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u i I v THTBSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944 TEE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH. KEBEASKA PAGE FIVE ! S -::...K.K...s:!...:s.:jj ment in the lower Ukraine. Their primary life line was broken when soviet forces stormed . in across the railroad running northwest from Odessa, leaving them only round- , about, secondary transport routes. - T With Gen. Stilwell in Northern Burma, March 7. (UP) American infantrymen from the southwest Pa cific, striking at the Japanese on the continent of Asia for the first time. Allied Headquarters, Naples, Mar. I trailed 2.000 eneniv troons in v , "' the Hufcwang valley. u The War In Review Anti-New Dealers Plan Moves To Balk Fourth Term No Particular Strength. Shown by Those Who Would Oppose Presi dent at Convention Fifth army beachead below Rome faded to negligible proportions to day as official allied sources reveal ed that the nazis had lost 24,000 men almost one-fourth of their or iginal striking force in three The American troops, swinging east and south, captured the village cf Walawbun, 10 miles behind the Japanese lines, while Chinese forces in a coordinated attack struck deep into enemy territory to help them - Moody and unsuccessful attempts to jb&tUe up remnants of a diylsion unve we times into vue sea. Headquarters spokesmen said 20, 500 German tropers including many of Hitler's toughest veterans, had been killed or wounded since the original allied landing six weeks ago. In addition, 3,500 prisoners had been taken. The total was almost which had helped conquer Singapore. If the Americans and Chinese can keep the trap closed on the encircled forces, it will result in the biggest bag of Japanese troops thus far in the Burma campaign. Washington, March 7. (UP)- one-fourth of the 100,000 Germans ; -admiral L-nesier w. .ximiu, cum known to have been drawn up around . mander in chief of the Pacific fleet, the beachhead perimeter. Allied casualties during that per iod naturally remained a closely guarded military secret, but it can ! Le stated that they are considerably smaller than those of the enemy. London, March 6. (UP) A mighty armada of American war planes assaulted Berlin today in the first mass daylight raid of the war on the German capital, and the nazis Eaid one of the greatest air battles in history was raging over all north west and central Germany. The first official reports, based on radio advices from the big bombers of a "very strong" fleet, indicated that the American raiders thwart ed by weather only Saturday in an attempt to deluge Berlin with bombs had scored a great success today. "With American Forces in Burma, March 6. (UP) American veterans of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns going into action on the Burma front for the first time, have smashed a Japanese force in the Naga hills sector after a 200-mile i forced march through the northern Burma jungles, it was disclosed to day. The surprise thrust trapped a force of some 2,000 Japanese be tween the American columns and Chinese troops, striking eastward through the Kukwang river valley and a major battle was believed im minent. said today that the 'U. S. submarine fleet has sunk so many Japanese tankers and supply ships that I be lieve that tbey possibly could not maintain major navy units at Truk. At a press conference with Secre tary of the Navy Frank Knox, Nim itz said: We are not surprised but were disappointed not to find naval units of the Japanese fleet in Truk when we hit it. Allied Headquarters, Southwest ! Pacific, March 7. (UP) Allied forces, in a three-pronged assault on Japanese holdings in the southwest Patific, pushed into the northern part of Los Negros in the Admiralty islands, made a new landing on the New Guinea coast, and heavily bombed Rabaul on New Britain, it was disclosed today. In the Los Negros fighting, U. S. ground troops crossed a narrow isthmus leading into Salami plan tation, north of captured Momote airfield, while heavy and medium bombers raided enemy positions north of Hyane harbor. 17. S. destroyers also joined in the attack, shelling Japanese shore bat teries covering Seadler harbor, and hitting Mauus, main Admiralty is land Sunday, for the third consecu five day. London, March 8. (UP) Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the Sth air force smashed powerfully at Ber lin today for the second time in three days, crashing more than 10, (00 high explosives and 350,000 in cendiary bombs on the capital, striking at the heart of nazidom for the fourth time in eight days and only 43 hours after driving on Ber lin's first mass daylight bombard ment concentrated on industrial tar gets on the capital. Strong forces of American and British fighter planes shepherded the bombers through the Berliu de fense shield, as they did on Monday v. hen 17G German planes were shot down in violent battles. f Berlin broadcasts said massed American and German forces fought. another ereat battle. Unlike the early propaganda claims Monday the nazis this time put out no pre liminary claims of having reduced the attack to a relatively small scale The first enemy radio accounts said the battles were fought over northwest Germany between contest ing forces both of which were des cribed as strong. They did not name Berlin as the raiders target. Only after allied radios had broadcast the announcement that Berlin had been hit again,' did the official DNB news agency ease into the admission that the Americans "attempted to reach Berlin with strong forces." London, March 7. (UP) Ameri can bombers and their escorting fighters shot down 176 German planes in the raid on Berlin yestei day, a U. S.'army communique an nounced today, rsinety-three were credited to the bombers and 83 to the fighters. While the" German capital still smouldered from its first mass day light raid, a strong force of British heavy bombers last night blasted railway targets without loss at Trappes, 15 miles southwest of Paris on the main line to Nantes and St. Nazaire in the Bay of Biscay. FOE SALE FOR SALE: U. S. 13 Hybrid corn, state certified, $5.50 .a bushel Red Clover seed, $20.00 a bushel; Sweet Clover, white or yellow, $9.fi0 a bushel. John McCarthy, Nebraska City, Phone 5011. S-7sw Republican Wins Seat A Mustang Base in England, Mar. (UP) The first returning fight er pilots who accompanied Ameri can heavy bombers to Berlin today said the German defenses were as fierce and determined as they were on Monday. The battle was fought today in al most cloudless skies. Otherwise. per fect visibility was marred only by clouds of anti-aircraft fire thrown up by the ground guns, the strength of which seemed to have been increased. The airmen said the Germans seemed to throw up every type of fighter plane, including some train ers which were duck soup for the American gunners. Moscow, March 7. (UP) Major Gregory K. Zhukov's army of the Ukraine plunged through a 20-mile Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March 8. (UP) U. S. mar ines, in a 110-mile jump from their Cape Gloucester base, have landed on the north coast of New Britain near Talasea to capture positions less than 170 miles from the Jap anese stronghold at Rabaul, it was announced today. American forces also won control of Los Negros in the Admiralty is lands, across the Bismarck sea from New Britain, and prepared to start Washington, March 7. (UP) Anti-New Deal democrats appear to day unable to make up their minds on strategy to prevent President Roosevelt's renomination for a four th term. The' belief that he will seek re- nomination i3 sufficiently indicated by the , organization of pre-conven- tion machinery, to block him. But the program is developing along two different and almost opposing lines. Former Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, who left the Roosevelt cabinet in 1940, is promoting a "third party" movement or general conservative democratic bolt to Mr. P.oosevelt'ss candidacy, should he be renominated. To this end Woodring helped set tip a "Jeifersonian demo cratic" conference which met last month in. Chicago. After conferences last week iu New York he indicated that the third party plan was solid ly founded and that there were half a dozen or so democrats who would be available to contest the presiden tial election as a Jeffersonian democrat. It is obvious that any Jefferson- ian-deniocratie presidential candi date who could take 100 or so elec toral votes from Mr. Roosevelt next November would have obtained his defeat if the election were at all close. Among the men mentioned by Woodring as potential candidates were . former democratic . national committee chairman, James A. Far Icy, Sen .Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., and former Gov. Joseph . B. Ely, Massa chusetts. . , Inclusion ofthese men among potential third party candi dates -appears to shadow the whole program.; Farley has told intimates, as reported this week by Charles Michelson, former publicity director of the committee, that he .would not bolt the democratic party even i Mr. Roosevelt were renominated.- Farley will bpose his renomination J before and during the democratic national convention. I Farley is out-voted he will take no. further part in the campaign other than to announce that he will vote the straight demo cratic ticket. Byrd already has announced that he is not a candidate forthe presi dential nomination. Ely is in a some what different position. Moving bold- y in Massachusetts against a fourth term, anti-New Deal democrats have entered a slate of convention dele gate candidates who would be pledg ed to Ely's nomination for the presi dency. That was. announced Feb. 20. It looked like a -bolt or third party threat. But it appears now. that Ely will not permit his name to go before presidential preference primaries in other states. Therefore the" strategy in Massachusetts seems to coincide less with Woodring's third, party lan than with the- effort of other anti-New Dealers to obtain control of a big block of convention dele gates for a convention floor fight against Mr. Roosevelt's renomina- ion and a do-or-die effort to pre sent a New Dealer being nominated for vice president in the event Mr. Roosvelt heads the ticket again. Many democrats, especially south erners, wno might be willing to ight Mr. Roosevelt's renomination n the convention would not bolt the party to vote against him. The last time there was any substantial bolt in the south was when former Sens. Thomas J. Heflin, Ala., and Furni- fold Simmons, N. C, balked in 192S at Alfred C. Smith and supported Herbert C. Hoover. The next time Heflin and Simmons came up for re-election the voters mowed them down. Southern statesmen have not forgotten that. Denver, March 8. (UP) The first tongresional district of Colorado, traditional democratic stronghold, swung into the republican ranks to day with the election of Dean M. Gillespie, 59-year-old business man, to the national house of represen tatives. Gillespie won by less than 3,000 votes over Maj. Carl Wuertele, dis abled bomber pilot whose brilliant war record was emphasized by the democrats. Unofficial returns from Denver's 402 precincts gave Gilles pie a total of 41,447 votes compared with 38,524 for Wuertele. The Republican victory was the first congressional triumph in- Den ver since IJi 30. It was considered particularly significant also in view of the fact the district gave Presi dent Roosevelt a 10,000 vote margin over Wendell Willkie in 1940, al though Colorado as a whole went republican. Wuertele had pledged support of administration, war and home-front policies in his campaign and had endorsed the election of President Roosevelt to a fourth term. Gillespie had attacked "bureau cracy and bungling" of the New Deal and had called for private busi ness to be given an opportunity to show what it could do in the re employment of an estimated 20,- 00000 service men and women and war workers after the war. British Lose Cruiser London, March 7, (UP) The , 270-ton cruiser Penelope, tough veteran of the Mediterranean cam paign and inspiration for the best seller ''The Ship," was lost in the allied landing below .Rome, it was revealed today. The Admiralty in a terse communique announced her loss and A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty disclosed in Com mons that s-he went ""down in the Anzio amphibious operation. British tars affectionately clhul the Pene lope "H. M. S. Pepperpot" because she once ran the treacherous Malta supply line sfter her steel hull had been pierced 2,000 times by high ex plosive splinters. Cecil Scott Forester, author of l ovels, biographies and travel books, went to sea in the Penelope to gather information for "The Ship" which he dedicated to her officers and men. Capt. G. B. Eelben. her command er, was among tnose lost wnen sne was sunk in an undisclosed manner. Soon To Hold Trial Of Group Charged With Polygamy Twenty Fundamentalist Leaders Arrested and Charged With Preaching and Practicirg Salt Lake City, March S. (UP) Trial of 20 fundamentalist leaders, members of a group of self-styled "saints" who practice and preach polygoniy, arrested yesterday in a three-state roundup, will be held March 20, Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson said today. The men, two of whom were re ported to be the fathers of "at least "3 children" each, were seized in widespread raids in Arizona, Utah and Idaho following their indict ment by a federal grand jury which charged them with violating the Mann Act and the Lindbergh kidnap law, and for conspiracy and mailing obscene literature. They will be ar- l aigned today. Seized with the 20 leaders were 30 other members of the sect who face prosecution on state charges of conspiracy and cohabitation with as many as six women. The fundamentalists, who residi in Arizona, Utah and Idaho, once were members of the Mormon church but they now have no connection v. ith the organized Latter Day Saints church which outlawed poly gamy more than 50 years apro. "Polygamy is a hard thing to live and anyone who thinks it's fu:i cught to try it," one of the leaders declared ."Polygamy is the only path to celestial glory; without it, many women are driven into pros titution." Included among those arrested were Farmer John Y. Barlow and Salesman Charles F. Zitting, each reported to be the father of 33 chil dren; Joseph W. Musser, sect lead er and editor of "Truth," the sect's monthly publication, and Rulon C. Allred, "naturopathic physician." Beat Hitler and the Jap Buy Bonds ! PENSIONERS WED London, (UP) It is never ' too late to find a spouse. A 74-year-old widow met hed 83-year-old bride groom at the movies 17 months ago. Beth the members of an old-age pensioner's club. They're Still Dying; You Keep on Buying War Eonds and Stamps Declines Petition Lincoln, Nebr., March 7. (UP) Walter L. Pierpont. Omaha, today notified Secretary of State Frank March, he had refused the petition filed last week in his behalf as a democratic candidate for governor. The Omaha man gave no reason f :r .his refusal. Pierpont's withdrawal left the democratic gubernatorial nomina tion open to P. J. ileaton, Sidney, and George Oiyen, Plattsmouth. ileaton is supported by Louis W. Licholz, Barada. who yesterday an nounced his refusal of the petitiou filed for him last week. gap in the Odessa-Warsaw railway today to within less than 0 miles ( using Momote airfield which they of Rumania, where a wholesale flight from the threatened border region was reported " under way. The landslide pace of-the Russian breakthrough on the Tarnopol- captured in the initial landing last week. me marines, in landing near Talasea on Willaumez peninsula Monday morning, met only light Froskurov front was said to have ' opposition when they went ashore touched off a new wave of panic in . ii small landing craft, and a head quarters spokesman said no Ameri can casualties were reported. In the deepest penetration yet of New Britain, the marines skirted a Bessarabia, northern Bukovina and neighboring remaining territory, where authorities and peasants alike were fleeing the paths of the red my. . ine confusion in Rumania ; wide expanse of enemy positions was calculated to aggravate the nazj placing the new American line So -taste of supplying some 500,000 Ger- mile6 from Rottcck bay, where the aiaii .troops threatened with, envelop- ground -forces last were reported. SEEK TO KILL U. S. OFFICERS Surprise Germans Anzoa Beachhead, Italy, March 7. (UP) One of the most spectacular battles of the beachhead campaign was credited today to a British re connaissance unit, which went be hind the enemy lines in armored scout cars and raised havoc among the bewildered Germans. The battle, i which lasted only five hours, was conducted by two British lieuten ants, Richard Eeale, a six-foot ama teur heavyweight boxer of Sherwood Notts, England, and Philip Grinley, ussex. In that brief period they killed. between them, 145 Germans and des troyed two self propelled SS's, two light field guns, and two mortars. Locate College Girl Fremont, Neb., Mar. 7. (UP) Betty van Cleave, 20, Des Moines, la., Midland college freshman, was located late yesterday at Mayo Clin ic, Rochester, Minn., in response to a wire sent by the Midland college president. Betty reported that she went to Mayos tor a general check up. Betty was last s-een Saturday even ing leaving the city library. An ex tensive search by police and fellow students had been conducted. With the 14th Air Force in South east China, March 6. (UP) Ameri can pilots and ground crew officers here, nearest U. S. air base to Japan, were warned today that the enemy sent hired killers through Chinese lines to murder them with promise of a high bounty on each victim. One gang of 200 killers recently was reported attempting to pene trate south from the Yangtse riTer. 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