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FIRST ARMY
* ADVANCES
OVERNIGHT
PARIS, Mar. 12. —.(AP)— The
First Army attacks bulged three
miles deep into the Rhine bridge
head ^ having gone several hun
- dred yards further overnight, it
was reported today.
The Germans claim the advance
is 12V£ miles long.
General Hodges has thrown
so many men and cannon and
tanks into the rugged Westerwald
in I .ist Remagen that nothing less
than a major German counter
4 attack could budge his Americans.
There is no indication that the
Nazis will be able to organize such
a force.
The dashing U. S. Third Army,
just to the south, has eliminated
all Germans west of the Rhine
and Moselle rivers, except for two
small pockets of tank and foot
troops.
General Patton has captured
14 towns and won the domination
of all the west bank of the Mo
selle river, except for a 15-mile
stretch between Cochem and Co
blenz.
Enemy stragglers are being
dragged from a two-mile square
pocket in the woods midway be
tween Mayen and the Rhine,
while others have been filtering
in the Saar district.
At least eight towns in inner
Germany and east of the Rhine,
« are now under the American
flag.
The British and Canadian
troops to the north have kept the
Germans on tenderhooks by main_
taining a 40-mile smoke screen
along the lower Rhine.
The enemy said a crossing at
tempt was imminent between Em
merich and Wesel, where the
American parachute troops have
• driven across the river.
The Germans still hold the
towering sullen rock fortress of
Ehrenbreitstein, which is Ger
many’s Gibraltar of the Rhine.
INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE
• TO OPEN EVENINGS
To accommodate people who
are working in the daytime, and
because the time is now growing
short in which to file income tax
reports, the local office of the In
ternal Revenue Collector will be
open until 10:00 o’clock until the
15th of March. The office is lo
cated in the U. S. Commissioner’s
« office.
Argentina is 2,300 miles long.
SMOKE SCREEN IN ITALY—A smoke screen, rolls up against snow covered hills along
the Fifth Army sector of the Italian front. British official photograph.
POPE TALKS
TO WORKERS’
ORGANIZATION
ROME, Mar. 12.—(AP)—The
Pope declared yesterday in a
broadcast from the Vatican, that
“The time has arrived when cap
ital and labor must realize the
needs of a community must be
placed above individual interests.”
The speecr was delivered before
members of the Catholic Workers’
Organization.
The pontiff appealed to men
everywhere to “abandon empty
phrases,” and to “recognize a
higher unity,” binding all who
collaborate in production.
In commenting on the possi
bility of increased socialization,
the Pope dcelared:
“Socialization is justified only
when the common welfare re
quires it to repair abuses or to
avoid waste of the nation’s pro
duction resuorces.”
A law passed in 1942 autorized
the secretary of the treasury to
accept any gift of money or prop
erty designated for a particular
war purpose.
HITLER FLAYS
ALLIES IN
SWAN SONG
LONDON, Mar. 12.—(AP)—
Hitler, in a grim phrase-juggl.
ing proclamation, marking the
10th anniversary of Nazi mili
tary conscription, yesterday of
fered the German people no
more than the forlorn hope that
"the allies will get tired and yet
be broken."
He renewed the Nazi plea for
fanatical resistance bolstering
his appeal wiht the assertion that
“the Allies are drunk by their
glory of victory, and intent on the
extermination of the German na
tion.”
Of the proclamation broadcast,
Berlin said, “the year 1918 will
not be repeated,” implying that
Germany will fight on in guerilla
warfare, if her armies are defeat
ed.
Before a trade mark can be
registered with the Patent Office,
the symbol or emblem or device
must have been used in interstate
or foreign commerce, or in com
merce with the Inrian tribes.
RUGGED PART
OF IWO JIMA
NOW TAKEN
By ELMONT WAITE
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUADTERS ON GUAM, Mar. 12.
—(AP>—One of the most rugged
parts of the norhteast end of Iwo
Jima was captured by the Ma
rines yesterday, it has been dis
closed.
The remaining Japanese de_
fenders are fighting viciously to
hold the northern tip of this stra
tegic island which is only 750
miles from Tokyo.
Resistance in a 1000-yard deep
triangle at the north end, is des
cribed as heavy in Admiral Nim
itz’ communique.
Maj. Gen. Keller RocKney’s
Fifth Division of leathernecks are
pressing forward with naval gun
fire and artillery to support hte
bloody battle, which is clearly in
the final phase.
The first American Indians
came over the Bering straits from
Asia as a hunting people 15 to 25
thousand years ago, archaelog
ists say.
fADM. NIMITZ "
AVERS FLEET
IS REPAIRED
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 12.
—(AP)—The Japanese fleet,
after repairing battle-damage
suffered in recent actions, is
ready for combat again, Admi
'ral Nimitz disclosed today.
The U. S. fleet commander said
emphatically in the press confer
ence, that “the Japanese fleet is
now so inferior in strength com
pared to the U. S. fleet, that it
must chose its time to come out.’*
He added:
“It is our policy to keep our
naval task forces concentrated, so
that when it does chose to come
out, we will have a very large re
ception committee waiting.”
In conclusion, the fleet chief
said: “The Japs will soon be un
able to operate any kind of ship
ping in the Netherlands East In
dies, or other holdings in the
South China Sea. Our submarines
operate freely along the China
coast, and our fleet is approach
ing hte extreme westward part
of the Pacific Ocean.”
21si BOMBER .
COMMAND HITS
AT NAGOYA
By VERN HAUGLAND
j HEADQUARTERS, 21st BOMB
! ER COMMAND ON GUAM,
! March 12.—(AP)—Another great
! fleet of American B-29’s turned
Nagoya, which is Japan’s third
! largest city, and its most import
ant aircraft production center
into an inferno today, while fires
as a result of the record raid on
Tokyo, were still smouldering, it
has been reported.
The weather being clear, the
returning planes reported im
mense destruction.
About 300 bombers raided Na
goya at an elevation of around
5,000 feet, and scattered some 2000
tons of incendiaries.
MRS. H. G. GABRIELSON
ENROUTE OUTSIDE
Mrs. H. G. Gabrielson will be
an outgoing passenger with the
P. A. A. She is enroute to visit
with her daughter in California,
and plans to see many Nomeites.
Before returning, she will visit
with her brother, Tom Cloninger,
in White Rock, Canada.
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