Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 1

YOU! GIVE! ped Comment Serious Otherwise, on Late v1 Developments. The American Red Cross is at HIS side, and the Red Cross is Keep it There by doing more than your bit dig deeper and i Casper Tribune-Herald I SERVICE FLAG I 9 i contrilm- "The Newspaper that Makes All Central Wyoming Neighbors" SAVE THIS NEWSPAPER For WASTE PAPER SALVAGE Eight Pagefc Price 5 Cents 53rd Year No. 2'2 Associated Press Leased Wire Serrfce Casper, Wyoming. Monday. March 20.

1944 One Day Nearer Victory aul Miuinittt-e would drive by the Suvb an i-aily possible, Cas-, li'Vds lots Of rm of voluntary Natrona county 1 1 campaign two dol-: woman ami iifts must They must le oine donors ilefieiencies iz? families or in from another and the it f.nles into mimarison with Stronghold on Mayor and Police Chief of Cheyenne Accused Dniester Falls nf patriots are I NAZIS REINFORCE POSIT BO To Russians NS IN CASSINO HILL WEST OF TOWN ii institutions as may survive, i also stands by itl' of sons and its services in in enemy w.ll as at every lie re the armed RUINS, RECAFTUR Charged with Taking Bribes Two Policemen Also Named in Case Allies Capture i Flood Drives 300 from Homes At Miles City CHEYENNE, March i P' iniied. le no question of about early tin- Uie. If people the manner in i is lteinj; behalf the cam-i iiiiH-d into a rush irivc generously. hv' II: z). itr) Lneyenne mayor, police chief and two 100 Prisoners U.

S. Bombers Again Cross Alps German Troops Prepare for Defense of Hungary By E. B. SULLIVAN LONDON. March 20.

OF) Marshal Joseph Stalin announced tonight the Russian capture of Mogilev Po-dolski, broadening the Red army's base of operations in in Bessarabia, and to the northeast the Germans admitted the abandonment of the contested stronghold of Vinnitsa. The Russians along a 31-mile front already have crossed the Dniester, whose hieh west banks formed the Russian Rumanian frontier between the two World wars, previous Moscow announce police officers were charged lit MILES CITY. March 20. fPi More than 300 persons were driven from their homes here todav when the Tongue and Yellowstone rivers flooded more than 10 sauare WITH THE FIFTH ARMV AT blocks of the city's north side resi- today in Laramie County District court with soliciting-and accepting bribes and pleaded innocent at a hearing before District Judge Sam M. Thompson.

The charges against Mayor Ira L. Hanna. Police Chief B. Ekdall and Capt. Gerald J.

Jet Morris CASSIXO. March 20. Ger dential aistrlct. A portion of the business district also was threat ened. MrT BF FOR LOVE "lounr Kins Peter of Jugoslavia tin hardly expert iredit for much uiicitv in planning to wed Prints if-indra of Greece.

Wiih hi chanre of retaining his ihrnne at an all-time low, he rr.crflv double the possibility of nhtaininc "imc form of recognition from one of to bad prospects. 1 Kirtti i AH JMI." Stranded residents were still being rescued from tneir homes at noon by patrols working in motorboats. 1 -J Editor Lou Grill of the Miles Citv .1 man troops raised the white flac over the Continental hotel, which thev had turned into one of the chief renters of resistance in Cas-sino, but they still ilune desperately to the southwest corner of the town and Hill 165 today. Not onlv were they fightinr for every inch, but they appeared to have ample reserves to reinforce and steady their precarious position throush weli-covered draws and tunnels in the hills behind the town. and Sgt.

E. K. Ekky Violette of the Cheyenne police force were con- tained in two informations filed by i Laramie County Attorney Edward B. Hirst and accompanied by sup- porting affidavits signed by two persons. Lola West, operator of a tavern in Cheyenne, alleged in one affidavit 1 1 I EXTRA BURDEN i.vrr.a'ior.al football league t.

is said to be the dream F.xr Layden. Doesn't he know has about all the glo-zi. respociibilities he is able to as- Star said it was the worst flood here since 1929. There were no injuries reDorted. and no lives lost.

The Yellowstone river was 15 feet hisher than normal at noon, but Mayor Sam Keye said he believed the flood crest had been reached. Ice corces piled up in the river 10 to 12 miles east backed the water in the city. The Yellowstone had formed lake more than a mile wide, and the Tongue river, which empties ir.to the Yellowstone here, also had formed a lake in the west end of the business district, inundating the city park. ments had said, and the capture cf Mogilev Podolski gave them a second main springboard for a smash into the former domain of abdicated King Carol and its rich oil fields. tThe Eritu-h radio.

Quoting an Ankara report, said German troops have "occupied Hungary nod all strategic points are in German Hungary lies south of the Carpathian mountaiius. which wero within sight of Russian troops today. -For the past 24 hours tne Hungarian radio has been broadcasting only German news." added the broadest, recorded by CBS. Marshal Stalin, in an order of the day broadcast bv Moscow and rr- that the officials solicited and received $100 from her March 11 as a "pay-off" for "protection." The other affidavit, attached to a second information and sigaed by W. C.

Grimes, made the same allegations but the amount was listed as $25. Judge Thompson issued bench warrants for the arrest of the four HOUSES FLOATED DOWN OHIO RIVER: Thirty of 120 house beinff moved by bare 550 miles down the Ohio river from Point Pleasant, W. Va to Camp Breckinridge, Ky, resume their trip after high winds forced the 12-barge flotilla to spend the night at Louisville, Kj. i Associated Press Wircphoto.) Bt RICHARD G. MASSOCK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.

Naples, March 20. (iP) The Germans have succeeded in-reinforcing their remaining strong points in QIKST10V fnaior Thomas of Utah may be rtzht in stating that it is time to idopt a "nrw formula" for helping mrH the increased cost of but is also a time for rantion immediately after the info-jnations Residents forced from their homes within an hour. Mayor 0n! av that wages can be made MY BUB rTth r.rf "5 corded bv the Soviet monitor, said Src5.A.-t1? Mogilev Podolski was taken vester- were beine cared for bv the Red bv friends other in sections of the hflp i by raisin); them, and how this without boosting ii; rosts still higher is a dollar question. Let's have the wHfr. alo.

before the present formula is scrapped. Hanna was arrested at a meeting cf the city council and the others appeared at the Laramie county sheriff's office shortly thereafter. At the hearing. Judge Thompson fixed the bonds of Hanna and Ekdall at $4,000 each. $2,000 on each charge, and $3,000 each for Morris Undetermined Number Trapped Inside Vehicle; Seven Persons Rescued oVr.

Charles De Gaulle declares $1i50A Missing Crew Member Found Cassino and have regained a hill to the west from Fifth army troops in heavy fighting Allied headquarters announced today. On the town's southwestern fringe Allied infantry and armor continued to attack enemy forces holed-tip in ruins in and around the continental hotel. About 100 German prisoners were reported taken in the battle for the wreckage of the iotel. in whose ruins the Germans had installed two tanks. Allied armor moved late yesterday against the hotel stronghold and Associated Press War Correspondent Lynn Heinzerling said one enemy tank was knocked out.

Fifth army troops kept a firm hold on the railway station, a mile south of the town, although the Germans shelled it heavily with mortars and artillery. The largest number of heavy The bush skidded on the bridge and ripped down about 30 feet of puard rail before it dropped into citv. Grill said the flood resulted when warm weather caused snow oiled no in the headwaters region of the Tongue, south of Miles City, to melt rapidly and send an unprecedented volume of water down the river. The Yellowstone, alreadv ice-chocked, was unable to earn the water awav and gorges formed. The flood waters had closed the Miles City-Jordan highway, anrl water also was runnine over TJ.

S. highway 10. the main eRst-west traffic artery, a dozen miles east, makine travel hazardous. The however, had not interfered with rail traffic. L.

D. Faster and Frank Cook, local Tiers, were pressed into service by Mavor Keye to attempt to dyna i ne men cic uriu 111 onriui n. c. Tuck's office and were not lodged in Jail. Judge Thompson fixed the terms of the bonds to require the men to appear before the court on the first day of the March term, March 27.

The four specifically were charged the channel, recently deepened for I cay by tank and infantry maneuver. On the east bank of the Dniester, it is 33 miles northwest of YampoL where the Russians made their fiiat entry into Bessarabia. Vinnitsa. 50 miles northeast of Mogilev Podolski. apparently abandoned by the Germans to avoid encirclement after weeks of a stubborn fight.

The town had been use by Germans as the basis for soma of their largest scale counter-attacks in an effort to halt the Red avalanche which rolled down with trashing effect on German positions in southern Russia. Zhmerinka to the southwest of Vinnitsa slre.idv had been taken by the Russians, who also we.e driving in force to the northwest. The German communique said Vinnitsi, where the invaders had waged a stubborn defense for weeks. evacuated according to plaa (Turn to Page 8, Col. 51 Arrow in Snow Directs Rescuers tugboat tramc.

First identified victim of the accident was a pedestrian knocked from the bridge into the river. One r.cr.ch will not tolerate er a foreign regime" or Vichy the liberation of their thereby taking a reprehen-f at the Aliied Military organization, which re-order and passes out food to among other things. -ead of the French Com-' National Liberation anything more than patriotic demand tor for his people, it is a appreciation for what tne co ne to make his dream 'rur. he needs is a the fact that any nlAy have in mind a dp for a time without ff the AMG. and for all he with soliciting and accepting money "to influence them with resnect to their official duties Lola West, whose establishment is known (Turn to Pace 8, CoL 8) of the seven saved was Leroy W.

Thomas, general foreman of the March 20 States Rubber company arrow he stamped in the phnt, whose employes played major i snow led to the rescue yesterday of roles in the rescue work. I the last of 11 men who Darachuted PASSAIC. N. J. March 20.

LD A bus plunged from a bridge into the Passaic river during a sleet ttorm todav and seven rescued occupants estimated that nine to 30 other persons were inside the submerged vehicle. The estimate of nine came from a boy, with adults putting the figure at 15 to 30. Employes of a riverside factory making life rafts for the war effort tossed finished rafts out windows and into the stream to facilitate rescue work, while Nicholas Mulick of Wellington, a fellow worker, dived into the icy water and helped three survivors ashore. Those saved were assisted from an emergency door. Port of New York authorities started a derrick barge to the scene in an effort to ntse the bus.

mite the ice gorges from the air Stanley Pavlick of Wellington re- from a fOUr-eneined armv bomber S7ie northwest of Cheyenne Saturday Domoers ever to operate irom misjnfter the arrav's bomber base at theater took to the air yesterday Rapid Citv. S. reported Inablll'v when American Flying Fortresses to eet bomber planes to Miles Citv and Libeiators blasted Flagenfurt because of adverse weather condi-(Turn to Tage 8. CoL 8) 1 1 ions. War in Brief A civilian pilot spotted the missing bomber crewman's spread-out parachute and the arrow and ground searchers found him at a ranch.

His companions were picked up from the same area Saturday afternoon and night. The plane crashed approximately 100 miles away at Douglas after the services may be badly as French liberation cie-the Allies and their IGauile can afford to cf their aims. Red Drive Cross Fund Progresses crew bailed out 30 miles northwest of Cheyenne. Major W. D.

Emery. Cheyenne Army Air Forces representative, an- Casper Schools lated that he heard the crash, looked from a window in the plant and recognized Thomas floating in the river with the aid of a bus seat cushion. Pavlick obtained a long-handled brocm and rushed to the edge of the water, where he passed an end of the broom to Thomas and towed him to the bank. When he told Thomas to climb out. however, the foreman said.

can't. Both mv legs are broken." Pavlick then jumped in. pushed Thcmas out and went to the aid of a woman who was floating on a ladder thrown in by firemen. Battleships Shell Jap Base Marshalls Forecast and Data by the U. S.

Weather Bureau Wyoming Snow today and tonight; clear Tuesday: coider east of divide today and tonight; wind 30-40 miles per hour south portion today and tonight: high today 30-40; lew tonight 10-20; high Tuesday 30-40. Casper and v.tinity: Light snow this afternoon, changing to sncw flurries, snow ending tonight and clearing by Tuesday: somewhat warmer today and tonight; not much change of temperature for Tuesday; fair Tuesday. nounced two of the crew. Pfc. W.

Robbins and Sgt. J. F. Metcalf. were slightly injured and hospitalized at Fort Francis E.

Warren. Names of the other crew members were not Marshal Stalin announced Russian capture of Mogilev PodolKt. giving the Reds a new springboard for the conquest of Bessarabia. The Russians have crossed the Dniester on a 31 -mile front. American bombers struck at targets in southwest Germany.

Germans have reinforced their remaining strong points in Cassino and have regained a hill to the west in heavy fighting. Pierre Pucheu, former minister of interior of the Vichy government, was executed at Algiers. The condemned man gave the squad the order to fire. The conquest of the Admiralty islands has been completed 21 das after the campaign was begun. Japanese forces have launched a Load Two More Cars of Paper The Casper schools system started More than $6,500 Tabulated by Monday Noon at Headquarters Here The National Whirligig WASHINGTON Br RAY TICKER Q'-iarrel among the re-1 of three American oehind a seemingly released.

The plane. Emery said, was based at Salina, Kan. Extreme temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at noon Monday: rTi "Very encouraging" was the from the Red Cross drive head Max. Mm. pep.

-ji, rv: rv" FLASHES carried on during the past few of generosity by the enlisted men and also that the men who may at some time be recipients of funds in cases of emergency were quick lo realize the value of Red Cross services and even though they may weeks. Two carloads have previously been WASHINGTON. March 20. quarters as the results of the first morning's drive was being tabulated. I More than $6,500 was tibulated by noon at the headquarters, W.

D. Johnston, chairman of the Natrona countv chapter, announced. One of the most heartening re i major drive on India. Four thou- States, battleships have pntirp shinmrnts hp nrn-ratpri LnitPu rever receive personal help tney sand Nipponese cued in the Hu- Big Piney 35 13 CASPER 37 27 .08 I Cheyenne 47 25 Cody 47 27 .20 Doualas 43 25 Lander 44 28 .58 Newcastle 44 30 Rock Springs 34 20 .08 Sinclair 34 20 .09 Sheridan 49 30 .12 amon: the various schools in the at estate battle in The land in question P' tomac river directly Memorial, and historic site for to one of those heavily shelled Mili island, the base to which the Japanese cling at the southeast corner of the Marshalls wiii know that pernaps their duo- fcang valley of Burma, where Allied d-es may get assistance when it is forccs occupied about 1.300 square most needed. miles 0f territory in four months.

The early returns Indicated that city for their extra-curricular and benefit funds. I Each car contained about 40 tons group, in a bombardment syn- ports received was that of the en- listed men at the Casper Army Air iield who contributed $1,600 towards the drive. This does not include the officers or the civilian workers. Local drive officials point out tht this is a remarkable demonstration I the citizens of Natrona county as well as the personnel at the au- field are responding generously to the necessitv of doubling their last Turn to Pate 8. CoL 4) I (By The Associated Press! NEW YORK A blindfolded poodle dog inched his way across a tightrope in a 42nd street sideshow.

A sharp mark came from someone in the audience. The result: The pooch fell. The trainer and an India rubber man picked a coast guardsman as the barker. A fight ensued. The latter wound up in a hospital and the trainer and rubber man bounced into court, accused cf assault.

The poodle RED CROSS CAMPAIGN PROGRESS igures whose names y-cpi into the contro-a place in posterity Roosevelt, Woodrow Franklm D. Roosevelt. supporters insists that -'e acres, which form 'r of the rectangular by the Washmg- ar.u Jefferson as a shrine for its c.ironura mn an -aiiats. ay carrier based aircraft, the navy announced today. The navy's communique gave no further details of the action, which took place Saturday, but an attack of this weight often is a step in softening-up operations preceding a landing.

The same communique also reported continued air operations against other Japanese holdings in that part of the Pacific. Conquest of Admiralty Islands Is Completed Enemy Driven from Lorengau, Main Seven Overcome Here Jap Base in Group ihe argument has! prim. But certain which originally I New York City I Greatest Wartime $44,000 an addi'ional clamp on the blockade of Wewak. Alrpariv thp Wpwalr rirfrnHprt aro By Fumes Are Rescued Prompt Action Averts Tragedy After Ventilator Becomes Dislodged Two persons are in the hospital stricken people from the basement and five others are recoveruig from apartment and then took a screen the effects of carbon monoxide from a bathroom window and al-f umes which spread through the I lowed the fumes to escape. He then dwelling at 535 West Yellowstone called local authorities.

His prompt early Monday morning. actions Ls believed to have saved the tJ hari victims from serious Illness. A ventilator on the furnace had The fJre departmPnt unc3cr lhe By RICHARD C. BF.RGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor Twenty-one days after it started. the conquest of the Admiralty islands is over and the Allies now hold two new airdromes and a mas- an apartment vpot were warned reserve as the monument to the of the White 'H.

knows of the tionable. but, the $40,000 getting mighty tired of the war. For Port in World eight consecutive djys. Allied planes have ripped and torn the base with 1.200 tons of explosives. More tnan NEW ORK.

March 20. 200 tons went into the last reported one-tnira ot au American exports sivp harbor 1pkk than 800 milps from PHILADELPHIA When Mrs. Felice Ferris found a soat hutting on her front door she seized iu horns and pushed. "That's no way, kibitzed a passing motorist. "Get behind and push." She did so hard that the goat chased the motorist back into his car.

Two policemen finally rounded up the goat. OKLAHOMA CITY At christening ceremonies for the 1.000th C-47 cargo plane built here. Mrs. Catherine Oldham. Douglas Aircraft worker, broke a container of confetti over the plane's propx-l-lor hub.

symbolizing wishes for landings." $35,000 raid and agam, there was no air to Page 5, CoL 5) pass through New York City which today is the greatest wartime port in the world, savs Rear Admiral Stanley V. Parker, captain of thej port of New York. Admiral Parker, who is in com- Japan's key Pacific base at Truk and 13(30 miles from the Philippine islands. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today the enemy has been $30,000 oecome ajaongeu t.

chief Maurice Kelliher fumes to escape irrto the basement n. r.ntain r.ihsnn orrated the interception. On the opposite end of Japan's Pacific defense lic.e. Paramushiro in the northern Kirule islands was bombed for the third consecutive day. Other Pacific planes pounded Pohape and Kuaie in the eastern Caroline islands and three undesignated atolls in the eastern and spread through the house.

pulmotor and gave other first aid. $25,000 mand of the coast guard in this iarea. told a communion breakfast! iof Spars that the enormous traffic of men and goods was twice that iol the peak movement of 1926. covered by neighbors who informed Joe Yaiowizer, foreman of the Kern- i mer Tire Shop who carried the ose tQ th, hospltJll driven from Lorer.gau. main Japa-i nese base in the Admiralties, and there is "nothing left that is worth defending." a headquarters spokes-.

man added. Since dismounted cavalry units started the invasion Feb. 29. Ma-. mote airdrome on Los Negros island big Seadlcr harbor, possibily capable of containing tiie entire U.

S. battle fleet, was secured Mrs. Parl Cosley and Mrs Dorothy $20,000 (Turn to Pate CoL 7) Former Vichy Official Put to Death $15,000 Postoffice Will Accept Bids on Branch Contract $10,000 Bnd stood steadfastly and intently staring at the firing squad as he shouted these fateful orders: "Ready Aim Fire!" A special French military court two days ago had turned down the condemned mans appeal from the death sentence. hich was Imposed Pierre Pucheu Commands Own Firing Squad at Execution in Algiers CROSS WAR FUND CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS South Wolcott Arross 'fora Post Office PHONE 1898 Office Hours: 3 A. M.

to 6 P. M. $5,000 Bt JOSEPH DYNAX ALGIERS, March 2C Pucheu, the former minister cf interior of the Vichy government, crumbled to death at dawn today before a firing squad which the condemned man himself commanded to fire. He was convicted of treason a week ago and Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of the French Com-mi-tpp of National Liberation, said Postmaster Ed Landers announced Monday that bids would be received until 10 a.

m- March 25. for the and finally Lorengau airdrome and township were won. Vanquished enemy troops remain in the Admiralties but face starvation or ultimate destruction by the Americans who hold all the strategically valuable positions and can cut off most Japanese escape attempts. Fll of the Admiralties puts additional terror in the hearts of Japanese defenders of Wewak. mam Japanese air and supply base in northern New Guinea.

Allied planes based in the Admiralties can put command his own firing squad as a i racks parade ground shortly after 4 upon him as an exponent oi col i postoffice contract branch at the Casper Armv Air field. Anyone wishing to submit a bi1 last request. a. m. i latoration with the Germans in r.is A representative of the court, two Witnesses said Pucheu thanked capacity of interior minister.

During the trial. Gen. Henri Gi- may secure further information and 1 attorneys, a chaplain and the spec- the chaplain and his two attorneys alter the death ial prosecutor. Gen. Pierre Weiss, and cursed Weiss.

of the blanks at the postmasters office in (Turn Pase 8. L'oL 5) i the postoffice building. he was unable to sentence. Pucheu kis allowed to witnessed the execution on a bar- I He spumed a bandage for his eyes.