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RED GUNS
SHELLING
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LONDON, March 5,—(AP)—Tthe
Russian big guns are shelling
Stettin, today’s reports disclose.
The high command also an
nounced the capture of Stargard,
a fortress 19 miles east of that
big Baltic port, after plunging
* three spearheads to the Baltic
coast.
Advanced units are already in
sight of Stettin Bay. Two other
Russian spearheads are on the
Baltic near Kolberg and Atkoes
ling, and are being supported by
a third Army farther east, bet
ween Koesling and Schlaw.
The German high command
reported the cutting of land com
munications for perhaps 200,000
troops in eastern Pomerania,
Dansig and the Polish corridor.
This is one of the biggest en
circlement operations on the
Eastern front.
VINSON TO
SUCCEED
J JONES
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WASHINGTON, March 5,—(AP)
—Fred Vinson, Economic Stab
ilization Director, was nominat
ed by the President as Federal
■thus succeeds Jesse Jones as
head of the loan agency handling
billions of dollars.
The Whitehouse said the Pres
ident has a successor in mind
for Vinson’s job, but would
withhold the name until the Sen
ate acts on the nomination of
, Vinson for the lending} ob.
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ITALIANS HELP ENGINEER S—A small herd of shefep roams by as Italians working
as engineer troops finish revetment and fill somewhere in Italian theater.,
Cen. Y/andenburg
^ccepts Jnvite
'J'o Conference
WASHINGTON, March 5 — (AP)
!
—Senator Vandenburg today an- ^
nounced that he would accept i
the president’s invitation to be-!
come a delegate to the World
Security conference in San Fran
cisco.
The Senator said “As a del
egate I wish to do everything
within my power to establish a
practical system of collective
security as a basis for an effect
ive peace.”
He added, “I will be frank in
saying that my chief anxiety
about thfe tentative Dumbarton
Oaks formula it that in it’s brief
‘World Court’ chapter, it doesn’t
once mention ‘Justice’ as a guid
ing objective or rule of conduct.
DANCE — Actress Connie
Moore goes through a dance rou
tine she will do in a forthcom
ing motion picture.
YANK DIVS
PUSH JAPS
TO NORTH
By James Hutcheson
MANILA, P. I. March 5, —(AP)
—Three Yank Divisions pushed
steadily against the Japs in the
where Philippine guerillas made
heavy blows in the enemy's rear
clearing the Japanese out of II
cocos today's reports stated. ....
General Douglas Mac Arthur
announced that the Ticao Burias
Islands in the Sibuyan Sea will
be followed by occupation of the
Bicol peninsula and will give the
Americans the key port of Leg
aspi.
'Hie general also stated that the
fighting in Manila has been of
a very irregular nature and the
enemy has been unable to fath
om it, particularly the part play
ed by the guerillas under Colon
el R. W. Volkman. i
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ARMORED
FORCES IN
COLOGNE
PARIS, March 5, —(AP)—Amer
ican tanks and infantry stormed
into Cologne at 7:10 am. this
morning in a final powerful at
tack on the great Rhineland me
disclosed.
Following closely upon the
tanks, the infantry fought tow
aid the lieart of Germany'a 4th.
city. The final assault started In
the cold darkness of 4:00am., an
Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose’s Third
Armored Division passed the
city limits, striking from the
north through the suburb of
Blockelmeund, there, the tanks
were about 3 miles from the
towring gothic cathedral in the
heart of Cologne, long the most
ravaged city in the Rhineland.
The American Ninth Army cap
tured Homberg, a manufcturing
west bank suburb, and Duisburg
and two Rhine Bridges.
Gen. Simpson’s men stood on
the Rhine for 15 miles, while the
Canadians to the north held an
other 52 mile stretch of the me
andering west banks.
Germans were continuously
surrendering by the thousands,
as the total in this single drive
exceeds 60,000.
A partial news blackout on
Third Army movements toward
Coblenz, on the middle Rhine
front, suggesting an imminent
breakthrough there.
The Seventh. Army fought the
Siegfried line just outside the
Saar capital, Saarbrucken is also
under heavy artillery fire.
MASONS ATTENTION
....Special meeting Thursday
evening March ith.
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Third Degree. ....
Wm. Cameron, W. M.
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