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145 PIQUA, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1944 PRICE FOUR CENTS ARTILLERY DUEL STILL RAGING WILLKIE WITHDRAWS FROM G.O.P. CAMPAIGN BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent Washington. April UJ! Wendell L. WUlkle's sharply worded withdrawal from the 1944 contest for Republican presidential nomination today challenged the G.

O. P. with the possibility that he may bolt the party's nominee. Bat organization and congressional Republicans, generally waived him out of the contest with seme cheers and few misgivings. Ihe eohsensas seemed to be that Got.

Thomas E. Dewey's chances of being drafted for the presidential nomination steadily were improving. WILLKIE MAKES EXIT IN OMAHA Omaha, April 6, OIJB His "one world" crumbled by tm over whelming defeat in the Wisconsin lary election Tuesday, wendeu I WlUlde headed east today after a dramatic withdrawal from the race for the Republican presidential no mination last night. The 1940 GOT nominee, who poll ed more than 20,000,000 votes when he ran against President Roosevelt four years ego, made his exi; at the Jluslon ot a 4o minute speech In which he bitterly attacked the administration's foreign policy. "It is obvious now that I cannot be nominated." he said, and with the promise to "continue to work Tor these principles and policies for which I have fought during the last five years," he threw In the towel.

Mrs. Willkie sat In the audience end hardly took her eyes from her husband as he made his farewell. (Concluded on Page Six Soviet Army Drives on Toward BY HARRISON SALISBURY U. Stag. Correspondent Moscow, April 6, (UK Russia's 3rd Ukrainian Army drove to within artillery range of the Black Sea fortress of Odessa today after dooming most of the garrison to deatb, capture or an' attempted "Dunkirk" by cutting across lis main escape routes to the northwest.

Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's guns, tanks and artillery were expected to lay siege to the largest Soviet city remaining in German hands witliin a matter of hours. ASK 4 F'S TO WAR JOBS IN Washington, April 8, (U.P.l All 4 draft registrants under 26 were ask ed today to find employment in es sentlal industry as the government pressed tne drive to free younger, able bodied men for the armed ODT's New Head. J.

Monroe Johnson, above, member Ihe Interstate Commerce Commission, is the new director of the Office of Defense Transportation, succeeding the Talc Joseph Eastman. Moior Operation Hollywood, April 6, Ol.PJ Susan i ciers was recovering today from a major abdominal operation. The I young actress' Illness forced the suspension of production of "Secrets In the Dark." She was not expected dc oeiore uic cameras again several weeks. 4 Hep. Joseph W.

Martin, House Republican leader, ap parently was confident Willkie would stand by the Republican party to which he went from the Democrats after President Roosevelt': Ilrst election in 1932. From hi! Massachusetts home, Martin ex pressed hope and confidence that Wltlkie would continue to help the G. O. P. lick the Roosevelt administration this year.

Willkie withdrew last night from the Republican presidential nomination contest in a statement made in Omaha, where he arrived over the weekend to campaign for the state's 25 delegates to the Republican national convention. They will be elected at next Tuesday's primary. WiUkie's only Nebraska opposition was from lit. Comdr. Har old E.

Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, who evidently will get the Nebraska delegation by default Bad Fourth The withdrawal followed Immediately upon announcement of com plete but unofficial returns from Wisconsin April i presidential pre ferential primary which revealed Willkie a bad fourth to Dewey won a smashing victory, Stassen and fConeZudcd on Page Tko) JCkyJidessa Latest front reports placed the Russians within 10 miles north, 15 northeast and 15 east of Odessa, which fell to the Germans In 1941 only after a two month siege. Malinovsky's forces, some of them veterans of Stalingrad, virtually sealed the fate of the garrison yesterday by cutting both the highway and railway running from Odessa to Chisinau in Bessarabia and pushing on another three miles to the head of trackless swamps that extend down to the Dniester lagoon. The only land escape route re GO TO NATION died legislation to force into war Jobs all 4 F's who fail to do so of tneir own accord. The committee asked Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey to obtain from the War Manpower Commission a list of the "appropriate activities" which would ex empt 4 F's from army labor bat talions or any other type of com pulsory service that Congress may Members said it was urgent for F's to go into war Jobs to replace the thousands of men now being reclassified and drafted under the new policy of limiting drastically all de terments to men under 26.

Those 4 F's unable to get essential work, the committee said, "should notify at once their local draft boards of their willingness to accept such work when and where Die committee's appeal coincided with other developments aimed at releasing younger men for the arm forces: WPB officials wero revealed to have decided not to support de ferments for men under 26 in public utilities even it means temporarily impairment of power and communications services However, they said they would fight s'rongly to re the 26 32 year (Concluded Page Six) Undertakers Held New York, April (U.RV Under laxers were among the employment classes whose members wer fnrHM. den to leav the Hungarian capital ui nuiiapesr. tne Hungarian agency reported in a broadcast recorded by U. 3. government monitors.

mow on Courses New York, April 6, (U.B. With snow 12 inc'ies deep in some parts of the Metropolitan area. 10 municipal golf courses announced today they would open for the season on Quits Contest i I Kal WENDELL L. WILLKIE Major's Orders" Denver, April 8. (UP) In the army a man obeys orders, and that's what a sergeant enroute with a truck convoy from the Alliance, air base to Colorado Springs, said he was doing when he left a year old lion at the Denver city zoo.

Superintendent Clyde Hill, remembering the zoo's dwindling fond supplies, protested he hadn't asked for the animal. "Major's orders," raid the sergeant, "that's all I know." Divorce In Offing Hollywood. April 6. (DP) Mrs. Leo Robin, wife of the composer of "Thanks for the Memory" and "No love.

No Notliln' said today that her attorney had been instructed to arrange a property settlement with her husband. maining in German hands was a single track coastal railway that hurdles the five mile wide Dniester lagoon by ferry. Only. a trickle of Germans could escape by this route. The Russians cut the Odcssa Chlsinau railway with the' capture of Razdclnaya, 38 miles northwest of Odessa, and severed the Odessa Chisinau highway by advancing eight miles southwest to Kuchurg an.

Another three mile push to the southwest cnguired Baden and brought Malinovsky's forces to the (Concluded Page Tco) (NKA Telephoto) Valsa Malthai. above, 22 year olil daughter of wealthy Bombay industrialist, is object of city wide search in New York, since disappearance March 20 from her iiuarlers at International Bouse. She performed native dance there for Indian relief on night of 20th, and was not seen to leave building. GREEK OFFICIALS RESIGN OFFICES Cairo. April 6.

(Up) The Greek government In exile has submitted Us resignation to King George, th Hellenic News Service reported yes Premier E. J. Tsouderos had re signed earlier this week and rccom mended Sophocles Venlzelos, mln lster oi marine, as nis successor. The ministers agreed to continue their functions provisionally, pending the decision of a constitutional arbiter. Review Is Refused Columbus.

April 6. 0J.R) Tile state supreme court today liad refused to review a Summit county appeals court upholding action of the common pleas court in revoking an original sentence of probation and imposing new sentence upon prc tatlon of new vklence. Sought in N. Y. 13 Jap Planes Destroyed By AIRPOWER OF ENEMY BATTERED Allied Headquarter.

Southwest Pacific, April (UP) American Liberator bombers, carrying the weight of an Allied (Tensive to smash Japan's air power on New Guinea, destroyed 13 enemy planes along the north coast in a 206 ton raid on Wewak, it was announced today. While the four englned bombers from Lt. Gen. George Kenney's Filth Air Force were attacking the battered base Tuesday, Aus tralian troops, advancing through the Mlntjlm valley, moved to within nine miles of Bogadjlm. 211 miles south of Wewak, after pass ing through Kwato where they seized a motor park and 30 trucks The New Guinea operations part of widespread Allied attacks which included the nth raid of tha war on Wake Island, 600 miles northeast of Enlwetok in the Mar shalls, the seventh assault in four days on Ponape, 443 miles east of Tnik in the Carolines, and new strikes at four Japanese bases in the Marshalls.

There was no mention of further operations on Truk from either the tral or south Pacmc, but oer; (Concluded on Page Two) BRICKER'S STATUS APPEARS CONFUSED BY WILLKIE'S ACT BY GRANT lHLLMAN V. P. Staff Correspondent Columbus, April 7, U.P. Politi cal opinion as to the chances of Gov. John W.

Brlckcr to capture Republican nomination for president after the withdrawal from ace of Wendell Willkie ranged widely here today. Some observers believed that Willkie's withdrawal meant the end of the Governor's hopes of winning the nomination while others pointed out that Brlcker now might become the spearhead of a campaign stop Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Dewey was elevated to the role of favorite for the nomination des protcsts that he wants to com plete his four year term at Albany when a slate of Wisconsin delegates pledged to him but running over his formal protests won overwhelmingly.

Bricker admitted In a formal (Concluded: on Page Si; NAZIFICATION OF HUNGARY GOES ON (By United Press) Nazlfication of German occupted Hungary continued today with announcement of a new series of anti Jewish decrees and disclosure that Premier Doeme Sztojay's pupiwl government had agreed on nationalization of labor services, wireless dispatches by the Nazi controlled Hungarian telegraph agency revealed. The dispatches, reported by the U. S. Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, said the puppet government also prepared for a Russian invasion by Issuing a decree for establishment of local civil administrators "In event certain parts of the country become a theater of operations." What, Right Outside? Chicago, April 6. (UP) Mtcliai F.

Ryan, an attorney defendir. Police Capt. John T. Cartan at hearing before the Civil Scrvk Commission on charges of nrln of duty In falling to suppress gam! ling, said yesterday that he found small "walking" bookie operant; In Ihe corridor outside the commi: slon hearing room last week. Request Turned Down Columbus, April 6, (U.RJ The fi Supremo Court today had re! to review a second suit Ihe election Ralph W.

0 Democrat, as mayor of hi last November's election. American sfr r' HUNGARY VPKS "i'f. "'1" from the east enclose Hitler's unhapp, Balkan satellites between Jaws of an aerial land plneers that will squeeze tighter and tighter as tempo of Allied air steps up. FDR WON'T RUN? Washington, April U.P. Hen.

Josiah W. Bailey, N. Influential southern Democrat, said today he doubted that President Roosevelt will seek a fourth term and "nominated Sen. Bailey elaborated nn his views after he had written a letter to the Byrd for l'resident headquarters declaring that although Byrd Is not an announced candidate "I would support him for the nomination for president with unreserved confidence." HEAVY LOSSES FACE GERMANS The Russians not only closed In on the great Black Sea port of Odessa today but herded tens of thousands of Germans Into a narrowing coastal segment cast of the Dniester river from which there was little chance of escape except with staggering losses. As the remnants of the beaten Nazi armies In southern Russia reeled back towards the Balkans.

British American air activity was divided between assaults on the Germans in western Europe and disrupting the rear Gennan communication lines in Rumania and Hungary. The chlcr blow durinrr the night was directed at German aircraft repair plants at Toulouse in southern France. The Third Army of Ukraine was 10 to 15 miles Trom Odessa on the north and east, within heavy (Concluded on Page TaoJ DeLuxe Farm Plan Delaware, April 6, (UP.) Ohio Wesleyan university Is sponsoring a deluxe style "back to the land" movement, It was disclosed today. A 150 acre farm near Delaware has been purchased and will be made Into a playground for the recreational and social functus of the students and faculty. Tne university treasurer will be responsible for farming the land.

Heck Cass, What the Uenver, April 6, P. Police a willing to go along with a farm who wants to do his spring early, hut Ihey claim Cass Casst iook tnings too far when lie did his YUGOSLAVIA XAz 3 fi.fe R.A.F. BOMBERS AGAIN RESUME AIR FORAYS BY PHIL AVL.T U. P. War Correspondent London, April 6, U.P.

RAF avy bombers, in their first raid are losing a record 91 planes oermany a week ago, wreck ed German aft repair plant at Toulouse in southern France. by moonlight last night. First reports Indicated the attack, carried out by a force consist lng entirely of Lancasters, was effective, an Air Ministry communi que said. Mines also were laid In enemy waters and one aircraft lost. Inclement weather presumably had grounded the RAF's heavy welKhts following their costly raid on wumnerg and western Germans last Thursday night, though twin engined Mosquito light bombers made several nuisance attacks on the Reich during the lull.

The night assault followed bv onlv a few hours a heavy attack by 200 JAPS STRIKE INTO BRITISH DEFENSES New Delhi, April e. (UP) Japa ncse troops were reported striking imu ull iiiuin uriusn defenses the Manlmir road north of Imphal iuu.tj, unne ineu iorces 1n North ucnirai unrma gained further grounu in tneir two pronged dr on Myltfcylna and destroyed 33 36 oik my planes caught aground a jungle airfield. A communique from Adm. Lord M. southeast headquarters said Japanese units siraoanng tne road be tween Imphal nnd Kohlma, 6 miles to the north, "continue exert pressure on the British lines.

Just a Waste of Effort Branlford. April 6. (UP) For months a "this safe not locked" hung on the safe in tl office of Ir.gleby and Taylor and nothing happened. One night this eex, tnieves wno couldn read, worked all nleht trj ing to smash the lock. Company ouiciais tneorize the yeges Inad vertently slammed the lock shut In banging the safe around trying to Doughnut Dunkcrs Arc Appealed To Chicago.

April 6. 01.19 The Lir.en ncrki today appealed lo doughnut dunkcrs to be on Denver's Main street. Cassell was more careful. Offending dunkcrs arrested as he drove Ills tractor, nui i be Uiihi lo moisten their siic nlow attached, through the down culcni witli decorum and town section, and police said tlifrc with coeouent respect for the was "considerable evidence" the linen" because of wartime linen I larmer had had a nip or two. I supply shortages, the L.S A.A.

said. Liberators Flying ForlrcsFcs and Liberators irom amy on railway larccts a refinery at Ploestl In the rich Rumanian oil fields and an Ameri can fishier sweep from Britain ovei the Berlin and Munich areas In day litmt yesterday. Reconnaissance photographs tak en after the Ploestl raid showed con rConcluded on Page Thirteen) CASS1N0 BOMBING WAS SATISFACTORY Allied Headquarters, Naples, April 6, OI.Ri Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commander in chief or the Mediterranean air forces, said today that the bombing of Cassino last month "accomplished all that was expected of lt by air force commanders" despite the fact that the town has not yet been captured by the allies.

At the same time, he revealed at a press conference that American planes raiding Steyr. Austria, last Sunday shot down 157 intercepting German aircraft rather than 115 as previously announced. It was their largest bag of the war in tills the WILLKIE PRAISED FOR HIS COURAGE Washington, April 6, UK) pub.ican congressmen, praising Wendell Wil.kic for his "courage G. O. P.

presidential candidate, re garded his decision today es a si? nificant step toward party unity aimed at defeat of the New Deal next November. Democrats available for comment said it meant the Republicans were going back to old guard and isolationism a tinniph for the "bosses" and the "Republican machinery." Close Reservations April 6. (U.Pj No more out of town reservations will be accepted for ttie annual convention of the League of Young Republican Clubs of Ohio to be held here April 15 16. ann O.Taber, general chairman, announced today. Dinah Shore Liked Hollywood, April 6, (UP) Duiah Shore's collection of honorary service titles increased today when she wa.s notified that t'le ordnance iinng icd iUbim TEva SOUTHERN ITALY IS HOT SPOT Allied Headquarters, Naples, April S.

(UP) Violent artillery duels have broken out on both flanks of the main 5th Army front in southern Italy, a communique said today, as official reports revealed a sudden increase in German troop and supply movements around Cas The road of Allied and Germai cannonading rose to a furious pitel in the hills around Casslno anJ on the coastal sector 16 miles the west as both sides cent hundreds of shells into the opposing battle lines. There was no official explana Hon for the new activity in th German lines, but a reference to large scale transport movements, suggested the Nazis might hava been moving in troops and equipment for a counter thrust against! the Allied positions in and around tha bombardment inflicted considerable casualties on the Germans. Nazi trench mortars coUntere the Allied fire, centering Zealand infantry position slopes of Castle Hill, Just northeasb of casslno. The main weight of the enemy bombardment fell upon Allied strongpoints around the village ot Tremensuoll, where Nad shells crashed down at the rate of 20 u. minute for 15 minutes.

Official reports said, however, that Allied casualties from this shelling were relatively light. Minor patrol activity and artil lery continued on the Anzio beach head front, and front dispatches Nazi shells landed In an American hospital there Tuesday for the second time in 24 hours, causing one casualty. On the British 8th Army's Adri atic front, Allied troops broke up a Orsogna, while the Germans raked the Orsogna Ortona highway wltli mortar and shell fire. Bad weather limited aerial op erations over Italy, but Allied fighter bombers maintained their offensive against enemy communications and front line aTeas. The low flying attack planes hammered the railway stations ai Colleferro, rroslnone and Terra clna, on the west coast, and gun emplacements, bivouac areas and supply dumps along the cth Army front.

Tuesday night, other fighter bomber formations raided enemy shipping of fthe west coast between Piomblno and Civitavecchia. LAST M1MTE FLASHES BOMB FRENCn COAST Umdon, April 6, 0J.R United Stales Liberators escorted by Thunderbolt fighters bombed the Pas dc Calais area of the French coast today. IN NEW ROl.F. Washington, April 6, Wendell h. Willkie's viillidMwal from the contest for the Republican presidential nomination projected him today Into a new role as free Jance political vLser Willi mi.

party lo affair AS ERROR i U. S. Bomber Base, Italy, March 15, (delayed by censorship). (UP Eight lo 10 American Liberators participating in the mighty aerial assault that all but leveled Casslno today dropped their bombs by mistake on allicd lidd Venafro, 13 mile to the east. ATOM.

ATTACKED San Francisco. April 6, CuJS Tokyo radio said today Allied attacked Truk atoll in lie Carolines again Monday and Tuesday nights. 1.