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cred by 100 horsepower 6-cylinder gaso-
line engines and would cost under $4,000
each.
New Crash Boats
The lieutenant also wants a utility
speedboat similar to the crash boats
used at Boiling Field. Such vessel, he
pointed out, would be capable of 80 miles
an hour. with it we could get to
Chain Bridge in 10 minutes, not three
quarters of an hour" he explained with
meaning. The speedboat would cost
about 81 200.
AS to the additional men, he'll take
what he can get, and eventually hope to
come to strength. At present, the whole
431z miles of District water front are
patrolled by single boat containing
two policemen, The boat patrols from
8 am. to shortly before noon, then pulls
into headquarters. At 1915 pm. it goes
out again and returns at $50. A second
shift of two men takes over and patrols
from pm. to 8 o'clock at night. From
8 to II midnight there is no patrol. The
men wait at headquarters for calls At
4 am. the patrol again starts.
New Schedule Planned
If and when the new boats and addi-
tional personnel become available, 1t.
Sanders will inaugurate a new schedule.
1t calls for three boats, each containing
two or more men, to patrol "a hours
day-one in the Potomac, one in the
Anacostia River, and one in the Poto-
macs main channel as far as Jones
Point near Alexandria, Va. The pro-
posed patrol will be broken up into
three shifts and men will still be avail
able in the station for emergency calls
at all times.
Then if there is an accident in
Georgetown it will not be necessary to
call headquarters. Well just radio the
boat in the Potomac and it will be on
the spot in quick time" the lieutenant
asserted.
On recent trip in police boat along
Washington'S waterways, this reporter
got pretty good idea of the big job the
harbor police have now, and the bigger
job they will have when postwar boating
activity reaches a peak.
Oil tanks, bridges, barges, excursion
boats, commercial and pleasure vessels,
factories, gas works, Army and Navy
installations and vessels, warehouses,
coal yards, piers and docks, electric
plants, airports, buoys sewer outlets,
f1oodgates. dredging equipment, lumber
yards, ammunition dumps and maga-
zines and pumping machinery installa-
tions which dot the Potomac and Ana
costa banks have to be checked daily
for evidence of vandalism, theft and
fire hazards.
Water Front Fires
There have been serious water front
fires here and the harbor police have
played important roles in extinguishing
them. 1t wasn't so long ago that they
were called upon to aid the fireboat
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dangerous currents.
Drowning Routine

dangerous currents.
Drowning Routine
When drowning is reported, a launch
leaves headquarters with rowboat in
tow, Arriving on the scene, two police
men leave the launch, enter the rowboat,
and drag for the body with big three
pronged hook Sometimes it Is found
in few minutes. on other occasions as
long as 70 hours have elapsed before
dragging is successful.
Drownings in the Anacostia more often
find children the victims rather than
pleasure boatmen. Although frequently
aware the practice is forbidden the kids
persist in swimming of piling and piers.
Drownings also occur often in the Tidal
Basin, in pond near Bladensburg road
and New York avenue NE, and near the
Potomac f1oodgates under the Fourteenth
street railroad bridge. The police rarely
fall to recover the body.
The work already ascribed to the river
cops represents but 1.-THE Of their
duties. They must keep small boats
away from the path of excursion steam
ers to prevent them from being run
down, check on complaints of illegal
fishing of the Municipal Fish Wharf
prevent boats from tying up to the city's
10 bridges, watch for unreasonable speed
by river craft, register all boats over a
specific length, enforce regulations in
volving lights and even patrol the Poto-
mac in the vicinity Of the Water Gate
concerts.
But they have little time to enjoy the
good music, AS many as 300 canoes
have congregated behind the Watergate
barge at one time. When sudden sum-
ner thunderstorms arise trouble starts.
The police must Immediately order the
canoes into shallow water so that if the
frail vessels capsize the occupants will
not find themselves in deep water.
The Case of "Old Joe"
Like all good cops the harbor police
perform humanitarian role but they
don't say much about it. The case OF
"Old Joe," who has no legs, is waterfront
legend. The harbor police prevailed
upon the Interior Department to give
him a little grant of land on the banks
of the upper Anacostia. "Old Joe" lives
in an old hulk alongside his land. He
uses the harbor precinct for his mailing
address. And should harbor patrol
boat edge shoreward on the upper Ana
costa, the police are probably bringing
"Old Joe" some tobacco, food or water
He's sort OF mascot to the river cops.
All police vessels are ready to leave
the precinct at moments notice. II
looks like q regular police station, has
an ofice, recreation room and full
sized machine shop where all engine
hull and woodwork repairs are made
under the direction OF Sergt. w. M
Sanders, the lieutenant's brother. Ths
boats are inspected periodically fol
seaworthiness.
The river cops have hard job and 1t
Sanders wants everybody to know it
Some people think that only policemen
near retirement age are sent to tn,
harbor precinct. They are all wrong
we need young men here, and they hav,
to be good"
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evidence of bad wiring or the presence
of greasy rags, trash or other fire
hazards
Even today Washington is not en-
tirely free of river pirates, as water
front thieves are known. The police
must keep a constant watch to see
that rope, clothing, binoculars, radios,
anchors, ships clocks, tools or fittings
are not stolen from vessels moored
either at their piers or to buoys in mid
river.
A Slick Thief
The ingenuity of this type of thief
is well illustrated In an incident told
by 1t. Sanders.
"A few months ago several hundred
dollars worth Of equipment and cloth
ing were stolen from a sloop moored
in midstream in the upper Anacostia," !"
he related. 1--WE checked, and some
distance down river found an aban-
doned rowboat. Its registration showed
it had been rented from a place near
Georgetown, miles away. The thieves
had padded all the way down the
Potomac, then through Georgetown
Channel and up the Anacostia to the
sloop. After looting the vessel they
rowed to land, pushed the rowboat into
the river and fed We don't often have
cases where rowboats are getaway
cars"
AS patrol boat pushes along not
one of its blue-coated occupants knows
what may happen next. A few weeks
ago an airplane crashed into the Ana
costa. The harhor police were not far
away. They helped rescue the occu-
pants. Plane crashes are something
comparatively new to them.
But drownings are not. During the
summer the lone patrol boat on duty
under the present schedule-hugs the
area between Key and Chain Bridges
in the Potomac. There are at least five
drownings in that section each season
and the boat is always kept busy rescu.
ing occupants of capsized craft. Sew.
eral of the recent drownings have oc.
CURED after canoes have overturned
Although warned by signs near Chair
Bridge, the paddlers still persist in en-
tering waters in that vicinity which
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to such work because they have rooted
sterns. The new boats would be pow
cred by 100 horsepower e-cylinder gaso-
line engines and would cost under $4,000
each.
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TOKYO ADMITS RAID.
Japs Say Yanks Bomb Home
land And Annoy

WASHINGTON, March 5.-WH-
Tokyo radio announced today that
10 Amer ca n Superfortresses
bombed the Japanese homeland
early this morning and several
tens of bombers, fighters and B.
29s'' raided the Chinese coastal city
of Annoy for three hours Sunday.
The broadcast said the planes
machinegunned the japanese occu-
pied city of Annoy and dropped
bombs at several points. The
planes over Japan dropped bombs
and incendiaries south of Tokyo,
the radio said. Another B-29 hit
southern Kyushu last night.
Tokyo claimed the raiders, which
were overhead for two hours short
ly after midnight, did practically
no damage" Their raid followed
heavy one Sunday by possibly
200 Saipan-based Superfortresses.
The japanese Domei agency dis
closed that special students fire
brigade had been formed in Tokyo.
The students will operate in three
shifts.
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NAZI RIOT REPORTED
Sweden Tells Of Battle Be.
tween SIS And Sailors

LONDON, March 5.-UP)-Riot-
ing in the north German city Of
Stralsund, including street gun
battle between sailors and mill.
tary police, was reported from
Sweden today, and other sources
told Of growing sabotage and un-
rest throughout the occupied Bal.
tic region, particularly in Dem
mark.
The Stockholm newspaper Alton.
tidningen said in an undated dis.
patch that the riots had broken
out yesterday in Stralsund, during
which gunfire was exchanged by
German sailors and SIS elite
Guard troops.
The fighting started when the
SIS guards led a number of sailors
who had deserted. through the city
streets in shackles. The crowd,
including many sailors. attacked
the guards. freed the Navy men
and forced the SIS guards to with.
draw, the dispatch said.
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Fred Unison Nominated
As Federal Loan Chief

Vinson, SIS, former Kentucky Con-
gresham and Federal appeals
court judge, was named to the
other halt of the job left vacant
when the President fired Jones so
Wallace could be given the appoint
ment as Secretary of Commerce.
The Senate confirmed Wallace for
the post but Congress first separat-
ed Federal loan operations from
the Commerce Department.
Early Senate confirmation Of
Vinson is expected. He was a
member Of the House for IA years
and is well liked in Congress, es-
pecially among the Republicans
and Southern Democrats who OPP
posed Wallace.
Jones and Wallace, at logger
heads On most issues, concurred
in hailing Wilson'S selection.
sit was an excellent appoint
ment,", Jones said. He is a man
of sound judgment and will make
a good administrator. He knows a
good deal about the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation"
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WASHINGTON, March 5-UP)
President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Sterilization Director Fred
M. Vinson to succeed Jesse Jones
as Federal loan administrator in
move that won swift approval of
Congress and rang down the cur
tain on the long-standing fued be-
tween Jones and Henry A. Wal
lace.
Labor was pleased that Vinson
will be removed from the realm OF
wage control. 1t withheld direct
comment temporarily but he has
blocked all attempts of the War
Labor Beard to grant wage in
creases requiring price hikes.
Whether his successor-and one
has been chosen-change that pol
icy, remains to be seen.
White House Secretary Jonathan
Daniels said that Mr.. Roosevelt
has decided who will get Vinson' S
post, but there will be no announce
ment until the Senate confirms
Vinson. His nomination was refer
red to the Senate Banking Com
mittee.
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Enemy Force
Declared In
Bad Position
Approximately 215, 900
Nipponese Troops KILL
ed In Islands

MANILA, Tuesday, March g.
(AP)-Six japanese divisions
perhaps 10000 troops-of the ten
divisions defending Luzon have
been destroyed together with con-
siderable war materials, and the
remaining forces bottled up in the
mountains are under continuous at
tack by ground and air.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur today
announced that 1t. Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita's forces still on this
largest island of the Philippines
were "split into a number of di-
vergent groups" and their posi-
ton is critical"
Only yesterday, Macarthur an
nounced that thousands of Japa-
nese had been cleaned out of 10
cos Norte province, on Luzon's
northwest corner, by guerrillas op-
Grating under an American Army
officer, Col. R. w. Volckman.
On bloody Leyte Island, south of
Luzon, more than 125,000 Japanese
have been killed. This makes
total for these two islands alone
of more than 215,000 Japanese
troops killed, including some of the
empires best.
Macarthur announced:
'The remaining enemy forces
are split up into a number of di-
vergent groups which are bottled
up in the mountains where supply
is difficult, movements restricted
and control and communications
present insuperable obstacles"
"These forces are being subject
ed to continuous attack by our
air force while the pressure of
our ground forces congresses
them into a smaller and smaller
maneuver space"
"Our guerrilla forces constantly
harrass their lines of supply with
our naval and air forces blocking
their route of evacuation.
Their position is critical"
Luzon was invaded January 9.
The largest single engagement in
which the enemy sustained heavy
losses was in the three-week-
battle for Manila.
Slow enveloping movements
against Japanese mountain posi-
tons north and east of Manila and
progress of other Yanks moving
toward the Cagayan Valley were
reported today.
North of Manila, the 38th and
43rd Divisions closed on Nipponese
in the Zambales mountains.
East of Manila, troops of the
18th corps enveloped enemy posi-
tons along the Antipolo-Wawa line.
This line. in the Marakina water
shed. has been well-prepared de-
fensively by the enemy and con-
siderable resistance has been en-
countered
Other Yanks advanced along the
Villa Verde trail and the Ambiay-
abang river in the eastern ex-
tremity of Pangasinan province to-
ward the Cagayan valley. This is
at the northeast end of the central
Luzon plain and due east of the
Lingayen Bay sector where the
Luzon invasion opened.
Further detailing accomplish
ments against Yamashita's army,
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
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FRANCE REFUSES
BIG FIVE PART
Nation Will Attend Peace
Conference As Invited
Country Only

PARIS, March 5 -(UP)--Gen.
Charles de Gaulle's government
sent a note to the United States
yesterday cancelling its acceptance
of an invitation to attend the World
Peace Charter Conference at Sar
Francisco April Is as a sponsor
nation, Foreign Office spokes'
man said tonight.
The notification, which means
that France will attend as an IN
vited nation instead OF as one OF
the proposed Big Five sponsors
was sent to Washington, London
and Moscow after several days o.
exchanges of kilograms between
the capitals.
Invitations at first were to be
sent out last Saturday, diplomatic
ouarers reported. At noon yester.
dav. informants said, the United
States said that they would be def
initely sent out today and France
declined to take part as a spon'
sor.
Last Wednesday, the F I e h
Cabinet overruled de Gaulle ano
decided to accept sponsorship Of
the conference and at the same
time to draw up reservations,
These reservations were submitted
bv note to the Big Three. 1t was
understood that they were:
% That world Security char
Ter be modified to permit auto
mate action against an aggressor
as provided in the French-Russiar
alliance.
~ That the charter be mod
flied regarding an international pc
lice force.
(3) That there be modifica
tons as regards the composition
of an international security organi
zation.
There were reports that Russo
strongly urged de Gaulle to &C
cept sponsorship.
WASHINGTON, March Sup
The United States today made pub
lie the voting rules 10 be followed
by the proposed World Security
Council in handling future inter
national disputes.
It also announced that 80 nation!
have been invited to join the Big
Five at San Francisco next month
to organize the new League of Ma
tions, France decl ned an offer Il
ioin the United States, Britain
Russia and China in sponsoring the
Continued on Page Three; Col. Il
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First Army Tanks Drive Mile Into Cologne
Reds Capturz5te Outer Defense Ring
Six Japanese Divisions Destroyed On Luxor
1850 Marines Killed On Lwo:
Forrestal Cites Isles Value
Latest Total Compiled Through Saturday, Jap Estimated Al
1854 Enemy Believed Have Divisions Combat Navy
Secretary Warns They May Be Able Raise That Number

WASHINGTON, March 5.-WH-
Secretary of the Navy James For
restal revealed today that there
were 1850 Marines killed on Two
lima as of last Saturday.
He did not know the latest fig
ure on Marines wounded. The last
totals given by Fleet Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz were 1872 cas-
ualties, of which over so were dead.
Latest totals on enemy dead
were 1884 up to 6 pm. Saturday
on the 18th day of the fight.
Forrestal revealed the figures at
a press conference soon after his
return from a tour of Pacific bat
tie fronts including Two Jima.
He disclosed also that the Japs
are estimated to have altogether
10 divisions Of combat troops, in
addition to maintenance and gar
rison troops-estimated in all at
about 100000.
And they may be able to raise
that total" he said.
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EISENHOWER ASKS
GERMANS TO QUIT
General Points To Hope
less Position In Message
To Nazi Officers
Bv The Associated Press

An appeal from General Eisen'
hower's headquarters, addressed
to German army officers Monday
via the American Broadcasting
Station in Europe, urged that they
reconsider the situation OF Ger
many. the situation of their men
and their personal situation" and
surrender to the Allies.
Germany has lost the West
Wall. her most powerful defense
in the west. The Allies have reach
ed the Rhine and the Ruhr,' said
the broadcast as reported by. the
owl. In the east the Red Army
is standing before Berlin. The In
dustrial areas of Upper Silesia,
East Prussia, Ppsen (Poznan) and
parts of Saxony, Brandenburg and
Pomerania are in Russian hands.
The end is merely a question OF
time.
1.-The responsibility for the out
come of the war no longer rests
with the German officer. But the
responsibility for his men remains
and this responsibility will in
dubitably be taken into account by
postwar Germany. Germany's fu-
ture will be hard, but there VIII
be a possibility for reconstruction.
The Allies do not intend to de-
stroy Germany-only the politi-
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Fall OF City
Appears Near
As Foe Flees
Germans Destroy Huge
Bridge; Fate OF Many
Troops Sealed

PARIS, March 5.-tR-The U. S.
First Army sent tanks plunging
more than mile into Cologne to-
day, seized more than one-fiftn of
the city in assaults from the north,
south and west, and the fall of the
largest German metropolis ever
stor.ned by the Allies seemed near
at hand.
The Germans apparently wrote
off the fourth largest city in the
Reich, for they blew the big Ho-
henzollern bridge and began she'll
ing it from the east bank.
Field dispatches said the Ger
mans were fleeing across the
Rhine by boats, and one staff Of
ficer estimated that only 1000 en-
envy soldiers remained to garrison
the city.
Prisoners said these forces were
falling back into the old part of the
city, which represents only one
fourth of Cologne's area of Is
square miles.
The Third Armored Division,
now within two miles or less Of
the heart of the city, was the first
to enter at 10 and the 104th In
fantry Division came in from the
west at 9:23 am.
The Eighth Infantry Division,
hard on the 1O4th' right flank,
pushed into the city from the
south. Cologne was shrouded In a
pail of smoke from the fire OF
massed artillery laying down a ter
rifle drum fire.
All three divisions were meet
ing half-hearted resistance, indica-
ting the German army had no in
i tention of obeying Hitler's orders
to make a Stalingradlike stand
inside Cologne.
Cologne is Nle largest city in
Rhenish Prussia with a normal
population of 10000 and is loaded
with factories which once turned
out weapons for the German war
machine. Now the civilians COVER
ed in cellars while the battle swirl
ed about them, or they streamed
back to the American lines carry
ing their household possessions.
Besides blowing the bridge at
Dusseldorf, the Germans Destroy
ed three bridges at Duisberg be-
fore the charge of the U. S. Ninth
Army, which overran the coal and
synthetic oil city of Homberg and
smashed into Rheinberg in gains
of as much as six miles.
BY blowing all the serviceable
bridges between Bonn and the
Dutch border except the road <nd
rail bridges at Vessel and make
shift structure at Rheinberg, tAe
Germans sealed the fate Of many
of the more than $4,000 troops still
on the Rhine's west bank.
The Canadian First Army cap
tured one ferry crossing at Rees.
II miles northwest of the western
Ruhr city of Vessel, and the Ninth
captured another at Orsoy, five
miles north Of Homberg.
The Canadian First and the y.
S. Ninth pressed the Germans back
Into an area 10 miles long and SIX
miles wide, and with the u. S.
First Army held sway over 70
of the 80 miles of the Rhlne's
west bank between Cologne and
the Dutch border.
Supreme Headquarters estlmat-
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water distillation plant in another
cave which had a capacity of 30O,-
600 gallons. Taking of the plant
seriously hampered the Japs who
are believed critically short of Wa
ter.
Forrestal spent five days in the
vicinity of Two Jima. He went
ashore, visited hospital ships lying
off shore and observed the genera
operations.
He travelled $1,000 miles by
plane and had more uneasy
journey in destroyer, he said
He emphasized that despite the
70 days of bombing and three days
Of pre-inva sion Naval lombard
ment, there were still a great
many pillboxes and guns left or
Two. He said that the total shell
weight expended in the three days
prior to invasion and the follow
ing week came to about 10000
or 10000.
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Of the operation, the ar1nored col
INN seized eight airdromes intact,
killed more than 1000 Japanese,
captured 40 guns and destroyed
enough enemy supplies to feed a
Japanese division for 10 days. The
important communications center
Of Meiktila, 70 miles south of
was captured.
In a long sweep through centra
Burma American fighter pilots
gave the ground units supper
from the air and the column, which
was partially self-susta.ning, re
ceived some supplies from cargo
planes.
The main Japanese forces de-
Tending Burma now are virtually
cut off from the south. Their only
clear escape roads run generally
southeast through mountainous
country into Thailand (Siam). 1t is
believed, however, that the Japa
nese will put up desperate figh
for Mandalay before beginning ;
retreat.
The drive across the valley be
gan February % when the power
full British armored column brok
out of the Padokku bridgehead, or
the east bank of the 1rrawadd,
near the Burma oil fields, ant
drove directly east on a fairly goot
road. Pakokku is 70 miles south
west of Mandalay.
In it's first clash at Taungtha
% miles east of Pakokku, the col
umr killed eight of the enemy
With its armor pushing on two
abreast to save time the column
smashed southeast to Mahlaing
where 10 more japanese were kill
ed.
Four hundred japanese were
killed when the column drove
through an enemy supply dump
near Mahlang and destroyed thou
sands of artillery shells.
Continued on Page Seven; Col. g.
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He said there have never been
more than II American divisions
facing the enemy at one time and
that was in the Philippines.
While the casualties on Two were
severe and costly, the overall re-
suits were highly successful, he
said.
''The fact that any American
dies is not easily faced. but these
casualties are not out of proper
ton to the importance o. taking
that island" he added.
He said the Japanese defense of
Two was the most thorough and
skillful that the Marines have
faced in the Pacific. He described
caves 300 feet below the surface
with numerous galleries branch
ing out. He told of one series of
caves which had nine entrances
and main passage 600 yards long.
He described the capture of a