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Show Jt rS- THE WEATHER r In fplte'cf genuine detennl-ttlon detennl-ttlon keen eat of the qnar- Ts-els J EnnMv lhK T7nltl RtaiM UTAH Clear south portion with Increasing cloudiness and , few Ilfht showers Sunday. Can-; tinned warm. V jnew"bee able to stay eat w wvnn wir. me wona geis aaaaller all the tine. -British Ambassador Lord Hall- -lax. , Temperatores: High 52 Low 27 4 ! VOL 22, NO. 41 Legislators journment Sunday; iropriations Voted Rep. Loveridge Casts Her Vote Against Appropriation Bill In Fight for (Greater" Recognition for Vocational School Here By JOHN BESS - llnlted Press Correspondent v SALT LAKE CITY. March 10 o Utah legislators tonight pushed state expenditures for the next two years , up to $27,776,867.85 as- they approved an appropriations 'bill allocating $12.716435.25 from the general fund. The last major bill of the current session and tantamount tanta-mount to formal adjournment now expected early Sunday the appropriations bill passed in the house with only one dissenting vote. That vote was recorded by Delia Loveridge Spanish Fork Boy fatally Injured In Payson Mishap SPANISH FORK Robert W. Central Utah school. Swell, 7-year old son of William Other bills, including the Thomas and Irene Hone Ewell, ; special school equalization meas-tiied meas-tiied at the Payson hospital. Fri-jures, carry appropriations of day night, as a result of in-! Juries sustained at 5 p. m. when: lie was struck by an automobile In front of his aunt's home in Payson, where he was visiting with his- mother. . TVia fata acofrirt rxviirrori when the boy," accompanied by his brother, ran from behind a car rirwi in fmni f h homo nf'dav, since it provides for lncreas YZ. min, twit.f on . ayson bill, directly into the path Of a car driven by Byron Tuttle of Spanish Fork. He was picked tip and taken to the Payson hospital hos-pital by Mr. Tuttle. It was first hot be fatal, but he MfQr gasoline taxes oS later to the day, apparently fromifuel DUrehaaed for nonhiahway Internal injuries. .Juse. Governor Herbert B. Maw Members of the family said it vetoed this measure at the 1942 was the fourth time the boy had session. been injured in traffic accidents, other bills approved by the Page Perry. Payson city marshal, senate would tax Diesel fuel used who investigated the accident, re- i Utah even though it were purported pur-ported that the car was stopped chased outside o the -state, and within a distance of 10 feet, and , would create a dairy inspection no charges would be preferred division in the State s department against the driver who was un- Qf agriculture, able to avoid hitting the boy un- The Diesel fuel tax would be der the circumstances. computed on the basis of five The boy was bora in Spanish miles per gallon and the tax Fork, April 4, 1938 and was a j would be levied as a per gallon Student in the first grade of the fee. Reese school. Surviving arc the; After passing the general apparent, ap-parent, -a brother. Ronald: two ; propria tions measure a 44-page Sisters, Ruth and Sharon Ewell: 'document which required ap- grandfather. William T. Ewell i proximately one and one-half of Genola and a grandmother, Mrs. Ruth J. Hone ot Spamsn, Fork. decs will be held m 9t h naudin funeral home with Interment to m. at xne wauain follow in the city cemetery. Orem Man Now Reported Missing Killed , , th snanish Fork i John Max Reed. Spanish r Set. Loren II. Loin, lormcr student Missing Jimmie Reesha, of Orem Wounded Pvt. Ralph Murdock of Ameri- can Fork. i Jimmie Reesha, 28. uomoar- dier-radio operator with the U. S.' Meanwhile, the house sitting army air corps, has been missing committee used the axe in no un- In action over German v since certain fashion this morning, kill- jn 1 accordina to word received ,ing 78 bills and resolutions.. v htitx narents iVlr. ana XVirS. x. Reesha of Orem, who have been in Los Angeles, Lai , at jimmies home as guests of his wife MrsMaW SiqilS Dill IsabeUe Reesha, for the past 3 month. He was on his 37th mission. mis-sion. Jimmie has been overseas ior, mn than one vear of his two vpam m service, n kiouubvv the Lincoln high school, Orem, enlisted on his birthday, Jan. 28. WOIXl OI niS aisappcu mivt arrived on that date. Two brothers of the Reesha family are also members of the .rmoH forces. They are Edward, a aft sereeant with the army ar-lof iirv division in France, and , Joseph, who was recently released releas-ed from the naval air corps. ' Word has been received of the death of Sgt Loren H. Loth, former drummer in the B Y U cadet band, who was killed in ac- uvn x cu. , "- r i theater of action. 1 slt. Tth who was well known! k ka nivrsltV IrOm IMOVem-!" r ,7.1, Ktnrrh ia 1B44 was ler. l43, vo ftiarcii 10. i . the .on of MX. and Mrs. A. B. ixn, Baineai.. i.nw... street, between University avenue entered service in May. 1942, and.ar, . ch vam received overseas assignment in pec, 1944. . SPANISH FORK John Max Mrf K-l-c. was killed in the ii?.-?1.0 S H rZJiVl A nioUon submitted by Com-facifte,according Com-facifte,according to word receiv- missIoner Jo8eph a Swpp and ed from the navy department, concurred m by Mayor Maurice lite widow, Wllma Byrl Reed and Harding, gave the city the "go liia two daughters, Vivian R. and ahead" signal to reopen the CerAm Beth Reed, live in Spanish street However. Judge Tillman fork. Seaman Reed was in the D. Johnson of the U. S district Beach Battalion of an amphibious court issued a temporary re- (Centiaaed on Pie Two) straining order Friday which K. m a m aw A UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKK Awaiting (D) of Provo as she carried to the last her fight for greater recognition of the Central Utah Vocational school. Only funds allocated to the Utah county school was the $25,-000 $25,-000 annual "stipend" agreed upon up-on after much argument in both houses in a special bill. The general fund appropriation ibill carried no allocation for the slightly more than $5,000,000. Other credits, including dedicated departmental funds, federal matching funds and fees bring the total proposed expenditures up -to the $27,776,867.85 figure SehOOl Bills APPrOVM Last of the school bills gained approval in the senate late Satur- ing the school levy limit four mills in Salt Lake City, six mills in second class districts and two to four mills in other districts of the state The senate waiting receipt of the appropriation bill, also en- hours to read the house assumed a noiiaay aunospnere, wn mem jbers roving the hallways in a .generally festive attitude. How' Sever, the sergeants-at-arms were -.'i- ' . V able (to corral enough lof Jhem action on the bill which would ment of publicity and industrial : development and substituted a , publicity commissioner, j Discussion was brief and the i bill was killed by a wide margin, j The 44-page biennial budget i bill calling for a general fund appropriation ap-propriation of $12,716,435.25 in the house this morning. It also calls for addilional $10.000.000 in special funds and so-called dedicated credits. Despite the length of the re port of the joint senate and house appropriations committee, setting i Stettinius, Jr.. returned to i n-nAisi 4h.!inonn tnHav confident of Dostwar . t- years.. leaUlators and ! observors alike predicted a j i speeay pasage. m"1 kihk, u utniu;nere un v . . (Conttonea on page two) Kaising salaries Of City Judges cArm t aw rimr t- n l(UJQGWm Herbert B. Maw today ers, R.. Mass. They served on the signcj genate bUl 119 to raise thelU. S. advisory delegaUon at the salaries of city judges. The bill, nmvide that ludffes in cities of! the first class be raised to $5,000, those of the second class to be- 'tween $3,600 and $5,000, and those the third class to between $2,400 and $5,000 Restraining Order Stops Work On Reopening of Ninth South The Provo city commission! agreed Saturday that the temper-j iMUQimui wmn niuiu 'halted work on the reopening of the 8treet acrou 19 tracks through ne xre cri and Seventh East, continue until the case can be heard on its merits, and it can be determined by the courts whether the city can be permanently enjoined vM .w SffMW Mine Pay Row May Land In U. I. Courts NLRB Plans to Vote Down Petition oi the Opreators UP Learns By CHARLES B JEGGES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 10 ra The first major differ ences in the wage-hour parley between the United Mine Workers and soft coal opera tors appeared to be headed for a session in the federal courts. .The move to court was indicated alter it was learned reliably that tne national labor relations board on Monday plans to vote down a petition of the operators to outlaw out-law the union's 30-day strike notice. Edward R. Burke, president of the Southern Coal Producers as sociation, when asked about the possible veto of the petition told the United Press that if such action ac-tion was forthcoming he would appeal immediately to a federal district court. Burke's filing of the petition with the NLRB yesterday has resulted re-sulted in the first major quarrel of the wage conference. Any court action growing out of the wage hearings would further the chances of a peaceful agreement on a wage contract for the next two years. An NLRB spokesman last night said he believed the operators' petition would have to be turned down because of the board's legal staff feels that a dispute already was in existence between the miners and the mine owners. ' The UMW accused the opera-ton opera-ton of "bad faith" and of violating violat-ing the contract conference rules. These rules, adopted the first day of the negotiations, bind both' sides not to make separate statements state-ments to the public. In today's sessions, UMW President Presi-dent John L. Lewis bitterly denounced de-nounced Edward R. Burke, president presi-dent of the southern coal produc ers association, for petitioning the NLRB to call off the strike vote which the union wants taken on its 400,00 members on March 28. Burke s action, anounced last niaht caucht the miners off guard. Before the negotiations! started, Lewis gave the 30-day strike vote notice required under the Smith-Connally act on the grounds that a dispute existed between be-tween the UMW and the nation's soft coal producers. In his petition. Burke argued that no disnute exists because the ioii MintraM klivMn miners and operators does not expire until midnight, March 31. j r!SmltnConnallv act requires the The miners view was inai uie 30-day notice if a dispute is ex V1 IO qeeiP Stettinius Sees Hope for World Peace Machinery WASHINGTON. March 10 (UP) number of inndiary bombs in -Secretary of State Edward R.ithe first concerted effort to wine international cooperation to maintain peace. , i ibc ViaH nisiai "' been Mexico city, wnere ne re - resented the United States in the just - concluded inter - Amer-;me ican conference. But since he left hi three conference, he had cov ered 26,000 miles and visited London, Lon-don, Paris, Rome, Moscow and numerous other places. Accompanying Stettinlu on the last homeward leg of his journey were Sens. Tom Connally, D., Tex., and Warren R. Austin. R., Vt., and Reps. Luther Johnson, D-, Tex., and Edith Nourse Rog- Mexico City conterence. Connally hailed tne Mexico meeting as "very successful. Austin said he-felt it had produced pro-duced a hemispheric security organization or-ganization that would fit into any world-wide machinery. halted attempts by the city to finish work which was begun iuuikhij w... Commissioner Blake D. Palfrey man. According to City Attorney I. E Brock bank the city is on record that when the main case, a suit filed March 1 in U. S. district court, which seeks a permanent injunction to keep the street closed, comes up in court, that the injunction be not admitted. Commissioner Palfreyman put back temporary barriers and has lights on both ends of the street as a measure to warn pedestrians and drivers of vehicles that the street is not open. The restraining order and an order to show cause why an ln-(Contlnued ln-(Contlnued on page tw) PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, 15 Sq. Miles of Tokyo Reduced to Shambles By Incendiary Raid Seven Large Fires Still Burning 11 Hours After the Raid, Considered Most Destructive Destruc-tive Blow Ever Inflicted On Any Center By FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, Sunday, March 11 a:. (Via Navy Radio) Fifteen square miles in the center of Tokyo's industrial area has been reduced to a "twisted, tumble-down, rubble- strewn" shambles by yesterday's great B-29 incendiary raid, Maj Gen. Curtis Lemay announced today after viewing view-ing reconnaissance photographs of the fire-wrecked metropolis. me-tropolis. Seven large fires still burned in the devastated area at 1 p.m. Saturday 11 hours af ter the raid Thirty-five hundred city blocks were laid waste. Pictures taken 10 to 12 hours after the strike indicated that Tokyo reeled under what some airmen unofficially predicted may well be the most destructive blow ever inflicted on any city in the history of mankind by human means. Railway Center Raided While Tokyo smouldered, a fleet of India-based B-29s battered bat-tered the Malayan railway center of Kuala Lumpur, 200 miles northwest of Singapore, today. It was the second raid on that rail center and a bulletin said its railroad yards were the principal target. Gen. Lemay, commanding general gen-eral of the 21st bomber command which sent more than 300 Superfortresses Super-fortresses from three Marianas island! is-land! on yesterday's record strike,! said today: "The target attacked is now entirely en-tirely burned. This fire left nothing noth-ing but twisted, tumble-down rubble in its path. These facts are Yanks Drive Ahead oh Luzon; No Word on Mindanao Landing By jel DvQUIGG xdriven into Antlpolo. south an- Unlted Press War CorrespondenfTchor of the heavily-defended MANILA, Sunday, March HlShimbu line east of Manila, but (U.PJ Gen.- Douglas MacArthur'made no mention of American announced today that elements of j landings on -Mindanao island' the 1st Cavalry divisions have Writer Recounts Vivid Scene Of Tokyo On Fire By MARTON SHERIDAN Boston Globe War Correspondent Representing combined U. S. Press ABOARD A B - 29 OVER TOKYO, March 10 (U.R) The largest force of superfortresses the capital island. The pass was ever assembled gave the sons of , hit with 247 tons of bombs. Nippon a hotfoot early today with The 158th regimental combat the heaviest bomb tonnage yet,fm. wnrlr,ni- Zith th ilth Air- unloaded on the Japanese main land. More than 300 heavy bombers from Guam. Tinlan and Saipan took- off last nlffht with a ranaritvi Wash-.Xokyo of ihe map. t nn4 nniv Tnkvn hnmins' furiously in many sections but I 'smelled lt as we plowed through i Li,. "ue ciouas oi smoite oiuowing mlies aDOve the city, I -re conflagration was so great bomb bays of this particular j airpiane and the underside of the luscivgt: ana in uiisiers wre blackened with soot. The navigator didn't have to give the pilot bearings on Tokyo because 40 miles from the blacked out city we could see the reddish glow of the burning capital on the horizon. As soon as we reached the Japanese mainland we saw scores of smaller fires enroute to Tokyo, possibly set by the Japanese as a diversionary ruse. Superfortresses went in singly today in a complete change of their previous formation tactics. (Continued on page two) General Pershing Tanlts Effective DETROIT, March 10 (U.R) Maj Gen. L. H. Campbell. Jr., army's chief of ordnance, disclosed to- night that America's new T-26 General Pershing" tank has proved extremely effective in op erations on the western front and that tank crews need "the very maximum number in the least possible time." While only about 250 T-26s renamed by Fisher Body employes em-ployes as the 'Tiger tamer because be-cause of the vehicle's ability to knock out the nrize Nazi royal Tiger tank have been produced. Campbell said "our tank forces are enthusiastic over the fighting ability and great destruction powers of the tank." Recently lt was reDorted from the front that U. S. forces were dissatisfied with other American tanks, principally the M-4. UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH. 11, 1945 ings and thousands of "home in incontrovertibly established by reconnaissance photographs tak en on the afternoon of the strike.' Lemay said the area was totally destroyed and clearly identifi able. "It covers a total of 422,500,000 square feet, which is approxi mately 9,700 acres or 15 square miles. He said 8 identifiable indus trial and urban targets lie in ruins within the destroyed area, including the previously damag ed Ueno railroad station, the ris ing.sun petroleum terminal, the Ogura Oil Co., Nisshin spinning mill, the Japan Machine industry. and the Marunouchi telephone exchange which before the war had 9,000 automatic lines and 150 long distance lines. Densely Populated The target area additionally includes the Kanda Market, Hat- tori Co., and hundreds of small business establishments "directly concerned with war industry," and many administrative build-( build-( Continued on page two) where the Japanese said fierce fighting was in progress. At the north end of the Shim-bu Shim-bu line where there is a series of interlocking mountain caves that must be reduced individual ly, troops of the 6th Infantry di vision advanced Montalban, some Wawa. southwest ofi 10 miles from' In north central Luzon, the 32nd and 25th divisions made fur ther advances in their twin drives through rugged mountain terrain toward Balete pass, one of the last escape roads for Japanese forces being driven into the , mountainous northern parts of borne division south of Manila to compress other Japanese troops I r 4 ka iai ifkaa 4Atn 4ln a T .i a . nH fl,rth.P .-.,r-h rrH . . . tfL n'f !eng"bay, TOme 60 mUes 801110 of Z j ,w -i l oe 43rd and 38ui Qivisions which are annihilaUng Japanese i remnants m thezamables moun- itains north of Rataan Hismwred - ------ 900 enemy bodies in one locality in the foothills victims of concentrated con-centrated bombing and artillery fire. MacArthur made no mention of any landing or landing attempts on Mindanao, southernmost and second largest island of the Philippines, but said heavy bombers bomb-ers continued the reduction of the enemy base at Zamboanga, on the southwest tip, dropping. more than 300 tons of explosives. defense and supply areas at Zamboanga were well covered, a bridge was hit, and explosions and large fuel fires were observed. ob-served. Fighter bombers harassed Cotabato. Malabang and Parang, the communique said. Japanese broadcasts meanwhile reported that tank-led American troops had landed on Mindanao Friday and that fierce fighting was in progress. Ickes' Son Hurt In Iwo Jima Battle . WASHINGTON, March 10 0JJ0 . Marine 2nd Lt. Raymond Wi-marth Wi-marth Ickes, 32. son of the sec- crctary of interior, suffered chest injury on Iwo Jima last Wednesday, the navy revealed today. to-day. He was in command of a com pany of the Ninth regiment of the Third Marine regiment, the navy saio. His wife, Miralotta L. Ickes, lives In Silver Spring, Md, a sub urb ox Washington. Secretary Ickes' office Mid It understood young Ickes was seriously wounded by shrapnel fragments and still is receiving emergency treatment on Iwo Jima. Rhiisie Reds Complete Encirclement Off Kuestrin Waves o! Tanks Used In Battle to Break Down Berlin Barrier LONDON, Sunday, March 11 ioe) The Germans announced an-nounced last night that Red army troops had virtually en circled Kuestrin and fought their way through the great er part of the old walled fortress fort-ress at the confluence of the Oder and Warthe rivers 38 miles from Berlin. Other Soviet troops, Moscow disclosed officially, had broken across the eastern arm of the Vistula before Danzig and joined a siege arc around the former city having a total length of 70 miles. , Front line reports said Soviet cavalry formations, splitting the German lines near Danzig's outskirts, out-skirts, had driven within seven miles of the main city. In a simultaneous si-multaneous threat to a second major Baltic port, the Russians drove within five miles of Stettin's Stet-tin's waterfront in swaying battle bat-tle battles with German tanks sallying out from the city. Use Larre Forces But while these struggles raged, rag-ed, the critical point of the eastern east-ern front campaign was before Berlin, where by German accounts ac-counts the Russians were throwing throw-ing tremendous forces into an effort to erase the Kuestrin salient sali-ent in the center of their Oder bridgeheads. The enemy radio admitted that Marshal. Gregory K..zhkoy!s troops naa fought their way completely com-pletely through Kuestrln's Alt-stadt, Alt-stadt, the main section of the city op the north bank of the Warthe just east of its confluence with the Oder. The . Russians had also penefrated- the Nuestadt or southern south-ern portion standing astride the Oder. Waves of Soviet tank and in fantry formations were attempt - i x A . . . 1 . I J w VTrr Jr . IT5,sl?nce mwuiut m Biiacus irom me noruiwesi, norm ana norm-east, norm-east, Berlin said, while the southern south-ern quarter was being assailed from the north and southwest. Marshal Josef Stalin announced announc-ed the fall of Lauenburg and Kartuzy, respectively 35 and 18 miles west of Danzir. in an order of the day addressed to Marshal Konstantine K. Rokosfovsky of the First White Russian army. Rokossovsky's mobile units swept 12 miles up the superhigh way toward Danzig to capture Lauenburg, a 12-way traffic hub including five rail radiations. Smaller Kartuzy lies 23 miles to the southeast over the Oder in former Polish corridor territory. It was taken in a three-mile push from Kolopin to the south. Moscow dispatches reported that Soviet troops driving on Danzig from due south at the (Continued on Page Two) France Hopes To Use Prisoners For Many Years PARIS. March 10 (U.R) France hopes to use German military prisoners for 10 years after the war to help rebuild the war-torn country. Urbain Cassan, a member mem-ber of the ministry of reconstruction, reconstruc-tion, told the United Press today. Cassan, a leading French architect, archi-tect, said that destruction in the country was double that of the last war. Japanese Seize French Indo-China In Apparent Fear of Yan!t Landing WASHINGTON. March 10 (U.R) Vice Admiral Jean Decoux, governor-general of French Indo- China, and the commanders of the army, navy and air forces of the colony were placed under "protective "pro-tective custody" today by the Japanese Jap-anese army which seized complete control of Indo-China in apparent fear of an American landing on the Asiatic coast. At tne same .time. Premier Kuniaki Koiso. in a radio broad' cast to the Japanese,, warned that an Invasion of the home islands was inevitable and admitted gloomier that air raids on Tokyo undoubtedly would be intensified. Koiso spoke on- Japanese army, day. He and Field Marshal Geo Siuriyama. war minister, will ad dress the. Imperial. Diet tomorrow to renew the war and; according to .the Dome! news agency, ex press tne aeierminauon ana con fidence of the government in COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Eeaclhlhiead. Youngest Evacuee "ill (NE4 TtUphf) Tiny. 4-year-old Olivia Jane Atwood-Pardew Atwood-Pardew and her mother. Army nurse Lt. Anna Louise Bonder-Pa rdew, Portland. Ore, held prisoners of Japanese since war's outbreak, arrive at Hamilton Field. Calif, on one of ATC's giant air transports. Air Transport Command photo. Fliers Thwart Nazi Attempt To Bomb Bridge LONDON, March 10 (U.PJ More than 1,850 U. S. heavy bombers and fighters, trying to isolate the Ruhr from the rest of Germany, ; struck at seven railroad tarsets today while hundreds of tactical planes swarmed over the Rhine bridgehead area and thwarted desperate German aerial attempt to bomb the 'tey bridge at Re magen. Tonight RAF Mosquito bombers attacked Berlin for the 19th j straight night, the longest sus tained period the Nazi capital ever had been under attack. Six Messerschmitt 109's, carrying carry-ing heavy bombs and escorted by live tocke wuix 190 s, made a desperate dash for the bridge feeding American ground troops but were intercepted by a squadron squad-ron of Thunderbolts which shot down one of the Messerschmitt's and one of' the escorting planes and forced the others to jettison their bombs and scurry for inner Germany. Other Allied tactical planes struck savagely at enemy railroad and highway lines and transport leading toward Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' troops and maintained a 100-plane patrol over the bridgehead bridge-head area all day. Those planes which approached the bridge were subjected to their own flak since the U. S. gunners were firing at every plane which appeared over the span. The heavy bombers a 200-mile column of 1,350 Fortresses and Liberators escorted by 500 fight ers carried the air war through its 26th consecutive day, dropping more than 3.000 tons of explosives on the rail links on the lines from the Ruhr to Berlin. overcoming the present national crisis Decoux was arrested, the Japanese Jap-anese radio said, when he refused to comply with Japanese demands that Indo-China cooperate in the "joint defense" of the country. only 600 miles away from Ameri can forces in the Philippines. Jap anese troops occupied the governor-general's residence In Saigon. Gen. George Ayme, supreme commander of the French colonial army in ' Indo-China; Vice Ad- miral Xfari Ttani! Rcri Rrn ger, commander of Inaval forces. anchor of Sbimbu line; Mac-and Mac-and Gen. Sylvester 'Tavera. air! Arthur fails confirm Jspanese r? and Gen. Sylvester Tavera, air force commander, also were taken Into custody. The Japanese troops took complete com-plete charge of. the three large cities of Saigon, Hanoi and Chol-on. Chol-on. seizins all industries, bar- racks. airfields TOvernment resi dences, police stations, railroad; stations and utilities. PRICE FIVE CENTS- Nazis Open Strong ; Artillery Attack On Yank Bridgehead By JACK FLEISCHER United Press War Correspondent - PARIS, Sunday, March 11 The Germans opened a tremendous artillery attack on the American bridgehead on the east bank of the Rhine yesterday, but First army , troops gained almost a mile, in advances that won vitaT heights overlooking the "hottest area in Europe." Berlin admitted even more extensive ex-tensive American gains, acknowledging ack-nowledging that assault troops made a second crossing of the Rhine four miles north of Re-magen Re-magen and captured Honnef In furious house-to-house fighting. A security blackout still masked mask-ed operations in the bridgehead area, but Allied supreme headquarters head-quarters announced that the 9th. infantry division of Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First army blasted out 500 to 1,500-yard gains in the bridgehead area Saturday Sat-urday almost a mile. Furious Fighting The Germans, now fighting with furious desperation to seal off the . breach into their inner fortress, rained sheila from one of the largest artillery concentrations concentra-tions they have yet assembled on the western front. Front dispatches described the Ludendorf bridge area as a raging rag-ing inferno of German shell splinters and spent American shrapnel from scores of antiaircraft anti-aircraft battery firing at German planes making suicidal but futile attempts to blast the bridge. But American strength in the bridgehead was growing hourly. United Press Correspondent Ann Stringer reported. Unbelievable' quantities of materiel were- piling pil-ing up east of the Rhine and great lines of trucks stretching-Jfoitai niue were pouring nwre across -the river. "This is the hottest area in Zttropea," she said, commenting comment-ing on German reaction. Resistance Collapsed To the north the Canadian First army collapsed a pocket of German resistance on the west bank -around Wesel with a swift ; two-mile thrust through its center cen-ter and the U. S. Third army ' reached to within two miles of Coblenz in a swift tank attack on that important Rhineland town. (In a broadcast heard In London Lon-don Sunday, radio Paris reported that American troops were fighting fight-ing in the suburbs of Coblenz.) As the German artillery barrage bar-rage intensified, their aerial passes at the vital bridge became almost continuous. Miss Stringer watched five German dive bombers go down In flames, one after the other, as . they tried to attack the bridge Saturday victims of ground gunners. Delayed reports from United Press Correspondent John B. McDermott said one bomb dropped so close to the bridge Friday its explosion splashed water in the faces of doughboys racing across the trestle beside -tanks. One attack Saturday was made by six bomb-laden Messerschmitt Messer-schmitt 109s escorted by five' Focke Wulf 109s. U. S. 8th air--force fighters from Britain, help-, ing 9th air force tactical planes protect the area, intercepted them over Linz, two miles south of the bridge. Two German planes were shot down and the remainder jettisoned jettison-ed their bombs and fled. Pilots reported a solid cloof : cover over the bridgehead area (Continued on Page Two) War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: Germans . open tremendous artillery attack- ' on Rhine bridgehead, but 1st army trops gain a mile; Ameri- ' cans capture Honnef acrsos Rhine , in furious house-to-house fight- , ing, enemy says. r EASTERN FRONT: Germans-: say red army virtually encircles : Kuestnn and lights way througn greater part of the city, 38 miles from Berlin; other soviet troops form siege are around Danzig. PACIFIC: Marines on Iwo drive forward against diminishing resistance; re-sistance; victorious end of bloody campaign in. sight AIRi 1850 U. S. heavy bombers and fighters hit seven Ruhr railroad rail-road targets; tactical planes thwart desperate German air attack at-tack on Remagen bridge. .PHILIPPINES: 1st. cavalry division di-vision drives into Antlpolo aouth- portSvOf American landing x& ITALY; Americans tighten iron band, around Vergato, fortress r j town r-on road iron ststoia xo ; . Bologna, Jr; SOUTHEAST.. ASIA -Tank-led Guckha troops attack Fort Duf- ferin in heart of "Mandatory fi |
