Show "a MdWigs0 World News - Associated Press Weather: 1 United Press - 1- ' & k Clear 1 A (Details on Page N Y Times Foreign Service mm Vol 150 No 133 Price Five Ccuts Salt Lake City Utah Monday Morning February 26 1915 Reds Breach Baltic Line Seize Bastion Agricat s Seize 'wren Key to Rhine st ulwarks II I oyko O'otc-d--Fte- Campaign to Clear Northern Flank Gathers Momentum Sweep Beyond Roer to Within 15 Miles of Colocrn ne Win 22 More TONVIIS as German Defense Falters e Plit-Iiiei-:':-- 7 S9 !: LONDON Monday Feb 26 (UP) — Russian troops knocked out another section of the German's emergency Baltic line Sunday capturing the Pomeranian stronghold of Preussisch-Friedlan- d and crossing the Chojnice-Stetti- n PARIS Monday Feb 26 (A3)—A steamroller American of- railroad in a drive of gathering to clear their northern fensive rumbled seven miles beyond the Roer river to within 15 power flank for a frontal assault on Berg miles of Cologne Sunday knocking out Dueren—keystone of the lin Indications mounted that the Ehineland's outer defenses—and 24 other German towns against attack on the German capital only 31 miles from Marshal Gregory K faltering enemy resistance Zhukov's First White Pussian In all three American armies army spearheads at the Oder had hurdied all major water barnot be long delayed The shatmight Rhine of Sultan-Wiwest after the th riers German command sent out planes the line for terirg the Siegfried of Berlin's home defense air force V S Third 'army 60 miles south to attack Zhukov's swelling conoffensive had of the Rhine-boun- d and fierce air battles Pruem river the smahed across WITH THE U S NINTH centrations raged from the Oder to Berlin's and was driving the Germans beArtmY IN GERMANY Feb 25 eastern suburbs fore it in disorder (JP)—Infantry fighting is tireRobinBore Deep Into Breslau Tanks heavy artillery and fresh some but Lt Col George y related SunInfantry units poured across the son Austin Texas one Well back of the advance lines at least how in endless strearps broadendoughboy Red army troops bored deeper into day GUAM Monday Feb 26 (UP) More than 200 Super of solved the to in line river the breach problem the getting ing the rubbleof encircled Breslau and some rest fortresses the ever formation 2S miles and slashing with gathwhich intook the air teamed and greatest hurled back strong tank "1 seaw about 100 prisoners to within five Germans the attacks errig ofmomentum by carrier-basefantry d Robinwith hundreds of the Erft river last enemy coming down the road" planes Sunday in a great one-twfrom three shell-sweLe of defense short of the Rhine son said "Four of them were'a fighting punch against the industrial heart of Tokyo and bombed second pockets in and around Koenigscarrying a stretcher on which in Prussia East Declared 600000 Strong berg Yank sat crosslegged like a ary targets over a wide area Berlin claimed elimination of his Second A German broadcast declared sultan with a tommygun oncomJapanese broadcasts admitted that the great port of Yoko Ukrainian army bridgelap He was in complete Gen Eisenhower had hurled perIn across river Hron the heads hama on Tokyo bay was hit by the carrier planes and Said that mand of the situation above its haps 600000 men into the U S northwest Hungary just Gerwould at the 'He yell First and Ninth army offensive on the Superfortresses dropped bombs incendiary and demolition mans and they would break into confluence with theY Danube where the I:ocr and Berlin said the GerRodion Marshal Malinoysky's "adjacent to" the moated palace of Emperor Hirohito in central rnans had blown 4 dam and flooded a trot driven to within 87 "I asked him if he was hurt troops ofhad the Hoer once more in a desperate comTokyo Vienna A German miles and he replied: to stern the onslaught also said fresh soviet atattemptmenace " 'No colonel I am No direct word was received however from Vibe Adm Mare munique 0 so to Cologne—Rhine just The E41 on the Neisse river fortresses I feel like I couldn't walk tacks A on Mitscher's Berlin's city of 800000 and a symbol of tired and of Forst Guben huge carrier fleet leading to the belief the task another step so I thought that German war might in the indus to volin southeastern were went mouth and binoculars on announced ashore the Forrestal glued approaches eyes Pipe force was still under the necessity of observing radio silence long as I had to take these smashed tral Ruhr and Rhineland— was as canic island to Jew at first hand the battle Forrestal watches from Nice Adm back Secy as Navy prisoners they might as of hold As long as the Germans growing hourly spearheads (The British radio heard by the blue network said part of Richmond Turner's flagship as marine assault between marines and Japs He also watched both the First and Ninth armies we'll furnish the transportation' Baltic salient their "The last I saw of him he was drove eastward along the broad troops hit the beach at Iwo Jima The navy planting of U S flag on Mount Suribachi the imperial guard barracks was destroyed near the palace the Vistula and Oder they going down the road keeping between to a threat counterattack pose tighways Hitler built for offense Tokyo Reports Bombers Return for Third Attack the Germans in line from his riot for defense Zhilkov's front before Berlin Marregal perch" The First army's 10Ith TimberThe federal communications commission heard a Tokyo shal Konstantin K Rokossovsky's w(1f division was fighting on east Second White Russian army was broadcast say that bombers were flying toward Tokyo from the of fallen Dueren—second largest assigned the task of eliminating it southwest so German city to fall to American Sunday night That would mean a third attack by wedging through to the sea e as to lop off the salient and isolate arms—along the (A broadcast of the American broadcasting service in Europe0 whatever Germans remained in the lighway 15 miles from Cologne heard to area miles the north the by N B C reported that 25000 square yards of Tokyo were Eight Danzig and Gdynia port Ninth army's 29th division drivatolls American forces have A Drive Across Railroad ablaze) By United Press the Juelich - Cologne irg U S PACIFIC FLEET IIEAD- -' cr conquered James V the Secy—of Navy as as six ahead much Superfortress pilots returning jubilant to base Sunday night 17 seized Steinstrass Pounding highway Forrestal just back from a tour G uam Volcanic Ash Beaches rf) miles on a front ItokossovQUARTERS Monday after their flight reported that not a single enemy plane chal4 rmies from Cologne Steinstrass on beachhead American of the was a rich prize loc there the MEXICO CITY Feb 25 UP— sky's forces captured Preussisch"Its beaches are soft V01- - Feb 26 UP)—Three divisions of Iwo Jima Sunday made a dra-- Friedland after a two-da- y battle Germans had refitted their Delegates to the canic ash so loose and crumbling U marines launching an at- lenged them and that there was little antiaircraft fire matic plea for more munitions conference here had before them They drove on across the Chojniceone was that marine said it like tack' northward on bitterly catHe Many of them never saw the earth or sea on the entire flight Huncireds of U S medium light Sunday carefully drawn plans in- Stettin railroad backbone of the for thein fighting marines to dig a foxhole in a bag bombed through cloud formations 13500 feet thick But a radio broadcast from trying cover of Iwo under spoke They Jima German defense line at Biscliofsested and fighter bombers heaped fresh volving both economic and of wheat" he Said Adm Chester W Nimitz' adsaw sprawled beneath them the great task force 53 from Preusnisch-others miles of walde north and carrier cal naval measures to on :shellinto eight planes1 stifle Friedland destruction German defenses "The Japs took full skillful designed on tluanL vanced headquarters which the carrier planes had bombed military targets all around of cento a1 the way the Rhine The Ge- any possible threat Advantage of that terrain and captured one airstrip of the After recounting the treAlso taken in the drive were rnans said the two American by any American nation aggressVm of the fact- that there could be tral airdrome the capital Sunday and had mendous weight of equipment Some delegates have expressed Damnitz Klausfelde Christfelde no tactnal surprise as to where anyi:s were supported by treBarkenfelde and shells thrown the'batof into e the Heinrichswalde of and wind over Tokyo possession The main Superfortress fleet met a fear an that inen(lous artillery barrages that armaments rare an enemy wQuld land" Forrestal Peterswalde all in an area nine to tie for the tiny island the 'secother runway 450 miles an hour a of bombed wind and with the earth for miles around might develop in South America 21 at the said speed miles southwest of Chojnice retary said that "only because of and Colombia has urged that the Adni: Chester INV Nimitz anReviewing the preliminaries to rain of metal could the ail Detene Lightens nations represented at the con- just over the Pomeranian border that the Iwo marine of invasion nounced the intensified push in a 'We Laid Our Bombs Right Down Main Street' be reduced at all" of the onetime island Assoc-iateterritory "that and barren Press Correspondent ference commit themselves to the from island" grim "We laid our bombs right down the main street" unit comwhich also disclosed "The tremendous store of metal Don Whitehead reported from the use of force against ally Amer- Polisil Corridor Forrestal pointed out that communique Preussisch-2827 been dead that had The Germans defended enemy mander Col Karl Storey Denton Tex said "It must be burnthrown on Iwo Jima sharpens Frst army front that the German ican state which violates the Friedland thousands of tons of shells from counted-othe island little a from bloody confor the the permanent boundaries of another defense there had noticeably lightagain necessity naval guns have been used only 1750 miles from the Japanese ing tonight" defense line based on the shore of tinued output of munitions in Economic ened AP Correspondent Wes Galthe Japanese strongagainst proposals by the Lake Bukaulasee Other Superfortresses bombed as far west as Nagoya hitDoand the river our plants and at home" he States scheduled to be binde but point—both before the landing capital A small force of Japanese ting that city 165 froth Tokyo and Shingu in the same highly lagher on the Ninth army front United before forced soviet the said troops and each since Monthe conference then" toid of the capture of numerous placed day planes raided American positions industrialized area water barrier in a sudden He emphasized Nimitz' pol"All of this tremendous weight on guns complete with am- day are aimed at promoting sta- a Moscow communique said attack Iwo shortly before midnight Three of metal thrown at Iwo Jima nunition from crews unwilling or bility in each country of the hemi- thousand Germans were killed on icy of having an "unstoppable (A Tokyo broadcast recorded by the F C C admitted damage but Nimitz reported they Sunday roldid not steam idea of with the atilc to deffnd them economic that its defenses" sphere power—a margin extinguish no of Some caused their to airfields military installations and transport facilities and said damage he declaredwould help remove the the Pomeranianohmfront during the ler" in attacks on Japanese on own fell bombs Rcyrts from the Canadian security their ta troops 23 knocked aryl that bombs were tgiropped near Kobe in the Nagoya region la day I causes for wari ilit rut nrv front yairt the Germans were Slated out A 110 A 1(1) ADM TURNER'S ii pclosest Defenses tokossoskya this broadcast Tokyo said that 35 American planes 1:nenly Strongest for 1:tplanation crack armored units to the Baltic still was 64 Must Keep Up race FLAGSHIP OFF IWO JIMAand carrier planes were shot down and five damaged) Nimitz was ricut the peril from the AmeriThe proposals are scheduled for proach fighting reported miles at the western end of his Feb 23 (Delayed) (UP)—Secy "That steam roller" he said cans and vere pulling troops back explanation Tuesday by William as the through Sunday bitter The fleet which hit Tokyo was twice as large no "saves us many lives It will were and there front of the V Superfortress James Forrestal 'Yanks now Navy from northern Holland and the S Clayton U S assistant secre- fresh on established from east the firmly flank reports toured the American beachhead in the first attack last take the output however of illands at the mouth of the tary of state in charge of eco- where this vital island drove against at least as the one which hit the capital spearhehds had driven and adanced positions on Ivo the and hard work some of the strongest enemy en- Nov 24 nomic affairs before a joint ses- lip the ohl corridor to within 33 many factories Jima Friday and expressed his by all handA in those factories of the Pacific v'air The Ninth army won a victory sion of committees on war and Mi1el4 Of Da nzig Sunday's attack was one of saturation power on the worlifs "tremendons admiration amt trenhments for months to come if we are to II the Americans At' in the days achievements postwar problems of the nightfall third Moscow dispatches said that keep the edge of power" reverence for the guy who walks held the east-wecity An official bulletin said that the attack marked runway of the a newlargest conference 1903 orly to thea capture of Dueren by forces of Focke-Wuof the aerial battle against Japan beaches heavy and up takes pophase Forrestal described the plantenemy central Iwo airfield and about Their main features include: Column Three) (see Page Two commanding ridge and sitions a with rifle and from Adm Marc A Mitscher's famed task north-soutof Carrier and the Stars of grenades S U atop planes the Irg two Stripes assistance for miles north of Pattern regulated Or his bare hands" the Japanese stronghold of Alt 1e1n11 shoving the Germans back industrialization of these counforce' No 58 operating from points perhaps 300 miles off the Forrestal h fa re reddened runwity t extinct voln ral announced Mrs Pogo Two C011ittin Sevrn The Siibaehl frJoi where they could overlook tries on a mound economic basis ad fleet (tire vtio Two (Ittittn kilx) e Call° "No precIpitous it eetned "J! Io r crOsMhg the Third- Fourth and Fifth It more orderly marketing of exahnost vertical" divisions launched their atports raising efficiency of agriPeril Highway Center The navy secretary said he tack "after preliminary bomculture through education imand marine Lt Gen Holland 'bardrnent by marine artillery and Five miles to the north Amer'-- provement of techniques and : Smith saw the flag going up inIheavy units of the Pacific fleet" was mechanization 10 extension and within miles infantry Muerchen-CladbacCarrier planes from the mighty rind vvits tensification of hvalth and saniDM TM MONDVILLE Qii e bee while they towere halfway from- By United Press the beachhead Fifth rea ter rig to encircle Erkelenz a tation prog ra nut fleet—so large it 'sent a relaxa t ion of Feb 25 UN—Scores of persons their ship WESTERN FRONT: Amerito waters off Tokyo for "It was the high point in a tv telter guarding the ap- wartime and many peacetime trade were injured Saturday night when portion cans gain two to five miles in a second the San Juan river in a MANIL A Monday Feb 26 crossed strike against big areas--7-anpr (?0M t) that Ruhr 'city of controls to give all American re- a crowd of more than 2000 citizens week of hard fighting" ForRocr river carried- to within five offensive powerful drive fi that co said Sevd -restal industral cloo S division diU Sixth sign adding ntly trade 200 (UP) attacked publics free advantages royal Ca tiltolian "fight ing which continues arid Ducren and advanee to Japans of the of southern capture miles the bombforce enth air f411 army f Durren on the third versification Of indirldnal econoT heavy and First cavalry division have lake at the town of Lostip mounted police and provost corps vril CohtinUe for b011le 15 miles of Cologne ivithin Banos It to t ers close the leNNell he big push gave Eisngave (Liv days mies to ground troops who were examining the dependency CM forstruck eastward from Manila was from Los Banos that Americome" hower's forces control of the road eign markets extension of activi- personnel support men of status in PACIFIC: Greatest armada young military Describing the elaborate systhrough the foothills of the Sierre can and Filipino forces rescued the district of Superfolresses in history Supplies Pour Ashore talway network across the ties of the U S- import-expo2146 American and other allied tem of deWith a peacetime bank to facilitate economic Madre mountains on a Co:ogne plain teams The melee an outgrowth of eaves interlocking underground with hundreds of nationals from the Japanese on and corridors honeycombnow hold Yanks almost the The -based of 40000 Dueren was a velopment and advance notice by Canada's overseas draft crisis new a towns in two Toto front blast seizing planes Of Iwo Jima Forrestal Suribachl entire said: southern Friday half ing of States United to the socond termination marines-owho batwhen Iwo Island the police started then kyo: be digging dead Japs tro rtt v prze C1 u tito if only but many thousands of Japanese drive aimed at the east coast of Maj Gen Edwin Patrick's Sixth of certain wartime contracts for were holding a dozen tle cenfor for arA"We'll of control persons complete some ones live out llivision captured the Luzon' Gen MacArthur are in the northern of raw probably Infantry Douglas left rugged purchases further examination of their of them tral airfield towns of Montalban and San Isifor end announced (the caves) many materials Monday leavmen papers began checking weeks to come" The new drive came as all or- dro in an advance northeast from Nimitz reported that unloading EASTERN FRONT: Soviets Latin Stability Important ing the Capitol theater were functioning ganized Japanese resistance in Manila into the firmly held "Kotia0 crack Baltic defense Exact Toll enemy's of A was mounted operations Heavy party police From the U S viewpoint Manila WRY crushed with the ex- yashi line" named after the Japa line lake Pomeranian strongsmoothly along the beaches La tin-- merles n economic sta bill ty retiring down the street from the The Chiof approximately 1000 nese major general commanding' revealed American bombers raided Of navy secretary hold ception Preussich Friedland and some members of the that planes front Adm is considcred i in port it n t to theater 1vben im- enemy troops chi drive was covered in Bonin Jima islands the Raymond including an ad- that area The drive sea toward LoNnoN Feb 21 t711—Fteichs strengthen Washington's hand in growing crowd which had been fol- bombers and- dive carrier fast to In task command still the miral north Spruance's by holding mediately adjacent fighter It it r Xaver Schwarz treasurer of international them and augment lowing began hurling pieces force as well as some of the AIR: Thousands of allied war- on Friday and Saturday Marcus three heavily mined government bombers the nazi party broadcast Sunday: the strength politics of the continent in of ice The police subsequently and in cruisers was island German hit battleships planes pound joined Saturday military buildings southeast of Intramuros Other Towns Taken Targets is possible that we will be developed resources and unity if were reinforced by a truckload of the Iwo invasion to in the Marshal's were attacked the Spanish walled city Installations in 13th consecu"just 50 provost men but their efforts national social-is- war should threaten again destroyed- but-thout in between their missimis of Montalban 12 miles northeaid tive (lay of "victory blitz" the same day by navy planes MaeArthur's daily war bulletin to disperse thecrowd failed: ilea still will be preserved by Con ferenee leaders plea nwh r11fllrfllM 11eW of Manila ntol :12 miles from Ulm The of vomit for also elements bombing Japan" I Hr gains reported h or 25 :ill About tAllen else has sil id members the crowd volt l'1111111INES: I S troops 2M21 Ju pallt4:10 tifitt WIIN only Whitt Not hry bpi ieved considerable were he or three other divisions hammer- etuit coast of Luzon was taken in ri1114-1ham been made toward attested Reports differed on' termed thilihniZing strilte east from Manila seize more than "all priigress of skill the the the last previous ing the Japanese in the northern a three-mil- e advance The Amen-'can- s arz spoke to nazi youth establishnient of a strong conti- whether the police were forced to two towns in new drive for count! There was no further re- sector of the Luzon front from defenses" Forrestal drove a mile northward then Japanese men holdeast coast of Luzon nental system Plans presented so surrender the they were said the marines since the landport on American 'casualties esti- the China sea coast north of Lin- to seize San Isidro Also under The German radio said Hitler's far show over-al- l agreement on ing One account said they were ing "have exacted since a four at 5372 including 600 gayen gulf southeast to the east- attack was the town of NorzaITALY: Tenth U S mountain mated whisked away by military trucks to one toll in dead from our pro iarnat!on Saturday on the 25th principles of hemispheric unity to 6 p In: Wednesday dead ern edge of the central plains up garay northern anchor of the division t4pearheads allied drive The Argentine problem reflects as they were picked up and ananniversary of the nazi party was While the leathernecks advanced lines which is 11 miles enemy" Japanese Casteltoward on Mount other men the front the greatest divergence of opinion were Bologna: prominently displayed report said the Moving Southward to lose want don't in "The the foot foot of Manila northeast Japs by lo of the Berlin Sunday morn- among delegates although lead- freed by the crowd One witness Iwo Jima" Forrestal said "It's pages captured by Brazilians area of Iwo's central airfield On alscr the the southern flank of the The bulletin revealed r- ' newspapers with the Voelki- ers from each nation have empha- estimated at least 100 persons the first step in a sequence of which seems doomed to fall short- Americans also were eastward moving front Maj Gen CHINA: of Liberators Ilth moving scher Beobachter were headline to sized in desire the fist reading: injured bring that nation fights and doom for their homeland They -ly swarms of :American carrier southward along the west shore poll 11 miles east of Manila They U S air force sink five JapaAt the End—Victory of the Ger- back into the fold The main dif- by flying ice have put into it every kind of and Superfortresses were of the huge inland lake krown as Verne D Mudge's First cavalry planes' nese vessels ran Reich" ference seems to be whether that Three newspapermen who said defense and they have had years sent against Tokyo More than 200 Laguna de Bay south of the capi- gained 31f miles northeast from The paper also headlined the step should be taken on the basis they were mistaken by the crowd to plan that defense" SOUTIIEAST ASIA: Japahit the area of Anti-weheart during a tal Taytay to reachsome "If the whole people of promises or concrete action to- for "informers" were thrown to ' The nese counterattacks on Myinmu snowstorm Japan's out that on the: heels of raids of Maj Gen Joseph M of the most secretary pointed Troops meeting itself then providence will wards cooperating in def ense the ground and had to be rescued although Iwo is a tiny island its n 30 miles west of by carrier planes estimated by Swing's nth division effective defenses yet thrown up bridgehead measures failus" terrain is unlike that of other by police radio Tokyo to have totaled600 Mandalay beaten off gained 15 miles down the bay and by the Japanese on Luzon 200 Su isTerfort§ Vacop is o:d' ' Sot Ca 'a:4a Afire I Tired Out Yank Plays Nazi Labor Carrier Airmen Pulverize Ground Defenses Interceptor Craft As Snowstorm Blinds Target Area - o pt Forrestal Tours Iwo Spurs HoineFront Americas Lay Plans to Bar A orression Dueren-Cologn- Marines Take Strip of 2nd Iwo Airdrome - 15-mi- le a inter-Americ- arr-ic- - red - two-thir- 140-mil- d n - 1AI-r- e - Super-fortress- es - CO-mi- le inter-Americ- an - st lf two-tpird- s: Quebec Stages Draft Riot My 4100-foo- h I 4 ma-rifl- U S Forces Seize Two Towns War Fronts In Drive East on Luzon h i he - rt 25-mi- le carrier- el gmAa Latin-America- Nazi Aid Voices Hope in Yonth n A - - I " - blood-soake- d 1 B-2- pr-Tve- re air-bor- r--ot q I I - - |