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_WASHINGTON, D. C„ SATURDAY. MAY 13, 1944—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ***
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AMERICANS TAKE THREE TOWNS IN ITALY
Nazi Counterattacks Beaten Off;
French Capture Hill Strongholds
8th Army Forming
Bridgehead Past
Rapido River
GERMAN FIGHTERS fail to chal
lenge 3,000 sorties by Allied bomb
ers. Page A-3
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, May 13.—American
forces attacking the Germans’
Gustav Line in Italy have cap
tured three towns, while French
and American troops have seized
numerous hilltop strongholds, it
was announced today.
Allied headquarters also announced
that 8th Army forces below Cassino
were forming a bridgehead across
the Rapido River.
Gains of a mile to a mile-and-a
half were disclosed officially while
frontline dispatches reported ad
vances of 2 to 3 miles at some points
in the offensive on a 25-mile front
from Cassino to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Fierce German counter-blows were
beaten off in other sectors.
Americans attacking in the Castel
forte area—13 miles south of Cassino
—seized Ventosa, a mile to the west,
hill positions nearby, and the town
of Cerobi, a mile farther south, win
ning that village in a tank-support
ed thrust. A third village near Cas
telforte, San Sebastiano, also was
captured.
Monte Faito Captured.
Farther north, Frenchmen of the
5th Army captured 2,550-foot Monte
Faito, a hinge of the German's first
line defenses, about midway be
tween Castelforte and San Am
brogio.
Below Cassino. the 8th Army had
crossed the Rapido River and was
forming a bridgehead against stem
opposition, headquarters said.
The headquarters communique
declared the initial assault had
“driven in the enemy outpost line,”
and said heavy fighting continued.
Ventosa, in the Garigliano sector, I
was taken in severe fighting, and
Term 'Invasion' Used
For First Time in
German Communique
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 13.—The ex
pression "invasion” was used
today for the first time in a
German high command com
munique which broadcast that
the Allied air raids over Eu
rope are preparatory to in
vasion.
“The persistent and strong
attacks by British-Amerlcan
bombers against occupied west
ern territories may be regarded
as preparatory to invasion,”
the Berlin communique said.
the Americans drove the Germans
from strongpoints on Damiano Hill
and Hill 316, west and southwest of
Castelforte.
The capture of Ventosa disclosed
that the Americans had punched
ahead at least l'i miles from the
jumping off of the offensive in that
area.
Nazis Routed From Town.
Other American troops advanced
1 mile and with the support of tanks
routed the Nazis from Cerobi, a mile j
south of Damiano Hill.
In the Lower Garigliano Valley j
near the Tyrrhenian coast Americans
slugged their way onto four hills
from which the Germans had com-1
manded the lowlands approach route
and then crushed two violent enemy
counterattacks.
South of Cassino Allied troops de
fied torrents of fire yesterday from
well-prepared German positions to!
cross the Rapido River in the Liri
Valley with assault boats before
dawn.
Bridges were quickly placed across
the Rapido, despite the swift cur
rent, while the assault force drove
back enemy outposts.
An official Allied report declared
these troops “are forming the first
bridgehead in close contact with the
foremost defenses of the Gustav
Line in this sector. The buildup in
this initial bridgehead is proceeding
against stiff opposition.”
The bridgehead was exposed to
enfilade fire from enemy artillery
concealed in numerous gullies and
small valleys opening into the sides
of the Liri Valley.
The Germans also were employing
great numbers of tanks, mortars
and self-propelled guns in that area.
To the north of the American
sector, the French in some of the
day's bloodiest, close-quarter com
bat captured Monte Faito and then
moved on to the neighboring
heights. The summit was a mile
and a half ahead of the starting
point of the offensive. After taking
the mountain the French repulsed
a heavy enemy counterattack.
San Sebastiano Taken.
San Sebastiano, a few hundred
yards within the German lines, was
captured in the early stages of the
onslaught against Castelforte and
•- the troops fought on toward that
town.
Grim struggles progressed both
north and south of the battered
ruins of Cassino, but the Germans
inside the town itself were left un
molsted.
The 8th Army's achievement of
gaining a bridgehead over the
Rapido was matched by other 8th
(See""lTALY7"Pag e XT)
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ALLIES EXTEND GAINS—American 5th Army troops attacking
in the Castelforte area, 13 miles south of Cassino, have seized
the towns of Ventosa, Cerobi and San Sebastiano. Farther
north, Frenchmen of the 5th Army have captured 2,550-foot
Monte Faito. Black area is territory taken by Allied troops in
their all-out offensive, indicated by arrows.—A. P. Wirephoto.
Fresh Forces Sent In,
Battle Rises in Fury,
Germans Declare
'Several Heights Changed
Hands Several Times/
Berlin Declares
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13.—Beilin de
clared today that “several
heights have changed hands
several times” on the Italian
battle'front and that both sides
are throwing in fresh forces in
fighting “continually mounting
in violence.”
The Allies sire using tanks in
strong attacks ‘‘on a very large
scale” along a front from east of the
Gulf of Gaeta to northwest of Cas
sino, the German communique said,
with these blows supported by vio
lent artillery fire and combat planes.
Berlin said one powerful tank at
tack in Italy had driven a wedge
more than a mile deep in the Ger
man line at SantAngelo. 3 miles
south of Cassino, and that “counter
attacks are now in progress against
this breach.”
The heights reportedly changing
hands were not identified.
Earlier, a Berlin radio commenta
tor suggested the new Allied offen
sive "will prove only a diversionary
operation” for another attack else
where in the peninsula.
Expects New Landing.
He declared that "in all prob
ability" the Allies would attempt
a new amphibious landing some
where on the west coast of Ita’y,
possibly between the 5th Army’s
main front and the Anzio beach
head or immediately north of the
beachhead. He said the Allies were
holding in reserve, five fully
equipped divisions.
Another German broadcast, sug
gesting fears that such a blow
might come from Corsica, said Ger
man bombers had made “two very
concentrated attacks'’ against Al
lied airfields on that island last
night.
Acknowledging that the Allied
troops had broken through at sev
eral points in the Liri Valley imme
diately below Cassino, the broad
caster asserted, however, that the
8th Army forces had “not anywhere
reached the actual German defense
system”—the Gustav Line and the
Hitler Line beyond.
Another German broadcast heard
by the Associated Press referred to
"several disjointed local breaches”
in the Liri Valley area “for which
fighting still is continuing with great
ferocity.”
Claim Ouster of Attackers.
This transmission also acknowl
edged the temporary loss of “several
strong points far in front of the
German main battle line,” but
claimed German shock troops, sup
ported by flame-throwers, ousted the
attackers.
The Germans apparently were
confused about conditions in Rome.
The Nazi propaganda agency
Transocean first reported the city
was calm then a few minutes later
announced the populace was
streaming northward in “endless
columns.”
“In the city itself life is taking
its normal course,” reported Walter
Seidlitz, Transocean's Rome corre
spondent. “The Romans are not
allowing themselves to be shaken
out of their calm.”
Fourteen minutes later he de
clared :
“All kinds of vehicles are being
mobilized by the Romans to con
vey them and their possessions out
of Rome, while thousands are leav
ing afoot."
«
Chinese Launch Drive
On Three Jap Bases
In Northern Burma
Stilwell Units Attack
Enemy Forces Along
Two-Mile Front
JAP THRUST BLOCKS line of re
treat for Chinese near Loyang.
Page A-3
By the Associated Press.
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May
13.—Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s
Chinese forces have opened what
appears to be a major drive on
the North Burma Japanese bases
of Kamaing, Mogaung and Kyit
kyina, attacking along a 2-mile
front with tank, divebomber and
artillery support, it was an
nounced today.
The new offensive was launched
more than a mile south of Mala
kawng on the south bank of the
Kwelton River and west of the
Mogaung River. Several Japanese
anti-tank guns were knocked out
in the early phases of the offensive.
Enemy Attack Repulsed.
An official announcement said
Gen. Stilwell’s advance columns
holding Manpin, east of the Mo
gaung River and only 10 miles above
the Japanese base of Kamaing, had
repulsed an enemy attack on their
position after inflicting considerable
casualties, including two Japanese
commanders.
Another of Gen. Stilwell's forces
driving on Myitkyina from the north
was reported to have penetrated the
perimeter of Japanese defenses
about Tiangzup, strong outpost
about 40 miles above Myitkyina.
Considerable progress was re
ported to have been made by an
other Chinese column in the Mo
gaung area.
Japs Cleared From Ridges.
In the East Indian border area,
casualties were inflicted on the
Japanese north of the Imphal plain,
a Southeast Asia command com
munique said, and the enemy main
tained unsuccessful efforts to force
the Palel Mountain pass to the
south into the Imphal plain.
A push to clear the Japanese
from ridges overlooking Kohima,
60 miles north of Imphal, was
'■mainly successful" the bulletin
added.
Allied planes repeatedly attacked
the Japanese in the Kohima area.
The Japanese hit back at Allied
lines, making increasing use of
fighter-bomber planes.
Raymond Clapper Ship
To Be Launched May 22
By ihp Ahsociated Press.
The Liberty ship. Raymond Clap
per will be launched at the St. Johns
j River Shipbuilding Co yard at
|Jacksonville, Fla , May 22 at. 12:45
jp.m. as part of the National Mari
Time Day observance, the Maritime
j Commission announced yesterday.
Mrs. Raymond Clapper, widow' of
j the well-known newspaper col
jumnist, who died in a naval plane
I crash in the Pacific February 2, will
j sponsor the ship.
Freighter Luray Launched
WILMINGTON. Calif., May 13 </P).
—The Luray Victory, 10,500-ton
j freighter named for the town of
j Luray, Va., was launched Thurs
day night at the California Ship
|building Yards. She had been on
the ways only 61 days.
Germans Report
U.S.RaidasDeep
As Berlin Area
Heavy Air Battles
Fought; French Rail
Targets Bombed
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13. — German
broadcasts said strong American
bomber formations thrust as
deep as the Berlin area amid
heavy air battles this afternoon
in the 29th day of nonstop aerial
offensive.
Waves of medium and light air
craft began the new day's assaults
behind the Atlantic Wall in pre
cision attacks at French rail cen
ters—the same targets against
which the RAF threw about 750
bombers last night in raids on the
Belgian railway cities of Louvain
and Hasselt and other objectives
in France and Northwest Germany.
German broadcasts said today's
bomber formation attacks developed
into heavy air battles over North
and Northwestern Germany.
Heavy Opposition.
RAP crews said the Germans put
up more night fighters last night
than they had seen in some time.
Fourteen British bombers failed to
return.
The night attack was a quick
follow-up to a daylight assault by
2,000 American bombers and fighters
on five big Nazi synthetic oil plants.
A United States Strategic Air Force
communique said 42 heavy bombers
and 10 fighters were lost and
claimed destruction of 150 enemy
aircraft. The Germans claimed the
Americans lost 95 aircraft, includ
ing 82 bombers.
Berlin claimed today’s heavy
formations were hit particularly
hard over the Baltic coast with Ger
man fighters “inflicting serious
losses.”
The enemy’s broadcast charts on
the formations’ progress said the
bombers and their escorts came in
over the Schleswig-Holstein area of
the North Sea and thrust as far as
the Brandenburg area 60 miles west
of Berlin.
Marauders and Havocs In Raid.
The morning attacks on airfields
and other military objectives in
Northern France and Belgium were
made by Marauders and Havocs in
considerable numbers, escorted by
Thunderbolt fighters.
The attack on Louvain’s rail yards
was the third since Thursday night.
RAP bombers hit the city then,
followed by fighter-bomber day
light^ attacks^ yesterday, and the
(See RAIDS, Page A-2 > ~ ~
E-Boafs Scattered
By French Warship
British Naval Forces
Attack German Convoy
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13.—A strong force
of German E-boats concentrated
in the English Channel about 25
miles southeast of the Isle of Wight
was scattered by the French de
stroyer La Combattante early to
day after an engagement in w'hich
one E-boat was sunk and another
damaged, the admiralty announced.
"The remainder of the enemy
force escaped at high speed under
cover of smoke,” the announcement
said, adding that the destroyer,
which suffered neither damage nor
casualties, picked up a number of
survivors.
British light naval forces in of
fensive sweeps off the French coast
early yesterday attacked a small
German convoy and set fire to two
enemy vessels and damaged two
others, the Admiralty announced
today.
An Admiralty communique said
all the British vessels returned
safely though there were a ‘‘small
number of casualties and superficial
damage.”
The communique said a medium
size ship was hit by a torpedo and
left enveloped in flames and a sup
ply ship of ‘‘medium size was
damaged by gunfire."
In addition, the Admiralty said,
an aimed trawler was set afire and
another d,'.maged.
Refusal of More Funds
For Slum Clearance
Predicted by Lusk
Ihlder Says Work Won't
Be Done Unless Public
Agencies Participate
A prediction that public hous
ing for slum clearance would get
no further appropriations was
made today by Rufus Lusk,
president of the Taxpayers Asso
ciation, speaking at the city
wide housing conference at the
United States Chamber of Com
merce. Mr. Lusk said he was
opposed to public housing and
thought private enterprise
should do the whole job under
a plan now proposed to Con
gress.
He told a large audience, com
posed mostly of women, that “Con
gress is sore” over results of public
housing here.
In reply, John Ihlder, executive
officer of the National Capital Hous
ing Authority, declared that un
less public agencies participate in
housing construction here, “the
work won't be done.”
Mr. Ihlder stressed the need of
adequate Negro housing, declaring
constantly diminishing sites which
could be used constitutes a major
problem.
Hopkins Court Project Mentioned.
Mr. Ihlder pointed to what he
claimed was the success of the pub-'
lie agencies in constructing homes
here with “economic rents,” which
people in low income groups could
afford to play.
From the floor, a colored woman
questioned Mr. Lusk as to why pri
vate enterprise had not done any
thing here for the Negroes in any
way equivalent to the Hopkins
Court project, an NCHA slum clear
ance project. ,
He replied that private enterprise
did not have the right of eminent
domain which public agencies have,
nor could it borrow money at the
low rates of interest available to the
public agencies.
In a colloquy with another col
ored questioner in the audience, the
question of what public housing has
done for colored residents was dis
cussed.
Mr, Lusk was asked what private
agencies have done to get rid of
| slums.
*Tells of Objective.
“That's what we want to do,” he
said, pointing to the private enter
prise proposal which the builders
hope will be approved. Mr. Lusk
said he went over a list of 400 per
sons living in new public housing
and found that only one out of the
400 formerly had lived in an alley.
“I work in the southwest area,” a
colored woman said, "and I know
hundreds of families who now live
in better homes because of the slum
clearance program.”
Explaining the program of private
enterprise, Mr. Lusk insisted that
private builders do not propose rent
certificates, to which he said he
understood a "stigma” was at
tached. Neither does private en
terprise propose tax-exempt bonds,
he added. He outlined at some
length a private enterprise plan to
'See HOUSING, Page A-2.)
First Captured Nazis Are Group
Of Surly Youths, Dour Veterans
By LYNN IflKINZtRIJNG,
Associated Press War Correspondent
WITH THE 8th ARMY AT THE
CASSINO FRONT, May 13.—A thin
trickle of German prisoners—surly
youngsters and dour veterans—
came back over the Rapido today
as the fiercest battle of the Italian
campaign raged over long‘stretches
of the rivet.
The first Allied sledgehammer
blow, which included bridging the
Rapido, left a somewhat disorgan
ized mass of Germans hastily re
forming and strengthening their
formidable chain of caves and deep
riugouts that make up the Gustav
Line at this point.
The first prisoners who came into
the 8t,h Army cages behind the
river were begrimed and hot. They
4
threw themselves on the ground be
hind the barbed wire and dozed in
the midday sun. seemingly oblivious
to the cannonading.
They were a motley group wearing
ill-fitting and baggy uniforms, with
one of them in a pair of Italian
Army pants. Many of the Germans
had fought in Sicily.
One complete patrol of 10 Ger
mans was captured. They had been
sent out to seize a number of Allied
soldiers for identification purposes
and wandered into a trap.
The fighting was particularly in
tense today around the town of San
Angelo, just across the Rapido.
Enemy guns were active and
troublesome and Nazi mortar fire
: along the river line caused some
I casualties.
1
Fine, Warm Week End
Forecast for District
The Weather Bureau has pre
dicted “good weather, in fact, fine
weather,’’ for today and tomorrow.
The afternoon temperatures on both
days will be in the middle 80s, and
possibly the year’s heat record will
be broken, Forecaster Donald Cam
eron said.
The high so far this year is 86—
chalked up on April 30. Mr. Cameron
anticipates 88 or 89 today or to
morrow. He sees no «*jjn in the
offing—just clear cool "Shts and
warm, sunny days.
The highest temperature^jgter
day was 84 degrees. The tej>per_
ature at 9 a.m. today was 70 ^e.
grees. _
Bar to Discuss Plan <
For SeditionTriaLAi#
And Fund for Lawyers
Committee to Confer With
Eicher Will Be Proposed
At Meeting Monday
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.
When the District Bar Asso
ciation holds a special meeting
Monday night to discuss the se
dition trial, at least two pro
posals will be made, it was
learned today—one to name a
committee to offer the presiding
judge, Chief Justice Edward C.
Eicher, any help he may need
in perfecting physical and pro
cedural arrangements for the
unwieldly trial, the other a plan
to compensate court-appointed!
defense attorneys.
Several prominent lawyers indi
cated they would back these sug
gestions as the most feasible means
of aiding the orderly and impartial
administration of justice in the
celebrated case.
Other attorneys regarded it as
certain that there would be vigorous
opposition at the meeting to "inter
fering” in the trial in any way.
Many of them doubted even the
propriety of discussing it while it is
in progress. The latter position was
responsible for the refusal of the
bar association's Executive Commit
tee to call the special meeting peti
tioned for by 26 members and
handed in by F. Regis Noel, a past
president. The association overrode
the Executive Committee and voted
to call the meeting. The by-laws
provide that 25 members may require
a special meeting.
Would Raise Voluntary Fund.
The plan to compensate counsel
appointed by the court to defend
indigent persons among the 29 de
fendants is for members of the
District bar to raise a voluntary
fund. It was pointed out that there
is no statutory provision for pay
ing court-appointed attorneys in
this court, and to assign them with -!
out compensation to a trial expected!
to last months manifestly is unfair. |
It was recognition of this sacri-l
flee which induced Justice Eicher
to agree to confine sessions of the
trial to four days a week—Mondays
through Thursday—so that these I
lawyers would have the other two!
days for their private practice. More
than half the nearly 30 attorneys
in the sedition case were appointed
by the court.
The proposal for a committee to
confer with the judge would not
make any suggestions regarding
judicial phases of the trial. Sponsors1
of the jnotion feel this would be
highly improper. However, the com
mittee could aid Justice Eicher if he
wanted, for instance, to obtain a
larger courtroom, more space for
the many sfttorneys involved to con
sult at recesses and any other im
provements concerned entirely with
physical arrangements or procedure.
Other proposals, however, may be
made at the meeting.
Prosecutors Map Plans.
With the trial in recess for the
week end, Prosecutors O. John Rogge
and Joseph W. Burns were shaping
plans for the early beginning of tes
timony. This was predicated, of
course, on the hope that a jury would
be completed early next week. The
(See-SEDITION, Page A-2.)
*
End of Dies Committee
Expected When Texan
Retires From House
Only One of Original
Members Is in Running
For Re-election
By the Associated Press.
Martin Dies’ announcement of
his decision to give up his seat
in Congress was interpreted
generally today on Capitol Hill
as the swan song of his House
Committee on Un-American
Activities.
L The Texas Democrat's announce
mm< in Beaumont yesterday that a
JKroat Alness would preclude hit
making a strenuous campaign tc
hold the House place he has occu
pied for 13 years and which his
father once held, left only one of
the seven original Dies Committee
members in the running for re
election.
The CIO Political Action Com
mittee, headed by Sidney Hillman,
had marked Mr. Dies down for de
feat. On May 9, In the Representa
tive's home county, a Democratic
County convention dominated by
the Refinery Employes’ Union
(CTO) denounced Mr. Dies as a
‘'demagogue.” Mr. Dies has charged
that the Political Action Commit
tee was raising a huge fund to beat
him.
Combs Announces Candidly!
Judge J. M. Combs, who recently
resigned as justice of the Ninth
Court of Civil Appeals, announced
this week his candidacy for Con
gress opposing Mr. Dies. He said
he knew nothing of reports that
certain interests were raising large
funds to swing the election, but said
that if they were true “there isn’t
a decent man or woman in this dis
trict who wouldn’t resent it. In
East Texas we’ve always done our
own voting.”
Mr. Dies made no reference to
these developments in his an
nouncement, but his withdrawal,
coming on top of the defeat in the
recent Alabama Democratic pri
mary of Representative Starnes,
another Dies Committee member
opposed by the CIO, set politicians
to reassessing the potentialities of
the Hillman group, though some did
not concede it figured importantly
in Mr. Starnes’ defeat.
Regardless of which political
party controls the next House, the
fate of the Dies Committee appar
ently was sealed by the decision of
its chairman, despite his assertion
that he believed the committee's
work “will go on indefinitely.”
Created in 1938 and continued six
times since then, with total appro
priations of approximately $625,000,
the committee probably will cease
to exist when the present session of
Congress ends.
Three Inquiries to End Soon.
Three investigations undertaken
by the Dies Committee are expected
to be concluded shortly. They deal
with the CIO Political Action Com
mittee, which the Dies group only
recently assailed in a special report;
the Civil Service Commission's pro
cedure in checking on the loyalty of
Federal workers, and Walter Winch
ell, radio commentator, who recent
ly debated Mr. Dies on the air.
The score or more of reports al
ready made by the committee, which
for several years held the congres
sional spotlight because of the prom
inence of its witnesses, its attention
attracting hearings and its sensa
tional findings, including documents
dealing with Communists, Nazis,
Fascists, Falangists, Japanese and
German-American Bundists.
Delegates to the CIO United Steel
Workers of America convention in
Cleveland cheered announcement of
Mr. Dies’ withdrawal and Philip
Murray, president of the CIO as
well as the steel workers, observed:
“I think it is the greatest single
contribution he has made to the
welfare of the country since he en
tered public life.”
The steel workers subsequently
adopted a resolution saying, in part:
“Resolved that this convention
stamp Congressman Dies for what
he precisely is—one who deliberately
seeks to disunite the American
people and to cause such disruption
(See DIES, Page A-3.)
A
Packard Plant
Closing Makes
39,00013le
WLB Won't Promise
To Assure Workers'
Prestrike Status
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 13.—One big
war factory—Packard, makers of
Rolls-Royce aircraft engines and
PT boat engines—stood idla to
day as the strike of 3,300 Detroit
warplant foremen began to have
more serious consequences.
The Packard Motor Car Co. plant
was closed by the management last
night virtually at the Very hour the
War Labor Board refused to go on
record with assurance to striker*
that they would be protected from
any management reprisals if they
returned to work.
The Foreman's Association of
America had demanded such assur
ance from WLB before resuming
work, and Board Chairman William
H. Davis limited himself to a prom
ise that the board would inquire to
determine the management atti
tude.
Army Refuses Products.
Mr. Davis said flatly that the
board would accept no conditions
from the union to ending the strike.
WLB earlier had ordered the strike
to cease before it would attempt to
negotiate the dispute.
George T. Christopher, Packard
president and general manager, said
the company was forced to cease
production because the Army Air
Forces had refused to accept Pack
ard products in the absence of "in
spection supervision to guarantee
quality.”
The company htus not made public
its employe total, but the Packard
local of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO), in a statement de
claring the importance of the fore
man-management dispute “exag
gerated,” said 39,000 persons were
made idle by the closing.
Union Expresses Concern.
The tJAW-CIO local took no stand
in the dispute itself, although ex
pressing concern over failure to con
tinue producing for the armed
forces.
Companies affected by the strike,
which has involved 13 plants, have
refuse^) to bargain with the fore
men’s organization over grievances.
The union, an independent, has been
refused recognition as an appropri
ate bargaining unit by the National
Labor Relations Board, but affiliated
foremen have been assured of pro
tection under the Wagner Act from
discrimination because of union
activities.
Finns Deny Receiving
New Allied Demand
By the Associated. Press.
STOCKHOLM, May 13.—A Finnish
Foreign Office spokesman said last
night in Helsinki that his govern
ment had not received any new
demand from the Allies that Fin
land quit its war association with
Germany or run the risk of disas
trous consequences.
The American representative in
| Finland, Edmund A. Guillion, is at
! present in Stockholm.
A joint declaration by the United
States. Great Britain and Russia
yesterday warned the Axis satellites
—Finland, Hungary, Romania and
Bulgaria—to desert Germany now or
suffer the consequences.
Chinese Claim Island
Off Fukien Recaptured
Bs the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, May 13.—Chinese
dispatches today said the Japanese
held island of Chinshan, off the
coast east of Fukien, had been re
captured by the Chinese April 26 In
a five-hour attack on the Japanese
garrison.
The dispatches said more than 100
Japanese soldiers were killed and
large quantities of supplies were
captured.
The island was described as hav.
ing been an important Japanese
| supply base for several years.
Sinatra Leaves Hospital
NEW YORK, May 13 (>P).—Frank
; Sinatra, feeling “very much better,”
has left Mount Sinai Hospital where
he was treated for a throat infec
tion, but will not be able to sing
until next week, his physician, Dr.
Irving Goldman, said last night.
Wingate's Raiders
In February, 1943, the late
Orde Charles Wingate, a Brit
ish brigadier, led a small but
highly trained force into the
jungles of Burma, where only
a year before an Allied army
had been badly beaten by the
Japanese. When Wingate and
most of his raiders returned
three months later they had
blasted Japan's main line of
rail communication.
The story of that daring
expedition is told in an excit
ing daily art strip, “Wingate’s
Raiders,” adapted from the
Book-of-the-Month Club best
seller of the same title, be
ginning Monday in
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