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: [my streets in Cincinnati are already under rapidly to a possible crest of 63 feet. Heavy rains gee to three feet of water as the Ohio River rises and melting snows have swelled the river.

Ch ’town RecllFCross

Indi — (0P)— ‘lih A’ . raining driver: rate trac-

bg l near Telegaon, lvPuolona. Recently-

Campaign Workers Break All Records

City Total Is Now Over Forty-Two Thousand

of deep

“Sim “Mu-Jon H,“ tonmm Dollars-Final Enthuriastic Supper Meeting no to i030. 8-9-1i Of City Collectors. "loading hogs every s y’ l m is a r ma. M » _ Mvwu. m’ has‘? Charlottetowns Red cross ‘flair?

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_ paigners at their final supper _ “Emu! ‘u-JJ-ipfldly A ing at the Y.M.C.A. hall act-even-

March. . .. . . ingreported total receipts from the cars-aim" ""1 ‘its may [m] t “‘%..‘°..‘.“'i°.ii‘“" m: ma";

. . . ' - . J l B B l‘ C I 8S com G Q envelope collection wlsch they

"P!" Sale. Rmers Hardware. start tomorrow morning, and after

"W! .UQM‘IW Bank W 1- w h. uncom leted cards are re rted ~ 3'74“ ‘this ciltyés objective ofmsnd glveig —'— e cons e more an ou "Wttlfll feillrdlnl Seeds in ______ and all formeyr records surpassed. 4mm 39113 3011901. Friday ev- , The second division captained by m“) mm)‘ 9m- 44341- Makes» SCIIQS Aflfl- Dr. J. A. MacMillun won the pen-

nant for the campaign, collecting

"Bgi Supper Cravwd Oranse Ollllilemellts BefOYe cs1 per cent of its objective. This

turd Y Mar h 10th. A - - film L 0. A. c 3-9551. Leaving For U‘ S‘ ivlashtgslsgcefkilsnsxflskliir. Mec- "comwm Y-—-—-wk Pom‘ msmuie ——" Millan utsnowledged particularly

$1558 collected from the personnel of the R.C.A.F. Also fine contribu- tions from the pupils of the city schools, from the employees of Bruce Stewart as Co, and the pro- ceeds of the two events put on at the Sporting Club through the gen- erosity of Joey McDonald, Captain Alex Macisaacs team of thc second division was high team of the campaign, collecting 833 er cent oi’ its objective. members of the team were Geor e Thonlalpson, R. P. Forsythe, Sgt. ian acKay and Capt. J. K.

gan.

The prize winning team report- ing the highest col actions yester- day was captained hi»; W. R. Jen- kins in the Fifth Div ion, its other members being G. T. Hurdle, J. A. Lawson, A. E. Russell, W. T. Weir and E. F. Sellar and they turned in last night 519 per cent of the objective set for them.

There was again a very large at- tendance oi the workers all of whom were enthusiastic about the wonderful results of the spirited

campaign.

Major Nor-nun Lowther. city chairman, again resided and the results were tabu ated in quick or- der. Immediately after supper he made a presentation of beautiful red roses to Mrs. Harry Cudmsre in charge of Section 4 oi’ the Red Cross Corps and thanked its mem bers again for the excellent su - pers so quickly served. Out of t e

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(By The Canadian Press) A March b-Prlme Min-

Washington nouncement-packed rem once and a. few salies at John “u” Briéfkenl, lPrggressilve Cémslfrgattitvg hum,“ h, Mm Kenn M _ no ona ea er, w o a. ac c mm. Monmgfi Norman M; sénetrnment in a radio speech last Mlle.“ cardWLl-iz-i-‘ri-sat-tf. Iém Kg“: “slultuigend Ptlggyvxafig: rush,“ h d 1w an par o a ny a

h1g3, Mmhfiiy, atfiggfiige; ma‘: House on the invitation of Presi- at vme “mu noon’ n “we dent Roosevelt. ‘rhey will discuss IscDoweli. 8-8-2i.

for Davis 6c

the recent “B Three" conference u Yalta an the forthcoming mains nose Film Ltd, every Monday until n . Bourie. 1

Pllltlfy Sale at Rogers Hardware y, March 13th. 3-9-21

"Reserve Easter Saturday af- ternoon for (LWJ... cake sale in Wen Hardware Store. 3-9-11

ding 808s every Thursday

United Nations World security con- ference which opens at Ban Fran- Mbei- cisco April 26. WI! . "I hope to get some more inti- , —-— mate knowledge of what took place hmesirock Marketing at Yalta and also to get a. better 088 "imdu p.m. March 12th, n. Ray Mb. agent. 3-9-21

idea of the probable length and subject matter of the San Fran- "Coine to Dariingtcn Women's Inditute dance at Wiitshire Hull. i’.

Board at Murray Harbor

cisco conference," said Mr. Kin . Mr Ki March l2. Proceeds to

also announced t at Mb lmi c 8-9-12-21

the ‘Senate and members of the Opposition in the Commons will be rose. "JNOW unloading mixed car Pur- Y Emmi Lay Mush, Chick

asked to oin the Canadian dele- eeds. seeds, Barley Meal ground d.

gation to an Francisco. Other Announcements m le wheat. G C Green “m! ' ' a 2if

Other announcements included: Appointment of Hon. Colin Gibson as Air Minister, a job he has held on an acting basis since resignation last November of Hon. 0.0. Power; appointment oi Trade Minister MacKlnnon as acting Revenue Min- ister; a intment of Douglas Ab-

assistant

"Wdine hogs at i-funter Riv- : "AMI! l-f n and Tues- Y lmtil train time, March 12 13- Lemuel Craeweli, Gordon ma. 3-9-21 I0 for Davie a ,8 "wt m $3335’.

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Unemployment Increasing In, ilucbcc Bity ‘

(B The Canadian Press) qtllilgliC, March ii—Unemploy- ment in Quebec City 1| increasing and some of those at present re- ceiving unem loyment insurance cheques will fie no further cheques s. few mont s from now, Mayor Lucien Bang tialdntodly in an- nouncng a so ywas seeking a lace that could be used u a t refuge. yor Borne said that the rc-

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Finance M81‘ Fl! Minister. and Just- Lsurcnt es Sec External Affairs.

These appointments are ual and were construed as marks of honor for . BY N"! MI- 3i?- uurent since, ordinarily. when the Prune Mm goes away the sen- ior minister, in this case Mr. Cre- rar, takes over all three of the

_.. _ "womiisum"... on Pace WT“- i> British White Paper d h. Dlsfllsses Television nut-lime: with

—-- the city p E e costs Merehl- (w) ref eherca present

u. 1 uming television b Sal t . fiwwilhiifiiic year. on s cove’ pg: yAt “a mail“ “my that about c.

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51 of inner fronts on the Lower Rhine and lflddle Oder Rivers enabling Allied and " ' armies to surge immediately Info the heart of crumbling “ seems in close prospect.

With startling suddeunese both water hazards have been initially hurdled by American 1st Army elements in the west sud Marshal Zhukov‘: powerful White Russian striking force in the east. Short of wholly Improbable enemy rule counter-attacks, in sufficient strength ot throw time back at ouee before they can consolidate their trans- rfver bridgeheadl. the end of oEanlsed resistance in Germany within

can be The ’ that the ‘ " wai- machine fe fut causing apart at its seams is too strong to doubt. However the 1st ' was ‘ an all '

Anny , r‘ factor f0 the nature of the east-bank terrain at the indicated lite. Be- tween Icun. where the I-hlue leaves the river gorges and, Cologne the river meanders through a flat “cored valley. There is good terrain and elbow room for a bridgehead more than a dozen miles long and nix to eight miles wide ellt of the stream. Along the eastern edge of the plain run parallel rail and ' , connections linking the lower sud middle Ithlue eeetorssaud just beyond them a vital stretch of the east Rhine super military read.

Only enemy ‘ ' -‘ , ‘ were to “ a hlrdly less ominous Russian advance beyond the Oder due east of Berlin. Moscow continued to ignore ‘that most critical sector of the Eastern Front for the foe but pulled for publication press accounts tending to eoufinu Berlin assertions that Zhukov’: climactic attack had been launched on the Middle Oder and penetrated a desen miles beyond the river serene the welt Oder plain to Seelow on the Beriin-Keustrin high- way. If that is the feet. Russian advance guards are less than 25 miles from the eastern city llmlte of Berlin to match the American drive across the Rhine. '

The final Russian-Allied pincer squeeze has started.

Reds Within 25 files’ OF Berlin

BI BOMNEY WlfEELER. LONDON. March B — (AP) Russian troops fought their way within 25 nules of greater Berlin today in an all-out frontal assault which the Germans, eeid had reached the Junction town of See- low in a io-mile advance in two days west of the broken Oder River

Bcn. Brcrar liad Record lilmlure. In liis Command

defence line. ‘Ihe Soviet High Command oom- niunique ‘ red this vital sector

BY B05! MUNIO

WITH THE 1ST CANADIAN ARMY IN GERMANY. March 9 —(CP Cable) -- For the offen- vvhich crumpled up the lid oi the Siegfried

hid under let Cau-

Canad-

‘but announced that other Soviet forces had rolled within seven miles of the Pomeranian Cillpltal or stei- tin. main rt for Berlin, and within 12 miles of the former free city oi’ Danzig far to the northeast.

Berlin announced that tan troops in a new offensive also had crossed the Nogat River boundary from East Prussia, reaching Ne“. telch. l9 miles southeast of Dan- zig, in a seven-mile advance inside Danzig territory north oi’ fallen Marienburg.

The desperate Job of holdlne Berlin. threatened, biv possib‘): Russian sweeps around both flanks, was entrusted by Adolph Hitler to a man accused by the Russians as a war criminal guilty of out-rages in Poland -— 5.5 Gruppefuehrer Lit-Gen. Reinefahrt.

1 lid Ian Cor and the famous 30th British o

it no is permitted to disclose. ' w

These are both large corps and made lip the biggest command a Canadian ever hld. -

For the assault cu the llefehe- wuld (German Forest) which launched the offensive of

some

commend. Thin corps did a terrific job of breaking the Sieg- fried Line where it ran t uxh the dense wood, and llved up to lte finest traditions.

w...‘ Killed, i0 Injured In Hamilton Blast

(By The Canadian Prell)

HAMILTON, Ont., March s-Two men were killed and i0 other pct- sons in ured today when an explo- sion unknown origin shattered the Canadian Aniline and Extract Company dplunt here.

The ho ies of Gordon Bier, c7. and ‘Thomas E. Farnswort

Farm Income Tax Collections lip

OTTAWA. March B-Income tax

Pgnnents by Canadian f for

l are expected to exceed $10,-

t_ Lmaghiltn Regan; IDtepaItment e en.

For. 1943 income 24.153 farmers sisters"... Ts“ ::...°"": my e e when examination lsp comgglxzteda sf returns made last year, on 1943 income. by 31.500 farmers who de- tiéaiéeedtggaérlieizome not large enough Details of ‘the number oi farm- ers and amount of tax aid on 1943 by income follows: Pr ce Edward ilgfillld. gt. tlszggoog Nova‘ Bcotia,

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Pacific Fleets

niglfitklvlvuae ddtcribed by euthori es “Tile ‘other injured, all ofwhdm are expected to be released from léoepft “tomorrow, wggyntdfi.‘ Jexaon

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Ncwsman Writes From Across Rhine iliver ,

By HOWARD COWAN

ACROSS THE RHINE, March 8 _Elements of the United States 1st Army were firmly entrenched on the east bank oi’ the Rhine to- ni ht

g .

One of the greatest Allied vic- tories of the war was shaping up as a result, and officers expressed the opinion that the whole conflict had been shortened by months by the brilliant coup.

Survivors of the German 7th and 15th Armies, soundly thrashed west of the Rhine, were caught by sur- prise. They had had no time to reorganize their ranks or improvise defences. The fixed gun emplace- mcnts and the steel and concrete of the Siegfried Line was far be- hind and a memor .

I went across wit a Dakota farm boy to get a first-hand stor of the heroic troops who snatche up an enemy fumble and raced right a- cross the Rhine for what looms as the greatest American touchdown

of the war.

l can't say where and vex- ingly little of what I saw, but this can be said: The Ameri- cans are across the Rhine/to stay. v Geri. Hodges‘ lmrdling of the

Rhine, across an expanse probably more than 400 yards wide, was one of the most thrilling coups _of___the war. The crossing was so swift that the Germans were able to put up only frantic and confused re- sistance.

Infant Mortality iiatcs Down In N. S.

(B The Canadian Press)

HAL AX, March 8—Steady re- duction of infant and maternal mortality rates in Nova Scotln was reported in the Provincial Legis- lature today by Dr. F‘. R. Davis, Minister of Health and Welfare. Maternal mortality dropped from seven per 1.000 in 1932 to 2.7 per 1.000 last year, while infant deaths, which totalled '15 per 1,000 iii 1935. dropped to 58 in 1944. Infant deaths recorded do not include those children under twelve months. While the Provinces death ratcs still are higher than in some other Provinces, the percentage reduction has been much greater, he said. Improvement of home conditions in congested communities, and stricter supervision of pure rzilk regulations, would cut the rate even more, he asserted.

l‘ News Briefs

GUAM. March 9 — (Friday) —lAP)—-l<'ront line dispatches disclosed today that the United States 3rd Marine Division has reached the cliff toy) overlook- ing the northeast benches of lwo and the iith Jihicllnl.‘ Liv-s- ion has shot an cnvclnpmg arm 1,0c0 yards up the northwest shore.

HAMILTON, Ont., March 8 - (OP)-The annual conference of Navy league Royal Canadian Sea Cadets will mect here March 29 to

, it was announced today by Lloyd T. Spalding, national chair- man of the organization.

HALIFAX. March 8-101".- Charins F. ‘Ere-mains, ILC" '10, Jomlnent Nova Scotiu lawyer, died here tonight. flo was tax- ing ‘uglier for the Nova. Scotia

upreme Court more than 30 years.

IONDON, March 8-tReuicrs)— Prime Minister Churchill announ- ced in the House of Commons to- day that Britain's civil defence workers-sir raid wardens. iii-st aid men and so 011-41113 to be in- cluded in the government's war gratuity scheme fur cx-scrvice men. though on s. reduced scale.

VANCOUVER, March 8-161’ -Three_more bodies were tak- en today from the wrecked S. S. Greeuhfll Park where salvage crews speeled their work on the 10000-0011 freighter us small fires Ill the holds were belllfl gradually extinguished. Recov- ery OI the three bodies brought lo five the number of Yzncwn

as a result cf the four ex- the freighter! oils at noon Tuesday. i

MANCHESTER" England —(CP) — Charles I-lurle Hobbs, chief sub- editor of the Manchester Gmrdian,

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CROSS Rlll

Establish; Firm, emp Bridgehgad

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR

PARIS, March S-(AH-Thousands of United States 1st Army troops surged across the Rhine south of Cologne today and established a deep and firm bridgehead that cracked Germany's historic western barrier and heralded a speedier end to the war in Europe.

The 1st Amy hurdled the in a surprise blow against a

river at 3.50 p.m. yesterday n enemy so disorganized he

was without prepared positions. (The Brussels radio said the Americans crossed at

Remagen, 28 miles southwest 0 tion in London that they may

double-track Ludendorf railway bridge.

i‘ Cologne, leading to specula- have seized intact the great, Supreme Head-

quarters, exploiting surprise io the full, kept the location

and fhe manner of the crossin

LL-Geli. Courtney H. Hodges struck while the Germans still reeled under tempestuous Allied blOW5 that had driven them bank to the east bank. Gen. Eisenhower sent warm congratulations to every soldier in the 1st Army. declaring:

"The whole Allied force is de- lighted to cheer the First United

States army, whose speed and

boldness have won the race to

establish the first ridgchead over the Rhine."

Already the bridgehead was nearly out of small arms range, a front dispatch said, and Don Whitehead, an Associated Press War correspondent, reported the Americans were fanning out swiftly, seizing strate ic positions and driving to gct t e crossings out of artillery range.

The Americans burst across the river-never crossed in battle since Napoleon's day-at a point about 280 miles from Berlin.

The dramatic announcement was made. tonight 2f hours after the crossings in order to leave the ciieany in the dark while the Am- fricans built up a powerful bridge- lead.

The surprise blow was threat- ening to outflonk the entire Ruhr basin-the greatest re- source of war material left to the enemy — and was a mil- itary achievement unsur- passed since the Allies storm- ed ashore in Normandy.

On the north end of the front. the United States 9th and 1st Can-

Fantastic Amounts j Of Enemy Equipment '

LONDON, March s - (m..- tors) -- Luxembourg radio to- night describcd the quantities of booty captured in the United States lst Army crossing of flu- Rllliin as “downright fantastic." liundreds of German tanks fell intact info Allied hands, having been immobilized by luck of fuel. the radio said.

fi-Weeks-Old Baby Flies The Atlantic

NEW YORK, March a - mm Arden Charles Brill .112. born four weeks ago in a Paris hospital, won the distinction oi being tnc young- est transatlantic passenger carried on an Air_'i‘ransport Command North Atlantic division plane the A.'I‘V.C. announced today. The baby arrived at La Guardia Field last night with his mother, Mrs. Fxuncss Brill, who served as an American Red Cross field director attached to the 3rd Army.

Opposition To Air Raids Light

(Ba The Associated Press) LON ON, March B-Ncarly 1.700 United States 8th Air Force heavy bombers and fighters swept intol the Ruhr today. attacking railroad‘ yards and mo or fuel plants sup- plying the battered German armies on the Rhine, as the greatest NIS- tained air campaign of the war carried through its 24th consecut- ive day.