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ALLIES MOVE
FORWARD ON
ALL FRONTS
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ROME, April 11—VP)—British
Eighth Army troops, paced by
flamethrowing tanks captured
Luge, Fusingnano and Cotignola
in the opening phase of the of
fensive across the Senio river on
^ the eastern flank of the Italian
front allied headquarters said.
The fall of these towns repre
sented an advance on the front of
at least seven miles in the eastern
Po valley astride the highway run
ning from Ravenna to Bologna.
Lugo lies one mile west of Senio
on the highway. Bologna is some
fr
thirty miles ahead.
In western Italy American
troops of the Fifth Army cleared
the enemy from the road hub of
Massa and pushed on in the direc
tion of Laspezia, major Italian
naval base a dozen miles away.
• “Our troops breached enemy
defenses on the Senio river on
broad front,” the Allied commun
ique said. In early hours of a new
attack by the Eighth Army, mov
ing up behind heavy air bom
^ bardment captured more than
1200 Germans. Veteran New Zea
landers took a prominent part in
Nailed to a Cross
CHICAGO, ILL. — Moans of
agony led police to an erie scene
beneath an “L” station where they
found a man crucified upon a crude
cross. Pictured is the cross from
which Fred Walcher, 48 years old,
was removed in a serious condi
tion.
the assault on Massa, captured by I
the 442nd Infantry regiment com
posed of Japanese-American
troops, the 473rd regiment and
the 92nd Infantry division Negro
unit.
LONDON—Russian forces com
pleted the encirclement of Vienna
and compressed the doomed Nazi
garrison into the eastern one
tenth of the tottering Austrian
capital, front dispatches of the
Moscow press said. These ac
counts also said the right wing of
Marshal Malinovsky’s Second
Ukrainian army invaded the cen
tral Czechoslovak province of
Moravia at points less than 35
miles from the great city of
Bruenn. Farther north, Germans
said other Soviet forces in an all
out asault reduced the Oder river
fortress of Breslau and stormed
into Richthofen square. There is
no indication that the Germans
have yet blown up four bridges
over the Danube, one of which is
probably already in Russian
hands.
The Moscow dispatch said the
Germans still could fight their
way eastward across the Danube
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YANKS SEIZE
AIRFIELDS ON
'OLD ISLAND
By Fred Hampson
MANILA, April 1 i_^(/p)_Vet
eran infantrymen of the 41st Divi
sion invaded Jolo island Monday
and quickly seized the capital city
airfields, taking “complete con
trol” of the Sulu Archipelago,;
MacArthur reported. He also
announced that all organized re
sistance ceased on southern Luzon
island, that American invasion
forces have liberated 100 Filipino
lepers in Culion Colony by occu
pying the Coron Bay fleet an
chorage bewteen Busuanga and
Culion islands. The North Pala
wan Eleventh airborne division
reached Antimonan on the east
coast of Luzon in a swift drive
twenty miles from Lucena. Thou
sands of crack Japanese troops
are believed trapped along the
southeastern “tail” of Luzon.
TALKING IT OVER —Golfers Ben Hogan (left) and Ed
Dudley, chat as they await the starter’s call during the four-ball
golf tournament at Miami, Fla. Hogan is in the Army, and Dud
ley is president of the PGA.
Pan American
Drops Fur Rates
SEATTLE, April 10—Fifty
percent reduction in the pound
age rates on furs shipped by Clip
per Express from Alaska to Seat
tle has been made by Pan Amer
ican Airways, the Alaska sector
of the company announced adding
that yearly shipments of furs
from one hundred thousand to two
hundred thousand pounds. New
rates include per pound: White
horse to Seattle 33 cents; White
horse to Juneau, 10 cents; Juneau
to Seattle 29 cents; Fairbanks to
Seattle 45 cents; Bethel to Fair-;
!
banks 21 cents; Nome to Fair
banks 17 cents; Fairbanks to Jun
eau 22 cents; Bethel to Juneau 38
cents; Nome to Juneau 35 cents;!
Bethel to Seattle 57 cents; Nome
to Seattle 57 cents.
Planning Board
Finishes Session
JUNEAU, April 11—<(£>)—After
six days, including Sunday, spent
in conferring with, heads of Ter
ritorial federal agencies on prob
lems lying ahead, members of the
Alaska Legislative Board stopped
their first meeting by setting ten
tative program of specifications
on reconnaissance devoted to the
businessman’s approach to poten
tial developments within the Ter
1 ritory.
Members returning home were
Leslie Nerland, who went to
Seattle before returning to Fair
banks, Jack Talbot to Ketchikan,
Wilber Wester to Anchorage via
Fairbanks and Antonio Polet to
Nome.
Plane and 2 Men
Considered Lost,
Month Overdue
The search which has been in
progress since the last week in
March for the Arctic Exploration
Co. plane which has been lost be
tween Galena and Candle is still
being continued by Pat Bliss for
his company.
The Army Search and Rescue
squadron as well as the C.A.A.
and all commercial pilots who
turned out to search have given
up any hope of finding the occu
pants of the plane alive. It is be
lieved that Mr. George Burkhardt
accompanied pilot Duncan.
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jTsugen Island
Taken By 10th
By Murlin Spencer
GUAM, April 11—(/P)—'Tenth
Army troops landed on little Tsu
gen island off the Okinawas east
coast yesterday while on the main
island Twenty-fourth Corps
doughboys battered at the “little
Siegfried line” on the south for
the sixth straight day without ap
preciable gains. Some opposition
was encountered on Tsugen island
which is only a mile and a quarter
long about ten miles off Makagu
suku harbor. It is important be
cause-in American hands it com
pletes American control of the
one-time Japanese fleet anchor
age, the Navy announced. 5009
Japanese have been killed and
. 222 prisoners have been taken in
| the first eight days of the battle
t for Okinawa. There are no late
5 -estimates of the American casual
; ties. Field reports said they are
. running high in the bitterly con
tested southern sector where the
most furious artillery duel in the
Pacific war is under way. Last
official report of United States
1 casualties covered up to midnight
April 4, said at that time 175 Ma
| rine soldiers had been killed and
798 wounded. In tense fighting
continued in the southern sector
along the entire four and a half
mile line running from Uchito
i mari on the west coast to Tsuwa
on the east coast. The Japanese
are attacking American tanks
with Molotov cocktails and are
using 500 pound bombs as mines.
While they have temporarily
checked the advance toward the
capital city, Naha, they have been
unable to shove the invaders
back. Japanese counterattacks on
both the southern and northern
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