The Journal Herald from Dayton, Ohio • 1

DAY ft NAL LATE CITY EDITION gi 137th YEAR. No. 101. DAYTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944. Fntrr4 at 8a4-ClaM M.ll't roil UI(lc Vaytwa, Ubw.

PRICE FOUR CENTS I lid A cloudy, covin tomorrow. hud Offlvrfii TON JOUR A mil a ORVILLE WRIGHT PILOTS CONSTELLATION IN FLIGHT OVER CITY Madang Falls In Sweep By Australians By I.F.OXARI) MILLIMAX Aturlatrd fmt War Editor American infantrymen captured two Japanese airdromes on Dutch New Guinea, within bombing range of the Philippines, Gen. Douglas .4 IMacArthur announced today, while 1500 miles to the southeast Australians swept Into the town of Ma dang. The Sentani and Cyclops airdromes in the-llollandia area of rf it -t Mi 1 I northern New Guinea were seized i by United States forces on the fourth day of their invasion. Their nutcracker drive was closing in on the llollandia airdrome, the third and largest in the sector.

JiThe two columns, which hit the i4 I beach 34 miles apart, werp nearing 'J I a juncture in a battle against mud 4 and hills where the Japanese ii, 1 sti angely were absent. i Enemy resistance folded up In the Aitape sector, 150 miles to the east, where the captured Tadji airdrome is being used by allied bomb- ers and fighters. Only a short I skirmish preceded their occupation i of Aitape village, At Madang, too, the enemy fled 'before the advancing allied forces. JFOLLOWj If, if jj.V. The Austrailians found quantities of abandoned supplies and ammunition when they occupied the once-strong fortress at the end of a six-month march over mountains and jungle trails from the eastern tip of New Guinea.

Madang, on Astrolabe bay, has an airfield but the Nipponese have shown so little resistance in recent weeks it may not be of much use to the allies. Brunswick Reels Under 15 th Raid U. S. Assumes Control Over Ward's Plant I CHICAGO, April 26. (UP)-Mont- Kurlles Pounded gomery Ward and Company, second! Strongest air resistance yet in the largest retail mail order house in' '-iff ft' renewed New Guinea fighting was ing fighters gave the city its fifteenth going-over yesterday without losing a single bomber or encountering a German fighter on the entire 900-mile round trip.

There was a time when Bruns tha U'nflrl rinorat Li A nnrloH amidPn. ment conirol tonight after Army 12. is quashed Company-President esiroyer ai tiouanma. i- qi Iroops By CAVLE TALBOT AMnrlatrd Prr-M Wr Editor Another of Germany's great industrial cities, Brunswick, appears to have been left to its fate by the Nazis as they husband their fighter forces to meet the coming allied invasion of the continent. Betweed 250 and 500 Flying Fortresses and Liberators and escort- thur said they did no damage.

resistance to an wick was a hornets' nest. The Sewell Avery's executive order Twenty-three Japanese planes of stripping him power in favor of the department Vj? lp 0UV" uf commerce. (airfield, 400 miles northwest of llol Americans lost 60 heavy bombers in one attack on its aircraft and tank plants and other nearby targets last Jan. 11. In another raid they lost landia.

Undersecretary of Commerce, Wayne Chatf.eld Taylor acting along tne ln. he agent ef Secretary Jesse Jones royte t0 Tokyo lnten- OPA Reduces itook over for the heavies while destroying 14S Nazi fighters. This time General Spaatz's squadrons had only to dodge antiaircraft fire. Five Ails Transport! Sunk isified their offensive on Japan' with the aid shortly after 6 p. Pacific Island, mandated central W.

Nimltz an- ui wiiy po.wen Chester i iit riesiueni noose veil a orner. A Butter Value, Veal Boosted or six hours previous to the, Aeutjan.hasPd bombers flew to Army i arrival Avery had remained! M) of Ja proper in Ins office and steadfas ly mak six strikes at the northern A fair conclusion seemed to be that the Nazis had "written off" Brunswick as a target to be defended at all costs. With this nttnrlr frta AmarUnn iu a crJi an ii'c ui uic liihu txrtU' tive's ultimatum. WASHINGTON, April British air forces had made Kui ile islands Sunday and Monday ninhts. Three thousand miles to the south other allied bombers concentrated on coastal defense guns in the heaviest bombardment in two months of daily raids on the Marshall islands.

Five islands in the strongly fortified Truk lagoon were bombed by r. 1 rt Vol? ihA lannth aI '-'i "Business As Uttual" Mr. Roosevelt ordered the department of commerce to take charge after the company failed to comply with a War Labor Board (WLB) directive specifying that it recognize the United Retail, Wholesale 5 Housewives will bo required tojmore than 34,000 Individual offen-ray only 12 red points a pound forgive flights over Hitler's Europe creamery butter during May and 'n 12 blazing days and rights and June four points less than now.ihad stunned his ersatz empire with but the values of choice meat cuts," 50,000 tons of bombs, will be slightly higher, the Office! Sinking of five more German and of Price Administration (OPA) an-jRomanlan troop transports off be-' sieged Sevastopol in the Crimea A new ration chart, effective' as reported by the Russians, but from Sunday, April 30, through )hey rema.ned noncommital on a June 30, provides a four-point pererman report that the Red army pound cut for butter and mar- a big new offens.ve rin. a 50 per cent reduction the lower Dnestr river in f.iu e' vim. nne-l'outnern Russia.

By this time the union (CIO) as bargaining agent for.th ZTnUankn attack Kruui -l Nimitz did not mention an attacvt 5,000 workers. jby distanre UnitPd states Taylor said it would be "business bombers on Guam, reported by as usual at Wards, with the retail radio, store, warehouse and office per-j In soulheast Asia Japanese troops sonnel continuing to function as be-W(M. rPported mowed down in a-fore. Executives will be urged altaclc to break road ORVILLE WRIGHT and the Army's newly-acquired Constellation shared the spotlight yesterday at Wright Field when the co-inventor of the airplane piloted the huge hip briefly during a 50-mlnute flight over the field and Dayton. At left, Mr.

Wright board thn nlane via a ladder used In nlace of a reeular ramp. Right, Brig. Gen. F. Carroll, who also flew the Constellation yesterday, calls Germans know a Russian offensive point increase for most steaks and (Staff photos by Johnson.) Mr.

Wright's attention to one of the plane's engines. when they see one. Moscow said the Nazis were fly roasts, and little or no cnange in values for veal, poik, lard and salad and cooking oils. Point values for farm and coun-ill he sliced to eicht ing huge six-engined transports to Sevastopol in a final attempt to evacuate its otherwise doomed gar DAMAGE RISES IN MIDWEST FLOOD AREAS remain on the job. Employes have.blocks damped on central Bur-been at work since Tuesday morn- mese communications by airborna ing whenlhey answered the Presi- aiijpd Chindits.

dent's "back-to-work" reqeust andj Light tanks, artillery and mor-ended their 13-day stirke. tar fue, bangalores and banzai Avery's surrender to 40 fully-charges were employed by the equipped members of the 740th Mil-! Japanese in futile attempts to itary Police battalion from CampjCrack the irregular 100-mile front Skokie Valley, Glenview, 111., fol-lof the Chindits. Machine guns and lowed a hectic afternoon duiing.the air comma tdo force of Col. which Taylor twice Cochran smashed the attack, atlemuted to carrv out the chief grave-diggers were found Airplane's Co-inventor Thrilled By Experience points per pound from 12, and forjnson- process butter, to four points fronvitalian Activity Limited BRICKER URGES ALL-INCLUSIVE FIELD BALLOT COLUMBUS, April 26. (API Gov.

John W. Bricker recommended an all-inclusive absent war ballot ix The value of creamery butter, 16 Denmark, the-little country the Nazis seized originally without a fight, at last was in genuine turmoilhaving a hard time waiting iiiuu Having a imtu nine wailing BV rBr's Doints Bince last October, was re- gasped at its size as they entered Inland seas of floodwuter. fed by duced Decause oi wniu tion spurt which, the OPA sad aed invasion 1Iundreds c( me aoor. uur party oi passengers of a)most continuous rain executive orders. neau uesKie nair completed gravel Danes were in tail.

C.ermnn ar- to the Ohio legislature tonight with piacea sui)iu nb By CHARLES STARRETT JR. Orville Wright handled the controls of an airplane yesterday afternoon for the first time in 25 years during a 50-minute flight in plant months mored cars patrolled Copenhagen's! declaration it was needed to sus- unu live crew inenioeis were ium uutj iur tneir slain companions, in the roominess of the plane tlic Midwest, rolled dawn the, Avery Maintain Stand To north, American-trained the Army says will accommodate, Mississippi river and its western Three trucks bore the soldiers to Chinese continued their slow ad- about 90 fully equipped soldiers, tributaries last night, menacing' the comnnnv'a main offi, r.n thpi vance down the Mogaung valley. tain representative government. ine governor appeal eu oeiore me Vriu, tWvtnn in plus a nine-member crew. North Side of Chicago.

The souad while 150 miles to the west the streets and there were bursts of gunfire, according to underground reports to Stockholm. Regular communications between Denmark and neutral Sweden remained broken. house and senate as they Lockheed Constellation, the The reduction in butter was ordered despite the fact that only about 145,000.000 pounds have been allocated for civilian use during May, compared with 131,000,000 nnnn for the previous month. Tliere was little noise and onlv a threat tn th. Rritish In, in special session to make it pos whic i was disnatc led to a verv mi'-u onuu IWI Itll Mill Ill.Nlljlll'Il.'ll 111 VM1V! same huge plane which last week 'K for all Ohio electors in and sihle litttle vibration as we took off and ruining oauiy neeueu crops.

f. d'dian bases of Kohirna and Imphal iset a new transcontinental recor up the armed forces to vote with A cruiser-led British and Cana- ln six hours and 58 minutes. "It was wonderful," said the co- OPAr an naval force encountered severaljthe Nov. 7 election. ine passengers negan 10 invesugaie seven inousanu ieaerai iroops, tor control of the company carried la" ainea ianK ana in the interior of the craft.

militiamen and Italian prisoners of their rifles at the ready. jfantry attocks. Mr. Wright witnessed the take-jwar labored to save levees along the! Avery listened respectfully as Lt.ijap Apprehensive If the legislature adheres 1 German destroyers off the French inventor ot trie airplane, a uig unexpectedly heavy demand. Bricker's wishes and the Republi coast and sank one with gunfire.

uii livin a luinaiu pasivurt wn i- iftaissi ji, iunsuuu uiiu iiniiuis rint'ura. Lorain. I in Shortening, laro ana cooK.ng ana, cans have a majority adequate to smile on his face, lie last piloted a detachment, mea guerrilla operaiions in the T1nnp in iqio'Panment. Anoniy aner we took to rivers. The Mississippi topped its charge of the ho oil Va! A hnon ho 1n.A tH tkA rnHJ Til -i I 1 i Armv u-h in Jungles oi Java nave tieen so per- gVI oils remain ration-iree.

Hnd mutton steaks hi, on vi. v. irrc jii iiir vjiaiiu luwri, 111., lllr and uniy were reported 10 nave and had not been aloft since June, of the and that Associated Press War Cor- copilot, left his seat and suggested trict, sloppin? over 2.600 acres of ision improvea ineir positions sngniiy put his wishes into law soldiers and sailors will be enabled to cast ballots for every type of candidate from township trustee to president of the United States. that the inventor take the seat. would serve as the Burns reported.

farm land TH rivr wlcft and captured 50 prisoners in three 1939, when he flew, in an experimental Douglas DC-4 at Wright Field. ened the Degognia-Fountain Bluff. Itive of Secretary of Commerce 1 a drunken Japanese officers Inventor Reluctant days of limited attacks about halfway between Cisterna and jopenly "express their fright." 111.. levee. wHeh protects 30.000 Jones Mr.

Wright's flight in the new In contrast, the federal ballot pro- Hesitant at first, Mr. Wright acres. Army engineers suggested! Avery remained in his office only! Eten, Param, Moen, Tol and Dub- i A Anm.u i .1 Inn U'ura 1 ,1 1 chops were reduced three and four points; lamb and mutton roasts, two to three points, and stews and other cuts two points each. The reductions were ordered, OPA said, because poor feed conditions caused unusually heavy marketing. Beef point values reflected an anticipated heavy demnnd.

congress would restrict p'-passenger vided by Hovotnnorl 1nr Tinnspnnlinonlal inH lamilies evacuate ine niSiriCl. rnuuKll lu ini ruu un lie iliu uiuaiu in ine iiiuil r' neveiopea ior iianscontinenidi ana vi. idv0 4 All 1 Western Air, axis Allies iick Inc (TWAI rm Thp Arkansas rivpr rrpstprt vp. m- mnis numui hj i.rimi ia-un; of being perfectly at ease. Through-' r'I to take control.

He then made his, bombers on Truk's highly fortified members of the armed forces to voting for president, U. S. senator and congressmen. The legislature, Bricker asserted, shortly after ine nusc uianr ai': niuav nt i ui.ia, aim lauAru out of the building through'Central Caroline islands. Three o) uc Kar.ru itfuj wo.v utru n- iv.

nunc i lie- cvaiuaiiuil VI a luttf UL rear exit to escape cameramen other Caroline islands also were Food, League Says rniin, irtimitL nuniirai niriai ici ivi uifijiiaiiu icciliilLiaiia i ''V lew IliliS UUW 115 11 t'illll 11 Om and the crowds in the building's attacked, including Ponape, has but one task: to "guarantee to each Ohio boy and girl, wherever he test the ship, I Tulsa. corridors and lobby. urnru iiuiu ins ji uiii iiia- NEW YORK, April 26. (API- Short Flight Scheduled chine. Tnp Missouri river, at flood stage or she may be in the world, a com plete and secret ballot.

That in Good Morning! A Little Chuckle Germany's food rations are suf Army and Navy bombers made use of a new break in the Noith Pacific fogs to strike on successive nights at the Faramushiro naval England Raided eludes the national ballot, the state ficient for average requirements, The flicht had been scheduled1 Colonel Hatcher suggested that lor weeks, was at its highest last to last onlv 12 minutes iMr- VVrifiht take the controls but Jr.ight in central Missouri. The 10 last oniy 10 minutes. the inventor shook his headJflood disrupted Jefferson City's again motioned towards water system and placed residents ballot, the nonpartisan judicial bnl lot and the special issues ballot but health and efficiency suffer be-! cause of insufficient food in the To Start The Day If we provide anything less, we sum mit-i ur iiimufa rillni in of on short rat ons. LONDON, April 27 (Thursday) base, Shumushu and Mutsuwa in (AP) a direct hit on a shelter in a the Northern Kuriles, Each night south coast town during a German four-engined Amercan planes air raid early today caused many, loosed bombs within Off) miles of casualties. iTokyo.

the ship following the flight Wright. shall miserably fail in our obliga tion to them." Baltic states, Slovakia, France and Italy, according to a League of Nations report distributed by the Columbia University Press. "I guess I ran the whole plane for a minute, but I let the machine take care of itself, I always said air Hesitantly, Mr. Wright placed his .1 1 hands on the control column. Get-iVillllOl IL 1 I H'M ting the feci of the plane, he -T, If the recommended legislation is adopted, the governor concluded, shrugged lus shoulders and beametti lSSIil planes would fly themselves If you let them alone." Continental Europe's agricultural "Ohio again will have demonstrated that state and local government is still strong and virile and that free AAF Trio Found Guillv production has declined steadily The plane, designated by the ui iiatciier.

in? piune new ohiiik nt an even keel and a moment later Mr. Wright relinquished the WASHINGTON, April NORFOLK. April 2ft-(AP) A young Wave ensign labored up the street under a heavy burden of suitcases and parcels. An elderly man went to her as-ulstance, relieved her of the suitcases, and they walked up the treet together. "Are you a retired Navy man?" he asked.

"Yes." Retired chief?" 'No, an admiral." It was Rear Admiral Guy II. Burrage, retired. Army as the landed at Wright Field shortly after 2 p. m. yester- Of Ncirliffcncc Charges since the outbreak of the war, the report by the league's economic, financial and transit department said, Changes In diet and other factors representative government can flourish even in a war-torn world." The election committee of the house and senate recommended for introduction a 26-page bill embrac- Later, Brig.

Gen. F. O. Carroll, dnv. It took off from Washington A Polish-born professor of the University of Chicago and a Catholic priest of Springfield, now are in Moscow at the invitation of at a.

flew over LaC.uarflia.heod of the Materiel Command en ft Field at New York Citv and division, who with MaJ. have resulted In widespread of such ing numerous changes In the elcc- Gen. Charles E. Branshaw, the com- nvriVVATT Anil IF. I'Pl r.t ft.

ll'rlM Aeronautical roi circled the Wright Aeronautical V. fc.Jil. diseases as tuberculosis, diptheria tion laws, and the Republican leadership expressed belief it could be maim a i uiiiiihiiiuiiik Kcnt-i ni, nau iur auviei KUVPI IHIll'l II, 11 WBS S- i. iThrpp Armv nir fnrcr. fifficpr porauon.

and scarletina, according to the report. accused of neglU nvufu mi. i is i ill or, tnc i.Bin, eJ tonKht a The trio WU took rontrol of the ship. (stoically heard themselves found' That. U'ara PPhCA tit UUtV enacted Into law by Friday night.

In connection with air7oVhaarGenVer.rc:rK di. of inspecfion practice, at tba WHERE TO FIND sliiti Intn Ihp pi. Mr. Wrli-ht 'CUSslons In connection With thCiU'smisseu noni service oy a court- wi isiii-ukhiuihi pi.niu plant at Paterson, N. where its four engines were built.

As the sleek, silver ship glided to rest In the Wright Field flying line, Mr. Wright told a reporter, "My main interests always have been In commercial aviation." He added, however, he recognized the important part military aviation hus JOURNAL FEATURES Woman Candidate For Governorship SANTA April Mrs. Edna Peterson of Albuquerque, filed her candidacy today for the Democratic nomination for gover again hanilleit the controls. After the flight, gazing up at the wide-winged plune, Mr, Wright again said "It's a fine plane It (the flight) really was fine." Tage 6 io-n Amusement Hoy Advise Girl Soviet government's border disputeimartial which returned a verdict1 with Poland, one of the chief diplo- nftPr lhree and a houri of fj aJ? "'J matic problems troubling the united! at tn plant end of naiions. jdeliberatlon today.

Ipeijury before the Tiumon senat State' department officials con-i The officers are Lt. Col. Frank C'lnvesligirUng rommltte. In addi-firmed that the two men OscariCreulich, 52. of Detroit, former tion.

Ii wbi dedared Inno-Lang, 40-year-old professor, and Inspection section chipf of the AAF cent of the charge of conduct Father Stanislaus Oilemanskl, 54, materiel command, Wright Field; unbecoming an offi-fr, pastor of Our Ladv of the Holy! Ma j. Walter A. Ryan, 46, of The sentence of the court, mbUh liisslfied Als Comic 9 O20 Wants Race On Paper Salvage COLUMBUS. 0 April 26-CAP) Ohio against all other states in a per capita waste paper collection contest. Is the challenge Ohio salvage officials telegraphed today to state salvage heads and to War Production Board Chairman Donald Nelson, A goal of at least five pounds of waste paper per person for Ohio's 7,000.000 population was announced by Director Ralph It.

Stone of the nor of New Mexico, the first woman plnved in aeronautical science. 7a Cde'SjLindbergh In Hawaii into the Constellation because, as On Jsnprml lVTtscinn In state history to formally seek the Editorial John Montgomery Market Radio gubernatorial post. the Army pilot, l.t. Col. George A.I Rosary Catholic church-bad leftjrormer district Inspection officer oi ronciunea ine imw-w-wmH mi, Mrs.

Peterson, 45, and the mother 4 10 II 10 10 Hatcher, materiel command project HONOLULU. April 2B (AP) ''his country for Uussia. They em-'ne AAr central procurement inn oni'-frs onmn-i Society Snort pnirinppr. nhraseri t. ip shin lai kii rii.i lp.

a tnHhprch arrlvpH nhas ei however, hat thev trav- tr ct. and Mat. William unif K- s'-rvif win nor oi nniu of four (laughters, served as a member of the stale cosmetology board for fpn years. few finishing VlSnl 8latltlca It doesn't need those finishing mann, Cincinnati hiewery nn'iiriKi arid "ninr riv n-'n dent, on leave, former tesident tep-ireviewed by the army alvti renentatlve at lh Lockland jilntct jeneial in Whlngt'n, in as a civilian technicallcd as private citizens and not representative for an aircrnft man- representatives of the United States ufacturer, lt was disclosed today, (government. Primary elections will bo held mcii'l (touches, though, for everyone State Defense Council, June 6..