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ning, March 6,1945
SUPPORT YOUR
RED CROSS....
Taylor County Quota $69,000.00
Contribution to Date 10,362.81
(The @hdene Reporter ~3Prmg EVENING
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ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1945—FOURTEEN PAGES
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Give $10,362
To Red Cross
On First Day
The Taylor county Red
Cross War fund drive receiv-
Ded one seventh of its quota
yesterday, official opening
day, Roscoe Blankenship, gen-
eral chairman, said this morn-
ing. A total of $10,362.81 in
ecollections has been received
* toward the quota of $69,000.
Advanced gifts, individual con-
tributions. and $1,501.71 from Camp
The fourth in a series of pro-
grams called Unfinished Busi-
a ness stressing the importance of
* Red Cross work will be present-
ed tomorrow at 1:45 p. m. over
KRBC. The series began Mon-
day and will run six days a
week at the same time through
March 20.
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Barkeley enlisted men’s pay tables
and the ASFTC officers’ community
fund made up the total.
Starting off the 100 per cent
list were College Heights and
Alta Vista schools and the
• Texas Unemployment Compen-
-sation commission.
The WAC shack, at 3rd and Pine,
is now open to receive contribu-
tions toward the Red Cross fund,
Blankenship said. The shack will
be staffed by Mrs. H. H. Tucker and
0Mrs. Margaret Robbins from 8 a. m.
until 6 p m. daily except Sunday.
They will be assisted by a volunteer
worker
Adjacent to the shack is a
bulletin board which has classi-
• fied all Abilene businesses and
listed quotas for each classifi-
cation. Included on the board
will be actual amounts received
in each business division.
FIRST ARMY ENTERS COLOGNE—Infantrymen of the U. S. First army enters a street
in Cologne as two German civilians (left), one carrying a white flag of surrender, leave the
battle area without escort Tuesday as Yanks captured the German city on the west bank
of the Rhine. William C. Allen, Associated Press photograhpher with the wartime still pic-
ture pool, made this photo. (AP Wirephoto).
— I I — AMG Moves In—
British Within Four Cologne
. a Morgan Jones Jr., chairman of LI TCToli I I IIIIIII 1 XZ VI 1 -
• the advanced gift committee, stated _ _ . ■ ■ %/__A^t
this morning that contributions# T
were still coming in, and that a 1 ma A f
total of advanced gifts received IVHIOC AT AAA11
would be available for publication V I I 1 II IAICV
tomorrow.I’IVD I’TC 1VI1VI J
Missing Sergeant
■ •German Captive
- Under
Yanks' Control
COLOGNE, March 7—(P)—This
great Rhineland metropolis which
War department telegram this
morning informed Mrs Melba A
Pritchard, 1342 North 3d, that her
husband, Sgt Harley H Pritchard
4 Sr., is a prisoner of war of the Ger-
man government.
Last government message, Jan 31,
By the Associated Press
British armored forces were reported by a BBC broadcast today to
have speared within four miles of Mandalay as Japanese positions in
Burma neared collapse. .:
North of Mandalay, Chinese driving down into North Burma cap-
• tured the Lashie airfield and the old town of Lashio, two miles
from the main town. Lashio la the junction of the old road and
the Burma highway.
Tokyo, meanwhile, reported that at least eight superfortresses ha-
rassed Japan during the night, while another reconnoitered Korea for
a SGT. HARLEY PRITCHARD
announced he had been missing in
action In Luxembourg since Dec. 20. |
The prisoner, a graduate of Put-
nam high school, was an Infantry '
aplatoon sergeant with the First
army.
A resident of Abilene 15 years, be
was inducted in November 1943 and
trained at Ft. Sill, Okla. Camp
Roberts, Calif. Ft. Adair. Ore, and
Ft Meade. Md He went to England
“in July 1944 and later was in combat
in France, Germany and Belgium
He was advanced from private to
sergeant Nov. 15 while in Luxem-
bourg
Visiting In Abilene now la hl*
• mother, Mrs. Ida Belle Prich-
ard of San Antonle. Hi. father
died last fall. The elder Mrs
Pritchard is visiting with her
daughter-in-law and brother,
W. W Heyser of Abilene.
. Sergeant and Mrs Pritchard have
©two sons, Harley Jr, 5, and Michael,
2 The captives brother, Leidon,
was a recent Abilene visitor while
en route from the Atlantic, where
he had been on d y as a radio op-
erator with the Merchant Marines,
@to the Pacific.
C of C Directors
To Meet Thursday
BaL
Airmen Blaze Reds Enter Kuestrin, Yankslunge
1st Drives on Bonn
At Oil Plants,
Troop Center
LONDON, March 7.—(AP)
—More than 900 U. S. heavy
bombers struck in a seven-
pronged attack today at oil
plants in the Dortmund area,
a large railway viaduct at
Bielefeld, and railroad yards
at Soest and Siegen after
steady RAF night assaults on
German troops massed at
Wesel on the Rhine.
The Eighth sir force bomber*
were covered by 250 fighters in
this 23d straight day of aerial
- blows closely coordinated with
the ground attack.
Oil targets included three benzol
plants and a large refinery on
Dortmund's outskirts. Bielefeld,
Soest, and Siegen all are on main
rail and highway routes from cen-
By The Associated Press
German broadcasts today declared the Russians ROME, March 7. (AP)
had opened the battle for Berlin, breaking into the Aavergamed Ive miles
northeastern defenses of Kuestrin on the Oder rugged Apennines southwest
miles from the Reich capital, and assaulting Zehden of Bologna in the strongest
on the Oder's east bank 31 miles from Berlin, advance on the Fifth army
Berlin said the Oder front was aflame along a 70-mile front in weeks. Allied head-
stretch from south of Kuestrin all the way north to Stettin.
In the West, Allied armor and infantry swarmed over
the German Rhineland, menacing the great Rhine barrier
quarters announced today.
The action was officially describ-
three hours today. |
Anything can happen In the Pa- |
cific now, cautioned Vice Adm. Marc
A. Mitscher, commander of fast U.
S. carrier forces which have sailed
unchallenged through Japanese wa-
ters
After a two-day lull Marinea
launched their all-out offensive
on two yesterday behind Iha
heaviest artillery barrage to
hammer the volcanic little la-
land in 16 day* of fighting Jap-
anese fought back so fiercely
with mortar*, automatic wea-
pon*. rifle* and grenade* that
the Yanks were held to only lo-
ral gains.
With 14,456 counted Nipponese
dead, an estimated 6,000 Nipponese
soldiers were left with their backs
to the sea
Assault units of three Marine
divisions harked out local gain*
in close quarter* fighting on Iwo
today, and a late dispatch Mid
they appeared confident they
would crush the final Japanese
defense* aeon.
The Japanese Dome: new* agency
reported a full scale battle was Im-
minent on the central Luzon front,
east of Manila, in the Marikina wa-
' tershed. .
A U. 8. headquarters spokesman
said a few limited objectives were
gained and Gen Douglas MacArth-
ur announced that in “all sectors
our troops are regrouping for the
final phases" of the M-day-old
campaign
Admiral Mitscher told Associated
Redditt Named
On Road Body
AUSTIN, March 7. — Gov.
once numbered almost 800,000 in-
habitants, woke up today to find
itself under an American military
government setup headed by Lt.
Col John K Patterson of River-
side, Calif
Patterson himself did not yet
know himself how many cellar-
dwelling civilians still remained
in the ruins of the city, utterly
devastated by three years of
heavy aerial bombardment.
tral and eastern Germany to the
[ western front.
Smashing of the Bielefeld viaduct
would stop the main flow of traffic
from the big inland bases of Bruns-
wick and Hannover to the Ruhr bat-
tlefield.
British warplane* overnight
made an eight-hour attack on
Wesel, Nazi escape town on the
east bank of the Rhine. It wM
the longest air attack ever car-
ried out against a German city.
Other British heavy bombers, con-
tinuing their pace of supporting
troops on two-fronts simultaneously,
made a heavy attack on Sassnitz on
the Baltic island of Ruegen. which
has been serving the Nazis as a
terminal port of evacuation and sup-
ply of East Prussia
At the Mme time the RAF’s
fleet Mosquitos attacked Berlin
with two-ton blockbusters for
the 15th straight night. Some
of the crews said that while over
Berlin they could see guns fir-
ing along the Russian front.
The blazing aerial bombardment
was continuing today all along the
military government
Coke R Stevenson today announced of other Army L
that he had nominated John S. they’ll have to take the best base-
Redditt of Lufkin as a member of ment they can find.
the State Highway Commission
Redditt served two terms in the
Texas senate. He succeeds Brady
routes to Berlin.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s powerful Third army routed
Nazi forces within 15 miles of the middle Rhine in the drive
on Coblenz, while to the north Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
First army was three miles from Bonn, key Rhine communi-
cations center 15 miles south of fallen Cologne.
Moscow was silent on the Berlin sector, but told of a Red
sweep west of the Baltic toward Mecklenburg province north
of Berlin which pushed into Wollin, a communications hub
28 miles north of imperilled
1 Stettin. Stettin’s outskirts and
ed as a most successful limited ob-
jective attack."
Striking northeastward west of
the Pistoia highway three days ago,
the Americans have captured a
number of dominating peaks and
LONDON, March 7—(P)— The
German high command Mid in
a broadcast communique today
that British troops had made a
local attempt" to land behind
German line# on the Adriatic
coast, but the attack was beat-
ten off.
,
Some estimates ran as high at
150,000 and some as low as
10,000. •
An advance echelon arrived here
last night seeking quarters for the western front, and the German ra- w
Like scores dio announced that an enemy bomb-
outfits, however, | er formation was approaching HArrY GERMAN—A oroad
northwestern Germany.
suburbs were shelled heavily.
On this ninth anniversary of
Hitler’s remilitarization of his now
lost Rhineland the prisoner bag for
Allied armies in the West passed
the 1,000.000 mark More than 100,-
000 were taken in the current cam-
paign since Jan. 30. and German
cities lay in ruins from the frontier
to Cologne.
In the South U. S Seventh army
forces assaulted enemy strong-
points st the gateway to the Saar
basin in stiff fighting.
Patton's troops, a news black-
out still covering their exact lo-
callon, were Mid in a field dis-
patch to be “advancing against
sporadic and disorganized re-
sistance from the scattered
enemy."
Red army infantrymen were with-
in sight of fires set in Stettin by
air force raids. To the north the
Russians crossed the Oder delta
the town of Castel D’Aiano, 30 miles
from Bologna More than 1.300 pris-
oners have been taken.
The attack began at 1 a. m.
March 3 under a 20-minute artil-
lery barrage and with air assis-
tance Hearquarters permitted dis-
closure of the assault only this
morning.
Brazilian troops, advancing sim-
ultaneously with the U. 8. 10th
mountaineer division, seized the
town of Castelnuovo, three miles
southeast of Castel D’Aiano and a
mile west of Highway 64, running
between Pistoia and Bologna.
Castel D’Alano is the closest
reported approach to Bologna
by the Fifth army west of that
highway. To the east of it other
Fifth army forces reached the
hamlet of Bisopra, 13 miles from
Bologna, two days ago
The objective of the drive pre-
sumably was to gain control of the
smile break across the freshly-
Obliteration of Wesel, 30 miles shaved face of this German
north of Duesseldorf. started late soldier about to eat a hot
yesterday afternoon when Mosquitos meal following an interview
skimmed over the city and found it after his capture by Yanks
packed with German troop*, armor alter nis capture ov .
and transport fleeing in front of of a Seventh army patrol on
the Canadian First army. _ Feb. 25. The prisoner. Shafer
A mulitude of other problems Except for one brief interval Wes-Jakob told his captors he
await the AMO Virtually all pub- el was bombed continually from haved before surrendering
lic utilities have been knocked out, about 8 p. m last night until 5:30 re
There is no electric nor telephone this morning Three hours later | to make a good impression,
service, no running water and no the German radio said it was un- . ,
der attack again
Duisburg ROOTS
One of the AMG’s first tasks
will be to register every person
found in the city. There have
been reports of German soldiers
donning civilian clothes In an ,
effort to escape capture, and
these must be weeded out.
form of public transportation,
e t e
— Patterson and his staff were CAD Coloric Havre
handpicked for the Cologne job last TUK OCIC S OVDS
handpicked for the Cologne job last
September and have been memor-
izing data and otherwise preparing
themselves ever since.
Lt. Col R. L. Hiles Rosebud, Tex-
To Succeed Vinson
as. former superintendent of schools WASHINGTON, March 7 —(P)— |
In Georgetown, Texas will be depu- The White House announced today
ly governor Maj. Everett Rom.
Fly White Flags
LONDON, March 7 —(UP)-
JOHN 8. REDDITT
Gentry of Tyler, whose term has
former attorney from Phoenix.
Arts. Is the executive office and
Lt. John Kincaid of Kerrville, Tex-
as. to adjutant.
expired
Stevenson in discussing the ap-
pointment. Mid there la no statute
No Report on Local
Hospital Application
Press War Correspondent Bob Geig-
er that the Japanese still have. _____
“strong naval and air forces" and requiring that members of this
commission be named from certain Although announcement has been
territorial sectors of the state made from Washington D C.. that
, Stevenson said that he first of-eight cities, not including Abilene,
fered the chairmanship of the are being considered for the pro-
highwaycommission to Fred Knet-posed veteran's hospital in West
sch of Seguin, who is: now serving Texas, no word has been received
on the commission, but that the by the Abilene chamber of com-
merce regarding Abilene's applica-
tion aa site, Charles Green, acting
chamber manager, said today.
the emperor’s commanders were un-
questionably holding them back for
some definite* purpose
City Will Improve
Airport Facilities
that President Roosevelt is appoint-
Ing William H Davis, chairman of
the War Labor Board to succeed
Fred M Vinson as economic stabil-
ization director
Vinson has been named federal
loan administrator, taking the po-
sition formerly held by Jesse Jones
before President Roosevelt ousted
Jones to make way for Henry Wal-
lace as secretary of commerce
The White House also an-
nounced selection of George W.
Taylor, rice-chairman of the
War Labor board, to succeed
Davis.
Ar economic stabilization direc-
field dispatch from the U. 8 Ninth
latter declined.
Offices for Essair, Inc, which
will begin passenger service through
Abilene April 15, and American Air-
lines, Inc., are to be constructed ad-
joining the administration building
at the municipal airport. Mayor
Hair announced city commissioners
agreed Tuesday.
It was also voted to enlarge the
waiting room of the administration
. __, . .__. - . building 10 feet. These improve-
The board of directors of the ments, Msyor Hsir said, will be at-
“Abilene chamber of commerce will
meet Thursday at 10:30 a. m. to
approve committee appointments
and adopt the annual budget. R
M Fielder, president, will be in
Mrs. MacArthur and
Son Rejoin General
MANILA, P I . March 1—-
errs. Douglas MacArthur and her
six-year-old aon arrived in Manila
today to rejoin the general They
came from Australia on the first
refrigerator ship to enter the harbor
since liberation of the city.
•
Argentina Shies
At Aggression
Cities named Included Sweet-
water, San Angelo, Big Spring.
Lubbock, Midland, Plainview, Colo-
BUENOS AIRES. March 7—(P—rado City and Lamesa
Cesar Ameghino, acting foreign ----------------------
minister, said in a press confer-i ..
tached to the east side of the pres-
ent structure.
Meeting with the commissioners
were H N Sweeney, general traffic
manager of Essair: A W. Meadows,
operations manager. Harley Arnett
local manager of American Air-
lines: J. R. Thomas, assistant to
the vice-president of properties of
American Airlines, located in Fort
Worth; W P Wright, W J. Ful-
wiler Sr and Sterling Wooten -
Freight and mail service by Essair
are expected to start before April
15, Charles Green, manager of the
chamber of commerce, announced,
and familiarization flights will be-
gin within the next two weeks.
ence today that Argentina repudi-
ates aggression as a means of ter-|
ritorial expansion and national
policy.
Ameghino’s statement was inter- |
preted by observers ase containing |
virtual adherence to the “Act of
Chapultepec” approved by the In-
ter-American conference in Mexico 1
City
Jobs for
Veterans
(Apply to War Manpower
Commission, 1141 North 2d).
Ex-County Judge
Killed in Action
. HILLSBORO. March 7 - - Veterans placed since
Jack Cowley 28, former county 1 -
judge of Hill county, has been kill- Dept. 1 .. , .
ad in action, the Navy department Veterans placed yesterday
interviewed/vesterday
has informed his wife here L
Cowley, who was elected county Referred yesterday
judge in 1938, when he was only -
22, was a signalman, second class, .
In the Navy. He previously had yesterday I.......
been reported missing in action. I Jobs listed .......
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outlet stream, the Dievenow, and
pushed into Wollin, controlling road
and rail routes through Swine------
muende, Nazi U-boat base, and the Pistoia-Bologna highway, which
Oder estuary islands. A Moscow the Germans have dominated far to
dispatch said a number of German the south for months through con-
naval installations already had been trol of a number of peaks.
captured.
To the northeast in the Polish n C
corridor the Russians were driving DAfaru \ noncAre
at a pare which might reach the KOICIT V 3UUIO
gates of Danzig in a seek the * J
dispatch Mid Many Germans were 1 _
trying to escape by sea, the report ( pin -Ar Taninhi
asserted. * Decker On On
The last sizable German bridge- PPVUAUE Iviliyill
head west of the lower Rhine op-, .
posite Wesel was hammered down Second in a series of four speak-
to a atrip eight miles long and up era for the Rotary Institute of In-
to five miles wide On Monday ternational Understanding, spon-
50,000 Germans were estimated to sored b. the local, Rotary club, is to
be in the pocket Many had fled _ Greenwood-Adams native
but now the last two bridges at be P. Greenwood A
| Wesel are virtually impassable, of Australia, who speaks at 8 p. m.
I Nazi troopers who survived the today in the Abilene high school
debacle of Cologne fled south along auditorium
A the Rhine toward Bonn The First His subject is to be Australia,
tor, Davis will be responsible in •
sense for some of the same sort of
problems with which he has dealt
exclusively as War Labor board
chairman—problems of trying to |
keep a balanced relationship be-
tween wages and prices.
Mrs. Fraser Dies
army front on the Rhine Mid to-
day that American officers had
spot d hundreds of white flags
waving from houses and rooftops
across the river in the Rhur valley
city of Dulsburg
By EDWARD D. BALL
WITE THE THIRD ARMY AP-
PROACHING THE RHINE. March
7— (P)— Routed German forces
fleeing wildly before Lt Gen
George S: Patton's armored spear-
heads, have abandoned mountains
of supplies and hundreds of ve-
hicles.
In the vicinity of Meisburg,
about 12 mile* northeast of Bit-
burg, where a German army
corps commander was raptured,
the Americans found Mores
army's Ninth division fought at
dawn In the village of Alften, only
three miles from Bonn
Like Cologne, Bonn lies almost
defenseless on the west bank of the
castled Rhine
K J Gen. Hugh Caffeys Fourth
armored division approached the
New Zealand, and the Islands
of the South Pacific. Green-
wood Adams was born in Mel-
bourne. Australia, and became
known as an amateur all-round
athlete He also la a noted
landscape painter.
On mnwood-Adams was ■ member
middle Rhine in the Coblenz area ,
after a 37-mile sweep since early of the Australian team in track at
Monday His tanks and Infantry the Stockholm Sweden, oimpie
captured vast stores of booty- games. He was active officer of the
stacked for miles along the road Victoriat amateur boxing and
and captured the German com- wrestling association, and msme;
mander of the 3rd corps. Lt Gen. teur coach of track and held events
Rothkirk who plaintively at Melbourne university.
Graf von Rothkirk who piamtivety The public is invited to hear his
speech tonight No admission to
charged, and no invitations are
stacked fur miles along the
roadside.
commented
“How ran yew expect to win
a war when you have no gaso-
line and no horses? It will all
be over within four months
five months st the latest."
The exact spot where Caffey was
neces ary ..
Preceding his address, the Mc-
Murry chanter* are to be presented:
In this area more than 300 ve-
hicles, many of them with their
gasoline tanks dry, were captured
—many of them in good conditions
Seven tanks— Including two Panth-
WELLINGTON, N Z. March 7-
Mrs. Peter Fraser wife of the prime
minister, died today after a long ers and one Royal Tiger—also were
illness.
captured in similar fashion.
DESPERATE NAZIS TO UNLEASH NEW-TYPE U-BOATS
LONDON. March 7 — (UP) — A V.
Alexander, first lord of the ad-
miralty, told Commons today that
the Germans may send new types
of submarines into the north At-
lantic at any time
We believe the enemy has been
making great efforts to renew the
U-boat war on a big scale. Alex-
ander mid in presenting the an-
nual naval estimates in the house
He disclosed that submarines
have been operating In the close
coastal waters around the Unit-
ed Kingdom in recent months
but said they had only small
success.
Alexander Mid the number of
nearest the middle Rhine was not
immediately announced Censorship
prevented naming the towns he
overran in his five-mile overnight. .. ...
advar.ce from a point 20 mile* from U.S DEMARTY at atto’
Coblen: communications point and ABILENE AND VICINITY—Mosti
occupation headquarters for Amer- cloudy this afternoon, tonishisand
cans after the last war., Thursday warmer toniant and taurr
-----------EAST TEXAS Considerable cloudiness
I this afternoon, tonight, and Thursday:
[ light rain in extreme south vruon
night and Thursday, warmer Thursday
and in west and north portionstonight
"WEST TEXAS Partly, cloud-hE
a fternoon tonight and Thursday,
I warmer in Panhandle and South
"sinzimone temperature last 24 hours.
The Weather
German submarines sunk continue*
to increase satisfactorily. But the
Germans consider increased sub-
marine warfare as their best hope
of averting defeat, he said, are ex-
pected to use new tactics.
He disclosed that more than 4.-
000,000 tons of supplies have been
delivered to Russia through the
Soviet union’s north rn ports dei
spite U-boat and air attacks. Of
that amount, more than 2,000,000
tons arrived since the beginning of
last Mar. he said
The British navy will play a
“full and worthy part" In the
war against Japan, Alexander
Minimum temperature last 11 hours.
36.
said.
He Mid the British eastern fleet
now includes the battleships Queen
Elizabeth and Valiant, the battle
cruiser Renown, and the French
battleship Richelieu
Also in the British eastern fleet
are an unspecified number of Brit-
ish and American carriers, the
Dutch ship Tromp, several British
cruisers and British, American and Sunrise this morning
Dutch destroyers.Sunset tonight--*
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