Amarillo News-Globe, The (Newspaper) - April 2, 1944, Amarillo, Texas AMARILLO SUNDAY Day and Hlf ht Leased SUNDAY APRIL t. 1M1 THIRTY-FOUR Fifth Army Advancing ALLIED April 1 Fifth Army troops lashing out suddenly under ing artillery support have punched forward one mile and seized Mt. Marrone 15 miles northeast of partially straightening the Allied line above that it was disclosed The rugged terrain argues against any major drive northward in that but of the L front is of value and the are engaging a German Mt. three miles west of dominates much of the Verrechia The lull along fronts was broken by this surprise push along the spiny Apennine backbone running through the center of the The attack struck be- tween the Allied salients driven into the Cassino area and the Alfedena Besides assaulting Mt. Chestnut whose nationality was not also attacked the towns of and San two miles to the At latest fighting was were consolidating the ground New Zealanders In Cassino threw back two German of 40 men attacking near the railway and Allied heavy guns hammered the wrecked Monastery atop Mt. which the Nazis have made into an underground Some 30 yards of the battered northwest wall of the abbey were brought down by the concentrated A sharp German attack on British positions on the left flank of the Anzio beachhead also was Allied headquarters and two American destroyers pumped shells into the Nasi positions Wednesday and One fired about 100 rounds each Patrolling and artillery fire were reported on the Eighth Army Allied planes some 650 sorties with two ships They struck at bridges on the Italian east coast rail shipping off the quarters at northwest of continuing and occupying among other major conference between Russia Better Terms for Finns April 1 two days of new peace negotiations in Dr. Juho of Finland has obtained moderations In Russia's Armistice it was reported reliably and the Finnish parliament will meet Monday to hear what was described as tant government The conditions for peace now offered by Russia are in many vital according to a reliable account from Helsinki and already i have been considered by the Finnish cabinet In a secret session last went to Moscow by plane Wednesday accompanied by Minister to Russia Carl J. A. an old and experienced diplo- who was foreign minister in the early twenties and signed with Lenin the treaty Finland's Their return was awaited in ninki tonight tor the start of a series of fateful deliberations among government leaders over of Parliament called for Monday was of Men urgency H vac advanced a day from in usual Tuesday meeting from Finland was but the Swedish newspaper Dugens Nyheter said the in Helsinki resembled the period In 1440 when the Finns were settling peace terms with Russia to end their previous Helsinki informants said there was much speculation there as to whether the United States or some other power had acted as a and Police Coiled 2800 Hayes there's a dead man out here at 2800 Hayes Sergeant dispatched a radio car to the A few minutes Z to there's no dead man out This street runs Into the Yesterday was the first day of TT Australia Welds Armor Steel Must Schedule For Draft Calls Is Ordered April 1 From now meet the calls for military manpower u they are Draft Director Lewis E. Herehey told boards and agriculture must make the adjustments suggested by the demands upon shej mid in an editorial in monthly bulletin sent to draft Hershey withdrawal from Industry and agriculture of men best fitted and psychologically for tary 18 to that the rest of us must work er and longer in shop and in mine or on that is a tion for victory that admits of no refusal by any person for whose protection that victory must be Meantime the committee of power claimants headed by Paul V. set up to advise Selective Service on the question of deferring key men under 26, was taking a week-end Two full days of discussion had failed to cisions as to what industries should have consideration for The Selective Service in- new draft figures as of March 1. also disclosed that about 574.000 men under 26 held cultural job This is a larger figure previously have been using an earlier figure of around 365.000. The bulletin said that of the 574.000 were The total number of men with deferments 2-A and 2-B) was of whom were The March 1 table also showed agricultural deferments totalled of whom 835.000 were Among those with farm ments were about men un- der 26. and were Class 3-A, men with dependents in process of had dwindled to men by March 1, well over a million registrants having been withdrawn from that class during At that it could be assumed that no more than a few hundred thousand men are In 3-A j The number In 1-A on March 1 was of whom were i Class 4-F the rejected men who are the subject of discussion in had swelled to New Truk Raids Guard Power Blow at Jap Isles Reds Within 24 Miles of Odessa Swiss City Is Wrecked by Bombs When Liberators Plaster Germany April 1 Liberators bombed industrial and communications targets deep in Southwest Germany today and some of their number accidentally dropped incendiaries on the of Schaffhausen in neutral causing 36 to So deaths and heavy A U. S. Army communique in reporting on the day's operations an- that some bombs had hit Swiss blaming navigational difficulties induced by bad It did not further identify the councillor and chief of the cantonal area in which the accidental two officers of occurred nor list the police a military man targets of the of the federal council and an officer of the same Thomas F. The on their own ss an Press in a of tensive roared out of Britain from the Swiss City which is under the escort of Eighth and Lake Constance on the Ninth U. S. Air Force Thunderbolts definitely declared Mustang The Schaffhausen was hit and said at least 36 persons were killed and 150 are capable of carrying an pound bomb A Swiss communique said greater than the cargoes carried by 30 American planes participated in I the more heavily armed the accidental bombing of apparently was the third day of idleness for the B- Thirteen bombers and Fortresses which set tne pace m ers failed to return from the t record 23 operations which included strafing at- on tacks on enemy airfields by the corting American Returning crewmen said a of the U. S. formations ed through using overcast ar- mor steel is a new type of proof steel developed in The formula has been mafie to arrange the to other Allied NEW April I Swiss dispatch reported to the OWI said today that the German city of Nuernberg was formed Into a blazing heap of by the RAF Thursday Today's heavy bomber operations followed night jabs by the RAF's swift Mosquitos which bombed ern Germany without The smash into Germany by a bomber force composed entirely of Liberators may be significant of things to On five days last month the flew to Europe with Fortresses but struck different On three other days dead running as high as the largest number that has Swiss reports said been in 4-F. There were only 369.000 Iarge part of historical fathers in 4-F and were en destroyed and described the These figures a war tne sented a net Increase during Of the railroad station ruary of 45.000 and industries heavily 000 Nazis Slain in Warsaw with bodies already were over France while the recovered and estimates on the stayed at their bases and on one of these occasions the struck the Pas de Calais area without Most of the crewmen returning from today's operation said they ran into little fighter opposition but U. S. headquarters an- nouncing the new blow on Germany did not immediately name the April 1 running gun battle in the center of Warsaw in which a Nazi high official named ed. many great fires and the entire populace of the city bi 25.000 laboring frantically to extricate The first bombs struck at A. the Swiss communique Smack and six of his bodyguards I dropped from a great A later were slain by Polish broadcast quoted avengers was reported today by municipal council bulletin as saying Vichy Eye on Invasion Date April 1 reaching here from Vichy today said Pierre chief of had instructed throughout France to complete preparations for fighting under- ground Partisans by April 15, the latest date believe the western front will be Rainstorm Hits West Panhandle A rainstorm that blew In from the north-northwest and cut a swath through the Pan- handle brought good moisture to a major portion of that The rainfall also extended Into New Mexico and While downtown got f hard rain for more than two the U. S. Weather Bureau here re- ported late last night that the fall at English Field was only ly more than of an The moisture extended all the way from Claude to Texline on the Fori Worth with light flurries at the latter and got good and the fall was hard at east of Santa Fe dispatchers said that anti-aircraft fire was very heavy Hereford received about an Inch and over the coast and fairly heavy the but comparatively showers fell at The attack carried Into another month the great western air sive which in March mated 6.000 American heavy bomber sorties from Britain which dropped some 1.000 S. tons of explosives got a reported that it was getting windier there with a ing Rains were reported at Tucumcari April 2 The Red Army smashed to within 24 miles of Odessa ing through nearly 200 villages on a 175-mile front above that im- perilled naval base and inflicting on Axis troops retreating toward the Black Moscow announced Badly mauled Axis columns caught on the east bank of the estuary northeast of Odessa were wiped said a midnight Soviet as the Russians swept on over coastal and interior roads littered with hundreds oi German and Rumanian dead and wrecked Axis In one sector an entire Rumanian battalion deserted the Germans and over to the Red cow and large groups of manians also were surrendering in other areas as powerful Soviet forces steadily herded the enemy into the Odessa and moved swiftly in the west to cut off the last rail escape routes into In the northwest the Russians fought their way into cap- turing the southern and central parts of that town astride the last German escape route out of the By the Associated In blows to tect powerful sea striking at the fortress of can bombers have wiped out two-thirds of Japan's air power at New and made six raids en Truk in three days while de- steamed to within 400 miles to Truk to rake the Islands with South Pacific Liberator heavy attacking Truk Thursday In the second consecutive day of raids on the by shot down il Intercepting Seventy-one Japanese planes were destroyed in Friday's raid on the big Hollandia Gen. Douglas Arthur announced Hollandia is on the southern flank of the road to the Palau which block the approaches to the and Neru Islands in the seaplane base of the rangi Islands were heavily damaged by American naval This was the closest warship approach to vaunted Truk since a carrier force attacked the base Feb. 16-17. The two-way bombing attack on Truk is the beginning of a campaign to neutralize that Central Caroline pocket just hottest targe we've the Middle River in said Gen. Truman H. chief of the Seventh AAF Bomber whose Liberators have made three of the five Truk sent up night fighters for the first time Friday night U. S. for the safety of that Pacific der the two-way pounding of 6lg bombers from the Central and South A shakeup in the Japanese air was by Soviet news Lt. Takeo Yasuda was removed as inspector general of aviation immediately Southwestern corner of the A total of Germans were killed or surrendered in that area during the the que Driving southward in Bessarabia and western Russia toward Kishinev and the Russians gained 17 miles a 75-mile moved to within 45 miles of u key rail Junction east of which the Germans must hold if they are to withdraw most of their exhausted legions from the Odessa A Berlin broadcast also said viet spearheads had broken through to che Tartar Pass leading through the Carpathian Mountains into for- now fell to Russian forces striking along the Black Sea coast from fortress city captured That represented a On the northeast the Russians were declared to have seized SAN April 1 The assault on the Japanese naval stronghold of near the by powerful American task one of the grate and in New and at s h i n o and 32 miles Guymon in the Oklahoma Pan- Polish Telegraph dead included M. state April 1, 1918, on Meanwhile the 26th birthday an- of the RAF found the British airmen too busy with war to The RAF was formed cloudy and little change in temperature was the late forecast for West Bibles and Russell Co. SPRING BRINGS FEELING OF IMPENDING ACTION IN ITALY Rome Remains High on List of Allied Objectives HV BY EDWARD KENNEDY WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN April 1 Spring has come to more sunny days the fighting areas and blanketing them with a bright green i carpet studded with wild buttercups and j It finds the Allies thoroughly I have a hunch something is going to perhaps before long. It could be a German despite the Nazi's current defensive There still is snow on the higher peaks around and the then for St. Valentine's bull Thanksgiving then for then for New Year's Day and nobody thought of promising It for April But I would bet even most even that something very important will happen In but most areas have thrown off signs of winter and even some of the diest roads are drying Peasants are plowing fields in tne slx and m despite rumble of IX taking The military situation from the j stalemates breaking in the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea can As hopelessly static as the be summed up In one j is at I don't be- And at a glance It looks as move It will remain that way until though the stalemate is likely to summer the German still i f ln held the Gustav and behind lie more rugged mountains and I them and the Adolf Hitler Its name But with the railroads badly would indicate that this second line j aild battered Is more formidable than the Gustav shipping difficult and line for the Nazis do not officially i with ronti vehicles with the use Hitler's name In in the Balkans and unrest to the Anzio It and with the difficult in imagine ony of- of n invasion hanging tensive from there with the it Is possible that the Allied force In Italy blocked and i even without apparent hope for speedy stand at Junction beachhead j There nrc no signs ot it but But despite all these Bloomy have a line farther I believe that big is i and they Ing to happen In Italy before spring ly building up has given to early Tills Is not based on any edge trom the general statt or April military it. is based the one now c after four years in the O H Is n feeling April ennie In showers on thing like that a little while the first the El line was And OF that of just a year nun fore the final In ply a teeling Induced probably spring weather and too long tn these I would nol RO so fur ns to set n. date for our entry Into Not on I his April Dny have i 1 ninny predictions predictions of Inch bulging with the lull of We were Rome for at a kind of Since Monday Is Dollar plan n shower of for the city's The telling tit these Shop today In Hie then buy In the monthly gain from and on the north hard-hitting Red Army tank crews rolled through a rail tion 28 miles from the Black Sea Swarms of motorized Russian in- tanks and fighters attacking on the eastern and northern side of Odessa were within and 50 miles of the Black ripping at long columns of German and Rumanian troops retreating in and possible entrapment because of southward flow of Russian troops through Bessarabia in the west The Russians hitting on the ern side of the arc captured more Uhan 106 daily recorded by the On the northwest they took 80 miles from Odessa j through which runs the last jman escape routes into bombardments ever bf the stated New air hue dispatch received today from Olen Associated Press war This was the from any quarters that the huje which opened the attack Wednesday within 530 miles of the had moved near enough to Falau to shell that after 198.Nipponese planes were de- Wednesday at Irak and New mately Nipponese aircraft have been wiped out this Japanese columns into Allied communiques con- but at a of ip a four-day at- tempt to encircle Indian troops 32 miles northeast of the British base of which radio claimed had been The British have denied it. Farther north bitter fighting was reported against a strong Japanese trying to reach supply lines North Chungking announced that Japanese have been killed in the drive of Chinese through North They are now sloshing slowly down to cut off tne enemy base of Allied native troops were 50 miles north of Myitkyina In a second push toward that In its first announcement of the attacks on Tokyo radio said 20 bombers struck the heavily fied islands and 30 In the latest night raid reported by Adm. Chester W. Army Air Force Liberators hit Moen and Ths two enemy night fighters failed to bring down a single Two Japanese planes sought un- successfully to halt the bombing on Truk but all American craft returned safely to their Potter Waste Fat Record is Recognized Potter County did set a tional record for the collection of waste fats in Lewis waste last night received this wire from Alexander tor of for the tional Fats Salvage on marvelous record of Potter This sets a national If every county in the country would do as well we would double our national I One American dive bomber Potter County shipped shot down in another a con- pounds of waste fats in of attacks against which is 15.7 pounds for held positions hi the but household and slightly more the crew was rescued by a three pounds per person in Packing Company shipped a 59.000-pound car in ruary and 60.000 in making j Marine Corps their total shipments for the year I will learn more about Apartment of tactical The Doty Packing Ground troops witnessed arid shipped 12.258 pounds m March wildly cheered as 26 Japanese has shipped pounds this ers and fighters one after another Ml flaming into the Assam jungle we realize that it took Monday m the a series painstaking and dirty air battles in thousands of homes every of the air over Burma and in our stores and in 01 ing plants to make this able record in March possible we can get some idea of mm u strong Potter County is behind the out of B of 38 war effort In every said Mr i to raM the behalf of all salvage committee members and our in the service want to think whole-heartedly everyone who any part in this wonderful With each new amphibious f- mg m tee drive toward said Gen. Alexander A. WEATHER U. s. The Packing Company hopes to ship two more tank cars early The for waste fats must continue at even stronger pace because there Is no for waste They in so used for making sivos and ninny other military 9 A M. field Kvery drop saved and f AND S partly not mine in in lumly tn noun t' 1 M Mm ji
