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RAF Carries
Air Invasion
Into 14th Day
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rald-free . interval after. . three
attacks from Wednesday - dusk
te Thursday dawn., ;:" V
But the moon did not keep the
RAF at home. Instead Lancasters
and Halifaxes soared over the
' channel la two roaring waves
with probably another couple of
thousand tons of bombs. -
From the wild warnings of the
German radio there were indica
f tiona that other important targets
besides' Friedrichshafen were
' blasted during the night Frank
furt, Hamburg and Munich sta
tions filled the air until 2 ajn.
'with announcements of bomber
I formations over western and
1 northern Germany.,
i About 75 Americas Flylna
Fertresses and Liberators first
hit Genua mystery Installations
' . the French invasion coast
; this mwffMf with about 20M
; tans af bombs, and then reared
J - back again ia aa unprecedented
; repeat performance la the same
strength at dusk,, this time hlt
Una Germaa air bases at Nancy
and Teal and railroad yards at
' Blalaevllle and - Chaloae-eur-tJ
Marne la eastern France.
The morning run alone had been
described by veteran southern
English costal observers , as pro
viding the greatest aerial activity
' ever seen over the - channel, and
before the day was out all prev
ious "shows'' had been surpassed.
r." The record . 18-hour period be
.'gan wit ha 1000-plane RAF night
raid on the big German munitions
i center of Essen and other targets
'in Germany and France, and in-
..volved today, besides the Ameri
'can heavy bombers, hundreds
upon hundreds of medium and
t light bombers and fighter-bomb
vers and fighters more than a
dozen types of planes In all.
The Eighth air force had
: staged doable-header operatioas
" several times before bat never
in sach strength. The previous
record was around 1000 heavy
bomber sorties. On the peak day
J af the first all-oat. air drive
' late la February It was effl
1 ctally disclosed that the ElghUi
; and 15th air forces had sent oat
v more than 1200 heavies from
Britain and Italy together.
In the expeditionary air forces
'sweep over France and Belgium,
3-28 Marauders and A-20 Havoc
'light attack bombers of the Ninth
' air force hit railway yards at
Cambrai and Arras, while B-25
Mitchells,. Havocs and Mosquito
of the Second tactical ' air force
: bomber 1 yards 1 at " Bethune and
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Some fliers were beginning to
show the strain on the non-stop
' assault, but none asked for a holi
day. The ground crews were even
, busier. A typical crew bossed py
Sgt, Wes Corning of 290 Mahrt
avenue, Salem, Ore., still was
patching flak holes from the first
1 mission when bombs were loaded
t for ' the second. :
Ickes Rakes
cyyo Leaders'
fRacial Viewfc
WASHINGTON, April 27.-ip)-
.nterior Secretary Ickes today ac
fused Mayor FioreBo La Guar
dia of New York City and two re
publican governors, John W.
Bricker of..phi and : Walter IX
Edge of New Jersey of "racial dis
crimination" on the question - of
resettlement of J apanese-Ameri
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In a statement the interior sec
retary said they have -expressed i
t belief that law-abiding Japanese
' In this country are not entitled 4q
the; same privileges as nonsfapi
, anese, and said these opinions
Seem ominously out of tune
.a nation that is. fighting for the
.principles of democracy and freer
dom.r
1 .This Is a strange fife and drum
corps to be playing the. discord
" ant anthem of racial discrimina
r tion," Ickes said. "Stranger by
than fiction. ' - . '
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. "Themayor of New York City,
. who.- has . fought long and .vigor
. ously for racial, equality and jus
,tice, carryinf the flag, must be
Shocked and disturbed to find the
erummer Doy srom Mew -jersey oa
his left and the filer, from Ohio
- flanking, him on the right I can
npt but believe that he has joined
this company-through accident
and misandrntanding rather than
. by deliberate choice,' - .
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Army Ejects Sewell Avery
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marshals were held past the reg
ular working hears aad were
immediately seat eat te serve
Avery aad the IS officials nam
ed with'; him in the injunction
Immediately after the injunc
tion was sigaed.: - . " '
The injunction orders "that the
defendants, and each of them be,
and hereby is, enjoined from ob
structing, disturbing, or : interfer
ing with . . '7 operation of the
plants and facilities of Montgom
ery Ward and Company ... . by
the United States of America or
by Wayne C. Taylor on its be
half."
The concern also was ordered
to obey all orders of Taylor "with
respect to the possession and ope
ration of the Chicago plants.
Avery, gray-haired chief ex
' ecatlve officer ef the mammoth
mall order and mercantile con
cern, was ejected bodily from
bis eighth floor office aad was
borne te aa elevator. Then
seated ea the hands ef twe
combat-helmeted troopers he
was taken through aa exit aad
deposited ea the sidewalk.
He bowed to the military men,
then escorted by city detectives,
walked to his chauffeur-driven
car and went to his Gold Coast
home.
He left there later, however,
and efforts to reach him for com
ment on the melodramatic turn of
events were unsuccessful.
The first ef the legal moves
and counter-moves that even-,
tually may pat the issue before'
the supreme court took shape
late in the day. Attorney Gen-;
" era! Francis Biddle : asked the
, federal court here for aa in
Junctloa pretlbltlng Avery and
ether executives from obstruct
ing government operation ef
Ward units and compelling
them to turn ever corporate
records.
Ward ' attorneys petitioned the
Lake Wreck
Takes 10 Lives
CLEVELAND, April 27 -&)-
Disaster struck through a fog
mantled dawn over Lake Erie to
day, causing separate collisions
which sank two ore freighters and
took the lives of at least 10 crew
members.
The ore carrier James H. Reed,
operated by Pickands, Mather and
Co- for the Interlake Steamship
Co of Cleveland, sank quickly
after a head-on collision with the
Canada Steamship Lines steamer
Ashcroft, 25 miles north of Ashta
bula, O., carrying four men and
a woman cook to their deaths and
resulting in fatal injuries to five
others. .
The Interlake Co. reported late
today at least two other crewmen
were unaccounted for.
Seventy-five miles- to the west.
the Columbia Transportation Co.'s
Frank Vigor, carrying a load of
sulphur from Chicago to Buffa
lo .foundered after colliding with
the steamer Phillip Minch, oper
ated by the Kinsman Transit Co.
There were none seriously in
jured in the collision of the Vig
or nd the Minch, which occurred
in Pelre passage, on the Canadian
side of the lake, opposite Sandus
ky, o.
StiUwelVsMen
Wreck Japs
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officers estimated that the bet
ter part af.two Japanese divi
sions, representing perhaps 2,
000 men, already. ? had been
"chewed up ia the Invasion ef
India, It is felt that the enemy
either must capture Kehisaa er
some ether good base before
the Monsoea starts; or get com
pletely out f India. . . .
' Todaj's'.allied communique said
operations continued to fclear the
60-mile highway between Kohima
and ImphaL Two days ago allied
troops pushing put from Imphal
cleared a Japanese road block and
captured a village 22 miles north
of ImphaL A Japanese attack near
Bhhenpur, 20 miles southwest of
ImphaL was repulsed.
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The
Injunction;
district court In the - national
capital for an. immediate trial of
the company's suit for an injunc
tion restraining enforcement of
the war labor board's order di
recting the concern to extend an
expired contract with a CIO
union. Avery's refusal to comply
with that rinstruction and "
similar one "from President
Roosevelt led to federal control
of the local plants. C . ' .
Silas Strawn, member of a law
firm representing : the Ward in
terests and a director of the con
cern, announced an injunction
suit would' be filed , in federal
court : within the next few days
in an effort to halt continued
federal operation of the plants.
"The government has no more
right to take over that property
than you fcave," he declared.
and you will find that will be
the case when the matter comes
to court."-
Nazis Relax
Dane Travel
Restrictions v
STOCKHOLM, April 27 -()
Travel restrictions which have
virtually Isolated Denmark since
Monday were relaxed by the Ger
mans today insofar as they af
fected transport between Denmark
and Sweden, .
Danes holding visas now will be
allowed to leave Sweden and re
turn home,, it was announced by
the': German consul at Halsing
borg, although persons seeking to
travel to Germany by way . of
Denmark still must obtain special
transit visas.
A Malmo newspaper, Sydsven-
ska Dagbladet, reported the nazis
were strengthening their air units
and massing troops in Denmark as
a precaution against invasion.
(Similar reports received in
London were viewed with some
skepticism, observers pointing out
that they had been received
through German censorship and
probably were intended partly as
a bluff and partly to fish for in
formation from the allies. It was
considered unlikely the Germans
would disclose any large move
ment of their troops.
(The opinion-was expressed in
London that the overall disposi
tion of nazi forces has not been
appreciably changed in several
weeks. The count was thought to
be 140 to 150 divisions facing
Russia cut from a peak of 180
to 200 divisions by the red army's
onslaught about 55 in France
and the low countries, some 25 in
Italy, around 20 in the Balkans
and Greece, 10 to 12 in Norway,
seven in Finland and two or three
In Denmark.)
Cotton Clothes
Get Scarce
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cotton yardage now is allocated
for military and industrial use.
ine group proposed a prompt
start on special production pro
grams for the critically needed
appareL It urged that minimum
quality standards be set to insure
wearability and to permit the fix
ing of retail dollar - and - cents
price ceilings. '
The ceilings probably would be
higher in most cases than present
prices because the output of low-
priced goods has slumped as man
ufacturers with limited labor and
materials turned increasingly to
luxury goods which bring Trigher
prices and profits. . .
Presbyterian Church
To Observe 75th Year
May 14 was set Thursday night
as the date for observance of the
75th anniversary of the First
Presbyterian church of Salem. A
committee' from the session and
the various church organizations
laid plans for a series of programs
and services in commemoration of
the event and looking forward to
other years of service.
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which on Tuesday invested vir
tually deserted Madang and its
airfield have moved on te take
Alexishaf en which also haa aa
airdrome, ;" ',;'. : X. ,;r; ;
Including the Tadji airdrome,
seized near Aitape, 150 miles
southeast of Hollandia last. Sat
urday, that makes six enemy air
fields falling into MacArthur'a
hands within a week. 1I , -
Headquarters - said - the Japan
ese at. Hollandia had fled, .inland
and that all organized resistance
had ceased in the pinched off sec
tor of 350 square miles between
invaded-; Tanahmerah and Hum
boldt bay. '
At Aitape the American perim
eter was extended in au direc
tions. - . -
Nowhere waa there a refer
ence te any erganixed opposi
tion by the 14,000 Japanese
which officials previously had
estimated were in the sector.
The fifth airforee -kept impo
tent the airbases . northwest of
Hollandia which the Japanese
might utilize in hitting back at the
invasion. Headquarters announced
today a raid at Sorong on the
northwestern tip of Dutch New
Guinea in which four ships were
destroyed.
Flood Waters
In Midwest
Near Crests
Bv the Associated Press
The flood-ravaged banks of the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers
today bore the brunt of damage
from torrential waters nearing
their crests and threatening cost-
ly inundation of additional crop
lands and property. - " ?
All the way from Jefferson City,
Mo- to Cairo, HL, the two rivers
were rising toward top stages ex
pected Saturday and Sunday. . ;
Rains In central Missouri added
to the already over - burdened
Missouri at Jefferson City and
sent it spreading over an area two
miles wide. Highways across the
river were closed within a 250
mile radius in the capital city's
worst flood since 1903.
Effect of the rains was regis
tered in new evacuation moves
by the US district engineer's of
fice and the coast guard shortly
below the point where the Mis
souri empties into the Mississippi
nearest Louis. ?
At nearby St Charles, O., Counx
ty Agent R. -A. Langenbacher es
timated if the Missouri reaches its
predicted crest of 36.8 feet 98,000
acres will be .flooded at a loss of
$1,300,000 to crops and $500,000
to farm property.
More Pay Due
Fruit Packers
NEW YORK, April Vt-i-lA.
Metcalfe Walling, administrator
of the wage and hour division,
US department of labor, an
nounced today a wage order ef
fective May 22," setting a 40-cent
minimum hourly wage for the
150,000 . workers in the fruit and
vegetable packing and farm pro-
ducts assembling industry.
adoui iu.wu worxers will : re-
ceive a. direct wage increase, .-he
reported.
The industry, which does not
include any operation covered, by
a previous wage order, includes
the assembling and preparation
for market of all fresh fruits and
vegetables, other farm and related
products, shelling of nuts, ginning
and compressing of cotton,, treat
ing of. flax and other vegetable
fibres, and the leaf processing
branch of the cigar industry.
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Move Starts
To Oust Young
Deferred Men
WASHINGTON. April 27
A rider designed to force the in
terior department to discharge ma
ny, of its younger, draft-deferred
employes was written into the de-
Dartmest'a aDDropTlation bill . to
day., even as Secretary lcxes was ;
protesting: that congressional re
ports of his agency's deferments
were unfair. I
Before passing an $86,652,530
appropriation to run the depart
ment during, the fiscal year be
ginning next July 1, the house
approved by a voice vote an
amendment by Representative
Mott (R-Ore.).
It Would prohibit use of any of
the funds for payment of the sal
aries of t male employes between
the ages of 18 and 30 who are
physically and mentally qualified
for military service, who have
been deferred for reasons other
than dependency or "as necessary
to war- production' and who re
tain their deferred status for 30
days after enactment of the legis
lation, ".-a :
When reporting the appropria
tion bill yesterday, the appropria
tions committee told the house
that 2221 of the department's
6696 male employes aged 18 to
3J3 had occupational draft defer
ments and called this. a situation
which "must be eliminated with
out undue delay."
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McNutt Sucsests
Draft Resurvey ;
WASHINGTON, AprQ 27-(ff)
Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the
war manpower commission today
suggested that local draft boards
throughout the country "resurvey
all available manpower,'' includ
ing men between 38 and,45, in or
der to. get "more- men into war-
useful jobs." . " '
"Selective service Iwards -could
request men oyer 38 to take war
jobs," McNutt told WMCs man
agement labor policy committee at
its meeeting here, "and could ask
the men to report to the nearest
office of the US employment ser
vice, to find ' out what essential
employment is available.'
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Allies Throw
Back Attacks
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, April 27-(ff-AUiea
troops on the Adriatic sector of
the Italian front . have thrown
back two small-scale attacks, one
south of Canosa and the other in
the Ortona area, it waa announced
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