Iola Register (Newspaper) - April 15, 1944, Iola, Kansas i TOPEKA COUP lOLA REGISTER VOLUME XLVII No. 148 Tha Weekly Established 1667. The loU 1897. SATURDAY APRIL 15, 1944. to The loU loU Daily and lola Daily FOUR PAGES The WAR TODAY + + + By DEWITT MACKENZIE The tense drama of the Red army's cyclonic conquest of the Crimean Hitler's strategic shield for the powerful right flank of his fighting Une In the final phase before the of the Balkans bursts Into full AU lines of endeavor In this both of the Muscovites end of the lead directly to gateway into the Balkan That focal as already explained in this is the fifty mile wide Galati gap between the towering Carpathians and the marshy estuary of the Danube on the Black eca In The basic strategy which the German command is trying to work out Is It's divided into two like the Nazis must keep the gap open long enough so that those defeated and weary troops which from the Odessa trap by and the Crimea by can pass through to safety for rest and having thus provided haven for these remnants of a once mighty fighting Hitler must be prepared to fling a big army of fresh reserves into the gap to hold It closed against the pursuing That will be one of the decisive engagements of the The Nazi fuehrer may be expected to give It everything he can. How much that win Is an quantity to the outside But it won't be long now before we learn the truth about his reserve Of course that's not the whole story pf the preliminaries to the battle of the The Nazis are fighting holding actions to delay the Red advance on Tactics may change rapidly as the Russian pressure but at the moment the are trying to hold a Une from the Carpathians in the lasi sector westward to the area on the Dnestr river need your maps This which is some 125 miles north of the Galati is the Russian approach to the gap from the north and is facilitating the withdrawal of the troops which are retreating from the southern Ukraine into While all this is there seems to be a temporary lull on the southern Polish front just north of the Ballcan This likely has been due to a need for a bit of time to consolidate gains and get set for a fresh Also the spring mud may be making the going difficult in that Light Raias Over State April 15. rains fell over the state last night but Weatherman S. D. Flora said they would bring no trouble to flooded Kansas He forecast continued cloudy weather but no additional Moisture was reported over the entire Horton recorded of an Concordia and Enterprise The Neosho was still flooding from lola to the Oklahoma Flora but was falling at Burlington and At Chanute the river 4.x feet over flood stage standing at 24.1 while at Burlington the stage was 28.2 feet but receding lola reported a stage of 18.8 ft slight rise from but at Parsons the stream was standing stationary at 25.1 3.1 feet over des Cygnes was back in Its he except near tne Missouri today were expected to range from 55-60, dipping to 30-35 Glen A. Carter Awarded D. F. C. Glen A. who was recently awarded his Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air has now been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in recognition of his while participating in operations against the The Register recently received a picture from an Eighth AAF bomber station in showing Sgt. Carter and three other airmen who had just returned from the latest American heavy bomber attack on They are of a Flying Fortress He is the son of Mrs. John Carter and a of Miss Helen Carter of ICE New discharged from the WACS so she could support her sick 126-pound Zieroth took a Job as It paid a After the first day of handling 100-pound cakes of she a tiny bit Give pie a and I'll be carrying 150 pounds at Visit Huge Success Total of 550 Donations Received in Two and a Half Local Organization is Praised During the two and a half days which it operated in lola the Red Cross mobile blood plasma unit secured a total of 550 pints of blood which will be used in treating wounded American service The blood donor center was established at the Jefferson school and was in operation from noon on Wednesday through yesterday Yesterday a total of 215 pints of blood were A total of 248 persons were examined of whom 33 were The of those turned down was below the national average during the entire Dr. B. who was in of the staff sent here by the Red Cross blood center at Kansas praised the local organization He said that the facilities provided and the members of the lola group in charge of the project were well above the average found In the many places visited by Joins in Praise This opinion was confirmed by a registered nurse who accompanied the Chanute caravan yesterday afternoon and who has had an opportunity to visit several blood donor She said that the routine followed here and the facilities provided were superior to any she had previously seen including those in her home The project was established under the general supervision of Mrs. J. M. chairman of the Alien county chapter of the Red Charles Ableson was chairman of the general Gene acted as John Fleming and the Rev. T. M. representing the chamber of commerce were an hand to welcome Local Women in Charge The bleeding room and canteen were in charge of registered nurses Uving in Tola including Frank Leigh R. P. H. J. Laura Dale M. J. Hawkins and Miss Betty A number of others assisted by running the warm drinks and wafers to etc. A total of 26 persons spent many hours per day at the center during the time it was The staff from Kansas City included 14 Mr. this morning thanks for tlie splendid cooperation given by the board in permitting the use of the building and to many lola who aided by donating items or and to the lola company of the Kansas Slate Guard who in Installing DOESN'T WORK N. C. Glenn Williams doesn't care much for the current song that tells about the diet of mares and He bought a flock of lambs and Six of them died after they ate The Weather cloudy except light rain in northeast portion in colder and windy in eastern maximum temperatures near 45 north border to 55 south fair and colder except continued cold in extreme west with freezing temperatures in west and north and light frost in southeast Sunday partly cloudy and continued for the 24 5 p. m. 71, lowest last night 46; normal for today 57; excess yesterday 7; excess since January 1, 190 this date last 74; lowest 35. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. total for this year to 11.20; excess since January 1, 3.99 Sunrise 6:46 a. set 7:58 p. m. Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a. m. ' 9 a. 9 p. 10 a. 10 p. 11 a. 12 1 p. m. 2 p. m. 3 p. m. 4 p. m. 5 p. m. 6 p. m. 7 p. m. 8 p. m. 11 p. 12 1 a. 2 a. 3 a. 4 a. 5 a. 6 a. m. 7 a. m. 8 a. Mass Attack On Coyotes More Than a Thousand Men and Dozen Planes Join in Oklahoma Hunt April 15 a killer running loose in western met a devastating force with a thousand avengers invading its Airplanes and men on the ground conducted the nation's first mass attack on the terror of the western plains which kills for fim more than for animal has been multiplying because of two One has been a shortage of the other has been a natural feed on mice and jack Owls and other predatory birds have made inroads on the and nature has been dwindling the jack The disturbed balance has resulted in an increase in ravages of the which has found its natural food Interbred With Dogs Another important factor has been the interbreeding of German shepherd or poUce dogs with the This crossbreed has all the cunning and lust of the coyote with the lack of fear of ranch and humans acquired from the the coyotes have become more The balance of nature on has been upset by disease which is taking a heavy have turned to calves and A coyote will into a band of sheep and slash right and killing a dozen animals and eating only a part of It will invade a turkey flock and bite off every head and take either only a part of one bird or The danger of a possible rabies epidemic added to a money loss of half a million dollars a year spurred western Oklahomans to organize and start at Woodward yesterday a four-day hunt for More Than A Dozen Planes The participated in by a thousand or more ranchers and on Page 4, No. 1) Faces Charges in California Mrs. Louise Flack arrives In Kansas enroute to Sari where she will face murder charges in connection with starvation death of her mentally deficient and crippled Delores Mrs. found at her mother's home hi Is being held in Kansas City until transportation can be arranged to Tentative passage has been set for April 20. With her are Detective Kansas and Policewoman Ida Allies Move India Road Japs Still Hold Fast To Trail Out of Aussies Take on New Guinea tha An Allied force apparently was moving eastward from today in an effort to clear the Naga hills road to Kohima and the Manipur Valley of Japanese road The road is one of the two jungle communication routes to the Imphal Valley Eastern Today's communique from the Southeast Asia command said small Japanese parties were still holding fast on the the route southwest of although the enemy was meeting with heavy casualties In his to choke off this Important supply Although progress was reported in clearing the enemy from the road running northwest of 60 miles north of ImphaL the communique said no Important change had taken place around Kohima itself or In the sectors south and east of Bogadjim Occupied On New Guinea Bogadjim and Its of war equipment fell troops who since last have slowly been pushing through the jungles toward the The Aussies already have engaged enemy patrols on the way to their which Is. 18 miles to the American troops also have been on Bogadjim but their whereabouts were not mentioned In Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique Berlin radio meantime broadcast that at a conference in Japanese Premier Tojo said he was firmly convinced the German wehrmacht would smash any Allied invasion of As tor the BerUn radio Tojo declared his country she would remain supreme in her sphere and that her position was getting stronger utilization of rich raw materials tind King Pricks Bubble In Adm. Ernest J. King countered Tojo's a statement cannot stand her current rate of losses in merchant shipping any length time and keep her empire reduced Japan's merchant fleet to not more than two-thirds of what it was Admiral King have so seriously damaged her fleet of warships that she never hope to make up losses And in the next few he new and heavy blows will fall the sea power that binds the Japanese empire 500 Americans Now Interned In Switzerland April 15. hundred comprising the crews of 12 bombers which landed in Switzerland and of another bomber which Was shot down by the arrived today at the mountain resort of Adelboden for The Swiss shot down the one which they said failed to respond to landing signals when S. attacked targets hi Germany and occupied ' The parachuted to the plane falling near the village of southeast of Investigation has not yet established why the plane did observe the signal to Three pf the slightly were are now approximately 400 American internees at and nearly 100 others from Germany at the city of Those who escaped into Switzerland wear civilian Seventeen American fliers are now burled in 13 of whom died in crashes last and of Injuries sustained in combat over The internees get board and room and plus use of a credit system for purchases of such Items Rfi clothing and Those escaping from Germany draw full Gordon Brown Takes Job As War Correspondent Kansas April 15. R. Gordon for several years Kansas editor for the Associated In Kansas and author of the column and That Ih Kansas will leave tonight for York en route to a foreign assignment as a war Brown joined the Associated Press at In 1930, and there and In before coming to Kansas Joseph De former correspondent at has replaced Brown as Kansas editor A Princess Comes of Age The charming made by noted Cecil is the latest portrait of H. R. H. Princess heiress presumptive to the British who reaches her 18th birthday on April 21st and legally comes of At 18, she will have virtually her own household and have a place in the War Put Pressure On Neutrals Allies Relentless in Efforts to Force Break In Trade With Germany John M. 15 diplomats are now putting teeth the policy announced by Secretary of State Hull for neutral countries with Hitler They are under instructions to pursue a relentless course for implementing this policy until Hitler is One of the first accomplishments of reinforced diplomacy under the Hull policy may be complete economic separation of Turkey from Officials here are more hopeful now of a of trade than they have for several Increasingly policies toward Spain and as well as which received a formal note on the subject this also are clearly Force Backs Argument American diplomats abroad have made statements of Hull's policy declaration available to the foreign offices of those governments and reaction from their capitals that they appreciate the force of his argument that the Allied nations are now so strong they need no longer accept compromises on the part of neutrals dealing with Further American efforts to obtain the break between Eire and the Axis are regarded as In the case of Sweden the immediate aim apparently is to reduce supplies of Swedish ball bearings and machine tools to but under Hull's pronouncement long-range aim must to halt trade Break Nearer In the case of Turkey it is reported that that accomplishment of a final break is a much closer Turkey's principal export to Germany is which - like Spanish and Portuguese wolfram and Finnish nickel and is an alloy for hardening The handwriting which the Ankara government may now see on the wall of new Allied policy is a prophecy of moves by Britain and the United States which would hit the civilian This country and Britain together furnish the Turks with much machinery and industrial equipment at a cost in production and which reduces by that much the total Allied war Non Accepts Scotch An Advanced Allied Air New April 15. send that case of Scotch atong right Maj. Richard Ira thinking solely of his friends out expressed that sentiment today In response to Capt. Eddie promise to forward a case of Scotch in token of new record of knocking down 27 confirmed Japanese one more than Rickenbacker's World War I many please rush it out here for the the major messages via this behalf of the people of a night club proprietor offered Rickenbacker a case of the liquor to send and Bong was grateful for the he kindness will be long remembered by the boys on New Bong does not Noted Soviet Leader Dies An Operation Fatal to Nikolai Hero of Many Battles April 15 Nikolai F. 42, one of Russia's outstanding army died last night after an operation in capital of his native into which he had led liberating Soviet A radio announcement did not state the nature of the Vatutin recently gave up command of the First Ukrainian Army due to The broadcast praised Vatutin as of the most talented young army commanders wiio had developed during this His outstanding victory was recapture of Kiev last when he had 50 bridges thrown across the Dnepr river under heavy German artillery and sent his troops scaling the heights Into the city and flanking movements around the Glory at called ny his soldiers and also nicknamed for the speed of his had a large share of the glory in the Stalingrad In cooperation with Marshal Ivan Konen and his Second Ukrainian Vatutin accomplished the trap west of and was one of the liberators of Kharkov last August 8. Moscow announced March 5 that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov had succeeded Vatutin on the First Ukrainian I Of Sevastopol Hills Fleeing Enemy Pinned Down on Narrow Strip Of Coast Around Port Soviet Ships and Planes Smash Attempts to Evacuate Crimea By Nazis Leave Craft Piled High With Pillaged Goods in Haste to Get Germans Step Up Artillery Fire in Italy EDDIE April 15. powerful Red army land force has pinned the Germans to a narrow strip of coast around the Crimean naval and has converged to within sight of hills on the while Soviet planes and warships are pouring fire into the enemy at the Russian correspondents reported The huge port was assuming the aspect of a giant exploding ammunition dump as Soviet airmen the traffic of enemy and torpedo boats and guns from the Black Sea fleet blasted directly at embarkation a dispatch Step Up Aerial War in Pacific U. S. Pacific Fleet Pearl April 15. blows Japan's island outposts from the North Pacific to the tropics have been stepped up to daily frequencies by aircraft under Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's Four attacks Thursday on the Kurile island chain branching northeast off Japan were reported by Nimitz late for a total of 13 raids on the enemy's farthest north fn four successive On the same day the enemy base 440 miles east of Truk in the Caroline and and Kusaie Islands In the eastern part of the also were It was the 13th daily month for In an earlier yesterday Nimitz told of an attack on Truk by Seventh army Liberators Wednesday giving the base one of the heaviest aerial drubbings of the Five Islands of the atoll were pounded in this 20th assault of the campaign on the bombers meeting no air interception and only light Fire Causes Damage At Emporia State April 15 of unknown origin last night caused damage of to the Emporia State college the old cafeteria Fire Chief Charles Stinson said the fire started in the rear of the destroying campus electrical tools and all irreplacable In war Stored furniture from Moore women's now used by college training was damaged by smoke and The building is 25 years Gen. Eisenhower Sees Soccer Game April 15 Dwight D. Eisenhower was cheered by a record crowd of 85,000 soccer fans today when he appeared at Wembly Stadium to see the league Cup Tlie invasion shook hands with every most of whom were Courage and Hope of Italian Refugees Challenge Admiration By DANIEL DE LUCE With the Fifth Army on the April 14. Two hard-boiled British army officers engaged in evacuating the last few thousand refugees from this beachhead declared today the Italian people here stood up to something worse than the London blitz with more courage and hope than the world could Five American trucks were pulled up to the scarred entrance of Sacred Heart church and 200 shabbily clad women and were climbing aboard for a dash to the harbor to take passage to Naples in the cramped holds of Lie's Inside the whose walls have been holed through by German scores of Italian families patiently lined up under tne pulpit while officers read out their names on a list for American rations which would tide them over until the next boat possibly are very brave said Capt. Leslie former of Lt. Norman Mackenzie of looked proudly at the refugees as If they might have been his own Italians here have suffered more severely than the population of East End London in the worst of the he are going into something like having lost their homes and almost all their possessions except what they can carry In their but their hope is We've had nursing mothers come in with shrapnel as big as a But they never Nearly 15,000 civilians were trapped by the war in the Nearly a month went by before Allied authorities were able to start the slow process pf evacuation by There have of casualties from artillery shelling and air But most of the refugees still here would rather remain than They love their Collected from the they wait two or days at the sleeping on stone attending each morning the mass said by Father who made stones his in order to have no comfort he could not give all his Tlie refugees clean the church four times a They disinfect themselves with spray puns and They carry water from a distant This morning there a Dr. Giovanni one of the leading physicians of this took a i After the ceremony they rode outi to the doctor's little country home on a horse-drawn cart decorated with white blossoms from a field of They will honeymoon near one of the beachhead's many ammunition and not far from the line of pits concealing American 165 mm. After three days they will also be As the bride left the church Pvt. Anthony Perazzo of New York gave her a bagful of candy he had collected from American She tossed the candy into the delighted crowd which on the The family cornered most of the which was not because there are 15 It was Dr. Machele who had delivered a number of them into this Torpedo boats sank many ships and the harbor was with their wreckage and with German and Romanian the account saying that ammunition stores were indicated that the Germans were attempting a Crimean and that Soviet forces were striking powerfully to break it seamen and airmen are preventing any attempt to rescue even a small part of the enemy's Crimean Yesterday nearly every ship attempting to leave the ports still in German hands was either sunk or severely said a dispatch from the Crimea relayed from Moscow by CBS correspondent James Enemy in Panic The Pravda correspondent added that panic was mounting among the and he had counted 430 dead Romanians and Germans along less than a mile of highway between Simferopol and He said that the enemy had tried to sack the loading many craft with pillaged but forgot them in their haste to get Just as they forgot their tanks and On Other Fronts The RAF apparently was grounded last night after a Mosquito of Berlin Thursday but the German radio indicated the Allies were keeping up the aerial offensive from the west by daylight It announced that enemy fighter formations are approaching northwest A Madrid dispatch to the London Daily Mall said a three-hour general invasion alert sounded Wednesday night along the Brittany coast of Operations on the Italian front were confined to Intensified German shellings and Infiltration Allied patrols were Plan May Give Car Plants Boost on Postwar Output April 15. retooling of the automobile industry for postwar passenger car production was seen as a strong likelihood following Donald M. Nelson's appointment of a new committee for civilian to counsel the Production Board on reconversion High on the program of the Monday meeting of the automobile industry advisory committee is a proposal for letting the motor car makers start placing orders within a short time for new machine tools needed for building postwar don't think WPB officials would have put the proposal on the unless they had some good news for said one auto industry a logical because the machine tool industry Is slowing Its backlog of orders is only as big as the E. E. Stonecipher Speaks to Kiwanis Prof. E. E. spoke to the lola club last night on the subject of He discussed school problems arising from the tax system often resulting in unequal tlon of revenue regardless of the number of students to be A special legislative he is now investigating the situation and Is expected to recommend changes which will alleviate the Release Persons Held In Camacho Conspiracy Mexico April 15. the persons held during investigation of an alleged conspiracy to kill President Manuel Avila his brother Gen. AvUa and Ellas Calles have been it was announced Attorney General Jose Agullar Y Maya told them the president had released them of the goodness of his but warned them to make wise use of their
