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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
Thousands of Planes
Blast Flaming RuIlr

LONDON, March % up
thousands of Allied warplanes
rained bombs on the Ruhr all day
today. and airmen said the indus
trial valley was a wasteland Of
burning ruins. An estimated
6.160 tons of bombs were dropped.
More than 1,250 American Fly
Ing FortresseS and Liberators
spearheaded the assault on the
invasion-marked Ruhr. For three
days il had taken perhaps the
worst aerial walloping Of the war.
Tho Ruhr Valley Is all liz
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
Win The War Drive On

PARIS, March % CAPITALIZED and German
reports indicated today that grand scale win-the-
war offensive by Gen. Eisenhower's armies in the
Rhineland was imminent or beginning.
British outrders thrust the lower Rhine
smoke 65mie front where the NaZis said Marshal
Montgomerys forces had tormed the river line from Arm
hem to the Ruhr
Thousands of Allied warplanes poured ethal rain Of
bombs the Ruhr all day. Airmen said the rich
industrial valley of northwest Germany blazing in
ferno of dead cities.
UP correspondent John B. McDermutt reported in q
dispatch from u S. First Army headquarters that German
resistance had vanshed the central of the Remagen
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
Seek New Jap areets

GUAM, March % CUP)-Tokyo
said five Superfortresses secuted
Japan's wreckage-littered inland
sea today, charting destruction in
flicted by the Fifth Fleet and
mapping new targets.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
Germans Expect
Defeat I'm Weeks

ZURICH, Switzerland, March
% (UP)--Swiss nationals repatri-
ated from Ludwigshafen said
today that German morale has
broken and that soldiers and civil
ians throughout southern and
western Germany expect the war
TO end in the next week or two.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

bridgehead.
The German high command re-
ported that troops of either the
U. S. Third or Seventh armies
had tried to cross the Rhine In
the Ludwigshafen area.
The front from Karlsruhe COR
ner of the Dutch lowlands was
tense and expectant.
GERMANS FALL BACK
Gen. Hodges forces in the
Remagen bridgehead, the first to
fight east of the Rhine. suddenly
found yawning gaps instead OF
Germans confronting them. ac-
cording to reports from First
Army headquarters.
"The battle picture now Is
the brightest of the entire
war;" McDermott reported
from Hodges headquarters
He added that the Germans
had no natural barrier on which
to base a defense line. that air
scouting failed to show any for.
midable strength before the
bridgehead and that a Nazi pris-
oner reported he had not seen an
officer in three days.
WALK A MILE
Ninth Division forces in the
bridgehead pushed mile eaet -
the Rhineland superhighway at q
point seven miles east of Linz. It
was before the Ninth, where the
Germans had been putting up the
stiffest fight, that they suddenly
vanished"
In the southern part OF the
bridgehead the 99th Division cap
tured Breitscheid. seven miles
east of Linz and four east Of the
Weld River. The troops advanced
more than a mile through weak
resistance.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

up" First 1t. Homer Powell,
Portland, Ore, Mustang pilot.
reported.
First 1t. Dale Dunn of West
Bend, Ia. said that everything
beyond the Rhine was burning
even the apple blossoms"
Lancasters of the Raj this
afternoon attacked German troop
concentrations and fortified posi-.
tionS on the east bank of the
Rhine.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
FDR at Scribes' Dinner

ASHIN TON March %
INS)-President Roosevelt last
night attended the annual din
ner of the White House cores
pondentS association.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

CHICAGO March % (UP)-The Rotary interna-
tOnal board of directors voted today to readm the
Rotary Club of the Island of Guam to membership 1t
the first Rotary club rensated in region seized by
an Axis power and then captured by the Allies.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
AN PWs STRIKE IN TOLEDO ORDNANCE PLANT

TOLEDO, March % (UP)-A group of ESQ Italian
soldiers, angry because they still regarded prison
of war, today a bread-andwater diet after
refusing TO work at the Rossford ordnance depot here
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
Allies Begin
Last Hedve'

LONDON, March % (UP)-
There was every sign today that
the time of the "one last heave
together" in the European war is
here
Prime Minister Churchill said
recently while touring the West
ern Front that such A heave
plainly would end the war.
Ii looks as If the first swell
of the Churchillian lone last
heave" now is on.
The weather over the continent
was completely on the Allies side
for the first time since the in
vasion armada set out last June.
HUGE SCALE CROSSING
Air attacks of range and con-
tinuity never seen before were
blasting Germa Especially
those German troops waiting just
over the Rhine for the blow they
know is coming.
Many enemy reports said a
Rhine crossing on a huge scale is
TO begin right away.
The Luxembourg radio said that
the Allied "build-up" of troops in
the Wesel sector of Holland on
the west bank of the Rhine was
comparable to the masSing OF
forces on D-Day, when more than
million American, British and
I Canadian troops stormed ashore
on the coast of Normandy.
APPEAL TO SLAVES 90
Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters
spokesman broadcast a proclama-
tion over the Luxembourg radio
calling upon foreign workers ir
southwestern Germany to begir
large-scale sabotage of Nazi in.
dustries.
The spokesman said the time
had come for the Reich's slave
workers to take "a decisive part
] in this war"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

WASHINGTON, March % QNS)-An estimated
100000 workers in Tokyo lost their homes in the
10th Air Force chief of staff reported today his return
from Guam.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
ACTORS, ACTRESSES TO DISREGARD PICKETS

HOLLYWOOD March % (UP) - Motion picture
actresses and actors voted today to disregard picket lines
established by striking studio craftsmen who walked out
IL days ago in a union jurisdictional dispute.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

WASHINGTON March % (INS)-War Food Ad-

mnistrator Jones urged Congress today to establish
permanent school lunch program which would benefit
children and provide additional outlet for surplus farm
products.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
Robots Kill Patients

LONDON, March q up
Four aged patients were killed
and six injured when a V-bomb
exploded on the grounds of hos
pital in southern England.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
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Times Photo

HOLLYWOOD, March % (UP)-Mrs. Rupert
Hughes wife of the author and radio Commentator died
today apparently of overdose of sleeping tablets.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
THE WEATHER
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

The sun will set a. 7:47 p m today and
rise tomorrow At las m
The moon will rise A. ? S6 p m today
and SCI tomorrow AZ 5 50 N.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

DON'T LET THAT COLD HANG ON
Steam " out In one Of our steam rooms
New Detroit Baths, 1877 west Vernon Adv,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
War Ration
Book a Good
EotDrinks

The state liquor control commits
sion. determined TO stop the flow
of $4,000 bottles OF whisky
monthly 10 chiselerS. today ordered
tho liquor ration card system into
discard, effective April l
Under a new setup. adults will
use federal war ration book No. 4
for the purchase of one quart a
month.
Discussing the order with 50
managers of state liquor stores in
The Detroit area, John Aaron.
chairman OF the commission, de-
clared that much rationed whisky
has been going into improper chan
nelS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

L Diaries in
Butter Suits

Injunction suits charging that
Il Detroit dairy and butter con-
Germs had purchased thousands OF
pounds of butter at more than
$4,000 over the ceiling prices
were filed by the OPA in federal
court today
The suits asked that each of
the defendants be ordered TO show
cause why he should not purchase
butter at or within the ceiling
price.
OPA enforcement attorney Mel
son s. Shapero charged that all
the defendants in the civil suits
purchased butter over ceiling
when the ceiling price was 43.17
cents per pound.
ACCUSED CONCERNS
Named by the OPA were the
Detroit Creamery Co., 1888 Grand
River, accused of purchasing
5,120 pounds at S246 over ceiling.
johnson Milk Co, $500 Caniff,
charged with organizing a scheme
to defeat the ceiling price by pur-
chasing butter and invoicing it as
sweet cream 10 be used for
churning.
Brown Creamery Co., 53S w.
Seven Mile road, charged with
purchasing butter in from $50 TO
960-pound lots at over ceiling
prices of from SAP TO $50.
Turner Egg Co. 1448 Wabash;
2.0S0 pounds at S1S3 over ceiling,
900 pounds al $l40 over ceiling
and 5000 pounds al S451 over.
S471 OVER CEILING
Jacob Schlussell. SPAS E. Forest;
5,344 pounds at SAT- over.
Gunters Market, 9137 Kerche-
val; 5,376 pounds at S474 over.
c. F. Burger Creamery Co.,
S242 f. Forest; $50 pounds at
S499 over.
Western Market Egg Co., 2537
Perry; 1920 pounds al S9,9S4
over
Briggs Dairy Products Co.
1851 Z. Ferry; 10000 pounds at
about $4,000 over.
Fred Howard. 1902 Gratiot;
about $1,000 pounds at $4,000
over.
Liberty Dairy Co.. 62l2 Grandy,
about 1,600 pounds at 5000 over.
Schervish Food Market, S240 E.
Forest; 1000 pounds at about
$500 over.
4 All of the butter. the OPA
charged. was purchased from the
Model Dairy and Creamery Co.
/ in Bowling Green, o.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
APPROVED BY oPA

I'VE feel that this ratiOning
plan will meet approval Of the
public and evill stop abuses In
herent In the present card sys-
tem," Aaron said.
"War ration book 4 carries
the name and address of every
owner. as well as the signature.
If there is a question of owner
ship OF a ration book presented
for a liquor purchase, a sigma
ture check will decide the ques-
ton"
Aaron said the plan has beer
approved by the OPA.
At Lansing today Gov. Kelly
signed a bill making il a misde-
meanor for persons between y
and Is TO carry or use false
liquor identification cards. The
law, backed by SaloonkeeperS who
have been penalized for serving
such persons, is effective imme-
diately.
Conviction carries a 90-day iai
sentence, A 500 fine. or both.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
CHIsELING REVEALED

"We have discovered that some
saloon owners have obtained as
many a. so cards." he declared.
"Nhen a scarce brand OF whisky
comes on the market, they
round up their bar flies and send
them out 10 buy this whisky.
This II going To stop"
Under the new system. the
ration book will be presented by
the purchaser and will be stamped
on the inside back cover with a
large rubber stamp
Afterward small rubber stamps
will be used in the back cover for
each purchase period Aaron said
Two rubber stamps will be
furnished each SID and store out
RI for this purpose. he said, to-
Hkether with stamp pad T h
large stamp will be used only once
on each ration book presented anC
the small stamp will be used fol
each purchase period.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24
FORECAST:
Increasing
cloudiness
and warmer
tonight:

showers tomorrow afternoon or
night: continued mild.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

<EYKo MARGARINE gets the OK whenever
'ervsd. fer hs Farm Fresh" havor.-Adv,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-24

DIR: J. e, rooLL; ,.n! DENTIST 20.
Hours. 90 Tel CA 66s9.-Adv.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10
Awarded Medal

An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta
ton, England-Second Lieutenant FL
mer Lewis, %, whose father lives in
Grantsville. navigator Of "The Fight
ing Dutchman, a Bit Flying Fortress;
Of the 452nd Bombardment Group,
has been awarded third Oak Leaf
Cluster to the Air Medal for "meri-
torious achievement while taking
part in Eighth Air Force bombing at
tacks on vital German industrial tar
gets, and on Nazi military strong
points, in support Of advances of Al
lied ground forces.
1t. Lewis is a member Of the Third
Air Division, which was cited by the
President for its historic England-to-
Africa shuttle bombing Of Messer-
schmitt aircraft factories at Regens-
burg, Germany. Flying in what is con-
sidered the toughest theatre of aeli-
al warfare, he has helped his bomber
fight its way through severe enemy
opposition to attack such detectives
as locomotive and tank works at Han
over and FW-l90 aircraft component
factories at Bremen, Germany.
He is the son Of Mr.. Anthony Lewis,
Of Grantsyille. Prior to entering the
AAF in December. 1871, 1t. Lewis
was employed by the Celanese Cor
poration Of America. Cumberland.
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connection with the regular Sunday
school services on Sunday morning
May -, at 1890 o'clock, III honor Of
and to pay tribute to all mothers. All
are cordially invited to attend and We
especially extend an invitation to the
mothers to come and be with us
NJ F. Tucker, who has been quite
i'll and who underwent a major OPP
Grafton in Memorial Hospital, Cum
berland, in January. is now slowly
improving.
Mrs. Oscar Wolfe was an afternoon
caller at the Propst home on Monday.
Mrs. Clyde Tucker and sons, Clyde
Wayne and Russell Eugene. are Wis
iting with relatives in Clarksburg.
". Va.
Mrs. Robert Burton and son Gary
have returned to the home OF Mrs.
Burton's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. f.
Shllingburg, after having spent the
past three months at their former
home in Bel Alton, Nd
On Sunday afternoon Mr.. and Mrs.
V r. Steyer, Mrs. NJ. E Tucker, Miss
Mae Shillingburg and Miss Edith Hol-
land We're visiting at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Propst.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10
Lands With Assault
Group Near Japan

With the 9th Infantry Division on
D-Day Delayed -Pfc. Troy Fike, Of
Friendsville, landed with the Apple
knockerregiment Of the famed 27th
Infantry Division in its initial assault
on an island Of the Ryulzyu Group,
three hundred and siXty-fivc miles
from the Japanese mainland
The smash at the Ryukyu Group,
q key point in the vital communication
center Of the enemy's direction Of his
forces in the western Pacific marks
the second D-Day for Pfc. Fike.
Prior to this operation, Pfc Fike
participated with his organization in
the Gilbert Islands and the conquest
of Saipan in the MaYianas Islands.
At H-Hour, Fixes unit swalmed
ashore behind the pounding Of Navy
battleships and cruisers.
An equipment operator, Pfc Fikc
entered the army in October, 1912.
and has served twenty-nine months on
overseas duty. He is entitled to wear
the Asiatic Pacific ribbon with three
campaign stars, and the War Depart
ment's newest award, an arrowhead,
given troops making an assault land
ing.
Pfc. Fike is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Wesley A. Fike, of Friendsville.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10
BITTINGER

Rain. snow. frost and wind, with
very little sunshine, marked the clos
ing days Of April and the beginning
Of May in this community.
Miss Grace DERRICK. of Cumberland,
spent the early part Of this week with
her home folks here.
Miss Ruth Bethel, Of Baltimore, Wis
tied her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bethel, over the Weekend
Miss Elizabeth Martin. New Ger
many, was a guest in the John Belt
eel home last Sunday.
Mrs. Cora Miller, Of Cresaptown,
visited relatives here Saturday even
ing.
Harry c. Edwards, Grantsville, was
a pleasant business caller in Bittinger
last Monday afternoon.
The two-year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Broadwater, Of Jennings.
was buried in the village cemetery
last Monday afternoon.
Thomas O. Hayes. who recently in
jured his ankle while working in the
Galen Beachy numbering plant, is able
now to move about more comfortably.
John Beachy and family, Of the
North Glade community, visited rela-
tiveS on this side OF the mountain on
Sunday
"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10
NEW GERMANY


Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Platter re-
ceiyed letter recently from Their SON
Cpl. Ray Platter, who IS in France,
that he had been wounded and was IN
a hospital.
Cpl. Harold Setter. who Just re
Gently returned to the States from
overseas duty and has been visiting
his mother, Mrs. Sidney Setter, spoke
al the Reformed church here on Tues
day evening. He had been i'll Egypt,
Palestine and India and his talk cen
tered mainly on his visit to the Holy
Land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Fresh. accompan-
led by their daughter, Mrs. Okey
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy Noon and ].
D Murray spent Saturday in Cumt5I-
land.
SISgt. James Hayden and Mrs.
Hayden and Miss Retha Pfiter. all Of
RoWlesburg, spent Sunday with Sgt.
Hayden's uncle and aunt, Nh and Mrs.
Gay Hayden. Sgt Hayden has Just re
Gently returned to the States from
Burma and India and is on Through.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10

Set. Elmer S. TichDcll, 27 of Deer
Park, Nd, is serving as mess sergeant
with 4 field headquarters Of a L. S.
Combat Section of the Chinese Com
bat Command in South-ccntral China.
TichnclI, who attended Bruce High
school in Wcsternport entered the
Amy in January, I94l. Prior to be
ing ordered overseas he trained at
Camp Claiborne. La. He arrived in
India in December, 1913, and was
flown across the Himalayan Hump"
to China in March, 1914.
The Goes mission is to advise and
assist Chinese forces in prosecuting
aggressive warfare against the Jap
anese. This Iiaison is concerned phi
malily with the planning and execu-
ton OF field training and tactical
operations, and with the receipt, dis
tribution and assignment of American
equipment and supplies for Chinese
military units.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10

Pvt John 0. Dewitt Of 1870 Fourth
ST. Oakland, wa recently assigned
10 the @g8th Infantry Of the Tooth
Infantry Division and is now serving
with that organization on the Seventh
Army front in southern Germany
The l00lh entered combat in No
vemoei and cracked the proposed Ger
man winter defensive line in the Nos-
ges Mountains, followed through to
open up the key Saales Pass leading
to the AIsatian Plain and Strashourg;
captured Bitrhie in Maginot Line af-
ter the German brcakthrough had
been checked. the first time the eta
del had ever been taken by an attack
ing force in its 200-year history
The Tooth rhen went through the
Siegtried Line to the Rhine river. and
drove into Bavaria, in Southern Ger
many.
Pfc. Henry W Strabull. husband Of
Mrs Ruby Strabuk, Route ., Oakland,
was among the first in the 18th Ar
mored Division, of the 18th Army, to
receive Presidential recognition after
the Division entered Germany.
He is a member of the SIND Ar
mored Medical Battalion which, by
direction Of the President, has been
-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10
STEYER

Everyone busily occupied with their
spring work in this community.
Our Sunday school is progressing
very nicely. There will be a brief
Mothers Day program presented in
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Va.
Mr.. Leroy jenkins and family. u
Crasaptown, were visiting relatives
in this community recently.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10

Mrs. Harry Craver, Swanton, has
received word from her husband, Cor
poral Harry E. Craver, saying he is
still in the states and hopes to get
home for weekend furlough soon.
Doyle Biser, S &c, who has been
spending 21-day leave, from the
Pacific theatre Of war, with his par
ents, Mr., and Mrs. Eliza Bisel, left
Wednesday evening to return to his
ship, locked at the West Coast. Rob
ert Ferguson, of near Gormania, on
the same ship, also spent a leave with
his parents.
With the 38th Division on Caballo
Island-A battalion command post
may sound like a restful place to the
liflemen out front, but Pfc. jeremiah
G. Tasker, scout and observer from
Deer Park, has learned infiltration,
and even an occasional banzai charge,
can be expected any night from the
Japs
I'VE were on rugged little Caballo
Island, and thought we had swept one
end Of it free Of Nips," Tasker said.
eve had just finished digging in, and
got into our foXholes for the night. )"
he explained.
at wasn't long afterwards that the
Japs had slipped close enough to hurl
couple Of grenades into our perime-
ter, but no one was hurt" the Cyclone
Division soldier continued
"A miniature banzai charge follow
ed which carried the Japs almost to
rim Of our position before they were
moved down, The enemy paid heavily
in dead for their futile efforts" Tas-
l,cr added.
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Tn The Service

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Miss Alvcrta Dillon, Ensign in the
WAVES, who is located in Washing-
ton. d. c., was in Oakland ON Wcdnes-
day. She is on leave and has been
visiting her parents, near Accident
Miss Dillon is former instructor in
Oakland High school.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-05-10

Eugene D. Helbig, S c, who has
completed his recruit training at the
Naval Training station at cambridge,
is spending nine days with his par
cnls, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert f. Helbig,
before returning to his base for fur
thcr assignment
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
Far Eastern Advisory
Board Plans Meeting
In Washington Oct. %

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1o.-(R-
The United States has called a
meeting Of proposed Far Eastern
advisory commission for October
70 in Washington, but intends to
make no change in General Doug
las MacArthur's post as supreme
commander in Japan.
Secretary of State Byrnes an
nounced the meeting today, say
ing that invitations had gone out
to nine other governments and
that India may be included at
Britain's suggestion.
simultaneously. Byrnes disclos-
ed that creation of the advisory
commission be preceded by es-
tablishment of a control council
for Japan.
Such a step would mean either
replacing or lowering Macarthur
from his present position as ST.
preme commander for the Allies.
Byrnes, making it clear that he
personally does not favor this Rus
sian proposition, said there is no
intention Of altering Macarthur
status.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
NORFOLK CONCERN
SUBMITS LOW BID
ON DREDGING TASK

Lowest bid for a contract to re.
move an estimated 1922, 900 cubic
yards Of material from the Cape
Fear river from Wilmington to the
ocean was received yesterday by
the Wilmington district Army En-.
gineers from the Norfolk Dredging
company of Norfolk, Va.
The conpany's bid was 10 cents
a cubic yard. Other bidder was
HUFFMAN Construction company,
also Of Norfolk, at % 4 cents a
cubic yard. The governments es-
innate on the work was 1877 cents.
Both bids were qualified and
award is expected to be made
within the next few days, a rep
resentative Of the Engineers said.
Purpose Of the work is to re.
store the river, turning basis and
anchorage basin to their project
depth Of 80 feet. Four shoals are
to be removed and an overdepth
p. vision is included in the con-
tract.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
Egg Prices Expected .
To Drop During Winter

RALEIGH, Oct. 10-tR-Reduced
army demands will cause egg
prices to drop in North Carolina
during the winter and spring, the
State Agriculture department said
today.
Increased civilian supplies of red
meat also will continue to decline.