Bradford Era (Newspaper) - April 8, 1944, Bradford, Pennsylvania The Weather wa cooler with Uttle change on LasJ Era Net Paid Circulation in Excess of 8700 Oldest Newspaper in the Rich Bradford Oil Field Two Great Services Associated Press - A-P Features NO. 135. 1877) SATURDAY 1944. 12 PRICE FOUR CENTS 8 Jap Vessels 18 Others Damaged In American Task Force Attack on Palau Roles Out iNow Mi to Be Taken for Italy Secret t Roosevelt the principle by ruled out any of the committee of Awaited position has been to the British with tin most be agreement on by the to General i D. before the As no 1 tension of the French executive at s ns his first since l It coincided nt in London of State arrived there fte may geek position to if urge Wod for Joint action chiefs of of orders by of i by the committee to i are not to cooperate in pre liberated areas a tones touched on these e terms im primarily of and the not believe their i be expected * learned that the for Italy will wet the question of Badoglio dependent upon t Xing being political parties to go into the as the king said it was Barbu Stirbey of fa Cairo but that no of chief a rough draft Secretary Hull's speech foreign to be over CBS at 6:30 Easter Brings Prayers for Victory and Peace THROUGHOUT THE NATION and on all the battle fronts of the world as Easter once more comes a universe at the U. S. its wounded and its prays for victory and the peace it will Pictured sharing a hymn book in the post chapel at the Northington General is First Sgt. Clarence Dubree of holder of the Purple the Silver Star and the French Croix de and Ranger Sergeant Leonard J. McKeirnan son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. McKeirnan of a veteran of the Sicilian and Italian Sgt McKeirnan was wounded in the leg on September 25, 1943, while fighting in Italy and the - United States on February 20. He is expected to arrive at his home shortly ' ' a He enlisted in 1942, and was sent across in 1943. te Divorce of Erie county ' author of divorce last Mar. Officials Ask 4-F's to Seek Essential Jobs New Regulations Divide Men of Draft Age into 3 Groups Apr. 7. Mai power Chairman Paul V. McNutt and Draft Director Lewis B. joined tonight in asking 4-F's who are not already so employed to seek jobs in essential activities or those designated by the WMC as A similar separate appeal also was made by Chairman Costello of a House Military subcommittee who said he had desire to establish some sort of labor This group has been considering legislation for a draft of 4-F's into a works corps if they do not voluntarily take essential Costello made clear this idea has not been As the appeals to 4-F's went men of draft age were divided new Selective Service regulations into three age groups and local were instructed to go easier on those in the 30 to 38 McNutt and Hershey urged all 4-F's who are in doubt about their employment to consult their local S. Employment Service They estimated that over 2,000,000 of the 3,600,000 4-F's are already in essential or locally needed General Hershey has said that the others - those not working or those in who refuse to get essential jobs - will be inducted Milady Must Wear Her Fur Coat with Her Easter Bonnet Apr. 7. may wear her Easter bonnet Sunday but with her fur coat because the weather bureau predicted chilly temperatures will accompany fair The weatherman skies will not be absolutely clear but we will have our share of The temperature will likely be below 50 Willkie Leaves One Big Question Still Unanswered on Page Scoffs Predictions lvy Losses in Invasion Division Somewhere in Apr. 7. m Adolf Hitler's ramparts from the west into a but will go there punching T naval fire and New Apr. 7. Wendell L. Willkie returned to New York today but left unanswered one big question - will he support the presidential choice of the Republican Convention now that his own campaign for the nomination is To this question and to will he support Governor Thomas E. Dewey in the event he should get the nod - Willkie made no direct made my statement in he told newsmen at Grand Central was completely comprehensive and I don't want to add to It was at Omaha where commenting on his failure to win a delegate In the Wisconsin announced he was no longer a candidate because is obvious that I cannot be Price and Pay Curbs Roosevelt Told Top Economic Advisers Declare Policies Must Be Continued Omar N. wall will be show on h campaign we ing a show like this ought to be worth the Gen. Bradley told the men that they would have air protection day and night and gunfire that will surprise I have no fear of its The infantrymen were warned that the Germans not only were tough but were likely to and Gen. Bradley urged the men not to trust the Germans Sometimes they will come out waving white flags and then open fire on P.S. Famed Dies New Apr. 7. Percy Seldon 67, famous merchant who pioneered in low prices and employe welfare projects died of a heart ailment last night in his Park avenue He was chairman of the board of R. H. Macy & and was noted as a civic leader and He was a brother of Jesse former United States ambassador to Apr. 7. labor's drive to break down the formula bumped head one today into a flat pronouncement by top White House economic advisers that wage and price control policies must be continue With indirect endorsement by approving President Roosevelt made public at his news conference a report to him that the stabilization program has succeeded to the benefit of all elements of the Price rises have been it and the cost of living is actually lower now than it was a year while wages have been must not jeopardize these gains by any chance of policy or relaxation of effort in the critical months the report The report was in the form of a letter to the President from Fred M. Economic Stabilization Chester Price Marvin War Food and Chairman H. Davis of the War It noted that tomorrow is the first anniversary of the date the President issued his order on wages and Both the AFL and the CIO are asking in current War Labor Board hearings for relaxation of the formula limiting general wage Increases to 15 per cent above the 1941, this be interpreted as an answer to attempts to shatter the Little Steel Mr. Roosevelt was It doesn't answer It's a statement of he Reds Wipe Out Trapped Nazis Above Odessa 60 Villages Taken in Narrowing Siege Arc Around Big No Mention of Rumania Ousted Chief Changes His Mind About Appeal Apr. 7- dismissed as police captain Wednesday night by the borough said today he changed his mind about appealing to the Norristown Service commission for Apr. 7. troops attacking northwest of Odessa have trapped the remnants of five or six German 25,000 to 50,-000 begun wiping them Moscow announced last Seized by Reds Other mobile units racing around Odessa's western flank smashed to within 13 miles of the last German escape route into Rumania with the capture of Mayaki at the head of the Dniester the Soviets Rolling through 60 villages in a narrowing siege arc around the big sea port the Russians also captured less than 10 miles northeast of the prize 12 miles on the east near the Novaya 17 miles on the and 17 miles on the The capture of Mayaki in a 25-mile lunge from Baden down the east bank of the Dniester river put the Red army within 13 miles of ferry terminus on the lower Dniester estuary and neck in German attempts to rescue thousands from imperilled 5,000 Germans Killed From Odessa a railway runs 18 miles southwest of whence ferries ply the Dniester to Akkerman in lower Thus a Soviet smash to automatically would seal off scores of thousands of Germans battling other Russian columns at the approaches to The latest Russian trap was sprung on the shattered German divisions north of 40 miles northwest of and the bulletin said 5,000 Germans already had been killed and more than 1,000 captured in a two-day battle Thursday and In the Skala trap far to the northwest the Russians also wiped out 4,000 more Germans Thursday boosting the Axis toll to approximately 15,000 men In four days on the basis of Moscow's Again Moscow maae no mention of the 70-mile Red army front Inside northeastern but a Rumanian broadcast communique spoke of fighting of Rumania rail and enemy reconnaissance activity in the Botosani Botosani is 27 miles inside Rumania from the Prut river and 60 miles northwest of Army Bombers Hit Set Off Explosions V. S. Pacific Fleet Pearl Apr. 7. Army heavy bombers hit Wake 2,300 miles west of with 44 tons of bombs Wednesday setting off heavy explosions in enemy storage areas and in an aircraft repair Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced the raid the second this and also reported strikes the same day by American planes against In the Caroline and four Japanese positions in the Marshall All planes returned trom these The attack on Wake was the 18th since that former American Hand was captured early in the far by a force of Japanese that a small bnt heroic Marine In the last previous on April 3, two Navy search planes sank a small enemy ship at a Washington's Cherry Blossoms in Bloom Apr. 7. Japanese cherry in full attracted hundreds of pre-Easter visitors to Washington Allies Engage Japs Who Cut Implial Road Invaders Isolate Big Allied by Attacks Repulsed New Apr. 7.-(IP)-Japanese invasion troops in India have driven westward across the highway in the heart of the Allied defense zone and are being hotly engaged in the jungles 35 miles east of the supply lifeline for Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's forces in northern it was announced ' Berlin broadcast of Tokyo dispatches declared that Japanese troops were the railroad from an unstated and said confidently that when it was cut the collapse of the Allied campaign in north Burma would It had been known since Sunday that the invaders had Installed road blocks on the 60-mile completely isolating the big Allied base at Imphal except by but today's communique from Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters gave the first indication that this enemy column had pressed on The vital Allied railway at which the entire Japanese invasion is aimed primarily is only about 35 miles from the highway at one British and Indian troops defending Imphal itself against Japanese formations pressing in from the east and south at the edge of the Manipur plain threw back several small enemy attacks Mountbatten's communique The 17th Indian withdrawing up the road from Tiddim to aid in the defense of was reported intact with 80 to 90 per cent of its transport Dozen State Liquor Stores Will Close Apr. 7. At least a dozen more State liquor stores will close in the near W. a member of the Liquor Control Board disclosed following a recent announcement that one store in Pittsburgh would close on or before April 30. Scarcity of merchandise and a desire on the part of the board to were given as two principal reasons for the closures by who pointed out that board is doing largely what the big chains have done when they closed small stores and opened giant Sgt. Paul Wenrich Seriously Wounded in Action Over Reich Mrs. Sarah K. Wenrich of 828 East Main street yesterday received a telegram from the War Department which informed her that her Staff Sgt. Paul R United States Air had been seriously wounded while in action over Germany some time On the same day that the tele- STAFF SGT. PAUL WENRICH gram was Mrs. Wenrich also received a from her son in which he informed his mother that he had been hit on his left arm and that was The which was written in a hospital by a friend of the injured bore signature and said in ' feeling My left arm was hit and broken but am coming along fine You should see my it Is propped up u the air with a cast on it. It will be all right as soon as it Only place hit so Being treated Will be writing regularly in about two Sgt. Wenrich is radio operator aboard a Flying 160 to 214 Nip Planes Bagged in 3-Day Operation Admiral Nimitz Says Cost of Assaults On Caroline Bases Was 18 Fliers and 25 No Ship Losses U. S. Submarine Torpedoes Battleship U. S. Pacific Fleet Pearl Apr. 7. - by the Japanese strong American aircraft carrier task forces wreaked havoc for three days less than 600 miles from the sinking 28 enemy damaging 18, bagging 160 to 214 planes and spreading destruction over the Palau islands and adjacent it was disclosed 18 Fliers Perish The hosts of American operating more than 4,500 miles southwest of Pearl emerged unscathed and only 25 of the hundreds of attacking carrier planes were Eighteen fliers Failing as at Truk and in Marianas in February task force assaults to draw out Nippon's Admiral Richard A. fleet had be contented with two destroyers and unidentified combat among vessels The remainder largely cargo ships and fc a spotted the night of March 28; just before the three-day fleet tion fleeing the Palau region In the western The intercepting submarine rammed home a torpedo which caused The limped No U. S. Ships Damaged was no damage to our surface today's communique The Japanese radio had claimed two cruisers a battleship and at least two aircraft carriers Adm. Chester W. In breaking a protective radio silence of more than a disclosed that the known as Japan's bore the brunt of the attack pf carrier planes but that and Woleai also were hit in opera tions through March 29, 30 and 31. At Palau on the first two days 25 ships were The other three enemy ships definitely sunk were on Page Two 12 Hurt in Wreck Of Crack Train Apr. 7. The New York Central railroad's New York Special was wrecked killing the engineer and fireman and injuring at least 12 the State Highway Patrol The locomotive overturned four miles southwest of this central Ohio community and seven of the 10 cars left the rails but did not The dead were identified by the patrol as John and Clarence both of The train was bound from Cincinnati to New Allies Attack Wakde Island For First Time Oil-Laden jap Ship Merchantman in Cither Southwest Apr. 8. planes In have sunk an oil-laden enemy set fire to a 7,000-ton merchantman and hit Island near for the first Geri Douglas MacArthur announced The merchant ship suffered two direct hits under a strong attack by Thunderbolt and Kittyhawk It was last seen blazing fiercely off the New Guinea coast in the The oil tanker was sent to the bottom near Timor in the Dutch East Australian long-range attack went in low to drop their In addition to the big ship they sank two barges and set fire to four they set fires visible for 50 One Allied plane failed to return from this Wakde is 110 miles west of the big enemy base which this week has been hit two paralyzing blows from the Twenty-nine tons of bombs were plummeted on airdrome and many explosions the communique The attack occurred April 5. The merchant ship was hit the next During the Wakde raid four enemy planes were seen in the air but they declined to fight the Liberator Other targets of MacArthur's airmen were St. George on New Ireland and Bougainville in the Allied light naval units in night attacks sank two large barges near Bunabun harbor on the New Guinea coast and damaged Girl Dies When Pinned Between Wall Apr. 7.-(IP)- Pinned between a self-service elevator and the third floor of the Sperling Tobacco company Eleanor 17, was killed instantly The girl was leaving the elevator when the accident Part of the elevator had to be dismantled before the body could be FD Appears to Have Recovered Completely Apr. 7.-(JP)-President Roosevelt appeared today to have recovered almost completely from his siege of bronchitis and to be back in his normal good At his news conference his voice was strong and clear in marked contrast to its huskiness when he last received newsmen 10 days Four Found Dead From Suffocation N. Apr. 7. A family of four was found dead tonight in their five-room victims of Police Chief Howard Monahan identified the dead as Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Anderson and their two 9, and Alice 7. Monahan said a dredge captain employed at the Naval Munitions Depot at nearby had brought his family here from Myrtle S. and had occupied the bungalow on Escaping Gas Overcomes 15 in Train Repair Shop Apr. 7.-(JP)- Escaping gas in a Pennsylvania railroad electric locomotive repair shop today overcame 15 men and women They were treated at Delaware hospital where three were held for Railroad officials shop to investigate the source of the
