Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - April 22, 1944, Lowell, Massachusetts ALLIES STEP BOMBING WESTERN EUROPE No Change in Condition of THE LOWELL 6 COUNTY 66th Year No. 95 Crisis Due Next Tuesday in Illness of Lowell Prelate April 22 crisis is expected Tuesday in the case of William Cardinal 84-year-old dean of the American Catholic who is ill with bronchial it was learned Buoyed by the blessings of Pope Pius the cardinal appeared somewhat strengthened after a day of rest cablegram conveying the cial was taken into the patient's bedroom in the In churches throughout the archdiocese prayers will be said the spiritual and bodily of his James P. the personal who was in almost constant attendance ing the early stages of his left the Episcopal residence late j norther n it was announced officially yesterday and had not returned at S a. m. TODAY'S INDEX Amusements Editorials Radio Programs 6 Classified 9! 8i 6 Comics I Parsons Sports 8 Dot Kilgallen Marquis Childs News 7 Deaths Mrs. Roosevelt Saturday Chat 4 Pearson Politics Ration News County News Today on Pages 2 and 3 Associated News Service THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER United Press Lowell Mass. Saturday April 22 1944 12 Pages 3 Cents Yank Join In Air Attack on Sumatra Unit Included Ships of All Allied Plane Lost SOUTHWEST ASIA April 22 States navy carrier force participated in the Allied raid at dawn April 15 against The sickroom is a floor bedroom which the cardinal has occupied for many Its furnishings are almost plain wooden a table and On the wall above the patient's head is the only a simple Genoa Is Target of Allied San Stefano and Leghorn Also Quiet on Ground British Sub in Daring Rescue of Yank Flier Surfaces in Range of Japs to Pick Up Sumatra Victim By Eugene Burns ABOARD AN AMERICAN French and Japs Open New Drive on British Claim the Situation in Hand Nips Claim SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND Dutch naval units co-operated in j April 22. the Speedy navy with the mounting threat 80 per cent of them OFF April 19, ALLIED the smoking guns of Japanese coastal a British rine made one of the most dramatic rescues of the war picking up an American Lt. Dale Christian of shot down in the task force bW against Sabang and hopped off from American and British carriers and carried out a successful surprise attack I against Japanese installations at Sabang island and the nearby The carriers were screened by British and French battleships and lighter units of the Dutch and U. S. it was British tonnage predominated in the naval fleets although 65 per cent of the planes were i spangled American Hellcats and Dauntless Avengers while Corsairs flown by the British were and carried United British Also in the air were British Before the airmen hit the matra targets April 22 extended their pre-dawn raids to northern Italy's largest today iri pressing their offensive to disrupt Germany's sea supply Other Wellingtons attacked the Italian west coast ports of San Stefano and Livorno hit almost daily during the past Large fires were re- ported to have been started at San Stefano and but results j were not observed at The lull continued on the ground j was the first definite word that an American aircraft perhaps more than pated the raid in the Indian ocean with the British eastern can of a renewed Japanese offensive against the Kohima tion center today hastily dated positions recently captured from the enemy in that area and inflicted casualties on the Japs elsewhere in Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's optimistic over the situation on the approaches to Kohima which lies 30 miles inside Manipur said taken from the enemy in recent days are being converted to Allied situation continues develop the official bulletin Sixty miles to the the Allied forces northeast of the Imphal supply base improved their In this the com- Continued Five Continued on in the Andaman some 300 miles to the northwest a attack to draw off the anese planes from The ruse was At Sabang all the planes on the ground The Japanese were so j unprepared that j on Five Co n 1 1 it ti c o n Pn Sabotage Blast Kills 200 Persons 2000 Injured in Bergen Explosion NEW April 22 Two hundred persons were injured and made homeless by a sabotage explosion Thursday morning in the harbor of the controlled Danish home radio re- The blast was caused by or persons in their the broadcast and took place aboard a sailing The transmission was picked up in New York by U. S. government Motorists Here Face Long Wait for New Gas Coupons OPA Puts New Issuing Rule Into Effect Week Early Without Warning comparatively few applicants for renewal of oline coupons here who have their applications before the local now will receive within the next day or it was learned but all others who are to apply will get their tailored books from the office in time within the next 10 State OPA late informed local rationing beginning any new applicant for gasoline would get his coupons from the new j rence which will serve 51 j cities and towns in this section of the Experiment Here this used as an experiment on Hitler April 22 The London Daily Sketch said today that the chiefs of the German navy and air force forced Hitler at a recent meeting to accept an advisory committee of to scrutinize his orders before they are sent to fighting as Hitler pre- was supreme in strategy and this is an indication both of his loss of power and cf the newspaper Councilor Gets Leave Geary Temporarily of Relief Post to Jan. 3, a leave of absence has been granted Councilor C. Geary from his post as re- lief City Manager John J. Flannery announced today upon receipt of a decision by Civil vice Director The announcement brings to an end negotiations which have gone on since Mr. Geary was sworn in as la councilor on Jan. 3, and sents a compromise between the councilor and Mr. Lupien Lets Down The civil service director Continued on Page Five Former Swiss President Dies April 22 mund four times ident of died Schulthess was head Swiss government in 1917, 1921, 1928 and Steady Stream of Planes Pound Bases RAF Concentrates on Cologne While Medium Bombers Blast Atlantic Wall April 22 probably hundreds swept out across the channel today to send a aerial offensive against western Europe into its six straight following another RAF night attack on ing Other Allied bombers and also shuttled back and RAIL CENTERS HIT BY burst symbols indicate railway cities in Belgium and which were hit night by British RAF British sent MOO aircraft against attacked in and struck at and La Chapelle in Madrid Paper Predicts Invasion Either or Madrid that second assault western tonight or tomorrow period between 10 o'clock tonight and 8 o'clock tomorrow p. m. to 8 a. as the time Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's troops will storm a. the explained that tides in channel and North sea then are most favorable to and naval Get Eh ht r is being for the From Of fices Weekly School Collection Resumes on Tuesday Partisans Recapture From Nazi Forces April 22, slav Partisan tacking a German offensive in South have captured the town of 55 miles east of a communique said The on the highway be- tween and was tons of waste occupied by the Germans three mostly old records and from downtown were collected by Boy Scouts for days ago during their drive through southeastern The communique from Marshal Josip headquarters the Lowell salvage committee that bitter fighting con- in the past two William in the Sandjak area after supervisor of the Partisans marched into said this vi In western Partisans on Lowell School Children Have Gathered Pounds of Waste Paper 330-Ton Mountain of in 10-Week Praise Given Average Weekly Wage Increase in March Over February to The STATE Boston The average weekly wage in Lowell in- in March compared with February it was announced today by the state department of labor and The department's division of statistics said that the average wage in community was 529.59 in March and in The survey made of 62 turing plants showed that there were wage earners em- ployed in February mid in March and that the weekly roll the previous month compared with last Throughout the the age weekly earnings increased 1.5 per last from the pre- all out in their efforts to the ell's school working over- time in the city's campaign to vage all possible waste paper for war have turned to the impressive total pounds of paper and the ell Salvage by Herman 0. announced The mountain of 330 been collected by the youngsters during the past ten weeks in a drive is part of a movement to collect every salvageable scrap of paper Officials in charge of the were loud in their praise of the efforts of the youngsters and stressed the value of their contribution to tne mounting war effort as well as the importance of its In many cases turned in is made into containers inside of 2'l hours and these arc shipped I lie same testifying to the urgent need for Plants arc located in this city with on Five Actually this was somewhat out attacks on railway der the amount Iines in an arca approximately 75 miles south oi Two enemy the next when burlap ags will be furnished to the of- troop trains were blown one at a larger total is Novi and the other Next as between tions of waste paper will be turned at all local These were passed over during the ent week because of the vacation Prijedor and Twenty-eight bridges were de- and about five miles of track wrecked on the Not Old Enough to Lost Both Legs at Anzio Chelsea Now at Devens Says He's Not a for He Came Home AMERICANS GERMAN IN HOLLAND JV Marauder bombers of the U. S. army Ninth air force head for home a their bombs explode on the drome It one of the Urgest airfields in Europe and has been bombed a number of PHOTO from Army air FORT DEVENS no hero's around his if you take his word for and he's pretty of about it all as he lies on his bed at the Lovell General minu both lost in the action on the Anzio in Pvt. Leo of not yet old enough to cast his first talked in low tones as he of his brief army climaxed as he lay on the soil of Italy for 12 hours waiting ment to the rear with his left leg numbed and crushed and his 1-G. belt bound tight around the right I lost both legs when a mortar shell landed between but I'm he hastened to plenty of fellows who did more than I did over there right and a lot of 'em won't be medics got to me about live hours after I was the German shell fire was so heavy they couldn't get me back the He eventually an evacuation hospital that a Nazi bomber later dropped a load of bombs killing two German bomber was shot down by of our planes and the pilot landed in the same pital that he had bombed a short time Pvt. Em- mett the German wanted to meet the American who shot him still under 20 years of was attending Chelsea high school when war broke and enlisted in the being signed to the Third which landed in North Africa after mel had been chased off the can The division was in the fighting in and Pvt. Emmett said going was it was even tougher when they landed at Salerno and for The division was of that and was selected for the beachhead Recount ing some of the Emmett landed on the ers across the sunlit Straits of Dover at giving promise p a day of heavy attacks on Ger Atlantic wall defenses am i supply centers as a prelude to an Allied Flying Fortresses and Libera tors of Sth U. S. air force were idli yesterday following attack on the inva sion but medium carried on the assault in their ab Coastal watchers said one for mation after of bombers crossed the coast in an almost constant pro cession during the dium bombers were among Swarms of fighters performed escort flying below and around the Cologne Blasted Twin-engined RAF Mosquitoes struck at Germany's third city and one of the main rail way bottlenecks east of the chan before dawn today bringing the tonnage dropped in the first five days of the air offensive in history to well over the The air ministry announced that the Thunderbolt attack lastec only 10 minutes between 4 and 5 a. m. and 11 p. m. Frida with many block busters among the bomb dropped on The plywood bomber were guided to their targets by the glow of fires still burning ir Cologne's railway yards from 1770-ton British attack previ a total 5040: ex plosives on four of. the principa railway centers supplying the in vasion Other RAF planes laid in enemy the air ministry All planes returned safely from the night's The main blows continued be concentrated against western Europe as the zero hour for the opening of a western front The London Daily the Allied air offensive against man centers proved so effective that the German eral staff has been forced to re- cast its strategy on the tion that no railway in the sion zone will be usable the time Anglo-American troops swarm generals are ily defense ures so that all movements of troops can be made by the Mail Radio Vichy was heard casting that nearly 300 persons were killed by British bombs in the suburbs of Paris Thursday while 153 were killed and 4CO dwellings destroyed at Reds Closing Grip on Sevastopol Army and Navy Mass Forces to Recapture Port April 22 sia's Crimean and the Red fleet have massed at Sevastopol fling the enemy into the Red fleet correspondent Lieut. Dimitri Nikolaev reported today as Soviet forces tightened their siege of the great naval The have captured hills dominating the city's the and are storming one pass after another despite German long-range guns and and bombing attacks by the enemy's air forces which Have put down a of in the A diate line just outside has been captured by swift Russian flanking In the southeastern section of old today's communique said Red army pouring a hurricane of fire into charging masses of German tanks and again threw back Continued on Five Probe WPB April 22. senate committees pre- pared today to investigate charges that is dominating important activities of the war production Sponsors of one of the inquiries predicted that sharp differences WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson Vice Chairman Charles Wilson would A senate small business committee open its inquiry Tuesday into charges WPB order will cripple many firms and aid big A senate agriculture will investigate charges that business men make policy in their own have had bitter charges hat WPB directive 42, which reezes civilian production in areas ne and two at the level the irst three months of this year will hurt many small aid Sen. Kenneth Wherry of the small business charges are that any small Marshal Henri Philippe j business that was terminating a chief of state in the Vichy j contract and taking on tial production is fore- said in a broadcast that bombardments of in lence and were being ried out against French dwellings and French raids have been made against he sands of killed and injured are still buried under the On top of our country has been disarmed and it is our Allies who are throwing selves against Premier Pierre also contended that the pitch of the latest attacks us of the merciless intentions of those under the pretext of liberating are heaping ruins and sorrow upon We I yet have to face up the real to in closed because it has no base and that the order would benefit big business which doesn't want see small firms get started civilian order is justified on the need for military production and necessity of driving employees into war Hit Bucharest Big Bombers Attack Centers on Rail Yards ALLIED HEADQUARTERS j April 22 Allied i heavy bombers struck Bucharest HONORS ADMIRAL j capital of yesterday NEW April 22 A j The bombers laid new ton super destroyer railyards at day honored the memory of Ad- miral Henry A. father of the ship U. S. merchant marine det Launched at the Bethlehem Steel Staten Island the ship was christened by Mrs. Elisabeth Wiley Robb of daughter of 'the late In 193S, as marine com- missioner in charge of set up the cadet He died last DR. ARTHUR H. NASON April 22 Dr. Arthur Huntington 67, professor of English at New York university for 26 years and director of the University Press from 1916 until 1S33, died at his home early jot TO LAUNCH SUB N. April 22 U. S. Spikefish will .be launched at Portsmouth navy it was announced The craft will be sponsored by Mrs. Harvey Wilson wife of a navy lieutenant missing in Mrs. Moore is daughter of Cmdr. and Mrs. Laurence and grand- daughter of the late Rear Ad- miral Stewart and Admiral Joseph Mrs. Harvey Wilson of N. will matron U. S. TREASURY April 22 balance April 20: THE WEATHER Fair and Warmer Cloudy Followed By
