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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-07-07
AlL-NEGR0 SHOW vows
GI'S IN india

SOMEWHERE IN INDIA, July
7 (ANP)-The first big name"
Negro show to tour any of the
theatres of war is USO Camp
Shows Unit No. 500, the Parade
of Champions" managed by Dan
Burley, New York newspaperman
and columnist, and featuring Hen
ry Armstrong, former triple title
holder; Kenny Washington, ALL
American halfback, UCLA; Bill
Yancey, former Renaissance Big
Five basketball player, and Joe
Lillard, former University Of Ore
gon All-American and the last Ne
gro to play in the National Profess
sional Football league. Over 10000
CPS, white and colored, have ap-
plauded the show thus far in its
tour of the China-Burma India
theatre Of operations and before its
return to the states in late July,
the unit will have performed for
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272 Heroes Of BataQn
Return From Far East

The liberated soldiers lined the
rail as the transport moved to the
dock. Many seemed straining to
catch sight of familiar face
among the men and women stand
ing on the wharf. Occasionally
one would lift hand to brush
away a tear. One lad-he'd had
lost an arm-caught sight of his
mother, and she saw him. They
waved across the few feet of water
that separated them.
This was worth every day we
spent over there,' exclaimed 1t.
William J. Duncan, quartermaster,
of Pelahatchie, Miss. 'That day
January 30, when we saw the
Rangers, and this day will com.
pete in my heart for the greatest
experience in my life"
There was a great cry from the
ship of "where's Eleanor? where
Eleanor" as the official launch
drew alongside the transport. The
Nations First Lady was not on
hand, however.
Army officials in charge of the
welcoming ceremonies announced
that after checkup by medica
officers at Letterman Hospital, the
men will be QUILTED and process
sed for their furloughs and leaves
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Marines Take
Cliff Above
Iw 0 Beaches
Tanks Called In To Sup
port Drive Over Un-
favorable Terrain

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Friday,
March 9-ER-Front line dispatches
disclosed today that the Third Ma
rine Division has reached the cliff
top overlooking the northeast
beaches of Two and the Fifth Ma
rine Division has shot an envelop-
ing arm 1000 yards up the north
west shore.
The disclosures followed Navy
communique. announcing only
small gains Thursday on the third
day of an about push SO bitterly
contested that the Marines had
to call on tanks to operate in I'M
favorable terrain as support.
The front line dispatches amph-
fled these gains, placing Maj. Gen
Graves B. Erskine's Third Divi-
sion at the edge of cliffs only 300
yards from the beach. The cliffs
are honeycombed with dougouts
in which machineguns and possibly
heavier weapons bar the preclpi-
tous path down to the surf.
The place where the third has
completed the drive across the pla-
teau is 1900 yards enthusiastically
down the coast from Kitano point,
northernmost part Of Two.
1t also was disclosed that Maj.
Gen. Keller E. Rockeys Ma
rine Division thrust up the north
west coast 1000 yards Wednesday
and Thursday.
(The exact spot reached by
Rockey's men was not reported
but a few days ago the Fifth was
in a straight line with Third Dl-
vision Marines who captured a $50
foot hill. An advance of 1000 yards
on the coast opposite that promon'
tory would put the Fifth less thar
2, 900 yards from the extreme north
tip of Iwo).
Indicative of the tough fight be.
ing encountered by the Fourth Ma
rine Division Of Maj. Gen. Clifton
B. Gates Gu the east side, its Pc
sition still is anchored only a short
distance north of the original land
ing beaches, won February 10.
Inland, however. the Fourth has
driven some saients up to SOC
yards or more.
Today's connmunique on the stiff
battle said the three Leatherneck
divisions, ATTACKING resolutely,'
all advanced against foe de-
Tending every prepared position
desperately"
The tanks numbered over ex-
tremely difficult terrain to help the
Devildogs get through the maze OF
enemy defenses.
Carrier planes poured bombs on
the Nipponese and warships OF the
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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Rhine Breach Held Likely
Observation-Disclosures
BY IVES GALLAGHER

COLOGNE Germany; Ay's crossing Of
situation overnight and opened
possibility shortening struggle by months
Ninth, and Third u S. Armies and the
change from their limited operations
clearing the Rhine the continuous and
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.-lR
-ssThis make it all worth while"
With these few, tear-cnoked
words, Sgt. William Thomas, 48,
bloomsbury, Pa, expressed for
nearly all the 272 heroes of Bataan
returned here today, the reaction
to the open armed, heartfelt and
clamorous welcome given them as
thew steamed through the Golden
Gate and into San Francisco.
After three years of i1nprison-
ment by the japanese, they were
liberated January 80 by Rangers
who broke into the Cabanatuan
camp to free all held there.
San Francisco turned out in a
tumultuous welcome for the he
roes. The harbor was alive with
boats, their whistles and sirens
screaming, their masts and lines
bedecked. Bands played and flags
tossed.
Mayor Roger Lapham and Army
officers boarded the big trans
port in the harbor to extend an
official welcome.
every one of us is glad you're
here" the mayor exclaimed. eve
will try to make up for the. things
YOU have gone through. Thank Goo
you're back" ~
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ARMY MAY LEAD
JAPAN INVASION
Nimitz Hints That Land
Forces Are To Be Used
In Largest Number

WASHINGTON, March 8.-UH-
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
revealed today during a surprise
visit that the joint chiefs of staff
are considering a new command
setup for the Pacific. He limited
that an Army man would direct
the invasion of Japan.
This revived speculation h a t
Gen. Douglas Macarthur might get
the job. Macarthur made what
was viewed as a bid for it when
he said on the occasion of the lib
GRAFTON of Manila that now "our
motto becomes on to Tokyo"
There also have been rumors
that Gen. George c. Marshall, Ar
my chief of staff, might be made
supreme commander of A Iii e d
forces for the climactic battle
against Japan. Those rumors have
been linked with reports that the
move would await completion OF
the European war so Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower could return here
to replace Marshall as chief OF
staff.
Ninitz dropped the hint at a
press conference when he pointed
out that while the japanese home
islands are in the Pacific Ocean
areas which he now commands,
thew constitute large land masses.
"And prosecution of operations
on large land masses is largely
a function of the Army" he add
ed.
BY this statement, Ninitz APP
peared to eliminate himself as a
(Continued on Pare Two: Col, II
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Yank Division
TakesAriingay
Lemery Also Falls; Other
Units Probing Toward
~Balete Pass

MANILA, Friday, March 9-lPI
American forces of the 33rd Di-
vision drove II miles north along
the west coast Of Luzon to seize
the town of Aringay, due west
of the Philippine summer capital
of Baguio, while Yanks on Luzon' S
south coast advanced 10 miles
east of Balaywan Bay to capture
Lemery.
East of Baguio, the 25th Divi-
sion was probing northward from
Digdig and Carranglan toward the
Balete Pass, gateway to the ex-
tensive Cagayan Valley of north
ern Luzon. The bulk of the remain
ing enemy garrison is believed to
be in this area.
Capture of Lemery gave the
Yanks firm foothold on the south
ern shores of Luzon just 80 miles
across the vital Verde Island pas
sage from American-he1d Mindoro
| Island.
The 18th Airborne Division and
the 158th Regiment OF the Eighth
Army reached Balayan Bay on
Tuesday. They moved eastward
along the fringe of the bay on a
good highway.
East of Manila, in the bitterly
contested Marikina watershed
area, the First Cavalry and Sixth
Infantry Divisions maintained ac-
tive patrolling of the front and
continued steady pressure on the
flanks of the Shimbu Line, stretch
ing along the mountains from Anti
polo to WaWa.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced in his communicate today
that bombers on successive days
hit Japanee defenses along the
line with more than 1000 tons OF
bombs. This was the heaviest sup
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
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Eyewitness Describes Rhine Crossing;
Calls IT One Of Wars Greatest Coups

war and it caught the enemy en-
tirely by surprise.
The infantry which got across
first was commanded by Maj.
Murray Devers Of Hagerville, Ark.
When I reached command post
on the east bank today, Devers
was asleep in room where maps
were spread out with the next
detectives marked in crayon.
'It's, the first sleep he has had
in four days and nights" an Of
ficer said
I went across with a Dakota
farm boy to get first hand story
Of the heroic Doughboys who
snatched up a. Nazi tumble and
raced right across the Rhine for
what looms as the greatest Ameri.
can touchdown Of the war.
I can't say where and vexingly
little Of what saw, but this can
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YANK CASUALTIES
RISE TO S23,632
Stimson Appeals for Great.
er Home Front Effort
To End War

WASHINGTON, March 8-(UP)
Announced American war casu-
allies rose to 1913, 632 today, jump
Of 10000 over last weeks tabula-
tons. The list includes 176, 789 kill
ed.
Secretary Of War Henry L.. Slim
son announced that Army casual
ties alone totaled 1892, including
1925 killed, 438, 1874 wounded, o.
237 missing and 6O,666 prisoners
of war. The total represents a com
pilation of names received here
through February %, but reflects
losses only through early February.
Hence, it does not include losses
suffered in the offensive which has
carried the Allies to the Rhine riv-
er.
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard casualties total 90,710, in
Guiding 34,513 killed, Al ,209 wound
Continued on Pare Two: Col, s.
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LOO Planes
|BonlbardRuhr
Five Rail Yards Short Dis
lance From Yanks
Are Hit

LONDON, March 8. -(P)- APP
proximately LOO warplanes OF the
u. S. Eighth Air Force carrying
5000 tons of explosives hit fuel
targets in the Ruhr today and
blasted five big railroad yards
only a short distance east OF the
point where American troops
cross the Rhine.
Piercing thick clouds to carry
the aerial blitz through its oath
day, more than 1850 heavy bonn
bers and 900 fighters struck at six
benzol and synthetic oil plants and
at the Rhineland rail centers in
a blow obviously aimed at block
ing reinforcements moving toward
the Rhine bridgehead.
The Ninth Air Force joined the
tactical assault by sending $50
medium bombers against motor
spot at Wulfrath, rail yards at
Berg Gladbach and Altenkirchen
and eight unidentified railpoints
east of the Rhine and north OF
the Mose1le river in an effort to
disrupt the flow of German mill
tary traffic. The sorties were made
despite extremely poor flying
weather. -->
Tonight Raj Mosquitoes attacked
Berlin for the 18th straight nights,
and other bomber formations were
reported over northern and west
ern Germany.
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
from Italy joined the days as.
saults with another blow in CO.
ordination with Russian armies in
Hungary. The planes attacked rail
detectives at Hegyeshalom, II
miles from the front lines on the
main route from Budapest to vi
emma.
The Eighth Air Force heayies
encountering little anti-aircraft
fire and virtually no air opposi-
ton, hit Benzol plants in the Gel
senkihchen and Dortmund areas
and the Burh-Scholven synthetic
oil plants, further reducing Ger
many's dwindling fuel supplies.
The rail detectives included the
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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lamp Davis Postoffice
Will Reopen March is;
General Expected Today

postmaster Wilbur r. Dosh-
I'll announced yesterday that he
+ nau oee9 authorized to re-insti-
ru'e service at the Camp Davis
posIo1llce March 16.
5e Ear c. Bailey, superinten-
tent Oh the sub-station previous
VIII w us lnactivation last autumn,
n WI fe-assume his duties, Mr..
H. "A general officer, believed to
w on orders to assume COM
. ang OF the Distribution Center
fshi:. Convalescent Hospital es-
FIS oros1 by the Army Air
s s;er on the old anti-aircraft
que S.'e' Is expected to arrive to-
S ;s camp officials said. His
gently was not revealed, al
si 1t was reported that the
Cd slip ia assigned to him reach
''ie camp yesterday.
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project OF forcing the
river before the Germans have
lime to organize any semblance OF
organized defense.
The rapid Third and First Army
advances south Of Cologne caught
the Germans by surprise. 1t is alp
parent that they have had no time
to reorganize their scattered for
ces east Of the river at any point.
Marshal Won Rundstedt did not
have sufficient troops to hold the
German border defenses. In the
Allied drive to the Rhine by four
armies, he lost at least a third to
half of what few he had.
Thus with disorganized forces TO-
falling less than he had to, hold a
stabilized front, the Nazi field mar.
shall is facing, if not an impossible
task, at least the most difficult task
of the war;
This is the task of trying to seal
off the First Army .bridgehead and
at the same time throwing up a
defense along the entire length OF
the river.
Only two possibilities seem open
to the Germans in trying to halt
the First Army threat to run
through the center of Germany.
One is to pull troops from the Rus
sian front. The other is to aban'
don the Italian front and pull the
q German divisions out OF there.
The first step appears extreme.
1y unlikely in view of the new Rus
sian offensive along the Oder TO-
ward Berlin, which Berlin reports,
especially since the German high
command stripped the Western
Front to meet the last Russian Of
fensive.
It is known that the German high
command has considered for some
time the plan of abandoning the
italian front and attempting to
hold a lire in the Alps with a
skeleton force.
Whether these troops could now
be brought up to bolster the East
ern and Western Fronts quick
enough to meet the new threats re-
(Continusd On Page Nine; Col. q
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FORECAST

r,o,,dy and cool today.
waterways temperatures;
High, SLOW, As.
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By HOWARD COWAN

ACROSS THE RHINE, March 8.
-R-Troops of 8 the American
First Army of 1t. Gen. Courtney
H. Hodges swept across the Rhine
river late yesterday and were
firmly entrenched on the east bank
tonight after severe fighting.
Three counterattacks were hurl-
ed at the bridgehead last night
and one of them at 2:30 am.
drove the Americans out of a
command post and 500 yards up
the river before they reformed
and threw the enemy back.
'They had 20 nm gun they
were using on u.s." said 1t. Ly-
man Smith, Jr., Naples, N. Y,
''but we have got that knocked
out now"
The crossing itself was one Of
the most brilliant soups Of the
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Napoleon's conquering legions
crossed the Rhine early in the
last century.
It caught the Germans SO dis
organized that they met the as
sault waves with only scattered ar
tillery and mortar fire, and they
were quickly driven from strate.
gic positions. The Allied High Com
mand kept them confused by with
holding the momentous news for
"a hours.
The Luxembourg radio broadcast
without official confirmation that
the Americans crossed at Rema-
gen, site of the great Ludendorff
doubletrack railway bridge, %
miles southeast of Cologne and IL
miles southeast of Bonn.
brussels radio CARED the same
report, prompting speculation In
London that the Americans may
have seized the bridge intact, put
ting them in position to hurry tanks
across and exploit the surprise
blow to the full. The German COM
munique said this morning that the
Americans had reached Remagen)
The crossing, fated to end the
war months sooner than calculated.
if it can be exploited, came as
four Allied armies closed up to the
Rhine nearly everywhere on 49,
mile front and the Third Army on
the south end began blasting with
artillery at Coblenz, most impor-
tant river crossing left to the en-
envy.
The Germans rallied for three
counterattacks after the first
American infantrymen hurdled the
river at $3.50 pm. yesterday, but
these were hurled back.
The enemy was caught without
prepared positions, and he was
forced tonight to blaze away with
artillery at the deep and firm
bridgehead, trying to stem the AL
lied tide Of men and materials
rushing across the river.
Fighterbomber squadrons snarl-
ed through the murky sky, attack
ing a half dozen commune atoms
centers surrounding the bridgehead
in an attempt to seal off reinforce
ments.
Tight censorship prevented PIN
pointing the location OF the cross
ing and Supreme Headquarters late
tonight still permitted only the bar
est details to be disclosed in the
hope of throwing the Germans on
the scent except those immediate
ly brought to battle.
(Supreme Headquarters imposed
its blackout on the First Arny's
southern wing yesterday after per-
hitting disclosure that armored
units were 10 miles south Of Bonn,
which would place them IN the
area of, Remagen.)
1t, Gen. Courtney II. Hodges
struck boldly while the Germans
Continued Oh Page Two; Col. y
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rolled Wlllllll SeFell iiiiASS - ~
pomeranian capital of Stettin,
main port for Berlin, and within
IL miles of the former free city
nj Danzig far to the northeast.
Berlin announced that Russian
troops in new offensive also had
crossed the Nogat river boundary
from East Prussia, reaching Neu-
teich. 10 miles southeast of Dan
zig in a seven mile advance in
side Danzig territory north Of fall
en- Marienburg.
The first and second white Rus
sian armies together captured $50
towns and villages during the day,
including the Pomeranian strong
hold of Buetow, and the polish
Corridor" bastions of Koscierzyna
and Skarszewey to the East, the
Soviet communicate said. Berlin
said the Pomeranian junction town
Of Schlawe also had fallen.
Marshal Rokossovskys Second
Army captured 1000 of the 5000
German prisoners taken during
the day and overran 300 Localities
on a 100 mile front between
Schlawe in the west and the Wis
tula river in the East. A total OF
perhaps 100000 Germans W. e
caught in the trap around Danzlg,
original estimates said.
Enemy broadcasts told of ter
rifle fighting in the forefield of
Berlin as Marshal Zhukov' S tank
led First White Russian Army in
fantry sursed forward in an all
out assault covered by broadsides
from massed Red Army artillery.
Kuestrm, east bank Oder river
stronghold was outflanked as the
RUSSIANS reached the key road hub
Of Seelow, 25 miles due east o.
the capital on the main Kuestrin-
Berlin highway. The Nazi h i g h
command was said to have dis
! patched suicidal groups of elite SIS
troops to defend Berlin's outer
lamportS.
By German account a winding
lIO mile front from the Baltic
island OF Violin southwark to Cros-
Ell was aflame, and the Russians
were pouring reinforcements of
tanks, artillery and self-propelled
guns across the preached Oder in
Inc Wake Of tonhmygun assault
troops.
Threatened all along this front
were owinemuende, big German
naval base on Usedom island 80
miles northwest of Stettin; Poelitz,
east bank Oder town controlling
me neck OF the sea channel be-
tween Stettin and Stettin Bay; the
Dig Pomeranian capital of Stettin
Itself; and Schwed, east bank Cd
er town q miles southwest Of Stet-
Tin.
Seelow is the junction Of two
great military highways, one of
winch runs directly into Berlin S
eastern city limits, and another
wNich skirts Berlin on the north.
d. =. IS II miles southwest of embat-
uea Auestrin. where by German
egcount the Russians had achiev-
eo Two generations.
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be said: The Americans are across
the Rhine to stay.
Hodges hurdling Of the Rhine,
across an expanse probably more
than 400 yards wide, was one Of
the most thrilling coups OF the
war. The crossing was so swift
that the Nazis were able to put
up only frantic and confused rests
lance.
Men were so busy fighting II
was difficult to get details, but
when the full story is told the
names Of 1t. Emmett J. Burrows.
/ don't know where he's from-Lt.
John Mitchell of Pittsburgh, Pa,
and an engineer named 1t. Mott
will be at the top Of the list.
1T hasn't been confirmed yet"
said Sgt. Major Stephan s. Price,
Continued On Page Three, Col. s.
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Russians Sweep Within rs Miles Of Berli1
Elite Units Reported
Set ToDefend Capital
Moscow Silent On Progress But Other Soviet
Forces Now Stand Within Seven Miles
OfPomerania Capital OF Stettin

LONDON, March 8-QF)-Russian troops fought their
way within 25 miles of greater Berlin today in an about
frontal assault which the Germans said had reached the
junction town of Seelow in 10me advance in two days
west of the broken Oder river defense line.
The Soviet High Command communique again ignored
M vital sector but announced that other Soviet forces had
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Thousands Of Troops
Pouring Across River
Swift Advance Held Greatest Triumph Since
Normandy Invasion; Germans Remain
Silent On Break In Vaunted Barrier

PARIS, March 8-(P)-Thousands of U. S. First Army
Troops surgng the Rhine south of Cologne drove
east toward Geanys heart tonight against surprisingly
light resistance after cracking the historic western barrier
in brilliant coup heraldng speeder end to the war;
The swift sensational crossing the biggest mill
tary triumph since the Normandy landings and was bat
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