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LAST ODER LINE BROKEN BY REDS (Continued from Page One) of Swinemuende, citadel guarding the main ship pass into Stettin bay through the Kaiser canal between Wollin and Usedom islands. The simultaneous drives to Guel zow, Cammin and Pribbernow in vested on three sides the only Ger man bridge across the bay, that which runs onto Wollin island at Wollin town 10 miles southwest of Cammin. Wollin has rail and high way connections to Swinemuende. The Soviet communique report ed the capture of more than 60 towns southwest and west of Dan zig as Russian armies redoubled their efforts to clean up the Bal tic pockets, which stretch as far east as Latvia. More than 1,000 were killed on Tuesday alone south west of Koeslin, where Rokossov gky's troops had reached the sea. ' Indicating the continued desper ate resistance of the isolated Ger mans, the Soviets called on bomb ers of the Red Air Force last night to soften up positions in the Koenigsberg area. Other bomber formations blasted Stettin, only 14 miles form Soviet spearheads on Zhukov’s western flank. Many fires and explosions resulted. Moscow dispatches said Soviet field guns were now within range of Stettin from points both north and south of the city and presuma bly were hurling their explosives into Berlin’s big Baltic outlet. ORIENT LODGE NO. 395 A. F. & A. M. Will confer the Degree of FEL LOWCRAFT at Special com munication, this Wednesday evening, Mch. 7th, at 8 o clock. Visiting brethren cordially in vited. By order of the Master. W. H. McCLAIN, Secretary ^fThe Jewel Box GIFT SHOP BKwilmington’s Only Downstairs Store B Headquarters For | FINE GIFTS Rf Come In and Make Your ■If Selections! ■ Located Downstairs I THE JEWEL BOX ft 109 North Front St. Americans Take Cologne; Third Racing To Rhine (Continued from Page One) head, “was not the last-stand, do or-die defense that had been ex pected. Cologne is no Aachen man ned by a garrison prepared to fight house to house and street to street.” There was no escape for the sur viving Nazis across any of the five bridges over the Rhine at Cologne. All had been destroyed by Allied bombings. Bonn, toward which the remnants were retreat ing, is some 13 miles up the wind ing river from Cologne. North of the stricken city, Amer ican forces cleared the Rhine all the way to Neuss, opposite Dues seldorf, except for a small pocket near Zons, virtually ending the fighting in that sector. The only other enemy bridge head on the westbank of the Rhine between Cologne and the Dutch frontier was at Wesel, and it had shrunk down to an area less than eight miles wide by six deep. A dispatch from Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s head quarters said it had lost all but its nuisance value. British and Canadian big guns were shelling some 10,000 Nazi troops in the constricted pocket an£ trying to knock out their es cape bridges across the Rhine. British troops pushed a mile and a half up the Issum-Wesel road to day and approached the rail town of Alpen, only six miles from We sel. Canadians gained two miles southeast of Sonsbeck and cleared the western fringe of Bonning hardt forest. American troops, after clearing Rheinberg, mopped up the region west of a railroad from Rheinberg to Moores. South of Cologne, the Germans fought hard to hold open their cor ridor to Bonn, bringing up tanks to hold the flank of the escape route. The veteran U. S. First Infantry Division drove through Tripples dorf and Cardorf, within four and a half miles of the Rhine and with in five miles of Bonn at the near est point. The Ninth Armored Di vision cleared six villages in an eastward push from Euskirchen and reached the edge of Oberdere nine miles southwest of Bonn. Farther south, Whitehead said, the Germans simply were retreat ing, with Doughboys marching af ter them. American troops captured a large Ford factory just north of Cologne. There was no immediate report whether the plant had been damaged by Allied bombings, but a prisoner said it still was in op eration a few months ago. Cologne itself was estimated to be 85 per cent destroyed irom me 42,000 tons of bombs dropped on it since May, 1942. More than 95 per cent of the old city, which em braces the cathedral, Is a rubble heap. “Cologne looks like Stalingrad,” an RAF officer told Whitehead. “There are some 2,000 acres of damage in the city. Cologne in dustry was spread through the city much like industries in Detroit. The only way to attack the indus try was to destroy the city.” CHURCHILLWALKS ON GERMAN SOIL (Continued from Page One) Gen. William Simpson, Ninth Ar my Commander, how Juelich was captured. Simpson had trouble convincing Churchill that it would be unsafe for him to visit the banks o£ the Rhine itself at Duesseldorf. “If they are shooting, you can put me in a tank and 111 be. all right,” the Prime Minister urged. But Simpson was adamant in his refusal to risk the life of Britains No. 1 statesman. The tour included inspection of the Siegfried Line defense instal lations in the Aachen area and the points from which the Ninth Army jumped off across the Roer river in its great offensive. At the Koer, the Prime Minister left the car and walked across the military bridge American engin eers had thrown up, listening as he walked to an account by Simpson and Montgomery on the February 23 attack. When he reached the British-Ca nadian sector, his progress was slowed considerably by throngs of soldiers who lined the roads shout ing, “How are we doing?” and “Over the Rhine next!” Seated beside Montgomery in the staff car, Churchill beamed and nodded in response and gave the “V" sign again and again. When his party stopped south of Goch, where the Prime Minister got another viiew of the devasta tion visited on German towns in the path of Allied advance, he en tered a gun-pit, wrote “to Hitler personal” on a shell with chalk and fired it at the Rhine ferry crossing at Xanten, miles away. He grinned as the 360-pound shell roared from the 240-mm. howitzer. “I’m not responsible if it doesn’t get Hitler,” he joked. “The artil lery boys set the sights. I just shot it off.” To the correspondents who trail ed him through his tour, Churchill said: “I am deeply impressed with the brave fighting of our boys, es pecially as I see what they fought through. The enemy had a tremen dous defense advantage in the Reichwald.” And he gazed about him at the formidable forest, the mire of the roads and the mud and water of the fields. i,lj Mores FREED BY YANKS (Continued from Page One) all directions,” said Capt. Bernard Nurre, Oakland, Calif. 'Some ran into the woods. Most came up the road toward us. They tried to form a column and inarch in like sol diers but they were too weak. “Some had only one leg. Some collapsed when they tried to march. But when they walked past me they tried to salute. A Rus sian saluted with the stump of an arm. Both arms were gone. He grin ned at me as he saluted.” nciu uccn ucutm-u iu iciivt; care of the prisoners, by the time they reached a temporary shelter he had prepared for them, their line stretched out for two miles. Nurre collected all the jeeps he could to take in the weakest. Med ical corps men did what they could and the prisoners helped each other. “They were the most miserable lot I’ve ever seen,” Nurre said. “But they were the happiest. They smiled, laughed and cried, and babbled thanks in five languages.” The prisoners crowded into the enclosure. American infantrymen crowded round them, handing therrt cigarets and candy. "Then the same idea seemed to hit all our guys at once — those other Joes were starving,” Nurre said. The infantrymen got out their rations. They dumped them into a pile. A French medical captain, named camp commandant, ap pointed a commandant for each national group, and the food was distributed equally. “Not one man wolfed his food.” Nmre said. “The waited until each man had his share to eat; their first real meal in months. "The commandant stood up on a box and gave them the latest news, Including the Russian ap proach to Berlin. Then the pri soners did something such as I had never seen. The Yugoslavs, Italians. Frenchmen and Poles collected all the cigarets the Amer icans had given them and handed them to the Russian camp com mandant in appreciation of the Red Army’s victories. The Russi ans thanked them and handed back the cigarets. “I’m glad my men bad a chance to see these men. and their mis ery.” Col Conly said. “It will give them a better picture of the Ger mans.” Take Care of KREY, the fast acting, modern medicine, is mad* expressly for re lieving coughs. It I soothes scratchy throat and helps nature heal sore, irritated, tender, bronchial m e m - branes. KREY is worthy of a doc tor’s prescription. Get KREY today! IN CANS You can't afford not to paint this season. Yes— Rogers Machine Made House Paint is really a beauty treatment for your home. Abeauty treatment and a protection tool MACHINE MADE PAINT J; . Considering the cost of acquiring a home, surely it'i worth a few dollars to Keep it beautiful and preserve it against the ravages.of time and the elements. 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They related to the adjustment of cer tain county salaries and of City police and firemen’s pensions, to the disposition of automobiles seized by beverage-control officers and to the regulations governing chattel-mortgages. The Ports Authority Bill was re viewed last Friday by City and County officials and Port Commis sion members, who decided to en dorse it for passage by the legisla ture despite the fact that it carried no provision for operating funds. Since it embodies the findings of State Planning Board members who came to Wilmington to survey r>nn Hit. inns at. flnvprnnr R Gregg Cherry’s suggestion, copies of the bill were sent to the gover nor and to Felix A. Grisette, man aging director of the planning board, as well as to Pat Taylor, legislature liaison man. Yesterday's submittals to the House by Mr. LeGrand included a bill to ratify overpayments made to elective officials of New Han over county during 1944. 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Madden, local Women's Army Corps representa tive, put forth an appeal for Army nurses and WAC medical corps women which induced the schedul ed main speaker, Chaplain (Col.) Frank M. Thompson, of Bruns wick, Ga., to defer his own talk as ‘■anticlimactic and irrelevant." He explained to Gardner D. Greer, in charge of arrangements, that he had intended to talk in a lighter, semi-humorous vein, and did not want to weaken the force of Lt. Madden’s address. Presented to the club members by Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy, one of six North Carolina women chos en by Gov. R. Gregg Cherry to serve as an advisory committee on recruitment, Lt. Madden began her plea for WAC-Medics by sum marizing the cause for it in one sentence. "Our wounded’’ she said, "are coming home to us faster than we can take care of them.” Noting that it was public opin ion which had kept women out oi the armed services thus far, Lt. 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Distributing to her listeners pho tographs of Army nurses and WAC-Medics at work in various war-theaters, Lt. Madden describ ed the qualifications set by the Army for its newly-established women's branch. Applicants must be between the ages of 20 and 50, she stated, must be reason ably free of conflicting responsibi lities and must be above reproach in character, in view of the fact that they are going to “work with your sons, when these boys will be at their lowest ebb, physically, mentally and emotionally”. Presided over by A. S. Grist, president, the club entertained as visitors Capt. Marion Broadnax, Sam Ferguson, of Atlanta, Ga., the Rev. A. J. Howell, W. P. Con yers, Jr., of the Taylor-Colquitt Co., and T. L. Johnson Jr. of Clinton. Two Junior Rotarians, Donald F. Davis and Wilton A. Rankin, were introduced by T. T. Hamilton. The Rev. 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