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The Latest Telegraphic News United Press with temperatures near frotzing. -BY DELPHOS DAILY HERALD OHIO- and colder tonight Wednesday rain and continued cold. PRICE THREE CENTS DELPHOS, OHIO, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1945. MUENSTER Okinawa Sliced AMERICANS NEAR CAPITAL Widen Hold on Vital Nakagusuku Bay Naval Anchorage Invasion of Island Over Three Days Ahead of Original Schedule. GUAM, April 3 (UP) Army invasion troops who sliced Okinawa in two with a six-mile dash to the east coast widened their hold on the vital Nakagusuku Bay naval anchorage to at least three miles today and still were advancing.

Other units of Maj. Gen. John R. Hodges' 24th army corps advanced south along the west coast to within a little more than six miles of Naha, capital of Okinawa, in the first hard fighting of the three-day old invasion. Indications grew that the Japanese were preparing to defend a line across the narrow isthmus just above Naha.

Marines at the northern end of the 10th ary's front broadened the west coast beachhead to at least 10 miles with an advance of more than a mile. The 24th cerps' push to the cast coast gave the Americans a wide corridor from which to attack cither north or south and also secured a foothold on all vital north-south communications, including roads, railroads and telephone lines. They had achieved in 36 hours what the original invasion schedule said might take more than five days. Awasida-Tomari harbor lics at the northern end of Nakagusuku Bay and today the troops were probing forward out of the Awasida peninsula. Maj.

Gen. Ray S. Geiger's Third Marine amphibious corps. extended the west coast beachhead another 3,000 yards to the north by pushing across the base of Zampa Cape to the approaches to 770-foot Yontan Zan peak. The invasion fleet continued to pour reinforcements of men, tanks, guns and supplies across the invasion beaches unmolested while 1,500 carrier planes shuttled protectively overhead.

Japanese planes made a feeble attack on the invasion armada Sunday. night, and five were shot down. A Japanese communique, however, claimed that 13 more American warships had been sunk and 17 damaged. (A CBS correspondent broadcasting from the fleet said Tokyo claims that 150 ships had been sunk since the start of the invasion opcrations were "just about per cent The communique said Japanese planes "continue to apply fierce attacks on encmy warships" around Okinawa while garrison forces "continue to carry out fierce interceptive battles" with the invading ground troops. Though the communique obvicusly was exaggerated, there was no inclination at Admiral Chester W.

Nimitz's Pacitic fleet headquarters here to write off Okinawa as already won. On the contrary, hard-fighting was anticipated in the coming weeks as the invaders come to gripe with the enemy garrison totalling 60,000 to 80,000 troops. Dewey Urges Peoples' Peace ALBANY, N. April 3 Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 Republican presidential nominee, today called unon delegates to the San Francisco World Security conference the work out a "people's peace." In his first statement on foreign policy in several months, Dewey said that "without the wholePerrted support of the people no covenant can survive.

VOL. 51. NO. 245. TAKEN BY ALLIED In Two by Troops YANKS LOOP RUHR FROM SOUTH; REDS IN AUSTRIA Statute Miles A -Koenigsberg -Baltic Sea- GDYNIA 50 100 EAST -North Sea- PRUSSIA) 2ND WHITE RUSSIANS 3RD WHITE RUSSIANS HAMBURG NETH.

WESER VISTULA BERLIN MINDEN A HANOVER BRUNSWICKD: BRANDENBURG 'RANKFURTT Warsaw! MMERICH MADGEBURG CANADIAN 157 END ESSENCE DORTMUND, GERMANY 2 RUHRE AMERICAN IM AR WUPPERTAL COLOGNE -MARBURG BELG. AMERICAN 157 AMONEBURG LAUTERBACH GIESSEN DIVIDA PLAVEN COLLENZ WIESBADENO GEMUENDEN: FRANKFUR MAIN. Prague AMERICAN 3RD MAHR OSTRAU AMERICAN 7TH! CZECHOSLOVAKIA DRENCH 151 STUTTGART FRANCE DANUBI Vienna 2ND UKRAINIANS MUNICHO KOMAROM WIENER NEUSTADI SOPRON GYOR Berchtesgaden 3RD UKRAINIANS Budapest I TE AUSTRIA SARVAR HUNGARY' AMERICAN FIRST ARMY troops are cutting into the enemy's rear areas 180-odd miles from virBerlin, tually enveloping the Ruhr Basin and the Nazis' last major fighting force in western Germany, as they move toward a decisive juncture with Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British and 'American forces in the north. At the same time Lt.

Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. Third Army tanks are streaking across Germany in a spectacular armored drive headed for Leipzig and ture the a possible junco with Red Army.

The Russians were chalking up advances over the border into where they were preparing a siege on the capital city of Vienna. Also big news on the eastern Austria, front was the fall of Danzig and Gdynia, important Baltic ports. (International) SQUEEZE JAPS IN LUZON TRAP Amphibious Landing Overruns Port of Legaspi and Its Airfield--Japs Fighting Back Fiercely I in Northern Part of Island. MANILA, April 3 (UP) U. S.

assault troops squeezed the Japanose into a hopeless trap on Southeastern Luzon today after an amphibious landing that overran the port of Legaspi and its airfield. Seasoned veterans of Brig. Gen. Hanford McNider's 158th regimental combat team completed the encirclement of the Japanese in Southern Luzon Sunday with a surprise landing near Legaspi, 200 miles southeast om Manila. Fire from heavy coastal batteries met the invasion craft, but opposition faded when the troops hit the beaches under cover of a naval and air bombardment.

Within three and a half hours, the Americans had secured Legaspi, largest port in Southeastern Luzon, its nearby airfield and started a drive to the north. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the landing and capture of Legaspi, which had a pre-war population of 158,780, was effected with "little loss." In pushing northwest from Legaspi, southern terminus of the Manila railroad, MacNider's troops advanced through a pass onto Bicol Plain and were moving rapidly over open rice fields. MacNider's drive was aimed at effecting a junction with First Cavalry and 11th airborne division troops fanning east and southeast through the island below Laguna Bay. The lacerated Japanese units which fled to Southern Luzon when the Sixth and Eighth armies cleared most of the central section of the island, including Manila, were trapped in a steel vise between the converging American forces.

In Northern Luzon, the Japanese still were fighting fiercely and attempted two strong counter-attacks near Balete Pass. Both were repulsed with heavy losses to the Japanese. MacArthur's communique also disclosed continued gains by Ameri- TROOPS GAINS BEING MADE ON ALL FRONTS IN GERMAN OFFENSE Makes Charge Against Iceland A Moscow broadcast, recorded by the FCC today, attacked Iceland for what it charged was Iceland's refusal to declare war, on Germany. The Moscow commentator 'noted that Iceland had been saved from the Nazis by the United Nations and that it had achieved independence "with the direct support of the Three Great Powers." KITLER PLANS "NOBLE" DEATH Captured German General Gives Plans Especially Picked Elite Guard Troops Being Picked for Honor of Dying with Fuehrer Says Goering is Dead. LONDON, April 3 (UP) A captured Corman general told front correspondents today that Adolf Hitler plans to die in battle at the head of SS clite guard troops especially picked for the honor of dying with the Fuchrer.

SS units already were being designated for the sacrifice, German Major Gen. Hang Bochlsen said in an interview with a London NewsChronicle correspondent on the Third army front. Anther captured German, Prince Engelbert Charles Arenberg, first German prince to fall into Allied hands, said he had reccived private word that Reichmarshal Hermann Goering was dead. Other high Nazi chiefs still were alive and making their escape to some hideout, presumably in the Bavarian Alps, he told a London Daily Telegraph correspondent on the American Ninth army front. The prince, along with his princoss, Valerie Marie, who claimed to be a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a distant cousin of King George VI, were found in their 300-room palace at Norkirchen near Laudenhausen in Westphalia.

A dispatch from the Swiss bor. der said Gestapo Chief Himmler spent easter at the Bavarian town of Bregenz with other members of the Nazi inner gang planning a last stand in the Bavarian mountains. The identity of three men, identified by the German radio as a chauffour and two passengers, who were slain in a big blue limousine on the Avus speedway between Berlin and Potsdam yesterday remained a mystery. An officials German reward of 100,000 marks ($40,000) for information leading to the discovery or arrest of the assassins raised speculations that the victims may have been prominent Nazis. London sources believed the German "Freedom Station" identifying itself as the voice of the underground in Allied-occupied Germany actually is a transmitter manned by the Germany propaganda ministry in Central Germany.

Portugal To Declare War LONDON, April 3 (UP) Portugal is preparing to declare war on Japan and take an active part in the Pacific campaign, according to reports reaching diplomatic quarters here. Portugal is reported to be assembling troops and material in Mozambuque to use in an offensive to regain Portuguese Timor which was occupied by the Japanese early in the war. Informed sources beleve that Premicr Salazar hopes to align Portugal with the United Nations and at the same time strengthen his position on the ome front. There have been persistent reports that underground anti-Salazar organizations have become increasingly active. American and British Troops in Twin Drive to Envelop Holland and Weser River Line on Main Superhighway to Berlin-American Ninth Army Fights Way into Hamm, Biggest Railway Center in Western Germany.

PARIS, April 3 (UP) -American and British troops captured the Westphalian capital of Muenster today while tank columns raced 50 miles and more beyond the city in twin drives to envelop Holland and the Weser river lines on the main superhighway to Berlin. Muenster, 227 miles due west of Berlin, fell to the Allies after more than three days of savage street fighting and a raking artillery bombardment that reduced the city to a blackened rubble. Twenty miles to the southeast, soldiers of the American Ninth army fought their way into Hamm, the biggest railway center in Western Germany, and began a house-tohouse mop-up of its by-passed Nazi garrison. Censored field dispatches from the blacked-out Ninth army front said American tank columns enveloped the German stronghold of Biclefeld, 189 miles west of Berlin, and were closing fast on the Pied Piper town of Hameln on the Weser. At Hameln the Americans would be only 24 miles southeast of Hannover and fewe than 95 miles due west.

of the Elbe river line at Magdeburg, the last big water barrier before Berlin. Muenster, Osnabrueck, Bielefeld and Hamm, anchors of the defenses covering the North Sea ports and the short road to Berlin, were in Allied hands or about to fall, and Canadian troops were halfway across the center of Holland near Zutphen, 25 miles east of the Zuider Zee. Front reports said the Germans were trying desperately to extricate their 25th army, numbering perhaps 50,000 men, from the threatened Dutch coast, flceing castward under heavy fire from Allied warplanes. Furious fighting was reported swirling through the streets of Osnabrueck, Muenster. and a dozen other towns and villages along the Allied line of March as the Germans battled to hold open the coastal' escape roads for their retreating 25th army in Holland.

Hundreds of barges were reported massing in Amsterdam harbor and other ports on the Zuyder Zee for a desperate "Dunkerque" evacuation of the Nazi V-homb bases in Western Holland. The American Ninth army on the British right flank hurled powerful armored columns past the German strongpoint of Bielefeld, 189 miles west of Berlin, flanking the city from the north and south. Other Ninth army tank teams broke loose on the main Ruhr-Berlin superhighway cast of Bielefeld and at last reports were approaching the Pied Piper town of Hameln on the Weser river, 162 miles from the Nazi capital. Doughboys of the U. S.

Ninth and First armies were advancing steadily into the encircled Ruhr Basin from the cast, west, north and south to mop up an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 Germans caught in that 500 square-mile trap. Far to the south, George S. Patton's American Third army troops fought through the wrecked factory city of Kassel, keystone of the enemy line in Central Germany. Patton's men 40 miles to the southeast also were ripping through stiffened but still ineffective German resistance on both sides of Eisenach, a Nazi pivot on the FrankfurtLeipzig superhighway 152 miles southwest of Berlin. At the southern end of the Allied front, the American Seventh army sent its armored spearheads lumbering castward within 36 miles of Nuernberg and French First army forces advanced more than 20 Good Reason For Failure KANSAS CITY, April 3 (UP) Wyandotte county officials were mollified today when they received Alex A.

Daughtry's explanation of why he failed to appear for jury duty Feb. 13. Daughtry said he had not forgotten the date-in fact he remembered it "too well," and would have been more than happy to have been in court Perhaps, he suggested hopefully, if the county officials "would care to speak to General Marshall or write Gencral Eisenhower" he might be present at the next session. The letter was signed "Alex A. Daughtry, 1st Tank Battalion, somewhere in Germany." Ask Duke To Make Picture HOLLYWOOD, April 3 (UP) The Duke of Windsor today had an opportunity to become a movie star.

The offer was made by the newlyformed Independent Producing Group headed by Actor Chester Morris. "We would like you to appear in a story of your life or a story of your own choosing," the Group informed the Duke, who recently resigned as governor general of the Bahamas. Morris said the films would deal with education for permanent peace. The producer said they were "shocked" at Time Magazine's recent description of the Duke as "technologically unemployed, an obsolete man." Doubt If Nazis Can Make Stand WASHINGTON, April 3 (UP) Military observers doubted today that the Germans would be able to make any strong or prolonged defensive stand along the Weser river. The Weser now appears to be the only practical place, before Berlin for the Germans to attempt a stand against the Allied tide, and there are indications that such an attempt will be made.

The Elbe river, which runs about midway between the Weser and Berlin, also is a good natural barrier. But the Elbe runs almost as close to Berlin as docs the Oder on the Russian front and a stand there would be too constricted between the Western Allies and Red armies. Army Show Comes To Close WASHINGTON, April 3 (UP) "Winged Victory," the army air force show written by Moss Hart, will close April 21 and the 255 members of the cast will get operalional assignments, many of them overscas. The stage play, which has been seen by nearly 900,000 persons since it opened in Boston Nov. 2, 1943, will make its last stand at Richmond, on April 21.

Gen. Henry H. Arnold, army air force chief, said the seven officers and 248 enlisted men who took part in both the stage play and the movie version would get. immediate operational assignments. Those physically fit will be sent overseas as replacements.

Major General Shot By Nazis WITH FIRST U. S. ARMY IN CERMANY, April 3 (UP) Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, Denver, commander of the Third armored division, was shot to death by Nazi Tankmen while taking off his pistol to hand over to his German captors, it was announced today.

can troops on Negros and Cebu and new aerial attacks on Formosa and enemy shipping through the China Seas. ZERO HOUR FOR DRIVE NEARER Red Army Hits Into Outskirts of Bratislava, Capital of German Poppet State of Slovakia--Other Russian Units Within Gun Range of Greater Vienna Area. LONDON, April 3 (UP) Moscow dispatches said today that the Red army has driven into the outskirts of Bratislava, capital of the German puppet. state of Slovakia and castern gateway to Vienna. Southeast of Vienna, other Russian units were within gun range of the greater Vienna arca delincated by Adolf Hitler in 1938 and less than 20 miles from the city itself.

To the north, Moscow reported, evidence increased that the zero hour for the Red army's frontal smash from the Oder river against Berlin was approaching. Moscow said armored vanguards of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukranian army group penetrated the outskirts of Bratislava after capturing Biskupice, two and a half miles to the southeast. The Russians plunged into the city limits under a canopy of shells laid down by massed Sovict artillery. Moscow said the fall of Bratislava would pull the plug from Vienna's frontal defenses for Sovict advances at sides of the Danube.

Vanjury, four miles northeast of Bratislava and 29 miles east of Vicnna, also fell as the Second army group drove up to the foothills of the small Carpathian mountains on a 25-mile front. Advances of up to 14 miles were reported. The Russian Third Ukranian army group was meeting increasing resistance in its drive on Vienna from the southeast, but Berlin admitt.erl the city had been deeply flanked from the south. German broadcasts said the Soviets were battling in the Semmering Pass in the Pischbacher Alps, 42 miles southwest of Vienna and 132 miles east of. Adolf Hitler'3 hideaway at Berchtesgaden.

PAINESVILLE A 400-pound iron safe stolen from the Lake County Auto Club office here was recovcred today in nearby Euclid. The thieves had taken $175 from it but left office records. Senators Keep Fingers Crossed WASHINGTON, April 3 (UP) Senators kept their fingers crossed today in speculating on President Roosevelt's choice of a successor for Fred M. Vinson as Federal Loan administrator. They hoped it would bring no of the bitter fight that arose when the senate consideredand rejected -Henry A.

Wallace as the custodian of the multi-billion dollar RFC and its subsidiaries. The loan job was left vacant yesterday when Vinson, who had held it less than a month, was named to succeed James F. Byrnes as War Mobilization Director. Prompt approval of Vinson's nomination was assured. Time Ripe.

For Annihilation PARIS, April 3 (UP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a special order of the day to his armies today that German troops encircled in the Ruhr were "ripe for annihilation." One whole Germany army group and part of another were caught in the Ruhr trap, he said, and their "fate is scaled." "A most vital war industrial area is denied to the German war potential," he continued. "This magnificent feat of arms will bring the war more rapidly to a close. "It will long be remembered in history as an outstanding battle the battle of the Ruhr." miles east of the Rhine in a march on Stuttgart.

Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Anglo-American armics in the north had the battered Germans badly off balance and were pressing their "break" to the limit in a full-scale drive to clear the Nazis from Holland and end the murderous rain of robot bombs and rockets which had been showering down on Southern England since last summer..