Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - March 8, 1945, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT rw VOLUME 26 ASSOCIATED WIDE TVORU MOBERLY MISSOURI THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 8 1945 MI DEMOCRAT NUMBER 207 YANKS IN SURPRISE RHINE CROSSING COLOGNE GERMANY BONN U S FORCES HAMMER TOWARD area in- remaining territory west of the Rhine River as U S Third Army troops large arrow had advanced to within 15 miles of the Rhine and Coblenz Censorship withheld the exact location of the Americans Farther north the Yanks neared enemy bridgehead in the Zons areas and with Canadians drove against the bridgehead Sandbag Portsmouth Floodwall As Swollen Ohio Hears Crest Danger Passes at Cincinnati But Its Main Industrial Zone Hit When Dam Became Useless PORTSMOUTH O March 8 waters inched closer to tops of dikes in this Ohio River city but elsewhere along the valley floods neared or passed their at some points were beginning subside The brought combat tactics into play to keep steadily rising water of the Ohio and tributary Scioto rivers from gushing over Portsmouth's More than empty bags were loaded on trucks at Cincinnati to be sped to an base at Wilmington Ohio From three C-47 would drop them to soldiers and volunteers who ed a never-ceasing have battle to erect earthworks and sandbag barriers atop existing flood riers The river here was past the stage two feet higher than the city's wall It was being held back by hastily erected barriers River forecaster George Marth said the crest here would be reached at 64.5 late today Louisville expected a crest of 47 to 47.5 feet tomorrow and forecasters said the high point would remain stationary fop about 24 hours before The Ohio a crest at Wheeling W Va 11.3 feet a- bove flood stage and upriver at East Liverpool Ohio the water starting ebbing at the rate of 2 foot an hour Homeless Waters the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers at burgh headwaters of the Ohio dropped steadily An estimated persons were made homeless by the flood greatest since the Ohio rampaged out of its banks in 1937 and caused nearly a half billion dollars damage At least nine lives were lost in all in the industrial and agricultural valley Ironically the Ohio had started to decline 150 miles downstream in the Cincinnati area where crest of 69.2 feet 17.2 feet above floodstage was reached 1 p m yesterday The crest was ex- to reach there too late to force the river up again un- less further heavy rains fell The barrier dam ing industrial Millcreek Valley on Cincinnati's west Continued on Page Two fti Patrol Planes Searching For Missing Bomber WEST PLAINS Mo March 8 Civil Aeronautics trol planes were sent here today to conduct search in the herd of the Hills country of the Ozarks for the BIT plane which is missing on a flight from Wichita Memphis Tenn The officer in charge of the searching party said the planes were ordered to this area by his wing commander Col Ed cox at Anthony Kan after a farmer reported having seen what appeared been a falling plane about the time the larger disappeared Japs Resist Bitterly In Luzon Hills Given Heavier Air Pounding Than One Put on Corregidor BY RICHARD C BERGHOLZ MANILA March 8 S troops were on the southern shores of Luzon for the first time today as other Yanks east of forward against Japanese positions softened by the heaviest aid strikes thus far used in support of ground action in the Southwest Pacific While American bombers China Sea or aged two warships and 16 freighters Airborne sion and 158 Infantry Regiment units penetrated to the south coast of Luzon Tuesday to cap- ture Balayan and at Balayan Bay only scattered re- sistance Balayan Bay in Batangas vince is on the important Verde Island passage between Luzon and Mindoro land It is about 50 miles south Patience With City Affairs Year Test of New Government Asked In Moberly's citizens should wait for two or three years before they pass judgment favorable or unfavorable on the new city manager form of government C Marion Hulen local attorney told the Moberly Kiwanis club at its weekly meeting yesterday when he submitted a son between the older manic government and the new city manager form Mr Hulen asserted that while he popularly had been fied with those in opposition to the city manager form he was neither for nor against the new type of administration and not be until that ment had proved itself one way or the other He said a number of claims had been made by proponents of the city form when they were ing to get the measure passed by the voters of the city Not Out of Politics One of these Mr Hulen said was the claim that it would take city government out of politics Such a statement was not true and never will be true for any activity in government is he declared Mr Hulen decried the present tendency to restrict the activity of the people in public affairs and stated that the success of any government depends upon the part its citizens play in its Activities and the formulation of its policies Similarly pointed out the city manager form hr Moberly depends for its success upon the part in its affair's rather than on what the city manager and the city officials do themselves The government of Moberly a government of all the people and it is doomed to failure if it is not Hulen said No Favorites Nor can any government of any city be confined to those who favor its type for if only those in favor in city or city business then the city is ruled by a and that is the best way to wreck city affairs Mr Hulen said v Any form of government has on Page Two Illinois Concern Too E asy With Gas So OP A Closes It ST LOUIS March Star Service Company of Centralia 111 was prohibited from ating its 41 gasoline stations in Illinois Indiana and Missouri for the tion of rationing in an der issued yesterday by Francis V Robinson of Omaha OPA hearing com- missioner He said the company's stations during the last two vears transferred 1 gallons of gasoline for which they had not re- ceived ration coupons and for which they had not counted to the Office of Price Administration Robinson stated it was due to gross carelessness and negligence and almost complete lack of proper and efficient op- Air Blows Hit Reich on 24th Straight Day LONDON March 8 AP German rail and oil targets were struck another blow today as American bombers lowing the RAF's night assault attacked seven oil plants and five switching yards handling traffic to the Ruhr of Manila A good road skirts I most of the bay coast j The most sustained In the Mari- of the war carried through kina watershed area east of nila heavy bombers attack planes and dive bombers ped more than 900 tons of ex- plosives on the elaborate nese entrenchments which have held the Yanks virtually mated for This was a mightier assault in support of ground operations than that given the ers on Corregidor or any other major objective from the to New Guinea Bombers of all sizes made more than 75 sorties this record pounding the First Cavalry Division under Gen Verne D Mudge and Infantry Division of Gen Edwin D Patrick found the going tough along this mountainous line between Anti- Truman Refuses To Accede To CIO Pressure WASHINGTON March 8 IP President Truman told a delegation today he would not attempt to bring pressure on the White House and stration agencies for a tion of the Little Steel ula I'm not going to bring sure on the President or any he informed a tion from his home state of Missouri One of the first jobs we have is to win the war and secondly keep from going into a wild tailspin of He added that in event of such a tailspin the working ple would pay its 24th consecutive day The American's targets in- cluded the clogged yards at Essen almost within earshot of the fighting along the Upper Rhine Siegen burg and Giessen Six patrol benzol plants and one synthetic refinery in the Gelsenkirchen Dortmund regions were oil objectives Approximately 350 fighters provided cover for the bombers Close protection against the German air force seldom is needed any more The British night attack was carried out by the largest force sent out by the RAF this year The British planes blasted the Germans eastern front base of Dessau struck oil re- fineries and gave Berlin its successive night raid It was estimated that tons of explosives and fire bombs were dropped on Dessau on the Elbe river 65 miles southwest of Berlin and an important for the eastern front The city still in flames today Weather Notes tonight and warmer Friday and northwest and extreme north lowest tonight 25 in ex- treme northeast to 30 and south Fair with rising temperature this afternoon tonight and Friday Lowest temperature tonight near 30 degrees Temperature at 8 this ing 27 Maximum Jo Minimum yesterday 17 Marines Push Iwo Japs to Cliff Edges Bv Morrie Landsberg ABOARD ADM TURNER'S EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FLAGSHIP OFF IWO JIMA March Via Navy Marine infantrymen compressed Japanese into a narrow crescent on northern Iwo today in the final stages of the long bloody campaign to conquer this air stepping stone to Tokyo Softened up by the ing artillery bombardment the day before enemy troops ed on all fronts yesterday In the northern central sector the Japanese were to draw into times as they sought to throw back the oncoming Third Division in hand to hand combat A Tank tank battalion reported Japanese made a suicidal charge on ed vehicles operating with the Third Division ing- suddenly with sive charges mounted on the ends of long poles said it failed completely No tanks were damaged they reported and a considerable number of Japanese were ed The three Leatherneck sions threatened to split the re- maining enemy force of several thousand men by a coordinated drive in an effort to bring the operation to a conclusion The Japanese suffered a back to continued resistance when the Third Division cap- tured the island's third hill 362 This one east of Motoyama Town was the core of enemy opposition on the right flank Yanks Improve Positions On Italian Front March U S 10th Mountain Division made local improvements yesterday despite German at- tacks on its newly won tions west of the toia highway on the Fifth Army Italian Front Allied ers announced today The rugged American sion is consolidating a five advance through rough terrain and heavy Nazi and artillery mortar fire Several dominating peaks in 20 miles of Bologna were captured in the drive which headquarters yesterday termed a most successful limited ob- attack In new overnight gains Fifth Army troops seized positions at three small villages northeast of the road town of- Vergato a German stronghold which has held out months against Allied attacks and is now virtually Reds Now 25 Miles From Outflanked By Russians Who Drive To West Side of Oder LONDON March 8 Russians have driven to within 25 miles of Berlin's city limits outflanking the fortress of and reaching Seelow on the west side of the Oder a Transocean broadcast from the German capital said today directly east of lin and is 12 miles west of the Oder It is on the main railway skirting the Oder which con- Stettin and Frankfurt Marshal Gregory massive new offensive timed with the Allied drive to the Rhine to the west also has reached a point 29 miles from President Back At Capitol After 4 Day Home March 8 returned today four-day visit to his home in Hyde Park and almost immediately went into conference with ic Congressional leaders f Army in Sudden Move in Darkness Across River More and More Rolling Over Bridgehead Aimed at Heart of Germany BULLETIN By HOWARD COWAN I ACROSS THE RHINE March 8 of IA Gen Those calling at the White j Courtney H Hodges American First Army were firmly House were Vice President ed on the East bank of the Rhine tonight man Speaker n j Leader and PARIS March 8 American First Army crossed the Leader McCormack south of Cologne last night and secured a firm footing today The conference was on the east bank of German barrier stream The conference was under- Lt Gen Courtney H Hodges poured more and more men across the river after his sudden and sensational crossing in darkness The exact location of the bridgehead over the river was shrouded by military censorship because the Germans obviously did not know the exact situation stood to be was under- devoted mainly to the legislative situation A full day of engagements was announced by Jonathan Daniels administrative with 12 Rangers who took part in the cap- ture of the Cabanatuan prison camp in the pines being presented to the Chief Executive after the Congressional ence Rangers came Joseph Stilwell chief of the Army ground forces Announcement that the j dent had from Hyde Berlin northwest of j where he arrived by spec Berlin reported j ial train last Sunday morning Transocean said Seelow was j marked a change of policy reached from the Russian Rarely since the war began has head at Goerlitz betwen his return from visits of that trin and Frankfurt and said i sort been made public rific fighting was taking place in j asked the reason for the change the area with many places today Daniels changing hands repeatedly I felt that where security Moscow maintained silence on j is not involved security should these sectors j not be invoked However Marshal Stalin an- in an order of the cay the capture of the Polish town of Koscierzyna 29 miles west of Danzig and the Pomeranian rail junction of Buetow 20 miles west of Capture of the towns marked advances of 8 miles for the Red Army attacks are taking place at four miles southwest of Zehden in a loop of the Oder River Col Ernest Von Hammer said in a Berlin broadcast and the Russians have two ia the fenses of of to the Fighting was flaming along a front along the Oder from Stettin Bay to Crossen lowing a terrific artillery barrage that began 48 hours ago The enemy said the cal point of the attack was on both sides of 39 miles east of Berlin with the Russians battering at the northwestern eastern and southern sides of the fortress To the northeast the Germans said the Russians have invaded the old Danzig free state and smashed to within 19 miles of Danzig Eighty miles west of Danzig near the Baltic coast the sians captured the railway ter of Schlawe a town of the Germans said Schlawe is 22 miles northeast of Koeslin Second Phase of Drive Moscow had not officially con- firmed German announcements of the launching of the second great phase of Marshal Stalin's eastern offensive toward Berlin but correspondents in: the Soviet capital were permitted to hint Lashio Now Occupied British Indians Chinese Driving Japs from CALCUTTA Vandenberg Also Warns Lublin Poles WASHINGTON March 8 JP Vandenberg Michigan declared today the committee meeting in Moscow must set up a truly representative Polish coalition government if it is to be ported by the United States Vandenberg a delegate to the April 25 world security ence gave the Senate his com- plete approval of a voiced by British Foreign ister Anthony Eden to the lin government against tion of supporters of the London Exile Government One of the acid tests to be applied to the new Polish the Michigan senator told colleagues would be er it furnished a home and try to the Polish troops which fought with the Allies at Casino in Italy and are fighting on the European front At best he said it was a curious process for American March 8 AP of the British 19th Division plunged into the suburbs of Mandalay today and official estimates at Allied headquarters left the impression that the fall of Burma's second city was imminent In their 14 miles dash ward from Madaya Mandalay Indian the di- vision bypassed a considerable number of Japanese These en- emy groups appear dazed and and are scheduled for later elimination Chinese troops 130 miles northeast of Mandalay smashed two miles through Japanese de- fenses and occupied Lashio and its railway station lishing Allied control of the en- tire Burma road from Lashio to Kunming The Chinese had captured Old Lashio yesterday Enemy battle plans ly have been disorganized by the British dash across the waddy river valley to tila area an operation which has threatened the Japanese rear communications Oust From Burma Unless the Japanese can with no to sit down in Moscow tempt to constitute a provisional Polish government There is no escaping the fact Vandenberg Continued that the treatment accorded Poland will be looked upon by other smaller nations as indicative of their fate The started at p m yesterday In the since then a steady stream of men and material have poured onto the eastern and moving forward in a drive V to get the bridgehead out range of enemy artillery days at this season are ly short Enemy Is Confused During the first 24 hours there was little artillery or tar fire on the beachhead cating the enemy was in utter confusion when he fled back across the river from the ashes of Cologne before Dodges driving divisions J First Army infantrymen the quarter wide river against rather light opposition the startled Germans could grasp what had happened AP Correspondent Wes Gallagher said The announcement was passed by censors at tonight after 24 hours of ty while events of great importance are ing Other omits of the First captured half of the Rhine city of Bonn of nearby berg where Hitler six years ago humbled late Neville Chamberlain before Manich that the German broadcasts were bring in reinforcements it is believed here they may be ousted from Burma in the not too distant plying troops and ments is a major Japanese ache since their key north-south communications now are ered and alternate routes are mering by air The of Lashio came six weeks after the Ledo road was true Zhukov who drove to the Oder in the first phase has been preparing his forces for the grand assault for more than a month while Marshal Ivan nev on the south abreast to the Neisse river and other forces brought the flank up to the Baltic and the lower Oder The latter wing also was de- veloping a front which ed to place Stettin Berlin's chief port and birthplace of Russia's Catherine and Great under at- tack from south east and north The Germans said sians had used boats to cross Madue Lake and were only 11 or 12 miles south of Stettin The Russians last night an- advances to places within 13 miles northeast of Stettin Stettin built on the side of Lake and a crossing of the Oder below that barrier would cut Stettin off from the bay Already six miles north of Stettin on the main railway linking the city with the was under fire from Russian guns THE WAR A TA GLANCE Fronts Western By The Associated Press THE WESTERN Movements of converging First and Third armies blacked out as linkup more Nazi divisions loomed through reached Rhine west of Coblenz and First drove on Bonn THE cow dispatches hinted grand of- fensive on Berlin began as mans told of great front eas assault on right flank secured for assault by advances in Pomerania and toward Stettin THE TJ S troops consolidated gains west of highway made in five-mile advance from Monte Belvedere sector THE PACIFIC rines exploited dents in Japanese line on Northern Iwo U S troops reached southern shores of Luzon for first time east of Manila edged ahead as air blows softened bombers in China sweeps sank or damaged two warships freighters Again For Wheat Cars March grain officials are appealing to Washington for immediate removal of the lions of bushels of wheat and corn now stored on farms in order to make an ex- bumper wheat harvest in 1945 Harvest season is less than 90 days away Sen Clyde M Reed called a meeting of corn state senators in Washington last night to discuss the problem Santa Fe's general ent of transportation J J loney Chicago said the needed freight cars are piling up on Eastern roads for lack of opened from India to China The town is the northern terminus of the railway to Rangoon The Japanese good roads south of Lashio power to unload them and cause of bad weather be- Fair to Sign JEFFERSON CITY March 8 to finance a few miles the state fair won senate still control Burma China southern Thailand and Indo- Pension JEFFERSON CITY March 8 Without -a whisper of de- bate the House today passed and sent to the Senate a to set up a wide pension plan for public school teachers The vote was 120 to 0 Over 70 representatives had joined with Rep Walter Whinrey Lawrence county in introducing the which sets up a board the to administer system The provides of trustees retirement for full maximum pension payments at age of 65 with compulsory re- at -70 pensions would be financed of teachers from their aries with equal contributions by school districts The rate for- the first year is set at 3 per cent of the salaries proval yesterday and will go to the governor for signing Its advocates won approval of the money after beating off attempts to cut from a item which includes part of the prize money for ion fair exhibits The house approved for cage a state-wide teacher sion and killed on the floor a measure to require payment of personal taxes before could buy license tags for their automobiles Rep C Tindell as County introduced a to put Missouri back on Central Standard Time in stead of War Time which clocks are advanced an hour Another measure to require all doctors to indicate their training and type of practice by affixing the initials of their degrees to their names was by Dr J A Gray Atchison County The me measure failed to pass last session A to setup a commission appointed by the governor to study child welfare and juvenile delinquency and report its for new laws to the governor was approved by the children's code committee said the First Army was within 17 forming with the Third near trap on Germans caught west of the middle Hhine Hodges Moves Lt Gen Courtney H lishing a Rhine bridgehead and with no delay threw The Germans were found disorganized after vere mauling they took in route across the Cologne plain News of the Rhine crossing swept through tne army from di- vision to division and down through the ranks to the vates in the front lines Don Whitehead ed It brought grins to their and grimed faces ana cheered everyone in the army Gen had six er armies standing on the west bank of the Rhine and its green waters The crossing of the one of the great achievements of the entire just two l days after the capture of the great capital of logne which was cleared com- today Street Fighting in Bonn t -i The Berlin radio said today American troops had broken to Bonn and that street fighting was raging The dash of Lt Gen J George S Third tanks to the Coblenz area and the Rhine outflanked the Saar industrial district from north snapping many of- its communications and routes for war material The seventh Army outflanked the Saar on the south and was two miles inside it Cologne finally was cleared completely and up to the Rhine at places be- tween that devastated city and bank road leading south to were almost astride the Rhina bank road leading south of blenz Thousands of dejected ers were streaming back ward from the pocket in which five or six di- visions were caught the First and Third armies The First Army counted and the Third had time to check in only of the Germans who jammed the roads i back to prison pens on the Kyll River Seek Funds to f k Jefferson Barracks Graveyard at St Louis WASHINGTON March War Department plana t to ask funds with v to expand and the National Cemetery at- Louis Rep John B Sullivan has The plan calls for- grave sites Sullivan said he would urge that new chapel be built
