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Evening star., 1944-04-21
&C, 900 Jops Open Honon Drive
For Railroad and Rich Crops
10000, 900 Fuce Fomine If Wheat Is Lost;
Monchuron Troops Reported in Campaign

One column striking from Chung
NOV, on the Lunghai to the east
reached village eight miles south
east of Chenghsien, and two others
crossed the railway about 200 miles
south of Chenghsien.
Mass on Yellow River.
Meanwhile about 10000 japanese
who had massed An bridgehead on
the south side of the Yellow River
struck southwark and were within
six miles of the Lunghai Railway.
Aside from seizure of communica-
tions, the japanese were believed
bent on securing the rich wheat
crop now ripening in Honan.
This crop is the hope of millions
of Chinese, who in 1943 suffered the
ravages Of one OF the worst famines
in China's long famine history and
who subsequently we're afflicted by
plaques of locusts and floods.
1888 Strategy Recalled.
Chungmow is just east Of where
the Chinese in 1888 dynamited the
Yellow River dykes, diverted the
river on a southwark course and
checked the Japanese advance.
Chenghsien was once the center
of thriving population of 10000
and is in the heart of the Yellow
River loess belt-the friable yellow
soil in which both sides have cut
deep trench systems. Since 1941 the
defenders and invaders have been
facing one another as close as 40
yards.
The Chinese also have dug extern
sive tank traps across the fields.
The spokesman said the present
fighting was the most serious since
the Japanese were beaten back In
the battle of Changteh last year in
the drive on Changsha south of the
Yangtze.
Evening star., 1944-04-21
Stimson, Knox, Land Rebuffed
In PIeo for Labor Draft Law
Moy Soys House Committee Stands By Its
Decision That Existing Legislation Is Adequate

faces a manpower crisis that may
imperil the mightiest military
undertaking In history, Secretary OF
The Navy Knox, Secretary Of War
Stimson and Maritime Commission
Chairman Emory s. Land declared
that 1880 900 more men viii be
taken into the armed services this
Iyear--most Of them drawn from
vital industries" which not only
must find replacements, but in some
instances win have to step up pro-
duction.
Some one must step up to the
bench, the lathe and desk Of every
war worker who leaves to fight fol
his country" they said, adding that
false public interpretations Of what
are only local victories on the peri
meter Of the enemies stronghold
may indeed imperil victory when we
thrust at the foes heart"
The Military Affairs Committee
opposition has kept the proposed
fSee MANpCWER. pane A-16,l.
Evening star., 1944-04-21
kozis Report Reds in Italy

LONDON, April 81 CP).-The Ger
man-controlled Vichy radio said to-
day detachment of Soviet troops
had arrived in Southern Italy to
fight against Italian Fascist forces.
There was no confirmation of the
report from Allied sources.
Evening star., 1944-04-21
Turkey Cuts Off Chrome
Shipments 10 Reich TODAY
BY the Associated Press. a

BY the Associated Press. o
ANKARA, April 20 Delayed -
Turkish chrome shipments to Ger
many and her allies will be halted at
7 pm. tomorrow In response to AL
lied requests.
Foreign Minister human Meme
mencioglu announced the govern
ment's decision to the National AS
sembly today, explaining the action
was being taken in the light of Tur-
keys position as an ally of Britain
He said formal requests that the
chrome shipments be halted were
received April IA from the British
and American governments. The
notes, he added, said that Turkey
henceforth would be treated as 8
neutral rather than an ally if she
failed to comply.
Menemencioglu emphasized tha,
the Turkish government does not re.
gard Turkey as neutral.
Dispatches from London said il
was estimated there that Turkeys
action would deprive Germany of al
least half of her supplies of chrome
essential in the hardening for armol
Iplate and other war goods
Evening star., 1944-04-21
German Attacks
Repulsed Near
Estonian Border
Reds Also HurI Back
Counteroffensive at
Foot Of Corpothions
BY the Associated Press.

| by Tie ASSUClaLeQ fTeSS.
MOSCOW, April 21.-Powerful
German tank and infantry at
tacks have been beaten back by
the Red Army near the Estonian
border town of Narva and at the
foot of the Carpathians, more
than 800 miles to the south, a
Soviet communique announced
today.
The German blows on the Baltic
front. which had been quiet for six
weeks, were directed against the
Russian bridgehead on the west
bank of the Narova River southwest
Iof Narva and were preceded by a
heavy artillery barrage, the an
nouncement declared.
"The Hitlerites appeared to hope
to smash our defenses in one blow.
but they miscalculated," the bulletin
said. More than 1000 Germans
were officially reported left dead on
the battlefield and many more slain
in repeated attacks.
Reds Hurl Back Attacks.
The German Hungarian counter
offensive at the foot OF the Car
lpathians, first announced by the Rus
lsians two days ago, spread yester-
tday from the east of Stanislawow
Ito the south, where the Red Army
was credited with hurting back furi-
|ous attacks.
1 At least 1900 Axis troops were
killed, the communique said, but the
Germans continued to exert "relent-
Hess pressure on our positions from
two sides" and violent engage
ments went on throughout the day"
Grim battles were reported con-
tinuing in full swing at the out
skirts OF besieged Sevastopol, mean
while, and front dispatches said
thousands Of Germans and Ro-
|manians drowned In the Black Sea
as Soviet bombers and torpedo
planes kept up hourly attacks
against conveys seeking to reach
Romanian ports.
The Russians said bombers at
tackled two conveys Monday night,
sinking 3,000-ton transport and
another Of 1000 tons, and on the
following day swooped on two more
conveys. sinking a 5,O00-ton trans
port and numerous smaller ships
and barges. Axis troops jamming
the Sevastopol docks were being
pounded by Russian artillery COM
manding nearby heights, the dis
patches added.
U. s. and British Planes Used.
A dispatch from Associated Press
Correspondent Henry G. Cassidy in
Odessa quoted Rear Admiral Sergei
Federovich Beluzov, commandant at
that base, as saying that American
and British equipment, particularly
planes, was being used by the Black
Sea fleet.
In the present phase of the battle
for Sevastopol, the admiral declared
the Red feet has ships of all
classes" at its disposal while the
Germans possess nothing larger
than destroyer.
Southeast of Tarnopol in the
Western Ukraine minor battles of
local Importance were reported yes
terday, with the Russians capturing
several villages, taking prisoners and
destroying about a battalion of Ger
man infantry.
The Soviet air force carried out
attacks against railroad functions
in Latvia and a peat factory in
EStonia. the commlIninlle said
Evening star., 1944-04-21
Cardinal O'ConnelI
Rests Comfortably
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 21.-William
Cardinal O'Connell, dean of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in Amer
lea, was reported as resting COM
fortably" late last night, continuing
to hold his own against an attack
Of bronchial pneumonia.
Evening star., 1944-04-21
Patton in European Area

LONDON, April 81 tP).-Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton, jr., who COM
manded the American 7th Army in
Sicily, has arrived in the European
theater OF operations for duty,
III was announced officiaIy today.
Evening star., 1944-04-21


accused persons of their con-
stitutional rights.
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher
refused in District Court today
to revoke his previous order for
feiting the 81 900 bond of Edward
James Smythe, one of the 80 per-
sons on trial in the Nation wide
sedition case.
The ruling was announced after
Justice Eicher pounded furiously
with his gavel in warning to
Smythe's attorney, James j. Laugh
lin, who had charged: 1.-The court
has shut me off at every turn"
Banging on the bench, Justice
Eicher exclaimed sternly: MIR.
Laughlin!"
Smythe, arrested by FBI agents
at Ausable Chasm, N. Y, Tuesday
after he failed to appear for the
opening of the trial Monday, has
been held in lieu of $4,000 bond
since his return to Washington
Wednesday. Smythe contended he
was mistaken in the date of the
trial, while the Government charged
that he was g fugitive from justice.
Bondsman Testifies.
William j. ONeill, bondsman, who
executed the $1,000 bond, and his
|agent, Joseph P. Goldsmith, testi-
fled they made futile efforts to reach
Smythe in New York City by tele-
|phone and telegraph when a search
for the defendant was under way
and finally were informed the FBI
had picked him up.
Mr.. Goldsmith admitted under
questioning by Mr.. Laughlin that
Smythe had called the bondsman's
office several times before the trial
The witness said Smythe once asked
for Mr.. O'Neill's home address, say
ing he wanted to send $50. Mr.
Goldsmith said he told Smythe he
didn't owe them anything and all
they watned was for him to appear
when the trial was held.
Hearing on the Smythe motion
started Wednesday, was completed
during adjournment of the triaI
from last night until Monday.
The weekend recess did not find
a juror seated even tentatively, al
though many were questioned after
selection Of jury started yester-
day.
Smythe, called back to the stanc
today, denied statements OF an
(See SEDITION, Page A-zJ
Evening star., 1944-04-21
5lnylhe Loses Fight
On Bond Forfeiture;
Counsel Is Warned
LouehIin Charges court
Rebuffs Him at Every Turr
In Sedition TriuI
BULLETIN.

Defense Counsel James J.
Laughlin filed in the Court Of
Appeals this afternoon a Pc
tition for a writ OF mandamus
directing Chief Justice Edward
G. Eicher to show cause why
the sedition trial should not
be halted until the appellate
tribunal determines whether
the constitutional rights of
the 80 defendants are being
protected. He charged Justice
Eicher with depriving the
accused persons of their con-
stitutional rights.
Evening star., 1944-04-21
100 RAF Planes Blast Cologne
And ; French and Belgian Rail
Cities With 4 >48O Tons Of Bombs
Is Bombers Lost;
Attack Follows Up
Big Fortress Ruid
BULLETIN.

LONDON R).-The RAF
dropped the heaviest bomb
load of the war-more than
5,040 tons-in it's raid on four
Nazi rail centers last night,
the Air Ministry announced
today.
Evening star., 1944-04-21

Fair with low near so tonight. To-
morrow occasional showers warmer.
Temperatures today--Highest,. 66, at
1:30 pm: lowest, 49, at 4:50 am. Yes
terday-Highest, SO, at 2:42 pm; low
est, 40, at 6:l0 am.
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CLIO Lost First Vote

The labor bargaining election,
announced on July l and whose
postponement was officially re-
vealed today by NLRB officials,
would have been the second held
at the yard in the past II months.
Two organizations sought to be
certified as bargaining agents Of
the shipbuilders. They are the
Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers of America,
CLIO, and the United Shipbuilders
Of America, Inc, an unaffiiated
labor union.
In the first election, conducted
last September and 4, the en-
ployes voted overwhelmingly in
favor Of mo union" with the fol-
lowing official results: No Union,
6,628; CLIO, 4,047; American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, 457; unaffiliated
union, 88. A total of 1870 valid
ballots were cast.
The first vote was conducted
under the direction of Bernard ].
Self, of Baltimore, Field Exami-
ner OF the Fifth region of the
NLRB, who said cit was a splen-
did election without any untoward
incident" He added that all par
ties to the election and the ship
building company cooperated
splendidIy.
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MANY TARGETS
SUFFER BLOWS

Continued from Page One)
ties and dropped hundreds of tons
of bombs on German communica.
tons, railways and bridges behind
the front.
The Germans. sending up heavier
air opposition than recently, lost
II planes. Four Allied planes fail
ed to return. The heaviest air
fighting was near Etampes, where
10 Canadian Spitfires shot down
seven Germans.
The operations included destruc'
ton Of a four-span rail bridge III
miles north of Lemans, bombing
of rail bridges at Souvigne and La
val and strafing Of ammunition
and fuel dumps in the Dandiene
and Arras areas.
The devastating assault on Kiel
marked the first time since the
invasion of France that any great
industrial area of Germany hac
been the target for a major RAJ
night attack, although precision
raids had been made on Ruhr val
ley synthetic oil plants.
Throughout the day the Germans
hurled more of the robot bombs
at southern England, including the
] London area.
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FIFTEEN MEN KILLED
OFF STATE COAST
CONTINUED from Page One)

Mother. Mrs. LAWN B. Drew,
Goodwater, ala.
It. Chris C. Nicorvo; father,
Christ Nicorvo, South Amboy, N
J.
Second 1t. Walter H. Zuidema;
father, Egbert C. Zuidema, Wal
nut Grove, MINI.
Second 1t. Donald W. Copeland;
father, Fay7e II. Copeland, Coun'
Gil Bluffs, Iowa.
Second 1t. Cakes M. Colwell
wife, Mrs. Phyllis A. Colwell,
Southern Pines, N. c.
Second 1t. Milton J. Verburg
father, David G. Verburg, 26 East
18th St., Holland, Mich.
Sgt. Ben L. Dean; father, Joe
B. Dean, 6O2 Elizabeth ST., Corpus
Christi, Tex.
Sgt. Frank E. Sherwood; father,
Percy G. Sherwood, 9 Collins Lane
West Hampstead, N. Y.
Sgt. Leo G. Fair; mother, Mrs.
Mite Fair, General Delivery, Ash.
land, La.
Corp. Roger O. Weston; wife
Hrs. Barbara F. Weston, 48 Fiske
Ave, Lynn, Mass.
Staff Sgt. Fred ]. Carini; moth.
or, Mrs. Bruna Cari.li, 307 9Th
St.. Carnegie, Pa.
Sgt. Edward G. Hillman; wife
Mrs. Virginia A. Hillman, 1912
Peach St., Erie Pa.
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TRUMAN MEETS
BUDDlES OF 1918
Continued from Page One)

at his office and tonight he and
his family met home town friends
at their rambling cid house in
nearby independence, where Tru-
man has lived most Of his life,
first as a farmer, then a rising
politician and democratic national
leader.
I'm quitting a tremendously inn
rortaat job, chairman of the SEN
ate committee investigating war
production, to do another even
more important Truman told re-
porters today. IVY job now is to
nelp bring the war to a close as
quickly as possible by keeping the
democratic party in power"
He said he would resign the COM
nittee chairma:lship as soon as he
returned to Washington, shortly
after Missouri's primary.
'tAs soon as 1 get back to Wash
ington, I'll be ready to campaign
whenever and wherever the Presi-
dent wants me to-" Truman said.
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VETERAN COLONEL,
NAMED TO AA POST

CAMP DAVIS, July PA veter.
an of the African and Italian cam.
palgns, 1t. Col. Joseph H. Church
has been named as So for the Anti
aircraft Artillery School.
Colonel Church was assistant
chief OF the patent branch of the
Ordnance Department in civilian
life. and was placed on active duty
with the Coast Artillery Corps in
October, 1941.
A graduate of Kansas State and
George Washington University
with degrees in engineering and
law, Colonel Church holds several
patents for inventions on antiair-
craft artillery equipment. He is al
so member of the United States
Supreme court bar and has made
his home in Washington, D. c.
since 1929.
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Leaf Holiday Threatened
If Ceiling Not Increased

crease in the retail price of cigar
ettes," he said.
johnson is OPA director in 81
Eastern North Carolina counties
which produce approximately 20O,-
900, 900 pounds of cigarette tobacco
annually.
In support of OPA's price imi-
tations, johnson pointed out that
the 43 IL cents-a-pound ceiling re-
fleets price 134.3 per cent of the
June IS party figure for flue cured
tobacco. The average price of all
flue-cured leaf for the 1O-year peri
cd 1922 was 21.76 cents, ne said,
or 81 per cent lower than the 1914
as ceiling.
For the period 1938-42, Georgia
growers received an average of
1914 cents lower than the 80 cent
ceiling on United leaf which consti-
tutes practically the entire Georgia
CROP" he said.
The new ceiling represents an
increase of one cent for United
leaf and two and half cents for
lied leaf, he said, adding that the
tlue-cured industry advisory COM
mittee and other industry repre-
sentatives were unanimous in ask
-ng for the IL cents differential
between tied and united leaf.
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CONTINUED from Page One)

had increased 100 per cent in cos
gnce last year, and if the two cea1
increase was not granted, farmers
would actually receive less per
round than they did last year in
spite of higher production costs.
They argued that although Bur
ley and Maryland tobaccos are
cheaper to produce than flue cured
leaf, and historically those types
trail flue cured in price, Burley
last year received an average price
of As IL cents, and OPA this year
mas fixed a 81 cent maximum on
Maryland leaf.
ut is but little short of an in
suit to the intelligence of the farm
ers Of this nation" said brief
presented by the tobaccomen, in
the face OF the pledge of the party
platform at Chicago last week to
keep prices on farm products at a
level which would insure the farm
er an equal hourly wage with the
industrial worker and then. before
the ink got dry on this promise, to
announce a ceiling on very i'm
portant product OF the farmer at
a level that would not give him SO
per cent of the hourly wage of the
average industrial worker which is
che dollar and three mills per
hour.
"Unless the pledge is recongized
in fixing prices on tobacco as well
rs all other farm products. The
farmers will have to know that
this pledge was made in spirit
Of gross insince1ity."
The tobacco men criticized the
CPA for delaying announcement of
the ceilings until the eve of the
opening the markets in the Geor-
Florida belt. Earlier announce
rnent as requested in March, they
contended, would have prevented
such drastic action as delaying the
market openings.
H. L. Wingate of the Georgia
Farm Bureau, told the government
officials the markets would not
open until the ceilings was raised
two cents, and Rep. Cooley D-NC)
predicted the later belts would take
similar action.
During the discussion, Ragland
commented that manufactured to-
bacco was included in the weight
ed cost Of living index of the Labor
Department, and that any increase
in the cost of such products would
be reflected in that index and "set
off other disturbances"
The tobacco men argued that a
pound of tobacco would make II
packages Of cigarettes and a two
cent increase in tobacco prices
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LIEUT.. ROCKER
GIVEN CITATION

Lieut.. R. M. Rocker, whose Wit.
is the former Miss Marion pao.
Wilmington, has been cited Nv, =,
Secretary of the Navy for cow,
geous conduct in effecting The -,
cue of men caught in an undaron.
rent off Hollywood Beach c.r.
last January, according to reno,..
received here yesterday
The citation reads:
For courageous conduct wb,
serving as Personnel Officer , u,
Receiving Barracks, U. S v.r.,
Advance Base Depot. Port Ho al
eme, California, in effecting W.
rescue of men who had been spon.
out to sea by the strong undercn.
rent off Hollywood Beach I.~
airy %, 1914. Arriving al the eco ,'"
Immediately after the accidon,
Lieutenant, Junior Grade Rool..
unhesitatingly entered The tre.ob
erous water and, after one prsra
cessful attempt to reach IN.
struggling men, returned 10 sbor.
organized bystanders INTO b.n5
to-hand chain and, using A rono
succeeded in bringing one NM.
who was in a drowning condition
and helping another to shore An
ed by an officer, he again battlsd
his way against the strong undpr
tow toward an enlisted man wbo
had been sighted floating faco
down in the water about 40 ward,
off shore. Finally reaching him
Lieutenant, Junior Grade. Rookie
heroically made his way back IA
the beach with his helpless conn.,
rade. His iniative, bravery and nm
firing efforts were in keenm,
with the highest traditions Of tbs
United States Naval Service"
Isl James Forresta1
Secretary of the Navy
1t. Rocker and Mrs, Rocker a.,
now at Cambridge, Mass. vhpra
1t, Rocker is in training AT How
ard University.
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FOE HURLED BACK
ON NEW GUINEA
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the Carolines. Two Of eight inter-
ceptin genemy planes were destroy
ed at zap.
Other bombers sank two supply
luggers off western Vogelkop, the
peninsula on the extreme western
tip of Dutch New Guinea.
Striking in a column of compan-
les Saturday morning, the Japa-
nese drove straight into American
lines along the 16O-yard wide two
feet-deep Driniumor river.
American 75mm. and 1O5mm. ar.
tillery weapons broke the attack,
and seasoned Yank jungle fighters
closed in from both sides of the
narrow attacking front.
Almost simultaneously, another
Japanese force struck in the same
manner along the southern flank,
but met the same fate when artil.
lerymen started finding their range
At midnight the Japanese launch.
ed another attack in the same area.
1t continued until mid-morning
Sunday.
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|NLRB P0STP0NES
YARD ELECTION

BALTIMORE, July 24-lR-The
election for employees of the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company
which the National Labor Rela-
lions Board had ordered held by
July 20 has been indefinitely post
poned, William Ross Madden, Re-
gional Director, disclosed today.
Madden said that the election
was postponed pending investiga-
ton of charges of unfair labor
practices filed in Washington by
the CLIO Shipbuilders union.
In Washington, the board said
the action was on the advice of
Regional Director Madden Of
Baltimore, that an "election may
not be appropriately held at this
time.
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Nazis Hold Iron
Hand Over Reich
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was quiet with SIS and Nazi-offi-
cered units in control, but h e
Germans acknowledged that h e
war effort had begged down.
A lag in recruiting and supply
was acknowledged by the Nazi
newspaper, Voelkischer Reoba CHI
ter, but it was blamed on tn e
'Hindering and sabotagiag"- of the
revolving generals. E1is ac-
count said the appointment Of
Himmler to head the home army
would remedy the situation.
DNB declared the attempted as
nssination had increased the will
of the German people to resist.
The agency released the first ex-
preston of happiness over Hitler's
escape to come from a field COM
mander on the Eastern front.
1t C m e from Field Marshal
Rendulic Of mountaineer army
in northern Finland, who sent as
surances Of 'unbroken faithful
ness" and greetings with fanati-
cal admiration.
The Algiers radio said the anti
Hitler revolt" was particularly
strong in German towns pounded
by Allied air forces, but Zurich
reported claims of street fighting
in southern Germany were with
out foundation.
Berlin denied a curfew had been
established there. A Spanish cor
respondnet's dispatch from the
capital said he saw little sign of
revolt, and that SIS military &C.
cupation of the heart of Berlin
was complete.
Advices to the Associated Press
in Madrid said hundreds, per
haps thousands of regular army
officers of the old Prussian school
fell before SIS firing squads
throughout Germany even before
they could be reached by the or
ders of revolving generals which
they would have obeyed.
Hitler appeared to be trading
staff college training for sheer
ruthless loyalty in France in a
desperate effort to keep his army
in line.
The latest such replacement to
appear is Gen. Joseph Dietrich,
identified by Allied Supreme Head
quarters as Hitler Himmler
stooge and Russian designated
Kharkov war criminal, who COM
mands an SIS Panzer Corps.
He is under the new Normandy
commander, Field Marshal Gen.
Guenther Won Kluge, who though
junker by birth and an officer
by training is bound to Hitler if
for no other reason than h G
Russian order which lists him as
war criminal No. / for Nazi crimes
at Kharkov.
Won Kluge appointed Gen. Paul
Hausser to the command of the
seventh army on the Normandy
front, the first SIS man ever to be
entrusted with an army, accord
ing to reliable information reach
ing London.