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Evening star., 1945-04-02
Junction Of Armies
Was Almost Casual
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
WITH THE 9th ARMY IN GER
MANY, April 2.-The juncture OF
the American 9th and 1st Armies,
buttoning the Ruhr pocket and en-
circling three German armies, was
consummated when the commander
of 1st Army elements from the
neighborhood of Paderborn walked
into Lippstadt, about 20 miles east
of Hamm. yesterday afternoon.
Standing on street corner he
found Col Sydneys Kinds, Nash
vile. pushing his crack combat
team B through the town after it
had driven 100 miles in two days
with the 9th's End Armored Divi-
sion.
That makes it formal" said
Corpl. Pat Brogan. Buffalo, N. Y.
of the End Armored Division.
Corpl. Brogan said liberated
French laborers and former soldiers
who had been prisoners Of war for
as much as five years were march
ing down the roads singing the
"Marseillaise One group proudly
carried a battered old tricolor they
had been hiding and when they
passed a row of German prisoners
herded by steel-helmeted Yank
the Frenchmen all thumbed their
noses at the Boches and kept right
on singing the national anthem that
had been stilled in their throats
since 1910.
Evening star., 1945-04-02

mans in the Ruhr was sealed, Gen.
Eisenhower's communique in an un-
usual revelation Of the course of the
developing campaign declared fatty
that the cleanup will not preclude
the advance of Allied armored COL
umns farther into Germany"
That swift advance was well un-
der way.
The German communlque in dis
cuSsing operations on the northern
front reported fighting in the Teuto-
burg Forest "on both sides of Biele-
feld' and along the Dutch frontier
between the Lower Rhine and
Enschede, 1O6 miles from Wilhelms-
haven and 98 miles from Bremen.
Attacks Believed Repulsed.
Strong attacks near Muenster
143748D were declared repelled.
The American 9th Army was re-
ported officially by the Germans to
be fighting fiercely for the Ruhr in
dustrial city of Recklinghausen (S7,-
OO0. Allied advances in the Rhine
Plain south of Heidelberg were re-
ported The Germans said the
American 7th Army had reached the
Bruchsal area, 81 miles northwest
of Stuttgart (460,0O0), outflanking
Karlsruhe (189,O85) at a point II
miles northeast.
Mosquito bombers attacked the
eastward surge of road and rail
movements through the narrowing
bottleneck through Western Holland
all last night, from dusk to dawn.
The 7th Army's 18th Armored Di-
vision reached Ochsenfurt and the
outskirts of Wuerzburg at Marien-
berg, across the Main from the Ba-
varian city of l08, 900. Gen. Patch's
force was 100 miles or less from
Czechoslovakia and linked up with
the French 1st Army, which had
overrun 20 or more towns in an 18-
mile penetration beyond the Rhine.
The 7th Army brought in another
1000 prisoners, including 1t. Gen.
Count Won Oriola, commander of the
German 18th Army Corps. The Brit
lSIl III t1lC LoA IA SdPloA SS 1SAA'
Count Shulenberg.
$4,000 Nazi Prisoners.
A total of $4,000 Germans cap
tured on the western front in March
included 10000 taken by the Sd
Army and 10000 by the lst Army,
dispatch from Gen. Bradley's 18th
Army Group headquarters said,
adding:
The German situation in the
west is falling apart so badly that
the possibility of an attempt to
transfer some divisions from the
east isn't excluded, despite the sorry
German situation in the east
1t Gen. George S. Patton's Sd
Army captured 11,307 prisoners yes
terday and had thousands more
trudging back to prison cages.
In driving to the area of Kalten-
nordheim, 20 miles east of Fulda,
Evening star., 1945-04-02

running into wildcat resistance,
Correspondent Pugh Moor reported
from the marshars headquarters
Sustained opposition, for instance
was reported between Enschede ano
Rheine from isolated bands.
Most other Wehrmacht troops
were showing more disposition tc
give up when cornered." Mr.. Moore
wirelessed. The British have taken
10000 captives since crossing the
Rhine and now are well over l0C
miles beyond that barrier river.
The 9Th Army was streaming to-
ward the Weser River, where the
Germans may make supreme stand
After the Weser, which flows through
Bremen, the Elbe is the only real
river on the high road to Berlin.
Gen. Simpsons army struck out
this morning from a point southeast
of captured Paderborn.
The I'd Armored Division and in
fantry were boasting they would be
in the German capital in less than
a week. front dispatch reported
Erasing Nazi Pockets.
The SD Infantry Division was
working down German pockets by
passed around Lippstadt, where the
lst and 9th Armies joined, and
around Hamm, eastern exit of the
Ruhr.
(The British radio said I'd
Army troops were nearing the
great traffic center of Osna-
brueck. Is miles east of cap
tured Rheine, and that all Or
ganized resistance had collapsed
on the center of Marshal Mont
gomery's front)
Even as the fate of the Ger
Evening star., 1945-04-02

the Sd Army reached within 90
miles of Czechoslovakia, Gen.
Pattons men were closest to the
Russian lines-a half hours flight
at a point 3 miles northwest of
Eisenach on the high road to Leip-
zig, Germany's fifth city of 70l COG.
Eisenach is Al miles west of Weimar
10000.
Gain of 25 Miles.
The 11th Armored Division scored
the longest Sd Army gain of Is
miles to reach the vicinity of Mittle-
dorf, 20 miles northeast of Fulda.
The fall of Kassel, much-bombed
Prussian rail and manufacturing
center, was imminent.
The 9Th Armored and 80th In
fantry Divisions liquidated Germans
fighting savagely south of the city.
The Mayor of Kassel in telephone
conversation with officers of the 9th
Armored Division declared his city
desired to surrender, but the fanti-
cal resistance to the south had de-
layed the American entrance.
The armored division turned the
capture job over the 80th blue
Ridge Division and headed east
ward, crossing the Fulda River near
Spangenberg, 8 miles southeast of
Kassel.
It was the 26th (Yankee) Division
which entered the outskirts of Fulda
in the path blazed by the 18th
! Armored Division.
The 9Th Armored Division was en-
countering strong resistance, in
lcluding tanks and numerous as
sault guns. The 4th Armored Break
through Division was the one ap-
Evening star., 1945-04-02
Inspectors 10 Be on Alert
For UncIean Premises

Following the Commissioners or
der to observe Cleanup Week from
March 30 to April 7, Health Officer
George C. Rutland has announced
that Health Department inspectors
have been instructed Ito be on the
alert for unclean conditions on the
premises of occupied as we'll as va
cant property and to serve notices
to those who have been negligent.
William H Cary, jr, director of
the Bureau of Sanitation, said that
during the first three months Of
this year 954 orders have been is
sued to clean up premises. but that
improvement had been noted in
only 686 cases.
Pointing out that the department
is short of personnel. DR.. Rutland
said: In the last analysis indi-
viduals should have enough pride in
their city and in their own yards
to make them attractive and clean.
Neighborhood organizations should
strive to have this done. If it is not,
the department will welcome COM
plants from the public"
Evening star., 1945-04-02

preaching Eisenach on the route to
Weimar, Leipzig and the Russian
front.
Fulda is known to Catholics all
over the world. The tomb of St.
Boniface, apostle of the Germans
and the man who brought Chris
tianity to the Reich, is there. Ger
man cardinals, archbishops and
bishops ordinarily meet in Fulda
each year and issue pastoral letters
which are read from Catholic pull
pits.
When Hitler came into power the
pastoral letters were delivered by
couriers few minutes before
church services began in order to
prevent the Gestapo from seizing
the pronouncements.
A few isolated German pockets
were being erased in the vast ex-
panse overrun last week by the Sd
Army.
Evening star., 1945-04-02

thing. he said. is that the contract
has been extended: the problem OF
the expiration May ! will be dealt
with when we come to that bridge
Mr.. Lewis told the board he was
CONSCIOUS of the imperative neceS-
sity of continuing the production OF
coal for war" and followed his ac-
ceptance with kilograms to all union
locals recommending that the miners
stay on the job,
Hard Coal Meeting Wednesday.
Meanwhile. anthracite operators
and the UNIV will meet Wednesday
to seek agreement on new two
year contract covering some $1,000
PENNSYLVANIA miners who last year
dug 6O,000,000 tons Of the vital fuel
The present biennial contract
which expires April 30, was signed
last spring after a year OF negotla-
tions. two major strikes, Govern
ment seizure of the pits and VILE
intervention.
The union will announce its de-
mands Wednesday and it is eX-
pected they will be similar to those
asked of soft coal operators, includ-
ing a royalty of 10 cents for each
ton of coal to be used for union
health and rehabilitation fund.
Mr.. Lewis already has filed no
tice with the Government Of labor
dispute in the anthracite mines
which automatically calls for a
strike vote, presumably April 26,
The notice covers all hard coal
miners. except 10000 employed by
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron Co., which has been under
Government operation nearly a
year.
Evening star., 1945-04-02
Administration Chiefs
May Agree on Mi|der
Manpower Measure
By J. A. O'LEARY.

If compulsory manpower leg
islation is rejected in the Senate
this week, as all signs indicate,
administration leaders are eX-
pected to go along with milder
Job control measure rather than
have no bill.
Senators on both sides OF the fight
have been in agreement for several
days in estimating that the compro-
mise approved by the House last
week lacks a majority in the Senate.
With more than a score OF Sen
ators out of town for the Easter
week end. however, the debate has
dragged or to await the return OF
some of these absentees before TAX
ing a showdown vote tomorrow or
Wednesday.
If the pending compromise is
beaten the Senate could drop the
subject, but it is considered more
likely the chamber will then adopt
a motion by Senator 0 Mahoney,
Democrat. of wyoming asking the
House to reopen negotiations look
ing to adoption of bill more along
the lines of the original Senate
measure.
The Senate bill was designed to
strengthen the labor-recruiting
methods already established by the
War Manpower Commission, under
which workers are forced out OF
nonessential jobs, but with no court
penalties if they fail to go into war
plants. The Senate bill sought to
control the movement of workers,
however, by placing penalties on
employers who hire them in viola
ton of regulations.
The pending compromise, which
the House accepted, l67 to 100 would
place the same penalties on en-
ploves as on employers-fneS up to
$4,000 or imprisonment up to one
year. or both-for violations OF Gov
ernment iob-control regulations.
The compromise also would en-
power War Mobilization Director
Byrnes to freeze" workers in their
Jobs where he finds such action es-
sential to the war effort.
Although the debate is being re-
sumed this afternoon, Senate lead
ers do not look for a vote before
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1945-04-02

reorganization on a broader demo-
cratic base.
Further complications regarding
the Big Three bargain to support
proposals for three votes each for
Russia and the United States in the
general assembly of the projected
world organization arose TODAY with
q claim by the Soviet news agency
Tass. that the agreement involved
Anglo-American support for admit
ting separate Ukrainian and White
Russian Soviet republic delegations
to the San Francisco Conference.
Up to Conference.
A State Department official said
the question of giving the Soviet
Union these two additional votes in
the conference would be one for the
conference itself to decide. If they
should be granted, it was indicated
that the United States also would
insist on three votes in the confer
ence as we'll as in the proposed as
sembly
The whole question of voting pro-
cedure in the conference is expected
by this Government to be settled by
a steering committee named at the
beginning Of the meeting.
The possibility of a meeting here
to develop proposals for postwar
trusteeship machinery to be con-
sidered at San Francisco grows out
of a discussion of the subject at the
Crimea conference of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Premier Stain, who decided
further consultations were neceS-
sary.
France. China Included.
The three governments were un-
derstood to have brought France
and China into the picture, and rep
resentatives of those countries would
be invited to sit with Big Three
delegates if the preliminary confer
ence should materialize.
If the meeting is called, it prob
ably would be held here about two
Evening star., 1945-04-02
Small u. 5. Gunboat Lost
In PHILIPPINES Action

An infantry landing craft con-
verted into a small naval gunboa'
has been lost in the Philippine area
as the result of enemy action. the
Navy announced today
The vessel the LCI(Gl974 carried
a normal complement of about sc
officers and men. 1t was commanded
by 1t. q. g. Joe F. Brown. Fort
Worth. Tex. who was reported as q
casualty. but who has returned to
duty. Next of kin of all casualties
haze been informed, the Navy said
The loss of the l55-foot vessel
brings to a total of l55 the number
of miscellaneous craft which have
been sunk since Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1945-04-02
Security

Continued From First Page.
Evening star., 1945-04-02
Western Front
(Continued From First Page. J

caught in the Ruhr industrial
basin"
Supreme headquarters early in the
day estimated the bag at between
10000 and 100000. The lowest eSti-
mate of 10000 to 10000 came in a
dispatch from Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley's 18th Army Group headquar-
ters, hours before the full extent of
the Ruhr triumph was disclosed.
After five days of portentious
silence, Marshal Montgomery dis
closed that German resistance in
the bulging middle of his 21st Army
Group front had collapsed and that
his infantry forces were following
swiftly behind the rampaging tanks.
Resistance Scattered.
At spots, however, the British,
Canadian and American troops we're
Evening star., 1945-04-02
|OPAFixes Price
Ion Nonexistent
| Swiss Cheese
BY the Associated Press.

=
The OPA today established spe-
cific ceiling prices for Swiss cheese
made in Switzerland-but don't ex.
pect to buy any just yet.
No Swiss cheese has been i'm
ported for several years and the
agency said it knows of no plans te
resume importations in the neal
future.
ITS just something we won't have
to do when Swiss cheese comes II
again" one OPA official explained
When Swiss cheese is available
again it will cost about l224 cents
a pound more than Swiss cheese
produced in this country. Previous
ceilings were the same for domestic
and imported Swiss.
Evening star., 1945-04-02

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Evening star., 1945-04-02
Four-Doy WoIkout Ends
At Hudson Plane Plant

Py the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April "A four-day
strike protesting discharge of a
union steward ended this morning
as $4,000 employees resumed pro-
duction of airplane parts in plants
of the Hudson Motor Car Co.
The plants produce parts for P-38
fighter planes, Navy Helldivers and
B-29 Super FortresSeS.
Evening star., 1945-04-02
|1,277 Yanks Captured
In Bulge Freed From
Prison Near KasseI
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEAR SIEGENHAIN, Germany
April 2-Harshly treated American
prisoners played sick, stalled for
time and so exasperated the German
commandant who had ordered them
evacuated ahead of the approaching
Sd Army that he begged for so vol
unteers to leave the camp to uphold
his prestige.
They ignored his request and
1,277 Americans captured in the Bel
gian bulge last winter were among
5000 prisoners freed from the barbed
wire inclosure when the 9Th Armored
Division arrived.
Pretended to Be Sick.
When the Germans lined the
Americans up preparatory to evac-
uation of the camp, they pretended
to be sick Some had eaten soap.
Others pretended to faint.
The Americans, who came from
almost every State Of the Union,
had lost Is to 40 pounds a man
during three and one-half months
as prisoners on semi-starvation
diet.
Equally mistreated were other
nationals found in the inclosure
in an open field in this sector, about
IA miles south of Kassel. They
included 1000 British and Do
minion troops, 1000 Russians and
800 of other nationalities.
More than 1900 British and
Dominion troops liberated by the
Americans near here had been
marched by forced stages 800 miles
from Breslau.
The Germans had removed them
from reach of the Russians only to
have them freed by the Americans
There were numerous deaths during
the march and several more daily
after reaching the camp due to
exhaustion.
In addition, the American ar
mored division also rescued 900
Jewish women who had been
brought into the area from Hungary
as slave laborers The women were
between the ages of l6 and IS. They
told of atrocious mistreatment at the
hands of the Germans and said that
in some instances sick girls unable
to work had been thrown into trucks
with corpses hauled of and Gre
mated.
The Americans clothes hung on
them like scarecrows and their pro-
truding ribs testified to the lack of
food. But their morale was high.
After capture in the Bastogne-
Clervaux area last December they
were forced to march four days
through snow and mud, witfs only
half loaf of bread daily, they said
Then they were split into two groups
and herded into boxcars.
One of the prisoners, from New
York City, said one group was held
in the cars seven days and the other
10 days without food or water
They said the Germans. after
stripping them of their watches and
money, slapped them and pushed
them around One American said
his shoes had been taken from him
and he had been forced to walk 80
miles through the snow in his stock
ing feet.
Nine Of the soldiers were killed
when American planes strafed the
unmarked box cars. Later they were
taken to Bad Orb, between Frank
furt and Wuerzburg. where, they
said, sanitary conditions were ap-
palling.
The privates were left there to
work in slate mines, while the
corporals and sergeants were
brought to Siegenhain and iammed
into wooden barracks with made
Quate stoves.
Evening star., 1945-04-02
Chinese Retain Hold
On Luohokow, Nonyong
Hy the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNKING, April 2.-Generalis-
simo Chang kai-shek issued a Spe-
cial order of the day today COM
mending Chinese forces for their
stubborn defense of Laohokow and
Nanyang. pivotal cities in Hupeh
and Honan Provinces which he said
still were in Chinese hands. |
Evening star., 1945-11-06
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Evening star., 1945-11-06
HOUSES FOR SALE.

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Evening star., 1945-11-06
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OFFICE SPACE NEEDED, and viii con-
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price 40 object: will share . suite; hishest
references and pleasant HARRY !. FRIkp-l
NATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION desires
approximately 1900 50. IT,. ONCE spscsl
aownte wn; VIII lease. Box 43o-B: star;
Temporarily or permanently. In downtown,
once bldg immediately TR. 453s.
FOR ATTORNEYS-4 TO rooms, pTetera-
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Box 211-C, Star
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vest Of I4th ST.. in business district. Cali
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and secretary or desk and phone services
part time secretary. Phone JACKSON
Evening star., 1945-11-06
OFFICES FOR RENT.

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STORES FOR SALE.

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perienced party; $4,000 cash reauired.
Call HARRY I, FRIEDMAN, Broker RE.
1166
RADIO STORE - owner
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ate the value, Call HARRY I. FRIEDMAN,
Broksr Re ll66.
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Cali HARRY I. FRIEDMAN, Broker. RE.