, district
directors agreed at a recent meet
ing. Voters at that election would
be asked to approve a budget call
ing for expenditure of $100,000
above the six per cent limitation
ceiling, but no additional property
levy would be required. -
Snell signed 33 bills Friday and
vetoed HB 281 i relating to the
horse racing seasonHe explained
that the step was taken "because
of the obvious ambiguity and the
inevitable litigation necessary to
clarify its meaning. - -
Movie Actors Against
Joining With Walkout
HOLLYWOOD, March 23C$V
Film actors, big name as well as
bit players, apparently are over
whelmingly against ' joining the
walkout of approximately 15,000
film technicians, it was disclosed
by early returns today on voting
of the actors, ' -
With ballots still coming in
following the deadline last mid
night, the incomplete tabulation
was 2760 votes against joining the
strike and 73 favoring the walk
put'
Senator Would Divide
Taxpayers Into Groups
; WASHINGTON March 23 -()
The idea of dividing the 50,000,000
American taxpayers into four al
phabetical groups, with different
filing dates was advanced today
by Senator 0Daniel (D-Tex), as
a. means of getting away from
the deadline rush each March 15.
;OT)aniel said in letters to all
his colleagues he would offer his
plan as an amendment to the
next tax bill.
Assault Roars
Prie
Ducks-Lose High
Scoring Thriller
To
Arkansas U.
. (By the Associated Press) j I
The! University of Oregon Web-
foots 'were eliminated in their
National Collegiate Athletic asso
ciation basketball semi-finals de
but at Kansas. City, Mo last
night by bowing to the Arkansas
Razof backs, 79 to 7C, in a free-
scormg game. Arkansas led, 47
34, ajt half time. .Oregon rallied in
the second half and finally tied
the count at 72, 74 and 76, only
to l4se in the final 14 seconds
of the game.
The victorious Razorbacks Will
play j Oklahoma A & M tonight
for the Western regional title. Ok
lahoma defeated defending nation
al champion Utah, 62-37, last
night. , The Kansas City winner
advances to Madison Square Gar
den, New; York, Tuesday night to
play for the national- champion
ship with the eastern regional
winner. (Complete details of
Oregon-Arkansas game on today's
sports page, page 8.) .
Bismarck Sea
Sunk by Japs
Off Iwo Jima
l VS. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Saturday,
March 24 - (AP) - Japanese planes
which counterattacked U. S. am
phibious forces off IWO Jima the
night of February 21 sank jthe
UJS.S-- Bismarck Sea, an escort
carrier, Adm. Chester W, Nimitz
announced today.
I .The Bismarck Sea, a 400-;ton
vessel, was the '11th U. S. carrier
listed as lost in the war. Ten of
the 11 have been lost in the Pa
cific. Six of the. flattops wereies
corts, one was a light carrier and
four were full carriers. i
Nimitz said "most" of the Bis
marck Sea's -personnel estimated
at 1500 were rescued but.Capt
John Lockwood Pratt, the skip
per, in an interview told war cor
respondents "many" of his men
were killed in explosions caused
by Japanese aerial torpedoes and
by the fires which followed. He
said many others were killed in
The water' by Japanese pilots who
returned toStrafe the survivors.
Extension of
Draft Okehcd
WASH1NGTON, March 23-)-
A one-year draft law extension
bill sped through the house today
in less time' than it takes a draft
board to make a man 1-A.
jucss wan live mm ultra was
re-
quired to dispose of the measure.
Army spokesmen had urged that
the draft " machinery be kept
in-
tact! : :
There was no debate only
brief explanation of the 11-line
bill by Chairman May (D-Ky.) of
the military committee.
There -: was not even a vote,
passage coming under procedure
by which a single objection could
have delayed consideration. But
the absence of an objection aytb
matically passed the bill
U I
j4P Correspondent
Ken Dixon Turns
Up With Mumps
j ARTESIA, NU, Ma reft Z3fA)
AP War Correspondent Kenneth
h. Dixon : dodged shells, bohibs
and small arms fire In Africa land
Italy and on the western front for
18' months, came home on Uave
and today turned up with-j-the
mumps. I' ; ".". v . i
' Dixon who plans to return to
the war front soon, was ordered
to bed for a week by his doctor,
j "I'm OK. Just teU folks ndt to
laugh at me," he s a i d tonight.
fBuV he added, "I can't help
laughing myself."; l
Nazi Piano, Opposition
Too Scarce for Yanks
! LONDON, "March 23-C)-Oppo-sition
from enemy planes was so
scarce in the massive raids j on
Germany Joday that pilots escort
ing allied bomber formations! re
turned with only a nazi trailing
baft added to their kills. It was
bagged by Capt, George Doersch
of Seymour, Wis, and LA. Ken
neth Barber cf Turner, Ore,: ' ,
5c
No. Sift
Reds Solit
, JL
Defenses
On Baltic
Germans Report
KiifiQ vllrivp SiY f
By Romney wheeler
LONDON, Saturday, March 24
-JP)-Berlin said last night that
the Red army had reopened a
wazmg Datue xor tne lmpemea
Nazi capital i while Moscow an-1
noupneed thaf Russian forces had
split the Nakl defenders of the
prize BalUc ports of Danzig and
Gdynia. . i ,
- Waves. of Russian infantry and
tanks were rerxrted by the enemy
to have brokmt through Nazi de-J
ienser aiong oerun s uaer river
line and to Have swept six nules
beyond captured Kuestrin to with-
in 31 miles east of the capital.
A thunderous 90-minute artil
lery bombardment, followed by at
tacks by.liundreds of Soviet dive
bombers, preceded the assault
which smashed to Golzow on the
main . Kuestrin -Berlin trunk rail'
road. There an enemy front re
port said, a German counter-at
tack stalled the drive but the Bus
sians struck again in a swaying,
indecisive battle, . v , , ?
The, major I Russian offensive
against Berlin is immediately at
hJnd,,, said i Berlin report to the
German-con trolled STBegency in
Stockholm.
There was no confirmation of
. lrt w utcnooyM,
At the southern end of the eastern
frount hfiwvr th Red army
was clamping a huge pincer on
. v,.-.
Moravia, Bohemia and . Vienna
Marshal -Itan S. Konev's First
Ukrainian army reached the fron
tier of Moravia in pursuit of en
emy forces fjrom upper Silesia in
to the Sudeten mountains and bat
.-j .S4v:J A ,
w'""? xt t
of the Silesian citadels of Neisse
ana loeDSClieu. . v
- Simultaneously, Berlin said a
four-day Red army offensive south
of the Danube river in Hungary
naa xeacneaj nomarom, strategic
key to Bratislava and Vienna, 54
and 84 miles to the west, and Red
,".. lJ t i 1 , xJI
air iorce nejavy Dampers oiasieu
the Hungarian town of Papa.
For Jap War
TLfinpm I MnrvVi 9t-ISK-Rn
Japan tonight as the government
awaited Tokyo's reply to a strong
note of protest against the "pre
meditated murders" of Spanish
nationals prior to the liberation of
Manlia by American troops.
The Franco government seemed
willing to carry the issue to the
conclusion if war, despite , a re-
nort that Gfermanv had D resented
a nottto the Madrid government
saying any Spanish action against
Japan would be considered an un
friendly act by the Reich.
2 Salem Men
Killed in War
The names of Sgt Edwin . De-
Wayne Appegate and Pvt Roy H.
Dobell have been ' added to .the
list of SelenVs war dead. ,
Applegate, son of Gladys Jewell,
1945 Oxford st, was killed in ac
tion March 2, In. Germany. -
Dobell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
H. Dobell, has been officially list
ed as dead. He was ,a prisoner
aboard a Japanese freighter sunk
last September.'
(Further details page 10).
Fog,,Then Sunshine
Predicted for Today
. PORTLAND, March 23 -(JP)
Mother Nature'! weather maker
was one up on the official fore
caster today f with a brief haa
storm on record amid flashes of
mid-day sunshine;
The U. S. weather-bureau to -
night said Sa'turday would open
with lots of. i fog, then clear up
and remain fair all day. '
IBsitIIddii
Ready
BerllDini pini
ra c an n
- r- ,
iiuora
Yanks Overwhelm Startled Nazis, '
1 Strike Inland; Three Other Allied
jArmies Poised for Drive to North :.
I - By Austin Bealmear
PARIS, Saturday, March 24-(AP)-The U.S.
third army swarmed in
Thursday night in the war's greatest river 'cross
ing, (overwhelmed the startled enemy and struck
inland with lightning speed from a firm bridge
head on the shortest road
ahead.
By Friday the Americans had seized a sizeable
strip of territory east of
announcement referred to
head)' which in army terminology means the cross-
ings;are beyond enemy light artillery range, (that
&i ca11 wwcress.
yond the ithine.J
Three other allied
ninth! Canadian first and
n G i . nnU
r"" w m
crossmss wnictt tne OermaDs said were imminent
ir-- ,JM- s
wn jiug. oui iu ; pcuccuou a cuup reucarscu
for months, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., put the
J V i 9, - ' ' r..
lir American assauu
I closed ooint on the east bank without the Uermani
I iJi .i., J l, .
""fe " wmwi
actual crossing.
i i rwn . - i
AUC crossings wmcn
made With . amphibious
boats, came without a preliminary bombardment
which might have tipped
Patton was pressing home what
without giving the enemy time to
west of the Rhine. The charging
its of. beating the Russians to Berlin.
The enemy was so startled by
resting from their defeat west of
not a.'Kinffla hpW shr11 nras flrmd
touched the "east bank in the moonlight of 10 .25 n.m. Thursday:
Thus Patton showed his contemot for the Rhine. Germanv'a his-
toric imoat which, never before had
First army won the honor of being
dorffj bridge Intact at Remagen more than two weeks ago.
I Germans Admit Crossing ;
i The Germans, giving the first
"er m me aay inat wtMn aa crossed near Oppenheim, 10 miles south .
ot the fallen city of Mainz. . j
, ine ease OI crossings ana ine swux pusn imana pointed up
tremendous victory which the Third and the VS. Seventh armies
had won on the west bank.
The German First and Seventh
the east bank for the defense of inner Germany, were destroyed
100,000 of their troops in prison cages and their tanks, armored ve
hiclel, trucks and guns strewn by the thousands" on the battlefield
west of the Rhine.
If the Germans are correct in
rvnVM?Y! than hia fnr im ntit nn
XT . -rr -
best natural approaches to Berlin
t- there the Rhine is 500 yards
I turnri Intn th narmw vnrir. that
1 65 Miles' From Fhit
That would place it about 55
least bank front, which is bursting
lnnine opposite coDienz. i
- . Oppenheim is 20 miles southeast of Frankfurt-on the-Main, and
Is little more than 300 airline miles west of where the Russians are
I : iL; - i ....... -. . i i ii
iwidui( wesiwara.
Wave on wave of hard-hitting veterans crossed in what Associ
ated j Press Correspondent Edward D. j Ball declared from the j front
was Tthe greatest over-water assault since the Normandy beaches."
The Germans then began pouring in some mortar and anti-tank
fire and they were answered and silenced by thunderous salvos from
American artillery drawn up along the river, j ' ' . j -
By dawn the first wave had pushed on inland and more and mora
I men jand supplies were landing
1 P",u ure
B-ll iL kAk..il V
There was no question of Patton's ability to exploit his surprise.
for the stuff that he had landed tar outweighed that which the Ger
mans Were able to muster after the debacle west of the river, j
r- s 1 1 --' 1 1 -
Cooperation Asked in Checking
List of Heroes in
J ? The names of approximately 275
mid-Willamette vauey men wno
navel given their lives in World
War ill will appear in The Oregon
Statesman tomorrow, Sunday,
Manjh 24, in order to assist or
ganisations renewing or Installing
plaques In honor of deceased he
roes. A ;:-, : S'--: -
The Jlst has been compiled ex
clusively by The Statesman from
many sources since Dec 1, 194 L
and has been subject to exhaust
ive (ihecking. . v-; - ;vv;;f:'
' But witti many factors working
against 100 per cent accuracy
such! as ' the induction of valley
men (in other areas, the removal
of families, notifications that
might- go elsewhere, mistakes in
the transmission .of names, etc,
the aid of everyone is heeded to
redute possible errors to a mini
mum For Marion county, the Federa
tion jof Patriotic Societies has en
listed s The Statesman's aid in ob
taining names for a plaque to be
placed on the courthouse grounds,
and this newspaper has been glad
to cooperate. --
If jthere are misspellings, omis
sions, erroneous inclusions or any
ether; error In the forthcoming
list. ! readers are asked to write
The Statesman immediately.
I It jls emphasized that there is
no single official source that lias
suchf a list available.. That is why
The Statesman in this way is try
n
strength across the Rhine
to Berlin 265 miles
the river, for an official
the position as a bridge
- mucn as live mues oe-
armies the 'American
British second were
t W t.i PUt-i
wi iuc iiuui iui ivuiuc
ri ' -
waves across ai an unuis-
v. . t - .t.
uic iuw wi iu
' t "
me Germans sam vas
tanks as well as assault
off the enemy.
might well prove a mortal blow
recuperate from the Nazi catasttopht
doughboys were talking in high spir
j
this swift assault that some troops.
the river, were caught eating and
until turn hnnri afior th first fmnra
been stormed, although the VS.
the first across by taking the Luden-
hint of the dazzling coup, said ear-
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armies, which might have been on
saying that Patton crossed at Od-
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out southward and is nearing tb
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60,000 Japs
Launch New;
a Drivel
; CHUNGKING, ; March : 23
Sixty thousand tank-led Japan.es
troops have opened a new offen
sive northwest , of the central
China city of Hankow, aimed at
seizing the wheat crop in north
ern Hupeh and southern Honan
provinces and removing the Chin
ese threat to the Peiping-Kankow
Tail way, the Chinese announced
today.- J I ' " I ; ;
Initial reports indicated .the en
emy columns were making good
progress. ' f
Several allied, air fields are in
the' path; of the drive, Including
one at Laohokow, 190 miles north
west of Hankow. The Japanese
struck from bases between King
men, northeast of the Yangtze
river port of Ichang, and Sinyang,
on the Peiping-Hankow railroad.