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my 4th Dealer Arrested in Food Racket 500 Cases of Stock Co in) i ned All i ed Blow Called For by Stalin May Day Message Urges Peoples of Satellite States to Overthrow Rulers BY BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Correspondent LONDON, May 1 (Monday) Premier Josef Stalin in a May Day order of the day called for a combined Russian -American-British blow to crush Germany completely and advised the peoples and Finland to overthrow their ill t'- 41 1 I ill 1 II I' jr 1 3,000 Planes Blast Nazi Defenses Foe Offers Little Resistance to Raiders BV AUSTIN BEALME.YR Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, April 30 Probably 3,000 Allied planes including three American task forces of upwards of 1,000 heavy bombers and fighters poured explosives on German airdromes, coastal defenses and rail yards in Franca today, and Europe's radios blared forth indications that the gargantuan aerial offensive was rolling inexorably on into the night. It was the windup of a month in which about 100,000 tons of bombs were hurled on the Continent by Allied planes from Britain and Italy. Streams of planes thundered across the Channel throughout the day the sixteenth straight day of history's greatest sustained air assaults. Only one heavy bomber, one medium bomber and four fighters were lost in the operations, in contrast to the 63 bombers and 14 fighters which failed to return from yesterday's hammering of Berlin.

DAWN TO DUSK Formations believed to include heavy bombers were seen crossing the Channel this evening, indicating anti-invasion targets in France were being still The Budapest radio warned that air raiders were approaching the Hungarian capital. The Berlin radio announced it was going off the air "for technical reasons" for 10 hours, starting at 9 p. German time. This was one of the longest periods of silence it has ever announced. Three airfields in northern France and central France were bombed and shot up by Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustangs in a late afternoon attack.

Still other 4 k. ji.AjmA' A a ii Hiii i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii Associated Press WireDhoto the heroic hulk from whose deck John Paul Jones shouted his historic comeback to the British captain of the Serapis: "Struck? Hell, no, we've just begun to fight!" ABOUT TO BEGIN TO FIGHT The United States Navy's $60,000,000 aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard is shown as she hit the water Sunday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Trie vessel is the eighteenth of the Essex class. She was named after 'OH, GOSHT SAID THE MOTHER Siamese Twins, Blond Girls, Are Born in Pennsylvania of Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria governments and seek Allied He warned that the hardest'? fighting was yet to come as. the Germans fell back onto German soil.

"The wounded beast who has retired to its hiding place does not cease to be dangerous," Stalin said. "To rid our country and the countries allied with us of the danger of enslavement, we must pursue the wounded German beast, close on its heels, and finish it off in its own lair." This, he asserted, could be done only by combined blows by the Allied Big Three. The Fascist bloc is falling to pieces, Stalin said, and the Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Finnish "flunkies and underlings" must know Germany has lost the war. It is difficult to expect, Stalin said, that the satellite governments can break with the Germans. Hence, he urged, it is up to the peoples themselves.

And, he added, the sooner they make their decision the less destruction their countries will suffer and the more lenient attitude they will find among the Allies. Stalin paid generous tribute to the aid the United States and Great Britain had given Russia "assisting greatly our successes by holding a considerable part of German troops in Italy, supplying us with equipment and food and bombing German war industry." Now, he said, more than three-fourths of Russian soil has been freed but the Czechs and Poles and other western European peoples must be liberated. In connection with the liberating of Czecho-Slovakia, Soviet Vice Foreign Commissar A. Y. Vishin- Red Air Attacks Pave Way for New Drive.

See Page 3. sky announced to a Moscow press conference today that the Russian command would expect supreme authority in freed areas so long as they remained front areas, but added that a Czech plenipotentiary would be named to assist the Russian commander, Moscow radio said. As soon as the liberated zone ceases to be a front area, Vishin-sky continued, the entire administration will be taken over by Czechs with complete jurisdiction over Czech citizens. Nazis Trying to Spread Typhus, Russians State York Times Foreign Service MOSCOW, April 30 The Soviet Atrocity Commission reported today that the retreating Germans were trying to spread typhus epidemics among the civilian population and units of the Red Army in violation of the "Rules and methods of warfaje accepted by all civilized peoples." All the Moscow newspapers have published long reports of investigations conducted in three concentration camps near Ozarichi in Polesiya Province, White Russia, in which, it was stated, more than 33,000 persons were held. According to the report, those writh typhus were shifted from the camp to spread the disease.

Recovered in Market i'ore than 500 cases of rationed nr non-rationed foodstuffs which adl been smuggled out of the RaTfdolnh store of Sam's Cut Ka'ife. were found Sunday bv in the Garfield Market, John following the arrest of its operator, Toufic Barham, 36 years old, of 5703 P'ield. Barham was the fourth food dealer taken into custody as a result of an investigation of a 000 shortage in Sam's grocery stocks. John Milavec, 24, of the Tuller Hotel, manager of the grocery department, and Max Bock, 68, also of the Tuller, were lailed Friday. Tonv Block, owner lof a grocery at 3236 McGraw, 'was arrested on Saturday.

iiSTOCK IDENTIFIED A The processed foods found In the Garfield Market were identified as part of the missing stock Dy officials of Sam's. They esti mated its value at between $4,000 and $5,000. Barham, who formerly operated kthe Sheik Cafe at Lafayette and.j Randolph, was released after making a statement to Assistant Prosecutor George Beauchamp. He was under orders to appear for further questioning Monday morning, at which time, Beauchamp said, a warrant charging conspiracy to commit larceny probably will be recommended. Police paid that they had information that the raids on Sam's store were planned in the Sheik Cafe.

Barham had been named as a participant in the black market ung by Milavec. OIW CHECKS IT OPA investigators accompanied the police when they checked the stocks of the Garfield Market. They said that while there was evidence that ration regulations had been violated, the case in- volved so many her angles, in cluding possibilities of larceny, conspiracy and fraid, which could be prosecuted unler Michigan laws, that they wuld take no action. pending conferences with Prosecutor William E. Dowling's office.

The operations c' the black market gang came light when store detectives investigated Bock's purchases of kutter. BUTTER DEALS They reported that Bock, with Milavec's connivance, had been buying 100 to 250 pouids of but- i at a price of resold the butter on arket for $14.20 a Sarah Stoin a stnre mprfivp a f. aid that the cang operations ogan ia February and the dairy products books shewed a 1914" shortage of 10,000 po'mds of butter. She accused Milsvec of iverting soap and ketchjp to 1 he b.ack market in large quantities. Knox Funeral llo Be Today ft By he Tnltcd Pr WASHINGTON, April SO Tie nation and a Navy which he guil- ed to greatness will say fareweil tomorrow to Secretary of the I Navy Frank Knox when his bod I Is committed to a war hero's grav in nearby Arlington National Cera- fetery.

All the honors reserved for one who dies fighting for 10 dies fighting for his country 1 be accorded the seventy-year- old secretary, who succumbed sud denly, Friday to heart disease. At 2 p. the great and the vi 1 1 V. I. iiuiuuiK win muw tiirir jietius ill tribute as final services for Knox begin.

Soon afterwards, the casket will be placed upon a horse-drawn Army caisson and the funeral procession will wind slowly past the Lincoln Memorial and across the Potomac River to Arlington Cemetery. Fire Hurts 35 on Miami Boat By the Associated Tress MIAMI, April 30 Thirty-five persons were injured today in a flash fire that burst out on a sight-1 seeing boat just as it started to pull away from a city pier. Only 10 persons were reported seriously hurt. Most of the others Iwere treated for minor burns ar.d immersion shock. The boat, the Nikko one cf three which tour Biscayne Bav and Miami River, did not burn.

On Inside Paes ter each weel 1 $7.20. Bock I the black thpv cai. mercy OW I Hints at Invasion Tivo Ways Tells Europeans Not to Act Prematurely BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG Cnited Press Correspondent LONDON, April 30 Hinting that the impending great assault on Europe would be a two-way one, Robert E. Sherwood, of the Office of War Information, told the European people in a broadcast today that word of the invasion would be flashed to them by radio from both Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower in the west and Gen. Sir Henry Mait-land Wilson in the south. Until then, Sherwood said in opening the new American Broadcasting Station in Europe, "be cautious be discreet. Your gallant services will be needed for the hard fighting that must be done and for the recovery and reconstruction of your countries.

"Listen to the Allied radio for the word that will come from the supreme commanders Gen. Eisenhower in the West, Gen. Wilson in the South. Do not be tricked into premature action by Nazi lies or deception." Sherwood is director of the OWI overseas branch. (An Associated Press dispatch from Madrid said that after months of all-out efforts by German and Vichy military police to exterminate French patriot forces, the Nazis were forced to admit today that "a real army" of 100,000 well-disciplined men, led by former officers of the French Army, has been organized and has attacked openly German garrisons in the mountains and descended into the lowlands to cut communications lines.

(An article in Das Reich, mouthpiece of German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, made this acknowledgement, and said German troops had discovered arms, tanks, seventy five millimeter cannon and "even planes," belonging to the former French Army. Equipment had been found hidden in caves and on farms or buried in the ground.) Noncegian Princess Bears a Daughter STOCKHOLM, April SO (AP) A daughter was born last night to Princess Ingrid, of Denmark, the wife of Crown Prince Frederick. The royal couple's first child, also a daughter, was born April 16, 1940. Princess Ingrid was a princess of Sweden before her marriage. off the western tip of France.

One of the Nazi ships fled. A few survivors of the Atha baskan were picked up by the Haida, which itself had suffered no casualties, the Admiralty said. The Berlin raidio said 85 Canadians were picked up alive by the Germans. The Admiralty also announced details of "a successful attack" by naval aircraft on a German convoy off Bodo in northern Norway Wednesday. Despite a heavy snowstorm, the carrier planes hit all four German supply vessels in the convoy and threa of them were left afire, the largest running aground, the Admiralty said.

At the same time, other naval aircraft penetrated Bodo harbor and struck a large supply ship with bombs, leaving it afire amidships. Five naval aircraft were lost, the communique said. The Athabaskan was commissioned about a year ego. Her skipper, Lt. Comm.

J. J. Stubbs, RCN, DSO, previously had been decorated as commander of the destroyer Assiniboine, which rammed and sank a U-boat, killing its commander and capturing the crew. Ladies an1 M'ri WAYNE BATH HOlE Foot ol Second. 614- -AUt.

Senate Reaclv for Action on Reconversion Will Consider Bill to Regulate Changeover BY RADFORD E. MOBLEY k'r Prr Wnfiinxtnn KnrfiiB Nittiunal I'res Building WASHINGTON, April 30 An effort to enact war contract termination aws will be begun this week by both houses of Congress. Upon the outcome may depend whether private industry can be shifted smoothly to postwar civilian production. Pending legislation is designed to prevent tieing up capital and to permit clearing floor space for other activity at the earliest moment. The Senate plans to take up this week the George-Murray Bill which would set up a director of contract settlements, to be confirmed by the Senate, and who would have adequate powers to clear financial decks for prime contractors and their sub-contracting units to begin their new-tasks quickly when war production falls off.

PASSAGE IS PREDICTED This measure, approved by the Senate Post War Committee some weeks ago and last week given unanimous approval by the Senate Military Affairs Committee, will be brought up for action, and leaders predict that it will be passed and sent to the House within a few days. In the House there are three conflicting bills, but week-end informal conferences were expected to bring agreement on a meas ure which is close enough to the Senate measure to permit conference agreement. WARREN AN ISSUE jSenate virtan excJude, Lroler General Lindsey C. War- 'en from taking any part in war settlements but the three House tils range from giving him full control as written in the measure by Chairman Andrew May of the House Military Affairs Committee, to the measure under draft by the Colmer House Postwar Com-" which will closely follow the Senate bill. In the middle is the Vinson bill which gives Warren vague powers to participate to the "extent he believes necessary." Unier the George-Murray bill.

Comptroller General Warren would be left only with the post-audit powers which he already has under existing law. If Warren were given powers to audit while contracts were being settled, years might elapse before final payment, supporters of the Senate bill insist. Sea-Air Blow Hits Base West of Hollanclia Jap Islands Swept by Allied Raiders By the Associated Press The center of gravity of the air and sea war clearing the way for land adVARces toward the Philippines moved sharply westward as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Monday communique reported heavy strikes against the Schouten and Wake Islands, northwest of captured Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Late Saturday night, five and six-inch guns of Allied warships pounded Installations at Wake with 75 tons of high explosives and armor-piercing shells, shortly after heavy and medium bombers had poured 51 tons of bombs on coastal positions in that area, about 120 miles from Hollandia.

Coastal guns were silenced. Japanese buildings were shattered and large fires were ignited throughout the area. Twelve enemy planes rose to fight Allied planes attacking Schouten which received its first allied attack in many months and three of the enemy craft were downed. Fifteen parked planes on the ground were destroyed. The Schouten Islands lie in the wide mouth of Geelvink Bay of Dutch New Guinea.

They support reportedly strong Japanese forces Sorong, on Northwest Dutch New Guinea, also was attacked Heavy bombers which hit at its Jefman airdrome probably shot down one enemy interceptor and damaged three aground. PT boats operating off the Wewak-IIansa Bay area on the eastern end of the huge island sank seven Japanese barges, resulting in the deaths of 100 of the enemy. Medium bombers and fighters swept over the Dutch East Indies to attack Dilli township on Timor Island, destroying buildings and starting fires, the communique announced. Adm. Chester W.

Nimitz maintained his part of the aerial war, reporting Sunday that 41 tons' of bombs fell on Truk Atoll Friday. Enemy planes in the air during the attack did not offer battle. Nimitz forces also attacked Ponape Island's airfields on the same day. Ponape guards the eastern approaches to once-awesome Truk. Stettinius Goes to N.

Africa By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 30 Edward R. Stettinius, Under-Secretary of state, is now in North Africa conferring with V. Averell Harriman, ambassador to Russia, and Robert Murphy, American political adviser on the staff of the Allied commander in the Mediterranean. Stettinius is on his way home from London where he has discussed a long list of war and post war problems with the British Government. His arrival in North Africa and meeting with Murphy and Harriman were announced here by the State Department.

The Depart ment did not disclose what subjects he planned to take up with the two ambassadors. Mix BLACK VELVET Brewed Porter with Koppiti Victory Beer you then bare Hall 'n' Hall! Adv. can be separated; if one dies, the other could not survive more than a few hours. He added that the twins have a single alimentary tract and that their inner legs are joined together, terminating ina jingle foot with only one toe The" outer legs are perfectly formed. Mrs.

Stierly, who also is the mother of a two-year-old daughter, could say nothing but, "Oh gosh!" when informed that twins had been born. Doctors said they could recall no previous birth of Siamese twins so called because of the joined Siamese once exhibited by P. T. Barnum in Pennsylvania. on Brakes State Today hazard.

Owners of such vehicles face the possibility of having their cars impounded until repairs are made. They may also be given a ticket or charged with reckless driving. HIT-RUN VICTIM Just previous to the opening of the campaign, police Sunday were holding Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sulki, of 2030 Caniff, in connection with a hit-run accident suffered by Pvt.

J. Fisher, of the Canadian Army, who was struck by an automobile as ne stood in a safety zone at Joseph campau and E. Jefferson Fisher received severe head and internal injuries. Police held the Sulkis after Joseph Pybicky, of 1790 Fenelon. had said that he had chased them from the scene of the accident and caught them when their automobile rammed a parked truck.

The couple denied responsibility for Pvt. Fisher's injuries. TWO BOYS INJURED Victims of another traffic acci dent, in which a DSR bus knocked over a utility pole at McClellan and E. Vernor in avoiding a collision with an automobile, were Herbert Johnson, 15 years old, of 1621 Pennsylvania, and Frank Morns, 16, of 18061 Annott. The boys, who were standing at the intersection when the accident occurred, suffered serious head wounds when hit by the falling pole.

Eight passengers on the bus were given first-aid treatment for bruises. The operator of the bus, Andre Nichols, 29, of 796 Tennessee, and the driver of the car believed responsible for the accident, Nick Dubniak, 34, of 3292 E. Lafayette, both were uninjured. thousand acres of land were under water in St. Charles County.

In Washington, Chairman Clarence Cannon, Missouri Democrat, of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that he will introduce a $10,000,000 flood relief bill tomorrow. The fund, which would not be limited to any specific territory, would be administered by the Farm Security Administration. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First Federal Savings, Gnswold at Lafajette Aai. NtTT RKBirLT MOTORS Seal Protected, ew Car Guarantee Sir, PHOENIXVILLE, April CO (AP) Siamese twins, described by a nurse as "cute little blond girls," were born today at Phoenixville Hospital. Dr.

J. Elmer Gotwals, chief of staff at the hospital, said the mother was Mrs. Mary Stierly, 21 years old, of Audubon, whose husband w-as killed two months ago in a motorcycle accident. Dr. Gotwals said the twins weighed 12 pounds and were joined at the pelvis, although they were perfectly and separately formed from the waist up.

They never will walk, the physician said, and they never Spot-Checks Launched in Three traffic victims in Receiv ing Hospital with serious injuries suffered in traffic accidents Sunday gave added impetus to police plans for a citywide series of spot-checks on motorists who are endangering lives by driving with faulty brakes and antiquated equipment. The better-brake campaign, which began at midnight Sunday, is part of a statewide attempt to locate cars In such disrepair as to constitute a serious Score Seized in 'Wolf Hunt By the Associated Press SEATTLE, April 30 More than a score of persons were arrested in King County last night in a followup of the drive against juvenile delinquency which last week resulted in the disclosure of "wolf pack" gangs of youths, banded together to drink and carouse with 'teen-age girls. More than 30 deputy sheriffs centered their efforts in the Ren-ton area last night, Sheriff Harlan S. Callahan announced, arresting 22 persons, many of whom were charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors, or with illegal possession of liquor. The deputies, under the leadership of Sheriff's Capt.

Jack Best, watched highways and combed resorts, where youngsters were known to gather. fertile farmland. Army troops were battling to save the Choteau-Namoeki-Bennett levee protecting another 5,000 acres. Army engineers said the next danger spot was several communities on the Illinois side of the river across from Cape Girardeau, Mo. The river crested 39.1 feet at St.

Louis today, only 2.3 feet below the all-time record set in June 1844. The Missouri River broke through levees in St. Charles County and flowed across farms to join the Mississippi 25 miles below its usual confluence. Fifty Yanks Leave Card on Goering's Desk LONDON, April 30 (AP) Reichmarshal Hermann Goering's new Air Ministry building, in the heart of Berlin, received direct hits in jesterdaj's American raid, leaving the south wing burning fiercely, the United States Air Force announced today. Photographs made by bombardiers showed direct hits scored on other government buildings in the same area.

Thunderbolt fighter-bombers returned to northern France at dusk to bomb rail yards in the Arras-Cambrai area without loss. Added today to yesterday's toll of 8S German planes wrecked in air combat, were 25 more German fighters, plus a number of others destroyed on the ground. Every type of daylight raider participated in today's dawn-to-dusk onslaught, some of them going out two or three times. Lt, Gen. James H.

Doolittle disclosed in a speech broadcast tr America that the Eighth Air Force aroppea over tons of bombs during April, the greatest month of operations in aerial warfare history, and had destroyed more than 1,300 German planes in the air and on the ground. This, he said, was substantially more than the Nazi rate of production. Doolittle said that the month's assaults cost 359 bombers and 144 fighters. (An unofficial check of communique reports for April indicated that Doolittie combined figures of both his own Eighth (Strategics Air Force and the Ninth (Tacti. cal) Air Force, which furnishes part of the fighter escort for nearly every one of his raids.) RAF SCORES AGAIN Sunday's widespread daylight operations followed a night in which the RAF sent its British-based Lancasters apparently in a small, streamlined force in attacks on.

an explosive works near Bordeaux, and aircraft factory at Clermont-Ferrand and other targets in France and Western Germany without a loss. Germany's bomb battered aic fleet, staggering under a good portion of the more than 75,000 tons of bombs hurled into Europe in, the past 16 days, managed to hit back at parts of Southwest Eng land last night with what the Air Ministry termed a "small number of aircraft," three of which the British announcement claim pit were destroyed. Some damage and a small number of casualties resulted, it w-as said. SHIPS NAZI TARGETS A German communiaue said "Allied shipping concentrations oft the British southwest coast" where Berlin has reported a gigan tic invasion armaaa in formation and Plymouth were the night targets. Germany's only hone for a res pite from the rain of death and destruction appeared to lie in an unseasonal stretch of bad weather.

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New Canadian Destroyer Is Lost in Channel Battle RIVER REACHES RECORD LEVEL Mississippi Flood Perils Wide A rea By the Associated Press LONDON, April 30 The Canadian destroyer Athabaskan was sunk by a torpedo in a naval battle in the English Channel Saturday morning in which a German destroyer was set afire and driven ashore on the French coast, the Admiralty announced today. Determined that the German ship should r.ot be salvaged, Royal Canadian Air Force and Typhoon bombers shortly afterward scored several hits on her as German trawlers pulled her off the beach under an ineffective smoke screen. The fliers said the Germans then apparently abandoned the salvage attempt. The Athabaskan was credited only Wednesday with a major share in sinking another German destroyer in a night fight off France between a Nazi flotilla and a British force consisting of the British cruiser Black Prince and destroyer Ashanti and the Cana dian destroyers Athabaskan, Haida and Huron. Saturday morning the Athabaskan and Haida, both new ton Tribal class destroyers, were again on a pre-invasion sweep when they met two German destroyers of the Elbing class near Amusements 6 Bin cay 4 Chi Ids IS Classified 14-16 Crossword 17 Dr.

Crane 9 By the Tnited Press ST. LOUIS, April 30 The Mississippi River, at the highest flood stage in. 100 years, lapped at crumbling levees for 195 miles to Cairo, 111., today threatening momentarily to break through and cover millictis of acres of spring crops. 1 Army engineers and the Red Cross eva.faated thousands of from the river's lowlands. The river broke through the C-1'eau Island levee to inundate .400 of land, 20 miles below E.

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