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Evening star., 1945-03-11
Drive 10 Cologne
Headed by Collins

Ry the Associated Press
WITH THE UNITED STATES
lst ARMY ON THE RHINE, Mar.
10.-The 7th Corps, led by Maj.
Gen. j. Lawton Collins of Washing
ton, formed the spearheading ele-
ments of the 1st Army which
stormed across the Roer River, drove
to the Rhine and captured Cologne.
Censorship permitted this dis
closure tonight as the 1st Army
fought to widen its Remagen
bridgehead south of Cologne while
the Germans tried to knock out the
Ludendorff Bridge with heavy she'll
fire
Spearheading the 1st Army's
drive was no new experience for
Gen. Collins, whose nickname is
Lightning He commanded the
25th Infantry Division in the South
Pacific, where it became known as
1.-The Lightning Division because
Of its swift moves in the jugle.
Gen. Collins led the American
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bank dips rather low and is ap-
preached with less difficulty here
than further south, Dusseldorf, a
city of $4,000 connects by good
roads the Ruhr cities of Mulheim
and Essen to the north and south
Duesseldorf's railroad lines reach
out in three directions in Germany s
interior.
Opposite Cologne, the Rhine's
banks are quite high, 1900 to l,70C
feet above the river. The roads
beyond. however, lead directly to
the Ruhr and are of a heavy duty
type. suitable TO the industrial
trucking for which they were de-
signed.
The concentration of the Ruhr
arsenal offers the Allies a vast
prize. From its black ground, coal
has been dug for nearly $50 years
and it is said that there still is
enough left to dig 100 million tons
year for 500 years.
Key Ruhr centers have been
Brunswick, Essen and Dusseldorf
for steel and blast furnaces; Wup-
pertal for textiles; and Duisburg
war supply manufacturing kingpin
and the worlds greatest river port
Just some of the products Ger
many has been fed from the Ruhr
arsenal are steel, chemicals, pig
iron, textiles. synthetic oil, high
octane gasoline, rayon, drugs. plas-
tics, dyes, bricks, glass, pottery and
varied munitions.
Evening star., 1945-03-11
Murder

Continued From First Page.)
the kitchen where she had been
preparing a meal.
Most of the people at the Mon
day night poker party, according to
the police, were middle-aged wom-
en-, although there were several men
besides Medley. The women guests
who have been questioned described
Medley as "suave and debonair, y
a handsome man with black, curly
hair who looked younger than his
A years
Police were told that during the
card game Mrs. Boyer referred to
Medley, whom she had met only
three days previously, as my new
boy friend" He had been introduced
to her by woman friend who had
met him casually in a downtown
restaurant. Mrs. Boyer, her friends
said, understood that he was an
out-of-town businessman.
Police still believe that robbery
motivated the crime, and have been
checking pawnshops carefully. In
Spector Barrett said last night that
officers have picked up five pieces
of jewellery allegedly pawned by the
missing man and learned that his
face was known to pawnbrokers
here.
Missing from Mrs. Boyers apart
ment was valuable fur jacket and
an emerald and diamond ring which
was believed to have been a very
expensive piece of jewellery. Mrs
G. ]. Harlan who lived on the same
floor with Mrs. Boyer, told reporters
that the dead woman had shown
her the ring recently and had SAID
1t was Christmas present.
Mrs. Harlan said that Mrs. Bower
raised her finger and made a point
OF showing her the ring. But wher
she said, Some one must have loved
you very much to have given you q
ring like that" Mrs. Boyer only
smiled and said nothing. She added
that the dead woman loved jewelry
and had some beautiful pieces.
Loved to Play Cards. \
Mrs. Harlan also said that Mrs
Boyer had told her on one occa-
sion that she loved to play card.
Evening star., 1945-03-11

valuable fur coat and 81 300 worth
OF bonds from a vault. That night
her husband received a telegram,
dated at pm, saying that she was
going away for her health.
1t was learned later that Mrs.
Kinson had obtained a permit to
visit Mexico, but nothing has been
heard from her since the day of her
disappearance.
Medley's criminal record, as COM
piled by the F'BI. is a long one
Born in Pittsburgh July %. 1901
he weighs l85 pounds, is feet. II
inches tall, has yellow-gray eyes
with piercing look, wears his dark
hair parted on the side and has a
scar over his right ear and two on
his right wrist.
He first was arrested by police in
Hot Springs, Ark, on August Is,
1927, and sentenced to four years
in the State penitentiary on fraudu-
lent check charges He was released
after serving 20 months.
In 1929 he was arrested by New
York police as fugitive from JUS
tice in Michigan. where he was re-
turned, convicted sof grand larceny
and sentenced to serve from four to
five years. His term expired in
1888.
Sentenced for kidnapping.
In March. 1884. he was arrested
third time for taking part in the
armed robbery and kidnapping of
Louis E. Brooke, former Mayor of
Marshall, Mich. In this job he
was one of gang of four men and
two women, who forced Mr.. Brooke
to surrender s33 900 in bonds, s12,-
900 worth Of jewelry and $4,000 in
cash. Medley eventually was caught
and was sentenced to from 80 to
60 years in the State Penitentiary
at Jackson.
Last November Medley escaped
from the Michigan Penitentiary by
eluding a guard who had gone into
town with him Prison authorities
had allowed him to take $3.50 con-
tTlDuteO Dy lIle OttltT inmates 10
invest them in War Bonds. Medley,
by model behavior at the peniten-
tiary, had become a trusty and is
credited in police records as having
put over three bond drives there.
The FBI was advised yesterday in
a flyer from Chicago police that
Medley is carrying two guns. The bull
lets which penetrated Mrs Boyer's
head were fired from a .32-caliber
pistol, police determined However,
interest was aroused in the second
gun because the two men shot in a
trailer on Fourteenth street NV. on
the night of February 23-when
Medley was in Washington-were
murdered with a .25-caliber gun.
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Western Front
Continued From First Page

enemy planes to bomb the bridge
yesterday afternoon in a spectacula,
air battle 5000 feet directly above
the bridgehead, while German ano
American antiaircraft gunners filleo
the sky with flax.
! Standing outside the bridgeheao
/ OF 30 square miles, enemy medium
artillery and tank guns blasted &;
the bridgehead and the bridge
across which 1st Army guns, men
and tanks streamed in endless pro-
ceSSion.
Sd Army Nears Coblenz.
To the south the American Sd
Army hammered within two miles of
the Rhine city of Coblenz and
flushed 5000 prisoners from the
Elfel Mountain trap which it shut
on six enemy divisions by a junction
Friday with the 1st Army.
On the north side of the trap,
the 1st Army seized 20 miles of the
Ahr River, moving SO swiftly that
1t took 20 carloads of military SUD-
plies at Ahrweiler, two flying bomb
sites, an ordnance dump at Brueck,
IA miles west of the Rhine, and
numerous jeeps and trucks taken
by the Germans in the Ardennes
break through.
Some prisoners wore shirts of
American units mauled in that
break through. At Brueck in the
heart of the Eifels, the lst Army
was miles or less from q second
junction with the Sd Army in the
center of the trap.
Vessel Pocket Collapses.
On the north end of the front,
Ia field dispatch said the long-held
Wesel pocket on the west bank of
the Rhine collapsed under combined
blows Of the Canadian lst and
United States 9th Armies.
AS Allied forces drove within 2
miles of Wesel. in the northwest
corner of the Ruhr. the Germans
blew both bridges there and rear
guards fed across the Rhine by
bargeS in storm of bombs and
shells. The Germans apparently
extricated most of their troops from
this bridgehead before demolishing
the bridges.
This was the final act in the great
battle west of the Rhine which
Allied headquarters estimated cost
Evening star., 1945-03-11

and sometimes played all night.
She also revealed that Mrs. Boyer
had kept social engagements with
naval officer, but that she had
not seen him since around the
Christmas holidays.
On last Monday afternoon, Just
before the fatal card party, Mrs
Harlan recalled, she had met Mrs
BOYER in the apartment house ele-
vator about Sis pm. The latter
she said, had her arms filled
with bundles. Her greeting was
abrupt and, Mrs. Harlan thought
she seemed bit startled by the
greeting and anxious to get to her
apartment.
In both Chicago and New Orleans
women with whom Medley had
kept company were found dead in
hotels within few weeks of each
other. The cause of death was not
determined in either case. al
though their demise was not due
TO natural causes.
tdHtCu III view oTltdTS.
A man whom police subsequently
identified as Medley is wanted in
New Orleans in connection with the
death of Miss Laura Fischer, %
a New York City textile worker
| whose body was found Christmas
eve in the De Soto Hotel Her nude
body was discovered in bathtub
In a room rented by a man who
signed the register as D. j. Stafford
Eight weeks later Chicago police
found the nude body of Mrs. Blanche
zimmerman, 38, long distance
telephone operator. in a hotel room
which had been rented by a man
later identified by Chicago police as
Medley. Her body also was discoy-
cred in bathtub.
Walter Storms. chief of detec-
tives in Chicago. told the Associated
Press that Medley had been def
nitely linked with the death of
both women.
Another Woman Missing.
Still another Chicago woman.s a
friend of Mrs. Zimmerman. and also
known to have been seen with Med
ley has been missing from her home
since the day of the telephone op-
orators death, February IT. She is
Mrs. Grace Kinson, 35, the wife of
Joseph F. Kinson and the mother
of two small sons.
Mr.. Kinson, according to reports
from Chicago, told police there that
Mrs. Kinson had received a tele-
phone call from Mrs. Zimmerman on
the days of the latter's death and
left her home. Later it was
learned that she had withdrawn a
Evening star., 1945-03-11

the enemy 100000 men in prisoner.
alone since February %. Twenty.
two German divisions were de.
stroyed or so badly mauled they
must be reftted
Farther south, the Germans sale
their soldier wounded, the aged
women and children were moving
east across the Rhine in long lines
in flight from the Saar industrial
basin and the Palatinate, the only
two provinces still in enemy pos
session west of the Rhine.
Allied armies now wefe lined uL
on $50 miles of the Rhine's west
bank from the Dutch border to neal
Coblenz, and the Ruhr's great ar
senal cities were learning to their
cost what this meant as the 9th
Army rocked them with giant 240-
nm. howitzers.
Duisberg and Dusseldorf have
been catching it for a week. and 9
front dispatch said that from now
on, other cities within range, espe-
cially Essen with its sprawling Krupr
munition works, would be blasted.
OF the action in the Remagen
sector, the Berlin radio said Ameri-
can troops in assault craft crossed
the Rhine in the area of Honnef
5 miles north of Remagen.
The Germans said fierce fighting
was raging here, with Honnef chang
ing hands repeatedly. These ac-
counts placed Honnef at the north
end Of the bridgehead, with Linz
6 miles to the south, at the other
end. and said the holdings extended
AZ miles inland.
Roads stretching far back of the
front were loaded with Allied
trucks, troops, guns, tanks. supplies
all hurrying toward the Ludendorff
Bridge. which now is the key to- the
final battles of Germany.
Meanwhile, the sweeping offensive
continued to account for more Ger
man prisoners and huge stocks of
materiel. The Canadians bagged
TOO prisoners Friday and the 9th
Army has captured 1921 i'll the
last three days. The Sd Army S
bag included a Nazi divisional COM
mander and the whole staff of a
field hospital
The Sd Army's 4th Armored
Division alone in four days counted
4,207 prisoners and has estimated
there are 1000 more .Nazis in pris-
oner cages who are not yet enrolled
The 1st Army took 5000 prisoners
Friday.
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followed by another crippling day
light blow at the enemy's oil sup
plies by Raj Lancasters which hit
synthetic plant near, Dortmund
The 9th lost one bomber and two
fighters in today's operations.
Flying from bases in Italy, Thun-
derbolts of the United States 18th
Air Force attacked enemy rail tar
gets in Northwestern Yugoslavia and
Southern Austria for the fourth
successive day, while mediums con-
tinued assaults on the Brenner Pass
line and the United States 18th Air
Force hit rail bridges northeast Of
Verona.
Evening star., 1945-03-11
Beethoven Birthplace
Ruined, University
OF Bonn Is Domooed
BY the Associated Press

BONN, Germany, Mar. 10
The birthplace of Ludwig Won
Beethoven, the opening notes
of whose Fifth Symphony have
been used by the Allies as a
symbol for victory, was virtu-
ally destroyed in the fight for
this old university city.
The university area, too, was
hard hit from the soaring artil-
lery duels of the final battle
and the mighty air blows which
had preceded it.
But the city itself was not
as badly hit as Cologne, though
the Germans put up more fight
here than they did at the larger
city. Much destruction and
some of the bloodshed were
brought about by German guns
which roared across the Rhine
long after Bonn itself had been
given up.
Evening star., 1945-03-11
Two Yonks in England
Freed of MonsIuuohter
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LICHFIELD, England, Mar. 10
Two American paratroopers were
acquitted of manslaughter and as
sault charges today at a United
State Army court martial in which
one American said he started a
hotel fight after overhearing some
British paratroopers say that, after
this war, they were going to have
war with the Yanks."
A free-for-all fight ensued be-
tween the American and British SOL
diers and an elderly Liverpool labor
er, passing the hotel, was killed
Evening star., 1945-03-11
Miners
Continued From First Page.)

ference operates on the unit rule
with eight miners and like num-
Der Of operators participating.
Two Demands Discussed.
'The miners made a motion to-
day that proceedings transpiriug
IN the conference be reported to the
press" Mr.. Jones said. "The op-
orators voted against that pro-
posal"
Ezra Van Horn, Cleveland op-
orator who is conference chairman
and spokesman for the entire group,
would make no formal statement at
conclusion of the session for the
first time during the week. He ap-
peared angry, but later said two of
Mr.. Lewis contract demands had
been discussed a second time-the
10-cent-per-ton royalty" on coal,
estimated to raise sec, ,0OO, 900 a year
for q miners health insurance
fund, and elimination Of historical
Evening star., 1945-03-11
Cross-Rhine Advance Into Ruhr
Still Is Key Allied Objective

The Ruhr Valley arsenal, toward
which Allied forces are pointed north
of the Remagen area where the
Americans have crossed the Rhine
is densely populated and highly
industrialized section which has
served as the backbone of the Ger
man military machine.
The Ruhr is smaller than Della
ware, but contains from so to rs per
cent of Germany's manufacturing
potential
The routes into and around the
Ruhr from the Rhine's east bank
are well co-ordinated. From the
north they are low, either rolling
or fat. In the center they reach
through deep valley From the
south there are mountains and high
ground in the way. but even there
the country is strung with HIGHWAYS
and railroads.
From Dulsburg, highways and
railroads lead across the fiat Ruin
Valley bottom through. adjacent
manufacturing towns, Hamborn
Oberhausen, Essen, Gelsenkirchen
Bochum and Dortmund which, COM
bined, form one 35-mile- long chain
city of 2,500.000, 1t is only IS miles
from Dortmund to Hamm, the
eastern tip of the Ruhr and start
ing point of the express military
highway over the fiat northern plain
| to Berlin.
At Dusseldorf, the Rhine's right
Evening star., 1945-03-11
--AP Wirephoto.

forces drive on the Cherbourg Pen
insula in France and directed the
campaign to capture the port of
Cherbourg.
Then he was given the job of
spearheading the great st. Lo
break-through with his 7th Corps,
blasting open gateway through
which the 1st and Sd Armies poured
across France. His corps was the
first into Belgium and the first into
Germany.
Evening star., 1945-03-11

Northern and Southern pay differ
entails.
The conference is scheduled tc
resume negotiations tomorro
morning.
There was no indication that
agreement had been reached on any
OF Mr.. Lewis l8 contract demands
Most of the past week was spent
in "sparring' over the issues. Gov
ernnient labor conciliatorS are
watching proceedings each day.
Evening star., 1945-04-01

Bodies Of American
servicemen born in the
South Poetic begin the
long journey home oboord
O Coost Guard manned
troop tronsport. Lynette
MiIIick. 9 months, en-
route to Ely, kev., cotches
her "shut-eye" in q hom-
mock sIung in the "nurs-
cry" Of the ship. Her
tother, q Morine. wos
killed at Torowo.
-
Every doy is woshdoy
in the body department
below decks. Note the
body in the bossinet.
Forther bock is q hoppy
youn9ster in q pIoypen.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02
EXPERIMENT STATION AIDS
COLORED AGRICULTURAL
WORKERS

Ninety-eight colored county
agents of Extension Service and a
group of key colored Alabama
farm leders attended series Of
meetings at Alabama's Agricultu-
al Experiment Station and sub
stations recently to study recen.
experimental results and observe
work in progress at the stations.
Visiting the station in gdoups of
20 or more, the agens and farm
leaders observed methods found
best for establishing and maintain
ing permanent pasture and pcren-
NAL legume hay crops, studied
management of milk processing
units, and discussed better food,
better health, fruit and vegetable
production and the management Of
poultry flocks.
The meeting were held at the
main Experiment Station III Al
burn, Ala, and at the Tennessee
Valley, Black Belt and Wiregrass
substations.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02
SURPLUS PROPERTY
FOR FARMERS

The Surplus Property Board has
announced that farmers and rural
areas generally are assured equal
opportunity to supply their needs
out OF surplus property as it be-
comes available. The Board has set
up procedures channeling critically
needed trucks, machinery and
equipment in agricultural uses.
The Board, in cooperation with
the War Food Administration. will
arrange for the sale of surplus
property in rural localities in such
manner as to assure farmers and
farmers cooperatives equal oppor-
tunity to buy.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02
Goodman News

A calendar rally was given in
behalf of the boo kcase drive Sun
day at $3.50 o'clock, at Goodman
M. B. church, sponsored by Mrs.
c. A. Garland. Amount raised by
the young people is as follows:
January: jamie Mae Redd, SPA,
February: Nicie Carr, SLIT.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02
Anri1. Gene .Redd S4.14

April: Gene Redd, $4.14.
April: Willie Tillman, $3.47.
MAY: James C. Holmes and Ru-
ben Travis, $1.76.
June: Ophelia Redd, $3.10.
July: A. B. and Jake Smith, $188.
August: Mamie v. Williams and
Willie MCGEE, $3.14.
September: John F. MCGEE, 1927.
October: Ossie v. Sanders, $3.50.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

November: Maxine Ambrose, SO. IL
December: jamie Mae Ambrose
SOC.
Donation: A. l.. Barnes SIPS.
Leon Jordon, $3.50
Effie Lete $255.
Total amount raised, 1884
The J.M.A.S. met at 6 o'clock
Sunday sevening with Mrs. c. A..
Garland. Topic and discussion led
by Mrs. Garland.
Many fine points were brought
out on envy, gossip and hypocrisy,
which seem to have much effect
One new member Joined, namely.
Mrs. Jimmie Lee Day. Members
present were:
Mrs. Aaron Redd, president; Mrs.
Mallie Holmes, vice president; Mrs.
Bessie Delaney, assistant secretary;
Annie D. Large, Willie Tillman, Ru-
by MCGEE, Hazel Jordan, Willie
Rec Ambrose.
Visitors were: Mrs Virginia Mos
|es, MIR. James Holmes, j. M. Gar
land.
The J.M.A.'s and senior body rem
dered an inspiring Mothers Day
program, May Is.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

1t pies persist in boiling over,
bake them at $50 degrees Is min
utes and then reduce the heat to
$50 degrees for the remainder of
the baking time.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

If you get a tough cut of steak
from your butcher, pound it before
cooking. If it's still tough, grind
it.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

To prevent scalding milk from
sticking rinse the pan in cold wa
ter before placing milk in it.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

Statistics show that So per cent
of all falls in the home occur on
stairs.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

The President of Peru must be
35 years of age, a Peruvian by
birth, and 10 years a resident of
the republic.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

Bavaria is the second largest state
of Germany, with an area of some
10000 square miles.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

Canada's steel production has
been doubled since the outbreak of
World War II.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-02

Straw hats can be cleaned by
rubbing with damp corn meal, then
brushing off.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-06-02
Court Conuicts :
I4M Gambling;
Placed On Bond

Fourteen defendants. alleged
members 81 the Lincoln Mutue IS
House syndicate. we're found guilty
this week Of a gambling conspiracy
following a trial before Recorder 5
Judge Gerald w Grost.
THEY WERE placed on $500
bond. each TO await sentence on
June II.
Police charge that the con-
spiracy 70 violate the gaming law
existed from Jam 1910 10 Jan.
1912 and did approximately 5000
worth OF business each day.
Willie SimmS. another defendant.
Was discharged last week after q
Jackson prisoner. Eddie House. re-
fused 20 identify Simms as a mem
Der OF the alleged syndicate. How
ever. Simms is under an appeal
following A conviction in another
gambling case
Those 10 he sentenced on June II
are George Levine. - Of 1865
Rochester. John Horrbuckle. 30. az
6054 Brush. Mrs Alberta Hutchin-
son. IS, Of 2966 Heidelberg. Asa
Thomas. "a. Of l049 Elmwood, Rob
err Gillard. a.. OF 1899 Lumpkin,
Smith Robinson. ~. o. 1927 Living
stone; Walter Johnson, 81. Of 1889
Greenlawn; Gerald Mitchell. 49, Of
2sl p Willis; John Thomas. ~. az
Az Melbourne. Nathan Buren,. SIS.
OF 27e Medoury: Mack Austin. 80
Of ea7 Leland, Theodore Taylor.
AZ. OF $40 r Adams: James E.
Rogers. rs. Of 202l7 llene. and Will
fred Jackson, ~. OF 627 +. Phila-
dclphia.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-06-02
White MPs Beat
Negro SailorO
Alabama Train


MOBILE. Ala. - Apparently en-.
courased by a harsh Army Jim
crow policy which has permitted
almost everything in the book. two
preludiced.craxed and power-drunk
white military policemen vicious
ly assaulted Negro sailor on q
nor,hbound Louisville and Nash.
vile train early last Tuesday
morning.
The attack took place In q snok-
Ing compartment Of the second
coach in the Pan-American. New
Orleans-Cincinnati train. between
Mobile and Floma,on. The VIC
TINS name Was given At Woodrow
Reed, who was en- route 10 Florida
from a California naval base. and
was removed from the train al
Floms,on by the MPS
A demand for army and rail-
road investigations with proper
disciplinary action in order against
the MPs and the train conductor
have been made by the NAACP.
According 10 witnesses inter-
viewed each OF the MPs hurled in
vectives and took turns at inter-
walls in beating their helpless pri-
soNer in the face and about the
body in the'smoking compartment
OF /. Il n. coach No. 1857.
Passengers pleaded with the
train conductor who was in the
forward car, 10 so back TO the next
coach and stop the military police
men from beating the sailor. bu)
nc continued 10 punch tickets and
tested no interest In the plight
Of tho dcfenSeless victim OF Mp
brutality.