The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • 6

SIX WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. TUESDAY. MAY 5.

1942 RUSSIANS LAUNCH British Women on Way to Middle East Front Looted Firm Appeals To 'Honor' of Thieves Giraud stuffed his hands In his pockets and strolled off, whistling. Because the alarm had been given, Giraud was not able to take a direct express but had to change trains numbers of times before he reached Alsace. SMUGGLED THREAD FREED GEN. GIRAUD NAVY PLANES SAVE 24 ON BRITISH SHIP Strands Put in Packages By Wife Enabled Him to Make Cable, Flee Nazi Prison VICHY. May 1 (Delayed) General Henri Honore Giraud disclosed that eight months of painstaking planning paved the way for his successful flight from the supposedly escape-proof Koenigstein fortress.

Here is the story as Giraud told it to friends in the same terms he might have used to describe a military operation: "For eight months every package I received from my wife Included strands of thread which I wove into a cable 20 meters (about 65 feet) long. (Thirty-seven words were deleted here by the censor.) "Shortly afterward I reached the nearest railroad station but the alarm was quickly given and severe control already had been organized at the station. Dares Nazi Search "Without hesitating, I took a young woman traveler by the arm and marched through the gates onto the station platform with her. "After a trip without incident. I got off the train in an Alasatian station near the Swiss frontier.

(23 words censored.) "Then I crossed the frontier into Switzerland." Giraud did not elaborate on the story, although other friends who intimated that they had the infor mation from him said that on the first effort he found the rope was too short and he had to climb back and wait until he found enough ma terial to stretch it to its proper length. Hoodwinks Sentry When he finally made good his escape, these friends said, he came face to face with a German sentinel just after he had slipped down the rope. 'Pretty cold tonight, isn't it, my boy?" Giraud is supposed to have asked the sentry. The surprised sentinel was re ported to have replied: "Yes, sir," as iiiii 11 ill's Aboard a convoyed troop ship, women of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service cluster about the gunner of the anti-aircraft battery. The women are on their way to the middle east.

OMAHA, May 4 (Py Burglars broke into the Central Ice Machine Company safe and took more than $200 in cash, but company officials are more perturbed about the fact that many papers also were taken. W. J. Shields, treasurer, appealed to the thieves to have the grace to send back the papers, which include receipts, insurance, dockets, abstracts and such. "The papers are of no value to anyone else," he said.

"But they mean a lot to us. If there's honor among thieves, we'd like to see a little evidence of it at this time." sub-office, and Associate Engineer E. E. Kraus has taken over the supervision of hopper dredges at the New Castle office. Other promotions of the Army engineer's district office are: Lloyd E.

Sandelands, Chesapeake City sub-office, to principal engineering aide, civil; William J. Campbell, Chesapeake City sub-office, to senior engineering aide, civil; James A. Stapp, Chesapeake City sub-office, to senior foreman, construction and maintenance; John Swan, Chesapeake City sub-office, to principal engineering aide, civil; Eugene P. Zalewski, Fort Miles, to assistant clerk; William E. Ramsey, Fort Miles, to principal draftsman, civil.

MISS EMILY P. BISSELL AWARDED SERVICE CROSS Miss Emily P. Bissell of this city was awarded the Distinguished Service Tuberculosis Cross at a luncheon Sunday in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. The Christmas Seal and Charity Stamp Society arranged the luncheon which was attended by more than 100 persons from this city and Philadelphia. G.

Taggart Evans, executive secretary of the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society, accepted the gold service cross on behalf of Miss Bis-sell who was prevented from attending by illness. Her message to the meeting which was read by Mr. Evans recalled the early days of the Christmas Seal campaign which she founded to aid tuberculosis sufferers and stressed that the first line of defense in war time lies in the health of the people. Speakers included Leight Mitchell Hodges, C. L.

Newcomb, Arthur M. Dewees, and W. L. Kinkead. Dr.

Louis A. Sarrow, president of the society, presided. UNDERGOES OPERATION Sergt. Victor B. Clark.

3601 Wash ington Street, formerly active in Wilmington music circles, now stationed at Camp Blandinz. Fla- re cently underwent an operation at the hospital there. His condition is reported good. Sergeant Clark was the guest soloist at the annual meeting of the Women's Clubs of Dela ware here last January. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTEETH.

pleasant alkaline (non-acid powder, holds false teeth more firmly To eat and talk in more com fort, just sprmkie a little FASTEETH on yoifr plates. No ffummy, (tooey, pasty taste or leeling. Checks "plate odor 4denture breath). Get FASTEKTH at any drug store. Adv.

20 Others Aboard Craft Hit By Axis Torpedo in Atlantic Picked Up by Passing Boat MIAMI, May 4 (Survivors of a medium sized British freighter, sunk on her maiden voyage by an Axis submarine prowling in the Atlantic, have landed at widely separated points with United States naval planes playing an important part in the rescue. Twenty-four of the 44 men aboard were picked up by naval aircraft which landed eight at Bermuda and 16 at the Banana River naval air base In Flordia. A passing ship took eight to Cuba, from where they came to Miami en route to New York. The remaining 12 were landed at Charleston, S. by a rescue vessel.

One of the' men was described as "a passenger who is a servant of the British Government." No lives were lost and no one was injured In the sinking, which Seventh Naval District headquarters announced today. TVi. cafA arrival nf nil men in United States ports confirmed the vnfiifri(-( of f.ant. Harold Richard son of Scarborough, Yorkshire, that they would make it all rignt. Two torpedoes struck tne ireignter rinrintr ria.rb-nJiK.

An SOS sounded before the ship was abandoned. The submarine was not seen. but its exnaust was neara as it circled once and departed. With daylight, a Navy plane appeared, circled and alighted on the sea. It took aboard the eight crewmen in one lifeboat captained by Third Officer Green of Stewesley, and sped them to Bermuda.

A tropical wind and rainstorm separated the remaining three lifeboats. Brazilian Ship Sunk RIO DE JANEIRO. May 4 (U.R) The Brazilian freighter Parnahyba was sunk May near Trinidad off the Venezuelan coast "by an enemy submarine," it was officially announced today through the Agencia Nacional news agency. Twenty-three survivors, including the ship's master, Capt. Raul Francisco Diegoli, were rescued by the Spanish steamer Cabo de Homos last Saturday morning.

It was said that 43 were still missing. However, an unconfirmed report said 23 of these had been rescued from another lifeboat by an unidentified craft. In the official announcement the word "enemy" was used here for the first time in referring to the submarine that sunk the vessel. The sixth Brazilian ship to be sunk or reported missing since Brazil severed diplomatic relations with the Axis Jan. 28, the Parnahyba, owned by the Lloyd Brasileiro Line, was Brazil's second-largest remaining merchant ship.

U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE STAFF CHANGES LISTED The appointment of Maj. J. M.

Franey as executive officer, U. S. District Engineer Office, Philadelphia, was announced yesterday by Col. Harry B. Vaughan, district engineer.

H. H. Howard, senior superintendent in charge of the New Castle has been appointed resident supervisor for the Chesapeake City Second Japanese Thrust In New Guinea is Failure Foe, Aiming at Seizing Airports for Assault On Port Moresby, Retires After Driving Up Markham Valley to Nadzab ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 4 (JP) A second incursion of the Japanese-up the Markham Valley beyond the New Guinea mountains protecting Port Moresby again has ended in a withdrawal, Australian dispatches reported today. The withdrawal occurred less than 24 hours after it was learned that a sizable force had marched up the valley to Nadzab, 27 miles in the interior. Apparently the expedition OFFENSIVE ACTION Soviets Indicate Red Army Has Beaten Hitler to Punch In Opening Spring Drive MOSCOW, May 4 (JP) For the first time in recent weeks, the Rus sians announced officially tonight that Soviet troops "waged offensive battles on several sectors of the front" during the day, indicating tne Red army might have gotten the Jump on the Germans and launched their own spring drive The midnight Soviet communique said the day's thrusts improved Soviet positions along the front This was the first positive official statement of Soviet gains since the announcements lapsed into brief assertions of "no substantial changes at the front." For the past several days the Russian press has predicted that when a spring offensive starts it will be by the Red army and not by Hitler.

The Fuehrer's plans for such a drive already far behind his schedule on other European fronts heretofore have been described here and at Kuibyshev as converted into myth. 264 Nazi Planes Lost A communique supplement listed 264 German plane destroyed from April 26 to May 2, with Soviet losses given as 71 craft. In clashes on the Leningrad front, it said, 1.100 Germans were killed and a number of Nazi guns and ammunition dumps destroyed. The people of the Ukraine were urged today by Marshal Semeon Timoshenko to engage in guerrilla warfare behind the German lines and so prepare the way for a Red army of liberation. This could best be done, the marshal's proclamation noted, by blowing up bridges, by preventing the Germans from carrying away material and manpower, by breaking down the- German communications, and by watching the direction of the enemy's flight and attacking the Germans from the rear.

"At the approach of detachments of the Red army show them the safe routes for offensive, the proclamation said, and added that the inhabitants should remember where the Germans had placed mines and warn the Red army of their locations. River 30 Miles Wide The proclamation was printed in a newspaper of which more than 15,000,000 copies have been distributed behind the German lines in the nine months of its existence. Major offensive operations by either army still waited more solid ground. Rivers swollen by the spring thaw are keeping troops inactive in many places. The River Don.

usually a mile wide, was said to be thirty miles across in some locations. (A German communique complained of swampy ground in one place in which troops "often sank into mud right up to their WILMINGTON MAN KILLED IN ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR Continued From First Page to this city. Shortly after the Christmas holidays in 1940, which he spent here, his ship was sent back to the Pacific Coast. Visited Him In Fall Mrs. Gosnell and her son visited him in San Diego early last November and remained until after Thanksgiving.

They returned to this city after he had been transferred to Pearl Harbor, still aboard the Shaw. The last news the family had from Gosnell were Christmas cards which he mailed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 3. They arrived In time for Christmas and are now framed on the wall of Mrs. Gosnell's home.

But Christmas packages which he mailed at the same time to his son, to Mrs. Gosnell, and to Mrs. Daniels, did not arrive until early In February. Besides his wife and son. Gosnell Is surviver by his mother, Mrs.

Charles E. Gosnell of Baltimore. The only other Delaware casualty listed by the Navy is George Ames Penuel, Jr, boastwain's mate, second class. His death was announced previously. He is the son of Mrs.

Ellen Pepper Penuel, Mills-boro. The casualty lists, which were issued by the Navy Department at Washington for publication on a regional basis only, except for nationally-known figures, disclosed that California had suffered the heaviest losses among the states. Texas Second on List California home addresses were given for a total of 482 officers and men. Other states with more than 100 casualties among their residents in naval service were Texas, 162; New York. 148; Illinois.

142; Ohio, 123, Washington, 118, and Missouri, 115. Among these and virtually all ether states there were some duplicate names, a man being listed twice If his official record showed, for instance, that his parents lived in one state and his wife in another. New York's total was first listed as 149. but it turned out that George Benjamin Sumner, apprentice seaman of Glens Falls, N. actually was alive and well, and the Navy removed his name from the list.

The name of Rear Admiral John Walter Wilcox. of Chevy Chase, which had been omitted originally by error, was added to the I in 700 the of art 3. PAUL PALESE HEARING POSTPONED TO JUNE 15 Postponement until June 15 of the preliminary hearing of the perjury charge against City Councilman Paul Palese, Fourth Ward, before TJ. S. Commissioner Albert F.

Polk, was announced yesterday by U. S. Dist. Atty. Stewart Lynch.

Postponement of the hearing, which had been fixed for tomorrow, was made at the request of William Pcr.er Maicney, special assistant to the Attorney General, currently handling the Government's case against the magazine "Social Justice." a hearing which began in Washington. D. C. yesterday. The charge on which Palese was released under M.OCO bail after his arrest early last month, grew cut of his appearance before the federal grand jury investigating the 1940 election here.

ELDERLY COtPLE FREED May 4 UP) An elderly couple was released by police todav after being held since last 1 Tuesday for questioning about the bombing murders of Lois Rebhora. 17. and her brother, William, 19. The children of Dr. E.

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U'-vVV lists of Maryland and Georgia, the latter being his native state. Wilcox was lost overboard at sea during heavy weather early last month. Others included on the list were Capt. Franklin Van Valkenburgh of Long Beach, and Capt. Mer- vyn S.

Bennion of Salt Lake City, Utah, who died at Pearl Harbor, on the bridges of the battleships they commanded; Read Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd of Annapolis. who was killed at Pearl Harbor aboard his flagship, and Lieut. John M. Bermingham of New York City, captain of the destroyer Peary, which was bombed and sunk in Harbor at Darwin, Australia. Most of the 2.991 officers and men who made up the list of heroic dead lost their lives in action with the enemy, although some were killed in accidents at sea or in the air while on duty directly connected with wartime operations.

The list of dead is the first to be made public covering Navy. Marine and Coast Guard casualties for the period Dec. 7-April IS. A list of 2,495 missing is expected to be given out shortly and a list of 907 wounded will follow that. THREE JAP FORCES ADVANCE IN BURMA Continued From First Page Mandalay.

It was this force that appeared to be nearest to India. "The Japanese party has been disposed of, but some Burmese traitors remain to be dealt with," the Chinese communique added. A resurgence of Allied air power the Burma theatre where Japanese fliers have ruled the skies brought one ray of hope to the dark picture of disaster. United States headquarters in India announced that multi-motored United States bombers raided Rangoon, chief supply base of the enemy, last night, causing a large explosion and fire in the center of the docks. The British reported that they followed up today with Blenheim bombers blasting barges of Japanese advancing up the Chindwin River.

The British said they scored direct hits, despite heavy ground fire, and came through the attack unscathed. These two raids followed a weekend blasting of Lashio by Chinese bombers, protected by the Flying Tigers of the American Volunteer Group, and suggested that desperately needed aerial reinforcement might have arrived. Main Push Up Burma Road The main Japanese push was directed up the Burma Road and possibly was headed toward Chungking, miles away, but the high moun-tatins and deep gorges that intervened made the Chinese capital appear safe for the time being. The thrust threatening India was directed northwest up the Chindwin River Valley against the tired and thinning ranks of Alexander's army. Against the threat to India, where Gen.

Sir Archibald P. Wavell waits with an army of several hundred thousand, Including Americans, the Allioc trrpar. rplianr.p on the forbidding jungle-clad mountains of Indian frontier. Even the most optimistic, however, acknowledged that the situation in Burma was grim. The lack roads from Burma and China made reinforcement and supply problems well nigh impossible, and there was conjecture whether the defending armies could escape.

Fighting; Rapes at Taunggyi Far south of the present battle zones, Chinese forces still were fighting at Taunggyi. Hope that they might strike out and cut Japanese communications from the rear has been waning rapidly. These Chinese, however, are well experienced in the of fading into the jungle hills S) istinguislied persons They Died So We Can Be Free, Knox Says LOS ANGELES, May 4 (JP) Officers and men of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard listed as dead in the Navy's first casualty list of the war, "died that the rest of us can continue free," Secretary Knox said in a statement tonight. The secretary was here to speak in behalf of the Navy Relief campaign. His statement said: "These men have paid the price which defense of liberty exacts.

They died that the rest of us can continue free. They didn't 'lose' their lives they 'gave their lives in the finest way that men can die. The things for which they gave their all are worth dying for and worth living for and keeping for those who come after us. "As Secretary of the Navy, I sympathize with those whose loved ones have made the last great sacrifice; but I am proud of the way Americans have always faced such losses. These will be met in the same spirit." and conducting costly guerrilla warfare.

Beyond the immediate problems of saving tne British and Chinese forces and halting possible drives into China and India, was an even greater puzzle for the Allies how to keep vital supplies moving to Generalissimo Chiang K.ai-snek minions oi lighting men. The new route 400 miles north of the Burma Road from Assam in India is far from completed, though 350.000 coolies are toiling on it daily. The Japanese raided the Burmese port of Akyab. 300 airline miles from Calcutta, Friday night and this was seen by some military experts as a prelude to an enemy thrust to take the port and use it as a base for bombing eastern India. Generalissimo Kai-shek told his people tonight, "We must prepare for a prolongation of the war and for greater difficulties in the future." China's national mobilization act comes into effect tomorrow and the genet ttuasimu asked the Chinese people to restrict consumption, in-tensifv Droduction and Dlace all their resources of labor, skill and knowl- eage at tne disposal OI une nation.

Let freedom ring 01 Uncle Sam's cash register Buy U. S. War Bonds and Stamps Phona 1304 demand this Distinguished Whiskey was for reconnaissance purposes, for no contact with regular Australian or American forces was reported. Australian bushwhackers operating as guerrillas in the area were not believed sufficient number to have forced the retirement, if the Japanese purpose was to establish fields for the dispersal of their aircraft from the coastal airports hammered almost daily by Allied bombers. A second Japanese column which had advanced southward kept its position 17 miles south of Salamaua I on the coast, however.

Here the Japanese were separated from Port Moresby by 165 miles of jungle and mountains 13.000 feet! high. Port Moresby is the key to! shallow Torres Strait, across which the Japanese would have to move iui an uivafion oi Australia irom New Guinea. The Japanese, led by German missionaries, made their first penetration up the Markham Valley to Nadzab soon after they had seized the New Guinea ports of Lae. Salamaua and Finschhafen. but late! in March they were forced back to their landing points by floods which swept the valley.

Japs Raid Port Moresby The invaders continued to send heavy bombing expeditions against Port Moresby. An Allied communique early today said 12 bombers and eight fighters attacked the base Sunday, but the defenders, in a "brilliant" action, shot down four of them. In offensive action communique said. Allied airmen scored hits on a Japanese tranport, damaged two more and carjsized a tender at Rabual in two raids Satur- day, and shot ud a huue gined flying boat In a 35-miute bat- tie at Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. SLIT DELAY ASKED A motion of stay of suit until a pending suit in the U.

District Court in New York City is ended was made before Judge Paul Leahy in the U. S. District Court of Delaware yesterday in the case of the Noma Electric Polarized Products and Polarized Materials Corp. v. the Polaroid Corp.

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