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(R-M- idings iokyo said Okinawa was bom- ided three times Saturday by 13 battleships —presumably some bat- he biggest newest wagons in Adm Raymond A iuance's Fifth fleet Fleet Adm Ister V Nimitz announced only Minami Daito 250 miles east )kinawa was shelled Small Islands 16-m- ch 8 enemy broadcast reported landings were attempted on Shima and Aka Jima small Ids west of the southwestern If Okinawa inawa most important in the kvu chain and an ideal base ttrikes at either japan or me la-coastj probably would be hief objective in any amphiDi- pperation in the central Kyu inawa has several airfields good harbors suitable for an- iee of large warships kvo said a powerful U S taskof '15 standard and convertcarriers 11 battleships 10 iers 32 destroyers as wel as merable auxiliary vessels lying southwest of Okinawa ipport and protect tne lanamg ' Kf CHINA ' VA i ' C ' J CHUNGKr4G ' l y fi : 1?nnrfprl p garrison units "now are lelv intercepting enemy forces" statement that 15 carriers in the great naval Okinawa contradicted town earlier claim of having s z several in Vice Adm c A Mitscher's raids last week nst southern Honshu Kyushu koku and the Ryukyus Tokyo reported 15 carriers originally force before it Mitscher's htied "any sinkings apture of Okinawa would give United States control ot tne China sea and would provide ields to strike at the Jap home- and China with i Formosa vy bomb loads by even the were (riyo's sunV flat-top- Mart agai Shi had in clai f - C the easi airft lanf 1 (Continued on Page Two) (Column Four) i 33 FMNK ( Or I Jap reports said the landings were Japan and Formosa Unconfirmed severe a carrier plane and surface ship after being attempted Canture of Okinawa would give American forces control MS it & east China 'Ike1 On Rhine Trip OWr Makes Pled To Home Front By Don Whitehead '' s — i — — — — lna -- - ! tt f over thousands of Americans will travel by plane to Central America That is the opinion of Dr E R Dumke just back from an air journey with his friend Dr Alton Ochser Flvine from New Orleans only four hours elapsed from the time States until 4hey left the United Costa Rica a they had landed in 120 land of sunshine and beauty That four hours brings Central SECOND ARMY America as close to New Orleans INWITH BRITISHMarch 26 (UP)— GERMANY as is San Francisco to Ogden An w A v win rnmmander who We scarcely realize the changes waq Rhine 1 in travel now made possible by 11UVV "US51"s r& the airplant 1 From Costa Rica the doctors tured a German commander and on to Nicaragua Honduras 12f) snldiprs nlavintf cards while and then to Yucatan the battle raged around khem to Guatemala The officer said he managed tvhere- - they viewed the ruins of iana on an lsiana near tne river tne xuaya civuizaiion Flier Capture Nazi Men! d wfcr 'jsrf Jt r GERMANY Vth£Z&l Aachen ( LONDON March 26 (UF) — The Red army tonight cracked the Hron river 'line defending western Slovakia and Austria tofront throwing day on a le U S Ninth army bridgehead to pound three in groups army are: j In the craft with Churchill to the door back southern the Left to right Maj Gen John reich Anderson commanding general j 14th army corps Lt Gen WH- -i 60 miles southeast of Frankfurt liam II Simpson commanding the 9th army and Field Marshal- and 228 miles from Berlin c: nnKn Hfnn(irnmrv Talk- t Allied headquarters spokesman Gen is Churchill Maj with ing cxpressed confidence that the Ger- nimsB vvu man Iceland s uuuus army was being beaten : to division troops were first over the Rhine Meanwhile Lt Gen its knees Field Marshal Sir Ber nard L Montgomery' who crossed George S Patton's Third Amer ican army paced the allied forces Lh Rhi with Prime Minister : Mtirwnn rvmrpViin nn ih lattpr's " " in-ian stronghold or wuerzburg visit ""Vd front said ihi ie unvc second a sensational well" collapsing German battle is going extremely through the on Kiune defenses the upper Armies Beyond Rhine Also five ether allied armies' to Field dispatches reported- the the north were breaking open British Second army 15 miles bethe German battle screen on s the Rhine the American 200-mifront east of the' Rhine yond miles and the American Ninth The whole allied assault line was First 1912 miles on the move into Germany's last tne The Germans in the path or h- -w ditch defenses beyond the xreat from the ' air The punishment and power speed gathering bombers were aiso out against an enemy apparently heavy Fortresses 300 than More stunned by the greatest aerial escorted by moreFlying 450 ngnt-- i than With ers attacked oil and other targets bombardment in history Patton at Wuerzburg the Yanks in the reich would be less than 60 miles German resistance was still weaK northwest of the nazi shrine city and thousands of prisoners were of Nuernberg and 228 miles falling into allied hands southwest of Berlin The Germans were iauing oacK also on the eastern front where Russian forces driving across Hun front were gary oh a within -35 miles of the Austrian border Berlin said a third army into the group had been thrown putting well over 1 offensive men into an attempt to 1000000 nazi stand in the a final thwart i nine ana i Austrian By C R Cunningham WITH NINTH ARMY ACROSS nnv nvstrirs Falls THE RHINE March 25 (Delayed) shells army troops have captured German artillery1 o:mp) citv of Banksa - haRedrArhnslnvak V wm n au 45-mi- jj - le ' " -- I' Merxiclj R - ri L2SLudwighofcn IMQJj Zjf I JJf j Koiieriloulern 'ilP ff Zweibmeclien A r ySoofbrtieckiwWfrrfTJV ll FRANCE ""rr-'- V ' I I I I VVoeh f WiuembourflfKofhruh Nazi Shells LaniJI — District Leaders SALT LAKE CITY March 26 was (AP)— Marie S Mahe? 21 a fatally injured today when large tree toppled by a hour gale fell on her wtiile she was waiting for a bus' She was alone at the intersecPolice said she apparently tion heard the tree cracking and ran directly into its path She died of a crushed skull shortly after an ambulance took her to a hospital TVia trod oViniit 5rt lrrViA in rii' meter t the base was uprooted n- ency craiiUirs f district leaders) for to- - nJt at Rerchteseaden "Azf wSil wS rJSSid more and tense than at any i jittery time since the invasion oi wor Travelers arriving at - Mai mandv — mn frnm Oprmanv said the nignuy — — air raids were driving Berliners "to Dementia i Tree Felled By Wind Kills S L Woman Hitler Calls Confab Of YT-- Strasbourg -- t-- — AA"IV?J — 1- ri£ 1 fwvent — — — — a mm 130-mi- le Mr Churchill wv'" nii lanaea fcank iu tt o xtjk LONDON March 26 (UP)-i-PriMinister Churchill went across the Rhine again today in company of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery who said the "battle is going extremely f me well" on the east bank of the bridgehead Rhino Churchill had climbed out on the to wreckage of the Wesel bridge! town tne of a view get closeup I Kt?e S'nS of enemy snipers inf the nresence t disclbs- - in buildings along the waterfront And then four sharp cracKs nppea the air Four geysers sprang up from the water about 50 yards from the bridge Two more cracks sounded and more shells fell about about 200 yards in back of the party Field Marshal Sir Bernard L and Lt Gen William 'ot the Ninlh insisted Churchill leave the area knd the party pulled out in a hurry It was probably the first " " one? oi hart - —— reen "bracketed the few times he had been forced to back down s a5 counter-attac- k 1 in te - 1 S In Washington at 55 j n of-a-g- un - -- t vjci "1"' u' w w - s-- oi" f 4 1 of fhp Hrnn river 120 miles east 01 Vienna ncunci hiioiui BUiiuu-w- w in an order of the day today was The entire western front ' moved across the Rhine as the all cleared American Seventh army the Germans except a few groups of stragglers from the Karlsruhe corner of the "Palatinate - ' Air Bombardment was reported TlAmnraliyation front under the along spreading the impact of the allied groundattacki and tne merciless oomuarument from tne air mousanus oi warplanes have been smashing at the wehrmacht and its lines 01 communication for four straight days and so lartne uermans nave been unable to mount any major ' m Marine General 1 56 j - Eight Paratroopers Jump in Wrong Place Amia Bursting diieus ringing duuvis burst hit other about waiting for Robert Set for April 28 Third army tanks entered su-mi- 0-- Utah Power Case 9 Previous field dispatches closed that Patton's tank farces had stabbed across the Main 40 miles beyond the Rhine and were in enveloping Frankfurt-On-Mai- n a northward push Wuersburg is i hydro-electr- ic I o By United Press Six allied armies plunged deeper into Germany from their Rhine bridgeheads today with Lt Gen George S Patton's Third leading the van in a dash which an unofficial London report said was threatening Wuerzburg on the Main river some 80 miles by road from the Rhine dis- : if : I 1 jr I -- ff j - f?7nJntl - 48 74 WITH THE U S THIRD ARMY March 26 (AP)— ! I a a ened — — pach Vermillino By r nrv man vtHriorl fell forward and the hit ground and die would how they probably PHILADELPHIA March 26 (APT United Press Staff described jn detail how frightened The securities and exchange com- - Representing the Combined ed d set April 23 for a Allied Press ilon today they were It was all in humor releasmrchanism TchuS nSnS I wrigg I on -& Utah Power WITH BRITISH PARATROOP- - more grim than funny But as the hearing Light ilSoSd to ?ee company's plan for recapitaliza FRc March 24 time for jumping neared they be(Delayed) mp— came tion see to inif a bottle in the- haversack more quiet Each man i'-i-tElectric Power & Light Co This is the story of eight para- ti 11 was was his of ocoicn unaci oi equipall the items I o ow minntc T tnnir a Utah's parent will surrender its troopers who jumped in the wrong spected Atr ment noiaings in Utah for $bouuuu ana I place We hooked up our long cords nnirk look around- - the area but and waited there was nothing that correspond I I vynen our plane load of youtniui which open the chutes a and called him in- - it and the- system's ton rfrom dueout are of that holding The had memo ft region uplands the green jump signal When ed to the air maps wewere 1 - coo anaJ nee irum side i! where they were play mg company Electric Bond & Share S11"?" Jnpers jiook o irom aua for bullets rized four-minusinging Dies red -Snipers light comparatively warning the Co Lnglish airdrome this morning malaria or other tropical diseases rarrttxrAnt on the paratroopers began all through the air I headed for a mai°r the The 1185241 of new $20 par general commanding The German commander asked &nd make for a delightful adven the door I was to nearby sand dune where I met the the R A F officer tol surrender value comrnnn stnrk- tr he issued Sixth British airborne division told pressing towardman ture seven ' other fellows who jumped out were jumping squarely on be the eighth An Ogden family leaving here and said he would take him to by Utah will be distributed among uf we xorces with me After a brief conference At unbearable was The tension oi lirst class German finn holders 'of $7 and $6 preferred strong two years ago has decided to make Wesel we agreed we were lost somewhere allied of roar the artillery feet "When l told him wesei had siock Costa Rica home having fallen in TVTarrh 2fi V(AP) w A CWTWr-TfYN- r in Germany 'But paratrooners are born OP on the ground cracked our ears been ' canturid he changed hisl Utah and "a snlvsidiarv- - Western!piuups love with the country to to the We The H RuDertus 55 get edge William rien flak managed explosions muffled timists or like a Colorado mind and said 'We'll surrender to Power Co have filed they wouldn't be para men sensed we were over the drop of a scrub pine grove where we of ne marine corps who com-ra- n then'" the officer related joint aiDlication to reduce from troopers We were all highly con Everybody in Costa Rica flies if you medicos across two division marine attending manded the first The Germans gave-hiftheir $4259203 to $4066651 the amount fident that is except for the usual he has progressed beyond donkey Duiiet two oi line islands Germans Solomons the tne in dying campaign yelled Someone along best bed and the next moaning he of the capital contribution which fears we would be killed either in V transportation followed with wounds in the abdomen A strange diej suddenly last night at i the jumping or by the Germans after "go" and others With packs on their backs the paddled a canoe back across the I Utah is to make to Colorado the Washington navy yard A native the But green light paratrooper stepped from sonwe nit the ground "Go go go" of the land soon rise to river and asked Scottish troops to - of plodders 'Another muttered: and woods near the Men Washington Rupertus had come not Some up of i men had his on the the soar away on wings The transi get sang prisoners the found We marine is in dead" the served corps since themselves against trip over others played cards and door braced tion often is swift—from lowly toil Stolen ma- - 1913 when he was commissioned ' Car : a over dead German behind Spotted sprawled from one a read the wild west thriller of pressure er to flier position He was killed a second lieutenant Advanced to Then the green light- flashed chine gun cowboy life on Canada's Saskatche If the cost of this form of travel Al Jolson Owner Plane in when By Elopes wan river A Lieut Anthony Wade We dropped in order as if dumped by Sgt Norman Rimmer Winnepeg the rank of brigadier generalisianas becomes as cheap as it promises ot tne aoiomon a invasion Canadian the of member whirled paratroop from the same bucket I many of us will be flying to Cen 26 (UP- )- I 2Sf!M?m LIMA hSdih0Uted V hit violently began in August 1942 he person- I ' Ohio March beneath the tail and Hnttaiinn v m tral America when the war is over With Actress 21 4u j v led the marines who captured 'of two miles all Wo nnQhori ihrftnph chute's aware of the PALM SPRINGS Calif MardU iffi —seeing sights we never dreamed of hardly was WaTi Ger- - Tulagi Gavutu and Florida islands the held by thinly to shock territory moments don't our fondest of reverie 26 (AP)— Al Jolson 56 has taken hJ fi opening help him The plane yi a miul xucie " 6'"uf bv ti- nt rtnp thot C p u when his car— pamtea a peculiar waw stop On : all sides planes were turn- mans witnout iiring v — dreaming often en u XJntereddaysthewhen dijiie mile hsflf from it was only a realm of fantasy Earle Galbraith who ha$ had a I green color—was stolen Saturday I Leis haYe aSood fast jump" ing slow graceful banks westward a British Turse Draft Opposed and I tenronnnt i na t J to MM vision the headquarters weer h circling xcw jimiw is in uiuuuu pictures he hired a plane and cruisea over —vaMi was wurnea and gliders yai to the lead offered way around curved brigadier We'll go winging "south of the He eloped with her to the little the ritv inntinor fnr that color about his grandmother She had ground Tracers up WASHINGTON March 26 (AP) hart intended giving the first town of Quartzsite Ariz y ester- - He spotted the car in a war plant taken out a $400 insurance policy them and flak burst in black blos Tdrink-oborder — Scot Nurse draft legislation was first to the Scotch to cords How would you like to take such day and was married bv a In I naririn chute anH railed wnicn wouia pay off when WHe soms I pulled the i But nosed Rhine the from today by the national Wo- tis a trip from Ogden — a trip which tice of the peace reached 21 Anticipating the event avoid the 'trees and a vicious buzHis Torevious the hiohwav nntrol Christian Temperance union in years gone by you have thought wives were Alma Osborne Carl- - By the time h got to the car would nappen she gave Wade the zing swept past my head German the first drink went to this briga- hnen's a as venicie lor me enslavement out however that dier It turned ton Ethel Delmar and Ripy Kee- - it was guarded by patrolmen The $400 His twenty-firs- t is riflemen were iiring on us (Continued on Pag Two) birthday women 01 : i v Scotsman a was he i thief didn't come bacK i (Column Two) ier Evers: muscle ia my body tight euuwuajr ' 28 45 Six Alliedf Armies I CHURCIIILL CROSSES RIINIEIn upper photo Prime Minister Winston Churchill smiles his satisfaction aboard the in- vasion craft which carried him across the Rhine for a visit to siaiianons rriaav wua ±o awus ui explosives which wrecked the rower plants and" transformers A communique said theTaid left "water pouring from the pen I stocks' and a spokesman estimated I the attack knocked out 75 per cent of Formosa's gener I I ating capacity Hard Hit War Industries I "The whole southern of 'Formosa and its war industries will be very seriously hampered and perhaps even cut off"-- Fifth airforce staff member said follow ing a study of reconnaissance phoj tographs also The Thirteenth airforce maintained neutralizing attacks in the central Philippines Friday with Liberators and Mitchells hitting in vital Large ires and explosions -- tsr v war-i- v xr a xit - -v ' 1 ds ds ! i ' " MANILA March 26 (UP) — Lib eration bombers were believed today to have paralyzed all enemy of war production in two-thirFormosa by shattering the island's plant big Jitsugetsu hydro-electr- ic WITH THE U S FIRST ARMY UUP) WASHINGTON March A message from the office of war March 26 (AP) —Smiling and in two-thir— - — — — Hiisen5rfnrmatinri' vrrI Ipnt sntrits r (ienpral vwv aav i— The government needs and asks nower visited the U S First army wees ° east of the Rhine m this today and Se ne ciarea awujr 1 Play fair with the available expeciea ine "to lick with meat of everybody they come up Cooperate supply your grocer by paying rationu against points in run ana py paying "They did it all the way across w x " nivA turn snpr a Eastet eifts on should the road to stop to our men on the fighting fronts they —a pint of blood and anj extra Berlin" the supreme commander J dollar to the Red Cross wan tuna u Thew ia! a fooiinw vif htnii itaA nn rhit " m a war jod m one oi u tory in tne air as Eisenhower rode which is near American-controlle- d plants making bombs and bomb in n Wn arrnss a nnntnon bridee parts There is an urgent need and for the first time inspected! for 4500 workers ©oay r ignimg on Luzon this brideehead seized bv the First' 4 Flan now lO spena yoiir UU army Tn th mnnH ramnan- nn TU : 1 mnli-a-l fTij l IT1 room lor war-- e uu tne line ne looKea mucn younger arnnH RutP now avom summer aiscomioris ran route and less careworn than before the hntA th ravon vaiiv crowded trains and busses ""1"-"c ' Six heavy Jap counter-attack- s v i rlv v r i ?UT"couecuon ana joxea wun nis gen- - wpf-- rmilsid commuiee i""r cioxning laugnea hv f irst rnrns trooDS drive which begins April 1 Search erals zs theymet at the sprawling muei ciosei aim inrougntnZyour Tt is th same hntoi whArA Prim j xiapintaian hoH iintror ehA ariHstorage nioc f 7 Jap resistance has been increas- Minister Chamberlain stayed dur-Tof warding to sendi to million troons as enemv teadilv the m it i at ot i in i inv nic rnnroroniAe nrim 4wiiiAifAw4rhAj-"W"-J- l vvv '"e whirh also Muiiuaiicu nhvpl fntn tliA n Bad Godesberg in 1938 With Eisenhower were Lt Gens (Continued on" Page Two) (Column Clght) Omar N Bradley and Courtney iiodges 26 50 seu r I E 'SKTSrb Smiling nt 70 68 Sheridan 68i Washington Plunging Ahead On March to Berlin " - v Formosa Struck ( When the 67 Uhe southwestern suburbs of Frankfurt today Paralyzing Blow Okinawa island (above) would be tne probable NEW INVASION of the strategic Ryukyu main objective of reported U aS invasion series of stepping stones between chain of Islands stretching in vvv- f I 1 bom-hirdmr- ' ' ' Page Eight) Slxj I PHILIPPINE IS CHAjAH 1 s 44 FINAL EpiTlbN o) (Column Pacific Ocean (FORMOSA — means of "approximately by Ijarges" attempted the landings ra said fore its " ' (Continued RYUKYU IS - Puleni xv N ' i Eight of the 10 conferees signed the conference report which will acgo to the house tomorrow for senate to the tion and then O'Marionpv refused to sign Rep was not Dewey Short nrpsont' O'Mahoney told reporters after the session that the measure is "a terribly dangerous bill" because it vests virtually unlimited authorJames ity in Mobilization Director F Byrnes O'Mahoney was expected to take the lead in a fight to get the senate to reject the compromise There was considerable belief that it might be successful V O'Mahoney said that the bill "started out to be a work or fight bill directed at slackers and it has turned out to be a measure Kerial bombardment of several the Rykyu islands including inawa itself and of air- - bases all of the southern Jap" home linds of Kyushu Shikoku and ishu preceded the reported 57 40 PAGES l n WASHINGTON March 26 (UP)-- -A joint congressional conference today formally completed its work on a "work - or - jail" compromise manpower bill despite a last mimite attempt by Sen Joseph C O'Mahoney (DWyo) to remove a labor squeeze" provision illllOilpihiilll - 59 79 57 Patton Hits 80 lies B eyon ffliine Russians Capture Banksa B VS"mca Compromise Fixed GUAM March '26 (AP)— 12 33 60 42 36 30 — 1 Act Work-or-Ja- il Invasion Would Put American troops supported by intensive bombardment ""Xfrom a large carrier-battle-- 1 Jlhip task force are "attempt-V ing" landings on the Okinawa troup in the Ryukyu chain hly 325 miles south of Kyu-iiin the Jap homeland 'rimoi notrc ncrpnnv rpnnrtPfl ithout confirmation today Service AP Bervfee MEA OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING MARCH 26 1945 The Associated Preae Year— No 276 is MinMax Omaha 39 70 Phoenix 34 49 Focatello Portland Or 43 61 33 65 53 Provo m m 45 Reno 67 Roc It springs zt Chicago 39 53 IK rr Salt Lake Denver 53 691 San Antonio 42 78 4 93 San Fran Los Angeles - 45 61 SO 68 "1 R21 St' LOUIS i Albuquerque Atlanta Bismarck Boise Butte UTAH— Rain or snow this afternoon cloudy with scattered snow flurries tonight and Tuesday er this afternoon MlnMaxj 37 52 Ogden seven op-rearh- ins In the northern end oi tneiront the American wintn jsrmsn oec-tw- o ond First allied airborne and units of the uanaaian irst armyry lined up in a solid head extending ten miles or more east of the Rhine More than 10000 prisoners have been taken since Montgomery sent his 21st river bar- army groups across the and the num on rier Friday night ber was increasing hourly At least 300000 have been captured on both sides of tne ttrune since March 1 ' Smoldering Waste 30-mi- le bridge-Montgome- Returning fliers reported that the Westphalian plain north of the Ruhr was a smoldering waste for more than 40 miles beyond the Rhinev dotted with columns of fleeing refugees uen South of the Kuhr l--t Courtney Hodges' American First army spread out steadily from its Remagen bridgehead ana was less than eight miles from a junction with Patton's Third army Patton's men took Darmstadt 15 and miles south of Frankfurt rolled on into the outskirts of that industrial city To the east 'lhird armv columns took Aschaffenburg and captured a bridge across the Main intact Patton's spearneaas were within 240 miles of Berlin The news from the Russian front was scarcely better than that from the west The Berlin radio said a Third army group was in action north of the Danube and had seized a bridgehead across the Hhron river near the Slova)uan-Hungaria- n border some 96 miles east of Vienna Two other army groups south of the Danube were - 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