Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - February 11, 1944, Hamilton, Ohio Wtt Witt 4ue to walker bureau HAM I LTD N JOURNAL att FEBRUARY 1944 46 PRICE FOUR fr 20 PAGES WEATHER HAMILTON Aim AltS WITH SNOW If SATURDAY AMI MUCH ram I JHH AIR FORCE SUPPORTS ALLIES AT ANZIO 4 l 4 4S DISASTER SINCE FACES NAZI ARMY mo ABOARD ENEMY FORCES AT KORSON DIVIDED Press Drive On Iron Ore City Of Rog GERMANS Killed By Ukrainian Army Invaders Surrendering In Large Numbers i Russian guns the rem of some Germa troops trapped in a narrowing cir cle near Korsun in the river bend today as red army columns drove withi eeven miles of that city and othe soviet troops pressed their assaul on the iron ore center of Krivo 150 miles to the Disintegration of the be leaguered nazi forces was yesterday when soviet spearhead split off several groups from th main which once 10 a Russian commu nique The bulletin said th exhausted Germans were surren tiering in steadily mounting num bers in the struggle against th converging soviet armies of Gens Nikolai and Ivan S Associated Press dispatches from Moscow indicated the Ger army was facing its bigges disaster since Take In the far the Russians Leonid captured miles northeast of rai junction on the southern arm of the pincer drive on was last within 14 miles of the German held Luga is miles easi of Lake which forms part of the eastern frontier of Esto No information on progress oi soviet forces inside last reported advancing on Narva on the was given in the Moscow The communique mention of the situation inside old where units of First Ukrainian army have been reported operating in tbe vicinity of Rovno and Hopeless Situation Tbe Germane in tbe Korsun sa lient were said to be dying in great numbers under tbe hammer ing of soviet Adding to the hopelessness of the Germans situation was a rapidly decreasing food supply and destruction of their Ten more Junkers planes and four fight ers were reported shot down by red army airmen yesterday while Severe Cold Wave Moves Eastward Following Snow A disa trying to reach the trapped with Tbe Moscow war bulletin said Rodion Third Ukrainian army had killed nazis and captured many more in its drive in Rog forces were reported more than 45 miles west of captured DEPUTY NAMED TO FLEET HEAD of the highest ranking air men is going to become deputy commander of tbe Pacific major recognition to tbe increasing importance of tbe na air service in tbe war against Ht if Vice Admiral John now commander of air forces of tbe Pacific prin an administrative In bis position as deputy com newly created Towers will be second in command 9 Admiral Chester v IP 9ff WWW McCoy and Colons two of tke tra who will W w pan fow to t C A snow storm struck the northeastern part of the United States today while in a wide section of the already Midwest the sea sons most severe cold wave drove temperatures far below to 12 inches of snow was predicted for New York An emergency storm warning was is sued by the weather bureau at which forecast up to 10 inches in New winds and increasing cold were ex to add to hazards through out the Trains arriving in New York City from southern and northern points were running as much as two and a half hours be hind Airplane flights out of La Guardia were 42 Below In the temperatures dipped to as low as 42 below zero in the wake of that areas heaviest snow of the The snow fall ranged up to 11 inches but had ceased in many Schools in many states were closed because of blocked roads and highway gravel was The 42 below zero reading was recorded at Little Continued Om 4 Italy President To New to reports in influen tial circles in northern Italy are to obtain the election of famous conduc tor and as president of the future Italian Tosca an active lives in Engineers Locate Wreckage Of Plane 15 Miles Below Memphis Terrific Fire Precedes Fall Into Channel Twentyfour persons lost their lives when an American Airlines transcontinental plane crashed into the Mississippi river last midnight United States Army engineers started raising sections of the plane shortly before noon today but lifting of the section carrying th was delayed until arrival of heavier salvage The engineers recovered one parts of the a luggage several seat cushions and mail There was no indication whether bodies would be found in the passenger Crewmen with the engineers reported hearing the plane flying low overhead and one said he saw it hit the water and sink seconds being enveloped in There was a terrific explosion and said Charley Williams watchman for an engineers crew It seemed to sink When Williams and Foreman Wellborn reached the scene by they found no trace of the big which was en route from Los Angeles to New Williams said the plane was on its course for the Memphis air port where it was due at Quite Low It was quite Williams and appeared to be a little to the right but the engines seemed to be all right and there were no It angled into the river about half way At least 10 of the 21 passen gers aboard the flight No which stopped at Dallas anc Liittle were members of the armed The three crewmen Continued OM Pace 4 All Huon Peninsula In Allied Hands Campaign Cost Japanese Men C Allied Headquarters In The Southwest Complete occupation of Huon New and the end of a campaign which cost the Japanese a division of men was announced by Douglas MacArthur Australian including vet erans of the North African cam and American many of whom had triumphed over the Japanese at Buna on the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea Ask Relaxation Of Wage Formula PreM Senator Pepper pro rases a relaxation of the Little steel formula to permit a three er cent boost in the income ot svery wage The plan is the newest suggested amendment to the which would extend life of the Commodity Credit corporation but end food The end of these pay says would bring i rise in the cost of If we are going to increase the ost of the Floridian ob its only fair that wages hould be allowed to go Oth subsidy repeal would be he same as cutting every work rs pay three per His amendment was offered as he in general senate apparently beaded toward pase possibly late TRAFFIC SNARLED IN CINCINNATI rolley lines paralyzed Cincinnati treet ear traffic of war were much as two bourn late at serviced by trolley The huge Wright serviced by busses and private said the shift went to work on City officials said the Street will go into a confer nee Friday in an attempt to out a plan to unsnarl the street car system and o prevent recurrence of the now began falling at 10 TO TO COUNCIL Russian for handling a defeated Germany are expected to he pre to the European advisory staffs and to iffer little from British in and last joined forces on a hot coastal plain chopping off of Japans cap tured The Aussies had their way through the jungle for 150 miles along the since launching the campaign with landing north of Steady Progress The units of the invaded Saidor from the sea and moved down the coast 14 miles to old where the Australians met them Douglas com said the great bulk of the augmented J a pa n e s e which consisted of three infantry a field artillery regi two engineer regiments and auxiliary had been de in the squeeze MacArthur credited the allied air force and light naval units with an assist in the for they destroyed Japanese coastal barge making escape or supply impossible for the and causing death by starvation for hundreds of Making the long campaign through the rugged Finisterre across 60 streams and along malarial coastal were units of the imperial force COLOMBIAN UNREST BELIEVED OVER Palm Alfonso Lopez of Co said today it was bis in formation that tbe unrest which followed the arrest of an opposi tion political leader in his country had cleared The visiting in he believed accounts of the disorders bad been There is no he in bis plan to leave West Palm Beach by plane tomorrow for en route to President Lopez came to this country two months bringing his wife here for medical treat OF Major General Robert Height commander of the division of Ohio has received the Le erion of a dispatch from the South Pacific said General former Ohio highway was one of sev eral navy and marine corps officers decorated or commended for their parti in successful op the citizens military or and some American army The combined allied force may next move on Japanese base about 60 miles up the coast from American bomber crews reported evidence the en emy already has abandoned Mad The communique reported an other raid on Japanese base in New but made no mention of opposition to the blows by night patrols against 3 Trains Collide Near Pittsburgh t PreM Four persons were injured slightly today in a threeway col on the Pennsylvania rail roads main line at 15 miles east of the railroad A passenger local hit the rear end of the 13car New Louis mail which carried no derailing one car of the and the en tender and first three cars of the mail A short time later a Pittsburgh New York passenger train side swiped the derailed and its engine and four cars were knocked off the BACKS DOWN FROM CAMPAIGN though petitions have been filed to put his name on the Illinois primary ballot as a candidate for the republican presidential nom Robert McCor inick today be will not enter the Bolivian Cabinet Changes Expected Deny Revolution La Several changes in the Bolivian cabinet are expected to be an The independent newspaper Ul tima Hora said today there have been no restrictions in the govern ment as yet but several changes are It denied reports broadcast abroad Al berto interior minister of the coup detat government which seized power December had been but said it was rumored Taborga would be re placed by Afredo chief of air secretary general of the and Carlos minister of also were rumored as ikely to Of the 20 other American re only Argentina has rec the regime of Gualberto who seized the presi dency from Enrique Penaranda in ast Decembers fricker Strikes At Labor Unrest PreM smiling John who is governor of Ohio and wants 0 be took a curtain cue for the third act today of what iis friends were frankly billing as 1 critical Washington preview of he man they think can win the republican Given an unofficial by he capital news corps at a packed press conference and the applause and cheers of a republican crowd at a Lincoln birthday banquet Bricker today faced another group at a Na ional Press club left no doubt where he tands on some big issues of he day in his banquet talk and at is press He struck ut at labor advocating wartime and dis missing the national service act indorsed by President Roosevelt as no answer to this at this late The time has he dc to support the millions of workers who want to work and uit coddling selfish labor leaders or the sake of the votes which hey can deliver in an He eluded the democrats for laving only one presumably President nd voiced resentment that they hould attempt to appropriate a win the war slogan as their own or the Pilot Special To San Douglas per sonal pilot is Weldon Dusty veteran United Air Lines pilot whose home is in San The general requested Captain Rhoades serv ices after the 37yearold pilot bad flown him on several missions in connection with United Air Lines military operations for tbe Air Transport 150 Soviet Planes Bomb Finlands Industrial Center The Finns announced today 150 Russian planes bombed the indue trial city of 70 miles eas of Helsinki on the coast of the Gulf of for two hours last A broadcast communique saic antiaircraft fire kept most of the raiders from the center of the city but acknowledged some It was the second heavy aeria blow with a week seeking to has ten Finlands exit from the war The attack upon 80 miles across the Gulf of Finland from followed the 200plane raid on Helsinki February Raid The attack lasted two the communique Only a few aircraft succeeded in drop ping bombs on the Some damage was done to windows of According to incom plete reports eight civilians were killed and two Two raiders were destroyed by antiaircraft the communique one of the centers of Finlands vast saw mill tiad been bombed several times before the front lapsed into comparative Fortresses Hammer Frankfurt While Other Planes Bomb Rocket Gun Sector Of France Charlie Chaplin Is Indicted In Mann Act Violation Charge Los white dapper Charlie who as the lov able little tramp comedian used to play with deft fingers on a in the realm of film faced today the stern reality of a federal indictment charging him with Mann act vio The 54 year four times married comedian was accused of he additional of conspir acy as federal grand fate into his relationship with red haired Joan age Chap lins former protege who asserts Chaplin is the father of ber 4 Six others were indicted along with Chaplin for an asserted con to deprive Miss Berry of her constitutional rights following hev arrest on a vagrancy charge in Beverly Tho Mann act charges against Chaplin are not connected with the alleged One count alleges that on he PreM American Flying Fortresses a i n vith tons of high explosive again striking the already hard it southwest German industrial nd transport center for the sec ud time in four days and the time since January 201 While this devastating assault o flatten Frankfurt was in Liberators again op rated independently of the lashing at military installations n the area and Marauders in the ninth peration in 11 days struck other in the rocket gun sec or of northern Todays operations followed up mighty attacks on the manufacturing city of Brunswick and the air base in which precipitated furious air lights in which Amer ican heavy bombers and fighters were credited officially with downing 84 enemy Lightning and Thun BOY IS BLAMED FOR PHONE TIPS New A series of anonymous telephone to the that sabo teurs planned to dynamite and destroy New York Citys bridges and tunnels were blamed by po lice today on a 16yearold Bronx messenger The phone calls resulted in heavily augmented guards on all vulnerable structures in the met another call in at 11 last the wue As one agent conversed with the the call was traced to a Bronx telephone Police said they arrived as a youth they identified as James Gerrity was still talking to the special Gerrity wits charged Avith mu DEMAND PROSECUTION IN CAVEIN DEATH fighters escorted the Fortresses to and other Thunderbolts covered the Libera tors on their run to Heavy bombings of the now have struck continental objectives in 12 of the past 15 The terrific assault obviously designed to flatten Frankfurt has been under way since January Continued On Pave 4 IT GREAT AERIAL OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED Germans Claim Fortress Penetrated FIVE BUILDINGS Captured By Americans In Cassino Countless Tons Dropped BULLETIN President Roosevelt said today a very tense situation and very heavy fighting ex isted at the AngloAmerican beachhead below Rome bat that the allies on the whole control the seas and The Chief Executive told a conference we are praying for good to aid sea and air Allied Throwing virtually every avail able combat including giant into one of greatest ions ever the allies a terrific onslaught yes to protect their Anzio already converted into a bristling hedgehog by hundreds of massed still fighting bitterly u the ruins of Cassino on the main Fifth Army captured ive more Their artillery the town prison een turned into a nazi but he Germans still fought f rom uu dungeons and Countless tons of mashed on the Germans at all oints ringing the bridgehead arid heir main operating points about Shown To Public action in Sicily and a highly mo bile antiaircraft weapon was dem to a civilian audience for the here ordnance district said the currier and its cluster of four Browning guns is the first highly mobile weapon iu Its guns can be fired while the halftrack is traveling 50 miles an be the wasp wagon by newspapermen because of its sting and the weapon is effective up to feet against and shells travel more than four miles Reedall The turret housing the four guns can be turned in all directions and from vertical to 10 degrees below the he demand for criminal prosecution in tbe death of Jule Ann who was swallowed by tho earth in a mine arose today in this mining city built on a shelf over active and abandoned anthracite Tho city against coal companies 500 KILLED IN BOMBING broad cast by German pro said today it wae estimated at Vatican City 500 persons were killed in the bomb ing of the papal summer residence at Castel Gaudolfo south of Rome by allied Up to Thursday night 400 bodies bad been taken from oi the completely destroyed college the dispatch de President To Talk President ad dress tho tomorrow afternoon from to 4 oclock Tbo will bo in Heavy bombers were diverted rom long range targets to join aedium and in slaps protecting the Amer ican and British troops resisting attempts to drive them into the The bombers added their ter rible explosives to the destructive blasts arched upon the enemy by allied artillery in time crashes method of fire control by which hundreds of big all Weather Plays Game With The Fifth Army 11 In Hamilton Time I by stormy skies which have I activity of tho allied I air forces since noon German armored units are striking southward against the j I British beachheads positions i north of using their I tanks as mobile artillery in a i deadly roving Tho which the allies chances of holding and extending tho beachhead below j i Rome largely depend has I played the game since i I midday place shells upon a single target area in a matter of a minute or often erasing the target in a single All Join In Raid Both Flying Fortresses and joined in yesterdays the deadly on enemy troops at five key points in tbe highway network around the beachhead area and The Gorman high ju u broadcast suid day German troops had penetrated into Aprilia in tbe bridgehead 10 milef north Qf capturing the lage The communique aim laid tit allies penetrated for should be instituted if is disclosed iu a jor 4r4 to French wul but were again declared iib bad osi
