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or. 14 Russians Find (Continued From Pace 1) paper Red Star. He said struggles also raged high above the ground "in the corridors, on the staircases and even in the attics and on the roofs of the bigger buildings" and added: "The situation on the Berlin front appears in official dispatches like this 'the infantry has gained Square No. 281. The enemy continues to resist in the upper floors of the juare.

Between Square 306 and 274 in a subway tunnel we have gained about half a kilometer (one third of a The Izvestia correspondent re ported: "Berlin is really a burning city. Dark thick clouds of smoke hang over the city like the shrouds of night" Ivanov added that Soviet tanks pressing toward the center were choking the thoroughfares "Two great streams of people are seen in the streets of Berlin, he said. "One is going into Ber lin and th other coming out The ones from Berlin are liDeratec people. On the other sioe of the road are Germans pale, grim, frightened and silent, returning to the city. The Izvestia correspondent ask a commander why Soviet forces penetrated forward with out cleaning all the blocks: 'It is a difficult situation," the commander replied.

"It is not difficult to blow up those upper floors. I have got the ammunition and explosives, but I have information that the Germans are holding hostages there, Ukrainians and White Russians. We can't destroy our own people. Another thing, there are all sorts of Ger man armbearers in these houses There are policemen, firemen and school teachers. They don't know how to fight and often when the front line has passed them by they put up a white flag.

Pravda Correspondent Vishev and Zollin gave this descrip tion of what has happened to Ber lin life: "For days no newspapers have been issued. Recently there have been long lines of German civilians before shops looking for bread. White flags hang from many Berlin windows, but shots come from them too. The city is a mass of ruins from the British American bombings. We see signs "Berlin won't be 'Artillery, tanks and self pro Going along streets our men are hurling bottles of inflammable liquid grenades into cellars from whence tney (the Germans) are shooting." A Pravda dispatch said that all last night and today hundreds of Russian tank drivers kept shout ing "Where is the Reichstag?" Reporting that many Germans were trying to cajole the Rus sians, Red Star reporters said one old German was giving away guide books to Berlin and post card views of the city to Soviet troops.

Hemmed into an area nine miles long and seven miles wide in the center of Berlin, trapped Nazi stormtroopers and SS units offered frantic resistance today as thousands of Russian infantrymen closed in from all sides. Soviet dispatches from the German capital said Red army artillery was blasting a path for waves of Russian troops pouring down all the main thoroughfares leading to the Wilhelmstrasse, Unter Den Linden and the famous Tiergarten. The Soviet spearheads were reported closest to the center of the city on the southeast, where they had captured the Goerlitzer railway station 1.8 miles from the Unter Den Linden, and were pushing northwestward on three streets Wiener Strasse, Reichen berger Strasser and Kottbusser Strasse. Airdrome Threatened Heinrich Platz and to be engaged in bitter fighting near the Moritz Platz and St. Michael's Church.

The great Tempelhof airdrome appeared in imminent danger of being outflanked by one Soviet column which struck out westward from the station and battled to the edge of the Hasenneide woods and the Volk spark, which are on the north western corner of the airport. The main threat of Temrjel hof, however, came from Russian forces in the captured Dahlem region of southwestern Berlin and which were closing in on me ategmz railway station. These forces had the field under artillery fire and it was diffi. cult to se? how it could be of any use to Nazi leaders who might be hoping for a last min ute getaway by plane. Heavy Artillery Fir The Russians laid down heaw siimery urs on tne area around war ministry and the Reich stag.

Big mortars were in use an a large scale and rocket firing Katushas attacked in forward streets. Bitter fighting raged around a ring of buildings and apartment nouses near the Reichstag and jld Alexander Platz. The Russians reported big suc resses in air battles against the remnants of the Luftwaffe and many pianes were shot down flames. Some smashed into juildmgs and started new fires Soviet dispatches said a strong vffensive which appeared to have ne oermans on tne run had developed in the Mecklenberg see A force of tanks, cavalry and niantry entered Charlottenburg md worked its way through the spree Canal sector to about one md a half miles from the north siera corner oi the Tiergarten. Tagged Out Des Moines, April 27, (JP) loyd Jones, city license collector, the first known casualty in Des tones' current campaign to ound up unlicensed dogs.

Jones as written so many license re eipts (3200) that he suffered a lister on his left elbow as it ubbed the edge of his counter act it Decame infected, Delay in Hews of Link up Takes Edge Off Exuberance of British People By Lewis Hawkins London, April 27, (JP) The long expected announcement of the junction of American and Russian troops on the Elbe, cutting doomed Berlin away from the Nazis' southern stronghold, was viewed in London today as a great psychological and 'symbolic tri umph in prelude to final victory. The announcement was made first by the Paris radio, but there was no reason to doubt the au thenticity of the news. Ten days ago this great moment in the climax to 2100 miles of German retreat would have been ac claimed in London as the likely signal for an almost immediate Day proclamation. But Gen. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill effectively cooled the premature spirit of celebration, and this severing of the Nazi war machine now is recognized as the last great preliminary to the closing battles in the north and south.

It is true' that Churchill himself hinted last week that these battles might be won more quickly than most persons had dared to hope, but the words of caution have taken firm root among naturally Russians Hold (Continued From Page 1) meeting along the Elbe River in the heart of Germany, While vengeful Russian troops advanced in the encircled capital against fiercely resisting soldiers and civilians even women and children were reported in arms two Russian American junctures were near and there were reports that one already had occurred "The Russians and Americans are lined up on opposite sides of the (Elbe) river like two picnic parties waiting for a ferry boat to take them across, NBC Corre spondent Roy Porter said in a Paris broadcast after a flight over an unidentified sector "north of Leip zig. "It was all very peaceful and calm, with hardly a German be tween the two armies," Porter said. The Swiss radio broadcast an unconfirmed report that a meeting Lad occurred along the Elbe on a many mile front. Berlin's bloody street battles pelled guns are firing point blanldP3 three other Russian surhesses at attics where there are snipers. the conquest of the great Baltic naval base of Stettin, the capture of the Czechoslovakian armament center of Bruenn (Brno), one of Hitler's last remaining war pro duction centers, and an advance into the long besieged Silesian capital of Breslau, where several factory districts were overrun.

The Russians had captured two thirds of the Fuehrer's doomed capital 277 of greater Berlin's 431 square miles as the battle roared into its seventh day, German guns barked from rooftops, windows, garrets and the ruins of bombed buildings and great clouds of smoke speckled with dust hung over the embattled city. The noise of the fight carried for miles. Planes Strafe Enemy Soviet war planes swept at rooftop levels to strafe enemy positions. The Russian artillery barrage was incessant. While some civilians scampered through the Russian lines for safety, Soviet dispatches said fought side by side with their sol diers.

Some units of the trapped German garrison of possibly 500, uuu, however, fought with the guns of SS troopers at their backs Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st White Russian Army pressed in from the north, capturing the great Goerlitzer rail depot, while tanks of Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrainian Army attacked from the south, with only a four and one naif mile gap between them. Nazi accounts said the Russians The column moving along their" 10 we eage or Aiex Wionpr ronnrtoH tniander Platz, one of Berlin main have fought its way through the' commercial centers, where a fierce uaiwc iageu mi me central police ano Lrestapo headquarters. Soviet tommygunners were reported attacking shell pocked Tempelhof airdrome as Russian planes patrolled overhead to prevent any possible air escape by Adolf Hitler, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels or other high Nazis who, the Germans insisted, remained in the capital.

a merman broadcast said the greatest Soviet attack flared in the rrunewald Forest, in the south western section, and reported "su penor tank forces" taxing the capital's defenses. The Russians had captured the northwestern industrial sections of Gartenfeld and Siemenstadt and were battling in fashionable Charlottenburg. The western suburbs of Potsdam and Spandau were threatened with isolation. West of the city, the Germans said Zhukov's men raced 22 miles westward to a point only 14 miles from the American 9th Armv on the Elbe. Dispatches from the 9th Army front said Soviet shells ieu within a few miles of Yank lines Southeast of Berlin.

Knnev's Army, by Soviet accohnt, extended bridgeheads on the Elbe's west DanK only 17 miles from the American 1st Army on the Mulde rivpr First Army dispatches said U. Si patrols pierced into the narrow corridor between the Mulde and tne tioe German Engineer Held As Sabotage Chieftain Rio de Janeiro, April 27, (JP). Federal police said today that a 53 year old German engineer, George Friedrich Blass, who has been under arrest since April 9, has admitted being the "super visory cmei" oi a German sabotage ring whose activities extended into practically every capital in South America. Blass acknowledged his con nection with the ring in a deposition, police declared, but denied that he actually had committed any acts of sabotage himself. Three alleged accomplices also were arrested.

I conservative Britons. Without minimizing the weight and importance of the linkup, it is unlikely to revive in Britain the optimism of two weeks ago. Delay in the news of the junction, which many people believed had occurred some days ago, tend ed to take the edge off exuberance. Washington, April 27, (JP) The British information service here today released this statement by Prime Minister Churchill of the Anglo Ameriaan Soviet juncture Germany. "After long journeys, toils and victories, across the land and oceans, across so many deadly battlefields, the armies of the great Allies have traversed Germany and have joined hands together.

Now their task will be the destruction of all the remnants of German military resistance, rout ing out of Nazi power and the sub' jugation of the Hitler Reich. For these purposes ample forces are available and we meet in true and victorious comrade ship and with the inflexible resolve to fulfill our purpose and our duty. Let all march forward upon the foe." State Assembly (Continued From Page 1) journment will be illness or print ing. Paving the way for the quitting signal a compromise on cost increasing education legislation which was whittled down to meet demands of Governor Martin. Assembly education leaders re vamped the House at.

proved Hare Lee Sollenberger bill boosting teacher salaries and State school subsidies so that the in creased 1945 47 cost would be held to $24,000,000 above budget estimates of $103,000,000. The Housj plan provided a $36, 000,000 increase. Martin advised the Legisla'ure he would go along with only $20,000,000. Chairman Frederick L. Hom sher of the Senate Education Committee which released the bill for final action said he had as surance of Martin's approval for the latest figure.

Compromise changes retain at $1400 the minimum salary for school teachers but lowered the maximum for some classes of in structors. Basis for figuring subsidies was changed from the true or market value of real estate upon which local taxes are levied to the assessed valuation fixed by assessors. Sen. Paul L. Wagner (R Schuyl kill), Education Committee member, said the change to assessed valuation "is a tremendous break for rural districts and second class townships," adding "most of the properties those districts are assessed it 40 to 50 per cent of market value.

The House, meantime, gave un animous approval and sent to the Senate Governor Martin's post war construction program carry ing a $53,810,000 appropriation for improvements at mental, penal and educational institutions, and stream clearance and port de velopments. The lower branch also moved up for a vote next week Martin's $15,000,000 prison reorganization program and received from com mittee with a favorable recom mendation the Administration program to boost compensation benefits. A Senate committee released for floor action Martin's proposal requiring complete medical and dental examination of school chil dren every two years. A $4,700, 000 appropriation is provided for reimbursement of school districts for cost of the examinations. Graham R.

Hurd (Continued From Page 1) appointee on the Harrisburg Public Library board of trustees, and was the first president of the Harrisburg Exchange Club In November, 1943, he was ap pointed conciliation commis sioner in bankruptcy for Dau phin county by Judge Albert W. Johnson, replacing Leroy Householder. Early this year the attorney was, named by the bar association to act as lawyers as sistant in the new lawyers lounge at the Dauphin County Courthouse during court terms and on Monday court days. A member of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, he was an of ficer of the church. He conducted his law office at 317 Chestnut street for about twenty years, and although not associated as a firm, worked with the late John T.

Olmsted and the late Edward F. Doehne in practice. In later years his business associates were Marshall H. Dean and William J. Daylor, although not in the same office.

His wife died several years ago, and since that time the attorney had resided at 212 North Second street. He was visiting friends in Mechanicsburg when he died. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Caroline Hurd, and a sister, Miss Christine, both of Jenessee. Services will be at 7.30 p.

m. Saturday at the Dugan Funeral Home, 1500 Market street, the Rev. Robert H. Heinze, Emanuel Presbyterian Church, officiating. Further services and burial will be in Jenessee Monday.

Mrs. Widder Leaves Estate to Children A daughter, Mrs. Fred W. Led ford, West Lawn, and a son, David V. Widder, will share the $15,000 estate of their mother, Mrs.

Edith Widder, 'Harrisburg, according to her will filed at the Dauphin County Courthouse. Mrs. Ledford is named executor. Mrs. Edith V.

Snyder, Lower Paxton township, left an estate valued at $500 to her husband, Ed ward L. Snyder, Colonial Park, three sons and three daughters. The husband applied for letters. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH. Friday, April 27, 1945 5th Army Smashes (Continued From Pace 1) of a stand, a new thrust was launched from the west French forces from the Riviera lunged across the border into Italy as far east as Bordighera, on the Mediterranean six miles west of San Remo.

This was 100 or more winding coastal miles from Genoa, immediate objective of 5th Army troops surgmg northwest ward on the Ligurian coast. A task force of the 10th Moun tain Division, under Col. William O. Darby of Ranger renown, had captured the airport at Villa franca intact after a speedy forced march, and 5th Army troops lung ed on toward Genoa. In the center of the American front Piacenza has been overrun and the Americans rolling west of Lake Garda were about 35 miles from Milan, another major city unofficially reported in control of Partisans.

Swiss advices said the Germans apparently made little if any ef fort to aid Fascist forces defend ing Genoa, Turin and Milan against the attacks of Italian patriots. Betwen the Americans at Verona and the Brenner Pass col umns of trucks were reported spotted moving north. A communique disclosed mop ping activities still were in progress in Verona and said "our troops encountered road blocks and snipers in the vicinity of Vigasio" nine miles southwest of Verona. Fall of Verona was announced last night. Another German division com mander, Maj.

Gen. Boehlke of the 334th Infantry, was captured as the Fifth continued to bag large groups of prisoners. Enemy resistance along the Fifth Army front was generally weak and disorganized but the communique said "there still are strong pockets fighting rearguard actions in isolated areas. On the right flank of the Fifth's front, the 91st Infantry Division captured Legnago on the Adige river, 22 miles southeast of Vernoa and Cerea, four and a half miles west of Legnago against some op position. Workers Spurred (Continued From Page 1) other committee groups today aid ing in the completion of plans for the opening of the community drive on May 14.

He told his workers that at present the greatest activity is being directed toward the payroll saving plan because about 75 per cent, of all the bonds bought in Dauphin during the period of the campaign will be purchased through the deduction plan. Lt. Burbank and MSgt. Dar vm u. FatncK, Mummeistown oldier liberated from a Jap prison camp recently, are continuing to help local committee members by addressing many of the shop groups and telling of their ex periences in the war zones across the Pacific and across the At lantic.

Almost 3000 persons attended tne rauy at tne piant oi tne ner shey Chocolate Corporation yes terday and more than 1200 crowded into the Forum of the Education Building for a rally of State employes. Burbank and Patrick spoke at the Hershey meeting which was arranged by C. Speicher, the plant superintend ent. Burbank told of his esca pades as a Red Raider behind the German lines at the Capitol meet ing. Eight rallies were held this week at the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and through the efforts of the soldier speakers and others, workers sub scribed for approximately $60,000 worth of bonds.

Other meetings were held by employes of the United Telephone Company, Sanitary Laundry, Air craft Marine Corporation, Co Operative Farm Bureau, I. Lewis Cigar Company, Steelton; Rough wear Company, Middletown and other county areas. The schedule today called for rallies at the Willitt Shoe plant, Halifax; Johnson Baillie Shoe factory, W. L. Brubaker Brothers' plant, Muskie Shoe Company, Al vord Polk Company, Millersburg, and the Pennsylvania Light and Power Company.

Germany Is Cut (Continued From Page 1) weaken the common purpose of cur veteran armies to pursue their victorious purpose of its final Allied triumph in Germany. "Second, the junction of our forces at this moment signalizes to ourselves and to the world that the collaboration of our nations in the cause of peace and freedom is an effective collaboration which can surmount the greatest difficul ties of the most extensive campaign in military history and succeed. Nations which can plan and fight together shoulder to shoulder in the face of such obstacles of distance and of language and of communications as we have over come, can live together and can work together in the common labor of the organization of the world for peace. 'Finally, this great triumph of Allied arms and Allied strategy is such a tribute to the courage and determination of Franklin Roosevelt as no words could ever speak, and that could be accomplished only by the persistence and the courage of the fighting sqldiers and sailors of the Allied Nations. "But, until our enemies are finally subdued Europe and in the Pacific, there must be no re laxation of effort on the home front in support of our heroic soldiers and sailors as we all know there will be no pause on the battlefronts." Another Reason El Paso, Texas, April 27, (JP).

Sam Henderson, Gila Bend, says ne is not progressing al a very rapid clip on his hitchhiking trip to New York City. The gasoline shortage, you And lion Henderson is taking Never grease the piepan. Good alone three liv rattlesnakes and pastry greases its own pan. three Gila mr3teis. Link Up Flanks (Continued From Pace 1) the east and from the British, i in effect gravely menaced the Canadian and American First and Ninth armies on the south and west The British advanced past captured Bremen in a drive to cut off Denmark and Schleswig Holstein.

Hamburg was besieged. The Canadian, broke the Kusten canal line and moved on smaller North sea ports. The German command said the Ninth Army crossed the lower Elbe on both sides of Tangermuende, where an other junction with the Russians was imminent if it had not al ready taken place. The White House, the Kremlin and Whitehall jointly announced the historic junction of tfce First Army and the Russian First Uk rainian Army group, led by the tall, shaven headed Konev who helped turn impending disaster in to victory at the gates of Moscow in the snow of December, 1941 just before Pearl Harbor. U.

S. 3rd Army in Austria, April 26. (Delayed) (JP) Field Marshal Albert Kessel ring's private train has been captured in Cham near the Czechoslovak frontier and the commander of South Germany was reported today in virtually surrounded Regensburg, under guns of Gen. Patton's Third Army. The end was not yet, but it was inevitably brought closer.

The Germans still had 250 divisions, most of them under strength but many of them fighting with the desperation of the doomed. Many were SS units The meeting of the First Army and the Russians in the heart of Germany was a dramatic moment The armies had come from places half a world apart. Except for the incredible fanaticism of the die hard Nazis' last stand, the meeting might have ended the worst war that the world has ever known. But though the fight went on and may last for weeks, it carried the western and eastern allies to the threshhold of sure and imminent victory. The two armies fought their way to the junction across the whole breadth of Europe 2200 airline miles from Stalingrad on the Volga and from the Nor mandy coast on the Atlantic which Eisenhower invaded last June 6 The French closed to within 31 miles of Munich and 78 of the Brenner Pass, toward which the rampaging American Fifth Army in Italy was striking from the south.

The Seventh Army ap proached Munich from 35 miles northwest of that cradle of the Nazi party At last reports, many hours be hind the action, the Third Army and the Russians west of Vienna were 85 miles apart, but (JP) cor respondent Edward D. Ball mes saged: "The two armies are in radio contact and a physical junction appears likely soon. The ordinary range of Russian radio tanks is 25 miles. Ball's dispatch was heavily cen sored but he was allowed to say that "the impending linekup would mean that all southern Germany, with its so called national redoubt, and the German forces in Italy would be trapped The French First Army dashed to positions 31 miles west south west of Munich by reaching Landsberg, 20 miles south of Augsburg. The direction of the French drive suggested a direct move to encircle Munich.

The American Seventh Army closed within 35 miles of Munich from the northwest. Lt. Gen. Patch's Seventh Army made an 18 mile breakthrough and moved within six miles of Augsburg. His Tiger (10th Ar mored) and 44th Division captured Memmingmen, 34 miles from the Austrian frontier, and liberated 4000 Allied prisoners.

British tanks lunged north of captured Bremen in a drive on Hamburg and a maneuver to seal off Denmark and Schleswig Hol stien. The Canadians broke the enemy's Kustin Canal Line and advanced toward Wilmelshaven and Emden. Strike Into Italy Far southward on the Riviera, French forces struck into Italy as far east as Borodighera, on the Mediterranean, six miles west of San Remo, clearing all the Mari time Alps Department to that point. Patton's troops captured Ingol stadt, medieval fortress city on the Danube, and moved two miles south within 38 miles of Munich. The Am ican Seventh Army and the French First were threatening that cradle of the Nazi party from the west and northwest.

Berchtesgaden was nrnaced by the 400,000 or more attacking Al lies in the south which were rolling through the fringes of the doubtful redoubt" within 72 miles of the village. Third Army troops were 31 miles from Linz, third city of Aus tria, and within 61 of Slzburg, eastern, fortress to the Alpine hideout. The last route into the redoubt leads through Linz. Regensburg at the northernmost point on the Danube was almost encircled; troops fought in its ancient streets and within sight of nearby Valhalla. The Texas and Oklahoma (90th) Division captured Furth near the Czech frontier, 38 miles southwest of Pilsen and 90 from Prague the last two centers of heavy industry in the hands of dissolving Germany.

The Third Army's invasion of Austria, the ninth country enter ed by armies of the west, climaxed 11th Armored Division, With Germany's second port of Bremen conquered, the British Guards Armored Division flashed north towards invested Hamburg in a maneuver which if successful would lop off 'the Schleswig Holstein and Danish Peninsula, leaving Germans in that bleak northland no land route of escape. The capture of Bremen (342,306) Germans northern reaouDt De cause it was one of the main de fense points. It left Germany with only a dozen cities. Cut Nazi Defense Lines The Canadian First Army after days of violent combat broke the German defense line on the Kusten canal to the west of the port The Nazis took ud a new line in de fense of the North Sea ports of Emden, Wilhelmshaven and Bremenhaven running from Leer on the Ems river almost due east to Oldenburg and then sharply north to Varel, ten miles south of Wil helmshaven. The Canadians were practically within sight of Olden burg, key to the new line.

The rapid dissolution of what remains of the German army continued apace. Supreme headquarters said 34,237 prisoners were captured Wednesday, running the total for April alone to 1,112,523 and since Day to 2,442,228. Over 30,000 were captured 'by three of Gen. Eisenhower's attacking armies yesterday. The Third Army took 14,300, the Seventh Army 11,335 and the British 5000.

A German regiment surrender ed en masse to the Ninth Army in the Elbe bridgehead east of Barby, but it has been reduced to 44 men. The commander explained in a naive manner that he quit because he understood the Americans and Germans were joining forces to fight the Russians. Enter For First Time Martial Americans strode Aus tria for the first time in history at 6 p. m. yesterday.

Previously, armies of the west had fought through or into France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Germany, Monaco, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. French on the right flank of the southern assault line captured Constance (35,000) where thou sands of wounded Allied prisoners had been reported held and took control of all the Swiss border from the lake to the west. They curled around the inland sea within 13 miles of the large aircraft and Zeppelin center of Friedrich shafen, advancing up to 25 miles in rough country. Americans Invade (Continued From Page 1) American forces struck so rapidly then the Japanese had no time to carry out their scorched earth policy. A Japanese menace to Manila's dwindling water supply commanded renewed attention today even though American forces appeared to be driving the enemy from two major objectives elsewhere in the Philippines.

Two Yank regiments continued to battle entrenched Nipponese in the mountains east of Manila, trying to liberate the water source before a shortage materializes. Elements of the 6th Division, whose objective was Wawa Dam on the Marikina river, fought a heavy Nipponese force in a score of well integrated pillboxes on the crest of vital Mt. Pacawagan, 14 miles from the capital. The peak is 1680 feet high and the Yanks hold all but the crest. They assaulted the peak Wednesday but lost a number of men and halted their advance until a path could be cleared for tanks and tank destroyers.

Another force was driving to ward Ipo Dam on the Angat river. 20 miles from Manila. Pipelines from these two dams feed the Novaliches Reservoir. from which the capital gets water. Manila was warned some time ago that only a few weeks supply oi water remained in the reser voir.

The fighting for the supply dams has been slow and bitter Enemy elements have held forth there ever since the Nipponese lost Manila, in February. un Mindanao island, the 24th Division Wednesday advanced another 12 miles to come within 18 miles of Davao Gulf and within 45 road miles of Davao, impor tant hemp center. The 13th Air force gave vigorous support to the ground force, which reported meeting moderate resistance. The 33rd Division fought on the outskirts of Baguio, Philippines summer capital on northern Luzon, while another contingent smashed into its environs from the west and northwest. The two American forces were 2200 yards pected.

a swift 130 mile advance by thenomes apart. The Japanese defended the ap proaches to the bomb wrecked city with great tenacity, making the battle one of the bitterest of the Luzon campaign. Tin Can Drive Set (Continued From Page 1) Seventh and Maclay streets were cars will be waiting ready to re ceive them. The last collection here netted seven cars and Schmidt sr.id that at least that number will be required tomorrow. Members of the Boys' Club of Harrisburg and students of the Camp Curtin and Edison Junior High Schools will assist in the collection.

Salvage Chairman William Slentz is directing a tin can col lection in Penbrook today and tomorrow Paxtang's chairman, Hoffer Detweiler, has arranged with Boy Scouts for both tin can and paper collections in that borough. Troop members are working for the Gen. Eisenhower Waste Paper Awards and a heavy tonnage oi waste paper is ex Waste paper will also be collected in 14, north of the city tomor ow, Wendell P. Mor genthaler, zone chairman, an nounced today. Residents are re quested to place the paper bundles along the curbs in front of their Nuff Sed Fort Worth, April 27, (JP).

The Shackelford county ration board at Albany wrote to a farm woman asking her to supply more in lormation as to why her husband needed a soecial stamp for work shoes. Her reply: "To keep the cows off his feet and the stickers IN QUARTERMASTER CORPS Staff Sgt John J. Dixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J.

Dixon, 133 Adams street, Steelton, is stationed at Fort Francis E. Warren, where he is serving as laundry foreman in the Quartermaster Laundry Company. He was located at Fort Huachuca, and Wala Wala, Wash. During a furlough last Christmas Sgt. Dixon married the former Miss Grace E.

Ferguson, 314 Bessemer street, Steelton, who recently returned from a visit with him in Cheyenne, Wyo. The Steelton soldier was employed by the Bethlehem Steel Company. Hershey Reports Profit Of $1,439,844 New York, April 27, (Her shey Chocolate Corp. and subsidiary today reported net profit of $1,439,844 for the quarter ended March 31, or $1.63 a common share, compared with $1,430,987 for the same period of 1944, or $1.62 a share. Share earnings are after dividends on the participating pre ference stock.

STOCKS New York, April 27, (JP) Noon stocks: A i ah ncuuiuun tl r'8 Al Chem and Dye 162 Am Can 97 Am and For Pow 3 Am Rad and St 14 Vs Am Smelt and 47 A 1 i nni nm iei ana lei 103 Vs Am Tob 75 Anaconda Cop 34 Atch and 97 Y4 Atl Refining 34 Bald Loco 29 Bait and Ohio r. 18 Beth Steel 79 Airplane 185g Borden Co 3634 Briggs Mfg 4078 Budd Mfg 11 Case (JI) Co 3934 Ches and Ohio 52 y8 Chrysler Corp 105 Valium ana ri Coml Solvents 17y4 Con Edison 29 Cont Can 45 Curtiss Wright 5 Del Lack and West 10 Douglas Aircraft 76 Du PontvDe 169 El Auto Lite 50 General Electric 43 General Foods 42J4 General Motors 68 General Refract 23 Greyhound Corp 26 Harb Walker 2 Hi Int Harvester 85 Int Nick Can 32 V4 Int Tel and Tel 28 Johns Manville 115 Kennecott Cop 39 Lehigh Port 33 Vi Lehigh Val Coal 2s, Lienign vai iu'2 Libby McN and 834 Loew's Inc 77 Montgomery Ward 6034 Nat Biscuit 25 Nat Dairy Prod 30y8 Nat Distillers 4H4 Nat Pow and Lt 9 Central 26 North Amer Co 23 Northern Pacific 27 Packard Motor 6 Penney (JC) 11 Penn 38 Pub Svc 20 Pullman 53 Pure Oil 19 Radio Corp of Am 11 Reading Co 28 y4 Repub Steel 23 Sears Roebuck 10634 Socony Vacuum 17 Sperry Corp 29 Std Brands 33 Vs Std and pi 5 Std Oil Cal 43 Std Oil Ind 38 Std Oil 62 Studebaker Corp 27 Sutherland Pap 32 Swift and Co 32 Texas Co 54 United Aircraft 29 United Gas Imp 17 Rubber 59 Smelt and 63 Steel 67 Warner Bros Pic 14 West Un Tel A 46 West El and Mfg 134 Woolworth (F W) 45 Youngst Sh and 49 9th Army Captures Four More Generals On the Elbe, Germany, April 27, day. Two commanded corps, two were divisional directors. Also in the bag was an entire German regiment whose coin Mechanicsburg: Scouts to Gather Paper Tomorrow Mechanicsburg, April 27. Tho second in the series of General Eisenhower Paper Salvage col lections will be held here tomorrow by Boy Scouts, under direction of Howard M.

Thompson, salvage chairman. Working for the medals and other awards in the Nation Wide contest, Boy Scouts of local troops wagec. a paper llt tion April 7, when several tons were gathered. Tomorrow's will be the last in the two drives, which can win for the participants medals bearing the picture of General Eisenhower, and shells used in battle for the troops. Residents are asked to place waste paper alo.ig tl curbs by 8 a.

m. Newspapers are to be tied in bundles, and other paper, boxes and similar refuse are to be baled separately. The borough has donated its truck. L. r.

Sherman, local junk dealer, will aid the canvass. Scout leaders and borough workmen will also help. Play to be Repeated A large audience itnessed the first performance of "The Whole Town's Laughing" last evening. The comedy will be repeated to night at 8 o'clock in the high school auditorium, by a cast of high school teachers. Class Meets A meeting of the John Cline Class of the First United Brethren Church School, and a shower for Mrs.

Wilson Sipe, the former Miss Charlotte Sadler, were held. at the home of Mrs. Paul Heber lig, East Locust street. Present were: John E. Cline, teacher; Mrs.

Ruth Kimmel. Mrs. Violet Fertenbaugh, Miss Marguerite Bare, Miss Phoda Smith, Mrs. Margaret Brackbill, Mrs. Dorothy Fisher, Mrs.

Elsie Ulvich, Mrs. Helen Coover, Mrs. Irma Witmer, Mrs! Alice Kuhns, Miss Dorothy Ulrich, Mrs. Evelyn Heb erlig, Mrs. Myra Stough, Mrs.

Myrtle Kutz and Mrs. Wilson i Sipe. Plan Church Services Plans are under way for. the local observance of Christian Family Week, the celebration sponsored by the Cumberland County Sabbath School Associa tion. Local observance will be from May 6 to 13 inclusive.

A Community Mother's Day serv ice will be held May 13, spon sored by the Ministerial Asso ciation and the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union. Birth Announcements Seidel Memorial Hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mohn, Mechanicsburg, R. D.

4, son, April 21. Mrs. Mohn was Miss Edith Gates, Summerdale. Mr. and Mrs.

Carlton Wigglin ger, Grantham, daughter, April 22. Mrs. Wittlinger was Miss Fay Martin, Birdsboro. Divorces Approved by Dauphin County Court Seven divorces were approved today by the Dauphin County Court. They are, Mrs.

Betty L. 8 Fisher, 2504 Greenwood street, from Roy D. Fisher, Fort Mon mouth, N. married November 22, 1943, separated September 15, 1944, indignities; Mrs. Edyth M.

Mumma, Rockville, from Charles Mumma, Linglestown R. mar ried February 10, 1942, separated July 8, 1943, indignities; Mrs. Leah M. Page, Harrisburg, from Daniel A. Page, 1728 North Fifth, deser tion; Mrs.

Bernice M. Fatz, 418 South Thirteenth, from Clement J. Fatz, 1609 Market, indignities; Mrs. Stella M. Moe, also known as Stella M.

Watson, 1195 Bailey, from Herman Moe, also known as Herman Watson, Woburn, desertion; Mrs. Geraldine E. Baker, 1315 South Cameron, from Lewis G. Baker, Camp Bowie, indignities, and Mrs. Ruth I.

Kask, 113 Locust, from Louis M. Kask, Hollidaysburg, British Are Intrigued By 'American Touch' Garston, England, April 27, (JP). British newspaper reporters, given an opportunity to inspect the first of 30,000 pre fabricated 't bungalows coming from the United States, were intrigued to day with gadgets to which they referred as "the American touch." The twb bedroomed houses are being sent here under Lend Lease arrangements as part of the Brit ish government's program of pro viding 145,000 pre fabricated homes for those bombed out dur ing the war. Self light gas stoves, patent window catches and modern por celain baths were among the fea tures which caught the eyes of British writers. Realty Transfers Allen E.

Jones to John W. LaRue. two and a half story brick dwelling, 2201 Boas street, Susquehanna township, $1. David J. Richwine to John C.

Smith, 1308 Berryhill street, $1. Horace u. Wagner, izuo tianover street. $1. Mrs.

Sarah M. Gates to Charles T. Phillips, 2807 Canby street, Penbrook, $1. Howard M. Haines to Raymond J.

uen (JP) The American Ninth Armyinin, 324 Pefier street, $1. flr.riirPri fniir mon tronprals tn a.y"ona J. uennm 10 wimam r. 'v i K11CK, same nrnrjertv. Si.

Peter Hallas to Daniel L. De Lutls, 748 Dunkle street, $1. Paul D. Leedy to Bruno Vincent Tav asuli, 306 Crescent street, $1. Calvin M.

Shanabrook to V. Grant Forrer. 19 concrete block garages, 2247 mander asserted he eave ud be 2257 Atlas street, si. ran! hp unrlprstonri that the Mrs Wa K. Klenzing to J.

K. Kipp cause ne unaersiooa inai me gon 2345 Canby street Penbrook united oiaies ana laermany naai Earnest L. Dockey to Ida Klenzing joined to fight Russia. He said it with a straight face, too. Dutch Report Capture Of Nazi Commentator New April 27.

(JP) Radio ORaNGE, the Netherlands gov ernment station in London, said in a broadcast recorded by the FCC today that Gen. Kurt Dittmar, German radio military commentator, had been taken prisoner. It added: He has as yet given no com out of them." He got the shoes, ment on this military event." 1611 Market street. 11. Heirs of Mrs.

Harriet Stare to Harvey Page, 285 West Main street, Hum melstown, $1. Mrs. Carrie A. Shutt to Anna Mae Clave, dwelling and tract at the corner of the Jonestown and Crum and tract along the western side of Crum road. Lower Paxton Township, $1.

Anna Mae Clave to Mrs. Carrie A. Shutt and son, Amos C. Shutt, same realty, SI. Jerry D.

Botjar, to Harold W. Forry, 2844 Banks street, Penbrook, $1. Rolling Green Cemetery Company to Martin Krasevic, tract along the west side of Forty sixth street near Cumberland. Swatara township, $250. William Sweigert to Benjamin Harrison Mace, tract along the southern side of Spring street, Williamstown, $500.

Mrs. Kathryn B. Bowman to Allen H. Warner, two and a hall story frame double dwelling along the eastern side of Park avenue, Derry township, SI..