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Senators Hold
Seizure of Ward
Plant Not Legal
Attorney General
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Jones Are Criticized
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over nominations) and agrees in
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their positions. ...
A special house committee
which undertook asepardite. ih-
vestigation of the Ward seizure
recessed yesterday until June: 6
after hearing Biddle and Wayne
Chatfield Taylor, undersecretary
of commerce. Avery is scheduled
as the next witness. ..
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Berlin said an allied attempt to
take Velletri, 19 miles from the
capital, was frustrated. Gen. Sir
Harold Alexander appeared much
more, intent upon destroying the
German armies than in taking
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way June 4, 1942. He was offi-
cially declared dead June 5. 1943.
DAM CONTRACT LET
WASHINGTON, May 26 UPh-
The War department has an-
nounced the award of a contract
estimated at $194,850.88 to the
Spenker Construction Co., Car-
rollton, Texas, for construction of
access roads to Denison dam and
reservoir at Red river, Texas and
Oklahoma. Army engineers of
Denison, Texas, will supervise
the work.
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Farm Work Is Halted
Amend Shutdown
Order for June
AUSTIN, May 26. ( — The
Railrpad rommissinn> statewide
ghutdown order for June has
ed to provide addi-
action of asphaltic
Beachhead Forces
Plunge Three Miles
Beyond Appian Way
United States Armies Are Within Artillery Range
Of Highway 6, Jugular Supply Route of German
Divisions Retreating Before Allied Assault
By RICHARD McMURRAY
Associated Press War Editor
American beachhead troops captured Cisterna and Lit-
toria and plunged three miles beyond the Appian way to
within artillery range of Highway 6, jugular vein of the 12
mauled German divisions retreating in central Italy from
Piedemonte and Aquino bef ore other charging allies.
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retreat into the Alban hills, dmomumumansummemn
last obstacle that nature
erected in the 15 miles to Esgai
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Suspended Navy "' rouble
Shooter’ Testifies at 1
Senate Inqujry Today
Rome. They left carpets of
dead, mounds of material and
2,000 more prisoners in allied
hands. Long columns of be-
wildered captives streamed
to the rear to join the 12,000
who have surrendered.
Lt Gen. Mark Clark’s Ameri-
can tanks and infantry fanned out
swiftly from the beachhead area,
now the allied left flank in the
amalgamated battleline. Their ad-
vance beyond Cisterna, captured
in the fourth day of violent bat-
tle, carried within ten miles of
highway No. 6 (the via Casilina)
at a point about 25 miles below
Rome. If they cut the road, the
plight of the dozen divisions of
the German Tenth army, flee-
ing the broken and overrun Hit-
ler line, will be in the greatest
jeopardy.
Overcast skies grounded most
planes in Britain. Mediterranean
forces put 3,000 into the skies yes-
terday for violent blows at the
battlefronts, northern Italy and
the French cities of Toulon and
Lyon. In two days, Lt Gen. Ira
Eaker’s fliers knocked out 1,750
vehicles, complicating toe Ger-
man retreat. They shot 20 planes
down and lost 12.
West in New Guinea
I By J . B . KRUEGER
an investigator to Chicago short-
ly after the seizure.
Montgomery Ward had declined
to abide by a WIB order to keep
a CIO union contract in force un-
til an election could be held to
determine the union’s status. The
Good Rains in
Texas Aid Crops,
Break Drought
Flash Flood Does
of the house group, told a re-
porter the first week of the hear-
ing had left his position un-
changed. “I don’t approve of
their (Montgomery Ward and
Company’s) conduct in defying
the government in time of war."
he asserted.
prietor was .
here for possession of
e plugs for insertion in
cigarets. 1
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line advance ___________
Governor to Take
Part in Launching
HOUSTON, May 26. (P--Gov.
Coke Stevenson will participate
in launching ceremonies June 1
at Orange for a destroyer escort
vessel named for the late Lt (jg)
Severin Louis Rombach, USNR,
of Cleveland, Ohio, the navy an-
nounced today.
Sponsor will be Mrs. Leah
Gradwell Rombach, 4259 Valley
road, Cleveland, widow of the
naval officer.
SWANCUrr RULED SANE—
Lt Benufert G. Swancutt sits, in
nis wheelehalr outside toe court
room at Camp Anza, Calif., awakt-
ingresptiln M his «o«t mm
tin on ^iiritanf mturdering four
persons. The military court ruled
he was sane when fee to 8 Bring
ocearred last March 5. A blanket
covers his shackled hands.—(AP
EISENBOWER VISITS KING
^LONDON, Mayeake“pt
D. Esenhower at- Buckinghim
palace today. The allied ihva-
ft l
Moscow said Russian planes
sank two nazi transports in the
Gulf of Finland. The Red armies
still marked time.
. The Germans dr
pretension in Italy ai
troops “had to retreat” in the
Cisterna area under heavy tank
assault The enemy appeared to
be attempting to bolster the 17
divisions of the 10th and 14th
armies on arlast line before Rome,
strung between Avenzzano, Val-
mbittone, Velletri and Campole- *
strXe of 1,900
slants of Parke
med that
gies, they
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LY 26, 1944
■ 200 miles east of the Schou-
A, tens.
aut Biak, larger of the two Schout-
TK ens, suffered another e of the air
“ raids which since May 1 have
_ undertaken to soften it up, pre-
.Isumably for invasion. ; Heavy
bombers struck in a night raid
union subsequently provd in an
election that it represented the
majority of employes.
Today’s report said Biddle”s
letter of April 22 to the president
—described as "presumably ...
the impelling force for tike issu-
ance of the executive
Introduced as evidence at a
hearing was a photostaticci,
a letter dated September 13,1942,
which Corrigan said he Wrote on
Navy department stationery in
stayed for
of the engineering and produc-
tion consultant firm and testified
he still owns half the stock.
Text of Letter
and it’s time to de
up during the deca
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felling some trees, the roots
which had been loosened in the j '_______
wet ground. More rain and con- support from Maj
tinued electrical disturbances Chennault’s airm
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TI’Louis. (A—L - .
strike putidowntown.movie
house ih darkness for. nearly
hours. The feature attraction
“Lady In the Dark.”
______ the SoconyVacuum Oil
company, left 608 men idle. With
T-t-- 100 oc-
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TPaatena:
Associated Press War Corres-
pondent Thoburn Wiant said that
in the fight for Myitkyina Brig.
Gen. Frank Merrill’s Marauders
were on the city’s outskirts, bat-
tering at Japanese holed up in
the major enemy base. Attempts
to reinforce the besieged Japan-
ese garrison were beaten back.
“Inclosed you will find a list
of the manufacturers: to whom
the bureau of ordnance has given
money for plant facilities The
headings across the top of the
sheet are self-eplanaf
lowed a sgie
which Mr.H
c
White, » pet
month, 1
CALLANDER, Ont.,
ten years old May 28,
them that have sprung
uQnnnsshea-"ide
Department of. Labor; the War
Labor Board and the National
Labor Relations board.
Senator Revercomb(R-W.-Va.)
joined MeCarran to the report,
but the third member of the sub-
committee, Senator McFarland
(D-Ariz.) declined to sign it |
Senator MoFarland
not f ‘
ivernment to take t.
council of the CIO Inter-
national Woodworkers of.Amer-
ica planned to meet, tomorrow
(Saturday) to study further ac-
tion.-
sion commander
lunch.
Texas Democratic Split
Draws Editorial Comment
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By The Associated Press
The split at the Texas Democratic forty convention at Austin
last Tuesday drew comment from the nation’s editorial writers.
Excerpts from some of fee sd-f -1 1 -------- 1
top it says _
means it is not for general dis-
tribution.
__________—mtricted"
to a Chicago firm in which he re-
tains a half interest and asked
cials did not comment.
4,700 Return to Work
Meanwhile about 4 JOO workers
in at least six other plants either
were returning to work or had
voted to return pending settle-
ments.
that it be burned after being
read. - IHI
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eltstin
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rplets win be
stories about
the in-
want to vote for Mr..Roosevelt
for a fourth term. But the fluent
is being utteadbg certain poht-
nt^ndo elsewhere—rthet their de-
sires may be frustrated by nhanip-
ulation cd the ardhaic eleethmal
lE. COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON,
believe that the subcommittee
required for a full report.”
. ‘To be more specific," he add-
ed in. a statement, “I think that
the subcommittee; should hot
have denied the interested par-
ties an opportunity to be heard
and that it should not make a re-
port that is based solly upon
documentary evidenc which
may not be complete, and upon
L. * $ 6
J Lt Rombach joined torpedo
. squadron six, based on the USS
did Enterprise, on June 21, 1940. The
plane of which he was pilot was
Shot down in the battle of Mid-
Three L--- —.— - L,. -
when an auctioneer asked,for a
$3 brass bowl didn’t buy
mating
1088 of
today headed a list of at least
eight Walkouts throughout
the nation.
Rome, however, and he seemed
well on his way to success.
Canadians established a beach-
head over the central Melfa river
13 miles west of Cassino. Poles
took Piedimonte after a week of
street fighting. Littoria surren-
dered to a single American bull-
dozer.
American losses at Cisterna
were proportionally light The
allies were puzzled by me dearth
that the subcommittee has had an of Garman ^consolidateSquick-
opportunity to give the impor. 1y"theimswide gains..The Hitler
tant questionsof law thecaref^ ine was just a memory, though
consideration that they some stiff resistance, was encoun-
—- -dded "het h tered on the flanks of the main
picture, the ware----
the CIO International Longsho:
men’s and Ward---------*
Francisco pledged
‘ sike-as a
less than 900 from the Philip-
pines.
On two other Pacific war
ground fronts the Japanese
claimed capture of Loyang in
corth China and doggedly clung
to Myitkyina in Burma in the
face of overwhelming odds. The
first Chinese admission : Loyang
। probably was lost came from an
army spokesman who said con-
AA-g22 tact with the key rail center had
been broken. - •
' The spokesman, Maj. Gen. C. C.
"56 Black Market Case
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May 26
(P)—The Office of Price Admin-
istration announced here today
that criminal warrants had been
issued in federal court at Fort
Smith against 87 defendants
charged with participating in
“black market” poultry opera-
tions. a. n
Issuance of the warrants was
announced by John Lofton, Jr
attorney for the OP A enforce-
ment division, who said that the
complaint alleged overcharges
of nearly $1,000,000 to consumers.
Lofton said the filing of charges
climaxed weeks of investigation
of the northwest Arkansas poul-
fiswrerodlhes seep to explode.
’ East Texas: Showers
t
292D- tidht adSstu
Names of the defendants were
withheld pending serving at the
warrants.-—. i
Lofton said many of
, w charged were Arkansas produc-
a .88 inch rain there ers and dealers and that others
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t etectots, who, in the electoral
• olleue, will vote for toy Demo-
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reau.
It was addressed to David Ar-
mour, at Corrigan, Osburhe and
Wells, Chicago. The 43 rear-old
commander is former president
produc-
(aftyD.,
rfof,the:
alstsil
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2p-Tevscine
20,000 to as.
many as 51,000, due to widely,
different opinions on the number 22
idle in the Pacific Northwest
Most walkouts were due to wage
demands. ■
* Detroit was virtually without -
bread or bakery goods in a driv-
- ers’ tie-Up, one of
little more so. t .
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can attempted to hit than the others. Yvonne may be isbed. Some
"Listoriernments and au- with strong winds was forecast at in widespre
thorities invted to participate inCorpus Christi. 2____2 island, Thai!
the conferece follows: "n 2 M "n
British forces continued to
peak of 40 block Japanese forces apparent-
an Antonio, ly-unwilling to concede the In-
of dian invasion was a failure.
The Asiatic fighting received
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By The Associated Press
A general lumber tieup in
the northwest, with War Pro-
duction Board officials esti-
mating a daily production
_ 9,500,000 board feet,
treasury;;,. .. •
“The conference is expected to
last several weeks.
“All agreementgworked out by
the conference subsequently will
be submitt
Gen. j Douglas MacArthur’s quest for airbases ever
nearer the Philippines moved westward today on New
Guinea’s coast and there were signs he was about ready for
a 200-mile invasion leap into the aerially-strategic Schouten
islands. ‛ \
Allied troops reached the
edge of Maffin bay’s air-
- drone after overpowering
Japanese defenders at Tir-
foam river. Its capture
itorials follow:
Chicago Sun-Ths
public might to tax
lePb'rtvozA Teja
pointe south. The p
South, as gabunda
ing----
increases. Estimates
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the navy’s ordnance bureau, ad-
mitted to the senate waz investi-
gating committee today
sent a letter marked “re
announceniient:
“Preside it Roa
an international---
the purpose df discussing pro-
posals to meet post-waf interna-
tionalprhlets.
ed to^O^SSi1^
the nations associated wi-----
in the war, requesting them to
send official, representatives to
theUniteg
to be mostly in -pottea towers, File Charges in
although there was a chendi ’—- ” - “ ' * 4
—iit, morning, in
______Approximately an inch
of rain over most of Ector coun-
ty ebrought the first real rain to
the Odessa section since January.
At Corsicana tiie 24-hour fell
was L71 inches, and major creek
were rising. Weather observers
predicted a rise in the Brazos
river near Waco after a heavy
rain which stalled busses in that
city temporarily and saturated
nearby farm land. I '
A. 1.04-inch rain broke the
drought Thursday night at Mid-
land. Some hail fell' and a high
wind accompanied the rain, but
little damage was reported. The
moisture was! expected to relieve
withered range and start farmers
panting crops delayea by
Chennault’s airmen,
ad attacks at Hainan
Paris reported Thursday rum- glomg mheendtzed and’feiw
. -- "*, 1 rivers in China.
not bright—or that one of them,
Marie, is backward.
en when
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with their : ather and
. _ g-s joined mill
; boom workers to the Pacific
ihhu niuw2 ngR B°age
reases. Estimates of the num-
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w —,093. Spokane, Wash., pine Commander John D. Corrigan,
lumber manufacturers invited the suspended “trouble shooter” for
T । f. produc- " . - -m—lm
Mar 26. (A—President R
____________ -onetary conference to met
ginning July a to discuss postwar financial
Invitatons iytee’tamed'
countries । md the French -
mittee of National liberation this
morning. - i- 4 . pele Mt
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Hmudhamaehug
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it will tell you whethii - —
these people are locate I in your
district. 2 ■
“After you have looked this
over and taken whatever data
destroy it But do yourself and
- mbyselling
ruled they were no
, "but fireworks formation you want okfit please
•WwSELLAs„ont. Pg(L
barks from a blind dog
, . ALLIES MERGE T
four Michigan two battlefronts (black
kep about 7,000 mhet at Borgo Grappa._____
------- -------in East St. Louis, Appian way—(APwirephoto.)
IH., and St. Louis, Mo., oil refin-
By The Associated Press
Good rains in . Texas Thursday
and Friday broke droughts and
benefitted crops in some sections, 101
hindered farm work in others,
and brought a flash flood to Lam-
pasas incentral Texas.
r wwmvyt one-half
mhergmnpeename the state;
-."7, the the third severe thunderstorm in
“United Nations Monetary and less than4 struck San An- ----- — , a
— tonio Thursday night; two days Tseng, said Chinese troops had,
of rain in the Corpus Christi sec- however, widened their breachof
: tion were described by the Dih—- — ilreed ond
weather bureau as “agricultural -—..
rains of greatest benefit,” and westward of Loyang. f
all farm work in the Gorsicana
vicinity was stopped. t « : i
win overbat“beeinie next time
Anotherjstgryis that the quints
can’t speak English and are for-
bidden to Ram. On fee contrary,
they have daily Eedish less one
—although most ofFthqit school
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the company producing
tone aviation gasoline, w.
company manufacturing director,
' ilegraphed Presidetit Roosevelt
>r help, terming
inthinkable on the
of Europe.’
States for the confer-
win begin on July 1.
alegates representing the courthouse sqi
the United Stategiwjl be:headed began receding at
* “ “ ^Morgenthau of the dap; no one was 1
— az--- are. princinallv-f
dom, Uruguay,
slavia.* i &
Presidential Mqe
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gates besid e Mog
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Estimates of the total number
of idle varied from
Stih Detroit the st
employes at two pl--— — -
Davis 8 Co. went into its fourth
day.
About 1500 workers were idle , _ _
in a dSp*t over smoking regula- his office, in the ordnance bu-
tioi to three General Motors’ -----
Chevrolet transmission division
plants at Saginaw, Mich., and 1,"
(Continued on Page Three)
Mi
GARDEN PARTY .__
AT AN ADVANCED SOUTH
PACIFIC AIRBASE (—A Cor-
sair fighter pilot found his Bou-
. gainville strafing target closed in
by weather, so he at kicked a Jap-
age; principally from mud, was
expected to be light
ASBURG, Pa.(-
Borough 'officials, harkening to
appeals from-parnnda°pisnsto
sound he community fire alarm
on D-Day. L .. ,
> at San .
donment of the strike-----
nomic weapon for the duration of
the war and "indefinitely there-
after.” l.-p,.
Hundreds of logge
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jture Cisterna, Littoria
merca.
gister
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on a carrot There w is no ack-ack
but a single Jap disguised as a
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Army Officer is
Sentenced to Hang
For Four Slayings
Lt. B. G. Swancutt Is
Found Guilty at Camp
Anza by Military Court
CAMP ANZA Calif., May 26
(P — An Army court martial
convicted Lt Beaufort G. Swan-
cutt today on a charge of mur*
dering four persons in a shooting
affray here last March 5 and rec-
ommended that he be hanged.
The time and place of the exe-
cution must be fixed by the prefc-
ident
Lt Col. Duncan P. Frissell of
the court informed Swancutt
immediately after the penalty
was announced, that a two-thirds
majority of the court was pres-
ent when the verdict was reached
and that all 12 members of the-,
court were present when the sen-
tence was fixed. The latter meant
that hanging was voted unani-
mously.
Swancutt, charged with mur-
dering his girl friend and three
other persons, appeared during
the last stages of his trial to be
resigned to his fate. When tne
verdict was announced, he dis-
played no sign of emotion. When
the penalty was told, ne uKewae
appeared unaffected. 4
The court, which has the power
only to recommend judgment,
will send a record of its proceed-
ings to Col. J. K. Herbert, com-
manding officer of the Los An-
geles port of embarkation.
Following Herbert’s review,
the records will be sent to the
Army’s judge advocate general.
A death recommendation also re-
quires the signature of the pres-
ident, and as long as six weeks
might elapse before the review
reaches this stage.
No appeal can be taken from
the court’s findings except this
automatic procedure of review.
The 31-year-old La Crosse,
Wis., officer, testifying for two
hours and 20 minutes yesterday
at his court martial, offered no
denial of the shootings but in-
sisting that he had no motive or
intent totkill anyone, or any
memory m such an occurrence.
Previously declared sane by
the court,Swancutt contended he
suffered i mental blackout the
afternoon of March 5, from which
he did pet recover for several
rdeaf
“I am not satisfied, moreover,
. If you
ider the
I •
headed by Senator McCarran
(D-Nev.) declared today. Presi-
dent Roosevelt had “no constitu-
tional or statutory authority” to
issue the executive order under
which Montgomery Ward and
Company’s Chicago mail order
house was seized by armed troops
last month.
The sharply-worded report
criticized Attorney General Bid-
dle, who assured the president he
had authority to issue the ort er;
Secretary of Commerce Jones,
who called for soldiers to take
over the plant and eject Sewell
Avery, Ward board chairman;
the conciliation services of the
VO FRONTS IN___,
fetes) wore merged
Bermans were report
days.
eDuene.nhat,
ly shot His swe
othy Douglas, 1
Miss Lowtime
19, atanotfice
try industry, principally at Fay-
etteville, Bentonville, Springdale,
Rogers, Siloam Springs, Gentry
and Gravette.
L..- : -
er ."points recorded: Md
#,22:
Three inches of rain
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8 Strikes
Hindering
Production
General Lumber Tieup
in Northwest Serious 4
Curb to Daily Output
wasyiible for seven and eight-
s“s,a,
valarkeilpe u seret 12 -igit -
interval, the gov-
es, Swancutt fatal-
etheart. Miss Dor-
19, and her friend,
Livermore, also
of club dance; his J
,Capt. Aubrey G.• j
at supply and camp areas. In ad-
dition, Noemfoor island, 60 miles
west of Biak, was attacked and
19 parked planes were destroyed
there.
The Schoutens already have
taken more air punishment than
' Wakde underwent before it was
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