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1945
FINAL HOME EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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FBI
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4^>aaa**a**
Spending Spree
Kills Sooners’
Reds Launch Mighty
Assault on Stettin
As Wind Falls,
Maughan Says
Jim Noble Dies
Served State
OPA Voids Restaurants'
Inused Ration Points
500 Utah Coal Miners
Strike; Shafts Closed
British Mav be Forced
To Revive Blackouts
Nazi Head Deserts
Cologne, Reds Say
Chinese Surround
Former U. S. Airbase
to—k> ■
Jim Noble
Highways Dangerous
In Some State Areas;
Tuesday's Low Is 25
School Finance Plan
Remains Unsettled
As Demands Zoom
Penitentiary Sales
Fail to Bring Cash
Escape of Prisoner
In War Crime Case ,
Starts Disorder
Zhukov Hurls Two Tank Armies at Port;
Five Others Poised for Smash at Berlin
Governor Asks Funds
For Health Work
i sympa-
v U that
four daN
Berlin.
Zhukov’* force* toppled the main
you ever
to wort
send an.
ever laid
ver know
»pnn.nr» of
taxation for financing
position of earning
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street*. guarded government buildings twisting 70-mile stretch from Bonn to Wesel.
— - The American* held the whois
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Fwetty rtoat
First Army Drives to Center
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Of Cologne; All Bridges Out
On 70-Mile
Romans Storm
Palace; Crisis
Faces Cabinet
Blast W recks Octane
• Plant: FBI in Charse
LONDON March < — ^-The M-»-
row r»dx> said TUeeday that Oaulerer
Groh* of Coingn* had deaerted the
embattled eity and gone to Hitler*
headquarter* out that "hi* flight U
kept a »*eret from the population "
Before leaving the broadcast aaxl
Grohe recorded art era! tpeeehea ap-
pealing ur the population to resit’. to
the last man ahx-h are broad", at
interval* to gne th* improwoo the
, anuiastar b auk ■ Cotogaa."
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Street* Are PatreUed
Column* of carabinieri patrolled the
likely *•
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umental »
mental
chiatrtft
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Bchn u-hich he inscribed “To Hitler personally
his cigar as
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I’. 8. FIRST ARMY HEAIXMARTERS. Marek <.
• gainat ’he Battle in three
between Kelberg and Knenlgaherg
London Dock Strike
Spreads, 10.000 Idle
LONDON. March 6—4>—A strike
cf London dock workers which becan
six days ago assumed more serious pro-
t portions Tuesday as a port official an-
nounced that approximately 10000
men now are idle Seven thousand
had t^een reported out up to Monday.
Unttm representatives meeting over
the weekend had urged the men to
go back to work Tuesday but the port
official declared
'There is no prospect of the men
coming in today '
To meet the situation the govern-
ment Monday night assigned hundreds
of additional soldiers to the task of
moiing cargoes bringing to 3 000 the
number so engaged
and the royal palace Work waa sus-
pended in all but moat essential Indus-
trie* for tha maaa protest meeting
The demonstration was sponsored by
i Sought by Kerr
LONDON March
and Am-ncsn
before that coun’ry
armistice were brutally
times and some '
Sir James Grigg
commc’ns Tuesday
number killed cer-ainly «as
ten H» did not sav whether any
of them were American*
Socialist*. CommuBtsta and opposition
groups
In an urgent measure evidently de-
signed to combat the political crisis
the government announced the dis-
missal from hl* poet of Gen Taddeo
Orlando, carabinieri chief and for-
merly an army general on RoaUa’i
staff Like Roatta. Orlando is wanted ,
in Yugoslavia to stand trial on charges he” will »end'
and the U S
cording to the account* turned over
to Cobb
General fund
tions by the state legislature
■ north and west toward Stettin and
I the Oder estuary. Soviet vanguards
were believed within 10 miles south-
east of Stettin, a Moscow dispatch
said.
Nazi broadcasts conceded that the
outskirts of Stettin already were un-
der fire of Soviet guns, softening the
city’* defenses for ultimate i
Stettin, 72 mile* northeast of Berlin, seum square after a mass
is Oemany's biggest port on the Baltic there protesting the escape of Gen
and the mam source of imports for Mario Roatta during hi* trial on war
crime* charge*
{ Demand* for l‘
K
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A safe containing *n c
supply nf tgimn coupon* but n» men
Kyll. At last reports, the Americans were 44 miles from
Coblenx and pushing beyond the Kyll river, last great nat-
American
Soviet break-
its
MOltg
Pinch,
ense of
bat a),
ow and
enow <
egame.
»f peopi,
to be »
*t thou.
THIMg
third of Cologne by mid-morning Tuesday and forced the
German defender* back into the old city section around the
heart nf the devastated metropolis.
Three divisions—the Third armored. Eighth and 104th
i
wide and three deep.
these erupting fronts, the American First
the foe was feverishly strengthening for-
• man
—(I P)—American trnopa were fighting In the shadew
of ( ologne’s cathedral In heart of the city late Tueaday.
PARIS. March 4.——Americana captured at least a
ju»lif^
natural
Vetoed by um army pushed to within seven miles of Bonn.
i.... 1Y ,,u' u‘* w,c ioe WM icvensniy strengtnenins
tificationa east of the Rhine <nd mustering troops to
them.
Nazi demolition squads, trying desperately to guard
the rich industrial Ruhr left the Rhine bridgeless along tha
A Ninth army armored Struts
which aeised Oney, jmt Moth at
Rheinberg in a l*«-mUa thrust Mon-
day, wiped out th* laat of two ftuS
ferry route* acroaa th* lowwr Bhtaa.
The other. ju*t aouth of Rm*, wa*
under cloaa range Canadian artfflary
fire
The German* blew their l**t DuM«
burg bruise* Monday and aerial r»-
coeference connaiaaance ahowed the groat WMwfl
aollem bridge at Cologne gaptng aa<
un'iaable '
The drive to the Rhine ecgMlausS
north of Cologne
American infantry ranches ths
probably will decide againat the trip ® Aw JNUea
Chiang 1* reported anxiou* to vu*t ““ ‘
thu country because ho fool* that the
United State* i* China* beet ar.d
mon
nation*.
K " they
morn.
Uke. N«
com-
lf»k og
you hav.
aouth of Dueaaatoorf. TWoy atoaaaS
Rhemkaaael. flva mile* north of Ch-
Stat** ia China * beet and and wer* on th* ovtiMrta aC
reliable frwnd in the countU of tangel * mile and • h*M teithar
north
On th* Muthweatern outatlrt* at
Cologne th* HHth dinatan puahed is
the uxithern auhurha without oppnai-
uon OutMde tha city the troops
captured the groat O a Menhirs P®ww
rtation which prorlSed atoetneMp tor
a terge mining and todwtrial am.
Frtae *f Tw* Ware
Cologne would be th* greatoat dtp
Germany ha* loot to two world war*.
Below Colncne. the FWat arwty
puahed to k*a than arras milaa frasi
the Rhine eUy of Bonn (lOlSSOl.
Th* Iptth dniaton. commanded bp
Ma) Gen Terry AUen. rtoand ths
western M-engmSetf mettm of Ca>
logne and moved deeper Mto the dip
iihrough the BmmMsM eegw art
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er»t*nd-
porta nc*
udie* «<
id cber-
promot*
'. Brown
careful
gener*-
kinder-
neapoB*
test* of
•re were
h group
it her on
*upen<*
iport*D,<
senate oririnnlly outlined «
but this iultinr with the governor, he d like to
haie Cobb collect the monev Cobb
suggested that the legulaturc pass a Stargard
law authorising the state auditor to
withhold from the salarv of any state
houldnl
r » day,
1 hear.
•’» abo«t
►rid. a
M lucky
eohum
Vmberte Lader Cever
Umberto, who wa* lieutenant gen-
eral of the realm haa taken over the
duties of King Vittorio finanuele.
failed to appear during or after the
disturbance, in which the demonstra-
tor* thouted "death to the king ”
The crowd, thousand* strong
IGG4M
wn hu»-
for aN
* job ot
Hinwa »
*♦1 anrry
pv hu»-
five him
do it in
►and; of
do it. A
M* hu»-
with LN
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8UNNY8JDB Utah March « T
— Approximately MIO coal miner* were
Mie her* Tuesday in a dispute «itn
two enmpame*
Th* Utah Fuel Co * min* *nd the
ih«ft operated hv th* K*i»*r inter*»i*
was involved Th* fu*l company »up-
pliaa part of the coal for th* »te*l mill
•t Geneva, Utah, and th* other min*
produce* coking coal for the Kai»er
•teel plant at Fontana Calif
The di»pute wa« reported to have
itemmed from plan* bv two local* io
eet up their own hospitalization pro-
gram. Their spokesman said the strike
wa« called because the fuel company
refused to rent a building to put the
new plan into effect
I
I
Virgil Browne chairman of
board of affairs, asked Randell Cobb,
attorney general. Tuesday to help the
board collect I2M 211 50 due the state
penitentiary as of January 1945 for
operation and building improvements merchandise furnished state poli-
" ’ --- **’—’ United
States navy and others among the 351
accounts.
Browne also advised Cobb that in
addition to these 351 accounts total-
ing *286 211 50 there are also 213
bankrupt and inactive accounts, total-
ing *53 567 94 due the penitentiary
Browne wrote Cobb that after con-
7 know!-
*ald
•her
• «Sy
our eyw
*1 miaar
81 miner.
WASHINGTON. March 6—<UP’ —
The office of price administration
which started a controversy not long
•go by cancelling unused ration points
held bv housewives. Tuesday took
similar action against restaurants,
hotels and other institutional users of
rationed foods
OPA said it had recalled surnlus
inventories of all such places that
have unu*ed ration buying power i—1
<<** atock*.
Bill Asks Year's Pay
For Discharged Cis
WASHINGTON March a *» —
Senator Guffey ■ D Pa > offered in
th* senate Tuesdav iegulanon to give
**'h member of the »rmed forces •
ve»rs base pav on hi* dia'harge
Telling r*port*rs it wa* no
bl!’. Gtiffev said the objective
as |
CHUNGKING March 8.—CP*—Chi-
nese forces from the north have al-
most surrounded Suichwan. Kiangsi
province city midway between Hong-
kong and Hankow where one of the
biggest advance U. S air bases in east-
ern China formerly was situated. Chi-
nese field dispatches said Tuesday
The Chinese asserted they had cut
the highway between Suichwan and
Kanhsien.
Independent reports suggested the
Japanese, having completed their drive
east of the Canton-Hankow railway—
eliminating three U S air bases in
Kiangsi—are retiring. It la believed
that all these bases mav *oon be re-
taken.
* i
herauae nt th* «*n<wi» haapnal »h<*1-
at* m th* United Bia to*
Th* governor dm lined la aav at
• hei figure he will *et hi* roquae* far
’pronriaiton
> Monday ahernnmi
' senger
| He returned to the governor* of-
fice as mea'enger with the advent
of Henry Johnston Of late he had
been employed in the corporation
< ommi**M*n tn the high««v depart-
ment and in the current legislature
he *a* aening *• * messenger
m th* house when ill health com-
pelled him to go in the ho*pital
Nnhlo reached statewide atyd al-
mo*t national notic* in th* famou*
"Uncl* John investigation tn trv
and find out «hn * bootlegger a a*
that wa* furnishin* liquor to the
legislature.
propnatiorts made by .the fa-
mous "spending sixteenth" ses-
sion.
Members of the sena’e education
committee were ready to call the com-
mon school group into conference
Tuesday morning to make further
slashes in the requested school fund
while both houses forestalled »ctlnn
on a ioint resolution asking the at-
torney general tn -ule on whether
school employe* in either house le-
gally ran vote on anv school
prnpriatinn measure
•ignlflcanc*. Fag* 1.)
The maneuvering left
Increased taxation for
school* in the r— 7
th* banner for the entire tax tncreaae
program with the amount of monev
yet to be raised and the amount of
increase above the "spending alx-
iteenth s" total appropriation standing
perilously cloae to the amount the
senate education committee now be-
lieves Is *11 the school finance pro-
gram can get.
Appropriation* Pending
Appropriation* for only the depart- I
mental and eleemosynary institutions
have received final approval by the
house committee on appropriations.
Remainder of the appropriation pro-
gram now being figured in tabula-
tions includes 18 000 000 for each of
the two years of the biennium for
totaling $66,224,000 were in
sight Tuesday, compared to
$47,787,854 for the last leg- j
._i_, with the common
LONDON. March ®UP >—Marshal Gregory K Zhukov has
thrown two tank armies into a powerful drive on Stettin and ha*
opened a heavy artillery bombardment of the threatened Baltic
port, the Nazis reported Tuesday.
Berlin said Zhukov also had concentrated five infantry
armies and two tank armies in the Oder valley M-odd tnilea east1
of Berlin The Oermana predicted that the frontal push against
the capital would begin as soon as Zhukov * flanks are aecured
A blazing battle in the Baltic coastal area rapidly waa dear-
ling the right flank of Zhukovs First White Russian army. The
German defenders pinned against the Baltic In shrinking pocket*
were being reduced end the drive on Stettin wa* overrunning the
lower Oder valley west of the river
--- Th* German high command ca»t »
— T veil nf looee generalities over the bat-
rVt«ra<A.'ia^ I twrroa n* Pomerania northeast of Berlin
Ui. II vv 11V I It conceded that the Russian* were
islature. with the
i school finance problem still
| unsolved.
The latest figures, compiled
.1.? "best guess" from tabu-
lations in senate and hou^e
committees, indicated the total
will be chalked up finally at
about $6,000,000 more than sp-
in the midst of an Italian political
cri»i* generated b»- the escape of an
Zhukov swung the entire northern Italian general accused of war crime*,
half of hl* First White Russian army
LONDON’ Ma'ch 6— ■?—P':me Minister Churchill has re-
turned to London from a tou' of the tresfem front where he
fired a shell into Ge"’ncTi> and told front line troops “one
strong shote will win the uar " u«j revealed Tuesday
During the bcttlefront tou' the doughty 70-year-old Brit-
statesman fired a big artillery shell tn the direction of
He chewed
j he pulled the lanyard of the American-made gun.
not responsible if it doesn't get Hitler, he fanned
I fust pulled it off '
ROME. March <4»>—A civil-
ian wa* killed, Another wa* in-
jured and a Britiah soldier wa*
wounded when Romana waving
red flags attempted to attack
the royal palace Tuesday while
Crown Prince Umberto wa* in-
side
Two bomb* were thrown and *hoU
were fired in the clash between
mounted carabinieri and the crowd
attacking on a'broad front "and had e.ntr,n.c* to 5u.‘rtnal I**!**
scored minor penetrations.'*
Ten Mile* Away
► ,
i column
ng wort-
»« boa*.
rht hoe
►Ing hr*
*r fl*. R
I «qa*4-
1 a dia-
ood rid*
Adan
houaand*
I* of rod
hoMen
With -.h» prjr.» muuMer »er»
Martha! S.r B*mard L Montg-xn-
en Sir Alan Br^** chief Af ’h»
The tour .r.cjjded »r. ir-sre^’.on
->f -~e dragon* ’e*’r. and pillb^xe*
< -r.e Si-gfneo line near A*ch»r.
»r. inspection -f the ’ump-off «pot
"r. ’he R^»r rv er for t.» N.nth
anr.v , present drr e »nd » ._n'h
.n 'he citaae. "f Juelich the se»en-
centurv-e’.d German »trenghold
wluch feU early ia ’-he ef.'e&uw.
Gov. Kerr announced Tuesday that
— — —J a *pecul meta*** to
the legislature Tuesday afternoon
asking far a apodal appropriation
with which to match federal fund*
for the building of * large addition to
the Univeraity Hoapttal in Oklahoma
City and far other public health work
war crime*, and the Communist
Oroastychow, 12 mile* southeast of ha* demanded hi* ouster.
Be Icard and *lt* nf - nrt*nn '
camp for American airmen
not learned immediately whether the
German* had moved
prisoner* before the
through
A German
Ration Coupons,
Safes Stolen
Knenigsberg in East Prussia as* cam- State TheftS
lueised further bv the Third Whit*
Ru»*i*n srmv despite ll Grrman
rounter-a’Ur k*
Th* three Whii* Ruseun
gr«du*llv aer* grinding up th* rem-
* — P —British
prisoners in Bulgaria
t»as granted an
treated at
put to death
a ar secretary told
He said that the
below the gates of the plant
Force of the blast » as felt as far as
Compton 4-3 miles distantburi Monday and 30 hours lator had tainnd noariy 24
mile*.
*iow ly through the
German eity »nd German
rnihana jaw* dropped as they saw
the irur.i»t*k*B4e figure of Britain*
leader «ith hu rigar
Ouueie Aachen the convoy
»'opr*d while the prune minister
inspected * p*lloo« then »ped on *t
V mile* in hour 'o the Roer On
•he we»t ude the prtme miruater in-
sisted on getting out and walking
scr-w* the rrter while Montgom-
ery »nd 8:mp*cr painted * word
picture y»f 'h» attack on February 21
the’ earned ’he Ninth army across
• nd to 'he Rc.:n» A few German
ardie* were will m th* deviate area
»turn lona* ii«e * acene front a film
of the last war
Churtluli then
bridge uste
considers"’.- srzv-rr.er.'
W.l..»rr. S;rr.r*^r. "t
»ho »r’*c i.‘ ku.de
the fearless British warrior
the Rhine itself at
| tion of the Tom Edwards Funeral
I home on E. 2. Final arrangements
are waiting word from his sister in
Arkansas.
When the constitutional cohvei-
tion met to frame the basic law of
Oklahoma. Jim Noble was named bv
William H. Murray, president of
the convention as the presidents
messenger. Noble sen ed until state-
hood day when Indian territory and
Oklahoma temtorv were united, the
veteran Negro servng as messen-
ger at that ceremony.
With the advent of statehood and
the election of Charles Haskell.
Noble became the messenger in the
governor’s office at Guthrie In the
famous election nicht ride following
as
Jim
Jim Noble. 80-y e a r-old
Negro, a familiar figure in
Oklahoma politics since the
days of the constitutional
convention, died Tuesday, his
birthday, at a local hospital.
The funeral is under the direc-
AP Correspondent
Captured by Nazis
ROME. March 4—(Delayed by cen-
sorship’— —Joseph Morton Asso-
ciated Pres* war correspondent, wa*
captured by the German* last Decem-
ber 28 and later wa* reported unoffi-
cially to be in a German prisoner of
war camp
A Britixh officer a ho returned from
• mission in enemv territory infotmed
official* *1 allied headquarter* in th*
Med.iert*ne*n 'h*t he »a« 'he Ger-
man* vi*e Morten and »*yer*l allied
efiii er* No word of Morton* < ap-
tur* h*» l*t iom» from tn» German*
through official channel* *lh»d offi-
cial* Mild
Perils Coblenz, Nazis Say
WITH THE V. 8. THIRD ARMY. Mank <e>—
The Fourth armored division of Gea. Goorgo S. PattoO
Third army broke out nf it* Kyll bridgehead east of Bit-
the capital of the new state
Noble was given the seal of the state
and with Earl Keyes and other
Democratic leaders of that day he
dashed to Oklahoma City where
the next morn.ng Haskell set up his
office in the old Lee-Huckins hotel
In the years that followed. Jim
Noble served as messenger to each
succeeding governor until the davs
of the Trapp administration At
that time Jim got into trouble with
Parker La Moo re. then secretary to
i Trapp, and now a lieutenant colonel
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J? ,4d,nfn ,<s lM mataly ||
avar-mghl rrwuitlH for lb* naeaaaary material* tT a ’Rin’h
t no mon- h*<*u*» nt ih* **rtmi» ho*<ui*l thnn. ___
• rmi** *v «•* »tol*n from ih* eouniv **r
nnr* *nd rationing board a« Berni-
nanu of vm» ion non troop* p*nn*d no|* Monday night Jn*eph K Ml*-
nr*k*<* h*rt dniMon of board *aaruuv* nt an additional apf
OPA **id Tu*adav In th* **nat*
Thu u th* third aimilar county Nomer’ Paul nr**M*nt pro iem r
board rnhbarv in •• many week* he announcing a •!*■ point program tn he
Las’ we*k the »af* •»* stolen competed declared ’ w* will provide
from th* Pure*ll board and wa* later H OW OOP mor* fnr public health than
h«* b**n provided heretofore in any
on* year “
The governor declined to *ay
whether he Mippnrted th* other an-
nouncement* by Paul that a natural
Thu t»> tax. a mileage tax on elasa A
carrier* and • beer tax of 110 per
barrel would be levied on beer
LONDON. March 6 —-P-*- Re turn of
German night air raider* to British
skies over * lapse of nearly • year
may result in a revival of the blackout
in some areas
The minutrv of home security was
said Tuesday to ha' e such a plan un-
der consideration
There was no belief however that
the surprise return of German pilot-
ed planes indicates anv possibility of
greatly expanded enemj air actoitv
Th" new night raider* ha'e shunned
the big cities and apparent!' scattered
their oom os at random o'er the coun-
tryside It »a* belie'ed the raids
and might be chief!' for German home
| front propaganda puivoae*. i
transition from military to civilian life OPA enforcement officiais. county San Francisco Visit
after the war end* He estimated th» *henff» m the place* affected and . r-1 •
cost at 14 0W.000.000 annually a: the police m the town* robbed are work- LonSldCTCO DV LhianCT
WASHINGTON March < — uT) —
G*ner*li»simn Chian* Kai-the k of
Ch tn* u eonatoann* a propoaal that
he vutt Ban Prancuco at the opening
of the United Nation* <
April 25
It wa* learned Tuaeday thi* pro-
posal had be*n advanced by W**hing-
ton Coupled with thu information
however waa the advice that Chiang
operation and building improvement* merchandise furnished
of the institutions of higher learning, tician* school district*.
The tentative $17 000 000 listed for “
common schools admittedly will have
to be slashed The state now furnishes
about $8.000 000 of that monev and
the schools are asking for $9 OOC 000
more
The .school finance bill now pending
In the
program costing $17,500,000 I
alrearfv has been lopped tn about $15 -
non non m committee and is scheduled
to be cut still more in the committee
heanngs Tuesdav
Celling Is 81 Millten*
Other fi ures listed include
1 gislative appropriation of $400 000
for the biennium: $598 793 for each
rear of the biennium for teachers’ re-
tirement: $800,000 for the biennium
for the public welfare department:
$90n 000 for the governor’s contingent
fund $ 25.000 for state election* and
$6fn 000 which mav be eliminated, for
buildings at th* Oklahoma Military
Arademv
The legislature ia restricted from
appropriating more than the $61,024 -
ooo estimated by the state budget of-
ficer as the total general fund revenue
in sight for the next two-year period. |
The amount, however, does not in-
--------------r new tax money ex-
new
Stettin Monday They were the walled
city of Stargard, a 12-way communi-
cation* center 20 mile* ea«t of Stettin,
and the railway and highway junc-
tion of Naugard. 28 mile* northeast.
4.a*« NaiU Stain
TTie German* were driven from
with • loss of more than
4 000 dead and 35 tank*.
From Stargard a highway and a
employe or official, the full sum of railway run straight to Stettin’s *ub-
any amount due the penitentiary urb of Altdamm, on the east bank of
O'er * period of year*, politician* the Oder opposite Stettin itself Alt-
have had saddles, boot* and other damm lie* IS mile* west of Stargard,
things made at the penitentiary and Zhukov-* force* were converging on
sometimes forget to pay the bill The Stettin and the Oder estuary along
Jersey City quartermasters depart- a front stretching all the way from
ment. United States army owes $1,280 the east bank of the Oder, some 20-
navy owe* $1 000 ac- odd mile* aouth of the port of Kolberg
on the Baltic
Southeast of Kolberg the First army
linked up with Marshal Konstantin
K Roknasoo' *ky * Second White Rus-
sian army at Bad Polzin and halved
a 1.200 square mile enemy
looping around Belgard
Priaon Cam* Seised
The Second army also captured
Belgard and site of a German prison
It was
Highways had been
slick and dangerous in a num-
ber of spots in the state Tues-
day, particularly in the north-
east, hut Mr. Maughan prom-
ised that the storm has just
about blown itself out and
moderating weather can be
expected.
Clouds should begin to break
here during the afternoon
winds diminish. Temperatures
will continue low over the state
during the night but it should
be warmer by Wednesday.
Some Ro*d» Icy
The highway patrol reported ice on
highway* at Duncan, and ice and snow
on the road* in place* in northeast
Oklahoma. There were slippery area*
in other part* of the state where show -
er* fell during freezing weather
In Oklahoma City the temperature
nf lhe ia»t 24 hour* ranged from a
lop nt 81 early Monday to a low ot 25
early Tuesday Temperature rance of
lhe next 24 hour* u expected to be
from about 31 to a low of 28 early
Wednesday.
Th* ahlpptra* forecast call tor tem-
perature* of 20 to 24 in th* northweal.
22 to 28 in the northeast. 28 to 32 tn
the southeast, and 28 to 30 in the
aouth we«t
Sial* Rain* Spotted
Rainfall waa extremely apotted in
th* state. Oklahoma City had 57 at
the Classen station, while McAlester
reported .70, Tula* .33 and there was
only a trace or none at all through-
out the weatem and northwestern sec-
tions.
The cold weather will reach into
southeastern Oklahoma during the
day but it should begin to grow wann-
er in the panhandle by afternoon
Highest temperature ever reached here
on this date was 86 in 1910. while it
has been a* low as 8 in 1943
we*t bank of the Rhine from
Colome all the way north to
Rheinbert, five' miles south of
Weeel. extfept for a tiny pocket
in the river bend two miles
north of Hombert. and a six-
mile stretch from two to three
mile* deep from south of Neuas
to Worrlngen.
Catetm B Daad CRy
r— — - — - -
almost empty
American pOot* wlto flew euw OH
toSM dMeribad Rm* Md^ toW ”
Farthw north unit* af the FWM Oa.
aWrte"ar*xZrtXC*!*J MMvXeiSl
o« Km m-TiiTS.lil.
Th* Garman totosehaad eu the
*3 wwt bank Shrank to emrauh
mataly || milaa betwaaa Xantea and
Rhatnterf. which waa pMtotoatod bp
“ h army troogu
Nsm pararhui* ireepsn wavered
•nd tall ba*te under atedseliaOMM*
Mnw* toy tha Ninth army, whieh was
Mriving to wipe out the test ewssy
rom nanu ia that area weak ef She
Rhine 7
Britleh vansuarde puehins thrmMR
the Rnnnlnshardt ftoreet enfer
mu** from Weeel were -rung MUer
roautar-a tog Nazi autolde aqwfe
RAF pOou aaid tire bridfM at Wtooot
wm damasad aertouaty Minder toy
247 000 pounds ot bomba. One read
ot a railway brldse waa destroyed Odd
th* w*at end at a rand bridge wad
blocked
f^md at 8laught*rvUI* with th*
... , -— ------— -------- - " .. . . » icnon gaaolin* coupon* it contained
.»IiMreated explosion wrecked » high oc'an* oil ** aiwnoion M»rch • _
refinerv uni» of the Shell Oil Co early Senator Guffev D P* • offered in f-y,, before the safe in th*
Tuesday injuring several m»n ,h* *nate Tuesdav legislation to give y-edenrk board wa* broken open and
Before fl»m*« were controlled FBI **rh member of the »rmed forces ■ a]] rationing tender removed ~
agen’* had been called »nd all a'.e- v**r* base pav on hi* discharge robberv of ration board* ha* become
nue« nf ^formation concerning the Telling reporter* it wa* no bonu* a ma’or racket on the east roaat
blast were clo*ed immediately Sher- bill Guffev said the objective i* to Hibbert said and 1* spreading
iff * depu’je* and California tughwav provide veterans with fund* for the throughout the country
patrolmen were refused admission to transition from military to civilian life OPA enforcement official* county
sheriff* m th* place* affected and
infantry—reached the Ringatraaito against surpriaingty
light opposition. The Germans fought in what onca wag
the walled section of Cologne, by far the greatest rail traffie
center in western Germany.
To the north. Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's Ninth
army wiped out all but one small pocket on the Rhine south
of the Duesseldorf suburb of Neuas and drove, with the
Canadians, into the Wesel pocket farther down the Rhine,
The fall of Cologne was expected hourly.
The German communique said that south of Cologne
*^n fTAzvr^A C2 --V.1....1*...j xS, , . • .
aarnuit. marcbed to the Quinn*i from Colo*- (achieved a deep breach in German lines guarding the middle
X'S ££ S>‘“ *"d ,Coble"1 i" “* *«• north.„t Of Kyllburg in th.
Germany
bv censor ’—■F—Prime
Churchill paid * call to
a long-**sited
in * ’*nk and I *:11 b* *1!
Ch urchiu told Sim pace, but
American commander d*c..ned
•n -p* tr.» of Br;’.a;r. * No 1
»i* roman
Rie.ng r » raff c»r
m.Jiis'.er nepped ou-. »
■>n» tee’ll barrier
vorner ,"u»’ outside
for picture*
H* deeUmd ak cflen at aad and
By SIS GALLAGHFR
JL'ELICH German' Mareh 3 —
De laved
Minister
German' today in
personal triumph
Adolf Hitler w
to recei'e him
The 70-'ear-old prime minister
«*lked into Germany through the
shattered Siegfried line one* the
svmbcl of the might of Hitler * ho
four vears ago »a* promising to
visit London
Churohili looked around the ruin*
of ’hi* fort re** fit'— the mog com-
plete!' destroyed c.’v *uice St L^v—
w;'hou’ visible displeasure *nd s*.d
grimly There *’.11 not be *r.'
unemplovm.’r.t around
the war
I * t fVN|
L’ Ger.
Nir/n arir.\
to Keep
from '1*1’: ng
Duesseldorf
- ’ If they are shooting you can put
Sir Alan Broo<»
imperial general *taff Simpson *nd
■i" Ninth .rmv corp* commander*
Mt G*n* Rarmond S M Lam of
O< ahmna Cr' «nd A?»n C Gi.-
Blacked-Out Third Army
Scores Big Gain in South,
L
I
I-
beer tax of $10 a barrel
Difference between the $71 943 098
nou estimated a* "the best guess'
of the appropriation tots! and ’he
$61 024 000 revenue* e.vtima’ed bv the
budget officer 1* $)0 9!9 0M ahich
repre-en’s the net imount of ne*
monev needed in finance appropri-
alien* now h-ied
The legivlaiuie hv incre-aung lh»
tax on bee? n.« met $,$ .'DC* non ,-f mat
amount leaving a n*’ need nf $$ .
719'’98 rhl* I* almo»l lh» »am* fig-
ure •» tn* apnropnatiok total no* in
th* mill exceed* the spending six-
teenth » total and i* about the same
figur* •• the amount estimated a*
being ar'ually needed to finance com-
mon school*
-
War Prisoner*
two brid*’h“i* fw *~1 flw mil*
met of Premier Ivanoe Booomi and
clear the way for the premiership for
Count carlo kfom. r
British as foreign minister in the
present government several weeks ago.
Sforta waa expected to make a strong
bid in the event Bonomi's government
falls.
Winnie Walks Through West Wall Into Reich
scrambled among th*
aided
The ear with Bunpaon explain-
ing how the battle throuch Ger-
many progreaaed then sped into
Aa-hen
convoy
It roi>d
rumed
Rains Swell Mississippi,
Ohio Flood Waters
CINCINNATI, Ohio. March 6 — ,4»-
—Water* of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers—plus hundred* of rain-swollen
tributaries—rolled toward the disaster
stage Tuesday all the way from Pitts-
burgh to Memphis
Fed by incessant rains that totaled
nearly three inches m 24 hours at
some points the flood waters forced
thousands from their homes and men-
aced war-busy arsenal plants along
the riven.
The Ohio rose beyond 64 feet at
Cincinnati, where flood stage is 52
feet, and river men saw a possible 70-
foot stage coming In 1937 the river
hit 79 99 feet and caused an estimated
•400.000.060 property loss
The Allegheny and Monongahela. | the selection of Oklahoma City
headwaters of the Ohio at Pitts-
burgh. rose toward flood stage after
an inch and a half of rain fell over-
night
Residents of Louisville prepared for
s 45-foot stage. 17 feet above flood
level, and in river towns and villages
in Ohio. Kentucky. West Virginia
and Indiana, lowland dwellers be$an
an exodus to higher ground
Spring thaws and heavy rains sent ,
the Mississippi out of its bank* at a o_, ,ntz» irnnhi, I *‘,c «niuu«i. nr>
•umber ot point, and evacuation wm 8 t lrouWe *•“> dude ,s 200 odo ot
W»n,.t m.ny pl.ee. .D...U. on. “ r-e-M <o d.n^, ,„m ,b.
in the anpy arid wa* fired as mes-
onotr
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