4 March 26. (AP)—Smiling | excellent hower ‘Spirits, General visited the east of today, clared he expected in | Hisen- U. S. First the Rhine army and de- the First army “to lick everybody against... 8 coe “They did and they it all the come AR | | way across France, and I see no reason why they should stop on the road to | Berlin, Said. tere was a feeling of tory in the air as Mccain: in a jeep and for across the a pontoon first time vic- rode bridge, inspected this bridgehead seized by the First army. Eisenhower obviously was jubilant over developments all along the line. He looked much younger and less careworn than before the invasion of Normandy, and he laughed and joked with his generals as they met at the sprawling Petersberg hotel. | | It is the same hotel where Prime | Minister Chamberlain stayed dur-| |ing his conferences with -|Bad Godesberg in 1938. With Eisenhower |Omar Hodges, N. were Bradley st and | A. | FIRST ARMY, at By Don Whitehead WITH THE U. S. ip —_ _* = etl On Rhi ne Trip Hitler Lt. at Gens. Courtney ay |.