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ft (ff fit NORTH IOWA'S DAILY PAPER EDITED FOR THE HOME il V' 1 IH ITl i i III THE NEWSPAPER THAT MAKES ALL NORTH IOWANS NEIGHBORS" VOL. Associated PretJ and United Press Full Leased Wires (Five CcnU a Copy I MASON CITY, IOWA SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1944 NO. ZOO 1 It i I II II A ALLIES RECORD Near Kirschbaum, 39, Is Killed While Fixing Electric Pump Main Escape Allies 10th Army; NAZIS BLASTED BY 5,000 CRAFT IN 2 WAY DRIVE Planes From Britain and Italy Bombard Transport Systems erman i 4 i i REDS ASSAULT GERMAN SHIPS BAKtrtlS Large Scale Troop Movements in Arctic Waters Is Observed London, (P) The Russians re ported baturaay an air attacK on German troopships in the Barents sea north of Norway. It was the jrst iime jn months large-scale German troop movements had been noted in Arctic waters. The midnight war bulleUn from Mosc ov n'i I allies 111-lilt 1 ampst-" jw.w,...

were carrying new German forces Hiigh command has stated on many l' oute ror capture GERMANS LOSE TANKS, MASSES OF EQUIPMENT Conquering Annies Within 2V? Miles of Cutting Via Casilina By NOLAXD NORGAARD Allied Headquarters, Naples, (P) -Fifth army troops occupied Sezze, 13 miles northwest of Ter-racina, Saturday in a drive to join other forces widening a deep salient from the former Anzio beachhead, a penetration which, already is within 2'i miles of cutting the Via Casilina main escape route for a major part of the German 10th army. Sezze, a city of 20.000 is the largest town taken in the current offensive. Advance units of the beachhead force, pushing out 12 miles, threatened to cut the Via Casilina below Valmontone a blow that would imperil the retreat of at least 8 nazi divisions battling desperately since the breakthrough of the Hitler line. Capture of Sezze brought American forces squarely up against the latest defenses that 2 nazi divisions tried to establish in the Lepini hills north and east of the Pontine marshes to protect the flank of the Germans in the Liri valley and their retreat route on Via Casilina toward Rome. The American armored force pounding upon Valmontone was continuing its thrust Saturday.

The advance Friday carried it to the vicinity of Artena, only Zi miles below Valmontone. Of the 17 nazi divisions engaged below Rome. 8 are in a line where their escape would be highly complicated by cutting of the Via Casilina. They have other alternative retreat roads, but these would be easily clogged and the Germans probably would be forced to lose many men and much equipment. Valmontone is 21 miles southeast of the Eternal City.

Thirty-six miles to the south east of this spearpoint flung out of the Anzio beachhead, Germans on the main front were defeated in heavy tank fighting and fell back, leaving masses of equip ment, including tanks, behind them. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's re connaissance troops in the Artena area, pacing the drive from the beachhead, had advanced about 12Vi miles north of the former beachhead perimeter after the allies beat back sharp enemy counter-attacks, in which 15 huge Tiger tanks participated.

An ofticial report said the enemy appeared to be pulling back heavy artillery from the Cisterna- Valmontone road. Surging up the Liri valley, the 8th army defeated the Germans in a furious tank battle west of the Melfa river, knocking out 12 tanks. Then Canadian and British forces pushed to within 2 miles of Arce, near the confluence of the Liri and Sacco rivers, and to within 2 or 3 miles of Ceprano, important road junction on the Cas-sino-Rome highway. These vital road junctions control communications at the head of the Liri valley where highway 6 (the Via Casilina) begins its long, straight stretch through a wide valley to Rome. Desperate nazis threw in reinforcements at several danger jj: Firemen Believe Water in Basement Caused Current Short Circuit Otto Kirschbaum, 39, 1629 S.

Wilson, was electrocuted Friday night when an electric pump which he was repairing in the basement of his home developed a short circuit. Mason City firemen, who were called to the scene with a resuscitator, said that water on the basement floor apparently caused the short circuit. Mr. Kirschbaum was pronounced dead by Coroner Ralph Smiley at 10:04 P. ni.

after the resuscitator had been used since 9:24 p. m. Mrs. Kirschbaum and her sister, Shirley Jilek of Crystal Lake, who was visiting at the Kirschbaum home were in the living room at the time of the accident. Hearing Mr.

Kirschbaum scream, Mrs. Kirschbaum ran to the basement and shut off the motor. Three neighbors who were called applied artificial respiration until the fire department arrived with the resuscitator. Mr. Kirschbaum was born June 11, 1904, in Wesley, the son of Mr.

and Mrs. William Kirschbaum, now of Sexton. He was married to Rosa Jilek in Albert Lea, Sept. 10, 1933. They had 3 children.

Gary. 6. Joseph. 4 and Michael, 2. Surviving are 5 brothers, Peter of Ayrshire, Robert of Garner, Aloysius of Crystal Lake.

August of Sexton and Albert of 'Mason City. 3 sisters, Mrs. Harry Mele- ney of Mason City, Mrs. tugene Cink of Algona and Mrs. tucnara Garnen of Luverne.

The Kirschbaums had lived in Mason City for 11 years. Sir. Kirschbaum was employed at the Decker meat packing company He was a member of Holy Fam ily Catholic church. Funeral arrangements are In complete. The body was taken to the Meyer funeral home.

NEW RISE IN FLOOD EXPECTED Ottumwa Authorities Ask for Help Again Des Moines, (IP) Weary flood watchers renewed their vigil along the Des Moines river Satur day as water from Thursday night heavy rams in central Iowa poured into the stream from the Raccoon and other tributaries. Both the Des Moines and the Raccoon were expected to return to their previous high levels of early in the week, but officials hoped new flood damage might be averted. In preparation for the new rise Ottumwa authorities asked the naval air station there for help again, and state guard and coast guard units were busy in the Bur lington area. Large blocks of farm land in Des Moines, Henry, Louisa and Lee counties were under water, due to record high stages of the Mississippi, Iowa, Des Moines and Skunk rivers. The weather bureau predicted that by Sunday the Mississippi at Burlington would reach a crest of 17.2 to 17 feet the highest level since 1888 U.

S. highway 61 was under water, south of Burlington in Iowa and south of Keokuk, in Missouri. The Burlington railroad line also was covered with water south of Keokuk and trains were being detoured into Illinois. Army engineers considered opening another flood gate in the power dam at Keokuk, in order to hasten the crest downstream while delaying it above the dam Highway traffic into Keokuk from Illinois was cut off when water covered the approach to the only bridge. In Des Moines, South West Twenty-first street, known as the 5(5 sjc ij! SfC jji sj? ezze Won't Defend S'S London, (U.R) The nazi-con- trolled Vichy raido said Saturday that the Germans will abandon Rome without a fight and fall back on a long-prepared defense line to the north.

Though the allies have had proof that the German command has been using Rome as a com munications center and for other military purposes, the Vichy Droadcast claimed the enemy would not defend the Italian capi tal because "it already has been declared an open town." "The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the gen- eral conduct of the war except for ic tkt previous occasions it would accept battle only north of Rome on a ne oi resistance preparea many months ago. Stockholm dispatches suggested that the success of the allied ol tensive in Italy may result in the invasion oi western x.uroue oesxn- rung sooner man previously naa been planned. ine stocKnoim correspondent or the London Daily Telegraph said the German people were being told that the battle for Rome, "now nearing a decision, will pro- bablv be the signal for an allied from ated with a Russian offensive from the east." Radio Berlin attributed the col lapse of German defenses in Italy to the German command's refusal to divert troops massed in western Europe to a "minor theater of war." "By withholding reserves in western Europe," Berlin said, "The German command is keeping its full freedom of movement. On the dav of the iwuan campaign wwk vv. BODY IS RECOVERED Hastings, (U.R) The body of Mrs.

Frank Dabrashn, 440 Blair avenue, St. Paul, was found floating in the Mississippi river 4 miles south of here late Friday. She had been missing since May 14, when her purse and some of her clothing were found on the high bridge at St. Paul. Weather Report FORECAST Mason City: Fair Saturday night.

Increasing cloudiness Sunday. Not much change in temperature. Iowa; Mostly cloudy with showers extreme south portion Saturday afternoon; south portion Satur day night and south and east portions Sunday. Monday partly cloudy. No important tempera ture change through Sunday.

Warmer Monday. Moderate to occasionally fresh winds. Minnesota: Fair north and partly cloudy south portion Saturday night and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. IN MASON CITY Globe-Gazette weather statistics: Maximum Friday Minimum Friday night At 8 a.

in. Saturday 72 56 62 YEAR AGO: Maximum 57 40 .01 Minimum I Precipitation London, (IP) Possibly 5,000 al lied planes smashed simultane ously into Germany and France from Britain and Italy Saturday in one of the greatest co-ordinated blows ever struck at Hit ler's transport system. Up to 1,000 Liberators and Flying Fortresses struck across the channel from British bases, pounding the German rail centers of Karlsruhe. Mannheim, Ludwig' shafen and Saarbrucken and air craft plants in the French cities of Metz and Strasbourg. Simultaneously, other powerful formations swung over the Mediterranean, battering 2 rail yards at Marseille, the rail center of Nimes in the Rhone valley, and Avignon, 40 miles from the mouth ot the Rhone.

Enemy airdromes at Salon, 20 miles northwest of Marseille, and mt Montpelucr Aimargues. 15 miles southwest of Nimes, also were pounded by the Italy-based bombers. Britain-based bombers and their escorts, which raised the total force striking from west to approximately 2,000 American planes, apparently encountered only slight fighter opposition, the Berlin radio claiming that unfavorable weather hindered defense efforts. Rounding out the powerful daylight tia-usts, other Italy-based heavy bombers raided the Jugoslav port of Razanik, 10 miles north of Zara, and RAF Mitchells made daylight sweeps over the continent from Birtam in support of the poundings of Germany and France. Britain-based heavy craft were grounded Friday because of weather conditions, but the allies kept the day-night assault thundering with attacks on Europe by lighter craft from Britain and with Italy-based 4-cngined bombers striking southern French rail centers.

It was the 2nd assault in a little more than 12 hours on the chem ical center of Ludwigshafen, hit Friday night by RAF mosquitos which also pounded the Rothe Erde rail yards at Aachen. The Berlin radio said the Rhine land cities of Karlsruhe and Mannheim had been hit with "substantial quantities' of explosives and incendiaries. It added that weather conditions had kept all but a few of Germany's fighter interceptors from making contact with the American bomb er formations and their escorts. London observers said that al lied formations including hun dreds of Flying Fortresses and Liberators crossed the channel lor 3 hours during the morning. Opens Package With Uniform; 280 Lb.

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Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps from your Globe-Gazette carrier boy. NEW GAINS ON LINE IN BURMA Chinese Forces Take Warong; Japs Escape Trap at Tatangtzu By DEAN SCHEDLER Associated Press War Editor Allied troops advanced a mile and a half toward the Japa nese north Burma base of Myit- kyina bringing the inevitable de feat of the outnumbered Japanese ever nearer, southeast Asia head quarters announced. The Chinese have scored addi tional victories over Japanese forces by capturing the north northeast of Kamaing. and seized supply dump In the Mogaung flirted on the Jans. Chinese are in pursuit of re- treating Japanese who escaped with severe losses from a trap at Tatangtzu.

"the highest battlefield the world," on the Salween front, the Chinese high command nnrtVinact I of Tengchung, and heavy fight- mg was Deiievea in prospect ior that strategic pivot of Japanese communications north of the Burma road. Fighting in sleet and ice in the high mountain passes, the Chinese are continuing their pressure against the Japanese uVin Viat-o hfMi lmnhlA tn make successful stand," the high command said mmandsaid. weauwuue suuuiwm iinpuoj in India, a Japanese battalion was reported to have been "practica iT I 1 -A I i 1 1 ly annihilated and the command- niioH tn mnt I I the ground troops, royai air torce and Indian air force f.ghters and diye-DomDers regisierea a aireci nits on me jvianipur river Dnage, i again cutting off communications serving the 33fd Japanese division at the edge or the imphal plam. Planes from the Chmese-Amer-i ican wine of the 14th army air- force strafed enemy troops in the Chinese city whose probable fall to the Japanese has been con- reded, a communique from Lt. Gen.

Joseph W. Stilwelrs head quarters announced. The headquarters a said many Japanese were killed and at least 30 trucks were de stroyed Army, navy and marine flyers in the central and north Pacific again have bombed Japanese bases in the Kurile, Caroline and Marsnau islands. These new blows, announced by Adm. Ches- ter W.

Nimitz. were the 22nd in May on Ponape in the eastern v-oiuuutf, nic oiu uii uearoy 4 i on nearby Kusaie island, the 14th on the Kuriles and continuation of the daily assault, on isolated enemy Marshall atolls In the southwest Pacific, Gen eral MacArthur's planes lashed out through the 22nd day of the pounding against the Schouten islands. Mass Desertions by Bulgarian Troops in Yugoslavia Reported Bari, Italy, (IP) Mass deser tions Dy Bulgarian troops in southeastern Yugoslavia were re ported by the headquarters of the i Yugoslav partisan military mission Saturday, with a spokesman asserting that morale is weakening noticeably as tension mounts in the Balkans. Whole platoons and 'companies are deserting, the spokesman said. Another report reaching here, which was unconfirmed, said the Germans had begun disarming Bulgar troops in southern Serbia.

Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps from your Globe-Gazette carrier boy. i.V.;i-V") ilMmtnimwMli mifira-ti families from a place in one of publisher of the Ottumwa the left. (Iowa Daily Press i I Nazis Found in Attic at Algona Camp Algona Two German prisoners of war. reported missing from the guard house at the internment camp here since Thursday, were found late Friday, hiding in an attic in one of the compound buildings, an official spokesman disclosed Friday night. The pair, Karl Brauu, 24, and lS captured near Hest Bend, Iowa.

on Wednesday, following an earlier escape. iJiscovery or the 2 men was y. guards on a nuncn ine Pnsonci naa Per lc" me 31 esi tiena. "ic camp said there was evidence to snow mat me men had escaped I A "w- deputies and prison authorities mad? a thorough search of the nearpy area ana louna no indi- cations the men had left the 2nd time, they returned to camp and en ln an of one vx iuc captured at West Bend weanesuay me men naa tneir In. 111! I llJrtll I I I I 24I1I1 111 HPI I 1 been turn shed by persons out- side the camp.

Prison authorities said Saturday tins, I c- tne men an ac- Officers said the men were wearing their own prison clothes wnen capiurea rriaay Deuvecn ana 4 p. m. It was indicated at the prisoner camp that investigation of the es- tmue an effort to discover the accomplices. MOHAWKS BEAT NORTH 5-1 SPORTS ELLLETIN Mason i diamondmew opened the Big Seven tournament nere Saturday morning by defeat- inS North hi8h of Des Moines, n-i nnn inprpnv pyfnind a hertn i in thP spm -f na aua net T'att Waterloo at 3:30 o'clock. Fort Dodge was to face Waterloo at 1:30 o'clock The final contest is carded at 6.

Johnny Nelson hurled his first game for the Mohawks, and had a no-hitter until 2 were out in the last inning, when Catcher Fein-berg scratched an infield single. tic ivAu.ici gaiutricu sale- ties from the offerings of Keith The Mohawks gathered 4 safe Baker, and sent over 3 runs in the fourth frame on Diz Christiansen's double, 2 errors and 2 walks. The score: Mason City 000 301 15 North Des Moines 000 000 11 Goebbels Says Nazis Can't Protect Downed Flyers From Civilians Stockholm, (IP) Propaganda Minister iJ am Joseph uoebbels writing in the Volkischer Beo- bachter declared Saturday that the nazi government no longer would give allied airmen bailing out over Germany police and military protection against wi'ath- ful civilians. "Anglo-American terror flyers," he wrote, "in recent weeks, besides bombing at random residential quarters, have openly and directly without showing any re spect for international war con ventions, started an attack on the German civilian population, firing at them and murdering them cold-bloodedly." "It is only possible to protect the life of any enemy pilot shot down after such an attack with the aid of armed force as they would otherwise be lynched by the affected population," Goebbels said, then added: "It would be asking too much for us if we were expected to employ German soldiers to protect the murderers of children against parents seized by panic and rage." The article did not say whether German civilians had attempted to attack British or American airmen forced to land in the rekh. FRILEY WILL SPEAK Des Moines, (IP) Dr.

Charles E. Friley. president of Iowa State college at Ames, will speak- at Drake- university's 63rd annual commencement here Monday. Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps from your Globe-Gazette carrier boy. If to OTTO KIRSCHBAUM Airport Road," was closed again by the rising waters of the Rac coon river, after being open to affic for a day following the first rise.

Iowa storm sufferers were as sured of federal help in their re habilitation tasks, with receipt of word that Brig. Gen. Clarence Danielson, commanding officer of the 7th service command at Omaha, had assigned 100 prisoners of war to work in Webster, Story, Pocahontas and Sac counties. The men were to be sent out in groups of 20 each. Floyd Johnston, Ames supervi sor of Iowa's emergency farm la bor program, estimated 2 or 3 weeks would be required to clear debris from fields and farm yards in some areas.

Lafe Young, state director of the farm security administration, said loans will be available to farmers needing financial help. A. J. Loveland, state agricul tural adjustment chairman, appealed Thursday night to federal authorities at Washington for assistance for Iowa storm and flood sufferers. Europeans Warned to Stay Off Roads When Allies Make Invasion London, () Europeans were warned Saturday to keep off the roads when allied armies of in vasion strike into the continent.

A spokesman from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's beadqua rters gave these instructions in the 4th of the series of instructional broadcasts beamed to the Euro pean underground: "When the uniformed forces arrive the fighting may pass through your district. This will be the time when you will be able to give them the most trouble and obstruct their progress. "In the common interest there fore at that time do not on any account leave the neighborhood of your village or town.

"Do no let the Germans entice you on to the road. It is there that the greatest danger lies. They will as always use you for their own purposes. "The safest place against bom bardment is anywhere below ground level. "The cellar Is the safest place in the house." Narrow trenches and sunken roads also were recommended for shelter.

RAIN DIDN'T STOP HER Stahl, (U.R) Heavy rams and thick mud didn't deter Mrs Flora Wellman, who wanted to donate a pint of blood, when the Red Cross blood bank was at Kirksville, 7 miles away. She took off her shoes and walked the dis tance barefooted. FINDS LOST RING Belmont. (U.R) While vie tory gardening Friday, Edward Hill turned up a wedding ring his mother lost 36 years ago. vises the calls on refugee the rescue boats.

Huston, Courier, is seated 2nd from photo) a in Norway or withdrawing some was not specified. Earlier the Germans claimed to have shot down G9 of the 80 at- tacking red fleet air force, but the Russians said onlv 7 bombers were lost and 10 German planes worn rimvnpH i Skirmishes southeast of Stanis- law i7nlH Man rnmnrised 1 I 0.ti,,it vonnrtori nn ihe extern land fSS? The Berlin radio in aroaa cast recorded by the Daily Ex ni'flce vorrvtori Ttrl fniTPC rian nr, rT, cup, Vncc n.i iuuiuwui, base, and 50 miles northwest of Narva. i'V vuhi i uuahvi IqJ rW Tied DviVC New Yorn, OP) David Ander son a jstavj report irom London quoted the Vichy radio Sat- 0 cnTrinff ih Rnccinnc started an offensive on the eastern front. No details were given and there was no confirmation from any other source, Blind Iowan Reports Theft of Watch With Hignrps in Braille uuucuiiii, (-i 1 -Marine Pri- vate First Class Donald E. Kelly, Jve Do WUt .1 who tart his eyesight at Vella Lavella, reported Friday that a pickpocket had stolf" with.

Brajll ligures that had been presented to him by the American Foundation for the Blind. "I could tell the time swell, and that watch was a kind of pal. i 1 i ve no ldea how 1 miss lt' he Kelley, now a patient at the U. S. naval hospital, was married at Oakland, after his injury, and expected to return there soon with a seeing-eye dog.

"We figure we can make it swell, but I'd like to take that watch back, too," he declared. Cuts Off Limb Against Which Ladder Leaned Cherokee. (IP) Louis Collins definitely doesn't want to be a lumberjack. He climbed up in a tree to trim it. became so inter ested he cut off the limb against which his ladder was leaning and had to stay in the tree an hour before his wife got help to get him down.

Tyrrhenian Seo I lr 111" I I wMj I I Sabaud I 1 1 i 'Q it a i jr EARLY SUMMER CRUISE IN OTTUMWA Busy with the evacuation of families from flooded areas when the Des Moines river went out of its banks, John Huston, Wapello county Red Cross disaster relief chairman, super ALLIES SCORE NEW GAINS Arrows show allied drives on the Italian front as allied troops continue to sweep northward in the steady advance toward Rome..