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FIRST ARMY
* BREAKS THRU
EAST OF RHINE
PARIS, March 9, —(AP)—The A
* merican First Army crossed the
Rhine river today south fo Col
ogne, and secured a firm beach
head on the east banks.
General Hodges forces poured
across the river following a sen
sational raid using commando tac
tics to gain the initial foothold.
The exact spot of the newly
won gains is shrouded under cen
sorship.
a Cologne is in the same latitude
as New Foundland and at this
time of year has very short days.
The enemy was caught in con.
fusion in the morning light and
the First Army was In complete
command of the situation before
* the enemy could grasp the situa
tino.
PARIS, March 9,—(AP)—'The A
merican First Army steadily
reinforced and built up it’s Rhine
bridgehead at a point south of
Cologne which the Germans claim
• to be Remagen, 277 miles south
west of Berlin.
The Germans said the Ameri
cans captured the bridge intact
at Remagen, the Ludendorf span
with a double track railroad cap
able of carrying tanks, trucks and
* foot troops to Berlin.
The military spokesman said the
First Army troops found the
bridge, by chance, undestroyed.
The advance guards of this U.S.
force now holding positions on the
east banks of the Rhine, have been
halted by the Germans before the
town of Linz, three miles east of
Remagen.
Headquarters continued it’s
• strict censorship, although this
much is known, it is one of the
greatest military strokes since in
vasion of Normandy.
The Germans are neither able
to rally enough strength for a
fighting stand nor get enough
troops to the danger point for
serious counterattacks.
Patton’s Third Army overran
two.thirds of the Coblenz plains
and siezed Miesenheim, 15 miles
south of Remagen. Keeping a
breast of the First Army he is
rapidly forging a trap for per
haps 50,000 Germans caught in his
audacious plunge to. the Rhine
f near Coblenz.
• On the lower Rhine the Can
NIMITZ SAYS
BIG ASSAULT
OVERWHELMING
WASHINGTON, March 9, —(AP)
—Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,'
in forecasting the final assault on
Japan, stated, “It will be over
whelming.”
When asked if the take off
would be from China, he stated
“It may well be.”
The Pacific Commander also
stated that the navy was strong
enough to go any place in the
Pacific it wants to go, but just
where he wasn’t telling.
FALL MANDALAY
IS VERY NEAR
CALCUTTA, March 9, —(AP)—
Hand to hand fighting raged in
three sections of Mandalay as
British and Indian troops surged
another mile into the heart of
Burma’s second city after 30 hours
continuous fighting.
Other battles raged on the race
course and on Pagoda hill in the
east part of the city.
Thousands of Japs are faced
with the threat of encirclement.
adian troops captured Xanten and
compressed the German bridge
head on the west bank of the
Rhine into a 20 sq.mile triangle*
INDIAN — Flying Officer Gw
J. Malik (above), an Indian,
represented Cambridge Univer
sity at a recent Liberal Party
Assembly which was held In
England.
U.S. MARINES
CORNER JAPS
ON IWO JIMA
....By Morrie Landsberg, aboard
Admiral Turner's ..Expeditionary
force ..Flagship, ..at ..Iwo .Jima.
March 9,—(AP)—(Via Navy Ra
dio)—Japanese remnants are con
testing the ..American ..advance
"rock by rock", in slow moving
continuation of U. S. Marine ef
fort to dislodge the enemy from
his sheltered positions in th rug
ged northern part of Iwo Jima. ..
The Marines now hold all of
the island with the exception of
the extrem northrn end and a
section several thousand yards
in length along the northeast coast
The Fifth, Fourth and Third
Divisions of Marines are stretched
across the island, with the Third
taking the center of the line.
SHUT UP CANOL
SAYS ICKES
WASHINGTON, March 9, —(AP)
—The Senate War investigating
Committee today called on the
I Army to move up their shut-down
schedule on the Canol project to
June 30.
Chairman Meade quoted Sec
retary Harold Ickes as saying,
“By dropping the whole thing now
and transferring the281 workers
to specific refineries, aviation
gasoline could be increased 2,000
barrls a day, and in view of the
urgent need of aviation gasoline
we can’t afford to waste man
power on the Canol any longer.”
i * i
JUNEAU ATTY
TAKES STAND
OWN DEFENSE
SEATTLE, March 9, —(AP)—
Lynn Gemmill, U. S. District At
torney of Juneau, Alaska, will
take the stand in his own defense
in the trial for accepting a bribe
from a former Sitka prostitute in
the amount of $1,500.00.
An attempt was made to im
peach the testimony of the woman
Mrs. Cleo Wilkins, as an incom
petent witness, as she seemed to
forget many important things in
the case.
BURDESHAW TO
STAND TRIAL
FOR POLYGAMY
SEATTLE, March, 9, —<AP)—
Eldon Burdeshaw, 43, a carpenter
is held here on $2,500.00 bail af
ter a hearing before the U. S.
Commissioner yesterday, on char
ges of already having a wife when
he married Tillie Jacobsen, an
Eskimo woman of Nome.
Burdeshaw has been ordered
removed to Nome to face a poly
gamy charge.
Burdeshaw and his Eskimo wife
came here February 12th., when
he bought a house and furniture.
He said, “Tilly will be help,
less here, as she doesn’t know the
town,” he said brokenly.
The authorities assured him that
she would probablyy accompany
him north as a material witnes
Burdeshawsaid he hoped his
whom he last saw three years
ago in Oklahoma, divorced him.
SIEZE ARINCAY
ON LUZON
MANILA, March 9,—(AP)—
American forces on Luzon drove
12 miles north along the west
coast of Luzon to sieze the town
of Aringay, due west of Baguio,
the summer capital, giving the
Yanks a firm foothold on the
southern shores of Luzon, and ac
ross the vital Berde island pass
age from the American held Min
doro.
TOKYO RADIO
SAYS YANKS
ON MINDANAO
UNDATED ,March 9,—(AP)—
Tokyo radio today reported that
Amreican forces had landed on
Mindanao island following heavy
bombardment from a naval task
force which icnluded four battle
ships and 21 other supporting
naval vessels.
The report stated that the A
mericans were also carrying out
mine sweeping operation.®
RUSSIAN ARMY
25 MILES EAST
OF BERLIN
LONDON, March 9, — (AP)—Rus
sian troops under Marshal Zhir
kov in the offensive toward Ber
lin, fought their way into Kuestrhr
for the second time, the German*
radio reported today.
The report stated that bitter
fighting is going on in the street*
of the ancient Oder river fort
ress.
Russian tanks and infantry at
tacked seventeen times from the
northwestern part of the city
which yesterday was reported as
having been by-passed by the
Russians, who had driven across
ths Oder river, within 25 mile*
of Berlin.
The German broadcast said the
Russians had pushed forward
from an arc eight miles east,
northeast and southeast to Ber
lin’s Baltic port of Stettin, .and
have rushed up boats and landing
craft and assailed across Damm
scher lake, in front of Stettin on
the east.
Moscow dispatches said the
crossing which outflanked Stet
tin on the north, threatened to
sweep around Berlin, which might
already be made along the canal
ized sction of the Oder between
the lake and Stettin Bay.
FIFTH ARMY
OCCUPIES
CARBIANO
ROME, March 9, — <AP)—'The
Fifth Army troops are closing in.
on the German stronghold of Ber
gato, and have occupied Carbiana
which has held out against re
peated attacks for the past four
months. The allied forces are
now ntoving into their newly won
positions.
HITLER VISITS
ODER FRONT
LONDON, March 9 —(AP)—The
German radio today said that Hit
ler visited the Oder river front,
to convince himself personally af
the high fighting spirit of the Ger
man rmy.