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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1945
NO. 2.
Allied Armies Cross
Rhine; Drive Wedge
Five Miles Into Ruhr
Paris, March 24 (U.R) Four allied armies vaulted the Rhine
today In a climatic win-the-war offensive ot gigantic proportions
and within 24 hours advanced eight miles across the north Ger
man plain and drove a wedge 12 miles wide and five miles deep
into the vital Ruhr Industrial basin.
- Massive fleets of naval, assault boats carried the troops and
tanks. Field Marshal Sir B. L. Montgomery's three armies, in
cluding the American 9th, crossed the Rhine while 3,000 troop car
riers and gliders dropped three divisions some 40,000 men of the
1st allied airborne army behind the German lines.
GREATEST OFFENSIVE
Fleets of allied planes darkened the sky Joining massed artil
lery In blasting the east bank defenses for miles beyond the river.
It was the greatest offensive yet launched against the Germans
from the west, designed to end the war in the quickest possible
time.
The assault crashed into Germany's Inner fortress on a wind
ing 35-mile stretch of the Rhine from Rees through Wesel south
to Duisburg In the heart of the Ruhr, Germany's last major war
production area.
The British 2nd and Canadian 1st armies established three or
more bridgeheads between Rees and Wesel, Field dispatches said
these were quickly expanded into a 13-mile front with -armored
spearheads as much as eight miles east of the Rhine and pointed
for Berlin, 280 miles away across Ideal tank country.
NINTH ROARS AHEAD
The drive into the Ruhr by Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's
American 9th army roared ahead against light resistance and cut
the Wesel-Duisburg road by reaching the outskirts of Dinslaken.
only four miles north of the major industrial city of Duisburg.
Ninth army doughboys also captured Spellen, three miles
south of Wesel on the south side of the Llppe river, and overran
Voerde, Mollem, Stapp and Walsun as they rapidly enveloped the
Ruhr arsenal.
PARATROOPS SCORE
Allied supreme headquarters announced that the airborne
forces had linked up with ground troops in a solid junction within
six hours after they dropped,, but the exact points of contact was
not immediately disclosed.
Front reports said some airborne troops had landed due north
of Wesel and Joined forces with British troops fighting to con
solidate a series of bridgeheads between Rees and Wesel.
It was believed that other paratroops landed in the American
one continuous bridgehead. '
End of War Drive
Washington, March 24 (U.R)
Military observers tonight cited
incoming reports vi uie biubmi
ing allied drive beyond the
Rhine and said "This is it." .
They hope that the allied
armies In the ' west ' arei". .com
mitted now in the last great bat
tle of the European war. That is
what this was planned to be
Time and- the fortunes of war
will determine whether General
of the Army Dwight D Eisen
hower will have to pull up once"
more, reform for attack and
throw still another Sunday
punch.
. No V-day" date is mentioned
here. But the war department
has its own estimate of the day
beyond which organized German
resistance shall cease. Days,
weeks and months probably
must elapse before they will
have verification or repudiation
of their estimate.
If this thrust fails to roll on
. to Berlin there is one .thing of
absolute certainty Eisenhower
can and will reform his armies,
send them forward and beat the
ears off the enemy.
He has faltered, paused and
stopped twice since D-day, June
6 when the allied armies came
ashore in Normandy. The first
time was when the thrust be
yond Paris was stalled. Lt. Gen
George S. Patton, Jr., simply
ran out of gas. Since then prep
arations of the greatset magni
tude have been made. Cleaning
up the west bank of the Rhine
was merely incidental to what Is
happening now.
There have been disappoint
ments and the inevitable mis
calculations In these mass under
takings. The second time we
were stalled was in December.
Then the Germans broke through
to create the Ardennes bulge
But some of the luck and some
of the breaks were with the al
lies, as will be more widely
known when the whole story can
be told.
Naili Tipped Off
Watch Field Marshal Sir Ber
nard L Montgomery's drive in
the north. His smoke-screened
preparations tipped the Germans
some weeks ago that they would
be hit hard by Monty. But they
didn't know when. The man in
the beret is driving now for the
Westphalian plain, the broad
highway to Berlin. It is an area
where tanks and other armored
vehicles can roam, prow', en
circle and kill. On that flat land
they need not bother with roads.
Siafe-r Kennv Firm
For Congress Quiz
Minneapolis, Minn., March 24
fiioi cictoi- Elizabeth Ken
ny's dispute with the American
Medical Association over u'
ment of muscular paralysis con
tinued tonight.
She remained adamant In her
threat made earlier this ween
(hat thn tv ill leave the United
States unless her theories and
methods receive a Congressional
airing.
TO
BE 'PULVERIZED'
Washington, March 24 U.R)
Robert Murphy, political adviser
on German affairs to Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned
the German people tonight that
they must choose now between
"unconditional surrender and
pulverization."
He also revealed plans for re
educating the German people,
under allied supervision, to
make Germany a ' peace-loving
nation. The plans contemplate
elimination of all nazi teachers,
teachings and text books and the
closing of all schools in Germany
until the necessary adjustments
of faculties and text books have
been effected. -
Murphy, who will return to
Eisenhower's headquarters next
week, spoke on the state depart
ment's weekly radio program on
"What About Enemy Countries?"
Also participating in the forum
were Assistant Secretaries of
State James C. Dunn and Archi
bald MacLeish.
SACRIFICE PAYS
Indianapolis, Ind March 24
(U.R) Some 4,860,000 pairs of
nylon stockings which Amer
ican women sacrificed towed
hordes of gliders across the
Rhine river today.
First Troop Carrier Command
Headquarters here estimated
that much nylon material was
used in the glider tow ropes
which pulled 3.000 , airborne-troop-laden
gliders nearer Berlin
and nearer the end of the Euro
pean war.
QUOTA EXCEEDED
Jackson county has exceeded
its Red Cross 1945 war fund
quota by 120 per cent according
to an announcement yesterday
by B. H. Harder, Medford, coun
ty drive chairman. Mr. Harder
stated that canvasses are incom
plete in a few sections here and
in outlaying districts but that
the solicitation is nearly com
pleted. The drive ends April 1.
SHIP NEED TOLD
New York. March 24 (U.R)
The United States should main
tain an adequate postwar mer
chant marine fleet to provide the
means whereby American pro
ducers can seek out a $10,000.
000,000 foreign market, Almon
E. Roth, of the National Fed
eration of American Shipping,
Inc., asserted today
DEVASTATE RUHR
IN RECORD RAID
Greatest Armada of Ail Time
Pounds Reich In Final
Round Against Hun .
' London, March 24 (U.R) The
allies sent an estimated 14,000
warplanes the greatest air ar
mada In history against Ger
many today, devastating the
Ruhr, launching a record air
borne landing and blasting Ber
lin in the first raid on the reich
capita by Italy-based planes.
"This is the opening of the
final round," Air Chief Marshal
Sir Arthur Tedder told the
fliers in their final briefing for
the greatest day of "air opera
tions in five and one-half years
of war. , i
Heavy bgmbers, medium bomb
ers, fighters, gliders, troop car
riers and tactical planes filled
the skies over the reich, shooting
down at least 68 German planes
and plastering the Ruhr with
bombs in support of the big push
across the Rhine.
American and British planes
threw an impenetrable air um
brella over the ground armies
blasted German troop concentra
tions, strongpoints, armor, gun
positions, airfields, railroads and
highways. They also bombed two
big fuel refineries.
; Most spectacular was the gi
gantic airborne operation in the
Wesel area, in which between
5,000 and 6.000 planes' were en
gaged, the greatset air effort in
history. A 100-mile column of
gliders and troop carriers for
two hours poured thousands of
troops behind enemy lines while
protecting fighters swarmed on
all sides of the great formation.
Shortly after the landing some
240 Liberators of the U. S. 8th
airforce came over the airborne
bridgehead only a few hundred
feet above the ground, dropping
1,800 tons of food, medicine and
fighting equipment to the troops.
Great squadrons of R. A. F
Lancasters blotted out German
defense positions ahead of the
other ground troops which cross
ed the Rhine in assault boats
They hit troop concentrations,
armored units, fortifications and
machine gun nests "with great
accuracy." .
Virtually every British-based
and tactical plane at the allies'
disposal was in action over the
Rhine when tne 15th airforce
in Italy sent its largest escorted
heavy bomber fleet of the war
on the 1,200-mile roundtrip to
Berlin.
EARLY POSTPONES
PLANS TO RESIGN
WHITE HOUSE JOB
uroehlnatnn. March 24 (U.R)
Stephen T. Early has agreed to
postpone his resignation as :.
n orffairifnt Roosevelt un
til the chief executive finds
someone to replace the late Maj
Gen. Edwin M. Watson in his
secretariat, the White House re
vealed tonight.
It Issued a statement by Mr
Roosevelt saying Early had
niannui tr, resign, to enter nrl
vate business, when he returned
from Europe where he has oeen
advising the army on Improve
ment of its public relations set
up. Early returned to Washing
ton this week.
Mr. Roosevelt said Jonathan
Dnnlpl ion of Joseohus Daniels
publisher of the Raleigh News
and Observer, will replace Early
n hi ecretarv in charge of
press relations. Daniels, now an
administrative assistant to the
president, has been filling Ear
ly's post during his absence.
Karlv will nerve a secretary
in charge of appointments, the
nnst held bv Watson, until a
permanent replacement Is. nam
ed, the president sad.
Congress Agrees On
Work-Or-Fight Act
Washington, March 24 (U.R)
Senate and House conferees
agreed today on a compromise
work or Jail manpower bill
which would provide penalties
for both employers and employes
who wilfully violate It.
The measure would give to
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes power to freeze work
ers in essential industries. tcHU
late hiring of workers, and es
tablish limitations on the num
bers of workers employers may
Fighter Plane With Bat Wings,
(Acm TtUphoto)
Here's the first view of the Northrup Aircraft's XP-56,a fighter plans with batUke wings and no tail. Twin,
three-bladed, counter-routing pusher propellers are located where the tail is on more conventional type air
planes. The weird looking craft will be used as a basis for designs of future military and peacetime ships.
YANKEES EUTED
F
Nazi Resistance Feeble and
Troops Elated As End of
War Looms
Ittr Inn fitrlnHAV
United Press War Correspondent
With American Forces on the
Rhine, March 24 U.R) We are
on the threshold of the war's end
tonight. There Is a spirit of ela
tion along the front.
Tonight It tooks like the mad-
nn ror-a fni RerUn Is nn nnt
only between the various armies
on the western front, but also be
tween the eastern and western'
allies as a whole.
The spirit Is something hard
to believe. I saw guys returning
frnm the front . cold, shivering
and drenched. They were tired
and uncomlortaDie. cut iney
were happy. They are in on tne
Irlll iwiof nnrl they're tiot going
to sleep until the race is fin
ished.
Yesterday I listened to Gen.
Omar N. Bradley seriously
warning , against over-optimism.
Ha meant it" Ovpf nnfimlsm has
been too much of a good thing.
But In the past few days I ve
flown over the 1st army Rhine
hrlHmhinrl nnrl seen big cities
gutted, along with little farm
villages. ,
Thera ! nn Siegfried line, no
mountain-like pillboxes such as
those at Normanay, to noia us
back. The only fortified area
itrhara thai Hermans could hODe
to make a fanatical stand is the
heavily-congested Ruhr.
All nl O the front the allies
now seem able to tear apart and
grind their way tnrougn mc
nazi's defenses. They seem to be
going where they please and
there's no question where that is
The Germans, hoping to stop
this avalanche, are frantically
pulling In everything possible.
FOr weeks their commanders
had been resorting to "piracy"
snatching stray troops anywhere
they could find them and Im
pressing them into service.
They have sent convalescents
to the front. They have hurled
training companies, raw and un
prepared, Into the battle in a
desperate hope of plugging the
dykes But it's no use. Each day
our army takes prisoners num
bering into the thousands. Each
day they overrun numbers of
towns and vital miles of the
reich. ..
Each day defenses which could
have been formidable and bloody
have been taken with ease.
SCOTCPETSOF
With the British 2nd Army.
March 24 flJ.R) Battle-hardened
Scotsmen of the 81st High
land division who started their
march along the road to victory
at El Alamein led the British
2nd army crossing of the Rhine.
The men who had battled
across two continents since the
summer of 1942 flung lifebelts
around their waists, climed into
amphibious vehicles and crossed
the moonlit Rhine at 9 p. m.
That r.prmanl suoDOSed to be
standing watch on the Rhine
must have been asleep lor me
Scotties met practically no op
nnaltlnn.
Military men said the mass
crossing by the three armies un
der his command was the most
kriitinnt nnfratlnn vet turned In
by Field Marshal Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery.
The artillery barrage which
preceded it was hit biggest yet.
AFRICA FIND NO
WATCH ON RHINE
TOWARDS VIENNA
ON 62 M. FRONT
London, March 24 (U.R) The
red army-has swept 43 miles
across western ' Hungary and is
moving toward Vienna on a 62
mile front in a new Juggernaut
offensive coinciding with the al
lied grand-scale drive into Ger
many from the west, Marshal
Josef Stalin revealed tonight.
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin s
3rd Ukrainian army smashed
the formidable Lake Balaton line
southwest of Budapest and seiz
ed the big bastions of Mor, Vesz
prem and Szekesfehervar as well
as 350 other towns In a massive
surge against Germany's south
east ramparts.
In a second order of the day
Stalin announced the fall of the
Silesian citadels and road cen
ters of Neisse and Leobschuetz,
43 and 68 miles southeast ol
Breslau. Both were key bases in
the defense of the passes into the
Bohemian plain.
Other soviet columns were re
ported by Berlin to be attacking
from all sides in a roaring bat
tle for Oder bridgeheads around
Kuestrin on the road to Berlin
The Baltic, port of Stettin rocked
under a ceaseless ' pre-assaull
bombardment; Danzig and Gdy
nia tottered. The Russians were
welding their might into a su
preme knockout drive from the
east just as their allies were
doing in the west. .
GOES TO SENATE
Washington, March 24 (U.R)
The House today passed Hnd
sent to the Senate an $833,801,
000 appropriation bill for agri
culture department operations In
the fiscal year 1946 which starts
July 1.
Approval by a vote of 256 to
16 came late in the day after
administration forces overcame
several attempts to amend the
bill. A motion by Rep. John Ta
ber, R., N. Y., to send the entire
measure back to committee was
defeated 159 to 58.
Democrats saved a $50,000,-
000 school lunch program item
in the closest vote of the day, 89
to 88. Taber had moved to strike
the lunch fund from the bill. He
also was defeated, 87-67, In an
attempt to knock out $90,000,000
for the Farm Security Adminis
tration. .
No attempt was made to
change the $300,000,000 fund for
payments to farmers under the
1S46 crop program. The com
mittee recommended that
amount, although the Budget
Bureau originally asked only
$200,000,000.
CLOSESTRESGUE
TO NIPPON TOLD
Aboard Adm. Mitscher'g Flag
ship off Japan, March 19 (Via
Navy Radio (U.R) Snatched
from under the muzzles of Jap
anese shore batteries by the dar
ing pilot of a Kingfisher sea
plane, 1st Lt. Ralph O. Glendin
ning, Avinel, N. J., today told of
watching the bomb-blasted Mi
yazakl airfield buildings burn as
he bobbed along in a life-raft ten
miles off southern Kyushu.
The rescue, the closest yet to
the shores of the Japanese home
land, was made by Lt. William
A. Ethridge, Kansas City, Mo
His landing on the rough waters
within sight of Jap soil was de
scribed by Glendinning, a 21-year-old
marine pilot, as "the
moit beautiful I ever saw."
No Toil
BLACK MARKETS
10 BUREAUS SAY
President Expected To Clari
fy Food Situation Tues
. day At Conference
Washington, March 24 (U.R)
The future looked dark tonight
for the black market in meat.
Both the Treasury and the Office
of Price Administration are out
to kill it.
With the Treasury and OPA
at war on the black market.
Congress undertook to find out
Just why some phases of food
production, especially beef, have
failed to keep up with demand
It apoeared unlikely, however
that these various activities
could produce much result In
the form of more food in the ice
box for months to come.
In the meantime, some clari
fication of a confused situation
should be forthcoming on Tues
day, when President Roosevelt
Is expected to discuss the food
shortage in detail at his news
conference.
And today, having adjusted
themselves to -the Idea of reduc
ing their consumption of red
meat proteins, consumers were
told to expect also a shortage of
vegetable protein.
Congress showed interest this
week in assertions by meat pack
ers that there actually Is no
shortage of beef cattle. Cattle
aren't being slaughtered, pack
ers told the Senate Banking
Committee, because under OPA
nrices there is no profit in them
For many, they said, it is "go
broke or go black."
The Treasury has disclosed
what lt is trying to do to black
market profiteers Including Il
legal dealers In meat what it
did to Al Capone. By watching
them where they do their big
gest spending. In the country's
lusher vacation resorts, Treasury
agents hoped to nail black mar
ket operators with income tax
evasion indictments.
MICHIGAN STATE
L
Lansing, Mich., March 24 -
(U.R) Michigan's one-man grand
Jury initiated new legislative
graft conspiracy charges tonight
against two former state sena
tors who previously have been
convicted, alleging they accepted
bribes to Influence action on
1941 Horse Racing Bill.
The indictment announced by
Grand Juror Judge Leland w
Carr named ex-Senators Jerry T
Logie, R., Bay City, and Charles
C. Diggs, D., Detroit. Both are
free on bond pending appeal on
three-to-five year sentences Im
posed after they were found
guilty of bribery In a 1939 fi
nance company measure.
Special Prosecutor Kim Slgler
said Logie and Diggs would be
arraigned early next week.
It was the ninth major indict
ment three of them involving
race track legislation returned
by the Carr-Sigler grand jury
since It started its unrelenting
drive in 1943 to eradicate graft
corruption from the capltol
Three .raft cases have gone to
trial, and a fourth opens April
16.
8IAPAN HERO CALLED
San Diego, March 24 (U.R)
Col. Evans Carlson, organizer
and leader of the famed Carl
sons' Marine Raiders who gained
.(lory O'i Salpan, has been re
called to active duty, it was re
ported today. His exact assign
ment was not Immediately re
vealed
AR BULLETINS
'Calcutta. March 24- (U.R)
-British troops advanced to
within four miles ol the Jap
anas stronghold of Kyaukie
In central Burma, lt was an
nounced today, as other em
pire forces to the southwest
hurled back a powerful Jap
anese attack on their outposts
at Meiktlla.
Rome, Mar eh 24 (U.R)
German bombardments and
sharp patrol clashes have brok
en the lull along the 8th U. S.
army front, lt was reported
today, as allied warplanes for
the second straight day flew
about 2,600 sorties and blasted
enemy communications In
north Italy.
Chungking, March 24 (U.R)
Onruhlng Japanese armor
ed columns, gaining mora than
20 miles in 24 hours, have
pressed to Fancheng, only 31
miles from Laohokow, Amer
ican airbase and military head
quarters In northern Hupeh
province, a Chinese communi
que said today.
OREGON DEFEATS
UTAH 69-66 TO
THIRD SPOT
Kansas City, Mo., March 24
(U.R) Oregon's fighting young
sters won third place in the
N. C. A. A. western basketball
finals tonight, defeating the
Rocky Mountain entry and 1944
champion, Utah, 69-66.
The Webfoots finished in third
place in the western tourney be
cause they didn't know how to
give up. Behind 38-30 at the half,
they returned to the floor to pull
into a 42-all tie In less than
three minutes.
Then, with Dick Wilkins lead
ing the way, but with all mem
bers of the starting quintet cut
ting a piece of the offensive.
Oregon matched baskets with
Utah's Satterfield, Doron and
Howard'.-until - the 16-minute
mark when they went Into the
lead to stay. . . ,
The score was tied an even
dozen times along the way. Dor
ton was high man with 24 points.
Wilkins got 21 to lead Oregon.
New York, March 24 (U.R)
A great New York university
basketball team scored six points
with a half minute remaining in
an overtime period to defeat
Ohio State 70-65 In the NCAA
eastern championships at Madi
son Square Garden tonight.
Behind by 10 points with two
minutes remaining of regular
play, the Violets came roaring
back to tie the score 62-62 with
only a second remaining.
OKLAHOMA WINS
Kansas City, Mo., March 24
(U.R) Working brilliantly around
Man Mountain Bob Kurkiand
the Oklahoma Aggies brushed olf
Arkansas tonight to win the
NCAA western basketball cham
nionship. The final score was
68-41, Arkansas defeated Oregon
79 to 76 Friday night.
Washington, March 24 (U.R)
The way was cleared today for
house debate Monday on a pro
posal to investigate conditions In
veterans hospitals.
The house rules committee ap
proved a resolution by Rep. John
E. Rankin (D., Miss.) which
would authorize such an lnvestl
gation by the veterans commit
tee. There have been charge),
from a variety of sources that
care In veterans hospitals Is bad
Rep. Philip J. Philbln (D
Mass.) said he would attempt to
broaden the scope of the lnvestl
gation. He said he would ask
for creation of a special 11 man
committee to Investigate all
phases of servicemen's rehablli
tation, including conditions In
army and navy hospitals.
PORTLAND MAN FREED
San Francisco, March 24-(U.R)
The army announced tonight
that among enlisted men and of
ficers, liberated by American
forces from Japanese prison
camps In the Philippines, who
have departed for their homes
from Letterman General hospital
was:
Cpl. Peter Connacher, Port
land.
FUND USE WARNING
Sacramento, March 24 (U.R)
Gov. Earl Warren today
warned against appropriation of
state funds for construction of
local public works.
HOUSE PROBE OF
HOSPITALS NEAR
T
CITY, GUARDIAN
Nagoya Target of Super-
forts Battleships Rake
Ryukyu Group
(A Japanese Imperial com
munique broadcast by Tokyo
radio admitted damage to the
city and that flames were not
controlled for nearly five hours.
(The communique, heard by
United Press in San Francisco,
said that "about 130 B-29s raid
ed the Nagoya district for about
one hour and a half from mid
night on March 25. The city area
was Indiscriminately bombed
With exnloslvea nnrl lr,MMJI
- ' M..M l.lkL.IUl-
aries, causing fires and damage
"but the fires were completely
extinguished by 4:50 a. m,")
Guam, Sunday, March 25
,R) A fleet . ... ..
- w. a icaa,
PerfortrefiReH flHapir 4t,.
- ' ..v.u HJW V41V
subishl aircraft Industry at Na-
a . wnn nunareds of tons of
demolition bombs early today in
airiKe designed to cripple
Japan's airplane engine produc
tion. A eommiinlnna I.....J -i ik.
M w .aaucu Wfc IIIV
Zlst bomber command headquar-
Hnnouncea mat Marianas
based B-2!)' had r.,.im.J
series of punishing raids against
me principal centers of war
making fnolmlea In h.
... .its wapca-
ese homeland.
The Superfortresses, carrying
uuge out undisclosed tonnage
"general nnmn.aH UMk.
of
f .. UUIIIU.,
droned over blacked-out Nagoya
snoriiy aner midnight at 5,000
ieei aniiuae.
The five nraolam mM
against major Japanese cities
lOKyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Koba
Were ineenrllnrv.hnmh nH.nlr-
designed to burn out target
areas,
It ' Was the seennil attM
against Nagoya the Far East'a
greatest aircrait center and Jap
an!s third largest city within a
week. And it was the fifth time)
in the war. that the Mitsubishi
plant has been the target for the
Superforts,
Guam, Sunday, March 28
(U.R) Fast battleships and car
rier aircraft of the U. S. Pacific
fleet raked four Islands of tha
Ryukyu chain south of Japan
with tons of bombs and sheila
Friday, in a follow-up to tha
fifth fleet's assault on Japan pro
per earlier in the week, lt was
announced today.
The big guns of battleship
blasted coastal objectives on
Okinawa, , Japan's guardian is
land in the Ryukuyus, and other
nearby Islands while fast navy
aircraft hunted down Japanesa
shipping and aircraft. No de
tailed report of damage Inflicted
was given.
AIRlNSTAKE
Manila, Sunday, March 25
(U.R) United States Infantrymen
south of Manila drove nine miles
yesterday to Arenas Point and
cleared the shores of Batangaa
Bay for Allied shipping, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur announced
today.
The capture of Arenas Point
put the American troops lust
across the strait from Verde Is
land which the 24th Division
occupied etrller this month.
East of Manila, the 6th Divi
sion jumped off after a heavy
'tillery barrage and captured
Japanese-held ridge between
Mount Baytangan and Mount Ya
bmg. the communinue said.
Meanwhile, the 43rd Division
consolidated gains made across
the Bosoboro river yesterday and
pushed several hundred yardg
toward Mount Balidblnan 700
yards southeast of the river.
Ike Warns Foe To
Ignore Hitler Order
By United Press
Gen Dwight D, Elsenhower to
day warned the German rmed
forces not to execute captured
Allied airborne soldiers on pain
of "severe punishment."
The warnings, cited a secret
order by Adolf Hitler ordering
"the execution of Allied air
borne Jnd parachute troops,"
and warned that "during this last
phase of a lost war you will do
well to be doubly scrupulous"
in not following tha order,
"You will be judged according
to your conduct, with strict jus
tice, but without mercy," tha
proclamation said,