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MONDAY, MAY 22, 1944 PRICE; FIVE CENTS I it ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, May 22. CPAmerican patrols who entered Terracina. German anchor on the Italian west BurdmeY Dept. Store coast, have been driven DacK, it was announcea touay. U.

S. troops established a line 4,000 to 5,000 yards (from 2 to miles) northeast of Terracina as the Germans threw In fresh Makes $250,000 Offer IS FrdIss Wm ty Hall i Kiel Sub Base Struck Heavily By Fortresses LONDON, May 22. Flying in i ii George E. Whitten, president of Burdine's, today offered the Citv Commission a sum of $250,000 for the purchase of City Site appeared to favor the transaction. I don't believe the question! of a few thousand dollars more I Hall, accompanying a written offer with a cashier's check for $25,000.

Final decision was postponed by the commission until fnext week's meeting, a move initiated by Commissioner George R. large department store. The NEWS day might L. Rogers. City is ready for one," Moe opponei it of L.

L. Stuckey of hoke in the Sixth Congressional The City Hall, taking in 185 for Congressman expressed feet on Andrews has been his appreciation of the loyal sup-variously appraised. A previous Prt nim of Federal Policy In Ward Strike UplieldByWLB WASHINGTON, May 22. VP) William II. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, told a special House committee today his agen-0 cy had to act in the Montgomery Ward Labor dispute or admit that 15,500,000 people in various industries "would be free to strike." Davis, first witness in the House Investigation of the mail order plant seizure in Chicago last month asserted that the WLB intends to step in wherever there is a work stoppage until Congress tells as clearly" that there are segments of the uwignt L.

Broward School Bus Driver Charged With Student Assault i- Amount driver, iunl if. Tot' Slderea. 1 NatiUnomv ths. are "th. hZ A assault and battery of a South Broward student passenger, Emmett MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED Rogers George Shoppe, was charged with bond untU the trial is conducted at tne nexi term ui uie luuhij court, is charged with ciolently seizing Williams about the neck, scratching him until he bled, -and reomving him from the bus, May 4.

The argument was reported to have started when picked up a scrap of paper that was thrown near him. and threw it toward the back of the bus. Files Information The information against Shoppe was filed after careful consideration, Miller explained. Testimony of other student occupants of the bus was heard in addition to re ports of members of Williams' family as to his appearance when he arrived home May 4. States witnesses who were, student occupants of the bus are: Harry Ingalls.

Willard D. Long. Dorothy i- Carter, Ivaar Hilliard Dorothy Payne, Barbara Knowles, Alice Mendoza, Freddie DeLong Eleanor Anderson. Evelyn Burk-hart, a nd Jean Shafer. Steel Company Freed Of Federal Indictment PITTSBURGH, May 22.

Federal Judge R. M. Gibson today granted a defense motion to quash an indictment charging Carnegie. Illinois Steel Corporation with destruction of records of tests on steel ship plate. Judge Gibson's action came as Robert L.

Wright, government at' torney, completed his summation of evidence presented during the three weeks' trial. The company also is charged in another indict ment with falsification and con cealing of records of the tests. The State Department made number of Swedish firms is being Williams, Hallandale. in an information filed in county court Sat urdav. bv Gerry Miller, prosecuting attorney.

troops, headquarters and the Germans were reported fiercely resisting a renewed Amer ican thrust southwest of Pico ui the center of the front. The Germans rushed reinforcements from the north into the sagging coastal line sector against the Americans, and Mark W. Clark's troops quickly captured 100 prisoners from them. Headquarters declared the Ger mans now have 17 divisions com- mitted against the main offensive and the Anzio have "nothing beachhead, and left in reserve south of Rome." French Advance French troops toward the center took, lost, and then recaptured today Monte Leucio west of Pico on the road from Pontecorvo. Canadians penetrated the Hitler line northeast of Pontecorvo, on the lower edge of the Liri Valley, piercing barbed wire entanglements, headquarters sadi.

The first troops to push into Terracina only 24 miles across the Pontine marshes from the Anzio beachhead had reported only light German rearguard resistance. On the beachhead itself, U. S. patrols pushed out five miles from the right flank of the perimeter in a daring stab, and the Germans reacted with a sharp coun terattack southwest of Cistema. Germans Desperate The Germans threw their 26th Armored Division into -despwate fight on the main front to save the Hank of their Hitler Line defenses.

A headquarters spokesman said Allied losses has been "con siderable" but not too high in relation to resul ts achieved and the extreme casualties in flicted on the Germans. Poles of the Eighth Army burst into Piedimonte on the north side of the Liri Valley west of Cas sino, and were mopping up trapped Germans. At the lower edge of the vai ley, the Allies punched into the outskirts of Pontecorvo, and in the center of the Italian front cut the Pontecorvo-Pico road, seizing Monte Leucio, and driv ing toward Pico itself. Pico is the swing point of the line to Terracina, hastily -manned when the Fifth Army crushed the southern flank of the first Hitler defenses. (The German command, sug gesting Pico might already have fallen, broadcast that Allied troops had broken into the town repeatedly, but had been thrown back.) Byrd For President- PHYSICAL CHECK-UP FOR FDR THIS WEEK WASHINGTON, May 22.

UF) President Roosevelt will visit the Naval Medical Center in nearby Maryland some time this week for a formal physical check-up to make certain he has thrown off the effects of last winters flu and bronchial trouble. Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire the President's personal physician, announced after the chief executive's month of rest in South recently that he would gi the President a final check-u even though he appeared to be in excellent shape. Mr. Roosevelt said last week that the examination would take place sometime this week.

Byrd. For. President MERCHANT MARISERS HONORED BY NATION WASHINGTON, May 22. estimate announced its value at $300,000. At today's meeting let ters were read indicating that Howard C.

Jelks appraised the structure and property at $250,000 while M. A. Hortt estimated its worth at $315,000. However, in general, it appeared that com missioners were pleased with the Burdine offer, the only one received since advertising of the property for sale. Whitten, whose firm is repre sented by Curtis Byrd and O.

B. Simmons of Evans, Mershon Sawver. Miami attnrnpvs. said that he had not been able to purchase Las Olas Boulevard property in the area first con- retain tenancy of the Citv HaH until Am-il 30. 1945.

at a rental of $5,000. nlus taxes, to beein uoon deliverv of the deed, with continued tenancy possible after that date at the same rental sub- ect to cancellation upon six months advance notice by either party. The contract would also reauire the city to Day leeal costs and permits the city to retain easement of 10 feet on SW Sec- ond St. for street widenine and 30 by 33 feet for the pumping station. More than 100 residents of the southwest section of the city appeared to protest the in- dustrial zoning of the area be- twecn SW River Drive, Sixth and Eighth Street.

Floyd W. Pyles. president of the Southwestern Improvement As- sociation. acted as spokesman for the group, answering G. Everett Quick who addressed the meeting on behalf of the Planning and Zoning Board, We 'have numerous requests for sites for small businesses and industries," said Quick.

"The city needs an industrial area and a backlog of year 'round business. No matter where we locate an industrial area we have com plaints from surrounding resi dents." Objections Listed "We believe the city needs an industrial area," said Pyles "but I have a petition signed by a hun- dred people who believe that in- PRESS Gubernatorial Candidates Bid For Local Votes JACKSONVILLE, May 22. LT) A spirited contest between for mer Congressman Millard Cald well of Tallahassee and Congress man R. A. (Lex) Green of Starke for gubernatorial nomination in tomorrow's Florida runoff Demo cratic primary drew to a close today with both men making con fident predictions of victory.

It is the only statewide con test on the ballot. Neither Caldwell nor Green has ever been defeated for public office. In the first Primary Caldwell led the six-man race with 116,111 votes and Green was a close second with 113,300, while the other four candi dates polled 176,666 A total of 658.013 Democrats are qualified to vote but only about half that number of ballots is expected. Few national issues have been raised in the runqff campaign in contrast, to the first primary which featured the successful race of Senator Claude Pepper, outspoken New Dealer, against four opponents and a contest between Roosevelt and Byrd candidates to the Democratic National Conven tion in which fourth termers won 14 delegate seats and Byrd- pledged candidates captured four. Both Visit Broward Both gubernatorial candidates planned to spend their final day of campaigning in the South Flor ida area and to make speeches in Miami tonight.

Caldwell forecast that he would win the nomination by the largest majority in decades, while Green predicted that he would "win with a substantial majority." Saying he based his prediction on reports he had received from all counties and personal checks made in the last several days, Caldwell predicted he would car ry Hillsborough and neighboring counties on the Gulf Coast, and a wide belt across the state includ ing Orange and Polk counties. He said he would have majori ties in lower South Florida coiuv ties and would roll up a suffi cient vote in his old third district to give him a lead in the second and third districts of at least 15,000. At a reception at Miami yes terday Green said, "since the first primary I have been in all parts of Florida and the re sponse and enthusiasm of our friends brings every indica tion of victory they are unit ed and determined." Byrd-For-Presioent COUNTY REGISTRAR WARNS CAMPAIGNERS Broward citizens will cast their votes tomorrow in one of 33 precincts scattered throughout the county, in the run -off primary that will determine next term of ficers. Polls will be open at am. to sundawn at 8:03 pjn.

The public will not be permit ted within 15 feet of the polls unless they are going to vote, Mrs Easter Gates, supervisor of regis tration, declared. In addition, ac cording to state laws, distribution of political literature or attempts to solicit votes must be made at least 300 feet or 100 yards away, from voting places. BYRO-FOR-PRESIDEWT' Gen. Mark Clark Escapes Nazi Booby Trap Blast ON THE FIFTH ARMY FRONT IN ITALY, May 22. lit.

Gen. Mark W. Clark, Fifth Army commander, narrowly missed baing killed when a well-disguised booby trap on an abandoned German artillery piece exploded less than 25 feet from the jeep in which he was riding yesterday. The explosion critically wounded one soldier and injured several others who had be standing near the Nazi anti-tank gun. Clark, who was making an inspection tour of the front, was told that someone had been tinkering with tlw abandoned gun.

3 (gfflffdfftflf Broward Vote For Attorney To Decide Race In an interview with The DAILY Broward County in the first pri mary. "I am now appealing to the voters to continue to give me their support and vote tomor row. I sincerely believe that we will win If the people of Broward County will go to tbe polls tomorrow and vote for Rogers said. "They have a splendid oppor-A tunny oi electing a congressman who lives in Broward County at this time, but if we miss this time it will be a long time before an Opportunity comes again. "A large number of people of Palm Beach County and the other parts of the district are rallying lu "i support miu.

wuai oruwmu County does for se'viU deter whether the Congressman shall be from Browara county or irom Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County has always had the Sen ator. from this district in the State Legislature ana a great numper i of the voters Palm Beach coun- ty are willing to let us have a Congressman provided tne people of this County will Interest tnem selves In going to the polls and voting lor me." Rogers saia The Real Test "I realize that this not a County proposition but is a Congressional District matter and the real test that should be applied when you go to vote is does the candidate have experience In government. has he training, education and background that qualify him for service In Congress to handle the problems that confront us in these serious times? "We need men who will fight for our returning servicemen and women and to help solve state, national and internation al problems which your next Congress will have to solve Rogers concluded. BmP-FOH-PlltllDtNT' Japs Reinforce I Troops In Honan CHUNGKING, May 22.

UP) Chinese troops counter-attacking the Japanese wedge into Honan iorcemems doui ai auwu ouu Hankow, possibly for another offensive Pipl( disnatehes said the JaD anese had been driven from sinantien. 33 miles north of their main Honan base of Sinyang; Wpir1rar, nnpp.finnrishintt hieh way town 35 miles southeast of ChenEhsien which fell after a tnrust into the enemy's flanks OTOvisionai caDital of Hcnan 80 miles southwesfc of Chenghsien ic.tv, ic rv.1 i uiopaino wu OM.VA -m 51w "tf Tiwimfin thp tr tmm with reports that Japanese col- I I 1 TTamav, -F-atvi Shensi Province to the west had advanced to within 18 miles of the border, stimulated the belief the Japanese might be gathering for a new attempt to occupy the entire Canton-Hankow railway. Byd.Fo.Pfmidmt- TRICKY BOX CARS A. U.S. FIGHTER BASE IN ENGLAND, May 22.

UP) The Germans' latest wrinkle in air defense Is anti-aircraft guns mounted in Irelffnt Cars Wnose Lirips fnifi dnwTi when train-straf- Fortresses bombed the German submarine center of Kiel and U. S. Liberators pounded German forti fications in the Pas-de-Calais area of France today after a night in which 750 heavy British bombers saturated the major inland Nazi port of Duisburg with 2,800 tons of explosives. The double-barreled daylight blow carried the newest Allied aerial prelude to the western invasion past 80 hours of continuous day-night attacks. Up to 250 Flying Fortresses and the same number of Liberators, each group protected by swarms of American fighters, struck the twin assault.

Hannover Hit Hannover, a rail and rubber center, and a German airfield in Belgium, were other British tar gets of the night. Thirty British planes were lost in the night As the Allied fighters crossed Dover Strait this morning they carried into the fourth day the Allies renewed pra oriensive. cermaa radios went off the air after announcing fighter formations were approaching western and northern Germany. In all some 3,000 Allied planes. most of them fighters, sprayed nearly every piece of Nazi transport sighted in western Europe yesterday with cannon and ma-chinegun fire.

These fighter sweeps and the RAF night blows dovetailed into the Allied strategy aimed at crippling Germany' movement of troops and supplies to combat the Impending Invasion from the west. Duisburg, Germany's greatest inland port, had been bombed 61 times previously, of which seven were major attacks. It last was hit hard on May 12, 1943, and following that attack, a record at the time, the Air Ministry announced the entire commercial and administrative center of the city of 300,000 had been laid in ruins. The attack on Duisburg last night was described by the Air Ministry as "very heavy." Russian Front Remains Quiet LONDON. May 22.

Sporadic fighting was reported along the lower Dnestr River north of Tiraspol over the weekend, but the Russian front remained generally quiet except for continued Soviet aerial attacks on communications far behind German lines. A broadcast Moscow communique said Red Army troops had slain 600 Germans in repulsing several tank-supported enemy attacks in the Tiraspol area. Berlin radio also reported action in the same general area, asserting 3.000 Russians had been encircled and captured west of Gir-goriopol, 20 miles north of Tiraspol. Russians declared there were "no material changes" on other jrtors of the far-flung front, but sf the uermans were racing 10 new fortifications under oiction in Bulgaria along the aube River and the Black Sea. INSIDE THE NEWS Broward 4 Capitol 4 .11,12 Comics 10 Editottals 4 International 2,1 Just Lines o' Type 4 Local News ......3,7 National News Palm Leaf Fan 6 Pass in Review 4 Political News 12 Social 5,6.

Sports 9 Thealers 9 Washington RVnnp Trtin nnsted a $50 cash Samuel N. Hurst, Retired Lawyer, Dies At Age 77 Samuel Need Hurst, 77. retired minister and lawyer and former professor of mathematics at Pea- body College, Nashville, died Sunday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank Curtis. He came here in November from Pulaski, Va, to make his permanent home, and was residing at 456 SW Fourth St.

Mr. Hurst led an active life. He was a Methodist minister for, 10 years, and left that calling to practice law. He authored 25 law books. He was a member of the Masonic and Elks lodges of Pulaski.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ida May Hurst, three sons and six daughters, all of whom will attend funeral services at Fairchild Funeral Home Wednesday at 10 a. m. The Rev. John H.

Hanger will officiate. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Sons surviving include: R. Hurst. Columbus, Ohio; S.

N. Hurst Roanoke, and A. L. Hurst, Portsmouth, Va. Daughters are: Mrs.

Curtis and Mrs. Richard Mezelle, Ft. Lauderdale; Mrs. James M. Guynn and Mrs.

Linwood Latimer, both of Norfolk; Mrs. G. I. Jones, Ft. Myers and Mrs.

Lon Sherwood. Detroit. He also leaves 13 grandchildren. dustrializing the soutnwest wux ryovin-- alonsr he Peiping-be detrimental to property values 0VUlce a on tne concerned with the war. Representative Dewey (R-Ill) sponsored the investigation on the theory that the Ward mail order plant should not have been seized f.

because it is not a direct War Production concern. Davis said the only way to have an effective no-strike policy is "to ban all strikes" and set up the WLB as the forum for set- tling all dispute. "It is our opinion," Davis declared, "that failure or refusal of the government in time of war to furnish a means of peacefully resolving disputes di-rectly involving the employes of this company would without the slightest doubt lead to substantial Interference with the war effort. It is the unanimous opinion of our members that this company is engaged In activities directly related to the successful prosecution of the war." If it should be decided that Montgomery Ward is not subject to the no-strike pledge, Davis said, all the employes in distribution, transportation, service trades, wholesale and retail ser vices would have no obligation to remain on the job either. Byrd.

For. Presidert 1 Army Operating Ward Subsidiary SPRINGFIELD, 111.. May 22. -T) The Hummer Manufacturing Company, second Montgomery ward orooerty to be seized by the army within four weeks, resumed production today under govern-. ment operation when workers on the early shift returned to their jobs.

Lt. Col. Nelson Talbott, war department representative in charge said 220 of 240 workers on the early day shift reported at 7 a. m. Spokesmen for the union said "over 90 per cent all we rould notify last night" of the 325 normally employed on the two day shifts agreed to report.

The plant employs 550, including some 100 -office workers There were no disturbances and John J. Saxer, plant manager, said he and other plant officials were "cooperating to the fullest extent" with a 10 man army con tineent which took possession yes f.prdav acting under President Roosevelt's order. BYRD.fOt-PRtSIBr.HT 1 Negro Boy, 15, Drowned In Netc River Saturday Fifteen-year old Doney Bellamy Negro, drowned 'Saturday in the North Fork of New River, Efforts of seven companions and combined forces of police, lire men and medical aid failed to Cevive him. The youngster was swimming at the northwest side of the railway trestle. He dove intn the water at 11:30 ajn.

The borv was recovered at 12:10 pm The boy was pronounced dead by and to the values in areas beyond, nansow rauroau iCi An Industrial center in the middle today to have recaptured three of the city will make a barge towns, but private advices said "S1 ff JJfiJS'-Hi? th enemy was bringing up rein-residential districts beyond will be LATE BULLETINS SWEDISH FIRMS FACE BLACK LIST WASHINGTON. May 22. innwn tnrlav that a considerable This war-busy nation took time.r investigated for blacklisting and action against them probably will within th next few days. Today's announcement was the latest in a series of developments stemming from the efforts of the United States. Britain and Russia mdin? ball bearincs to Germany.

The cut off." L. E. Johns, secretary of the Association a fid W. J. Kelley, representing a client whose in- terests are located in the southwest, violently protesiea the proposed zoning, a mouon by Slaton to refer the matter back to the Zoning Board for lurmrr roiu.imr.uu i carded when the oojeciors asK- ta for lmmeaiaie acuon.

ie proposal oi uie r.a..n...s wm then demea ana reierrea vo me ooara iur iuiuiw Commissioner H. J. Newsham said: "I disagree with the zoning r. tVtnco n-hr. ST.

ovPd 0ut SXAKE BITES NEGRO Robert Lee Robertson, Negro of Dania, was bitten by a rattlesnake todav while working at Pine Allen Groves. Robinson was removed to the Provident Hospital where his condition was reported as fair. Weather And Tides rartiy rimidy thin tonisht nil Tnnday, tientlf. to moderate r.Mrriy 1 1 p. m.

out today to fete its Merchant Marine, the largest any nation ever boasted. By Congressional Act and Presidential proclamation, it's Maritime Day 125th anniversary of the sailing from Savannah, of the 100-foot Savannah, the first ship to use steam propulsion on an trans-ocean voyage. The anniversary, which formerly, was largely confined to seaport cities, went inland, since component parts for ships, as well as sea-going vessels, now are being made far away from the coasts. Brno. Ton.

Presidert 1 NAVY LEASE WASHINGTON, May The United States now the own er of the world's largest Navy has leased almost 1.400 naval craft to the British under Lend -Lease principal Swedish ball bearing manufacturer is the SKF firm which has American affiliates at Philadelphia and New York. SEDITION MISTRIAL DENIED WASHINGTON, May 22. CD Justice Edward C. Eicher overruled today all defense motions for a mistrial in the mass sedition conspiracy case which moved into its sixth week. Attorneys for several of the 29 defendants had contended the opening statement of Prosecutor O.

John Rogge was inflamatory and designed to "poison the minds of the jury." but Eicher said he had read the transcript carefully over the week-end and concluded that it did not "transcend permissible NEY NAMED OPA DEPUTY WASHINGTON, May 22. CT Jerome M. Ney today was appointed acting assistant deputy administrator for rationing in the Office of Price Administration. OPA said the title meant he would be "operating head for rationing in the Washinston headquarters office." Ney, formerly in OPA's Atlanta regional office, succeeds James E. Kelley, resigned.

planes approach. 4:30 p. m. Low tldra 4:16 Qt. Von Mizell at 12:45 pjn.