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NO 35 DAILY EntnwI wond-elm. mtt, J-lV. Ot X7ilJLiJl ClndnnaU. Ohio. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1944 114 Pages 7 Sections TWELVE CENTS 1 UUJ PLANES HIT NAZI GETS (DIN if FMl TAR 4M00 IN CHURCH CONTROVERSY FORMER WAR PRISONERS STUDY ENGLISH CRUCIFIED! BOMBSJALL On Three Airfields PENETRATION Two Miles Deep.

Seven Strategic Hills, Five Villages Seized In Second Day Of Big Push In Italy Nazis Announce Castelforte Evacuated. Allftd Headquarters, Naples, Maf 13 (AP) Allied troops, on the offensive in Italy, smashed deeper tonight into the heavily-fortified Gustav Line, increasing the gain of two miles or more that they had recorded during the day but en jj Associated Press Wirepliotos. All priestly privileges were taken from Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski, left, by his immediate superior, Bishop Thomas H. O'Leary, right, soon after Father Orlemar.ski's return to Springfield, from Moscow, where he had visited Marshal Josef Stalin.

Nazi Military Trains Bombed In Latvia, Estonia By Reds; Violent Explosions Reported Associated Pi-ess Wirejtioto. Former Italian prisoners of war who volunteered for noncombat duty in the American Army have been instructed in Army terms in English by Sergeant Mario C. Yon, Long Island, New Yorker, at Fort Warren, Wyo. The Italians nave abandoned the Fascist salute, wear regulation Army clothing, and attend classes regularly. Rommel To Safeguard Rear Pirates Loot Barges Of Oil And Gasoline, where Moscow said German counterattacks had failed.

No essential changes occurred on the long land front, Moscow said. For some time German broadcasts have suggested the Russians were mounting another big-scale offensive in Northern Estonia, where the Red Army holds positions near Narva, and opposite Lativa, where the Russians were reported within five miles of Pskov on March 3. The broadcast Moscow bulletin recorded by the Soviet Monitor said explosions and flames enveloped a With Concentration Camps For Frenchmen, Berlin Says London, May 13 (AP) The So viet high command announced tonight that Russian bombers attacking German military trains and stores at Daugavpils (Dvinsk) in Latvia, and Tartu in Estonia, had touched off violent explosions and fires Friday night in a possible pre lude to a fresh Red Army northern offensive. The German high command also indicated that Russian troops had smashed across the Moldava River, 60 miles inside Romania, when it told of fighting between Romanian soldiers and a full Soviet rifle di vision on the west bank of that river. The Moldava is a western tribu tary of the Siret, joining the larger river 35 miles southwest of Iasi.

Moscow has never claimed a crossing of the Moldava but last month announced the capture of Falticeni near its east bank. Neither the Germans nor the Rus sians mentioned the Lower Dnestr River sector near Tiraspol, where Berlin had declared that a Russian bridgehead had been erased and Reply Of Priest Suspended By Bishop For Going To Stalin. Orlemanski Sends Appeal To Papal Delegate Says "This Is Test Case." Washington, May 13 (INS) Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicog-nani, apostolic delegate to Washington, replied to statements of Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield, today by saying the recent visitor to Soviet Russia "is directly subject to his bishop." Springfield, May 13 (AP) The Rev.

Stanislaus Oriemanski ran into a stormy home-coming to day from his flying visit to Moscow and conference with Premier Stalin, getting a prompt suspension by his Bishop as a greeting. The priest promptly replied that he was "being crucified for my church." The Polish-American priest also said that he was appealing the suspension order which would strip him of all priestly privileges, to the Apostolic Delegate in Washington. The appeal, he told newspaper men at a press conference, automatically invalidated the suspen sion order and made it possible for him to carry on his parish duties pending action by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Amleto Cicog-nani, on the appeal. Most Rev. Thomas M.

O'Leary, Bishop of the Springfield Diocese, announced the suspension only a few hours after Father Orlemanski returned from Russia. The suspension stated that the Priest could not administer the sasraments, celebrate mass or perform any other priestly duties. "THIS IS TEST CASE." The priest told the newsmen "I went to Moscow to see what I could do for the Catholic Church in Poland, the Ukraine and White Russia. But Stalin made it universal. He went beyond my expectations and agreed not to persecute the Catholic Church not only in those places but in any part of Russia.

"He' went further than that in agreeing to cooperate with the church against persecution anywhere. "This is a test case. If we cannot agree with Stalin on religion, how then can we get together with Stalin on material things?" Father Orlemanski displayed a document, typed in Russian, which, he said, was Stalin's signed agreement not to persecute the church. He said the Premier first wanted to make the document public as soon as it was signed but finally agreed to allow Father Orlemanski to show it to the Apostolic Dele gate or to make It public himself, if he found that step necessary. "HE WILL BE IRRITATED." "I am being punished for doing something for my church," the priest added, "if Stalin hears things like this, he will be irritated we may lose what we have gained.

"If I am to be crucified for that, it does not matter for the few years left in my life. If I am to be crucified, I have two brothers who are priests and there will be three of us crucified together." Father Orlemanski said he had planned to keep secret his wiitten agreement with Stalin, until he had. turned it over to the Apostolic Delegate, "But when I came back here and found what some priests had been saying about me, I decided to make the plan public." The priest said, also, that he had brought back a definite plan for the form of government to be established in Poland after the war but he declined to give even the slightest hint as to what the plan embodied. 6.000 Workers they start their five-day campaign, then I cannot but feel success is assured," Baker said Baker said that 14 interviewers, under direction of Ermlich, were interviewing on street corners, in cafes and poolrooms and at other places where unemployed persons might found. In stressing the importance of the campaign, Baker said, "Greater Cincinnati's production of vital war supplies is being hampered and in some cases crippled because of in adequate number of workers.

"We know we have enough people to fill these 6,000 essential jobs, and the campaign is being directed to the end that those unemployed, as well as those employed in nonessential work, may see that it is their patriotic duty to fill these jobs." He cited one company in Cincin nati which, because it lacked ap- Contlnued On Fage 13, Column J. And Rail Yards Feeding German Atlantic Wall. Air Offensive Enters Fifth Week Osnabruck And Tutow Are Blasted. London. May 13 (AP)-Nearly 1.750 United States bombers and fighters smashing into Germany for the fiftn time this week pounded aircraft assembly plant at Tutow and rail yards at Osnabruck today on the 20th, straight day of an unparalleled sky offensive which the German High Command now cfficiiilly terms a prelude to Allied land invasion.

From midnighi to dusk the Allied Command in Britain and Italy hurled 4.000 planes against German installations, dropping approximately 6.00 tons of explosives as the can.ptign entered its fifth eck. t'p to 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators escorted by nearly 1,000 lighters roared ever the North Sea lor the attacks inside Germany. Hundreds of light Allied bombers Shuttled back and forth over Northern France and Belgium, rirping airfields and rail yards feeding the Nazi Atlantic wall. Bombs dropped on the sea wall itself again shook pictures in English homes on the coast nearest Fiance. RKSISTANCE IS NEGLIGIBLE.

Although Berlin told of terrific battles over Germany, the first American airmen back from the at tack on Osabuck, 40 miles east of the Dutch border on the Berlin- Amsterdam trunk line, said Nazi fighter resistance was negligible after Friday's duels 'n which 150 German planes were down at Vcost of 42 American bombers and 10 fighters. Osabuck Is a highly Important rail center in the Ruhr, a junction of four main lines. It last was at tacked by the RAK the night of May 8 when It still was smoking from blows delivered the day before by the Americans. Fifty at tacks have been made on the city, which is one of the most concen trated targets in Germany with 100,000 inhabitants crowded into a four-square-mile area. Tutow, 105 miles north of Berlin and 35 mile3 east of the Baltic sea port of Rostock, was the second of several targets attacked in North ern Germany.

Its factories include assembly plants for Focke-Wulf 390 fighters and the town last was attacked by the Americans April 6. FOLLOW 11 RAF RAID. It was the 16th operation in 13 days for the American heavy bombers, and they left their British bases just a few hours after about 750 RAF night bombers had dumped 3,000 tons of bombs on lail targets at Louvain, and other targets in Northwest Germany and France at a cost of 14 planes. During the day American Ma rauder and Havoc bombers escorted by Thunderbolts dumped more than 500 tons of DomDs on four air fields, Abbeville-Drucat, Beaumont-Sur-Oise, and Beauvais-Tille in Northern France, and Chievres, 25 miles southwest of Brussels, the Belgian capital. All returned, One formation of Havoc light bombers ran into a dozen ME-109s And FVV-190s as they approached Beaumont-Sur-Oise, and the escort ing Thunderbolts promptly engaged the enemy, Later in the day Thunderbolt fighter-bombers of Lieutenant Gen eral Lewis H.

Breretons Ninth United' States Air Force attacked railway yards at Namur and Tour- nati in Belgium, and rail bridges leading into Herenthals, east of Antwerp. The RAF again sent out swarms cf its daylight raiders. Boston and Mitchell bombers struck anew at rail yards at Tourcoing, France and Spitfire and Typhoons smashed other communication objectives in the same general area inland from the invasion coast. THE WEATHER Washington, May 13 (AP) Ohio: Sunday, fair and cooler, Kentucky a generally fair, somewhat cooler north portion. Indiana Fair Sunday, warmer extreme north portion.

Cincinnati Weather Bureau Airport Office record for May 13, 1944 Temp. Hum. Prec. :30 a. 62 92 R-30 d.

79 58 0 1944. '43. '42. Nl. Highest temperature 87 68 83 72 Lowest temperature.

57 48 62 52 Precipitation 0 .31 0 Today Sunrise 5:26 a. m. Sunset 7:43 p. n. Moon rises at 12:57 a.

m. TWENTP YEARS AGO. Temperature, 61-45. Cloudy. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Temperature, 85-65. Clear, London, May 13 (AP) The Ger man high command communique, normally the most conservative of the daily fixtures broadcast by the Berlin radio, declared today that the Allied air offensive against the Nazi continent "may be regarded as the preparation for invasion." It was the first time that the German command, now confronted by an Allied land, sea and air siege, had used the word "invasion" in its daily bulletins, and the Nazi press speculated that the blow would fall simultaneously with a new Russian offensive. Inside France the Nazis were re ported rushing final preparations, requisitioning all remaining automobiles and speeding a "Rommel plan" under which virtlally the entire male population of France between the age of 16 and 60 would be put in concentration camps on D-Oay to safeguard the German rear. Even as the daily communique warned the German people of the impending onslaught, the Allies, in addition to undertaking a cam paign to destroy the German armies in Italy, were hammering by air with increasing tempo at Nazi communications to the potential western battlefront. The German command described the new Italian offensive as being "on the largest scale" and as "an obvious attempt to tie down Ger man forces," thus linking the assault with the expected western invasion.

German accounts took the new Allied offensive against the Gustav line as being only the forerunner of a bursting storm. The German high command expects the flare- Underground Forces Ready, 0PA Charge Reveals New Orleans, May 13 (AP) Trapper "pirates," operating from floating camps in sparsely settled St. Mary Parish, havo plundered "thousands of gallons of gasoline and lubricating oil" in the Gulf In- tracoastal Canal, the Office of Price Administration disclosed today. Charging looting of oil and gasoline bearing barges "on a wholesale scale," the OPA asked aid of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety. The Federal agency said paint, rope and other articles had been reported stolen, as well as gasoline and oil.

The OPA investigation was begun after three trappers were arrested last March on charges of having stolen gasoline from a tugboat drawing kerosene barges between Houston, Texas, and Destrehan, La. Two men boarded the tug at night from a light bateau, Captain Kenneth Wright of the state police said, and rolled several drums of gasoline into swift-running waters of the canal before being driven off by crewmen. Army Inquiry Fails To Disclose Source Of Dining Car Blast Ft. Douglas, Utah, May 13 (AP) Preliminary investigation has failed to disclose the source of a mortar shell that sent steel fragments hurtling through the side of a dining car of the Southern Pacific's Daylight Limited, Army officials said today. The public relations office of Ninth Service Command headquar ters said an investigation so far indicated there was no artillery practice under way at Camp Cooke, Army post nearest the speed ing train when the steel fragments ripped into the car yesterday.

Two railroad kicchen employees were hurt seriously. Major Eugene D. Mullins, Ninth Service Command public relations officer, said Army investigators de termined the shell exploded 15 feet from the car. The type of the shell has been undetermined. Is Report Of Liaison Officers On Chiefs Of Three Nations countering grim resistance from thfi Germans in strong mountain positions.

Allied Headquarters, Naples, May 13 (AP) Allied troops smasning two miies or mere through grim German resistance in the heavily-fortified Gustav line tonight held at least five villages and seven strategic hills at the close of the second day of the big push aimed at destroying the Germans in Italy. A lat3 dispatch from Sid Feder, Associated Press War Correspondent, toll of the spectacularly swift fall of the village of Cosmo San Damiano to the American Fifth Army, two miles beyond the. Garig-liano River and six miles inland from tha Gulf of Gaeta, and of th penetration of the adjacent stronghold of Castelforte. British Eighth Army troops also seized the village of Sant'Angelo on the west bank of the Rapido River, two and one-half miles south of Cassino, direct dispatches said. DEAD-END CEMETERY.

(The Allies apparently had cap tured a total of at least six villages, German broadcasts announcing the evacuation of Castelforte, as well as Sant'Angelo.) The Germans scrambled out of Cosmo San Damiano so fast they left food on tables erected in its ruins. The Americans cornered 200 of them in a near-by cemetery wnere "we shot them down like jackrabbits," Feder quoted the victors as saying. Other Germans surrendered after being dug out of the ruins of the hamlet. As the Yanks pressed on to a mountain ridge northeast of the village they could see other units hammering their way into Castelforte, which has been called "Little Cassino" because of two previous Allied failures to take it. FRENCH SWEEP ON.

French troops attached to the Fifth Army swept on past their original objectives and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, commander of the Fifth Army, congratulated General Alphonse Juin, the French commander. "You are proving to an anxiously awaiting France that the French Army has returned, sacred to its finest fighting traditions," Clark told him. United States heavy bombers concentrated on blasting 14 rail centers in what officially was termed "the climactic phase of 'an operation strangle' in the Allied air powers' plan to destroy supply lines througn which Hitler feeds the forces resisting the new offensive of the Fifth and Eighth Armies." Flying Fortresses attacked bridges and yards on the Brenner Pass route from Germany to Verona and the Po Valley network, including rail centers at Bolzano, Bronzolo and Trento, as Liberators hammered yards between the Appe-nines and the Po River. Grim fighting developed at every point where the Allies made penetrations into the formidable defenses, and the Germans lashed out in a series of determined, but costly counter attacks.

Allied headquarters officially an nounced gains of a mile and a half. and front dispatches later told of advances of two to three miles at certain points. Capture of three villages and more than half a dozen strategic heights was announced by head quarters, and the first prisoners began filing into the Allied lines IN THE ENQUIRER NEWS SECTION Page NEWS SECTION Pag Simpson Sports 33-36 Vital Statistics 38 Winchell 27 SECTION TWO Classified Ads 4 Garden News 3 News Review 15 Real Estate 1-2 Stamp News 3 SECTION THREE Stage, Screen 1-4 SECTION FOUR Arrangements 4 Church Groups 6 Engagements 4-5 Glendale Notes 2 Haskin Q. A. 7 Patriotic Groups 6 PTA Groups 4 Society 1-8 Weddings 3-5 Women's Clubs 8 Women's News 6 Art Circles 22 Auto News 38 Aviation Lanes 32 Bridge 19 Bromfield 6 Court News Danny Dumm Dean Dogs Editorials Eliot 32 33 18 20 6 6 Financial 37-38 Food News 26 Gailup 6 Grapevine .,11 Horse Sense 24 James 6 Journey's End 39 Luke McLuke 6 Mengert 18 Military 30 Punle 38 Radio 28-29 Rationing 24 Resorts, Travel 26 Artgravure Section 12 Pages Comics 10 Pages This Week (Tabloid) 24 Page up of fighting in Italy to spread to other sections of the European battlefront," said the Nazi Trassocean News Agency.

"We are aware of General Alexander words that the Allied troops in Southern Italy arc striking the first blow in a final battle." Sea action along the "invasion front" flared up, British Admiralty communiques announcing brisk new skirmishes in the English Channel 'no man's land" in which fresh blows vere directed at convoys which the Nazis were seeking to slip through the strait in an at tempt to move supplies by water to ease the strain upon the bomb- pocked rail system. British light naval forces fired two ships and damaged two others in one small convoy yesterday, and a French destroyer skirting close to a shore which once was its own broke up a strong force of Nazi E-boats today, sinking one. The German command's first mention of the word "invasion" did not go unnoticed by other Ger man propaganda sources. Trans-ocean commented that the Amer ican and British air incursions into the occupied western territory in the first 10 days of May must therefore be regarded as "the first swallows of invasion." The German news agency DNB quoted a Stockholm report describing the newest Allied moves to squeeze the Axis satellites out of the war the Washington-London-Moscow ultimatum of yesterdayas bringing the diplomatic campaign to a climax "before undertaking any decisive military istep." i Choctaw battled to tow the crippled tanker, laden with 4,500,000 gallonr of precious aviation gasoline, through wind-swept seas to Ber muda, 960 miles from the spot she was rammed by the Panamanian freighter El Costan, which sank. Jt was necessary to tow the tanker stern first all the way to overcome the resistance caused by the gap ing hole in her sfde.

The liberty ship disaster, tragic as it was, would have been worse, the WSA account said, but for the heroic and self-sacrificing assistance given to the injured, half-drowned and nearly frozen survivors by Scottish "crofters." These crofters are hardy if impoverished Highlanders who eke out a meager existence in primitive stone huts on tiny, bleak farms between the twin desolations of seldom calm seas and barren, often ice-covered mountains. Men and women, old and young, they toiled over miles of frozen moorland to carry jugs of tea representing their rations for weeks and blankets from their own beds to survivors exposed to the bitter cold on the coastal cliffs. They searched crags and caves for half- dead Americans who had been swept from tha grounded ship and cast up on the shore. They built drift wood fires to thaw them out. substantial part of Daugavpils rail junction, 115 miles southeast of Riga, following the Friday night blow.

Eleven explosions, one of them enormous, and 10 fires were observed amid trains and stores at Tartu, 100 miles southeast of the Estonian capital of Tallinn and 65 miles northwest of Pskov, the bulletin said. The Germans still reported fighting on Cape Khersones west of Sevastopol in the Crimea, but the Russians said the last enemy remnants had been destroyed there Friday. beer in the Belgian underground club known as "Neuf Provinces in London, this tough little man of 45, barely 5 feet tall, relayed the message from his chief in Belgium. A few weeks ago Emile and I had sat here discussing his missions to and from tne Continent, and I suggested he take a personal message from me to the underground leader and bring back the reply. "That," he said, "would not be too difficult.

I have got a very important task this time." His blue eyes danced. "A friend of mine has a sister in Belgium who is expecting a baby. I have got to look her up when I get there and find out if she is all right." So today I said: "Tell me about the boy." "He is a seven pounder and will make a good Belgian," Emile laughed. "The mother is doing fine. I called my friend this morning and she is happy." "Things are happening over there," he said with a nod toward Belgium.

"But what is going to happen will really be a show. I met the chief in a farmhouse. I told him I had a newspaper friend back in London who wanted some word direct from him. The chief said: 'Tell your friend we are ready. We are just waiting for the signal from London that the Allied invasion has started.

Our forces know what to do and it won't be pleasant for the Germans. People who are hungry know how to hate and kill. We are organized as an' army. My message from France took longer and my French friend, 32-year-old, black-haired Francois had a hanowing experience which I am not peimitted to disclose until after the war. I can say that the Germans at one point la this journey picked him up but didn't know what a prize they had ana released him.

DAY'S WAR HEROES OF GEIMAMS MACK, Staff Sergeant William 1835 Maple Avenue, Norwood. MISSMG ACTIO LIMES, Staff Sergeant Edward 8 Dunn Street, South Newport. Liberty Ship Lost In Blizzard With 48 Members Of Crew; Tanker, Gas Cargo Salvaged Success Predicted In Drive BY JOHN A. PARRIS. London.

May 13 (UP) The underground leaders in three stra tegically-vital countries of Western Europe announced tonight in special messages smuggled out to the United Press there forces are ready to set off a powder keg of revolt when the Allies invade the continent. The messages came from France, Belgium and Norway. They re sponded to requests which I had smuggled to the underground lead ership weeks earlier through their liaison officers who shuttle back and forth from London to their blacked-out homelands. The last of the messages reached me in dramatic fashion at 2 o'clock this morning. My telephone rang.

A voice on the other end of the line with a heavy foreign accent said: "It's a seven-pound boy." These words told me the message from Belgium was in London. I said: "Congratulations, Emile, when can I see you." At the Neuf Provinces for lunch," he replied. Ten hours later over a glass of Lawmaker Indicted On Perjury Charge Lansing, May 13 (AP) State Representative William C. Stenson, Greenland Republican whose amazing story of a proffered bribe wras a motivating factor in the calling of Circuit Judge Leiand W. Carr's one-man grand jury in vestigation of state government, today was accused of perjury by the grand jury.

Judge Carr and Special Prosecu tor Kim Sigler collaborated in the issuance of a warrant charging the 43-year-old legislator gave false testimony to the grand jury by denying under oath that a fellow member of the House of Representatives also had paid him a sum of money, the sum unspecified, to influence his vote on an antibranch banking bill in 1941. The warrant did not identify the othcr legislator. Washington, May 13 (UP) The War Shipping Administration re vealed tonight tne Liberty Ship William H. Welch, homeward bound after "Belivering a war cargo to Great Britain, was battered to pieces on the craggy coast of North Scotland in a violent blizzard "a few weeks ago" with a loss of more than 48 lives. Of a complement of more than 60, only five crew members and seven Navy gunners survived a bat tle with elements so fierce that British rescue vessels were prevented by mountainous waves and treacherous rocks from aiding the stricken ship.

It was, the WSA said, "the worst storm disaster recently suffered by an American Merchant Marine vessel. Captain Lee Marshall, Philadelphia, the skipper, went down with his ship. The William H. Welch was a complete loss. The Navy, however, revealed tonight another craft, abandoned as lost, finally was sal vaged in one of the war's most difficult exploits of its kind to date.

The salvaged ship was the tanker Murfreesboro, rammed and fired while in convoy with a loss of 18 lives, and the hero of the story was the rugged, unlovely Navy tug Choctaw. For 24 days and 23 nights, the To Recruit An experiment made yesterday by John M. Baker, Area Director of the i War Man-Power Commission, gave indications of success for the campaign to fill 6,000 essential war production jobs in Greater Cincinnati next week. Baker, in company with Kennett F. Ermlich, Lancaster, Ohio, a WMC area director, stood at the Isoutheast coiner of Elm Street and Central Parkway, across from ithe United States Employment Service building, and interviewed seven persons in less than five minutes.

Of the s-aven interviewed, three were employed, three were unem ployed and agreed to report for jobs Monday, apd the seventh was a young woman who explained that she was unable to work. "If that is the type of results our interviewers will find Monday when A 1.