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AT H ITLER’S HEADQUARTERS — Benito Mussolini,
discredited and deposed Duce, shakes hands with Adolf Hitler
upon arrival at the latter’s headquarters following his “liberation”
from Italians who had placed him under guard.
BRITISH UNITS
'ADVANCE ON
SIEGFRIED LINE
R PARIS, Dec. 4.—(AP)—The
Seigfried Line of guns threw sal
vos at the captured Saar river
’bridge inside Saarlautem today,
l while the U. S. Third Army troops
" were storming across its intact
1 span, it has been reported.
r They fought with the last spot
ty German defenses which pro
s tected the second city of the in
1 dustrial Saar.
M At the top of the western front
r the British Second Army advanc
fd a thousand yards to the de
^.snolished Maas river bridge.
1 Outside the Dutch road center
0 of Venlo, the troops are mapping
up the last Germans west of that
water barrier.
Other men of Gen. Montgom
ery’s 21st Army group encoun
tered foot-deep floods at the Ar
hem Ninmegen area, opposite
which the Canadian First Army
entered Germany within gunshot
of the northern end of the Seig
fried Line at Kiev.
Americans of the First and
Ninth Armies fought Inside Jul
ich Linnich on the Roer river,
before Cologne and moved slow
ly and painfully toward the third
bastion on that flooded stream.
Duren and four other towns
went down before these armies
yesterday in one of history’s most
violent battles.
For over a week the troops
have been on this battleground
and although there are but ai
hundred ruined houses at Lucher-!
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burg, Luchem and Brandemberg,
the armies have stood on the
Doer river for 20 miles, but at no
jplace has it been crossed.
General Patton’s Third Army
and infantry has fought deeper
into the vulnerable Saarlautern
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and have encountered some Ger
mans beyond the Saar river in
the eastern part of that city.
At Golksstrum all members of
the Home Guard of that city
have been musterea into service.
STATEHOOD
PREDICTED
BY CANFIELD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4.
—(AP)—Rep. Canfield, a New
Jersey Republican, predicted to
day that Alaska would soon be
admitted to statehood, when he
spoke at a farewell gathering for
Delegate Dimond, who will return
to Anchorage soon to assume the
duties of district judge of that
division.
Canfield said that Dimond was
far ahead of the parade when he
crusaded for the construction of
the Alaska highway.
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LADIES AID
MET FRIDAY
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Federated Church met at the par
sonage for their monthly meeting
5 last Friday. Mrs. T. Lehmann
I and Mrs. Earl Ooulthard were
hostesses. They are planning an
other of their popular food sales
sometime before Christmas.
A report was given of the im
provements which have been
made on the parsonage. A bath
room and pressure water system
have been installed by the La
dies Aid and the Hobby Club
[ has added a sun porch on the
| east side.
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,1 Roy Baler, will not be respon
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by my wife, Cecelia Baier,
after this date Nov. 30, 1944.
—Roy Baler.
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