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Weather Forecast and scmewcat colder snow flurries toright. Tuesday colder with, a snow flurries. VOL, No. 73 TIME ERALD edited for Southwestern New York and Northwestern Pennsvivanla as rfasr inail Su rrice Oleaa. Xew York, cnde: the AC: tie Mares 3.

MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27. 1941 Words Of The Wise is but ha! emaa- half aiiliiooj of with voles is their casds sre educates. C. i a a PRICE THREE CENTS Allied Attack 0 U.S.BombersFollowUp Hostages Night Raid On Krupp Killed In With Daylight Attack Foresee In iinand WASHING 'Persistent Japanese thrusts into India have revealed uneasiness here over the command situation' in the Burma- India The Japanese penetration, so far as it "has little concern an immediate military In Lt. Gen.

Joseph in other Japanese judged to-: of. much more; sup-- staritial -military rsignifScance-thari the Japanese, ln- dia's Stilweir and Lord Louis JMpuntbatten.1 theater. iconi-? 'and; rated 'as bold and "aggressive, military, But officials here; evidently' 131" that a tightening.pf 'chain would of the '-real in. theater. anese put of, Burma suppiy routes to.vChinai'" Mp.untbatten:.-isi%Cqmman.d'eriih'r: Chief of Allied east Asia area which- includes Burma.

Siam', Malaya and Sarria- tral But he is dependent foremen and supplies" oh Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck. Chief of "the British Imperial Forces in India. They -are. native with some Americans and 'Chinese.

There are a lot of "them and they are well and completely 'equipped. There was some feeling here that the situation would. improved if Mountbatten more independent of the Indian perhaps by enabling him to draw upon men and supplies in India through the War Office in London instead leck. of by appeal to Auchin- Report Landing On Northwest Italian Coast I.ONDON The -German high conifnand reported today that a fifteen-man American force landed northwest of Spezia in a commando-like action against the northwest coast of Italy. A German communique reporting the landing, not confirmed immediately in any responsible quarter, saic? that two American officers and thirteen men were killed in the ensuing fighting.

Spczia is the site of a major Italian naval base on the Ugurian coast fifty miles southeast of Genoa. LONDON Between 500 and 750 American heavy bombers, plastered German airdromes in southwest and by daylight today after 'RAF night i-aid- crashed tons of ex- the great. Krup'p at Early: reports from coastal observers that "American forces carrying "on unabated theldax and "night offen- Royal A'i'r a eight for Essen iwhich wasl believed Zto-: have 'interrupted urgent repair" at tlie Krupp Germans jrepor ted authoritatively to. have' ICrupp Works, and 'quite- substantial volumS of production" bef ore" 'last J.nigh t's at- a was madei it impossible: full'-. results annpunced In crrpa f-" TirViToTi (-Ha great" tfprcelwhich -jthe ubns hub in railway Say Rome Is Open City NEW rORK--Radio Berlin reiterated the Nazi propaganda line today that Rome has been made open city but warned that any l.t'Slile actions "Badoglio or Communist elements" in the city leave the German military authorities free to take any measures they consider necessary.

In a broadcast recorded by the United Press, the Berlin announcer quoted a proclamation issued by the Nazi in Rome ihat are German troops i'crk convinced to or military installations directiy proximately irij thejaiight's '-operations; the ,73 which "failed on Berlin and Kiel -Friday, nights, Though clouds jl the night- the Nazi: command has nlans into tight leaving the Xuhr "protected primarily by anti- 'lirnraf guns. of. the RAF's favorite last was attacked July 2.5/-1943:- Air Minister. Sir Archibald last Novemher thatl Es'sen and the Krupps Works with it had been 'shattered." Essen itself had been per cent destroyed," Sinclair Said." The RAF's return to probably- was precipitated; by report showing, that the Germans were rushing repairs to the Krupps plant and other, war industries in a frantic effort to bolster their arms production in preparation for warding of an Allied invasion of wcsten Europe. Reprisal LONDON-- Swiss to London newspapers today that i more than 500 persons were believed, executed or killed in mass reprisals for the bombing a-, commemorating: the 'twenty-fifth "of: Fascism in XThe Daily Express, in a "dispatch i'frpm Chiasso oh the Italo- Swiss frontier, said 300" of the, taken to scene Christian" -massacres, ued in Zurich cbrrespbhdent of the Telegraph" said it -was announced at.

that thirtv- two.Germanf officials' were killed in the Sqtnbing-; al though the that twenty-four. GesSpp'-of icers and fourteen" Fascist'-" militiamen died in the- explosions street fighLs broke? o.ut-'rlaterl- conflicting-. -reports 'Badbguo's aiariov other, 'former high government officials, we're among hostages; seized by the" after partisans threw and fired the- procession. mass executions were carried dispatches when German officials rounded up of civilians immediately. 7af ter the bombing 1 ten" hostages for every Fascist Nazi; killed.

The Daily. said' 320 hostages were; killed.in 'the. first execution, and 'thirty "others, later for attacks German rpplice. HiliKufileis i Army and raided the-KuHle Saturday for sixth; time this hitting Param- jshiro. Onnekotan and approximately 1,000 miles north.

of it; was announced Superior Race Myth BUFFALO--The theory of race superiority is one of "myth and prejudice." Dr. Olive Lester, professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo, told an interracial group yesterday, declaring there was no scientific evidence that hatred between different races is innate but that ail race prejudices must be learned. Dr. Lester said that while there is an exact science which studies racial physical differences, it bears no relation to inferioritx' or superiority in such psychological factors as intelligence and Ticr- The raid Onnekotan. a volcanic 'island about twenty-nine miles south Pararaushiro, the first A communique from Adm.

Chester W. headquarters- said one plane -was ''-lost' in the operations, although it' gave, no details of the the other end of tlie Pacific front. Navy and Marine fliers attacked Ponape in the Carolines and three Japanese bases in the Marshalls without loss" on Fridav. SOVIET RANSYLVANIA Hungory takes Transylvania from Rumania AIM. 30.1940 BESSARABIA taken from Runia after WorlJWorl.rtoc- cupitd by Russia in June, 1940.

and recaptured by Axil in October. 1941 Black Sea To prevent nations from" deierting Nazi camp, German occupying forcei take oVer 7 itratt9ic ppinti in'Bulgaria and for Hitler ii ft not; formally "at GERMANS' BACKS TO CARPATHIAN -AVAJLL. Map above shows how drive, heretofore over fairly flat iand. is forcing German backs against the wall of where in, more easily, defensible terrain, they may make desperate stand. armies aim at vital through.the rugged Carpathians.

Map also shows areas over which Balkan nations fight among themselves and drastic steps Hitler has taken is forestall satellite countries frorii deserting the Nazi fold. Committee Split OverFoufthTerm WASHINGTON The Senate Truman Committee was "split by a political controversy today afte'r Chairman Harry S. Truman. endorsed a fourth term for President Roosevelt and his "wise and experienced leadership." Three Republican members ot the committee Sens. Owen Brewster.

Maine: Harold H. Burton, Ohio, and Joseph H. Ball, Minnesota immediately disavowed saying' they were merely a statement of his personal political position and did not reflect the official of the committee. Truman's statement did not i is Of War F. the Dnilctl War Drik Soviets Ready For uinania Soviet 'guns massed along- the Prut River border poured a.

torrent of steel and explosives into Rumania paving- tlie way Tiie Red Army knocked a rv ecl Army-tlirust into the heart 1 of Adolf Hitler's jittery Balkan satellite. British Broadcasting Corporation reported that Russian advance elements had Prut into Rumania. mention the committee nor identi- ap oac! fy him as chairman. the: sputheastern gates of Hitler's European fortress today, massed along Rumania's Prut River and the upper reaches of the'Dniester drive beyond Russian soil into the enemy stronghold. In the unrelenting British American air offensive poundeo' in great force at targets in the "invasion of northwestern the Ruhr and central Germany in preparation for "the hour of our greatest ef- fcrt and.

action" which Prime Minister Winston Churchill said is Associates Believe Dewey Will Silent On Possible. i The Soviet Second Ukrainian Army had reached the Prut on a -mile front and Its artillery crossed the The broadcast was in the Spanish language and was not confirmed immediately. "The Germans won't a breathing the Communist organ Pravua said in confirming that Marshall Ivan S. Konev's 2nd Ukrainian forces contemplated no more than a momentary pause before forcing the Prut to open the battle of eastern Balkans. Konev's infantry and tanks broke through to the Prut on a front west of the Bess- arabian railway junction of Eaiti yesterday, hurling Germans back across a Soviet border for the first time since the start o' the Russian-German war June Judge Will Rule On Confession YORK--Judge James.

G. Wallace, was expected to rule today on whether the unsigned confession of AVayne Lonergan will be admitted as evidence in his trial on charges that he beat his heiress wife, Patricia, to death with a pair of antique candlesticks. Defense Counsel Kdward V. Brodcrick who contends that the confession was obtained from the RCAF aircraftman under duress said after a two and a half hour talk with his client yesterday that Lonergan himself might be called to the witness stand'in the fight to keep the statement from being admitted into evidence. Broderick said that under s.

Court of Appeals ruling in 1916. a person c-ouid testify "as to the truth or falsity of a statement attributed to him. and that the cross-examination would be limited to tfcat point. Initiative German Hold On City As Strong As Before Allied Bombardment Bolster Balkan occupation forces r.cppr ted Xnltar'a have i visions "of in cludingvfpur rprri ''l- defenscslr against Alp'uhtairis Jj were' massed' The; Nazi trpppsials6 were said? to 0 prei" Gestapo icHiha'de, Vaispc'cial Scahdiriaviah; Telegraph 11 Vvoluritari; hadfcom-j 1 te.d I a'h's forievacuatirig' the. capital's becomes Transocean.

j.Uiat: tlie Paimaniarir- bad. calicdjup sixteen had leisrforty- five Sunday- Chronicle Bucharest radio that a general order had been issued Saturday night bv the Rumanian general staff. Communications between-; Ank- araVand 'Bucharest were open, but ines from Sovia and Ankara still were ciit off. ALLIED A TERS, Naples-- The tack on Cassinb erideciynu bloody failure after clays of fighting; S. newspaper Stars Stripes" conceded while in'idicated; cfmans liad res airieH in Case HOLLYWOOD Charlie Chaplin will go to Federal prepared ask Judge J.

F. T. O'Connor to stop his half- Mann Act dismiss the charges instigated by Joan Barry, who wanted to be a movie star and wound up being his mistress. Chaplin already has admitted his attorney. Jerry Gies- cr.

that he indulged in intimate relations with her in Beverly while he was leaching her Ae art of the cinema and groom- ng her to play the role of a. lousemaid in a movie that he still las not begun. He has admitted 'urther that he brought- Miss Barry to New York in 1942. but nc insists the has not roven he carried her across any slate line for immoral purposes. pouring shells into the cneniv lines across the river in evident i i preparation for a thrust deep into have oeen 1 Rumania without hastily treating Germans a 7 spell to dig in for defense.

WASHINGTON--Associates Gov. Thomas Dewev oi of i hare ew the cor.test. more yards In this sector the Germans had 6 zr f' should ji taken him out of been driven back across a Soviet icauy t0 an ariny Jla crosser; border for the first time since the serring tbc war effort in tne Eternal City. an? that no military traffic is in the capital or r.rs.-- jr:" through it. prior to the norr.Jnatior: of this i cer.t Roosevelt's fourth "term re- year's Republican presidential candidate ne will make r.o Escapes Death In New Car nomination also are raising tne issue of Devrej-'s siience.

Chair- c-r statement regarding the wide- i man Robert K. H.innegan. i or. June 22. 3951.

The GeV- were reported trying to fortify positions on the bank of to an arm; the Bug Dniester rivers spread discussion of the possibility Democratic National Committee, than 100 vards of his selection. the the Pnit but the river is not more Invasion WillBePrecededBy Many "False Alarms" Says Churchill LONDON Prime 5 istronsr nerves, ike name tonghnes? Churchill told the world by radio of fiber, which stood us in niad'e the Germans': eyen-" who. igarrisphedl'-oGa mendpus- advantage "of -Moriasteryl Bill's batteries on these crack. German 1 s61diefsf-eris? ahle to' halt 7 the --Allies eleventh hour, when, victory almost within our grasp. "The Germans clung to a line of very strong in big buildings on the south-, east edge of the town.

and made them official reports said ground fighting in the streets of the devastated town slackened and the battle had shifted to a crashing exchange of artillery nnd name Dewey before a peaieo unlikely they could As some observers see it. dc- weekend Boston audience a real -stanrS short of the Ca mands or entreaties for ar. am- evidently had him in mind in an ian foothills. i did not dc- weekend Drowns In Lake man prominently the GOP nomina- NAZIS KALL BACK To the northwest the Gs plification of Dewey's announce- attack "on ment that he would not seek the mentioned for nomination come for the most part tion ivho "is and lurk- were in no better position and anc! ths prs- i were falling back h-l'me the fust Wiiikie, the tense that he is not a candidate 1 Ukrainian Army towards the I northern Rumanian Province of Some of those Republicans Bucovina, the rai! center of from three sources. 1.

Wendell L. BUFFALO Thomas Skowron- most active Republican aspirant, for the sk: undecided today whetlier recently has Seer, assaying" i or gi-icve. didates who refuse to discuss the would like Dispatches from Wiscon- i Dewey also" wish. the Gox-ernor The Germans were He escaped from his automobile yesterday just before it was demolished by a speeding train. Bui he had purchased the car only a riny before and was riding in it ior the first time.

issues. 1 sin, where Wiiikie is making a i would" give a green Sight to a pre-primary campaign, that he means Dewey Wiiikie aiso has said 1 Governor's statements help nominate and the border. suggest national ore-convention campaign, although At least as many, however, prob- that the I ably arc- content with things a.s to ciate they are. CANANDAIGUA Frank X. Nichfer.

seventy-three-year-o'o ice fror.er. body was recovered from Koneoye Lake yesterday, was the Sunday that the hour of the Allies' effort and action" was but v.vsrncd tnat it be preccdc-d by "mar," jKlarms. many feints ar.d many 1 o'ress rehearsals" to deceive the I "The m.ipni'iresil jmr.ics of the United Slates are here, or are I pouring in." Cliurchili said in his brief refrrcrre to the forthcoming invasion of Europe "Our o'vn troops, the best trained ar.d best ecuinned we have ever good stead te those days -when we were all under the German blitz." Churo-Jii! raiitioneri thnt Britain finI itsc-lf the obioct Bombed Hospital Ship At Salerno SALE, CHESHIRE. ENGLAND --The Rev. Colin Montgomery, 'Army chapjaiji and brother- of.

'Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, said yesterday that the Germans killed 250 patients in a bombing: attack on a fu'iiy lighted hospital off Salerno. He said one bomb crashed in the 7 tion was in progress, killing the doctors an-3 most of the nursing "can tnke it." "She has never flinched or failed, and when the is priven. whole circ'e nf aven.zuis: nations hurl thPmsftlves upon the fop. and batter out the life of the cruellest tyranny which has Although almost cornpjeteiy exposed in a salient north of the rrierse'i.

Xichter's hands ciur.g i Dniester beyond Kamenets to a fishing -sled by which have faith'. We shall re- where they were s-cjueezeu apparently ha! attempted to pull the first and seconJ tn a plungir. armies. I through the ice. ever sought to bar the prcgress had.

at their side in equal mankind." he said. numbers nr.d in true comrade- Kis sole reference to the im; "ijp- nending opening of a western he end "of his which was being "Lenders are appointed in whom ouire from our mvn people here, from ParlinT'Tit. from thft prr-ss. from all classes, the same cool front came at minute 'speecu, to the in 2-i iflngu.igr* by nriti.sh nnd American stations Unlay. MemphisDigsOut From Mail Storm cuf out from under debris today lefi by a freak storm that crashed hail stones through thousands, of dollars of plategiass windows and roof tops and sent seven to hospitals.

F. W. Brist, head of the Mem-; phis Weather Bureau, said it thft most destructive storm ever to hit Memphis..