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increasing ihoweri and chanfe IB temperature! 4.1^5 Full Win Ajtociat.d (AND THE DINNER HORN), EDITION 1C 17 ML it If MiH VOL. 75, NO. 239. FIVE CENTS PER COPY PARIS, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20, 1944 FOURTEEN PAGES ESTABLISHED Allies Strike First Air-Sea Blow Against Jap-Held Dutch East Indies Surprise Raids Carried Out on Attack Made Just Four Days After Shift Of Headquarters By THOBURN WIANT SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, A powerful Allied fleet of aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines at dawn Wednesday struck the first air-sea blow against Japanese-held Dutch East Indies since the fall of the islands in March, 1942. The attack was made just four days after Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten had shifted his operational headquarters to Ceylon from New Delhi.

Allied bombers and fighters took off from the carriers somewhere in the Indian Ocean and carried out a surprise raid on Sabang and Lhonga airfields in Northern Sumatra. (An earlier admiralty communi- que, issued in London, spoke of an attack only by a "Naval force," indicating a bombardment of Sumatra by surface vessels, but the Southeast Asia Commands com- munique spoke only of air 'bombardment). Sabang is a little island just off the' 1 'northeastern tip of Sumatra less than 1,000 miles from Mount- batten's Ceylon headquarters and has an important harbor which the Japanese have been vising lor sea operations toward the west Lhon- "ga is a few miles away on the mainland tip. With the expedition directed by Admiral Sir James Somerville, commander-iin-chief of the British Eastern fleet, the aircraft scored numerous direct hits with heavy bombs on the dock yard, power station, wharf, barracks, hangars, workshops and radio station at Sabang, on the northern tip of Sumatra, leaving large fires blazing in the aiea. The aircraft also scored-hits-on two Japanese merchant ships, each of 4,000 to tons, while two enemy destroyer escort vessels were shot up and set afire.

Twen- tv-two Japanese planes, including six large transports, were destroyed aground at Sabang. Several Japanese planes also were destroyed on the Lhonga airfield. One Allied plane was forced to land at sea but the pilot was dramatically saved by a submarine which rescued him under shore battery fire. All other planes returned to the carriers. Fighters which escorted the See SABANG.

Page 5, Col. Australian War Brides Arrive Look With Mingled Curiosity, Trust Upon New Homeland SAN FRANCISCO, than 7,000 miles from their former homes, 90 Australian war brides and fiancees of United States servicemen looked with mingled curiosity and confidence upon their new homeland Thursday. The young women and 14 babies, some of the infants only four or five months old, arrived here Wednesday from the land of the South- em Cross. "We've been very curious about America," said Doris Jean Lebash, wife of marine corporal Joseph Lee Lebash of Shinnston, W. Va.

She arrived with her five-months- old daughter, Barbara Anne. "The American boys back home (in Melbourne)) bluntly told some of USCWs in Australia were ten years behind the time. They told us we couldn't wear these kinds of clothes. And they told us we'd never see such beautiful girls as we'd see in this country. "I'm waiting to be shown," she "smiled.

Temporary lodgings Wednesday night were found for the new arrivals by the Red Cross and the War Housing Agency. Soon the war brides will scatter to various parts of the nation, going to the homes of their husbands. House Committee Recommends Plan For 4-F Labor Induct Men for Non-Combat Duty if Job Not Essential WASHINGTON, Complaining of "a conspicuous absence" of planned effort to direct qualified 4-F's into essential work, the House Military Committee recommended Thursday that men rejected for full military service be inducted for non-combat duty if they fail to seek essential war work. The committee approvecj a recommendation of a special subcommittee headed by Representative Costello (D-Calif) that no legislation be enacted at this time dealing with the 3,500,009 men class for service because of disabilities. Existing law, the committee.said, provides ample authority for handliing such men through administrative procedure.

The committee made these specific recommendations: That Selective Service reclassify 4-F's into groups doing essential work and those not in essential jobs. That Selective Service and the War Manpower Commission publish a list of occupations which' would entitle a 4-F to be reclassified into 2-AF or 2-BF (occupational deferment). The 4-F's in approved jobs notify their local draft boards and receive a certificate of approval before changing jobs. Notify Willingness That 4-F's not in approved jobs notify their draft boards of willingness to take such jobs. That failure of a registrant to notify his draft board of willingness to do essential work shall subject him to induction.

That men refusing to take essential work, when is available, be inducted immediately for assignment to non-combat duty, and not be charged against the combat strength of the Army and the Navy- That failure of the prescribed procedure to provide necessary manpower be followed by similar procedure in the cases of men already discharged from service and then, if necessary, apply to men between the ages of 38 and 45. The committee said it believed existing law gave the Army, the Navy, the War Manpower Commission and Selective Service sufficient power to "meet all of the exigencies that arc now presented in relation to the manpower situation." IVar Department Unwilling IVhile the War Department has indicated unwillingness to use of the committee commented: "The authority to do so still remains, and the committee takes the position that until it is pointed out wherein the laws which have already been enacted are shown to be inadequate, further legislation is not necessary." "So far," added, "there has been a conspicuous absence of any representations on the part of the War Department to the committee of an effort in the direction of charting the course to be followed by those capable pf doing war work, so far as their placement in industry is concerned." Jl' Sweden Decides Reject Allied Requests Halt Export to Germany STOCKHOLM. MV-The Swedish government has decided to reject British and American requests that it halt the export of ball bearings to Germany, whose own ball-bearing factories have been hard hit by Allied air raids, ithe newspaper Dagens Nyheter said Thursday. The paper declared that parliament hsd been informed of the decision at a secret session but that Washington and London not vet been formally notified. Nazis Plead Unity As Hitler Marks His 55th Birthday Urge Loyalty in Time When War Situation Difficult and Tense LONDON, Top-ranking Nazi leaders vied in.praising Adolf Hitler on his 55th birthdaj' anniversary Thursday urged- the German people to give him-steady loyalty in this period when, "the war situation has become difficult and tense." Hitler himself was silent.

The burden of the anniversary exhortations fell to Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich- marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering and Dr. Otto Dietrich, Nazi press chief. A Berlin broadcast directed outside Germany declared all three statements were fundamentally the for unity behind "the greatness of the Fuehrer." All admitted that the Germans face impending trial. "A thousand dangers may lie ahead," said Goering. Presumably trying to gloss over Germany's past and future war disasters, Propaganda Goebbels declared: "Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks and defeats.

It is on those occasions that. leaders can prove their true mettle. (The Office of War Information reported tha an article in the Swiss newspaper Aarguaer Tag- blatt represented Hitler himself as concerned over his place in history ARMY NURSE RETURNS Second Lt. Ava Ann Maness of Paris and Bonham, Army Air Forces nurse who escaped. from German-held Albania, arrived at Dallas on her way to Bonham.

At left is her father, John H. Mdness of Dallas. (Associated Press Photo.) Lieutenant Maness Takes It Easy at Home Thursday To Observe San Jacinto Day Here Public Invited to High School Assembly Program on Friday Friday, April 21, which Texans celebrate as the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, which won Texas' freedom from Mexico in 1836, will be observed here with an assembly program at Paris High School, to which the public is invited, Friday at 9:50 a.m. Sponsored by George Washington Stell Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the program, arranged by Miss Mattie Bell Crook, member of the organization and of the high school faculty, will be presented in the auditorium of the school building, N. 23rd St.

at Lamar Ave. This is the order of the program: Advancement of United States and Texas flags by Priscilla Scott and Joan Amis; poem. "Texas" (anonymous) read by Joe Warren Teague; solo, "The Flag Song of Texas" (Harley-Kidd), Trudie Kanrmer; "Texas Heroes, Past and Present," James Scott; "Will You Come 'o the Bower?" and "Deep in the Heart of Texas," Paris High School Orchestra, directed by Jimmy Lay; presentation of DRT award for the best Texas history essay, given in the chapter's name by member, Mrs. Merrick Davis of Albany; finale. Eyes of Texas." DALLAS, tanned and ti- tain-haired Army nurse, Second Lt.

Ava Ann Maness, was taking it easy at her Bonham, Texas, home Thursday after four months of dodging Nazis in German-held Albania. The tall, 32-year-old lieutenant looked fit when she landed at Love Field airport here Wednesday, in spite of the nerve-wracking experiences she had undergone in Europe. She was one of a group of 13 nurses, 15 enlisted men and two air officers to get back to Allied soil after losing their way in bad weather and landing deep in Albania last Nov. 8 while on a routine flight from Sicily to Italy Lieutenant Maness and two other nurses became separated from the others. They hoofed it across snow-covered Albania mountain ranges to get out.

"I'm so glad to be back," Lieutenant Maness said, smiling happily at her family who had come to the airport to meet her. The family included her tall, lean father, John H. Maness, who has his home in Bonham but who is now working as a carpenter for a trailer manufacturing company in Dallas: her step-mother Mrs. John H. Maness; her brother, six- foot three-inch Don Maness, 17, of Bonham who has his eye out for a berth in the Army Air Forces and her aunt, Mrs.

J. M. Caviness of Paris, Texas. "She always was adventurous," Maness said of'his daughter, "she used to ride horseback and liked to jump her pony over paper bonfires. I guess she got.

plenty of adventure in Europe." "Nothing ever bothered her," Mrs. Maness remembered. "She always was as calm as a post." Lieutenant Maness probably needed steady nerves in her flight across Albania. Once she and her two companions were only minutes ahead of the Germans. Another time they crossed a mountain range during a snowstorm.

For a long time they were hidden in the home of a friendly Albanian family. They played three- handed bridge, smoked Albanian cigarets, ate rice, figs, spinach, mutton chicken, turkey and water buffalo. They drank Vermouth Freighter Rams Ferry Boat In Baltimore Harbor BALTIMORE, least 20 persons were injured, several of them seriously, when a small inland freighter rammed a crowded ferry boat in fog-bound Baltimore Harbor Thursday. Officials of the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, where the injured were taken, reported that of the 20 hurt, three had broken backs. A number fit others were cut by flying glass.

The freighter plowed between 15 and 20 feet into the side of the ferry, which was jammed with workers on their way to their jobs at the Bethlehem-Fairfield and Maryland Drydock Company shipyards. The freighter, coming into the harbor, struck the ferryboat, A coast guard picket boat which was following the freighter aided in getting the injured to shore. and goat's milk. "I even gamed weight," Lieutenant Maness said. An Albanian messenger put Allied authorities in touch with the nurses.

Instructions were sent and the Texas girl and her companions followed them to the letter, setting out on foot for a designated point. When they reached it they looked for a man who would answer their sign with the correct counter-sign. They found him, and in a matter of a few days they were back in Allied hands. Then they were granted special leaves. Lieutenant Maness is a native of Honey Grove.

Fannin County, Texas, and later lived at Paris. She is a graduate of Roxton, Texas, High School; John Tarleton College at Stephenville and Paris. Sanitarium Nursing School, Paris. She was formerly employed at Northwestern Hospital, Amarillo, Texas, and received her army training at Lubbock Army Air Field and Bowman Field, Ky. She has a sister, Doris Maness, 26, also a nurse, at a base hospital in Persia; a brother Jim Ma-, ness, who is employed in the construction of a pipeline in Persia, another brother, John H.

Maness, who works for the Brown and Root Construction Company at Houston. Texas, and a third brother, Sgt. Maness, a mechanic in 'the Army Air Force, who is stationed somewhere in the Pa- ific area. "My 'John Maness smiled, "is getting around. Thursday See-Saw Battle Rages In Western Ukraine Nazis Formulate New European Magna Carta For Sympathy Post War Fighting in Cassino Flares Up Again Alfied Machine-Guns Rake Two Hotel Defenses A LI HEADQUARTERS, in the rubble-strewn streets of Cassino flared up sharply Wednesday as Allied machine-gunners raked the German-held Continental Hotel and Hotel Des Roses and the enemy replied with heavy mortal 4 fire against'the railway station occupied by the Allies.

The two hotels, in the southern part of the town, have been the most troublesome German positions in Cassino from the very outset. The Allied machine-gun action indicated that positions of the contending forces have changed little in the recent quiet weeks. There was little other activity in the battered town except for the firing of propaganda leaflets into the area by the Germans. The Allied air force, hindered by poor weather, had one of its quietest days in weeks. Kailyards at Piombino and Ancona and bridges in the Florence area and on the east coast line south of Ancona were attacked by medium and fighter-bombers Wednesday and fighter-bombers swept into Yugoslavia to pound communications near Metkovic.

RAF Wellingtons pounded away again early Thursday at the German supply ports of Livorno (Leg. horn), Piombino and Santo Stef- 180 Pints Blood Donated By Maxey Soldiers Marks One Soldier's Thirteenth Donation To Donor Station One hundred and eighty from Camp MaxeyV donated 180 pints of blood Thursday to the Red Cross Blood Donor Service at the Episcopal" Parish House, among them a member of an anti-tank company-in the 393rd Infantry Regiment, Charles Gerhard from New Jersey, who made his thirteenth donation Thursday. The first twelve, however, were direct transfusions to individuals, making this the first to the Red Cross. A molder in a foundry in civilian life, the soldier said he had given his first 12 transfusions in various places over the country. Giving her eleventh pint to the Red Cross Thursday was Mrs.

Georgie White, who gave ten previously in St. Louis. A member of the Gallon Club, since she gave eight pints, Mrs. White was formerly a member of the WAAC, but when the corps was changed to WAC she resigned to be with her husband, as he was to be soon sent overseas. Asked where her husband is now, Mrs.

White said, "I think he is somewhere on his way to foreign duty now," and she added that she plans to remain in Paris until he returns. She is employed at Hamblett-Dewald Studio. Technical Sgt Robert McDonald was giving his fourth donation, and four others were making their second, it was learned. Three WACs, Sgt. Vi Stauffer, Pvt.

Lou A. Wedding and Pvt. Helen B. Watson, stationed at Camp Maxey, were among donors Thursday. The Red Cross is not allowed to solicit blood donations from soldiers, consequently the entire 180 pints came from soldiers who volunteered when they heard the unit was to be in Paris.

AH arrangements for their contributions were made at Camp Maxey before they came to town. Most of the soldiers were rather nonchalent and 'cocky' as they entered the parish house, presumably because they are used to LISBON Nazis seem De getting ready to proclaim some kind of "Magria Charta" for Europe, with the double purpose of persuading Europeans best chance of escaping post-war social and economical chaos will be under German leadership while convincing the impoverished Gernan masses they.won't have to go Bolshevik to 'get social justice. Indications in this direction are seen in discussions of the postwar order appearing in the provincial German press and also in the 17-point program recently drawn up by quisling economists and social theorists from all parts of Europe at a conference in Bad Salzbrunn. At Bad. Salzbrunn, in Silesia, Hitler's, followers frankly aimed at something halfway between "the discredited methods of the capitalistic social welfare policy and the disruptive anti-social slogans of class-war marxism." Their 17 point program accordingly looks like a compromise between the 1936 Stalin Constitution, President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms," Britain's post-war housing and Social Security Plans, and the principles of the Nazi party.

This all adds up to what is described not as national socialism but "Vbelkisch" socialism. Each of the various peoples (Voelker) of Europe is expected to develop the type of socialistic setup besl suited to its particular character and needs. The general aim is the creation of a "socialistic Europe without a proletariat." An article published in the Ob- erscblesische Zeiturig of Breslau, discussing the post-war outlook for soldiers and workers, contains this striking line: "After five years of war we are once again in a situation similar to 1932." That was the year when the Nazis, in full revolutionary fervor, promised a belter world for the Germans. Hitler came to power the following year, but re-armament and "compelled Injuries in Plane Crash Fatal to James Caviness Jr. Parisian Dies April 12 in England; Was Liaison Officer See RED CROSS.

Page 5, Col. 3 Stimson Says Aerial Invasion In Germany Is Still Continuing WASHINGTON of War Stimson said Thursday that "our aerial invasion of Germany is continuing, the pressure is increasing and enemy resistance on the whole is decreasing." He thus summarized the European aerial offensive in a press conference during which he also stressed the heavy blows by A1-, lied aviation against Japan in the Pacific and in Southeast Asia. Discussing the effectiveness of the big-scale raids on German fighter plane factories, Stimson said that the enemy's production of this type of plane had fallen off an estimated 20 per cent since January. The enemy's reserve of planes therefore will not come easily, Stimson but he cautioned that "critical periods" are ahead in the air wtr. the subsequent war many postponements and deviations" from the Nazi program, the article asserted.

However, it promised that as soon as the war ends the revolutionary movement toward the achievement of socialistic aims in the Fuehrer's original program will be resumed. Soldiers who fought and workers who toiled will come into their own. "Our socialistic order," the article added, "will recognize no fat profits of do-nothing directors. It will see to it that profits flow in increasing measure to the people who do the work." Language such as this suggests that some of them are thinking the best way to recover from the disaster of a lost War is to try to win the postwar European revolution. Gas Black Market Menaces Supplies 'Hot 7 Tickets Now Are Bringing Fifty Cents Each WASHINGTON, Congress was told by an OP A official Thursday that with "hot" coupons bringing 50 cents each and illegal transactions draining off an estimated 2,500,000 gallons daily, black market operations soon may force a reduction in civilian gasoline rations.

This assertion was made by Shad director of gasoline rationing enforcement for the Office of Price Administration, in a digest of black market operations prepared for a house interstate sub-committee investigating the gasoline situation. The 2,500,000 gallons gasoline which Polier said is the dajly tribute" to "the thieves and counterfeiters who steal, print and sell gasoline coupons and to the chiselers who buy them or buy gas without coupons" would increase rations by 30 miles a month or boost the top limit for rations from'the present ceilings of 325475 miles to an estimated 700 miles monthly for business drivers. The heaviest concentration of illegal coupons, was described in the report as being in the East, with the problem "also serious" in California, the Pacific Northwest and on the Gulf Coast. OPA records of black market activities, Polier added, "are studded with names which for years have been linked with bootlegging, counterfeiting, white slavery, kid- naping ami murder," 1st LT. JAMES M.

CAVINESS JR. First Lt. James M. Caviness, 23, son of Lt, Col, and Mrs. Caviness 149 Church St.

died April 12 of injuries received in an airplane crash in England, according to a telegram from the War Department, received by his mother shortly before noon Thursday. A 1942 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he had been overseas only about two months, and had recently been assigned as a liaison officer between, 8th -Corps Artillery and the 8th Air Force. His father, -an- artillery veteran of World War is stationed with an artillery unit'at 1 Camp McCain, Grenada, Miss. His mother and a sister. Miss Nancy -Jane 'Caviness, live at the home address here, and there are a number of other 'relatives in this vicinity, including a cousin, First Lt.

'Ava' Ann 'Maness, Army nurse, who returned home Wednesday after' 'escaping from enemy-held territory. Lieutenant Caviness, born here, grew up in Paris and was graduated from high school here, attending Cornwall preparatory school in Poughkeepsie, N. before entering West Point. His in? teresls there were varied as indicated by his club "affiliations. Lieutenant Caviness had more than a year of training at Fort Sill, following his graduation from the military academy.

He was stationed there in an armored field artillery battalion. After his tour of duty at Fort Sill, he was transferred to Fort Jackson, S. and subsequently overseas. Red Shock Troops Capture Barrier Of Fedyukhiny Nazis Throw Counter Blows Of Stanislawow LONDON, scale Get-. man tank and infantry have been beaten back in the- southeast corner of Old Poland- after fierce seesaw fighting, cow announced Thursday communique which also told 1 capture by Russian shock of Fedyukhiny Heights, formidable barrier guardmg-the besieged Sevastopol.

The Nazis, apparently in fort to save their big tions center of Lwow, launched heavy counter blows east of tslawow, 70 miles southeast of base, and "some populated placet changed hands" before the assaults were repulsed, the rommunique said. The Soviet bulletin said a large force of German bombers and appeared during the battle, supporting an earlier Moscow newK dispatch which described the Nazi," offensive as apparently strong, well-coordinated and systematic. Lwow itself was heavily bombed by the Russians Tuesday night, the communique said, with many observed on trains loaded with troops and equipment. The battle for Sevastopol appeared Wednesday to be developing into a siege, the bulletin reporting that the enemy, "pressed back to the sea was putting up stubborn resistance." The Germans counter-attacked in the area of the Sevastopol-' Simferopol highway but thrown back to their initial tions and many prisoners taken the Russians said. The communique added that Russians warships and planes continued to smash up German evacuation attempts.

On the Bessarabian front, the" Russians said they: enlarged'their; bridgeheads on the west bank the Dnestr in the Chismau area, taking several localities. Stevenson Says Unable To Attend Annual Governors Conference AUSTIN, Tex, Coke R. Stevenson said Thursday, a prior engagement in May 28, will make it impossible for him to attend in the annual governors conference May 28 to 30. At Denison the governor will.TSe" a principal speaker at memorial; ceremonies arranged by the Rev: C. C.

Minor. Governor Martin of Pennsylvania had announced that Stevenson was among state representatives who had accepted invitations to attend the. governors' conference. WASTE TAPER QUEEN OF Le Vinson, year-old student of St. Mary's Parochial School at San A collected 16,000 pounds of waste paper during the recent Waste Paper drive.

According to records of the executive in New York, she won the titic "Waste Paper Queen Little Mickey Juetten (riant) stands in for Mayor as they rehearse for 1he ''otficial coronation which win April 18. (AP Photo).