Reds Repulse Assault
Against Bridgehead
On Lower Dnestr
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. May 12.—The Rus
sians announced today that a strong
German assault against the Red
Army bridgehead northwest of
Tiraspol on the western bank of the
Lower Dnestr River had been re
pulsed yesterday with heavy losses
to the enemy.
A Red Army communique as
serted the Germans had thrown
large infantry and tank forces into
the assault, which apparently was
aimed at restoring their Dnestr
River line. The communique de
clared "about, a regiment of Ger
man infantry was wiped out.”
)The Germans claimed, how
ever, that their forces had suc
ceeded in wiping out the Rus
sian bridgehead.)
The attack was the first sign of
Important German initiative since
last- month, when a Nazi counter
attack against the Stanislawow sec
tor was reported to have failed, and
it was the first major action of any
kind on the front since mid-April,
except for the Red Army’s three
day storming and recapture of Se
vastopol.
Elsewhere along the eastern front
the lull continued, but in the air
war the Russians reported various
successes by Soviet pilots.
The high command announced
that a torpedo plane had made a
direct hit on a 7,000-ton transport
off the north coast of Norway, caus
ing an explosion and fire, and that
planes of the Red fleet's air arm
had raided an undisclosed enemy
port, sinking a 4.000-ton transport
and six other vessels.
Many Sevastopol Residents
Reported Lost on Barges
LONDON, May 11 (JP).—A Moscow
broadcast recorded by the Soviet
monitor asserted today that before
the Germans abandoned Sevastopol
they herded large numbers of the
population aboard barges and towed
them out to sea.
Many of the barges were so over- i
crowded that they sank with all j
Bboard, the broadcast declared.
Patman Cites Gannett
In Antitax Lobby
By the Associated Press.
Representative Patman, Demo
crat, of Texas charged on the House
floor yesterday that “the most sor
did and sinister lobby ever organ
ized" was trying to put a limit on
the power of Congress to levy taxes,
and asserted the movement was
being led by two prominent Re
publicans.
He named Frank Gannett, New
York State newspaper publisher,
and Sam Pettingill, former Repre
sentative from Indiana and for
mer treasurer of the Republican
National Committee.
Asserting that financing was be
ing provided by wealthy persons who
want their taxes reduced. Represen
tative Patman said: “They are col
lecting barrels of money.”
Mr. Patman made his accusation
during House debate on veterans'
rehabilitation legislation, asserting:
“If this lobby is successful, we won’t
be able to pay the veterans any
thing; there won’t be any more
old age assistance."
Representative Fish, Republican,
of New’ York challenged Mr. Fat
man’s charges, saying “there are no
two more loyal Americans than
Frank Gannett and Sam Pettin
gill.”
Mr. Patman asserted “the lobby”
sought to "slip through” a consti
tutional amendment to take from
Congress the power to levy and tax
on income, gifts and estates higher
than 25 per cent. Taxes now run
up to 90 per cent of some high
brackets of income.
Cardinal O'Connell, Knox
Honored at Memorial
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May 12.—Nearly 1,000
leaders of all faiths paid solemn
tribute to the memory of the late
William Cardinal O’Connell and to
former Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox last night and heard Vice
Admiral Randall Jacobs say the
war may help break down barriers
of religious misunderstanding and
bigotry.
The entire gathering of the
Massachusetts Council of Catholics,
Protestants and Jew's stood in
silence in tribute to the late Navy
Secretary.
Tribute to Cardinal O’Connell
was read by Judge Abraham E.
Pinanski of the council’s Executive
Board
Earlier Admiral Jacobs, who is
chief of naval personnel, said that
service men were “learning a great
deal about the good that is com
mon to all religious faiths" and
that Navy chaplains were gaining
“a depth of understanding that will
greatly enrich our national think
ing.”
6 Naval Prisoners Blind
Guard With Pepper, Flee
By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va., May 12—Six
Navy enlisted men held as military
prisoners overpowered their guard
after blowing black pepper in his
eyes, disarmed him of a submachine
gun and escaped in a truck which
later was found near Waverly, Va .
the 5th Naval District announced
last night.
The six—all seamen, second class
—left the guard and a civilian em
ploye of the Navy bound in the
truck in which the prisoners were
being carried to work,
Shortly after the trilck was found,
40 Navy shore patrolmen were dis
patched from the Norfolk Navy base
to join in the search.
One of the men was awaiting gen
eral court-martial on a charge of
desertion and the others were fac
ing naval confinement sentences of
one to four years on charges of be
ing absent over leave, desertion and
theft.
Man Shortage Hits Campus
SALT LAKE CITY (/P;.—Each
year the freshmen at the Univer
sity of Utah have had to white
wash the huge concrete “U” on a
mountainside near the campus.
This year the three upper classes
have been asked to help—shortage
ti manpower.
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SEVASTOPOL’S BATTERED WATER FRONT —This rubble
littered water front and war-scarred building was identified in
! caption accompanying this Russian picture as a scene at Se
vastopol after its capture by the Russians. The Red Army took
the city on May 9. winding up the campaign to free the Crimea
of Axis forces. —A. P. Wirephoto via radio from Moscow.
Allies Begin Clearing
Japs From Southern
Outskirts of Kohima
By the Associated Press.
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR
TERS. Kandy. Ceylon, May 12—Al
lied troops have made “initial prog
ress" in clearing the Japanese from
hillside strongpoints in the southern
outskirts of Kohima in Northeast
India and American planes sweep
ing three enemy airfields destroyed
13 challenging fighters, an Allied
communique said today.
Two other planes probably were
destroyed and six were damaged and
the Americans suffered no losses.
South of the Manipur State vil
lage of Kohima artillery broke up
Japanese concentrations, the com
munique said.
Patrols were in contact with the
Japanese jungle fighters northeast
of Kohima and fighting was report
ed in the village of Potsangham,
south of Bishenpur, the communique
said.
Allied Force Was Large.
The largest Allied air force so far
sent against a single target in the
India-Burma theater, was declared
to have dropped 200 tons of explo
sives on the Japanese stronghold of
Ningthougkohong, 2 miles south of
of Bishenpur, on May 8 and 9.
The United States Army fighters
destroyed the fighters at airfields
at Meiktila, Anisakan and Heho.
The main air effort, however, was
against Ningthougkohong, an attack
against whicn was first reported
yesterday.
"Operations to clear the enemy
from strong points in the hills in
the southern outskirts of Kohima
have made initial progress,” the
communique said, adding that effec
tive use of tanks against the Japa
nese w-as limited by the terrain.
Two Jap Planes Downed.
Farther south, in the Imphal re
gion, fighting was reported on the
Palel road around Tengoupal, where
British and Indian planes supported
the ground troops. Two of the few
! Japanese planes that appeared were
I destroyed, four others were damaged.
Quiet prevailed generally on the
Arakan front between India and
Akyab, the communique said. Ar
tillery and bombing were applied to
Japanese positions southeast* of
Maungdaw.
The communique said there was
nothing to report from Lt. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell's operations in
Northern Burma or on the Central
Burma front.
The full force of the explosives
smashed down on a fortified area of
1,200 square yards of embedded
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i by thousands of troops.
After the concentrations were
| spotted by reconnaissance planes
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ducted by Mai. Gen. Howard David
son. commander of the United States
Strategic Air Force in this area and
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was emphasized by some of the par
ticipants. Amon gthem were Brig.
Gen. Moore. Hubbard, Tex., chief of
staff of the United States Air Forces
in this theater, who rode in a B-26.
land Brig. Gen. Gilbert Cheves of the
United States Army, who flew with
the RAF.
Bergdoll's Wife Seeks
American Citizenship
By (he Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12.—Mrs.
Berta Bergdoll, German-born wife
of Grover C. Bergdoll, World War
draft dodger, has applied for cit
izenship under a law permitting
an alien wife to derive citizenship
from a husband.
She and Bergdoll were married1
in Germany after Bergdoll fled there
in 1917. She came here in 1935 to
beg amnesty for her husband and
has been here under a frequently
extended visitor's visa. Bergdoll re
turned voluntarily in 1939, and last
February completed a term in the
Army* disciplinary barracks at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans.
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Army, Navy Bombers
Blast at Truk With
Trainlike Schedule
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By the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS. New Guinea, May 12.
—Battered Truk, Japan’s key Cen
tral Pacific base only three months
ago, has been given another pound
ing by far-ranging American Lib
erators coming in from the south
east and southwest on almost train
schedule.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced today that his bombers
struck Wednesday in a devastating
follow-up to a night attack made
only a few hours before by 7th
Army Air Force planes from
Admiral Chester W. Nimitzs Cen
tral Pacific theater.
The Truk raids highlighted other
aerial blows against the enemy’s
Pacific perimeter from Wake Island,
2,300 miles west of Pearl Harbor, to
the Schouten Islands, athwart Gen.
MacArthur s path from captured
Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea to
the Philippines.
Installations Hammered.
Though Truk has been raided at
will for weeks, this was the first
near-simultaneous one-two punch
from both sides since April 27.
Gen. MacArthur’s flyers laid their
explosives on Truk's installations
just before noon, driving in despite
the resistance of 20 Japanese fight
ers. One Liberator was downed.
The defenders got four inter
ceptors into the air against the
night-raiding 7th AAF, but none was
willing to 40 battle as the Liberators
dropped 40 tons of bombs on air
strips and defenses and possibly
sank one ship near Moen Island.
Admiral Nimitz said antiaircraft
fire was light, but Gen. MacArthur
! didn't mention any.
Wake Also Hit.
Other raids announced by Admiral
Nimitz were on Wake and the Caro
lines bases of Ponape and Oroluk,
east of Truck, Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Gen. MacArthur told of dumping
28 tons of bombs Tuesday on Woleai
in the continued reduction of the
enemy's Carolines outposts. Fires
started on this island. 525 miles
west of Truk, sent smoke skyward
2,000 feet.
Other planes from Gen. MacAr
thur’s squadrons showered 100 tons
on the Wewak-Hansa coast of Brit
ish New Guinea where Japanese
troops bypassed by the Hollandia
invasion are reported massing.
Rabaul, called by the 13th AAF
the mo6t-bombed area in the Pa
cific, was attacked again. From last
November 12 till May 6, Rabaul and
its five airdromes sopped up 10,200
tons of bombs.
On the ground. Australians edged
up 16 miles toward Hollandia from
Alexishafen. With ,the Aussies al
most to Cape Croisilles, only about
200 miles remained between them
and the Americans at Aitape, in
vaded the same time as Hollandia.
Capt. Milliken to Talk
Before Probation Group
Capt. Rhoda J. Milliken, head of
the Women’s Bureau of the Metro
politan Police Department, today
will address the 38th annual con
ference of the National Probation
Association in Cleveland. Her sub
ject will be “The Challenge of the
Delinquent Girl.”
Members of the National Council
of Juvenile Court Judges will join
in the session.
Mark A. McCloskey, director of
the Washington Community War
Services, will speak on juvenile crime
and probation problems tomorrow.
Army, Navy Demand I
Foremen End Strike
At 13 Detroit Plants
By the Associated Press.
The War and Navy Departments
have called on the Foremen s Asso
ciation of America to end a strike
which has tied up munitions pro
duction at 13 plants in the Detroit
area.
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson and Acting Secretary of
the Navy James V. Forrestal de
clared the work stoppage is "endan
gering the lives’’ of soldiers and
sailors.
In a telegram last night to Robert
H. Keys, president of the Independ
ent Foremen’s Union, they said:
"The strike in which you and your
members are engaged is crippling
the production of munitions that
should be on the way to our armed
forces overseas. It is stopping the
flow of parts which are urgently
needed at once for our bombers and
fighters. You are making yourselves
responsible for our failure to deliver
planes and guns which our fighting
men overseas are counting on.
"Your action is endangering the
lives of these soldiers and sallorsr
It is a solemn obligation of every
citizen to back up the armed forces
with all his skill and all his strength.
“If you realized the serious con
sequences of your acts, we are sure
that on the eve of our greatest bat
tle you would not fail our fighting
forces abroad. We call upon you to
return to work at once.”
Sfassen Backers in Oregon
Push Write-in Campaign
By the Associtted Press.
PORTLAND, Oreg., May 12.—
With only seven days remaining be
fore the primary election, backers of
Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen set out
yesterday to get Oregon’s support
for the Republican presidential
nomination.
The national Stassen-for-Presi
dent organization authorized Ore
gon supporters to push a whirlwind
write-in campaign for the State’s.
15 convention delegates. No other
Republican appears on the ballot for
thft May 19 election, and the candi
date receiving the most write-in
votes will hold the support of the
delegates until he releases them.
E. E. Ullrey, Portland industrial
ists, said some 50,000 pieces of liter
ature will be mailed before the week
end.
Sponsors of the former Minnesota
Governor pointed out that Wendell
Willkie withdrew from the race just
before the ballots were printed, and
that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey re
quested his supporters not to place
his name on the ballot.
Lease-lend Extension Bill
Is Sent to White House
By the Associated Pres*.
The House today agreed to the
Senate's version of the lease-lend
extension bill, and by a voice vote
sent the measure to the White
House for President Roosevelt’s
signature.
The action assured continued
lease-lend activities for another
year beyond June 30. activities
through which the United States
has equipped the other Allied
nations with more than $22,000,000,
000 in war materials.
In the final version, the contin
uance provides that the President,
in making settlements, may not
obligate the country to any postwaf
military or economic role without
the specific consent of Congress.
Bride, 70, Asks for Relief
Check as Wedding Gift
By the Associated Press.
DES MOINES,—The State Board
of Social Welfare has advised a 70
year-old woman it can’t send out
the State’s money as wedding pres
ents.
The woman wrote the board say
ing she was leaving the assistance
rolls because she was being married,
but wanted the board to send her
one more check as a marriage gift.
Church's Clock Stolen
ST. PAUL. Minn. (/Pi.—The Rev.
C. H. Gessner will have to guess the
length of his sermons—until he can
find a new clock. A clock placed
in a vestment room so that he
could see it from the pulpit and
time his sermons has been stolen.
Veteran Aide Promoted
Edward I. Kotok, a veteran of 33
years in the Forest Service in the
Agriculture Department, has been
appointed assistant chief in charge
of research. He succeeds Clarence
L. Forzling, who has been nomi
nated director of grazing in the In
terior Department.
Detective Arrests
Soldier After Battle
A soldier and a detective slugged
It out today when the serviceman,
resisting arrest, took a swing at the
policeman.
Pvt. U. S. Lee, jr„ was arrested
by Detective Thomas C. Sullivan of
the first precinct after the detective
fought him to a standstill in an
alley off the first, block of E street
N.W.. police declared.
The soldier was charged with be
ing drunk, disorderly conduct and
assaulting a policeman. He will be
tried by military authorities, police
said. They did not list his post.
Chappelle Cook, 29. colored, 43 F
street N.W., who had accompanied
Lee into the alley, was held on an
open charge, police said.
Meanwhile, another participant
in a brawl between police, service
men and civilians early Wednesday
morning in the 2400 block of Six
teenth street N.W., pleaded not
guilty today in Municipal Court to
assaulting a policeman and was
granted a Jury trial. He is Robert
J. Short, 27, of the 1200 block of
Mount Olivet road N.E. Trial was
set for May 26. Trial on additional
charges of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct was set for May 17.
Short, police said, was embroiled
in a fight which sent Policemen
Louis A. Lozupone and Robert J.
Wagner of the 13th precinct to Gar
field Hospital with bloody noses and
bruised faces.
The fracas was said to have been
precipitated by Army and Navy
officers who disputed the right to
the services of a taxicab as they
left the Hotel 2400. The officers
disappeared when the controversy
developed into a melee.
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