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! J ff ' 7eallier Mixlmim temperature Tuesday 78 degrees; mini- mam, JS. Ne precipitation. . v ' Fair Wednesday and, Thursday except foggy along eeast; sllxhtly warmer ta- PCUNDDO SI l; . ii- ... . - ' r :i I ! I "OV Man River has been up to ' tricks again.' The surprise is not that there la another flood on the Mississippi but that It has passed - all marks for a century at St. Lou is. The river overran or . broke through every major levee from ' EL Louis to Cairo. ) As the water rolls oo down the river,- further damage may be expected to the al : ready heavy toll in life and prop- erty.. ,,; i , . For years the finest intelligence A oi army engineers and experts has been devoted to control of the Mississippi floods; and while the v damage may have been i lessened by the work done, the height of the - floods has not diminished. Whether X. mistakes have been made or who?- ther more work needs to be done ? cant, be told from here, but it is ; plain from reports there is just too - much river. ! After the disastrous 1927 flood, elaborate plans for flood .control I were made. Tens' of millions of ? JEsSST va sasav nvi ivot a. sat , va aaaanan .11 wa. i he just keeps rollin' along" and over the dikes and over the corn- fields ans wer the cabins cm t lowlands. The river rises, foot by foot, then inch by inch. It laps at the sides of the levees; its water smashing key junctions at the seeps through and the bank starts rate of one an hour in an uhex to cave. in. Throw In the sandbags ampled display of aerial might to stem the river; warn the poor folic to leave the river bottoms. OI I ' man river is on the rampage. The- Mississippi j in flood is a - great sight - The ' ! waters spread : out for miles across the flat low lands; bridges seem to be hung just; above the rushing waters; t trains creep by cautiously. Trees - (Continued on Editorial page) Allies Smash ! 20 Jap Barges Fleeing Wewak ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wednesday, May: Allied planes and P-T boats have smash- j ed 20 supply , barges fleeing the Japanese isolated; base of Wewsk and other marooned enemy forces near Aitape, headquarters an- f Bouncto Kxiay. ; . - The planes al strafed the In- .i(i-igiicl escase routes te .those see-r tors for some of the 60,000 Ja- panese estimated r to be caught r between captured Madang and recent! v seized Hoi land is. I ' la another action along the Few , Guinea coast more than f 09 miles northwest of Bol- tandla, a new ' raid en ; the Scheutea Islands stirred up Ja panese air opposition, i 5lx en emy planes were shot, ; down. The raiders damaged an enemy freighter. On the southeastern end of the New Guinea ground: front Aus tralians, who captured Alexisha- fen, 10 miles north of Madang, last week now have pushed five miles beyond that air base with out encountering any opposition. Today's communique reported raids en Wewak, on KabauL ; new oriuun, ana . r oicsi in uk . w. Ln f : a nv 1 A . western uarounes. Strong Japanese patrols are op- crating east of the allied beach- head at Empress Augusta bay, on the western coast of Bougainville Island in the Solomons, possibly ZorcDoaing a renewal oi uie ai- lacas wnicn cosx xne enemy won- sands of men in March in futile -mm m a . a . all. A - ; eilOnS XO CraCK UW Ainenwn lines. " v ' v. A report ef the Nipponese ac tivity, noted Sunday, was made by a spokesman for Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, commander . (Turn to Page 2 Story Gl Germans Make i Minor Cains I J --.';...-.. i ,- t-' r "i- I At Beachhead ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, i Naples,; May 2-Jpy- Fighting on the Anzio beachhead ; south, of - Rome has Increased in the past 24 hours, the Germans making t small gains in an attack on allied .; positions three miles southwest of Carroceto and allied forces rald- ing enemy-held Cerreto Alto on . the extreme right flank of 1 the ' perimeter, i .- On the Adriatic sector of the mam front numerous German ? night patrols were driven of f in brisk clashes but these - actions Senator ciauae epper was run were minor affairs. There have ning strongly in Florida on the t been no chances In the battle lines on the ground, an allied head quarters communique announced today. ';. The main weight of the steady offensive of the Mediterranean air force i swung against nazi com munlcatiohs in northern Italy. Last night RAF heavy bombers made a particularly effective at tack on the rail yards at Ales- fcmdria. which is the Junction of routes linking Turin; Milan and r.fnna over which a great volume of enemv suDDlies is movingTwo- ton bombs crashed Into the yards, musing a gigantic explosion, pre- sumably from an ammunition or train. The heavies also bombed LJvcroo. " iiTSTY-TIIISD YEAR Air. War . Continues In Allies Bombard Invasion Coast All Night & Day By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE LONDON,' Wednesday, May 3 -iPh Sky-filling allied ar- madas spearheaded by hund- reds of US Liberator bombers hammered ! German invasion coast defenses and rail feeder lines from dawn to dusk yes- terday, hurling explosives at a , . .. wo-wn-perrmimue enp ana which went almost unchallenged by the Germans. ( - Jittery German radio announ cers predicting that the big al- ' lied land invasion was "inunln ent" came en the air Just before midnight te shout: Attention! Attention! Enemy Intruders en terins western Germany." This signified that giant RAF night bombers were carrying the pre- Invasion Onslaught into the 19th straight day, The RAF,: in a 1000-plane at tack Monday night, had showered more than 2500 tons of explosives on targets in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy before ! the American daylight j fleets . took over yesterday in a ' grinding at trition preliminary to actual cross- channel troop smashes; Allied sorties daily were run ning; Into the 2004 and JOOt brackets, and presumably yes terday's attack would apprexl snate those ef the days before. but an official estimate was not available. ; T'' ;;"':.( .'v Late yesterday US Mustang and I iQunaeroon iignier-oomoers av- f tacked rail yards, at Charlerol In Belgium, and Somain and Tour- cbing in northern France, along with; an airfield at Feronne with- out a single lossj Most of these attacks were being concentrated In a circle around Lille, ranging 70 miles inland along: vital traf fic routes to the Calais coast, which was the main objective of the big bombers, t , Nothing like this susUlned campaign new running through 1U ISth straight day has ever been seen before, and it is still rising in violence. These pre lnvaslon onslaughts, which now (Turn to Page 2 Story E) - Holman Opens His Campaign i pendtETON. Mav i -JV- charaina- that Wavne Morse, his opponent in the primary race for the US senate, is a "new dealer and falsifier", Senator Holman, hacumbent, opened his campaign nere today. Holman said Morse does not expect to be elected, but he and I m . M. KarVr tn .nlit hm m. publican party and permit elec tion of a democrat, after which. Holman said, Morse probably will I be rewarded by the current ad ministration. . "I have never denied being an isolationist, but In his attacks on me Morse has never given a def inition of the term,! Holman said. "When X . first campaigned for election to the senate I said 1 want to -make 'America so strong no nation ; or group of nations would dare attack us, and then let us mind our own business." iVew? Dealers Gain Strong By the Associated Press Senator Lister Hilt apparently was -headed for renomination in Alabama and a major prestige vic- j tory, for the administration, and oasis oz returns eariy toaay irom - 1 democratic primaries in the, two I states. - . . " j HilL senate majority whip, add- I ed to his lead with, eacb Ubuiauon of votes in the early hours of - j counting and led State Senator I James A. Simpson by more than j 17,000 votes when a Uttle over half - 1 the precincts were neara irom. Simpson lagged behind in his own county of Jefferson. " - A slate puVT commmea , to Dewey was tvs 2 well in front of one supportuig , Lieut. ' Corn- I mander Harold E. Stassen, former Minnesota governor. ': . - All delegate candidates In the democratic primary were account- led fourth term supporters. Bouta Force 1 PAGXS Vsliir Force tyffl 43,500 s on Nazis s'4 LONDON, May I - (X) - The - avaiegie: air ioree bm im Britain and Italy harled more than IM9 tons f bombs en Germany and German -occupied Europe during April, American headquarters ' announced to night This was a new daylight record. American losses were S37 bombers, less . than ; three per cent V,ot those used, and 191 fighters, Just ever one per cent f loss. Operations were ; carried en through tt days and more than 38,000! individual offensive flights were: flown, about 20,000 of them by heavy bombers. . A total of 12S2 German planet were destroyed la combat in addition to? heavy damage to the German aircraft Industry. .;. ; US I fighters, corroborated by gun cameras, claimed the de struction of more than 450 Ger man : planes on the ground dur ing April. ; Th percentage ef American losses! was about the same as for March when 30,172 tons ef bombs were? dropped on 20 days ef operations." w; 4 Attacks were made en 29 air craft plants compared to a third of tht number in March. ThRAF meantime an nounced that its bomber com mand dropped a record 37,960 tonsfjf bombs on Germany and enemy targets during April, 720 dmore tons than the pre- vioutf high In' March, it' Senate to Call ,:' ':..ir-.-.. Aviery, BirJdle WASHINGTON, May 2 Jf) Attorney General Biddle and Seweu Avery, chairman : of Montgomery Ward and Compa ny, will be called as witnesses in ,a senate investigation of government seizure of the mail orderi,company's Chicago plant, it was disclosed today. V Meanwhile,: house critics made ti virtually sure that inquiry will be double-barreled, and the na tional! labor, relations board an nounced that a collective bargain ing election ; will be held within seven; days 'among the - workers whose!; dispute with the company led tcjj the seizure. . ; Chairman McCarran (D-Ner.) of the senate Judiciary commit tee,jannouhcing that he will call fiddle and Avery for tes timoay, said open hearings will start! no later than next week, veryishortly after the eleetioa. At ie same time Senator Byrd (D-Va) said he will press to morrow for senate action on his special resolution for an inquiry into the Ward case by McCarran's comnjtjjttee with particular refer (Turn to Page 2 Story C) It Silertpn Woman Leads Mothers Mrs; John Zetterberg of Silver ton tdps the list of Oregon moth ers if far reported in number of sons In the military service with six. i Douglas Mullarky private secretary to Gov. Earl SneU, is seeking the name of the Oregon womifn with the greatest number of seals in military service. When she is found, she will be recorn mended by Gov, Snell as a can didate t for - the - American -War Mother of 1944. fli Pepper Jote Leads Dakota has eight votes in the dem ocratlc convention. Counting those eighfl there are now 371 delegates pledged or claimed for President Roosevelt It requires 589 to nom inate; Some Dewey sentiment was evi denced at the Arkansas republican convention which completed pick ing ihe , state's delegation of 12, but it turned down a proposal to Instruct them, for the New York governor. Two of the 12, previ ousl! elected by district conven tionsj are pledged to Dewey. ;i - Alabama f democrats chose 24 unpledged delegates to the national convention.; Indiana also held a primary yes terday but only major contests were for nominations to the house, All encumbents were running ahead.' - , - - - 1 liVaddition to the possible impli catiris nationally of the senator ial races, Florida voters were of- InilardCase (Turn U Page 2 Story A) Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning. May 3, 1844 Air Veterans V i V Capt, Warren L. Johnson, 23 - year - - , 5 hla dog, uremiin. ' peer rrom the cockpit or an A-ZQ lighter j hoars In the air 75 of them en bombing missions, are at the army air forces redlstribBtloni center at Santa Monica for a rest after service to the southwest Pacific. (AT Nazis' Predict Three Prong Allied Drive By LEWIS LONDON, May 2-j'P)-German i j- - ; i ; cast tonight that the allies i would spring a three-pronged in- vasion of Hitler's inner fortress with Gen. pwight D. Eisen- hower striking from the west simultaneously with the "imminent" Renewal of the Russian Offensive and opening of a coast-to-1 l w coast drive in Italy. - "AlUed tr-p mevement. and southern (Italian) front indi cate the two (fifth and eighth) armies Intend te launch 4 fresh attack," said DNB's Karl Prag ner In a broadcast recorded by the! British ministry of infor mation, r ' , ( Nazi invasion-guessing comment filled the European air. - "It Is very probable," theorized Lt fol. Von Olberg; in a Berlin broadcast, "That the ahort-uved soviet offensive ion the lower Dnestr and ! in the Iasi area Ihas been halted by the express order of Stalin, who wants the great bat tle in the east, which certainly is imminent, to coincide with the opening of the second front in; the west The German j command is firmly convinced that the major soviet offensive will begin soon." (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Siamese Twins Show Slight j ent 1 PHOENIXVTLLE, Pa., May, 2- (JP)-Thc Stierly Siamese twins showed "slight improvement" j to night rX: Vr-.-'-i I: Dr.- J. Elmer Gotwals said, af ter ; inspecting the twins at 9:30 pjn. (EWT) that their color jwas "much better1 and that the larger twin was in "very good shape." Their temperature, he added, had risen, a point tot 104, but he said this "didn't mean much, in babies of theh age.'; : ,- Earlier today, Dr. Gotwals re ported that the smaller child had almost stopped breathing. ) Her waning life is sustained, her- doctor said , today, only 1 be cause her sister is giving her ox ygen through the arteries that link their tiny bodies. - -j "The smaller child Isn't breath ing often now Dr. J. Elmer Got wals reported as the "cute little blonde girls" started their third day of life; and the third day of their fight against a- common death which physicians believe will strike . momentarily'. i They were isolated today In a crib in the nursery j of Phoenix' ville hospital, where they were born early Sunday to 24-year-old Mary Stierly. widow of a war plant worker. - - ! . Lt Victor J. Gulhrie! Missing ; in Action . Lt Victor J. Guthrie, son -of Mr. and Mrs. . J. ?j M. tGuthrie, Portland, is . missing in action in the. European ' area, : according to information received ' by 5 friends here from the parents last night The Guthrie family formerly lived in Salera andhii Iparcnts were notified by the war department yesterday that he has been miss Imvrovem ing since April 13. ?! i t . intiifcSBi old Dmhnrst, EL, army pilot, and Wirephoto). HAWKINS military commentators fore- - i p ; -7 ; : JgW - .Ji. 1 HIVII.I. Illlllllll.l n w ( itti mj- A 9 Hit Six Trains ! : ' In Lwow Raid LONDON, Wednesday. May 3 (P)-Masses of I soviet bombers at tacking the big rail junction of Lwow in old Poland last night destroyed six troop and ammuni tion trains and- a number of ware-1 houses and left 30 fires whosei smoke plumed! more than a mile in the air, Moscow announced to night The communique reported no essential changes on the land front after 11 days of sparring. (The German radio, in a broad cast reported by NBC. said 20 Russian planes bombed Lwow again Tuesday night following up their Monday 1 night assault) , ' Not a single soviet plane was lost in the attack on Lwow, one auggestions for the effective use of the largest hul hubs in Europe manpower.? s -and the bastion of German de- Asserting; that hs opposition to fenses in lower Poland, said the broadcast-bullctin recorded by the soviet monitor! r ; Soviet Black sea naval planes bombed and sank five enemy ships fleeing toward Romania from the Crimea, a inidnight bulletin said, The vessels were two landing barges, two patrol boats and a (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Nazis Launch aign Over Leaflets - ; : " - "- v..-!-.--' I r- USBON, , May , 2-fl")-Na2i au thorities have launched a fear campaign throughout Europe in I an effort to keep civilians from reading propaganda leaflets drop ped by allied raiders. - An outbreak ot warnings and horror stories In newspapers ot Germany and occupied countries indicates the deep concern of the nktis and their puppet leaders over workers or workers J chfl- dren fpWn tm .tu i.afi.t, scatter with . ar.tW tn.n and other merchandise. . v . , Th tear crr.nain . m the theme: See what happened to Hans Schmidt when he picked up a leauet. xne naa stories ten of elnlosiw fntmtain and oven of -Dcdsoned' soan wrarmed with propaganda leaflets. ; . Official warnings emphasize that ' possession of subversive leaflets dropped by allied planes is punishable with death. Nazi of ficials, . however, appear to be worried, at "the prospect of tens of thousands of civilians picking up precious cakes of soap and ! priceless: packages of cigarettes wrapped in" prcjajsnfia txplaia- ing. that ' there are plenty more m tTeret mfwa 4Kma mswma ! I from. " FearCamp A Wed Submarines Sink 17 Jap Ships By HAMILTON WASHINGTON, May 2-;P)-Allied harried Japanese shipping have of them war .Vessels, out of the Nipponese lifeline of conquest. The total represents 12 American kills, including a light cruis er and two destroyers, and five' -O Japs Hit At Palel Allies Expecting Major Assaults Against Imphal SOUTHEAST ASIA i HEAD Ceylon, QUARTERS Kandy, ! May 2 -(JPh- Japanese invasion forces are attacking strongly in the.Palel area, 28 miles south of Imphal in India, it was dis closed today amid ' indications that the' enemy was about, to 1 jaunch his expected mass as- MuIt on the big allied . base from (that direction. A eommonique tasued by Ad miral Lord Louis Mountbattens headquarters said a Japanese attack on Palel's defenses Sun day night was "heavily" beat en off, but added that patrol clashes were raging In the hills north of PaleL A road runs from Paleli to ImphaL passing east of Lake Lektak. t;'; (A Tokyo dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio declared Tuesday that 12,000 allied troops had begun a "Wholesale, confused retreat from Palel and said the main fight- fog toow centered around a point about nine miles north, of Palel, er Jr; iinpha L The laoma Ktelieka- 1 i m m-i fkei 4 .... : ; ., n,,n f " W-TW WM. I : M IH :m , ' a 1LJJ - A including t h f commander-in -chief, Monntbatten, have given restated assurance that Imphal Is In ne danger ef falling to the Japanese. h ' ; j From the i Burma interior, 150 F miles east of the India war theater, came an announcement that ' al lied air-borne troops had killed at least J.000 Japanese Irt repulsing a tirn to mge a awry uj A T?T PivM 5l xJU La VXilUlCll Raps Military PHILADELPHIA, May 2 H5) The AFL executive council blamed military : authorities today for causing "the worst injury ; to pub by their statements lie morale' on compulsory labor and selective service. The council made four I Ibor conscription had been Jus- I tified by events, the federation's 1 chief "spokesman" said they ; be- tieved "that! the wortt injury to public morale on the home front has been brought by military au- thorities wbuy in the eagerness to secure enactment of national ser- vice legislation, have issued a long series of conflicting, confusing and upsetting statements and regula tions. ? I 1 "In particular, the executive ! council regards the ' apparently haphazard and contradictory poli cies announced from week to week and month to month on inductions into the armed forces as indefen sible from any point of view. " Churchill Tells Premiers Of Victory Preparations By RICHARD R. XASlSCHXE l LONDON May S.-(Wednesciay) PrimlMmUter Chur o tifra Downing street told them they I were here "in the most deadly cU- niax of the onflictof the Mt&ms, tune when although, we heed no loner t&a drfeat wre most lintense, efforts to i" 7- v.,.r , k Churchill's . Monday address. pablle today, said he did not expect that in the heat ef war we shall reach complete soloUoa of all preblema that confront the British empire and vex mansfod. Eat It's high time we gel around the table te ex change views and Ideas ..: , There is a second major xea son . for these conversations, he said. . "The commonwealth i and the empire now have fighting, cn their side very powerful allies the Soviet Union and the great republic ef the Unitde States, It is PrfcaSc W. TARON submarines hacking at cut a new gap of 17, ships, four British, including one destroy- er, announced respectively by na vy headquarters in Washington and the admiralty in London. The American coupe brought to 69S the number of Japanese ships sank, probably sank or damaged by United States sab marines alone, including 9 war ships. Aside from the combatant ves sels, the : newly announced lists included: : . ' Sunk by American subs One large tanker, two medium - sized cargo transports, v five medium sized: cargo vessels, one large naval auxiliary. - J :; " . By British nibs Four supply ships, - one reported asj medium sized, two more- as smaller, add the fourth not. described. Thf USr navy, tn line with . long-established policy of keep ing the enemy guessing j gave ne details, bat the British were mere communicative. . The British-sunk destroyer went down south of the Andaman islands in the Indian ocean while escorting a supply ship, -jwhidh al- so was torpedoed. Another" supply vessel, strongly escorted, was sunk; in the same t area. In Malaya strait between Malaya j and Su matra the British reported de struction of a medium Sized ves sel with a deck cargo of motor transport, and the two smaller ships. ' n '. Two supply ships and aa es cort vessel were damaged la ad ; dition te the actual sinkings, the British reported, and one ef the submarines n the raids bombarded military I lnstalla Uons at rort Blair ta'ihe And aman Islaada. hitting a aaall es eort ship and escaping andam ' aged afjer a " brisk dnel ' with shore batteries. '''','-,' American ' attacks by means other than submarines! build up an overall figure of ,2224 Japanese ships, including 609. Combatant vessels, sunk, probably j sunk or daniiged. . : - A breakdown shews; this en emy loss: by submarines com batant ships, 45 sunk; jit prob ably sank; 14 damaged, total C9. Non-combatant ships. 499 ' sank,' zt probably sank. 111 damaged, total C2t grand total :s. :-i--:yS: l: . :;k: Unofficial tabulation of damage for, all wiisescornbatant vessels, 2671 sunk; 30 probably Sunk; 312 damaged, total 609. Non-combatant 952 sunk; 83 probably sunk; SSO damaged, total J615. Grand total 2224. ! t i Canners Rap jUse Of AMA Grades ! WASHINGTON, - May v 2Jfy Spokesmen for the. National Can ners association told the house banking committee today that the proposed u s e of government ment grades by the OPA in fix ing prices for. the 1944 canned fruits and vegetable packs 'is "unlawfuL ; -u. ' .,' ! .- Protesting . against putting ag ricultural .marketing administra tion grades into effect as a yard stick for 1944 canned goods prices, H. T. Austern attorney for the National. Canners associ ation, said - the action . Would re sult in poor enforcement of price regulations and would 1 yield in equitable price ranges. right that the British empire in itscollective aspect should put it self solidly on the mad and make all the watching world realize it stands together, woven into one family " of : nations,', capable- of solving our .common problems in full loyalty to the supreme cause for: which we have drawn the sword - and which we! shall not cease to pursue untu complete victory Is won." " ' ; Prune Minister John Curtla ef Australia told the conference ef premiers that the "Australian people .. have . beesi delivered ; from a mortal periL ; - , ,This has been effected by the gallantry of the Australian . and American forces, the ability of the hih command, the aid of Britain and the United States, and the war effort of the Australian peo ple," he isii ,4 The world-wide nature of the war placed us in the sphere of . (Torn to Pass 2 Story X) : - I Hits Truk 3 Bays V - ; Planes Destrpy : 126 Japs; Drop 800 Bomb' Tons US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- " QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May 2-(P)-The destruction at Truk ; of 125 Japanese planes, over whelming of its defenses with 800 tons of bombs and the shel- lin; of. other Caroline hases during a three-day assault of aircraft carrier task forces was disclosed today by Adm. Chester W; Nimitx. . : ' The fleet dealt the destrae- ; tioBvWhfle returning from Its deep Pacific penetration te sup- ' pert Gem. Douglas Mac Arthur's Invasion ef Dutch New Guinea. Truk was swarmed upon Sat urday and Sunday: by . carrier planes. Nearby Satawan was ; hit by planes and shelled by cruisers Sunday. Ponape in the eastern Carolines was bombarded by bat tleships Monday.. Admiral Nimits reported the 1 blows were struck at light cost In American aircraft and with-' ea damage to a warship. : Carrier-borne planes threw the weight of their attack against 1 Truk itself Saturday and Sunday. 1 Carrier planes and battleships or cruisers bombed and sheued Ponape, 440 miles east of Jruk, and Satawan, less than 200 miles southeast of Truk. - The forces were aader eeea- - mamd of VImi Adm. MM A. Mitscher and were returning from operations off Dutch New Guinea, where they supported! the lavasiea at Holland iaprfl mm ......... m m .r- . . .: j.At y greana lorces aaaer com mand of Gen. Douglas A. Mae Arthur. . '' :i i Demonstrating' the wal- lpp packed, by PadXic.flejtltask' forces, - the carrier planes "smote Truk with 800 tons of bombs. Shore installations at that fortress, . once considered impregnable, were reported heavily "damaged. . In the first day's strike at Truk, on Saturday, 60 Japanese planes ' (Turn to Page 2Story F) Japs Continue China Advance CHUNGKING, May ;2JP) Further advances by a Japanese column striking westward in the gcMu uukuuu ox foe i-eipmg- i : a: . ? . 1 Hankow railroad from north An- hwei province, we re announced tonight by the Chinese high com mand which said Chinese forces Were beginning large-scale mo- - bile warfare" in Honan province east of the rail line. R ' - . The Chinese, - wha apparently are carrying out their, long-fa miliar tactics of trading space for time, seem to be striking the Jap anese flanks after melting away in traditional fashion before the main' enemy spearheads. " Although Japanese columns - had reached a point about 60 miles south of Chenghsien and narrowed the Chinese-held por tion" of the norm-south ; Peiping Hankow railroad to less than 120 miles. Chinese Quarters aDneared to be more concerned "over the possibility' of a Japanese slash westward along the Lunghai raQ- way toward Loyang. Yesterday the high command announced the loss of Hulao pass and expressed the belief the Japanese were aim ing at Loyang. ' Three other Japanese columns were moving down the Peiping Hankow ; railroad and Chinese warplanes sup porting ground troops engaged with the enemy attacked Japanese.! airfields in southern Shansi and northern Honan " province yesterday, - the communique said. i. ' Portland Boy Dies In Aurora Wreck When the car driven by his older brother crashed into the southeast vend of the highway bridge at Aurora early Tuesday morning, Harold Evans, Waymire, 17, Portland, was killed -almost instantly, investigating state po lice said. . : . - ' ; Wim hu brother,' Marvin Le Roy Waymire, the youth was re turning ; to 5 Portland, - where ha was employed In the- shipyards, following t vl::t to an vuncle, Lloyd Waymire, at Broaaacres. The driver said ' he had fallen, asleep st tie wheel. , ; ; , Toward Rail