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EAST LIVERPOOL REVIEW Complete News Coverage of Wellsville, Midland Chester and Newell HOME EDITION VOL. 66. NO. 70 Associated Untied Presa, International News EAST UVEKPOUL, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1945. FOUR CENTS TWELVE PAGES Seizure Of Ward Properties Ruled Illegal XXX XXX XXX XXX NAZIS REPORT REDS CLOSER TO BERLIN WALLACE 6IVEN HOMES LIMITED REJECTION SLIP He Loses In Two Votes CONGRESS ONLY HAS AUTHORITY, IUDGE ASSERTS Court Also Backs Company Contention That Not In War Production Br Aom i.M PraM.

CHICAGO, Jan. selz- urn of Montgomery Ward Co. properties on order of President Roosevelt wan declared Illegal today by Federal Judge Philip Sullivan, who said "It is with considerable reluctance that I have arrived at the The ruling came on a case which the government said affects the entire wartime labor dispute settlement machinery. In declaring the seizure of properties of the huge mail order concern Dec. 28 was Illegal, Judge Sullivan asserted: "I am of the opinion that the President waa without authority, either under section 3 of the war! labor disputes act or under the war! powers conferred on him by the Constitution as commander in chief of the army and navy to take possession of the plants and facilities of Montgomery Ward Co.

The decision dismissed the gov-! eminent petition for a Judgment --------to uphold legality of the seizure QpnatP UnPPrtain Aft and for an injunction to restrain raif OCnaiC UncerldXI officials from interfering1 with army operations. Congress Alone Given Power Judge Sullivan's opinion in the esse, which developed out of WASHINGTON, Jan. refusal to obey war labor board Wallace cabinet nomination directives in a long-standing labor to an uncertain fate in the dispute, said that Ole dispnt- Wnale Monday, bearing a ants are not willing to obey the label from the beanie com recommendations of the war labor nierce committee, board, which are admittedly only In the face of this unprecedent advisory, then congress alone is ed action, friends moved swiftly the only branch of the government today In an effort to salvage which can compel them to do commerce portfolio without lending "It Is the duty of congress to authority for the 56-year-old Iowan, enact the laws and the duty of the who stepped down from the vice courts to interpret them he said, presidency a week ago. Present in court for the reading Sens. Lucas (D) of Illinois and of the opinion were Maj Gen.

Jos- Maybank (D! of North Carolina, eph W. Byron, military manager at Wallace backers, announced sup Ward's; Clement D. Ryan, presi- port for a commiUee-aftproved bill, dent of Montgomery Ward A offered by Sen. George (D) and Samuel Wolchok, international Georgia, to separate from the president of the principal union in- commerce department the vast volved, the C.I.O. United Retail, money-dispensing agencies built Wholesale and Department Store around the Reconstruction Finance Employes of America, which Jesse Jones managed Sewell L.

Avery, chairman of the for 12 years, board of for whom the Sen. Pepper (D) of Florida, decision represents a legal victory, erallssimo of the former vice presi- is in Chandler, Aria. forces, virtually has eon- Government Appeal Due ceded the bill will pass. He said Judge Sullivan's decision, how- there will be no objections to Its ever, was in the nature of a first consideration before the nomina- round in the legal controversy be- tion la brought up. cause Atty.

Gtu. Francis Biddle The Inference is plain that he said previously that the govern- and others think Mr. Wallace meat would appeal if It lost. might be confirmed if the senate On the disputed subject of wheth has some'assurance the monetary or is a war production plant; powers will not go along with the within the meaning of the war la- cabinet job from which the Presl- bor disputes act, Judge Sullivan dent fired Mr. Jones, upheld the company contention Behind closed doors, the commit- that it is not.

lee members voted 14 to 5 against He called it retail establish- a motion to report Mr. Wallace's ment engaged solely in distribu- nomination favorably, and he does not believe the The roll call: term in the act could Overton of Louisiana, be defined so as to include Bilbo of Mississippi, Mead of New York, Pepper of Florida and Mag He also said the act "authorizes nuson of Washington, all the President to seize a plant or; crats. facility only when It is equipped to Bailey of North produce articles necessary or use-; Carolina, Iladcliffe of Maryland, ful in the war of Texas, McCarran of Turning to inherent presidential Nevada. Chandler of Kentucky and powers, independent of congrsss- McClellan of Arkansas. Democrats; ALLIEDTROOPS HOLD INITIATIVE ON WEST FRONT Third Army Advances Up To Three Miles In Erasing Last Of Nazi Bulge Tkt PARIS.

Jan. 8. Third arnfy troops striking on a 20-mile front in Luxembourg and Belgium gained up to three miles today and reached the Our river barrier to Germany. The Third's roll-up to the river frontier, wiping out vestiges of the Ardennes bulge, came as the American Ninth and British Second armies In the north consolidated their hold along the west bank of the Roer river Inside Germany within 25 miles of Allied troops bold the initiative all along the western front. Reach Our River American 90th division patrols reached the Our river at a point four and a half miles northeast of Clervaux in northern Luxembourg, a front dispatch said.

They met no resistance. Troops of the 17th airborne division punched forward three miles at a point seven below St. Vltb, They and three other are astride or acros the "Skyline highway running north to St. Vitb on a ridge overlooking the Our and the Germans' Siegfried line guarding the relch. The 2(th division drove ahead two and a half above Wilts.

The Third army bagged ill prisoners Friday. S. Ninth and British Second armies held the Roer river bank from Roermond to Monschau, 19 miles southeast of Aachen, and have widened the only breach in Friday, C. J. Potter, deputy solid the Siegfried line to 35 miles, fuels administrator In Washing- Russia's offensives are being felt ton, issued an order prohibiting de- Increasingly on the snowbound liveries to customers with more western front, as witnessed by the than a five-day supply, while local Nazi withdrawal to the Roer river dealers have been limiting custom- and the halt to German attacks in era to an amount that will last Alsace.

seven days. 8now Hurt Allies No Instructions Received For the second straight day Ralph T. Couch. Fmst Liverpool lots reported a steady flow of heavy manager of the Ohio Power traffic east and northeast from said that no orders had been re- the Ruhr region. This possibly is eelved here to apply the brownout linked with the mounting menace and that plans are going forward to Germany in the east, to make them effective Allied planes battered again Frias had been arranged.

He said day at Nasi rail and road trans- that orders to consumers will be Port and R.A.F. tactical air force THE SNOW DIO THEY! Out of a blinding snowstorm, these Nazi emerged when the fighting became hot enough to thaw a suferman let alone a snowman! The scene of the photograph is the Mengen area in Germany during the recent British drive on the northern flank of the western front. TO TON OF COAL Lausche Urges Be Applied immediately coal dealers tinned today a policy of limiting deliveries tcf one ton per family as Gov. Frank J. Laiche in trna fWfflrested an immediate throughout the state to further conserve diminishing fuel.

RUSSIAN DRIVE ROARS ON TOWARD BERLIN. The Germans report two arms of the Russian offensive in the province of Brandenburg, cold hard core of Prussian imperialism, birthplace of German tyranny. Their lateat word on the Hovlet advance has the Reds from within 91 to 75 miles of Berlin, which is In Branderburg province. East Prussia already has been cut off the Russian smash and vaat areas of German Hllesla taken over. The arrows show the direction of tho Russian attacks.

mailed probably early next week. Schools and City hospital have an adequate supply of fuel at pres- Last Year This dispell the chill, but a year ago today It was 56 on the thermometer In contrast to the 10 below zero recorded at 8 a. m. at the U. 8.

weather station at Swaney airport. The lasted for several days last year, and temperatures ranged from 51 to 55 on the 26th, 27th and 28th. planes in 150 sorties destroyed 13 locomotives and damaged 18, wrecked or damaged 150 railway cars and 26 road vehicles. Snow drifts hampered Allied armies and fog overhugg the Alsace plain where the 79th division of the U. 8.

Seventh army has rubbed out the last German bridgehead over the Moder river west of Haguenau. Men of the First and Third armies floundered through snow drifts as deep as 7 to 8 feet. Super-Forts Pound Toiyo And Indo-China; British Make New Landing Off Burma Coast MOSCOW LISTS 381,000 OF FOE DEAD OR SEIZED Germans Say Soviets Have Reached River 75 To 95 Miles From Capital BULLETIN LONDON, Jan. 27 permanent defense system in the Masurian takas region of East Prussia has been smashed. Marshal Stalin anounced today.

Hie order of tho day reported tha capture of eovtral strong points. Japs Claim 70 Start PTIffCUC More Fires In Capital On I 0 I HTCHd Hour-Long Assault Farmers Clear Road To Reach Snowbound Twins, Body ent, while only two or three district industries depend on coal, and they are being supplied with type unsuitable for home use. School Kupt. M. W.

Essex said many of the school fill- pat the summer wben ili Sens. Johnson of California, Van denberg of Michigan, Brewster of Maine, Wiley of Wisconsin, Robert- aon of Wyoming, Burton of Ohio, Cordon of Oregon and Brooks of Illinois, Republicans. A few minutes earlier the com (Turn to Page DAY FOR SEWEU (VERY SAYS Convictions Termed VANDERBILT, In Line With (Turn to WALLACE. Page 6) By A mmtm IR Prm. CHANDLER.

Jan. Sewell Avery, chairman of the board of directors of Montgomery HUSBAND WILL PART By TIm A mk UM NEW YORK, Jan. mar riage of 2U-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt and Hollywood Agent Pat De Ciceo has broken up and Ward said here todgy the for a legal separation are be- decision of Federal Judge Philip ing made, less than a month be- Sullivan in declaring President fore she becomes mistress of her order for army seizure 14,500,000 fortune, a friend of the of Ward properties illegal, means "a great day for "The battle of for seven years has been to maintain the independence of the individual in his constitutional rights to Join a family disclosed today. The friend, who requested an onymity, said Mr. De Cicco, recently released from the army, is in Isas Angeles, and that Mrs.

De Cicco is in New York and that the union, not Join a union or to resign; matter of their separation is in the from a union he wishes," Mr. bands of Thomaa B. Gilchrist, Mrs. Avery declared. De attorney and her legal has been it no time any guardian, opposition to he assert-! The young heires will reach her ed.

position has birthday Feb. 20 and assume been against the closed shop, Our wages, hours and working conditions have not been a cause of the dispute. decision expresses the convictions of the control of the millions she inherited from her grandfather, Cornelias Vanderbilt, ami her father, Reginald Vanderbilt. She married Mr. De Cicco, 35- year-old son of an Italian-born truck farmer, when ahe was 17.

was plentiful, and there is a fair stock on hand. He said there was some danger of a shortage at the first of the year but dealers have been making deliveries. Churches, theaters, the Y. M. C.

the high school building and similar large structures also are being furnished fuel of a type for stokers, although somewhat curtailed. One large retailer said that no deliveries of more than a ton bad been made to any customer for the past three weeks. drivers have Instructions to inspect coal bins and if he finds the supply ample to last for more than five days to take hia load to another destination." the dealer said. The ban affects Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ralph Burson, his motherless brood of eight and bis body back to Friday after the death following the delivery of twins in their snowbound farm home four miles northwest of here. Robert Crane, who resides about a mile from the Burson home which Is on the Thompson Rodgers farm in Unity township, attacked the impassable road with his tractor.

John Propt, Walter Fitzsimmons and Mr. Crane succeeded in clearing a path on the main road to the Intersection of a narrow snow- drifted lane leading to the home of the widowed coal washer and the day-old twin sons who have not been named. The the former Mary Margaret Burlingame, 35, of Negiey died Thursday afternoon about 5.30 shortly after Dr. A. J.

Atchison and Registered Nurse 55ora By The Prom. Japanese imperial announced in a communique today that about 70 Mari ana raided Tokyo for approximately an hour today, dropping high explosive bombs and tncendiarlea that caused damage several placeB" and started fires which were not controlled until dusk (Tokyo time). The raiders, according, to the communique recorded by the federal communications commission, did no damage to "important industrial The Japanese-controlled radio in Saigon, Indo-China. asserted that the Haigon-Cbolon area in southern Indo-China was Bombed in the material damage was and dead and 200 wounded" have been counted at ho ion, the broadcast said. The 20th air force earlier announced India-baaed attacked Isdo-China.

The Tokyo raid also was confirmed at 20th air force headquarters In Washington. The Japanese communique said the super-Portreasee came over the Japanese capital in several waves btween 2 and 3 p. m. It made no claims of down or damaging any U. S.

planes, asserting scored by our in the Interception battle are being checked An earlier broadcast said the and Incendiaries were dropped on the business ON LUZON FRONT Artillery Opens Up On U.S.-Held Clark Field Br Tho A Marta teg GEN. HEAD QUARTERH, Luzon, Jan. Hlxth army spearhead driving down the central Luzon plain dug into ita first appreciable resistance Friday. Japanese artillery opened up on Yank-captured Clark air flekl as American ground encountered resistance south of the ban river. Clark field, largest airdrome In the Philippines, was captured Thursday by units of the 14th army gan.

New Hampshire, New Harmon of Bast Palestine deliver- Ohio, Pennsylvania. Rhode tier of the boys about 22 min- Vermont, the District of 0tes apart. those portions of Virginia and The physician and nurae were West Virginia north of Chesapeake taken on Mr. tractor as far as it could go, then they set out on foot to reach the stranded family, They bad to make the trip again Thursday night after the father conveyed word that bis wife had suffered a relapse. On the re HAMILTON OPENS WAR ON RACKET Br TH.

CINCINNATI. Jan. Six Hamilton county men are under gambling indictments in what Prosecutor Caraou Hoy terms all-out war the numbers racket in the Gov. Frank J. acting on a complaint of Cincinnati City Councilman Russell Wilson, former mayor, has definition of bis against sheriffs and mayors countenance open, known and commercial Following a letter from Councilman Wilson, Gov.

Lausche requested Atty. Gen. Hugh 8. Jenkins to outline the governor's powers. Mr.

U. S. Of Big Navel Battle Br pHUNGKING, Jan. 27 The V- Chinese army newspaper Hao Tang Pao again published reports today of a Japanese- Arnerleati naval battle Tuesday off the Chekiaug coast of China, but American authorities here said they knew nothing of such a conflict and doubt It had occurred. The newspaper said 40 or 50 American and Japanese locked In battle and the Japanese retired in defeat to the northeast.

The newspaper expressed the view today that broken Japanese might have taken refuge on the Chekiang coast "to catch Us A Ohio railroad, and the city of St. Louis. Mo. Mines To Ba 141s coal mines will be virtually idle over the week-end. Ezra Van Horn, executive vice president of the Ohio Coal association, said banning of all but war goods freight traffic will nearly close the mines.

"You cannot produce coal if there is no place to store declared Van Horn. "A relatively small quantity could be loaded Into ing against the mine run. for n.i Friday. They corps, who chased an enemy garrison of perhaps 5,000 Into nearby bills. Hillside cave and north of the airdrome could delay American use of the air 11 landing wtrlps.

The Kixth army.cWTnc up against the stiff resistance near the main Manila highway. There, the 14th corps, whose advance units are at leant five miles beyond Clark Raid at Angeles about 40 miles north of found the first indication that Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Japanese defenders may make a stand Wilson the Yanks reach the capital turn trip ibey found the womta to (suburb GetJ' McArthur his men a mA 1 in tsnouruau) ttmwooa mu. had died of blood clot But the twins survived the or deal without barm and The in Hamilton loclailo, (our furai women ing and plenty of cloth are clearing the hills southwest of Bam ban sad have captured many artillery pieces and machine guns.

There was no word of further progress southward from Angeles or from Magaiang. on a parallel mine cars for storage until the em in a Red Cross hamper, unikwful promotion to the east. Fortieth and to COAL. Page 1) (Turn to SNOWBOUND, Page a scheme of chance. (Tarn to LUZON, Page 4) Five Operations In 30 Days Carry Allies 100 Miles From Base At Akyab Br Invasion of another island off the Burma coast kept the Allied ground offensive moving against the Japanese today.

Troops of the 15th Indian corps over the beaches of Uhedulm island In the British amphibious push toward Rangoon and Hlngapore. In 30 days, five landings have advanced the British 100 miles from Akyab to Cheduba. British I4th army troops, mean while, have captured Ondaw, 15 miles northwest of Mandalay. Renewed Japanese attacks were reported in the 8ingu sector, 42 miles north of Mandalay, but all were declared repulsed. Blmllsr Japanese assaults on tbs bridgehead across the Irrawaddy at Thabelkkyin farther north were repelled.

The Chinese high command an nounced Friday night that a Japanese offensive In southeastern China aimed at closing the Chin ese-beld gap in the Canton-Han kow railroad has smashed Into the surhurbs of Kukong, provisional capital of Kwangtung province. Fierce fighting is raging for possession of Kukong, the high command said. The Japanese operations in China were described by the army spokesman offensive-defensive, aimed at countering any American landings from the Pacific. He declared the Japanese are strengthening garrisons at Bhang hai, Amoy, Foochow and other occupied ports on the China coasts The spokesman declared one of the reasons why the Japanese are closing the gap in the Canton-Han kow railroad is because lt would be a shorter and more effective line of retreat if the enemy found themselves forced to withdraw from the Hong area. Be LONDON, Jan.

27 Red army spearheads have advanced to German positions on the Obra river in Brandenburg province, the German high command announced today. This river runs 75 to 95 east of Berlin. German accounts indicated that two prongs of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's drive, outflanking Poznan In central Pojand, have reached or crossed the border of Brandenburg, which at Us nearest point is 91 miles from Berlin. The Nazi high command said one arm of this drive advanced between Leszno (Lisaa) and the river, which winds northeast in eastern Germany, touching the border at SchaeidemuhL 136 miles northesast of Berlin.

Russians Reported Halted The Russians were halted la front of German positions on tha Obra, tha German comannlqua said. The local ion of the drive gives by BerlUL between the Mette and Polish leins, indicates this spearhead Is storming across the shortest route to the German capital. The Obra, at Its nearest point, is about 75 miles from Berlin. It bulges eastward and forms the Brandenburg border for a short distance about 95 miles from the capital. Tha northern army of tha drive speared to the border of said Tranaocean, a Nasi agency.

The Germans said this spearhead reached the northern bank of tha Netse, The German high command also said tha Russians made "several major of German lines In the upper (southern) Rlleslan industrial area south of the Vistula river. 200,000 Nazis Trappsd In the north, a force of perhaps 200,000 Nazis trapped In East Prussia faces destruction. Marshal Konstantin K. drive to the Danzig bay area split the Junkers province, while Marshal right wing advanced beyond the Bromberg canal and widened the beach between East Prussia and the rest of Germany, Moscow reported the Russian winter offensive thus far has cost the Germans 381,000 killed and captured. Fresh Red army troops are said to have been hurled into WEATHER THt FORECAST For tri-state area: Increasing cloudiness and not quite no cold tonight; Hunday, considerable cloudiness and continued cold.

THE TEMPERATURES Dam noon 14, Friday 6 p. m. 19, Friday midnight 7. today i a. m.

5, today noon 10. Maximum 21, minimum 3. U. 8. weather 22, minimum below zero Japs Claim Sub Victory NEW YORK, Jan.

17-An uneon- firmed Tokyo broadcast said today Japanese submarines, Wednesday, heavily damaged with torpedoes two transports and a seaplane tender in the Mindanao sea, north ot Mindanao island. (Turn to RU881AN8, Page 3) WELLSVILLE SOLDIER ON TRIAL FOB L0DTIN6 Pfc. Swearingen, 28, Admits Cigaret Deals In Paris Pfc. Edmond E. Swearingen, 411 10th Wellsville, was among nine who signed confessions that were read before an army court martial in Paris today, detailing how small groups of railway tallon men worked together In looting supply trains enrouts to the front.

According to the Associated Press account of the trial of the nine on black market charges, Pfc. Swearingen asserted four men Including himself, after an agreement to split proceeds, worked as a team aboard a train tossing cases of cigarets and other goods out of box cars while the others retrieved the and hid It away for delivery to black market purchasers. He mentioned "five or deals. The other defendants include a corporal technician and a sergeant from Chicago, a corporal technio lan, Carmi, a private, Waltham, a sergeant, Oaawato- mle, a private first dnss, Boone, a private first class, West Frankfort, and a sergeant, Springfield, Mass. Pfc.

Swearingen. 28, has a and three children residing in Wellsville. He is a son of Mrs. David Owens of Toronto. A brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

he entered the army Nov. 30. 1943, and was home on furlough last going overseas Is August.