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THE WEATHER Nebraska: Showers and scattered thunderstorms and crmler west and central tonight and in east portion Thursday noon; windy, with occasional 20 to 30 mile winds, Lincoln: Continued warm this afternoon and tonight; fresh winds. THE LINCOLN STAR homebm Telephone Police Number 2-6844 FORTIETH YEAR LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942 18 Pages FIVE CENTS HEYDRICH, NO. 2 IN GESTAPO, SHOT Big Air Assault Likely Pave Way For Allied Invasion Gen. Somervell, Head of U. S.

Army Supply, Is In London LONDON, May (AP) Lieut. Gm. Brehon B. Somervell arrived here today to round out the United States military mission conferring with British war chief.s, and London commentators expressed belief a united air assault was planned to blast the way for a future allied landing on the German-occupied continental coast. Somervell is commanding general of the U.

S. service of supply, which is charged with handling the thousands of tons of food, clothing and munitions needed to keep any major expeditionary force in the Held, Brig. Gen. Leroy Lutes, Charles P. Gros.s and William C.

Lee accompanied him. Flans for Attack Discussed. for a combined Anglo- American attack on the axis powers are being the Daily Telegraph said. can confidently be predicted that one outcome will be a great intensification of the air attack on Germany from the The Daily Mail said a liaison system both the United States and the RAF have stated to be has been drawn providing for separate operation of the air fleets, but co-ordination in streategy such as the selection of bombing targets. The Daily Express said Americans have numbers of dive- which many military experts regard as essential to furnish close support for any ground operations in modern war.

Britain has few such planes. Publisher Annenberg To Be Released From Prison On June 11 111 Health WASHINGTON, May L. Annenberg, Philadelphia publisher, serving a three-year sentence at Lewisburg, federal prison after conviction in the largest individual income tax evasion case on record, will be paroled June 11 because of ill health, the justice department announced today. This will cut five months off the so-called since Annenberg, who is 65, was scheduled for release Nov. 11.

The full term runs until July 21, 1943, and until that time he will be under supervision of the United States parole board. Annenberg was denied a parole last July, when he became eligible at the expiration of one-third of his full term, and now has served more than 22 months. Wouncieii In Assault At Prague Huge Reward Offered For Attacker Of Himmler Aide; Fear Wave Of Executions Axis Sub sSunk By AMERICUS LffiERATOR SHOULDERS HIS GUN A. (Mike) Lebrato of Cody, is no longer A. (Mike) Lebrato.

His new name is Americus Liberator and in tjie army, in a letter to Secretary of State Frank Marsh he explained he had his name changed and wanted his cattle brand recorded under his new name. He said he pay the $1 rental fee as his army pay was going to support his mother, so Marsh paid it for him. SOMERVELL roundi oui U. S. mission ouse Insists Service Men Be Paid $50 $42 Compromise Wage Proposal Is Sent Back To Conference Committee MARTINIQUE WASHINGTON, May house reiterated today its insistence that service men be paid a minimum of $50 monthly, and sent back to a senate-house conference committee a compromise proposal for a $42 minimum.

The action came on a motion by Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) to instruct the house members of the committee to insist on the original house stand for $50 for privates and apprentice seamen and $54 for first class privates and second class seamen. The senate had voted for $42 and $48, respectively, for the two grades, and the house military committee had recommended these figures also, only to be overruled by the house metnbersnip. Top Heavy Margin. house roll call vote, announced as 332 to 32, compared with the 332 to 28 margin by which the house on May 13 amended the senate bill to apply the $50 tigure instead of $42.

The vote came after an hour of debate during which several members urged that be forgotten and warned that sending the bill back to conference would jeopardize the chances tf I any increase becoming effective before July. Under the provisions, any increase voted becomes effective on the first day of the calendar (Continued on U-Boat Downed Only Few Miles From Where Blakeley Hit ST. LUCIA, BritLsh West Indies, May axis submarine believed responsible for crippling the U. S. destroyer Blakeley on Monday has been sunk 10 miles from the northern end of Martinique, it was officially announced today.

The submarine wa.s sunk during a bright moonlight patrol by navy pilot Ensign Edward G. Binning of New York City. Tie announced the sinking in the following terse report; "Sub Sunk." The sinking climaxed a grim, unrelenting hunt for the under- raider which hit the Blakeley with a torpedo just a few miles from the harbor entrance of Fort De France. The B1 keley man- to creep into the harbor of Fort de France with the crumpled bow. Several sailors were injured.

Ten were reported dead or missing. Sighted by Pilot. Navy Pilot Elwood Chase of Andover, first sighted the enemy jmarine yesterday just a few miles from where tlie Blakeley was hit, inside Martinique territorial waters. He dropped four depth bombs IGF I Tapping of Wires Voted By House National Security Russ Armies Seem To Be Gaining In Kharkov Battle (Continued on Page WASHINGTON. May FBI and the army and navy intelligence service would be empowered to tap telephone lines and other communications sources any time they suspected an offense against the national security under legislation approved yesterday by the house and sent to the senate.

And if they obtained some damaging evidence by this method, they could use it in court. Republicans and Democrats alike argued the necessity of the measure to combat subversive activities. One of its chief supporters, Rep. Hobbs (D-Ala), told the house the judiciary committee knew positively that would have been no Pearl Harbor had the legislation been in effect piror to December 7, 1941. House Votes Increase In West Point Cadets WASHINGTON, May house today approved and sent to the senate a proposal to increase the number of cadets at West Point from 1,960 to 2,496.

The bill given each member of ciTngress, the commissioner of Puerto Rico, the governor of Panama and the District of Columbia one additional appointment to the military academy. 20 Women Apply Here For WAAC; Majority Say IFs Chance To Do The 20 girls and women, some in skirts and some in slacks housewives, teachers, defense workers and called in person at the local army recruiting office Wednesday morning were striking indications that the army and war are no longer solely men's affairs. They were the first in line to make application, under new army rules, for appointment to the officer candidate school cf the nation's first women's army. (By the AMocleted Soviet front line dispatches reported today that Marshal Semedn Timoshenko's armies had smothered part of the German offensive 80 miles below Kharkov, whilo the German high command asserted that the resistance of Flussian traops encircled in the same critical sector "has been broken." The declared the red armie.s, smashing through the flank of a German wedge, had brought the nazi offensive in the Izyum-Barvenkova sector to a standstill in the most important zone. On the north African battlefront, British and axis armies grappled in an apparently big scale renewal of the Libyan desert warfare.

Rommel Strikes Out. British headquarters issued a special communique reporting that during the night German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel sent a large armored force rolling eastward toward the British lines. this morning, the enemy were being engaged by our armored the communique said tersely. details of the fighting are yet In the Russian campaign, the soviet armies appeared to be gaining in the fierce struggle around Kharkov. Red Star, the soviet army newspaper, said tank-led Russian infantry, attacking under cover of an artillery barrage, had captured the slope of a hill dominating the battle zone and were now fighting at the gates of a village several miles from their starting point.

Red Star said two nazi counter attacks failed to halt the advance. Soviet reports said the German push was stopped along a river OLSON, COX LEFT EMPTY HANDED AS PRISONER ESCAPES RIPLEY, May While Warden Neil Olson and Ralph L. Cox, Nebraska board of control member, rested overnight after their trip from Lincoln, to return a fugitive to the Nebraska state penitentiary, the fugitive, James C. Adams, 31, forced the Jail locks and disappeared. Adams surrendered here Saturday night and was locked up.

Nebraska officers said he served only two years of a six-year sentence for embezzlement. Olson and Cox arrived Monday night, and Adams escaped between midnight and dawn yesterday, said Mack Anderson, Ripley police chief. Olson and Cox started for Nebraska last night after a search of the vicinity by highway patrolmen brought no trace of Adams. Mrs. Mark Tilton Dies Suddenly At Her Wisconsin Home Mrs Mark Hilliard Tilton, who.se husband was a prominent wholesale furniture dealer in Lincoln, died suddenly Tuesday evening in Oshkosh, which had been her home for four years.

A Lincoln friend received a letter from Mrs. Tilton Wednesday morning, with no indication of severe ill health. The marriage of Lucy Tolfrad Stickney and Mr. Tilton took place at Oshkosh, her native city, in August, 1905. The couple came directly to Lincoln, where Mr.

Tilton had established his business with E. E. Bennett in 1886. A stepdaughter, Mrs. Don A.

Chapin, Fort Collins, and three grandchildren survive. Word of the death came to Guy Hunt. First Air Base Wedding Romance has blossomed at the air corps technical school. first marriage of the base took place Monday. Miss Dorothy Alice Bradburn, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Thomas Bradburn, of Petersburg, became the bride of Sgt. Kenneth Rogers, with County Judge Robin Reid officiating. Sergeant Rogers is NCO in charge of motor vehicles. Among the young women interested in the put in an early appearance and asking lor information and application blanks was Enid Griffith, 26, 3540 South Fifty-sixth.

Enid, with boyish-tfobbed brown hair, brown eyes, and about five and three inches tail, now works at the McGrew machine works, riveting on a defense project In blue slacks and white blouse, she told the sergeant in charge that she wanted training. She said like to do something along the mechanical line, Enid said she has also worxed as a commercial and portrait photographer. She went to College View high school, and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.

W. Griffith. Mrs. Mabel Mehuron, 4305 North Sixtieth, said she was THE WEATHER (By p. 8.

UNCOLN. for this thu sflernoon and tonight; iresh winds. Lincoln and vicinity; Continued warm this alteroon ad tonight; fresh winds, and scattered and cooler west and central tonight and In east portion Thursday forenoon windy, with occasional 20 to 30 mile winds. (Lincoln Airport Readings.) 2 SO m. Tues 84 5 SO p.

87 p. 86 8 30 p. 85 6 30 m. 84 7 30 p. 83 8 30 p.

81 0 30 p. ............74 70:30 p. ...........78 11 30 p. 12:30 a. m.

Wed.75 1:30 a. 74 Highest temperature lowest, 87. San and Moea. Bun rises. 5:59 a.

sets. 8:49 p. m. Moon rues, S.52 p. acta, 4 27 a.

m. 2:30 a. 74 3 30 a. 4 30 a. 72 5:30 a.

.....72 8 30 a. .........72 7:30 a. 74 8 30 a. 9 .30 a. ............76 10:30 a.

11:30 a m. ............79 12:30 1.30 p. ........84 a year ago today, CITY DELIVERIES TO BE RESTRICTED BEGINNING MONDAY On ODT Order Deliveries of merchandise by many Lincoln stores will be restricted to three a week, beginning Monday. That portion of the city from A street south will be served on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. North of A street the deliveries will be on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, The practice will continue until further notice.

Announcement of the plan was made by Phil Watkins, chairman of tne chamber of commerce retail trade committee. The new schedule is being adopted in keeping with the wartime tire conservation program and because of the 25 per cent reduction of delivery mileage as ordered by the Office of Defense Transportation. Steps will probably be taken later for similar reduction affecting other classifications of business. She formerly worked on a farm and home publication in Havelock. Betty Jo Byllesby, Fairbury, who graduated from Nebraska university last year where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and who is now a school teacher, also inquired regarding the course and took applidation blanks.

really care what I do in the she said, place they put me is all right. just a chance to do Women 21 to 45, married or single, may make application and will be selected on leadership, personality, past experience and general adaptability. Applications must be filed on or before June 4. Those selected will be given an eight training course, paid $50 a month while training. They will be provided uniforms, living quarters, food and hospitalization.

Candidates most successfully completing the course will be appointed officers with a rank determined by performance at the training center. Other satisfactory candidates will be appointed to non-commissioned grades. Terms of enrollment in the W. A. A.

another long step toward the grimness and seriousness of total war, will be for the duration of the war and for not more than six months afterwards, officials said. Officials have also stated that women companies will be employed in the continental United States and wherever U. S. soldiers are stationed to release for combat service enlisted men now performing non-cambatant duties. Applications are made at all regular recruiting stations.

Church Leaves Patrol D. Church, state highway patrolman stationed in Lincoln for the past three years, left Tuesday afterncwn for Kenosha, where he has accepted a position as guard in a defense plant. Joe Offill, former Lincoln police officer, is at the same plant. (Continued on None Injured When Fire Hits Humboldt Theater HUMBOLDT, May audience marched out in orderly fashion last night after, fire started in the Plaza theater. Some film was destroyed.

One projection machine, the office, lobby and projection room were damaged. Howard Debus Applies For Navy Commission Howard Debus, 20, Lincoln football and track athlete at the University of Nebraska made application at the local naval recruiting office Wednesday for enlistment into V-7 classification of the navy, according to local navy headquarters. Wickord To Give Radio Talk On Wheat Storing WASHINGTON, May Secrtary of Agriculture Wickard will discuss the problem of storing this wheat crop in talk to be broadcast over the Blue farm and home hour program at 11:30 (CWT) Friday, Farley Young Undergoes Operation At May os Farley Young, deputy county attorney, who underwent an abdominal operation at the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Tuesday evening, was reported as sat isfactory a condition as could be Wednesday by County attorney Max G. Towle. Your Star GENERAL NEWS 2 LINCOLN GENERAL GRADUATES 3 NEBRASKA NEWS .................4 MERRY-GO-ROUND 5 EDITORIALS 6 NEW WAR FRONT .................7 ARMY 8 SERIAL STORY HERE IN LINCOLN ..............10 SOCIAL NEWS ........................11 GENERAL NEWS ....................12 COMICS ......................................13 RADIO PROGRAMS ..............14 SPORT 14,15 MARKETS ...........8...............16 WANT ADS ........................17 Terrible Reprisals Czecho-Slovakia Threatened BERLIN, (From Berlin Broadcasts, May 27 (AP) Reinhard Heydrich, acting relch's protector for Bohemia and Moravia, has been wounded in an attempt on his life, DNB reported today from Prague.

DNB said wound was not expected to prove fatal. The dispatch did not specify when the attack occurred. It said, however, that reward of 10,000,000 crowns will be paid for capture of the Heydrich, chief aide of Heinrich Himmler, head of the gestapo, is for Bohemia and but recent reports have had him visiting Paris and the Netherlands to take charge of measures to put down revolt. his map shows the battle lines on the southern Russian front where Marshal armies of the Ukraine have again taken the initiative from the Germans near Kharkov. In the Izyum-Barvenkova sector to the south, troops have broken through the flank of the German wedge and the nazi offensive has been stopped, London reports said.

high command, however, asserted resistance of encircled red troops teen East to Suez Next Goal By I. E. LAWRENCE Wednesday, May 27, 1942. 1942 German war pattern had a distinctly clearer shape Wednesday. It was too early to determine whether the fleets of fiant tanks which German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel sent rumbling eastward over the desert sand towards the British lines and the Suez Canal was the supreme Nail bid for the vital link in the British lifeline.

Yet It had all the earmarks of a grand offensive directed against Egypt, and the Suez Canal. London newspapers without a single dissent agreed that Rommel had opened a large- scale offensive, presumably in an effort to break through to the Suez before blinding heat and furious desert sandstorms make military operations impossible. That is the second part of the pincers of the titanic plan of Hitler and his German general staff. ON TO THE other part has been a savage battlefield for three weeks. It is over in Russia where the wily soviet army marshal caught Hitler napping temporarily and opened up a sledge hammer drive on Kharkov, greatly endangering the Nazi hold upon that rich industrial prize, and messing up plans to smash into the Caucasus.

The Caucasus campaign Hitler had up his sleeve aimed first at the vital oilfields there, and then the isolation of the remainder of Russia In hands, pushing through to Asia and the Middle East, the oil of Iraq and Iran, to meet up with Rommel coming from the West to the East. ABUNDANT AIR was clear from Cairo dispatches Rommel, whom experts look upon as the ablest general in the German ranks, not only has his tanks rolling but the British lines In the forward positions were being blasted heavily by squadrons of screaming Stuka divebombers. The fighting began in Libya with attack by large enemy armored forces advancing from the west to the south of British-held petitions around Birk- hakein. No details of the actual progress of the battle were given out, and authoritative British quarters still were unwilling to characterize the German drive as a major offensive. They said they would know surely within 24 hours.

Strangely the German high command itself was silent about drive. The weather in Libya fast Is becoming too hot for tank warfare, and Rommel must strike before the end of July If at ail. Later Cairo said the advancing Germans had not reached the main British positions while several Nazi planes had been shot dow n. HIS AIM WAS was other startling and Important news Wednesday. Officially It was announced in Berlin that Reinhard Heydrich, second in command of the German Gestapo and protector of Bohemia and Moravia, had been shot and wounded by an assassin In Prague Wednesday.

Immediately the government offered a reward of 10 million crowns (approximately $250,000) for the arrest of those guilty. It was understood that life was not endangered and that more than one assassin participated in the attack. Instantly Gestapo officials threw a cordon around the area where the shooting took place, launched an intensive manhunt, and decreed curfew laws for Prague. Heydrich, known as the cobra man of the Gestapo, is the second most hated man in Europe, bowing only to Heinrich Himmler in that respect. Recently he returned from Paris where he had appointed a new police chief for Paris and presumably dealt with discontented elements in the occupied area of France.

SMOLDERING it is understood, was sent to Prague when the Czechs showed every sign of revolting against their Nazi overlords. He stopped the revolt by the moet gigantic blood bath the world ever has seen. Later it was announced officially in London that a state of emergency has been declared by the Germans in the entire Czechoslovakian protectorate. FLEET MAY GET action In Libya left unanswered the ultimate fate of the French fleet. For weeks it been Known As "Cobra Man." (By International Newt Service.) Reinhard Heydrich, known as the of the gestapo and a score of less complimentary titles, is the second hated man in Europe, bowing only to his Chief Heinrich Himmler in that respect.

He recently had returned fro, Paris where he appointed a new police chief for Paris and presumably dealt with di.ssident elements in the occupied area of France. Heydrich was sent to Prague at a time when Czechs showed every sign of revolting against their nazi overlords. He stopped the revolt by the most gigantic blood bath the world has ever seen. State Of Emergency. LONDON, May German-controlled Prague radio announced today that Reinhard Heydrich, protector for Bohemia and Moravia, had been wounded in a and threatened terrible reprisals.

A state of emergency was said to have been declared over the entire nazi-gripped fragment of Czecho-Slovakia and an announcement said: hopes to hide the guilty persons or who gives them any kind of help or security, or secretly withholds any knowledge of the crime will be Masg Executions Loom. A Czech government source here expressed fear that the wounding of Heydrich No. 2 man of the German gestapo, would let down the bars for a wave of executions in which Czechs would be slaughtered by hundreds in executions of innocent pco- (Continucd oa on More Quartermaster Corps Troops For Air School Arrive Here Col. E. W.

W. Duncan, air base commander left by air early Wednesday afternoon for Chicago and Chanute field in connection with affairs of the air corps technical school. His regular flight companion, the crew chief, Staff Sgt. Charles Pettigrew, accompanied him. Supplies will be in and maintenance first rate if the quartermaster corps continues to send in men as it has this week.

Twentysix arrived from Chanute today and a dozen yesterday from Lowry, which, according to the army, is only the beginning, but which begins to make the streets of the city look quite martial. Another lieutenant, Charles L. Robinson, straight from Lowry, has arrived to be assistant personnel officer. He goes to Col. Oscar staff, in place of the Cornhusker headquarters, which already has two Robinsons, one from the army, one from the civilians.

Thirteen air corps truck drivers have been added to the personnel here. They formerly were at Chanute field. Invitations for bids for the four hard surfaced runways at the air base go out very late. They will be opened Monday by Capt. Perley l4ewis, area engineer..