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SECTION 1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1944, Reds Smash Haimciraii Says 4,500 Planes Lash Europe for 2d Day Negro Bombardment Group Welcomed To Neiv Base At Godman Field In Ceremony planes against German-held Europe from their bases in Britain m-mrnrn awaaw ffmm'y mm urn -J At 4 'V 1 4 rV Unit to Get Final Training The 477th Bombardment Group, one of few such units in the Army Air Forces with Negro personnel, was welcomed yesterday to its new base, Godman Field, by Fort Knox post officials. After training at Godman is completed, the units will go directly to combat duty. The ceremonies, held in the post fieldhouse, also was a Kentucky homecoming for the commanding officer of the unit. Col.

Robert R. Selway, honor graduate at Kentucky Military Institute in 1920. Under Colonel Selway's command are some 1,500 enlisted men and 150 officers, most of them Negroes, formerly based at Selfridge Field, Mich. I have an overage in every department and the, men who make my team will be the best," Colonel Selway told the assembled unit. His motto, which is posted in conspicuous places throughout the field: "Get to Your Damn Guns." Flies Medium Bombers.

The unit which flies B-25 medium bombers has one citation from the Air Forces for training procedure. It occupied, barracks which formerly were used by units being at Godman but which moved out several months ago. Safety is stressed in training and the unit has gone Fort Knox Photo. THE 477TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP was welcomed yesterday to its new base at Godman Field. At the ceremonies were, front row, from left, Col.

Lawrence G. Forsythe, post executive; CoL Robert R. Selway, Jr, commanding officer of the unit, and Miss Sedalia Crowe, Godman Field Service Club hostess. Back row, from left, Maj. James Ramsey, flight surgeon; Capt.

George Knox, senior pilot, and Miss Margaret Collier, senior hostess. munity, where everything has been tested and a plan of living has been worked out. I understand that the standards set by your commanding officer are high we have these same standards while you are at Fort Knox in Louisville. "You will find that, a man in uniform is treated as a soldier, regardless of race, religion or branch of the service. On the other hand, all soldiers are expected to behave themselves as soldiers both on the post and off.

You will find equal facilities all kinds are provided in the areas of all the separate units. House Names Seven Defense Lines At Sevastopol Continued from First Tage the Crimean Peninsula April 8, Gen. I. Tolbukhin's Fourth Ukraine Army moving one hundred miles southward from the Sivash Sea and Gen. Andrei I.

Yeremenko's indepen dent maritime forces covering 150 miles in a westward drive from Kerch. The fall of Sevastopol would release these two armies for par ticipation in the big Russian mainland drives of the summer which arc expected to coincide with Allied invasion of Western Europe. It is possible that units of the two armies already have been shifted to Romania, Old Poland or the north-central front opposite Latvia. The German High Command, which on Sunday had hinted of a Russian break-through at Sevastopol, declared in its latest bulletin that Soviet troops had "succeeded in effecting a salient" on tne southern side or their Crimean lines, but were repulsed on the northern side. Other Actions Reported.

German planes' and ground fire were said to have destroyed 130 more Russian planes over the Sevastopol area. The Crimean drive was the only ground activity of any importance mentioned by Moscow, but Berlin said German troops had occupied some unidentified hills east of the Siret River in Romania. Berlin also declared that Russians had used twenty rifle divisions and several tank divisions since April 26 in an effort to crack German-Romanian lines between the Prut River and the Moldavian sector of Romania. These unsuccessful attempts, Berlin said, had now halted temporarily. The Russians said their troops on all fronts Sunday wrecked fifty-two German tanks and de stroyed fifty-six planes.

Bid to Rejoin A.F.L. Dropped By Miiiers Continued from First Page the result of a quarrel with President Philip Murray. Labor observers had interpret ed Lewis attempt to get back into the A.F.L. as a move to obtain a powerful seat in A.F.L, councils during an election year and to bulwark labor for a united front in postwar days. Had he been admitted, he would have been one of the most influential A.F.L.

executives, with the TT.M.W. as one of the three big gest unions the A.F.L. Convention Didn't Act. The A.F.L. council formally took up Lewis' application in Au gust, 1943, and decided to submit it to the A.F.L.

convention the following October without a recommendation. The convention threw it back into the council's lap, making it plain that jurisdic tional issues between the two unions should be settled before the U.M.W. was readmitted Negotiations were renewed at the council's Miami meeting last Jan uary but produced no clearcut action. Admiral Kodgrrs Dies. Bethesday, May 8 P) Vice Admiral William Ledyard Rodgers, U.

S. Navy, retired commander-in -chief of the Asiatic Fleet in 1918-19 and member of the advisory council of the Washington Arms Con ference in 1921, died today at the Naval Medical Center. He was 84. To Probe Ward Case St. Xavier Teacher, Brother Virgil, Dies Brother Virgil Roberts, C.F.X., 64, died at 2:10 p.m.

Monday at St. Joseph Infirmary of a heart ailment. He collapsed at noon Monday in his classroom at St. Xavier. High School, Continued from First Pace two important bridges near Mantes, northwest of Paris on the main feeder route to German positions on the Channel opposite England.

Thunderbolt fighter bombers in a dusk attack also knocked out a double-track, eight-span rail bridge over the Oise River at Hirson, FranCe, returning crewmen said. Fires from Sunday's raid still blazed in Berlin as the Americans attacked in a drizzling rain this morning, travelers from the Reich reported on reaching Sweden. Despite the bad weather, bombs were said to have blanketed the center of the city. One traveler said two or three bombs crashed into the ruins of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-ing's spacious Air Ministry, which was hit Sunday. Nazis Are Desperate.

Most of the air battles occurred over Brunswick, 125 miles west of Berlin, but for half an hour the sky over the Berlin area was flaming, aerial graveyard. German fighter pilots, throw ing caution to the wind, used every tactic in the book, even ramming some of the Flying Fortresses. Many times Fortress Pilots had to swerve sharply to avoid falling planes and pieces of wreckage. For thirty horrible minutes the Nazis, with American fighters on their tails, barreled through the bomber formations with their cannon spitting, ignoring the cur tain of lead that Fortress gunners laid down. 'Hold Down "We were flying along peace fully before the target when I saw a whole bunch of enemy fighters aiming at us through the clouds," said 2d Lt.

George E. Hersett, Spokane, a navigator. "About twelve of them slam med into us and a few minutes later thirty-five more hit us again in a head-on attack. They were barreling right through the formation from front to back, holding down their triggers all the way. I saw seven go through one part of the formation.

Only three came out thj other side Right ahead of us one Mcsser schmitt rammed into a Fort and both blew up." Scores of German fighters bored into an attacking Liberator armada in the Brunswick area in a wild forty-five-minute melee, while Fortresses swept over Berlin. a AAA nr. 1 1 ions nil ueriin. The Flying Fortress detachment of the formation poured perhaps 2,000 tons on the city which Berliners now say has been "condemned to death" in the Allied preinvasion bombard ment sweeping through its twenty-fourth consecutive day. The communique said the Berlin raiders bombed by instruments through a cloud layer over the German capital where dispatches via Stockholm said 200 fires were raging after Sunday's big attack.

"Results were unobserved" in today's bombing, the bulletin said. Sunday's attack on Berlin and the Munsteronsnabruck area of western Germany cost the Americans eight bombers and five fighters, and a previous raid nine days ago cost the Eighth Air Force sixty-three bombers. IT. S. Loses 243 Planes.

Berlin has been torn by at least 13,200 tons of explosives since the Americans took over where the R.A.F. left off March 4. In nine attacks on the Axis nerve center the Americans have lost 242 heavy bombers while the Germans lost 524 planes in unsuccessful attempts to check the rain of bombs. Since April 15 the Allies have hurled approximately 67,000 Dewey 'Copies Answers' Late Continued frdSn First Page followed the isolationist line before Pearl Harbor. Perhaps some of you will re member," Hannegan said, "Governor Dewey's brilliant exposition proving that we could not possibly produce 50,000 airplanes.

He had all the figures to show how and why it could not be done, and how even the plant to build that many airplanes would take us at least four years to construct. "Then he cinched the argument and boxed it in an ironbound coffin of defeatism by warning us that 'to use airplanes, you have to have an air force. To maintain and fly 50,000 planes, an air force of about 750,000 men is These, the Gov ernor continued, 'are sobering Rays People 'Determined. "Today the present Governor of New York must be very sober indeed. Today, four years after he showed us how 50,000 planes could not be built, how an air force to man them could not be trained, America has produced for the armed forces 184,000 planes, and we have an air force of 2,385,000 fighting men." Hannegan told his audience he has not discussed with President Roosevelt the question of becom ing a candidate again.

"But, he said, "the people of the United States are determined that Franklin D. Roosevelt shall com plete the assignment which destiny has given him. And I can say to his fellow Democrats of New York that, whatever might be the purely personal desire of the President, the Democrats of the United States and millions of other Americans will demand that a great historical process be completed without interruption And despite the malicious whispers to the contrary, I can assure you that the President is fit and ready for the fight. Barkley, Farley Spoke. Other sneakers wore Senator Alben W.

Barkley of Kentucky majority leader, and Democratic Slate Chairman James A. tar ley The dinner, attended by more than 1.200, and held under the auspices of the national and state committees, was part of a fund- raisine drive. Barkley, in challenging Dewey's "unpreparedness" charge against the nrewar Roosevelt Adminis tration, said: "It is necessary to refute this only by recalling that from 1921 to 1933, twelve years, during which thf Democratic Party was not in power, not a single battleship was laid down for construc tion in the American The groundwork for international collaboration, Barkley said, already is being laid by the President and Secretary of State Hull in a "nonpartisan manner." He cited the conferences of Moscow and Casablanca, Quebec and Teheran The Kentuckian referred to the Governor as "a coy, demure, un announced but palpitating candidate." Missouri Democrats Back Fourth Term Jefferson City. May 8 (U.R) Asserting that a change in national Administration now would "inevitably prolong the war and increase loss of life," Missouri Democrats today instructed delegates to the Democratic convention in Chicago to vote as a unit for a fourth-term nomination for President Roosevelt. The convention action followed the path pointed out by Senator Harry S.

Truman in his keynote address, in which he said "It requires no demonstration to perceive that a Democratic defeat at the polls this year would confuse the conduct of the war, perhaps imperil the peace and thus give aid and comfort to the enemy." and Italy, and in the last forty-eight hours a total of 8,500 planes have dropped 12,000 tons of explosives on key targets stretching from the English Channel to Bucharest, Romanian capital. The British-based R.A.F. in at tacks Sunday niht hit Rennes airfield north of Nantes and other targets in Nantes, Tours, Salbns, thirty -fiv-miles south of Orleans, and military installations on the Normandy coast as well as the great German chemical center. Leverkusen, just north of Cologne. Nine planes were lost in the R.A.F.

night operations, which included the sowing of mines in enemy waters. Rouen Attacked. Yesterday's first wave of Ma rauders hit targets in northern France, among them Rouen, a rail deployment point for German troops along the invasion coast. Canadian Spitfire pilots swept the Cambrai area, bagging cne ME-110 in the air and damaging three Junkers fiS's aground. Mosquitos, Spitfires and Ty phoon fi'jhter-bombers also at tacked Bethune, another rail center, and an airfield near Dinard.

The Axis-controlled Vichy radio said the Allied onslaught on French targets had doubled during the last forty-eight hours. Slain Man Identified As Chicago Sportsman Hot Springs, May 8 OP) The body of a man found in a highway ditch near Malvern two weeks ago was identified by authorities today as that of Frank Abbatte, missing Chicago sportsman and restaurant proprietor, who disappeared February 2 4 after coming here for the Oak-lawn Park racing season. Coroner R. W. Griswold said Identification had been established by a Hot Springs dentist.

Dr. R. D. Ackerman, and examination disclosed that the missing man had been shot through the back of the head. TAME Giv weU rrooml loo.

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HOME LIFE BLDG. LOUISVILLE, KY. L. D. 238-9 JA 0226-7-8 flX'HOROLIHE If where he had taught since 1935.

I This has been found necessary on account of the awful distances here." Major Ileverly Speaks. Also speaking were Maj. P. M. Heverly, post special services officer; Miss Margaret Collier, senior hostess, and Miss Sedalia Crowe of Louisville, who will be hostess for the Godman Field Service Club.

A former Kentuckian, Lt. Col Eckford Hodgson, stationed with bombardment training headquar ters at Washington, was at God man Field for the welcoming ceremonies. Smith-Connally Labor Disputes Act Decause ne seizea a nonwar plant, while the act specifically mentions businesses producing mining or manufacturing war materials. "Montgomery Ward is a vast enterprise so closely connected with the war effort that its busi ness cannot be separated from the war effort," Biddle's brief said. Question of Emergency.

"We do not, and have never suggested that the President can seize any retail store or farm The United States is not con tending that the President possesses a broad, unrestricted unreviewable power in time of war to confiscate the property of all citizens. "The question then is whether a national emergency now exists in the middle of the war." Biddle said that the courts have decided against substituting the judgment for that of the Chief Executive "as to the gravity of the emergency" requiring the ex ercise of his powers "or as to the necessity that exists for using particular piece of property." "If the President had not acted and acted promptly the strike (of 6,000 Ward, employes) would have spread like wildfire; it would have spread because labor would have concluded that the agreement to settle disputes peacefully was not being enforced. Election Set for Today. "If the President's power Is now struck down, labor will know that peaceful settlements cannot be enforced." The 4,900 employes will ballot today in a National Labor Relations Board election to determine if they wish to be represented in company bargaining by the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes Union (C.I.O.). It was the company's refusal to recognize the union as a bargaining agent until it proved its representation in an election that led to the government seizure.

Continued from First Page action insist a mail order house not a war contractor. Dqwey asked that the investi gation determine if President Roosevelt had been given "unwarranted power" under war emergency laws. If so, he declared, Congress should repeal the grant. Republicans charged on the floor of the House that the plant seizure was "dictatorship." Senator Bridges N. said that pressure from the Roosevelt Administration had compelled Gen.

Georga C. Marshall, against his will, to permit American troops to carry out the armed seizure of the Chicago property. Bridges, in a Senate speech, contended similar pressure forced Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to use G-men to arrest a Ward official for tearing down a Government poster. Says Men Humiliated.

"The record of J. Edgar Hoover and his organization is such, that they would never enter into such activities," declared Bridges. Bridges asserted the soldiers were humiliated and "demoralized" when they were ordered into the mail order house to eject Avery. He also denounced Attorney Gen. Francis Biddle for having the F.B.I, arrest Assistant Manager Paul D.

Sowell for tearing down the poster. In Chicago, Biddle said the extent of the emergency and not the type of property taken over by the Government is the true test of the President's wartime powers. i Extra Brief Filed. The Attorney General filed a supplemental brief before Federal Judge William H. Holly, who will rule tomorrow on.

the Government's petition for a temporary injunction restraining Ward officials from interfering with the Government's seizure and operation. The company's brief was based on the contention that the President acted illegally under the Native of New Haven, he entered the Xaverian Order in 1897. He studied at Mount St. Joseph College, Baltimore, and then taught at East Boston High School, Boston. For a number of years he was superior of St.

Paul's School, Portsmouth, Va. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Betty Roberts, New Haven, four brothers, Nick, George, Stephen and Herbert Roberts, and three sisters. Sister Anthelma Roberts, Webster Grove, Mrs. Mary J.

Barnett and Mrs. Rose Johnson, New Haven, Conn. Funeral services will be held 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the school and 9 a.m. at St.

Boniface Catholic Church. Burial, in St. Louis Cemetery. Meningitis Claims 15th Victim Here Since January 1 Marking the fifteenth death from the disease in Louisville and Jefferson County since the first of the year, Rudolph George, 17, Valley Statipn, died of spinal meningitis at 9:30 p.m. yesterday at General Hospital.

He was taken to the hospital May 1. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Louella Probst; his stepfather, James Probst; a sister, Miss Christine George; a half-sister, Miss Betty Lou Probst; three brothers, Cpl. Shuford George, now home on furlough, and Em- mett George, third class petty officer, now at sea, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. L. George, Falkville, Ala. OSTAR I- POTTER. 44.

assistant gen eral foreman of the L. N. shops car department, was dead on arrival at General Hospital at 11:30 p.m. Sunday after he suffered a heart attack. He laved at 4015 S.

1st. He was- a member of the Masonic Order, the Scottisn Kite, tne Eastern Star, and the executive board of the Epworth League of the Methodist Church. Survlvor are wife. Mr. Ruby Pot- Over-26 Status Soon to Be Set Washington, May 8 (JFhA policy announcement establishing the draft status' of men over will be made this week, probably climaxing a three-day conference of State Selective Service directors which opened today.

National draft headquarters gave no hint of the nature of the new program expected to take some of the uncertainty out of the draft handling of older men, but Mai. Gfn. Lewis I J. Horshey. said 2.500,000 men of all ages now are in 1-A and added: "One of the questions Selective Service must decide is whether it is wise to keep so many men alerted if one can use a military term in view of present calls." more -than 100 days without an accident, Colonel Selway said.

Col. Lawrence G. Forsythe, in explaining the relation of Godman Field and Fort Knox, said: "The post exchange of Fort Knox covers Godman Field. The Service Clubs and Officers' Clubs are separate. The Military Police of Fort Knox cover the whole area including Louisville.

All the utilities, electricity, gas, water, sewers, and roads are branches of Fort Knox, but the utilities officers are separate. "The important point is that, no matter what your past experiences have been, you have arrived in a well organized com ter; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Davli; two orm, Wliliuia A. hotter and ivlicliufl (J. hotter; six brothers, Ocuiko 1'otter, Stephen l'otter, Wilbur lJollcr, Hubert hotter, Paul Potter, U.

S. Army, ta- tiontd in Alaska and Waller U. S. Army stationed in Italy: four slaters, Mrs. Anna Underwood.

Mrs. Joseohine Hutcheton, Mrs. Kuth Lancaster anu Martha Milcneil, and tnree grandchildren. Funeral bervice will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the home and at p.m.

at tpworth Methodist Churcn. Burial will be in i-vergreen Cemetery. WILLIAM A. "GIS" PIKE. 34.

plant superintendent of Frankfort Distilleries until He became ill a year ago. cued at 7 p.m. Monday at his home, 08 Wood-bourne. He had been employed by the distillery lor eleven years. He was a member of the Kicnmond 3oat Club.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Lane Leninan jfiice; a son. William A. Pike. a daugmer, Wendy Ann Pike; his mother, Mrs.

Ben Pike, three brothers, J. S. Pike. J. C.

Pike, West Palm Beach, and B. J. Pike; and three sisters, Mrs. L. Kleier, Miss Arietta Pike and Mrs.

Ed Pierce. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Ra Herman's Chapel. St. Matthews.

and at li a.m. at Si. Francis of Assist Catholic Church. Burial will be In Cal vary C'emttcry. MRS.

SARAH J. WINEBEINNEE, 81 oi 2iu Aavier, died at a.m. Monday at General Hospital. Survivors are two sons, Theodore inebrinner, and Harry inebrinner. and two grand- chilaren.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Manning's Chapel. Burial will be in Portland Cemetery. GEORGE W. HINDS.

Funeral services lor Ireorge W. Hinds, 3H. a former resident of Louisville, who died Friday at Haniord, will be held 3 p.m. Thursday at Maas' Chapel. Burial will be in Kesthaven Memorial Park.

An employe of the personnel department ot tne l. dupont de nemours company, he was assigned to a Washington fiant several months ago. Previously le had been stationed at the Indiana Ordnance Works. Charlestown. Hanford managed girls' hot ball teams here for a number of years.

MRS. AMELIA J. CLARK. 90. died at 9:30 a.m.

Monday at her home on Mount Washington Road. She is survived by a Mrs. Ed Howell. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednes day from the home of a niece.

Mrs. Harry Garrett, Preston Street Road. Burial will be in Hebron Cemetery. MRS. NANNIE C.

GOODIN. 66. died at 9:30 a.m. Monday at her home, 2048 Midland. Survivors are two stepsons, John w.

oondin and Oscar ooodin: brother. J. W. Beard. Lexington.

Ky. and a sister. Mrs. W. C.

Black. New Washington, Ind. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lee Cralle's Chapel. Burial will be In Rest- haven Memorial Park.

MRS. ADOIE L. McFARLAM. B9 Pfwcr Vullry. died at I am, Mon day at Miillory layior Memorial II pital, l.a Orange, Ky.

Site waa a nntlve of oidhnrn County. Survivors are three sons, Victor McFarlan, Pewee Valley Kenneth McFarlan. San Diego. Calif unri Or.in McFarlan. litickner Kv Fu neral services will be held at 2:30 p.m Tuesday at Victor Mcfrarians home Pewee Valley.

Burial will be in Duncan Memorial Cemetery, Floydsburg, Ky. EVERETT E. BARNES. 47. died of heart attack at 6 a.m.

Monday at his home. 263 Pennsylvania. He was a salesman for the B. Heller Company of Chicago. survivors are nis wife, Mrs.

Juliette C. Barnes: two brothers Gravson Barnes and James Barnes, both of Lawrenceburg. and two sisters, Mrs. Tine Cannon and Mrs Lillian Walker, both of Huntington, Va. Bessie Daingerfield Dies In Lexington 'Lexington, May 8 OP) Miss Bessie Parker Daingcrfield, 79, died today at her home on Swigert Road.

Survivors include a brother, J. Keene Daingerfield, and two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield and Miss Juliet Parker Daingerfield, both of Fayette County. who returned the fire. One of the bullets struck and killed Spears. The body was taken to a Stanford funeral home.

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1 Plus Federal Excise Tax Stanford, May 8 UP) Clyde Spears, 40, operator of a grocery store on the Neal's Creek Road near here, was shot and killed by a sheriff's posse tonight a short time after he allegedly killed his 4-year-old daughter, Maxine, with a pistol bullet. Lincoln County Sheriff Sherman Anderson said he was told that Spears came home from a trip to Stanford in a drunken condition and fired at the child when she ran out to meet him. The sheriff said Mrs. Spears, seeing her husband's intentions, had grabbed the child before she reached her father and started running with her. The bullet struck Maxine in the head and she died in a few minutes.

The sheriff formed a posse to search for Spears, who escaped after the child was killed. He said Spears emerged from a wooded section later in the night and opened fire on the officers, WA 4141 Broadway at First.