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PAGE TWO ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH MONDAY, AUGUST 2,1943, How Yankees Won Battle of Bloody Ridge Difficulty Seen In Finding New Billions in Taxes WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, President Roosevelt's renewed re- for "stiff" Increases in mactf In review of the re Took Sleep Slope in Sicily 5105,869,000.000 budget like Allempts rf 'this nscai year Alter I. WO vain today to hr countered In Congress jwilh bi-partisnn demands for clos- er scrutiny of government spend- i Ing. By HAROLD V. UOVI.E WITH THK I'.

S. INFANTRY ON BLOODY RIDGE, July 30. 'Delayed) Tl capture of "Bloody Hidge." nn al- most perpendicular fill! rnnss hnr- ring the American advance cast along the northern coast toward the mountain village of San Slofano is an epic battle of he- Sicilian campaign. This natural rock-studded fort- ress held by entrenched with machinegun.s in protecting, Stormed Senator Wherry. P.epubllcan, told an interviewer ho believed the huge financial problem ought to involve reduced government outlays ns well as enactment of new taxes.

Similarly, Senator Radcliffe, draws and ravines was and taken yesterday In heat. Twice the day before American troops were beaten back by unbearably heavy fire from the Nazi defenders, but the third time up they took nnd held it through a fierce counterattack during whirl) four American mnchlnoKUnncrx, one whose arm was hlown off, died at their flaming guns. Officers of American out fit who fought in North Africa said the taking of "Bloody Ridge" was comparable to tho seizins; of formidable Hill 609 in Tunisia whoso fall paved the way to the capture of Mateur in the closing days i of the campaign. Here Is the story of "Bloody TUrlge" 1olrl to me by the boys who captured it. Pvt.

Jerry Wolfe, New York City, said: "Jt was tough taking, but we took It. and we will kick hell out of anybody who tries to take it from us." He looked at my military guide, Pvt. Henry Mills, Altoona, and said, "You were up hero yesterday, weren't you?" Mills nodded. 'Hern to Stay' "Well, then you know how It went. We started up with a battalion yesterday morning and got driven off.

Then we came back up again and got bounced right off. We camo up a third lime yesterday and now we're here to slay." As we moved up the twisting path we passed German helmets, ammunition, pieces of uniform, all abandoned. There was a heavy burnt smell still lingering from grass fires started by American artillery fire which had blackened most of the countryside. Two soldiers came down ihe trail leading a pack only way water, food and other supplies can reach tho troops on the top except on their own backs. "We ore lucky any of us are were up there the whole day under heavy fire without food or water," said Pvt.

Frank Larosn, Brooklyn, N. Y. "One young German who had been in the army for two years nnd had fought Stalingrad snld that this was Ihe hottest fight ho had ever been in," said Sgt. Jack Howard, Norman, machine gunner, who paused to rest with Pvl. Augustine Salveltl, Lawrence, Mass.

"Before Ihe thing was cleaned up two of our Robert B. Fuchs, who lives pear Kit Carson, and Corp, Lonnle Lewis of Lawrenccburg, to do a little souvenir-hunting. They heard a rustling in the bushes and tossed In a hand grenade. Six Germans ran out and tried to gel away up the hill. They shot four and the other two gave up." Like to Kill 1 "Yeah, these Germans come to us like mils and we mow them down," said Pvl.

Paul Andujar of Puerto Rico, "yesterday we killed 50 or 60 Germans. We like to kill thorn." Bloodstains on a rocky lodge showed where one Nazi died in tho last 100 yards from the top of the rklgn and more than a dozen German machineguns lay among the rocks. In a peaceful olive grove so quiet it looked like picnic ground lay a group of diriy, tired American soldiers who had borne the brunt of the German counterattack They wore eating rations and reading mail as fn.sl ns it was ed by Corp. Eugene S. Price of Sterling.

who put tho letters for those slain the day before in a separate pile. On one side of the grove lay six freshly dug American graves wilh hanging from temporary crosses made from ration boxes. On the oilier side of tho grove a weary young German soldier was digging graves for Hie bodies of Nazis which littered tho ground. "Our company took this position yesterday and wo look 38 C.envmn* but we've only (jol 35 left, siild Pvl Lewis lU'iidrickson of hlu-lby- vllle. Ind.

"Throe tried to ei away. We shot two nnd one nuulo il They counterattacked us with three 600 men drove us back 200 yards. Then we reorganized nnd came right back and mopped up on them. They are still running. With Ono Arm One soldier told how Pvt.

Hubert Spurgin of Craig, jumped to one gun, pulled aside the body of his fellow soldier and fired at the advancing Germans until Spurgln flush- Democrat, said he thought Congress was preparing to look much more closely into future army nnd navy requests. Senator Taft, Republican, Ohio, Congress will have trou- in finding additional revenue sources for the "truly stiff program of additional taxes, savings, or that. Mr. Roosevelt said i ought to be enacted. Taft said it seemed impossible on the basis of figures compiled by the congressional committee on internal revenue, to obtain more than about $3,000,000,000 in direct new taxes.

He said the committee's figures showed that the federal government will take $13,450,000,000 in taxes out of 521,400,000,000 in corporate profits in the present calendar year. The Ohioan said he doubted this tax total could be Increased more than $1,000,000,000 at the outside, with about $2,000,000,000 in new revenues obtained from Individuals from miscellaneous sources. The administration'has boon searching around for $12,000,000,000 additional. In his first budget, summation in five years, the President disclosed Saturday that the over-all spending outlook remains, unchanged, the army now is expected to uso $6,000,000,000 less than tho $62,000,000,000 estimated for it last January, while the navy's share will be upped $4,000,000,000 $28,000,000,000. Congressional circles viewed this as perhaps Indicating greater offensive power was being sought for the Pacific heater dominated by the navy.

Would Collect For Damage to Oiled Streets Fines Insufficient Protect New Work, Says Offirial The city streets department today was seeking advice city legal department of as Contract Signer! by Tannery, Machinists A contract has been signed by International Shoe Co. and the machinists' union, for the employes of the mechanical unit at the Hartford tannery. Signing for the union was John M. Ryan, special representative for district 9, (St. Louis area).

The machinists' union recently was certified ns bargain' ing agent for the group of 'em- ployes. Included in the contract are seniority and malntenance-of-mem- bershlp clauses, and a vacation provision. Requested increases of 8 to 34 cents an hour In wages, and 10 to 15 percent for night shifts, will go to the War Labor Board. Harlem Riot Continued From Page hatUm Island, Its inhabitants mostly are Negroes Three Negro men were wounded critically early today by a detective who reported he shot them al they ran toward him. They were taken (o a hospital.

The detective said the men were carrying hats from a store. The mayor, Police Commlssionei Lewis Valentine, Fire Commissioner Patrick Walsh and Negro civic leaders were In conference during the night and the latter announcec they would moke appeals from amplifiers set up In strategic locations. Pedestrians were kept moving or shunted indoors. Relatives of miss- Ing persons besieged the overcrowded hospitals and police sta tions. Store windows were smashed looters and clothing stripped fron dummies in the windows.

Tele phones were ripped from ttu boollis In many stores. Special policemen were placet on duty on subway trains and It subway stations. Illinois 1'roho Planned CHICAGO, Aug. 2 in tpr-wrial commission for the Electricians Still Off Job At Shell Plant TWO ALTON BOYS AT FAR NORTH FIELD Sgt Eupene Crivellc, stationed at Presquc No. was visited several times recently by Oscar jaeger, radio operator with the Air Transport Command, who was passing through, for foreign parts.

Crivello and jaeger arc both from Alton. Unscathed Before, East Side? Is Killed on 13th Bomb Raid Yanks in Sicily Using Special Invasion Money WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, An Allied military of its kind is being used by invasion troops in Sicily, the Treas- whether It will be possible to bring suit for damages against motorists who drive past blockades onto newly asphalted streets before they have been officially reopened lo traffic. Heretofore It has been practice to prosecute persons who caused damage to newly oiled or asphalted streets by driving over them in violation of blockade signs. In that way a penally may be collected, just as in prosecutions for violation of other traffic regulations.

In the view of SI reels Foreman WcNally, however, prosecution and ining motorists for running blockade signs is unsatisfactory. What he wants is a means of collecting damages so that his rte- lartment may be recompensed for he cost of labor and use of equipment to effect repairs. In this the streets department fund would be reimbursed for whatever cost was involved. Cites High Cost Cost of asphalting 'earth streets heavy, McNally points out, but he treatment is so necessary that he city is straining the street nalnlenance fund lo do as much ivork this season possible. In his situation it has no surplus ury an( Departments an- moncy with which to go back and do the work over again where thoughtless vehicle drivers vio- ale blockade signs and mar the surface.

Once a small break is caused in a newly asphalted sur- ace, the damage tends to spread, and quick repair must be made est a whole sectin of street 3e ruined. Latest instance of damage by a motorist running a blockade was Brentwood boulevard, McNally Today, he planned a repair to the newly asphalted sur- 'ace there. It meant bringing zi from Wallace street, a mile distant, use of a city truck, and ime of three men, and cost might run to $25. Watchmen were maintained on Brentwood for two days and nights after it was first treated, McNally added. The damage was done over the weekend, after the watchmen had been taken off.

Would Collect "It seems an unreasonable expense tfe hire said McNally. "The amount spent for watchmen could better go into actual street repairs. However, watchmen have been used on some of important arterial routes maintained with MFT funds, in an extra effort to guarantee against the streets being damaged before Ihe asphalted surface had time to cure. The need of watchmen is shown by what happened on Brentwood when they were withdrawn. Half Complete When streets are surfaced with asphalt, in place of unobtainable road oil, it has boon found necessary to keep them closed for a minimum of about five days for the asphalt to penetrate.

This is much longer than when road oil is used, said McNally, so the problem of keeping vehicles off the new is more difficult. The earth street asphalting program is now about half complete. Sunday streets department men shaped Pleasant. Fairway, and Vernle avenues in preparation for asphalt and today were installing a 24-foot culvert across a low spot In Pleasant lo assure better drainage. Several other streets will be graded before the next asphalting is done about the middle of this week.

nounced jointly today. Printed by the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, the money, which bears the words "Issued in Italy," was flown to Sicily shortly after the Allied landing and now is serving "as the medium of exchange in that part of Italy that we now hold." The announcement said the purpose of the new and distinctive currency is to give the occupied areas money in familiar denominations and terms. Reds Free 100 More Villages A i AQ Italy Next Continued, From Pago 1. to Turkey was cancelled because of Gorman protests. Among the grounds listed for the Nazi protests at (hat time were the fact that he had married an American In 1937 she was Mrs.

F. Wilkinson Bunker, Washington 5 to 2 Miles On Orel By LEO BKANHAM A UNITED STATES BOMBER STATION IN ENGLAND, July 31 (Delayed) First Lieut. John Johnson, 25, of East St. Louis. 111., brought his crew and the Flying Fortress "American Beamy" back from Kiel June 13 without a scratch after fighting off attacks from more than 200 German figjilers.

There were amazingly few enemy fighters over Kiel when Johnson's group next attacked Nazi ship-building installations there July 25. But a 20 mm. shell from a lone Focke-Wulf which attacked the "American Beauty" killed Johnson. His crew was known as the "luckiest bunch of guys" in this station because in a dozen tough raids over Germany and France Local to File Charges Against Business Agent, Member Says Conferences were In session today, looking toward return of electricians to work on construction of the 100-octane gasoline plant at refinery, after one union member told the Telegraph that charges would be filed with the International unidn against the business agent the electricians union by local union members. The business agent, as told In the Telegraph Saturday, advised he men to remain off the job, last 'riday, at the Wood River refinery Shell, following the discharge a foreman who had been ac- used of "wandering off the violation of a recent agreement letween contractors and unions on var construction jobs in the Alton Boilermaker veTders" had returned to work this norning.

They were off the job following a jurisdictional dispute with ironworkers as to vhlch craft should operate a derrick hoisting concrete to laborers. An electdicians' union member old the Telegraph, Sunday, that charges against the lonal's business agent would be filed with the nternational union. He confirmed he statement in the Telegraph Saturday when electricians reported for work Friday they were advised by the business agent to they'd never wound. This suffered a single contrasted sharply MOSCOW, Aug. 2, Red the gun jammed ed, and said: "What I did was nothing.

Tell the folks buck home about those boys who didn't get away. I saw one of those gunners with his lelt arm blown off pull tho machine- gun closer to him with his right arm and keep on firing until the Germans Shot him through the head. Tell the pooplo about him. This company which had the heaviest louses of any of those participating was led by strapping Lieut. Joe M.

Robertson, Lamar, of Illinois has been asked to socle muU on alu i uiat he was vest ignle means of preventing nice Iong llmo of Laurence A. Sleinhardl, U. S. envoy to Turkey. Nfw.b Disarm Italians Swiss reports said quiet seemed to have been restored nearly everywhere within Italy, but the effects of the nation's crisis continued to be felt outside her borders.

British Middle Ea.st liomlquurt- ers nt Cairo announced It had proof that Germans in Crete, apparently fearful thut an Kalian riots and for permanently proving racial relations In I ho sidle. Gov. Dwight H. Green Saturday appointed seven negroes and seven whites to tho commission, with Kdwnrd Foss Wilson, president of Wilson ns i-halr- nuin. Downsinto negro members of the Army troops, continuing the relentless investment of German defenses around Orel, yesterday hurled the Nazis out of 100 villages and tightened the pincers threatening that base with advances of five to seven and one-half miles, the Russians reported today.

Soviet troops operating to the north and northwest of city beat off counterattacks in a drive which took 40 villages leaving 3000 German dead. Tho spearhead operating to the northwest of the city is aiming at cutting the Orel-Bryansk railway, feeder line for the Orel base. Front line dispatches reported the Russian air force was relentlessly harassing the Nazis In an attempt to prevent them from consolidating new lines. The Soviet advance to the south of Orel was somewhat hampered by numerous oneiny minefields, (he communique reported, but Soviet engineering units in one day cleared 4000 land mines from 23 separate fields. The Russians said Red Army men in the sector gains during Die day, capturing numerous villages.

Counterattacks In the sectors east of Orel were repulsed with heavy German losses, the war bulletin said, and Soviet troops advanced. The Red Army met with other successes in sharp fighting southwest of Voroshilovgrad in the Donets basin, the communique added. An attack launched by Nazi infantry and armored units in the area was smashed buck, the Russians said. In one sector the Red Army beat off seven German attacks. Fifty German tanks and 53 planes were destroyed by the Russians in this area, the war bulletin declared.

Five hundred Germans were killed In the Leningrad area in recon- Inalssnnco activities, the bulletin (The Monday German communi- que reported ri German attack on Mio Mi us, or end, of (he with the severe casualties suffered by the group in this station which alone lost ten bombers in the June 13 Kiel raid. But Johnson's luck began 1o run out on his 13th 2000-mile round trip to Trondheim July 24. Wilh one engine knocked out his ship straggled from formation, but the pilot coaxed her home safely. Next day his crew returned from Kiel told with tears in their eyes how Johnson's left arm was almost torn off by a shell which also inflicted a wound in his right leg. "Co-pilot take over," Johnson yelled three times as' the shell struck and the bomber went into a nose dive, the crew said.

Flight Officer Robert L. Carson, 24, of Fort Worth, although momentarily stunned and wounded slightly in the nose, righted the ship. Other crewmen with great difficulty finally dragged Johnson from the pilot's scat to the catwalk behind and administered first aid. An hour later Johnson died calling until the last for "June," his wife. He was the father of a daughtei born two days after he left St Louis.

The Focke-Wulf which killed Johnson was shot down, the crew said, by the Sgt. Randal Fritch, Tex. top turret gunner E. Cowan, 22, of Lin Sen, President Of China, Dies, 81 CHUNGKING, Aug. 2, UP) Lin Sen, 81-year-old American educat ed Presi'dent of the Chinese Re public, died last night after a long illness.

Generalissimo Chiang Ka Shek was designated by the Kou niintang central Committee, th nation's highest executive body, a acting President, Lin Sen became President China in 1932 when ho succeede Chiang Kai Shek, who resigned a that time to devote all his time preparing ihe army for the wa with Japan. He was born in Foocliow, Fu klen, In 1862 and' came to Califor nla where he received his earl. education, remaining in the Unit ed States for many years. Despite the relative political tin Importance of the presidency, hi age, his dignity and his interest li China and its problems, partlcu a sllion on heights was rem'le'l nnd had mflde Jllm en nal commission Springfield, ore and Major Dr. G.

Byrci, Cecil Lewis, Danville; whites are S. Di'wey, Cairo, and Pr. U. L. Cnmp- bell, Kast -St.

Louis. surrender would result in an ex- Detroit Driver Attacked odus of Italian-occupation troops DKTHO1T, Aug. 2, UP) Four from the Bulkans, hud disarmed m-Ki-o youths wore sought by police some Italian units garrisoned today'in connection with an us-jt hero. One unit was said to have sault on white bus drivi-r. Detective Delberl Raymond ono of the four, whom he described us suiters," hurled a piece of concrete al Ihe driver us llio group It-it a city bus last night.

Tho officers Mild Ihe four apparently had orders from I he- driver lo move to tin- rinu of tho bus lo relieve conp.t'sllon al the front. The driver, William T. Crntt. 28, said to have suffered possible spinal fracture. Colo.

He was Immensely proud of the way his boys fought. Platoon leaders Included Lieut. Charles A. Stanlye, Anderson, Ind. I refused to give up Us weapons although surrounded nnd already fired upon once.

Reports reaching thousands of tracts Ankara said calling for a Bulgarian break with Ihe Axis had boon distributed in Soflu Saturday. Tho Spanish press said yesterday that Germany has abandoned all hope for a future offensive, and the Berlin correspondent for "Va" went further by saying that Germany 1s now engaged In "extrama defensa" which may be Interpreted as "last stand." From 1870 to 1928, the Vatican was the property at tho Italian government. hi? em-my hero siis- i-y hPiivy losses in men nnd mutorinl." It added that southwest of Orel Kij.s.sifin with strong lank and air forces "wore repulsed with heavy losses in men I ure. and destruction Private of numerous Edwardsville to Have 2 Coaches Portn- In Australian i Mrs. Soring avenue ThursdHy from vttto Miuirico Pott that hi' EDWARDSVILLE, Aug.

2. (Special.) Under now plan be Inaugurated at Edwardsvill 'High School this fall, (wo coache of 621 bo employed (or school ath received a k-llor ol i cs an physical cducatio her Prl- ft was announced Satui courses, day by the local board of educa nml mi'ii, Hi Foster, Porior td lllfll luo older Alton iiml Diaries i rea. Boilermakers and 8 Shots, 8 Nazis, Is Yankees Feat On Bloody Ridge By HAROLD WITH AMERICAN TROOPS ATOP BLOODY RIDGE IN SICILY. July 30. (Delayed.) Standing wiht his rifle braced against an olive tree, Sergt.

Russell Glad of Stratum, one of the men who fought their way up the rocky slopes of Bloody Ridge In an historic battle, told me how a fellow sergeant willed eight Germans with eight shots one for each bullet In the clip- of his Ga rand rifle. The feat by Sergt. Herb Pish of Canon City, was praised by his officers as one of the most remarkable feats of courage and markmanship against odds ol the entire engagement. "While we were charging up the hill a German shot at Fish and hit him in the helmet," said Glad. "The bullet went through his helmet and lining but circled inside and came out the back without even piercing his skin.

The impact knocked Herb off his feet however, and stunned him for a second. Rumanian Oil Fields Ripped ByU.S. Planes 'Biggest Low-Level Attack in History' by 175 Liberators LONDON, Aug. 2, The 'He was lucky to be alive It a miracle the bullet didn't or seriously injure him but it made -him madder than a wet was a hen. The German who had ruined his helmet came running out laughing and shouting to the other hidden Germans to come out and see Americari he had knocked the over.

Rome radio said tonight that U. S. airmen who bailed out their planes were shot dovvrTTn yesterday's raid on the Ploesti oil were captured bv German and Rumanian troops CAIRO, Aug. 2, UP) An mnda of 175 Liberator bombed of the U. S.

Ninth Air Force ew a 2400-mile round trip yesterdayS to dump 300 tons, of explosives in a low level attack on the Pi oesll oil fields In Rumania, one of chief sources of the Axis fuel Ply- sun 'That gave Fish the break he wanted. Quick as a cat he rolled over and came up with his Garand In business position. His lirst shot advised oy me emain off the job, and only two dropped the guy who had put the maintenance men went to work. through his helmet This union member insisted in statement Ho the Telegraph lhat "the men wanted to go to work, and the business agent wouldn't let them. He called them off the job." Such action, he added, put the union in a bad light.

Electricians' stewards and other foremen were reported to have agreed in advance to discharge of foreman, whose dismissal led action of the business to reach the business trie agent. Efforts agent of the electricians for a statement were unavailing today, as they were Saturday. Axis Flank Breaks Continued From" Page 1. with Private tlon. James Groulaae, Canton, has been employed as football tmd r(1HS h0 track coach at tho school, while Sullivan, a graduate of East- Ice he was Steel Company.

Lows Army i'uiicr ell Wilson of rillo Mivi't, who was- honorably discharged from Hit- army Insl July 28, today lost, his discharge papers. will have charge of basketball and truck, Groutage, who served as coach the- past two years at Cuba, succeeds Glenn C. Mu-i Smith, who resigned recently to accept a position ns coach and physical education director at Qulncy. and the Eighth Army was said to have repelled strong German counter-attacks with heavy losses. Canadians battling ahead In the central area were engaged in heavy fighting, but their advances continued.

The Americans took 10,000 more prisoners in the fall of Mistretta alone. "The majority were Nazis, giving the Americans their largest bag of Germans. Both American and Canadian forces were battling through high ground frequently reaching an altitude of 2,500 feet, studded wilh German machine-gun positions and covered by Axis heavy artillery. The capture of San Stefano put the Americans in full control of a major road running from there southward through Nicosia and gave them a strategic artery for quick transport of troops and guns through the vital north central region. This news followed yesterday's announcement that the Americans had captured nine towns and possibly turned the Axis north flank.

Axis reports said strong American forces were veering southward from central Sicily supporting the British drive, and a Rome broadcast said Montgomery was "methodically nearing" Catania. Montgomery's Message Montgomery, In a personal sage to his troops reminiscent of those which preceded his great of' fensives in North Africa, said the Allies had knocked Mussolini "off his perch," and "we will now drive the Germans from Sicily." A great push by Montgomery has been expected for nearly a week, and he has been probing the line for soft spots. American torpedo boats Incessantly patrolled tho northern coastal waters in search of armed enemy lighters and British cruisers and destroyers were slipping tighter the naval noose to choke off Axis reinforcements. Today's Allied announcement also belatedly confirmed the fall of Nissoria and Assora in the central sector just before Canadian-won Agiru. Both target -eiis of Naples and Capodlchlno were "well covered by bomb bursts," the headquarters communique staled, and eight Axi.s pianos were shot down in aerial bullies.

Tho Fortresses planted 50U- puund bombs on two troop transports in Naples harbor, blew up a £us works, and again battered the railway station, which was described officially as "almost com- pleroly destroyed," At Capodichinu, groat new holes were blown in already-damaged and admmi.sU'utlua buildings and a number" of parked aircraft was destroyed. Destruction increased as a big oil dump exploded. (The Italian high command admitted "considerable damage" and listed 1U pui-kons killed ana 63 injured at Naples.) Other Allied planes ranged ahead ot ihe uiiacking ground troops in Sicily, with medium bombers hammering the port ol MUaoto, used to bring in Axla re- mforcemtmu, and other planes hilling iho viiul cammumcaUons centers of Adrnnu and Kandtuio In the diminishing Axis brldKOhead. Five enemy planes were shot "The other Germans were caught flat-tooted too. Fish began working them over with his rifle and svery time he pulled the trig- jer, down went another German.

They scattered and tried to get back at him but they were in a panic and before they could put a imllet very close to him Fish had off eight of them. Eight rounds eight Germans boy, that's some William Keirle Dies at Age 74 William J. Keirle died at 9 a. m. today at the family home, 1012 Phinney avenue.

He had been ailing for three years but was confined to his bed for only a week. A carpenter by trade, Keirle for 12 years prior to his Illness was janitor at Washington school. He was born at Bristol, England, 17," 1869, and came to this country, at the age of 12, with his parents, who located at Bunker Hill. He remained in Bunker Hill until the family came to Alton 35 years ago. During his residence in Alton he resided in the vicinity in which he died.

He is survived by his wife, Annie, to whom he was married in Bunker Hill Oct. 18, 1894. He leaves three daughters, Miss Agnes Keirle and Mrs. Dewey Balster of Alton and Mrs. Russell Chappell of Wood River; two sons, John of Alton and Carl of St.

Louis; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Ridgley of Bunker Hill and Mrs. Flora Bryant of Bristol, England, and eight grandchildren including Pfc. Gordon Keirle, Engineering Corps, Camp White, Ore. Funeral arrangements are incomplete awaiting word from Private Keirle.

The body is at the Staten funeral home, 220 Court street. Announcement of the raid, scribed as the "biggest, low levjj" mass raid in history," was made last night by Gen, Lewis Brereton, commander of (he Ninth Air Force. A communique issued by Middle East Air Command tc said that "20 of the Liberators are reported to have been shot down over the target area and a nu ber have not yet returned to base." At least 51 enemy planes were, lalmed destroyed, the added. It described enemy opposi' ion over the target area and on the return journey as heavy. The Ploesti area, 35 miles north of Bucharest, Rumanian capitals supplies about one-third of Axis oil requirements.

The big bombers using special sights swept in at smoke stack height to drop their cargoes on seven huge refineries and installations, with the result that the oil field was reported left a mass 'of fire. Brig. Gen. Victor H. Strahm, chief of staff to Gen.

Brereton, praised the 200 specially airmen who took part in the attack and predicted the raid would materially affect the course of the war." The raiding party was commanded by Brig. Gen. U. EnLj Yesterday's raid was the second 1 by American fliers on the Ploestl fields and was by far the biggest, The first American mission was carried out in January, 1942, by 151 bombers. Capt.

Stewart on Flying Fortress Son of a former West Alton woman, Capt. James T. Stewart of St. Louis wasVthe pilot of a Flying Fortress which led squadron of American heavy' bombers in a raid on Kassel, Ger-" many, Thursday, members of his family learned from Associated Press dispatches. The 22-year-old flyer, whose mother, Mrs.

Fred Stewart of St. Louis, is "the former Miss Bertha i Golike of West Alton, enlisted In the Air Corps two years ago and was sent overseas in April. During the raid he was at the controls of "Argonaut the dispatches related. Nephew of George, Marshall, Crosby and Harry Golike and of Miss Mildred Golike of. Wesl Alton, he visited at the George Golike home March 25.

His grandfather was the late Joe of Missouri Point. $12 OOO Daylight Robbery From Champaign Window CHAMPAIGN, 111., Aug. 2, Police today investigated a day' light robbery in which rings and watches valued, at retail prices, from $12,000 to $15,000 were reported stolen a display window at, Bing's jewelry store- In downtown champaign. Police Capt. Russell Burke said Simon Blng, the owner, reported about 300 diamond rings and 25 watches were taken from the window yesterday afternoon.

"Entrance had to be gained through the front door," Burke said, but the officers weren't sure how was done. An employe who put the display in the window in the morning, discovered It was missing while passing the store later in the day. Europe to Be Swept as Sicily Has Been: Davis ALGIERS, Aug. 2 (fl 1 Davis, head of the Office of War Information, speaking Algiers radio tonight, on the forecast that a great Invasion would be launched from England that would sweep Europe as Sicily had been swept. down over Sicily, besides the eight destroyed over Italy Itself, while one Allied plane was lost in all operations, headquarters said.

Allied seapower again carried the war to the Italian mainland with warships bombarding the port of Vlbo Valentla Marina, on the Miuth side of the Gulf of San Eufemia 50 miles northeast of Mes- sinn, a railway bridge across the river Oliva 22 miles to the north nnd the harbor of Orotone, on the Ionian Sou to the southeast. These actions were carried out from Sai- urdiiy night through early Sunday. "American naval forces are rendering effective support by Shell gunfire for the advance of the U. Seventh Army the road of In north coast of Sicily," the com- niunique -said, Yanks Bomb Nazi Airfields in LONDON, Aug. 2, W-V.

medium bombers raided German I air fields at Merville and St. in France today without loss, it was announced officially. 1 The Allied planes roared out to waves at dawn to continue the lr war against Europe. Meanwhile, it was announced that American bombers nnd fis ers, challenging Germany's best aircraft in broad daylight enemy territory, shot down mort than 500 Nazi fighters during at the cost of 108 Flying resses. Bovingdon Denies He's a Ballet Dancer I WASHINGTON, Aug.

2. John Bovlngdon, whom i-epresen-i tatlve Dies (D-Tex) described ballet dancer, said today he his 155603-a-year job with tho of Economic Warfare "because Civil Service Commission ently believed I was qualified- Dies' criticism of his appoln; ment, the 53-year-old economy told reporters, will not uuctij'ai i i deler him from his determinant" "to do a good Job here." Far from being a ballet dancH-j Bovlngdon said, he had 'wM" 1 the ballet" as a form of slc development, Dies, chairman of the committee on un-American ties, had complained that time for the appointment no ballet dancers to fill which require brains nnd amw from our people." "They went back a loni? that one," Bovlnjfdon Dies' Impression Hi been a ballet dancer, Bovi said, apparently resulted from fact that In past 1 had experimented witn -I forms of exercise restore and regain his healtn, in'.