Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - April 10, 1944, Waterloo, Iowa The Money You Comes Back in the FIRST WITH NEWS Rain tonight and Tuesday fresh to strong winds Complete weather forecast 1 ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO IOWA MONDAY APRIL 10 1944 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS GERMANS EVACUATE DESSA Raids Bleed Nazi Power HULL Clashes With DeGaulle him on planning organization and said Will Work With Congress to Keep Foreign Policy Out of Politics Washington D A broadcast explanation of American foreign policy pled with a plea for home front unity on international launched Secretary of State Hull on a planned campaign to keep the principles of the nation's foreign policy out of election year versies We are moving closer and closer to the hour of decision in which the United Nations will determine whether the world will be ravaged by war again in 25 years Hull said and disunity in this country can render it in carrying out its The key to Hull's plans for ing foreign policy decisions out of politics apparently lies in his an- intention to work with a bipartisan committee of congress in shaping those plans in the first place Sums Up Developments He announced Sunday night in his unprecedentedly detailed mation of foreign policy ments that he had requested man Connally of the ate foreign relations committee to designate the bipartisan group to work with war world similar arrangements would be made with the house Beyond this Hull may be ex- to try to keep projected foreign policy operations within the limits lie feels ably sure the of both jor political parties and the ple generally will support He told his radio audience that a plan of organization is worse than unless it has full port both in this country and in the other nations which must sub- scribe to it if it is to be made tive Discusses Dozen Aspects Hull discussed a dozen aspects of present foreign policy operations in obvious response to those critics who have claimed either that the state department's ways were ob- scure and secretive or that the de- and the administration lacked any basic principles The issues he discussed fell in- to two Immediate lems leading to victory and future problems of the armistice and postwar organizations The principal immediate lems said the United States would not recognize the French committee of national ation as the government of France because it is of course not the government of France On the other hand the fully ex- that the committee will ern liberated areas of France un- der the supervision of the Allied in- vasion chief Gen Dwight D Hopeful of Italy United States is ful that there may be early of the Italian ment to include representatives of the six antiFascist cal parties because the present con- of those parties in Italy hold a promise of No earlier reorganization was possible Hull said because tary leaders there felt U would not he to the advantage of the military situation to impose from the top laid down the principle that we can no longer acquiesce in these nations ing upon the resources of the Allied world when they at the same time contribute to the death of troops whose sacrifices contribute to their salvation as well as ours Argument No Good Because United Nations strength now assures German's defeat Hull said neutrals can no longer argue that they must compromise with Germany in order to save selves He named no specific countries but his remarks were interpreted to apply alike to Sweden Ireland Spain and Portugal and Turkey War declared Gen Henri Giraud left has refused to accept the post of in- of the French armed forces after Gen Charles De Gaulle right abolished the position of commander-in-chief which Giraud has been holding Giraud refused to recognize abolition of the office The men appear here as they inspected a guard of honor in north Africa May 30 AP HII Crew in Raid on France INS daring Brit- ish commando raid on a guarded beach along the northern coast of France in which a German post was wiped out and a barreled mortar captured was re- ported by the London Evening Standard Monday Quoting the periodical Paris published at Casablanca the was made near mouth of the ard said the raid Harfleur at the Seine The attack was made on a dark and misty night British commandos went ashore undetected cut their way through barbed wire and killed a German sentry before he was able t0 give the alarm The commandos then over- whelmed the mortar position ing out the crew According to the British returned without suffering ties except for one man whose foot was crushed in moving the heavy mortar across the beach Reports Japan to Move Capital Into Manchuria Chungking Japan will j move her capital from Tokyo to Hsinking in the puppet state of Manchuria when the Allied Pacific moves closer to the home islands the Chungking edition of the Shanghai Post and Mercury said Monday The newspaper said buildings had been erected in the former city of Changchun in the last few years to provide substitutes for Tokyo structures if it became necessary The palace now occupied by Manchuria's emperor Henry Pu Yi would be used by the emperor I of Japan the dispatch said Next Move Up to DeGaulle Charles De Gaulle was confronted with a direct challenge to his as president of the committee of national liberation Monday as Gen Henri Giraud stood firm on his refusal to accept dismissal as chief of the French armed forces Giraud's stand apparently left the next move in the contest be- tween the two generals squarely up to De Gaulle But there was no indication of the probable course of tion The situation was further con- fused by the assertion of some of Giraud's followers that several members of the liberation com- had threatened to resign in an expression of sympathy with him The Giraud who escaped from France in 1941 to take over leadership of French armed forces sent a sharp for- mal letter to De He declared the latter's action violated French republican law as well as French national committee ordinances determining a tion of civil and military powers and organization of a high com- mand I am not Giraud said I accept neither the ciple of suppression of the post of commander-in-chief of the French armed forces in the middle of war nor the honorary post which you have designed for me U Force of More Than V 000 Planes Bomb Holland French Targets London U S air task forces totalling to bombers and fighters smashed at plane factories and airfields in Belgium and Prance Monday in the third straight clay of fierce bleeder blows against Nazi air power The Americans struck after heavy RAF night raids on rail targets at Lille and in the ern outskirts at Paris Saturday they bombed wick airplane plants and airdromes Frankfort wrecking 148 Nazi planes in battle Monday the heavy bombers hopped across the North sea to smack the Evere and plane repair works and Melsbroek drome near Brussels aircraft tories at Bourges about 115 miles south of Paris and military ob- in the area of France and elsewhere Strong Forces The forces were described as between 500 and 750 bombers escorted by as many Thunderbolts Mustangs and Lightnings The daylight fleet took off soon after the RAF heavy bombers re- turned from raiding Georges a junction on the main rail lines from southern and ern France just 12 miles south of the center of Paris and Lille im- portant junction on northern French rail lines Mosquito bombers hit and other unspecified ob- and extensive ing operations were carried out at long range all at a night cost of 11 planes the air ministry said It was the first major British sault in a week Canadian and Mosquitos attacked grounded craft at Toul and Saint Dizier and Army Officer Tries to Shoot Mexico City D A Mexican army officer at- tempted to assassinate dent Gen Manuel Avila acho in the national palace Monday hut was disarmed after missing with a pistol shot at blank range The president grappled with the assassin and held both his arms while members of the party seized the pun The officer identified as artillery Lt Antonio Lama Rojas Camacho as the president was walking through the main tio of the palace from his car to the entry of his private elevator Lama saluted and walked ly toward the president who ently believed the officer wanted to speak with him At three paces Lama drew a automatic pistol and opened fire His first shot missed and the president immediately seized him preventing him from getting in an- other shot Maj Ortiz Bartolo who was accompanying the president struck Lama while another aide Lt Mario Castenada took his pistol Camacho ordered the assassin taken into his private elevator and on the way up to his offices asked Lama why he had tried to kill him For a long time I have been wanting to interview the president to complain that I am not allowed to go to church nor to attend mass in Lama was quoted To a Village It Shouldn't Happen By JACK New York got its ballet full Sunday night S Hurok presented his ballet theater down at the Metropolitan opera house Missouri River Near Flood Stage Omaha Missouri river fed by melting snow in the Dakotas and spring rains in eastern Nebraska approached flood stage at Omaha and Blair Neb Monday The muddy water already was overflowing the banks in spots at Blair and two families in the lands were forced to move The official reading there was 18 feet Flood stage is 19 feet F La Guardia sponsored the The big river was up to the 15.5 let Russe de Monte Carlo boy is feet level at Omaha 24 miles south that a up at his city center of music and drama Continued on page 2 column 1 INDEX Index Believe It or 7 Cedar Falls 5 City in Brief 6 10 Northeast Iowa 5 Radio Programs 7 Ration Calendar 4 Serial Story 7 Society 6 Sports 9 Theaters 71 blanketed Uncle Ray's Corner 7 Uncle of Blair shortly before noon 34 Marooned in Rockies Storm Denver least two persons were dead 34 Easter holiday motorists were marooned in a ski lodge atop the Rockies and an army air field was ly wrecked by a sudden storm that broke through southeast Wyoming Colorado western Kansas and northern New Mexico Monday Transportation and tion facilities in the four states were vastly hampered Snow to the depth of six inches other targets in France Sunday the air ministry announced Many bomber crews back from Monday's attacks reported they en- counted no fighter opposition and that flak was light even over the targets Token Attacks One group back from Belgium reported token attacks by groups of a half-dozen Focke Wulf attacking head-on and an even smaller number of Messerschmitt striking simultaneously from the rear The RAF's night operations came as a swift followup to long-range daylight assaults Sunday by large forces of U S heavy bombers against key Nazi aircraft factories in Poland East Prussia and east Germany Although the Paris area had been hit by American daylight raiders during the past year the former French capital received its last heavy night blow from the RAF May 30 1942 Lille an important railway and manufacturing center in northern France with a peacetime tion of nearly had been bombed many times by both the British and Americans Hit Locomotive Works One of the most vital industries there is the Steel and Engineering Works producing steam and tric locomotives materials and other heavy en- equipment The plant has a capacity of 100 to 150 mainline type of locomotives annually The city is one of the principal junctions on the northern way The German radio said the Georges attack left at least 100 persons dead and a large number injured It was the first time this city had been announced as a specific target The Germans indicated Sunday night's RAF attacks were on a large scale I considered it unfair That's why I did this He was removed to the Santiago military prison after questioning Hitler Ordering German Women to Army the United The Moscow radio in a German language broadcast beamed to Eu- rope and recorded by United States government monitors Monday said that Adolf Hitler had called up German women for the armed services and that 400 already had been conscripted in Dresden and 500 in Breslau The report said Gen Wealther von Unruh head of military con- scription had been directed to speed up mobilization of the women Recent dispatches from Holland and Norway ed that women were being lized for German labor service Berlin Claims Rome Raided as Pope Said Mass Berlin radio declared Monday that Allied planes had bombed Rome Sunday just as Pope Pius XII was celebrating Easter mass in the hall of the con- The raid at II a m was the last of three attacks made on the city declared the broadcast It said the first raid was ried out about 6 a m and the ond an hour later Allied headquarters in Naples said Monday railway tions in the Home area had been attacked Invaders Pressing Attack on Kohima in Spite of Many Reverses New Delhi UP Con- verging Japanese forces drove to the edge of the Imphal plain from the east and west Monday while 60 miles to the north a British son hurled back repeated en- emy attacks on the vital Allied supply cetner of Kohima communique from Admiral Louis Mountbatten's east Asia headquarters revealed for the first time that the nese invasion column moving on Imphal from the south had reached the northern shores of Lake less than 16 miles from the town Small parties of enemy troops had been contacted by British im- units south of the track ning from to Imphal the communique said indicating that the invaders were sweeping ward in a flanking thrust at Im- phal Second Column Moves Up The announcement also raised the possibility that the Japanese might swing into the track and drive on the railhead at Silchar 70 miles further west Simultaneously the communique disclosed a second enemy column advancing on Imphal from the east had driven to within 10 miles that center and was being engaged in the foothills bordering the Im- phal plain Further losses have been in- on this column the com- said but it was knowledged that Japanese sure was from both the southwest and east Meanwhile official reports that the battle for Kohima had been joined after more than a week of cautious sparring along the approaches to the town during which the Japanese established themselves solidly astride the way leading south to Imphal Beaten Back Sunday The communique said the ers were beaten back Sunday after breaching the main British de- fenses before Kohima but came back to press their attacks with re- fury apparently trying to force a breakthrough before the start of the monsoon rains next month The communique refuted nese claims to have captured hima and radio Tokyo itself con- its own earlier accounts by announcing that heavy fighting was in progress inside the town and on the outskirts Spokesmen at Admiral Lord is southeast Asia headquarters revealed that the valley between Kohima and Imphal 60 miles to the south was swarming with Japanese troops Japanese pressure on the ma area was maintained out Sunday but all parties which penetrated our defenses were a terse communique said Fifty dead were counted and prisoners were captured Roosevelt on Relaxation Trip in South Washington D President Roosevelt has left Washington for ly two weeks of relaxation in the south the White House an- Monday The White House indicated Roosevelt would cut short his trip however in event any un- expected emergency should de- The White House statement said that Roosevelt will devote himself exclusively to relaxation out of doors in fresh air and sunshine The president has been ating from an attack of bronchitis and sinus infection The chief executive had several colds during the winter The White House reported last week that his bronchial and sinus conditions were virtually cleared up but that he needed fresh air to eradicate them completely Roosevelt was accompanied by Admiral William D Leahy his sonal chief of staff his military and naval aides and his physician White House correspondents of the three press associations also left Washington to cover the vacation but their dis- patches will not be published un- til after they return Japanese Told by Tokyo Real War Coming New York Declaring that the speed of the American advance in the Pacific has become rapid by contrast with the days of the Solomons the Tokyo domestic radio warned the nese people Monday that the war is about to enter a real The broadcast was recorded by U S government monitors It said the United States has full confidence in her military strength and that American offensive has changed in character from land hopping to leap frogging Enemy Scuffles 2 Supply Ships Colombo Ceylon Inter- and attacked by British warships and naval aircraft two large enemy supply ships have been scuttled by their crews in the Indian ocean a British nique announced Monday The supply ships probably were carrying very valuable cargoes con- sisting of oil or raw said the communique Survivors were rescued from one of the vessels Yugoslavs Half German Thrusts partisans have smashed renewed German thrusts toward the stronghold of recently seized by the army of liberation in the Jajce sector of western Bosnia a com- from the headquarters of Marshal Josip Broz Tito an- Monday The broadcast bulletin said attempts of the Nazis to attack to the west also had been thrown back PLUMBER ADVERTISES COMPLAINT ABOUT OPA North Platte Neb John E Ackerman a plumber and paid for this ment on the front page of the Gothenburg Times a weekly Due to the fact that our board and the OPA at Platte refuses to allot me tires for my service car I will not be able to do any more well work or refrigerator service Please do not call me I am not in the business any more as the OPA does not think Gothenburg needs my New Ace Describes His Kills the immediate Denver Wine hell in New York 11 Dutch Corlna Fl Verso Edward Red Dot H G Dun Good advertisement SHOPPING FOR BOMBER Hollywood Cal es Marsha Hunt and Dorothy ris were shopping for a bomber Monday after being guests of or at a rally where worth of bonds were sold The bonds will purchase a bomber to be named Spirit of the Philippines 17 Dead 42 Missing in Argentine Flood Buenos Aires Latest re- ports from the Bahia Blanca region said Monday that 17 persons were dead and 42 others were missing in flood waters inundating large areas of one of Argentina's est agricultural sections JUNK DEALER ASKS LOAN TO BUY HORSE Williamsport ff council turned down appeal of a junk dealer self-styled victim of these community scrap for a municipal loan to buy n horse personally contributed toward a fund to get added power in the man's failing business Capt Bon S Gentile right of Piqua Ohio tang pilot describes his kills of German planes to his wlngman Lt John Godfrey R I at an airfield In Britain The 21 crosses indicate his kills at time picture was made He has ran his bajr to 30 first American ace of this war formally broken Capt world war Says Installations Destroyed But Allies Doubt Nazi Garrison All Out Marshal Joseph Stalin announced Monday in an order of the day the capture of Odessa Russia's greatest Black sea port Capture of the port ruined in a siege by the Germans and by 905 days of rigid occupation was announced after the German high command had acknowledged its tion in one of Adolf Hitler's most humiliating defeats Stalin said the capture of the city to which many had ed the Germans would cling stubbornly as a thorn in the side of the Red army's Balkan ad- vance had cleared away a major obstacle to the central regions of Romania London The mans Monday announced the loss of Odessa last big Russian city in their hands and with it probably their sole ing toehold in the once com- overrun Ukraine German and Romanian troops completed the evacuation or the Black sea port Sunday night after destroying all installations the official Nazi DNB re- ported at noon 6 a m Demolition work had been un- der way for several weeks DNB said Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin was expected to confirm the fall of Odessa largest Russian city to be liberated since Kiev and perhaps the complete liberation ol the Ukraine in a special order of the day later A victory salute from Moscow's guns was certain Doubt Garrison Taken Out Despite the DNB announcement military observers were inclined to doubt that the Germans were able to extricate more than a tion of the beleaguered garrison of Odessa Gen Rodion Y Malinovsky's Third Ukrainian army closing in on Odessa from three sides was only a few miles north of the only railway line out of the city still in German hands Sunday and cow dispatches said it was believed already out of operation Even if the Germans did con- to operate the line it de- pended on ferries to ford Dnestr lagoon west of Odessa and was regarded as totally in- adequate for any withdrawal Soviet planes and units of the Black sea fleet maintained con- stant air and sea patrols to prevent any attempted Dunkerque tion to Romanian or Bulgarian ports Had Month Ago The garrison ol Odessa a month ago numbered more but was believed much smaller at the time of its hual retreat The Germans announced their of Odessa IcSi than 12 hours after the Soviet high command in Us midnight nique disclosed that Malinovsky's forces had broken into the ern suburbs with the capture of three miles from the city line on the three ters be- lagoon and Odessa bay Soviet partisans who have been hiding in the vast catacombs sewers and basements combing Odessa's foundations since the capture of the port by the Germans Oct 16 1941 were believed to have aided in the final rout of the enemy Moscow dispatches said the tisans had been awaiting only the signal from the advancing Red army to swarm from their hideouts and fall upon the enemy from the rear During the long months of pation the partisans carried out sporadic terror raids against the German and Romanian garrison but never acted In full strength Had Population of The Germans first laid siege io Odessa which then had a tion of on Aug 12 For months the city one erf the most modern in the Soviet Un- ion was pounded by the and massed heavy artillery the city finally yielded the Germans found only a I
