House Group Requests
$10,000 for Inquiry
Info Ward Seizure
The special House committee
named to investigate the Mont
gomery Ward seizure by the
Government was preparing to
day to shape its course after an
organization meeting yesterday
at which it was decided to ask an
appropriation of $10,000 to carry
on the work.
Another meeting will be held
Wednesday, and the date for open
ing the inquiry may be decided
then, although Chairman Ramspeck
said today that “you never can tell
what seven men will do.” At any
rate, that meeting is expected to set
the order in which the Government
witnesses—first to be heard—wdll be
called.
Mr. Ramspeck said there was
"some difference of opinion” as to
whether the investigators first
should hear Attorney General Bid
dle. who directed the seizure, or
War Labor Board Chairman Davis.
The Georgia Representative said
the first meeting of the group was
harmonious, and that no differences
developed which could not be ad
justed.
Poster Case Dropped.
In another development yesterday
in Chicago, Paul D. Sowell, assistant
to the operating manager of Mont
gomery Ward, was freed of a charge
based on his removal of a Govern
ment poster from a bulletin board
In one of the firm's buildings while
the concern was under Federal con
trol, the Associated Press reported.
United States Commissioner Ed
win K. Walker dismissed the case
after District Attorney William
Connor told him the Government
would drop prosecution.
Earlier. Francis Heisler, counsel
for Local 20 of the CIO United Mail
Order, Warehouse and Retail Em
ployes Union, filed a petition in Su
perior Court asking that the con
cern pay $21,067 to the union for
attorneys’ fees and losses which, he
alleged, resulted from an injunction
issued against the union during the
recent strike.
Mr. Heisler maintained that the
injunction, limiting the number of
pickets to the plant to 42, deprived
the strike of some of its effective
ness. CIO unionists went out April
12, but returned April 26 at the re
quest of President Roosevelt, and
the injunction was dissolved.
Avery’s Reply Awaited.
The union, winner of a collective
bargaining election this week, await
ed a reply from Sewell Avery,
Ward’s chief executive officer, on its
request for a meeting to discuss a
new contract. The CIO was pre
pared to seek inclusion of a mainte
nance of membership clause, while
Mr. Avery has stated he would op
pose such a provision.
The Government took over the
firm’s facilities after Mr. Avery re
fused to comply with a War Labor
Board order to extend an expired
contract with the union—a contract
which embraced a maintenance of
membership clause.
Mr. Sowell was arrested by FBI
agents May 4. when he removed a
bulletin setting forth, among other
things, that no dismissals of em
ployes would be effective without the
approval of the Federal operating
manager. He said at the time he
merely wanted to take the placard
to his office to read it.
He was charged specifically with
"taking, purloining, stealing or in
juring property of the United States
Government with intent to commit
a depredation.” He pleaded inno
cent.
“At the outset of the Govern
ment's taking of the Montgomery
Ward plant there was a threat of
substantial interference with that
possession and with the Govern
ment’s property which had been
placed on the premises,” Mr. Connor
told the commissioner.
“Mr. Sowell’s act in tearing down
a Government poster was promptly
met with his arrest. That ended the
threat of interference with Govern
ment property.
"The Government's possession now
has been terminated. While there
is a violation of a Federal statute,
the main controversy is closed and
the ends of justice do not require
that this man be further prose
cuted.”
Mr. Sowell’s attorney stated he
would have proved that Mr. Sowell
removed the sign with the intention
of performing his duties “as directed
in the poster.”
Court Dismisses Suit
Without Prejudice
CHICAGO, May 12 (A*).—Federal1
Judge William H. Holly formally
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ALLIES OPEN OFFENSIVE IN ITALY—Arrows indicate Allied
drives on the southern sector of the main front (black line) in
Italy. British 8th Army forces were pushing forward in the
Cassino area today and -StH Army forces were operating farther
south. Allies were thrusting toward two prepared German
defense positions—the Gustav Line and the Adolf Hitler Line.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
dismissed "without prejudice” today
the Government petition for an in
junction to restrain officials of
Montgomery Ward & Co. from in
terfering with Federal operation of
the firm's Chicago plants, now re
turned to company possession.
The formality followed the court's
statement Wednesday that it “con
sidered the case dismissed” because
action of the Government on Tues
day in turning the properties back
to the control of the big mail order
firm had taken the case out of his
hands.
“Without prejudice” means the
Government could initiate a similar
action later. If the case was dis
missed “with prejudice” the Gov
ernment would have been barred
from starting a new suit of the
kind.
Invasion
(Continued From First Page.)
take charge of France on the
grounds that Vichy may be unable
to control the French population
when the Allies invade.
Petain Shifted From Vichy.
This report came through Euro
pean underground channels after
French quarters in London an
nounced the Germans had shifted
Marshal Petain from Vichy to a
chateau 40 miles from Paris.
The underground advices said
Marshal Rommel's demand was be
ing opposed by the German Foreign
Office. The field marshal was said
to have stated that the Vichy police
would be useless to the Germans
because many were "little better
than gangsters.”
Meanwhile, on the Allied side,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, su
preme commander of invasion
forces, revealed that the G-5 (civil
affairs)' section of his command was
set to march into Germany* with the
conquering troops and rule the
Reich with a military iron hand as
well as operate temporarily in the
countries presently German-occu
pied.
Froiq Ottawa came an official hint
of further attacks in the middle
East, possibly in conjunction with
the invasion, Trade Minister J. A. |
MacKinnon referring in a report on I
Dominion exports to “impending
activity in the Eastern Mediter
ranean.”
Molotov Warns Foe.
And in Moscow Soviet Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov de
clared the Germans soon would feel
the “joint blows” of the Russians
from the east and the Atlantic
Allies from the west.
The top officer of G-5 is Lt. Gen.
A. E. Grassett, Canadian-born mem
ber of the Royal Engineers, and the
ranking American is Brig. Gen.
Aulius C. Holmes, who in peacetime
was a diplomat and businessman.
In friendly countries, the admin
istrative group will operate directly
with the governments in exile or
other recognized native governing
body and will depart as soon as
the civil machinery is functioning.
In Germany it is expected that the
military government will remain
j until some sort of postwar commis
i sion takes over.
Underground sources with close
European contacts said the Germans
still were feverishly making a va
riety of anti-invasion preparations
in Western Europe.
Protection of German nationals
appeared to be of major concern.
Tire German plan of civilian de
fense known as “wehrschiessen,”
previously used only In the Reich
itself, was said to have been extend
ed now to France and the Low
Countries, with all German civilian
men being issued arms for protec
tion against local revolts.
German civilian specialises in t
France, particularly in Paris, were!
reported under orders to go to so- j
called "refugee strong points” withi
one suitcase of clothes the moment
invasion starts. These strong points. |
under army control, apparently were j
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Clark Tells His Men
He's Certain They
Will Destroy Nazis
By the Associated Press.
FIFTH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, ITALY, May 11 (De
layed).—Lt. Gen. Mark W.
Clark In an order of the day
to the troops he is leading in
the new major effort of the
Italian campaign told the 5th
Army today he was fully confi
dent “we can and will destroy
the German armies.”
"You have inflicted heavy
losses upon their troops and
have taken more than 13,000
prisoners,” the commander of
the 5th Army declared in the
order read to all troops seven
hours before the offensive
opened.
“You have placed the enemy
in his present distressing posi
tion of trying hopelessly to hold
back the Allied forces, which he
knows will eventually overrun
him from two directions.”
designed to keep keymen from be
ing assassinated.
There were these other under
ground reports:
Gestapo and SS (Elite Corps) con
trol in the occupied countries along
the West Wall has been centralized
in one man, Gen. Udo von Woyrsch,
SS chieftain.
With the aid of Quislings, poten
tial “reprisal” camps have been es
tablished to which all suspected men
and women will be sent on D-day.
The Low Countries and France
have been, sealed off into military
Bones and all civilians are forbidden
to travel from one zone to another
without special passes in order to
prevent the organization of under
ground assaults and the leakage of
military news.
Three German air-borne and para
chute divisions have been trans
ferred to the West Wall, apparently
for quick movement to threatened
points.
Clark
_'Continued From First Page.)
en by Federal agents to keep Gen.
Clask's visit to Washington a secret,
and it is only now that he is back
at his command post in Italy that
the facts of his memorable mission
can be revealed without danger of
giving any useful information to the
enemy.
When the commander arrived in
the Capital he was rushed to Jhe
apartment house where his wife
and daughter live and Government
agents were posted in the building.
A War Department automobile was
assigned to him.
Also, in order to avoid any indis
creet revelations by servants, Gen.
Clark was assigned an Army orderly
to wait on him during his visit
here. Arrangements also were made
to avoid any one seeing the general
enter or leave the building.
Others Return Occasionally.
The apartment house in which
Gen. Clark lives also is the house of
Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland,
chief of staff to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, and of Admiral Royal E. In
gersoll. commander in chief of the
Atlantic fleet. They return occa
sionally to consult with the joint
chiefs of staff here and their visits
are not considered official secrets.;
They are seen in uniform around the
building and mingle in the dining
room with other guests.
However, because of the strategic
situation in Italy, it apparently was;
considered necessary to keep Gen.
Clark's visit here a secret.
He returned to Italy after a rest
of a few days at a fashionable Vir
ginia resort.
Italy
_'Continued From First. Page *
I ians out of an area behind the front
; at least 20 miles deep, which now
has become an arena of a slugging
match unrivaled in Italian history.
Livid flashes lit the sky as the
awesome artillery barrage signaled
the opening of the push.
A special Allied communique an
nouncing the beginning of the offen
sive said the regrouping of the Allied
armies had been “successfully com
pleted without enemy interference,"
adding:
“The operation has been covered
by continual air action and patrol
I activity along the whole front.
Complicated and heavy road and
rail movements of men and mate-1
dal have been smoothly carried
, out.”
Accomplished on Time.
The announcement said the vast
troop movement, which had been in
dicated by several German broad
casts of the last week, had “made
Second Railway Cut
By Japs in Thrust
To Capture Loyang
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING. May 12—The
Chinese high command said today
that Japanese forces, slashing
across the Yellow River southward,
had cut the Lunghai Railway about
40 miles west of Loyang in Honan
Province, barring the line of Chi
nese retreat.
Two Japanese columns of 5.000
men, part of an invasion force
which was using 600 light tanks
and armored cars, were said to have
crossed the Yellow River from
Shansi Province.
The Japanese were attempting to
push the Chinese into the hills from
the great Honan plains as a means
>f safeguarding their newly won hold
on the Peiping-Hankow railroad.
The Japanese were using 1,000
trucks as well as tanks and armored
cars, making the drive the heaviest
mechanized offensive in China since
the battle of Hankow in 1938.
A Chinese spokesman today at
tributed the swift Japanese advances
to the enemy use of tanks and the
Chinese lack of anti^nk guns and
heavy armaments.
He praised the “very substantial
help” given by Maj. Gen. Claire L.
Chennault's American and Chinese
air wing, which was hammering
communication lines and installa
tions. He said the planes destroyed
about 30 tanks and 190 trucks.
Other Japanese forces which
closed the Peiping-Hankow rail gap
were last reported pressing close to
Loyang from the south and one re
port placed the invaders within 6
miles. The spokesman said the
heaviest fighting was south of Lo
yang. The plunge across the Yel
low River to the west seemed an
encircling maneuver.
LONDON, May 12 (/Pi.—'The To
kyo radio quoted Imperial head
quarters today as saying that 15,500
Chinese troops had been slain since
the beginning of the Japanese of
fensive in northern Honan Province
on April 18.
5 Nazi Planes Downed
In Attack on Convoy
By th* Associated Press.
ALGIERS, May 12.—British and
French fighter pilots knocked down
five German planes and damaged
others in a force attacking an Al
lied convoy in the Western Medi
terranean. Coastal Air Force head
quarters said today, without dis
closing whether the convoy suffered
damage.
(Berlin radio said Nazi planes
sank a destroyer and seven
freighters, totaling about 50,000
tons, In an attack last night oh
a convoy in the Western Medi
terranean. It said a cruiser of
the Dido class, a British ship of
5,450 tons, and three destroyers
were hit and put out of action,
and that heavy damage was done
to 12 transports, freighters and a
9,000-ton tanker.
(Another German broadcast
reported “livelier enemy activity
on the Cassino front,” and said
there was “some connection” be
tween this stepup in ground
operations and the raid on the
.convoy.) , .
heavy calls on all administrative
services.”
“Despite bad weather and difficult
terrain the regrouping has been ac
complished pn time,” the communi
que continued.
In a dispatch from an advanced
Allied air base this morning. Asso
ciated Press War Correspondent
Kenneth L. Dixon quoted returning
flyers as saying the raging Rapido
River in the vicinity of Cassino ap
parently provided one of the first
major obstacles for the advancing
Allied troops.
Its waters several times before
have run red in the vicinity of
Cassino.
Large forces of French, Italian
and Polish troops were attached to
the two armies as the new offensive
began.
With announcement of the open
ing offensive, Allied headquarters
permitted correspondents to disclose
that 5th Army forces were trans
ferred westward more than six weeks
ago from the German's Cassino
stronghold.
The new territory assigned to Gen.
Clark's forces embraced the Anzio
beachhead and the Garigliano River
area near Italy's west coast—two
sectors separated from each other
by about 50 miles of territory con
taining mountain ridges which run
to the sea.
The Cassino area was assigned to
the 8th Army. British divisions
which fought on the 5th Army's
main front were shifted to the 8th
Army . French troops in Italy re
mained under the 5th Army.
U. S. Has Expended
$178,500,000,000 on
War to Date
Et the Associated Press.
Tlie war to date has cost this
country, in direct expenditures
about $178,500,000,000.
Tills amount covers spending
for war activities since July l
1940. * ’
Last month war spending
averaged $294,000,000 a day. For
the first eight business davs of
May the rate was $319,000,000 a
day.
Ultimatum
<Continued From First Page.i
their leaders, the people of Hungary
are suffering the humilation of Ger
man occupation. Romania is still
bound to the Nazis in a war now
bringing devastation to its own peo
ple- T*1,6 governments of Bulgaria
and Finland have placed their coun
tries in the service of Germany and
remain in the war at Germany's
side. 17
"The governments of Great Brit
®in;. Soviet Union and the
United States think it right that
these peoples should realize the
following facts:
1. ’if’he Axis satellites, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria and Finland, de
spite their realization of the in
evitability of a crushing Nazi defeat
and their desire to get out of the
war, are by their present policies
and attitudes contributing mate
rially to the strength of the German
war machine.
"2. These nations still have It
within their power, by withdrawing
from the war and ceasing their col
laboration with Germany and bv
resisting the forces of Naziism by
every possible means, to shorten the
European struggle, diminish their
own ultimate sacrifices and contrib
ute to the Allied victory.
“3. While these nation* cannot
escape their responsibility for hav
ing participated in the war at the
side of Nazi Germany, the longer
they continue at war in collabora
tion with Germany the more disas
trous will be the consequences to
them and the more rigorous will
be the terms which will be imposed
upon them.
"4. These nations must t herefore
decide now whether they intend to
persist in their present hopeless and
calamitous policy of opposing the
inevitable Allied victory, while there
is yet time for them to contribute
to that victory.”
Heinzerling
< Continued From First Page.)
8th Army moved into the attack in
a daring plan to blungeon the Ger
mans out of their positions.
As the sky blazed in fury and gun
flashes filled the valleys on the
blood-soaked approaches to the
German positions, the Poles moved
along the mountain roads to their
rendezvous with the enemy. The
Polish troops were going into their
first major battle in Western Eu
rope since the dark days of 1939
when the German invader smashed
and conquered their homeland.
Opening of this new assault makes
it possible to disclose for the first
time that the 8th Army has been
in position for weeks preparing for
the attack.
Stretching before the 8th Army
as it moves forward is the Gustav
Line, in which the Germans are
strongly entrenched with the high
ground in their possession. -
Some 10 miles beyond the Gustav
Line is the bristling Hitler Line,
which the Germans have been
strengthening and perfecting for
month* In preparation for the day
when Allied forces crack through
the former barrier on the road
leading to Rome.
The opening artillery barrage was
a fearsome sight. Promptly at 11
pm., livid flashes cut across the
valley as the batteries opened up.
Then the entire sky seemed alight
and for miles the dark background
was splashed with brilliant flashes
of the guns. Far behind the Ger
man lines the bursting shells seem
to dance along the ground like an
electric signboard. The guns never
stopped and after four hours there
seemed to be no perceptible slack
ening.
'Burglar' Killed in Fall
Found to Be Neighbor
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 12.—Awakened
by a noise in his bedroom, Nicholas
Salomone chased what he thought
was a burglar, saw a man trip and
fall from a second-story porch.
Mr. Salomone ran downstairs and
found a man lying dead on the
pavement. He recognized him as
George E. Bonezzi, an old friend
and neighbor, who apparently had
come to visit him.
Shortly afterward, Mr. Bonezzi's
mother, learning of her son’s death,
i died of shock.
Burlesque of U. S. Broadcast
On D-Day Put On by Nazi Radio
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 12—NBC
monitors reported last night that
the German radio had presented a
burlesque of an American broad
cast on the coming D-Day, billing
it as "a preview of the invasion.”
The enemy transmission was
strictly in the "war of nerves”
category and had nothing whatever
to do with any actual operation
opening the Western European
ground front.
NBC said the broadcast began
with a dirge.
Allied deaths at Dieppe were de
scribed. Then the scene shifted to
a British port of embarkation. Next
an American family was portrayed
sitting around the radio listening to
dance music from "the white room
in the Palace Hotel in Washing
ton.”
After several bars of music, ac
cording to NBC, a Berlin propagan
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said: “We interrupt this broadcast
to bring you an important news!
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Our troops are landing on the'
Calais coast. The enemy is offer-!
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this station for further details. We
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A short-wave program, the broad
cast was beamed to America. The
"news bulletin" quoted above has
no foundation in fact,
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3 of Ablest Generals
In Reich Command
Hitler's West Wall
By the Associated Preti.
LONDON, May 12.—Adolf Hitler
has placed a tank specialist, a man
rated as the German s best artillery
general and a veteran of the Rus
sian front, in command of three
armies- along the west wall coast of
Europe to meet the Allied invasion.
On the eve of probably the great
est attack in history this line-up of
the German defense mechanism was
gleaned today from European un
derground channels:
Under Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolf
Gerd von Rundstedt, in general
command of the west wall, are three
armies.
The first, in Southern France, is
commanded by Col. Gen. Johannes
Blaskowltz, the tank specialist, who
engineered the break-through at
Sedan in 1940. After the fall of
France he retired to civilian life, but
Von Rundstedt persuaded him to re
turn to active duty.
Rommel Is Top Man.
In the center is an army com
manded by Col. Gen. Friedrich Doll
man, the German Army’s topmost
artillery general. In the north is
Col. Gen. Hasse, a veteran of the
Russian front.
Back of Marshal Von Rundstedt
is Marshal Erwin Ronftnel, a Hitler
favorite despite his rout in Africa,
who is the supreme commander of
European defenses.
Two German Air Force fighter
corps and one bomber corps under
Maj. Gen. Oberst Pelz back up the
Nazi ground forces, placed by the
best available estimates at between
54 and 60 divisions, counting those
in the Low Countries which were
last reported under Gens. Fried
erich C. Christiansen and Alexander
von Falkenhausen.
German division personnel in the
west is estimated at an average of
12.000 while those on the Russian
front are said to have been stream
lined to as low as 8,000.
Officers Experienced.
All the officers and troops along
the West Wall are experienced and
are some of the best in the German
Army. Many are veterans of four
years of fighting and include such
crack units as the first parachute
division, which held up the 8th
Army in Italy at Ortona for weeks.
Though Marshal Rommel has fa
vored a mobile defense, underground
reports say that in the last few
weeks the Nazi plans have been
changed.
In the past, as in Italy, the Ger
mans have held back a strong re
serve after Allied landings until
certain where the main thrust was
craning and then hitting it with a
great counterattack several days
after the first Allied forces went
ashore.
Now, however, it is indicated the
Nazi defenses will be spread, with
every effort being made to destroy
the Allied troops as they land and
a smaller force remaining in reserve
for a counterthrust.
Cammack Gets Formal
Notice of Rejection
District Selective Service Board
No. 3 has received formal notice
from Army authorities At Fort
Myer that William Cammack, 18,
recently charged with violation of
the draft apt,' has been cltaftiAed
4-F and rejected for military serv
ice, A. J. Driscoll, chairman of the
board, said today.
Notice of this fact has been
mailed to Cammack by the board,
Mr. Driscoll said. He refused to
discuss any other aspects of the
situation brought about by the
youth’s failure to register on be
coming 18 years old.
As the situation now stands,
Cammack is under $ 1,000 bond
pending legal action on charges
filed with United States Commis
sioner Needham C. Turnage after
the youth was arrested two months
ago. Whether he is prosecuted or
the charges against him are
dropped as a result of his eventual
registration and classification will
depend on a decision of the District'
attorney’s office.
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mother, Mrs. Leonard Han
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Airport Is Opened
For Mercy Plane
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12—It
mattered not at all today to 8
month-old Martha Perryman Han
cock that she was the cause of the
first civilian landing on Municipal
Airport since last December 23.
All Martha could have known was
that it was hard for her to breathe—
and surgeons at the bronchoscopic
clinic of Temple University’s hospi
tal were ready to remedy that by
removing a safety pin from Martha’s
throat.
The youngster from Columbia,
Tenn., swallowed the pin yesterday.
The family physician. Dr. Watt
Yeiser, said Temple’s bronchoscope
was the only means of removing It.
When Martha's father, Leonard,
a marine private stationed at San
Diego, Calif., heard what had hap
pened, he telephoned the Civil
Aeronautics Board at Washington.
The Philadelphia airport was
closed because of the "proximity of
military Installations,” but special
permission was granted and a 21
passenger airliner swooped down
with Martha and her mother
aboard.
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the task of overcoming enemy-held
strongpolnts in the mountains and
high ground.
Move in Under Flares.
The doughboys moved in under
flares and against mortars, machine
guns and mine fields.
Directing a big part of the artil
lery barrage was Lt. Col. Franklin
Miller, better known to his men as
“Windy” because he is so quiet about
what his artillery can do.
So spectacular was the barrage
that Lt. Col. Gaulden M. Watkins of
San Francisco came over from an
other location to watch it.
Red and green flares lit the sky
for miles around for hours, and
silhouetted us, dug in on a hilltop
only a few hundred yards from a
cemetery from which one outfit
jumped off. One colonel insisted on
standing to see how his men were
doing.
They were doing fine, too.
One company, led by Capt. Carl
Nelson, Pittsburg, Kans.. was on one
side of the road and another, headed
by Capt. Albert Carlstone of Chicago,
was on the other, with Lt. Col. Ray
mond E. Kendall, Manchester, N. H,
in charge of the actual operation.
An hour and a half after “H” hour,
both outfits reported back to Maj.
Victor Hobson, Birmingham, Ala.,
that they had taken their first ob
jectives.
It wasn't quite that easy, however,
because “F” company ran into
trouble with mortar and machine
guns, and had to reorganize before
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