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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. StGnleY Tabor. 81.
and family. HGzelwood Ave-, end
County Rood c. send Holiday
Greetings to their friends and wish
for all On abundance of health and
happiness throughout the Ye~ 1916.
Greetings to the returned mem
bers OF the Umed force and to those
on foreign soil at this Christmos
time.-Mx. and Mrs. N. ]. Hunter.
3s4S Fourth Ave. So.
To oil my friends, qcquointonces
and neighbors l wish for you q very
Merry Christmos and HoppY,
Happy New YeU.-Mrs. Jennie
GrissGm and t0milY. s6l llth Ave.
No.
Of course you know we wish for
you q Merry Christmos and q HoppY
New Yeu-Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Johnson. Sic Fremont Ave. No.
We ore. hoppY for the love Of
friends and wish for them ON Gbun-
dance of health md happiness dur
ing the. Yuletide Season and
throughout the New YeG.-Mr. and
Mrs. RichGrd L Stokes and fuuilY.
7s7 ST. Anthony Ave.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

Merry Christmos and A HGppY
New YeU to all my friends and
putrons.-Dr. Lllidn Lewis. SIS Igle-
hart Ave.
To our friends and may this
Christmos be q day you won't for
get. A Season Of true glodness.
The finest Christmos yeti Merry
Christmosl Happy New YeUl-Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. Miller. 1888 Fifth Ave.
So.
At this Christmos Season we wish
On abundance OF health and hoppi-
ness for our friends in l946.-D. ].
Allen fGmilY. s7s BrYGnt Ave. No.
In the spirit of the season it's q
pleasure to express Merry Christ
mas and q Happy New Ye@.-Mr.
and Mrs. TolmGge B. Corey. 3704
Sth Ave. So.
Christmos Cheer. and the best to
oil for the coming YeU.-M. Leo
Boh0non.
May your Christmos be Merry and
your New YeU rich in good cheer
and blessinqs.-Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Alexander. 3720 Fifth Ave. So.
We wish you q very Merry Christ
mas and join in wishing you q royal
New YeU.-Mr. and Mrs. Jack PGr-
son and son. Billy. 70e Oak Lake
Ave. No.
Merry Christmos and best wishes
for Yew ground hoppiness.-Mr. and
Mrs. E L Anderson. JGqulYn and
WilliGm. ll06 AldEich Ave. No.
With heutiest Greetings and Best
Wishes for q Merry Christmas and
q Happy New YeU.-Mrs. Cecolia
Patterson Gnd fannilY. $40 BrYGnt
Ave. No.
Best Wishes for q Joyous Holiday
Seoson.-Mrs. Irene E. Cow0n. S2l
Emerson Ave. Ne.
Sincere good wishes for your
health and happiness at Christmos
time ond every day Of the New YeU.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester CorteT and
sons. $3.50 Fifth Ave. So.
MoY your Christmos be merry and
your New Yem q prosperous one.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L Escue and
fomilY. 1924 Fourth Ave. So.
The best Of wishes for Christmos
cheer with lots left over for q glad
New YeU-Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Granger. 1924 Fourth Ave. So.
MoY your New YeU bring the
recollection Of all your aspirations
and hopes. and your Christmas holt
doY be q doY OF good cheer.-Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Allen. 81. and
fGmilY. sS6 Emerson Ave. No.
Good cheer. good fellowship. and
q Merry Christmos and Happy New
Yeu to you oll.-Mr. and Mrs. Count
L Anderson. 523 BrYont Ave. No.
We send our sincere good Holt
doY wishes to you and to all those
dew to You.-Mr. and Mrs. Roy L.
Jackson. $50 Seventh Ave. No.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

We wish for you On old fashioned
Christmos and hope that 1916 will
be q YeU Of unsurpassed occom-
plishment. and that good health will
attend you each doY Of the Yem.-
Mr.. and Mrs Cecil G. TGYlor and
family. l046 BEYGnt Ave. No.
To all our friends. both new and
old. we extend most cordial Holt
day greetings.-Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
0uGrteEmon. 1901 BrYant Ave. Nc.
We take this method of wishing
our monY friends and acquointonces
q very Merry Christmos and q
HoppY New Yem.-Mx. and Mrs. ].
D. Granville. 2206 Elliot Ave. So.
MoY 1916 bring heolth. more pros
peritY. and more Joy OF living and
may this be the merriest Christmds
ever. -Mrs. Emily Vaughn and
daughter. LsnorG. s34 18th Ave. So.
We wish for every man. woman
and child in this community q Merry
Christmos and q Happy New YeU.
Mr.. dnd Mrs. Ed. Green and son.
Edword r. SIG Seventh Ave. Nc.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

Our greetings to you is one great
big wish for q big. hoppY Merry
Christmos.-MT. and Mira. VIM. H.
Ridley. els ST. Anthony.
A good old fashioned Christmos
and q prosperous New YeU is our
wish to you md Yours.-Mrs. Ida
NJ Murphy and iGnilY. 1854 ThemGs
Ave.
We wish for all the Merriest Christ
mos ever. the sofe return Of our
boys and girls in the service, and q
HoppY New YeU.-M1. and Mrs.
Hurry Brown 0nd fonilY. 707 IglshGrt
Ave.
Good cheer. good fellowship. q
Merry Christmas and Happy New
YeU is my wish to you oll.-Mrs.
Anna F. HGrper. ESQ Ronde Ave.
MoY yours be q most HoppY and
prosperous New YeU.-Mr. and Mrs.
BrY0nt GrigsbY. sos Fuller Ave.
We wish you manifold blessings
Of q Happy Yuletide.|. 7. HorTis
and f0rnilY. s7s Morton St.
MoY we express our Christmos
greetings ond our wish for q Happy
New YeU.-Mr. and Mrs. !. M. Gil
breath and f0milY. s7s st. Anthony
Ave.
We wish you manifold blessings
OF q Happy Yuletide.-Mr. and Mrs.
Motthew Johnson. l0ll Charles Ave.
Merry Christmos ond q HoppY
New Yew to my piono students and
to others who have assisted me in
music.-Mrs. BlGnche w. Brisco. 1881
BrYont Ave. No.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

"MQY joy. good health and pros
peritY be the heritoge Of all mon'
kind. Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Jones
and Mrs. Jesse Shannon. SOL Fourth
Ave. So.
We ore hdppY for the love o.
friends and wish for them On obun.
Dance OF health and happiness dur.
ing the Yuletide Season onc
throughout the New YeG." -Mr. Gn6
Mrs. FrGnk Terry. 1912 First Ave. So
Oh God. our loving fother. help us
rightly to remember the birth O
Jesus.
Close the door Of hate and open the
door OF love all over the world.
Let kindness come with every gift
and good desires with every greet
ing.
Deliver US from evil by the blessing
that Christ brings. and teach Us
to be merry with clean hearts.
For Jesus Sake. Amen.-ME. 0n6
Mrs. w. A. Ross. 3s2S Clinton Ave
So.
There's no way Of soYing the ole
wish more wUmlY than just Merry
Christmos to oll."-MT. and Mrs
Williom Reddick and Robert. end
Mrs. ]. Bonner. 3sl7 Clinton Ave. So
"MoY the joys OF the season. which
will olwoYs endeU it. moke Yor
hdppY at heUt. in the true Christ
mas spirit. Mr.. and Mrs. Roy P
HGtchstt. 4044 Fourth Ave. So.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hueld Brown. 40.
ST. Anthony. wish to extend to theil
many friends q Merry Christmos ono
q Happy New YeU.
WUmest greetings for the Christ
mas season ond best wishes for the
New YeU.-Mr. and Mrs. Jones Simi
and family. 220l Fifth Ave. So.
Merry Christmds and A Happy
New YeU to all C. is and our many
friends.-Mr. and Mrs. E. Ed H0ll. ssl
Igleh0Tt Ave.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

MoY your Christmos be bounteous
md full Of good cheer. ond may
your New YeU be ON especially
hoppY and prosperous one.-Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Glenn. ST.. 1901 2Sth
Ave. So.
MoY God bless oil Of my friends
and oil mankind at this season.
Mr.. John F. Thomas. UNNRA. APO
Tenn l4s. c/o Postmaster. q. s.
Amy. Germany.
We sincerely hope that the Christ
mas season Of le45 will be q Merry
one. and that the New YeU will
bring IL months Of very pleasant
relationship. and Mrs. 4. John
son and family. 3S32 Clinton Ave.
So.
take this opportunity to extend
most cordial Christmos Greetings
and best wishes for the coming YeQr.
Mrs. Bertha Johnson. sss Olson
Blvd.
We hope that Santa Claus will be
good to you and that this holiday
will be one OF exceptional JOY and
happiness to you and your fomilY.
MIR. and Mrs. Melvin Stone and
family. sSs N. BrYGnt.
We wish for you and your fomilY
the best of Merry Christmases. nd
the hoppiest OF New YeUs.-Mr.
and Mrs. ]. E. Brown and fGmilY. $500
Smelling.
Merry Christmos and m0Y 1916
bring you much more in the woY
Of health and happiness thon your
most hopeful expectotions-Mr. and
Mrs. 7. B. W0rTen. sos Fremont Ave.
No.
We wish for you and your fomilY
this season of l94S-46 Typical
American holiday seoson.-Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon B. Young. 242s Fifth
Ave. So.
To all of our friends we send the
Merriest Of Christmoses 0nd the
Hdppiest New YeG ever-Mr. and
Mrs. John Thomas and John. j.. 1868
BrYont Ave.
Our wish is that you will hove the
Merriest Christmos ever and q New
YeU fulfilled with your fondest
hopes.-Mr. and Mrs. ]. D. Nash and
son. 72S Kingston.
MoY your Christmos be merry and
may 1916 bring joy and happiness
to you and Yours.-Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Warricks. 4sl Thomas Ave.
MoY your Christmos be bountiful
and your New Yew prosperous
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Jones. 6Sl St. An
thonY.
Best wishes for the Holiday SEQ
son and q Happy New YeU to oil.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence TGrveE.
60S ST. Anthony Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur White and
daughter. LorrGine. 277 Rondo Ave-.
extend holiday greetings to oil their
friends and sincere hopes for q
Happy and Abundant New YeG.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21
GREETINGS

The members Of the Johnnie
Baker Post No. 29l Of the Amer.
com Legion wish our mmY
friends q Merry Christmas 0nd
q Happy New Yeor.
Percy Hughes. Commander
Jack Posten. Adjutont
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

A very Merry Christmos to all and
q Bountiful New'YeU.-Mr. and Mrs.
D. w. Ingram and fomilY. 3S4l
Fourth Ave. So.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-21

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Friday, December q, 1945
49, n d I'd n q
Mrs. Dell Wright. SAT ST. AnthonY
Ave-. wishes for all her friends all
the happiness and cheer that the
Holiday Season and New Ye~ com
bring.
"MoY God Bless all of our friends
and all mankind of this season. -
Mr.. Iand Mrs. w. G. Renko. 2627 e.
2sth St.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
S3,Q62 Asked in Suit
CHARGING 0PA Violations

The Office of Price Administration
yesterday filed suit in District Court
against Louis E. Massey, proprietor
of the G. E. Turner Conformal Shoes
1900 block of F street NV, charging
him with selling corrective shoes at
above ceiling prices and asking for
treble damages of $3,962.
Damages sought represent three
alleged overcharges from August %
1914, till May 2, of this year. During
that time, the suit charges the de-
fendant sold 843 pairs of women's
shoes and 1876 pairs of mems shoes
for over ceiling charges of $1,320.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Jefferson Papers CataIog
Is Ready for Distribution

Microfilm copies of the first COM
plete catalog of the Thomas Jeffer-
son papers at the Library of Con-
gress now are available, DR.. Luther
H. Evans, librarian, announced
today.
The catalog provides the first
adequate guide to the more than
70,935 pages of correspondence and
documents bound in 238 volumes
and known as the Jefferson Papers,
the announcement stated. It gives
information about each separate
letter or document and serves, in
addition, to reassemble many val
liable items such as Jefferson's COL
lected documents on Jays Treaty.
The catalog, which took more than
a year to compile, is arranged alpha
betically and has been filmed with
suitable guides.
1t was prepared by Mrs. Helen
Bullock, former archivist of colonial
Williamsburg and now a Library
of Congress staff member The
microfilm set of the Jefferson
Papers, selling for $425, and the
catalog, selling for $35, may be
purchased from the Library.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Shortage Of Clothing
To End in 7 Months,
Officials Predict
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Government and trade officials
predicted today that vast quantities
of clothing and textiles will start
return to the stores within two
months.
This was the consensus Of an in
formal survey by the Associated
Press. It was tempered by one re-
servation:
II housewives buy too avidly, in
replenishing their badly depleted
closets, the relief will be delayed
for some acutely scarce items. These
would disappear as rapidly as they
come on the shelves. But even these
shortages should disappear by the
end of the year.
Federal textile men said wartime
pressure built up production to a
rate far exceeding any prewar VOL
ume.
Few Controls to Be Kept.
Therefore, industry promptly can
produce more consumer items than
ever before while continuing to turn
out the tag-ends of priority items.
Overnight, as the war ended, the
military slashed its textile orders
some 80 per cent all across the
board-in cottons, woods, rayons and
ny1on.
AS a result, a War Production
Board spokesman said, few controls
will continue over the textile in
dustry.
Priorities which manufacturers
must honor now are mainly the
shrunken military orders, Federal
acquisitions for shipment abroad
and the priority program to speed
output OF low and medium priced
essential garments.
Industry Wants Some Protection.
Speed in overcoming the last
named shortages will depend-say
the Government experts-on in
dustry's readiness to use the AA-3
priority rating granted for essential
clothing manufacture. The priority
was substituted for the recently
revoked fabric set-aside plan so
strongly opposed by industry.
While anxious as any other to
be excused from Government con-
troll, the textile industry still would
like to keep some of its Govern
ment protection.
Clothing manufacturers, for in
stance, want styling controls nailed
down until they can get rid of gar
ments already produced for the
heavy fall buying season.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
FEARS LOSS OF LOOT
GOering Reported Insane

the time in bed worrying over
the possibility that he may be
deprived of the jewels and
paintings. He doesn't even visit
his IL other estates and castles,
but he remains mostly at Karin
Hall near Berlin. On one occa-
sion his physician had to sit at
his bed for six hours just to
calm him." q
Goering's love for precious
stones is proverbial. He had his
reichmarshals baton set with
jewels. He always flashed at
least one big diamond ring. He
bought up the precious stone
collection of the Duke of Neck
lenburg when the latter re-
vealed he would auction the col
lection.
After Germany's sensational
victories of 1899, 1910 and 1941
Goering became the Reich's
greatest canvas looter. Through
third parties he~bought up for
See GOERlNG-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20

Latest developments in the
field of education, science, pub
lie health and the arts will be
revealed to more than 800 Ma
comb County public and pa
rochial school teachers at the
annual Teachers Institute in
Mount Clemens High School on
Friday, commencing at $50
am, Eastern War Time, County
School Commissioner Will l..
Lee revealed today.
Admission to the institute is
free. Business and professional
people. college students or par
ents interested in any educa-
tional subjects are urged to at
tend by Lee who is the state
designated conductor" Of the
institute.
The war-induced problem Of
serving luncheon to so large a
group of visitors baffled Lee
after survey revealed restau-
rant limitations. Accordingly, a
group Of Mount Clemens teach
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
800 TO ATTEND MEETING
Teachers Institute Friday

ers volunteered to prepare a
light lunch at the school cafe
terra.
BACHMAN COMING
Such notableS as Charles
Bachman, coach of Michigan
State College, who will speak
on Physical Education and its
part in national preparedness,
will address the assembled
teachers. DR.. Hilton Ira Jones,
internationally known re-
search chemist and for more
than two decades a lecturer in
Canada and the United. States.
will give a glimpse of the sci
ence of tomorrow. His discus
sion, at $50 p.m., will be spon-
sored by the Macomb County
group of the Michigan Educa-
tional Association. This period
was assigned to the MEA group
by Lee.
The speakers list includes Of
ficials of Detroit and Wayne
See TEACHERS-Page 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Free French
to Train at
Selfridge

Conversion of the Selfridge
Field Army Air Base into
training center for Free French
Bomber pilots, under the ma
tional lend-lease program, was
indicated today in an official
statement by Col. Bradford A.
Shaw, post commandant.
While the colonels announce
ment did not (for security rea-
sons) specify the number of
French personnel to be trans
ferred to the Mount Clemens
base, it did point out that the
program will be the only one
of its kind conducted by the
Army Air Forces.
Following Is the statement re-
leased by the Selfridge Field
Public Relations office:
Col. Bradford A. Shaw, Self
ridge Field commandment, an
nounced today that medium
bombardment training program
for Free French, under lend
lease, will be instituted in the
near future. Under the program,
only one of its kind in the
Army Air Forces. all trainees
will be Free French and in
structors will be return e d
American combat pilots and en-
listed crewmen."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Nv LOUIS b. LOCHNER

COLOGNE, March 90 A -
German informant told me to-
day that Reichsmarshal Her
mann Goering was regarded by
his own physician as physically
and mentally finished.
The informant, whom I have
known for years, said he spoke
with the doctor of the ponder
Gus head of the Nazi Air Force
shortly before Cologne fell to
the Allies and was advised that
Goering was obsessed by two
fears.
First" he said, "Goering
fears that he may have to part
with his collection of jewels
and precious stones and second
that he may be compelled to dis
gorge priceless paintings that
he acquired since becoming
Germany's second man. These
fears make him sick most of the
time.
"Goerins now spends most of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Reds Lash Out
On Two Fronts
Berlin Admits
Major Coins
BY RICHARD KASISCHKE

LONDON, March 20 - Up
Russian troops launching a re-
newed offensive in Hungary
have smashed to within less
than IL miles of Komarom, on
the Danube northwest of Buda-
pest, the German. High Com
mand said today.
Berlin broadcasts sal the Red
Army also had thrust out in a
huge drive to clear German Up
per Silesia, capturing Neustadt.
Moscow dispatches, silent
concerning both these fronts, re-
ported Germans trapped in
dwindling pocket on the East
Prussian coast southwest OF
Koenigsberg had opened coastal
dikes, flooding the lowlands in
efforts to halt a Soviet extermi-
nation push.
STORM FORWARD
The German High Command
declared the third Ukrainian
Army flashing out northwest of
Budapest had carried beyond
Tata, IL miles from komarom,
German stronghold on the Dan
ube's south bank at the Hun.
garian-S lovakian frontier. Ko-
maron is As miles northwest OF
Budapest, and "a miles from
Vienna.
Neustadt is Is miles west OF
See RED ARMY-Page IA
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Sgt. Bennett
Dies i'm Action

Tech. Sgt. Oswald j. Bennett,
32-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Bennett, 861a Macomb
street, was killed in action
March 5. somewhere in Ger
many, his parents have been
advised by the War Depart
ment.
Sgt. bennett, who had attend
ed st. Mary's High school, in
Mount Clemens, had been in the
military service for two and
one-half years and had been on
overseas duty since November,
1914. Sgt. Bennett was attached
to an armored division in Gen
eral Patton's Third Army and
was a veteran of the historic de-
Tense of Bastogne.
Besides bis parents. Sergeant
See CASUALTY-Page .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Rural Taverns
Get Full Hours
Break in Time

While curbstone opinion in
Mount Clemens today appeared
to support whole heartedly the
municipalities decision to leave
the time schedule unchanged,
despite state law to the con-
trary, there is apparently one
class of perspiring gentlemen
who look with high disfavor on
the situation.
They are the white-aproned
dispensers of liquid cheer.
Tavern proprietors, evidently,
are in the middle. Their only
safe "out" is to close promptly
at IL midnight by whatever
time the city clocks record.
If they don't they may find
See BARS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Muscle-BOund
Burglar Sought

A Herculean burglar Is being
sought by the Macomb County
sheriff's department, following
the disappearance of the follow
ing articles from Washington
smithy:
One anvil (king size); a heavy
vice, and 3l-lb. blacksmith s
hammer.
While removing them. the
muscular thief carelessly ripped
out the forge structure, the own
err. Leo Kunst m n. of 1890
Knight road, reported. 7 h e
smithy is located at 1851 Putty
gut road.
Deputy Sheriff Richard De-
Ketelaere, who claims to be the
only detective still using pigeons
as aides, has been assigned 10 the
case. He told fellow officers that
his pigeons (stool variety may
locate the anvil but cannot be
expected TO carry it back.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20

Clocks in the Mount Clemens
city offices on the sixth floor OF
the Macomb county building to-
day constituted an oasis of fast
time in that history structure
while, across the street-on all
four sides of the building -
business and household time
pieces remained synchronized to
the municipal Eastern War
Time schedule.
That was just one phase OF the
increasingly dizzy time struc-
operating in Macomb
county and elsewhere through
out the state in the wake of the
legislatures farm-inspired des-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-20
Rampaging US
Armies Storm
Behind Foe
Junctuve with
7th Army Group
Believed Near
BY JAMES NJ. LONG

d JAMES WI. LO4Nu
PARIS, March 20 - R -
German defenses collapsed in the
Saar Basin today while the ram
paging American Seventh and
Third armies raced toward an
imminent junction near the
Rhine.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third Army flanked completely.
the Siegfried and alternate Huns
brueck Lines in the Saar and
Palatinate.
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
Seventh Army was completely
through IL mile stretch Of the
Siegfried Line between Saar.
bruecken and Zweibrucken.
A pocket around Saarbruecken
and the great steel mills OF the
Saarland was all but closed -
if not already so since develop
ments were tagging hours behind
reports d layed by security
blackouts. In the Kaiserslautern
area, the armies were but 20
odd miles apart and closing fast.
In seven blazing days, Pat
tons offensive has inflicted at
least $4,000 casualties on the
original 10000 Germans in the
Observation-Disclosures pocket. cor
respondent E. D. Ball said in q
dispatch from the front.
10000 PRISONERS
Prisoners alone totaled up 10
10000 and the Seventh Army
had taken at least 1000 addi-
tional.
Patton's troops crashed 70
within four miles Of the major
Palatinate road center of KaiS-
erslautern and captured Alley,
% miles from the chemic1
centers of Mannheim and Lud-
wigshafen on the Rhine. The
Third Army was less than -
miles fro mthe Seventh Army in
the Kaiserslautern area.
Patton's Army captured 8,3A3
prisoners yesterday alone and IS
or more towns.
FIRST SLABS AHEAD
The First Army east Of the
Rhine drove two and half miles
east of the Ruhr-Frankfurt SUI
perhighway and captured q sec.
ond airfield in their bridgehead,
now at least 10 miles long and
eight miles wide. Already, 1t.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges tanks
were debouching on the plain
east of Bonn, flat land leading
10 the Ruhr from the south.
Patton, however, was forging
one of the most complete vic
tories the Western Front has yet
seen. His tanks reached q point
within nine miles of Mainz,
where the Nazis blew three
Rhine bridges.
He finally captured Saarlaut-
ern. the Saar steel city Of $4,000,
af'a three and a half months Of
battle.
Clear skies brought another
perfect, bombing and strafing
day, so there was no safety for
the disorganized German divis-
ions or the bewildered refugees
See GERMANY-Psge 3