The Springfield News-Leader from Springfield, Missouri • 1

r1 A V- -v- -t. I. 1 I OH SUPPLY BILL v. 1 1, vv i Rommel Mentioned Willow Springs Man Vi 5 New Grader Blades Among Metal Articles JRuin ed by A Opponents 'of FSA Abolition Movt Major Strategic Victory In 1 Ruling oh Pro- cedure Allied Fighter Losses Moderate Followintf Second Deiperate Attempt of Japanefe to Wreck Vital New Guinea Bate; Slight Damage to Shore a i. 5 v'v m.

liy WltLlAM F.BONI swicw4 to tlmit Cirwmrtwt ALLIKI) ilEADQUARTERSIN AUSTRALIA, -V a-' Thursday, April 1G. For the third time, in less than a the Japanese unloosed aiiiassive air -sault against a vita Allied NeW Guinea base as i force of between 76 to 100 medum bombers, dive-. bombers and fighter planes attacked Milne Bay shipping and ground installations- yesterday for half an hour during daylight Thirty of the enemy bombing of action. planes were shot out TEREB one of the piany reasons why -Springfield so desirable as the she. for a major airport.

Chairman J. A. Nickell of thi alrpnrt declared last night. Tot due to the It is free from flood perils such as fhe oAe that inundated the 4.000,000 airport at Omaha. Neb.

The above picture, shows the' administration' and control buildings of tha Omaha port, iinusuable berauso of the six-foot depth of water that covers the port and the ground floors of the buildings. which the port la eansiruclrd Ilea flat Missouri liver- bottoms' But- let the a and tha port Is un-Uuable, usually is badly, damaged. That, said happen here. And that's one of said, his commission It business propost Ion the federal locate a major port here. No after-flood would be necessary, and the pert rould come rain and highwater.

lAsao-; The Rwairm of ntUcklnjr planet wii met bv Australian manned P-40'a which were rngaited through the battle; by American-manned p-38'a and by antl-aireraft batterlea. Allied fiEhter loe "were moderate, aaid the Allied Ileadaoarters 84-to-3 Victory the -extent of. thai margin by tend tog them out over A wide New Britato lsland and Ncw Guinea received considerable at tentlnn; Op New. s' heavy bomber attacked the building area UbU; I both heavy -and. madlum unlta 4 bombed, the airdrome and tha bar." bor at Oasmata.

alao attacking barge and float; piano; at Awawt, medluih bomber strated buildtagsr and at Cap Qlouctetor, a two Wotorcd bomber attacked the airdrome and attacked rouiidad air On New Qulnea, bratUUon to ttw raid onv lianas Bdyr it modhua bomber strafed barge -in tho hare bor of Flnarhhafen. In addition to tho blow dellrarrd but shipping St Hanaa' bajb Platte attacked anti-aircraft past tlonn JoadebargH and an airfield. In Mountain Country A) 'I i Allies Closing In On Last Mountain Bastions of Desert Fox; 1000 Prisoners Taken and 500 Dead American Flying Fortresses Lead in Bombardment MEASURE IS LEFT OPEN TO ATTACK FROM FLOOR mm Solon Lambortton Welcomea Another 'Grand Tima' Like Last Year'a 10 bay. Battle. A Th iIHrtiM Pnil WASHINGTON, April 14 A new farm- fiaht broke out in.

the House today over the Commit-tre'a recommendation for abil-ition of the farm, necurity ad-ministration a threatened to riddle the $707,040,844 auW ply bill for the agriculture de-' partment for the fiscal year Btartina July 1. Opponents' of the PSA abolition move scored a strategic victory by persuading thq rules committee to decree procedure finder which msny pfoyMnns In the con' troverslsl measure may be removed by a single qbjectlon. OPEN TO ATTACK I A the requeet of the agriculture committee, which accused the appropriations committee of Us legislative the rules commutes refused to safeguard the MU' from parliamentary points of order. Tha effect, of this action- Is that any member and there were many wanting to do It could raise a point of order against any legislative provision not directly dealing with appropriations and move it. Reeallfag that tha Haaa appreahaafaty If days last yaas dUpaUl.f iha agricidtov! ap-praprlaUan bill, RepreaenUUve Lamhertsaa TR-Kaa), a vrltte.

a( FUA, dariared "tha fight's We ar gelag to have a aether grand time ea tkte agrindtare MIL" The preliminary fighting centered around Ute farm security admlnl straiten, whose functions the appropriations committee mended be transferred to the Farm Credit Administration. This sec tton of the bill mteht fie subject to removal, on a point of. order, FSA supporters said Uiey would raise tha point, predicting the sen at would provide funds for. the agency and the house could concur In -the senate action. 1 -e INSURANCE IN DOUBT Also In oontroversy were provisions for dlscoqtlnuance of the crop Insurance program, for cessation of parity payments on 1941 end.lB44 crops, end for curtailment of rural electrification administration funds NenresraUlIrff Tarver (D-Ga) eanllened Um hene that If every-Iking In the MU sebjerl to a paint ef neder was ebjected to, nf daUan cNMemarily far nan-rentiwverslal preen ms ant specifically anther-bed by pravtona leghlaUen.wenld have to be stricken frees the Tarver and others said they agreed that aarne practices-of the F8A were objectionable and should bo halted, but did 'not believe the agency should be abolished.

21 PERCENT OF FOOD IN ARMY CAMPS WASTED WAAHTNOTON, April The Senate War InveetlgaUng committee disclosed today that a two-year study of the quartermaster department of selected Army camps showed that 31 percent of the food waa wasted. Testimony given the committee at a closed sew Ion attributed to wastage to the content, of the tton Issue, slae of the ration, soldier food preferences and mesa management. Bv The Asyeelated Prs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 14. the Allied high command announced today a stunning 84-to3 aerial rictory which shredded Marshal Rommel's sky cover and further menaced his thin supply line on the eve of the climactic fight for survival by his cornered Tunisian troops; American. Flying Fortresses led a tremendous' assault on Rommela rear bases in Sicily, destroying.

77 planes. $even more were shot down in other operations during As Logical Choice To Command BaJkaiis STOCKHOLM. April 14 -(AP Manhal-. Erwin Rommel waa refmled In aonw: quarters torisjr ss the Inglral ehnlrs of both Hiller and MusMlinl to take 'rammand In (he Bslksns where the Alls to hurriedly strengthening defenses. '-L.

These -smirrea told believed this wss one qiiestton dls-ruMrd by the AsU dlrlstora ln their recent ronferenre-. While thrsshlng put terhnlral uperte-nf a withdrawal from Tlinbla and defense of ths kiidlter- rgnean. The AsU Is reported- working night and'-day to up tha Balkan bulwark against a possible Allied second front attack, and an estimated 10 German and 30 Italian divisions are presently stationed there. 0191 98' Gone- El Tom Harmon, Michigan! Out standing Star, Lost in South American Area rS ixarisM toll ANN ARBOR. Mini, April 14 Ueut.

Thomas Dudly Harmon, football star at the University of Michigan in Ilia. IBM and 1B40 and' the giwateet scorer In gridlyw hCdory, Is "mlulng hi the South American re," but. hi shorted were dinging staunchly tonight to the tugie that ho la still alive. Fared with a tefae telegram from the war department whtoh expressed "deep regret" that their' idiot son had hot been heard from since April Tom's parents waHetT In the house he built for them here and voiced their faith that he would bob up before long sooiewhyrs" and safe. Parents Hopeful "Tern fa trsng and knows bow to take rare ef himself." hM kfa father.

Leals A. Harmon. "We can Miljr pray now." The 33-year-old former alt-Ameri ca of 1B3B and 140 entered the Army air' forces a year ago, He received his silver wings as. a twin-engine bomber pitot at Williams field. Oct.

SO. 1943. A fortnight ego. Toms parents received a letter from him myidg he was in the Caribbean area, out of the country for the first time. It was dated April 4.

Four day later he vanfthed. left the rewalry In a plane nhlrh here the legend, "Old Old Butch" after the nmbeC he carried to fame on Ifa grid- "111 get that first Jap fer Michigan," he wrete a Mend here rermtly. 337 rotate Scored His searing record lsRfer even than that of Illinois' Red Oranget-ws 337 points In three years of college competition. A native of Oary. Harmon moved his parents to Ann Arbor and built a 17jOM'hom for them with his earning after graduation.

After hla graduation. In June, 1941, Tom obtained a Job as sports brood-caster for a Detroit station and de scribed the Michigan game from radio booth that fall. Safety Pins Galore For His 29th Child MIDDLEBURO. N. April 14-( API James Best has just become a father -for the 29th time and thanks to.

publicity hla nev.baby daughter haa safety pins The 44-year-old Negro farmer Nuldnt a safety pin two. months ago vhen-he wai get ting ready for the expected event. He had had no such trouble with hla 21 other children, pre-priority borfi. Best1' plight got national circulation and pins earns from California to Massachusetts, The new baby wu number for hla 36-year-old second wife. FAIR EXCHANGE BAN BERNARDINO.

Cal AM 14 tAP) Jerry Ball, celebrated Thoms Jeffersoni by cashing In I0JX)0 Jefferton nickels in axchango M0 in war bond f' II in Tunisia telvetrano and many others badly at Mile at least 23 enemy planes were smashed and. fires from, a' biasing gasoline dump wttb set leaping among others. The day was. rounded off by the destruction of 11 more Axle planes for certain, four of them going down In flames- under the gunfire of the Portresses coming back from Sicily. These -attacks (which In all Ukettheed accented fer a total ecBsMermbly greater the hi talas ns and certain flgwve of enemy plaass) were synehie-abed with SMSsha apea the surviving Axle aMremre la fnnlsta Mself MrgriM at Pechvilla the eetaklfto ef Teals and Oedna, aeeih ef Tania, (Not only the Tunisian Allied air forces but British home-baaed bombers and RAF planes under this Middle East command pounding violently at the Italian base-land.

It was announced In London that Spexla, the naval basq. In northern Italy below Genoa, and the Palermo, and lfemlna harbors in Sicily had been heavily bombed. 'BOMB OUT ENEMY (The British glr force based on Malta also waa iq the thick of what a HO. TWO OH FAOX TMHgl Golden City Youth Found Badly Burned Beside Automobile Leroy Tttbott, 33, of Golden City, waa In a critical condition last night In Springfield Baptist suf feringfrem third-degree bums on tha greater, portion DC the front of hlsbody. The youthT who waa discharged from the Army' several weeks ago because of physical disability, waa found-hia clothing on fire at thc side of the family car by his father, Ocorge Tlbbott, and C.

O. Crockett, Tha car iwaa parked Jurt outside the city Umtta, 'eaat of Golden City. Young Tlbbott was found about 10 bl yeatentaVSqhlp father and the Reverenk Crockelt happened by. A. part cf.

lha upholstery of the car was but thy blase we out when ths two The youth was unable last nltfrt to tell what caused ftf The land on and In the Missouri go pn hnd Just cant lessons, he would Jbe a good goverivnent repairs be used all dated Presa. FINDS LIST IS GREATER. THAN REVEALED At FIRST Congrafiimtii Boonott Asks War Depirtmant'for Full Report; May Urga Congras alonat IriVaatigation TN VfEW of the fact there may be a federal inveatiga-. tion of the burning of equipment from five abandoned 1 CCC camps in the Mark Twain National forest, 'Charles E. Ferguson of Wit low Springs yesterday paid a visit, to the scene of the burn-' lugs fop a.

closer checkup. And ha took with him competent witnessed who eould tell the fed-eral investigators whether or corgiMlonaU-Just whot had been destroyed that could have heed, of use to fanners and others. The witnesses included, a hard- ware merchant, a carpenter and a county judge. LIST IB ENLARGED Ferguson, who flrrt made public protest ever burning of the tools, reported that the list of damaged articles was even greater than he first believed. He said II new read grader blades were ameng the articles whirls were kteyaraMy damaged by fire.

Tbs Madee, he eald, had been med. Alse tau to the Hit ef' teela.de. etnyed were wrenches, assa, saws that had never been (UedL. and a number cf ether thing that mU havn been said rr given away. The federal investigation will be asked by Congressman T.

Bennett cf the sixth Congressional district. Ho aaid yesterday that he had asked the War Department for full report on the burning of the -equipment, adding that if. proper corrective measures were not taken he would lmmedl- ately demand a Congressional Investigation. 1 WANTED rom SCKAP rarest official frankly declared that the burning was dona to free, the Implements of wooden handles and other parts so that they eould be salvaged as scrap metaL Thera's no provision for Selling sucl government property to individuals without yards and yards of governmental red tape that would take months to uhwlnd. who.

la a valnlecr CD forest Are flfhtar, didn't blamo the fsnst effleisia. Bat he did blame the -pelley if tha gov-mnnl in deetrsyiag Useful articles rather then seOinf or giving them away. 1 Especially whan sack Implements ami testa In these days ef priorities and rallsnlng are so hard to purchase threugh regnlar channels. Congressman Bennett yesterday. In reporting on tha situation to the house, declared: "We cannot this war by such management.

St will not encourage ale of government bonds if allowed to eontlnue." iTWO OZARKS CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH IN HOME HOflATSO, April 14-(AP) TWO amall children, a six-year-old girl and two-year-old bop, burned to death hare tonight when fire destroyed the homo of their mother, IDs. Berthena Redman, at the outskirts of town. Mrs. was away from home when neighbors discovered the dwelling a mam of flame limaointf. KANSAS, OKLAHOMA I tap, turn today.

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BtiMtMVNldo ivippuad' toravaathar VuvaaM MttalfM eehoatl I After Three Days County Is $620,000 Short of Quota A total of BteONO worth of trsr bonds has been sold In Oreriie county during the first three days of the second war bond drive, James Jeffries, county chairman, reported last night. This team 620.000 of the Hr BtoAto bounty quota, yet" t6 raise, Jeffriea aald. The results, he added an pleasing, but- the last part of any -quota to the hardest to raise. Cne thing that may help materially cm the quota Is (he fact that Springfield will receive credit for the bonds that the Frisco workers an buying via the payroll deduction plan. Heretofore, these wen purchased through a St.

Louis bank, Jeffries said, and St. Louis received credit for- such purchases. Now (he bonds an bought through the federal reserve, bank, and the city in which the purchaser live get crediths explained. Amplifying Syttem PreMehted O'Reilly By Carpenter Union The Carpenters local union yesterday presented public address system to Oeneral hospital, Major Xoula Hlmelstelp, adjutant, reported last night Um system can be used In any part of the hospital, cither Indoors or outof doors, the major said, as It Is yntlrely portable. When used Ui buildings It can be attached to tegular electric outlets.

Batteries operate It If It is needed on the parade grounds or other places out of doors. The major explained, that tha hospital had badly needed such an outfit for Same time. Previously at pedal events PA equipment was rented. Grandpa Carfellb Going Into Army From Own CHoice CHICAGO, April 14 (INS) Grandpa Oeorge Carfello la going Into Uncle Barns Army within the next fortnight, hta draft board revealed tonight. ft is not because the Army Is short ef young men that grandpa la Joining, tout because he to only and requested service.

Carfello'S sonlnlaw, 8c t. James Settlto la serving at Fort Leonard Wood, Bite Greatest Number of Night Bombers Ever Over Dover Stralti Heads for Europe ay nt pen hm LONDON, Thundly, April U. Bnutheaat tout batchers reported that ttw hirgeat number of British night bomber seen over the Straits of Dover flew toward Europe last night, and night aerial warfare flared on both ride, or tho English channel the Germans attacked two Thame estuary town wtth ox, plosive and Incendiaries. ruling the shy with theta mq the Mg feur-uwtered night bemb era cf the RAP flew wder bright meenllght toward the Vtoneh eari, add Bstonera on tho Eng. Ikh side nf the thaniml hoard tho oound of heavy raplmlsn from Urn French side shortly after ward.

The raider strurk Allied vessel," raualng damaae and aua Men, the war bulletin reported, but fires two of tha ships were qylrtly controlled and the third, heavily hit, waa forced to beach, BOMBING rUNEa Fifteen planes were actually seen to rruh, hint wm keen falling Rer being hit and alx wnaaeen. to recalva bursts and left the action. It la unlikely that any were able to return to their hM." reriy-rii planes ef the attacking fermaUon -were medium nr dive bemhfra, and nearly half af them 'were eSnWIea. The IB planes aelMBy seen to rriuh to etoded rigbl bnmbetv twn diyebembefw and five fight A bare, announcement of Uw- Uek was made In iptolat com munhqu yesterday an unusual pro redur for Oeneral MscArthurl headquarters. But details were not dlaetosed until today.

Damage to abort Inals Hat inns from the enemy bomb waa do' arrihed ar negligible. Milne bay la at the southeastern tip of the Papuan peninsula. Tha Japanese toeaea brought to more than IN the number of planet ahpt down alnrt they launched Uielr erica ef heavy aaaaulte with a big raid on Ora bay Sunday, In that raid, and another Blonday against Fort Moresby; together with cor related operations, the enemy had tost. 71 planes outof approximately 300 they employed, SINK CARGO IHIF Meenwhlle. the A Hies kept up their ewa aerial offensive, oinking MM-len carte chip In Henan bay.

New Gaines, wheeea IMM-iea and an MW-tou ship had been kit hr a prevleoa raid. A Hf ht rrnleer waa damaged by ABIed bomba In the Arafnra sea. The employment by the Jape item of more than planes tha. Milna bay raid In. the fare of their heavy losses earlier In the week lnd letted dearly their determination to eelae the aerial Initiative which long haa been used to Allied hands In the southwest Pacific.

They previously had tued lB and 48 planes to arpiurate. assaults against Oro bay arid approximately IN against Fort Moresby. "ton 71 to IN enemy aircraft, prising 4C medlnm and dive bembrrs with fighter eerert, mid cd Urn am at midday," the rem-nmlqne -eald af Die Milne bay eprnUena, "Damage and easnaltlee were canoed on three email aWed.toe-eh. FVee started on two weep qnkfcly con I The third was heavily hit and waa fenced to beech. "Damage: to shore InstoUa Uena waa negligible.

Onr flklin and ntinlecrnft be Iter lee engaged the raider and shat dawn IB enemy planes ant of action. At Jeaat alx othenplanea were seen hit afid probably were not able to return to baas, Uw communique reported. A on the previoua raid this week, four-motored bombers were sent gainst Hanaa. bay which fa on New Guinea's north coast. Throe hits-sent ttw 1000-ton ship to ttw communique referred to the ship aa "ill that rematned nf the convoy previously attacked." After ttw latest attack, tha shtp was enveloped fat amoke and two hours later wts ohaervad to bo burning and atoklnc.

l' bombers spotted ths erulsar northwest of Babar Island to tho Arafura sea and damaged U' with bomb which fill near the ship. MaeArthUr, who aaid y-teiday hi a atatemant that the rang of hla bombars waa ttw aaaivhi of misty Australia, dmonitratod The Mg fleet took Tfl. minute to It eontlnuoue pamage aero -1- strait, obaefrttq said. British anti-aircraft defenses and night fighter plane battled the Qcr; man rakler which SUrted Hnall flree, quickly exUngufahad, hi ttw Thamea estuary, and East Anglin. Aotheritottvo qaartera revmM I that Tl frl Tir being atoengthened' fa BHIhk Coastal towna aahmt Germnu hit 0-m raider-and usere gmw were eald to have been mevN Into the danger arm Heavy.

German relianve on aerial transports. Indicated the gravity of Rommel's supply problem as Allied ground troops etoed on the enemy 'i last mountain baatlona. 11N railONERS TAKEN The British eighth army already waa probing tha Enfldayille defenses 50 miles south. of Tunis; the British tint army was moving In from the west much nearer than that to-the Tunisian capital; and Jtench and American troops were deploying in the southwest for coordinated blows that are expected to push the forces of Rommel and OoL-Oen. Jurgen Von Amlin Into the Mediterranean.

A French communlqus said the mountains and northwest Kairouan bad been cleaned out With 1100 prisoners total, BOO Axis dead counted, and IB cannon captured. A Junction jilso waa reported, made with the eighth army north of Kairouan. -UauL-Oen. k. A.

N. Anderaonh first army made further advances in. its efforts to clean out the mountains between Medje-El-Bab and teateur preliminary to a direct strike toward Tunis, which la only IS sir line miles from Mcdjei-El-Bab. (Capt Ludwig' Bertorlua. Berlin radio commentator, in a broadcast sorded by tbq Associated Press aid General Anderson waa employing Highlanders Ad Canadians "In fierce fighting for the mountains north 'of the Oued Eargm-Medjes-El-Bab road.

Strong Flench forces were moving up In the Bou Arada sector betow Medjes-El-Bab, ho said, and "the bulk" ef the British eighth army tajika and motorized forma-' lions have moved up to the Axis; held mountain rim west of Bifl-davilleV BOMB AIKilELDS "Air eperaliMM," eaU the A Died eeemmnlqiM toeealeally, ilreeted largely akflaldar and it was left to iyskswesn to ted the story of the greatest ff blewe yet delivered frees the sky In the Berth African theater. An Plying Fartresaee led a tremendous assault yesterday. Thundering oyer the Castelvetrano and Milo airfields in Sicily.1 they caught 111 big enraiy air on the ground at the first hnd 10C Axis planes grounded at the second. Xn sharp, actions, B1 enemy transports wcrt dtttriysd at Cat- Tha RAF-attack on Eiinpo had -been heralded by. the Sudden sttano.

tag of continental radio itatton Including flw powerful DNR and Deutechdfindaender tnuumttten In Benin. BOLONS DEMAND ACTION -WABtaNOTON, April 14, -s (lNB)-8eaato RepubUcah lend tonight threw -ttwte support behind ttw Rund gktprtrear plan and announced that they would qpposo any recess of Con until a pay-ae-you-cam tat boon passed. MUna Three Buddies in Drury of Generals in U. S. Army A.

"BILL" BEIDERLINDEN, ion of Mrs. W. O. Beider-- 1 linden of Springfield, has been promoted to the rank of brigadierVgeneral, and fa a commanding officer at Fort Lewi, Wah. General Beider linden to the third planes- were the most numerous In.

dan ANDERSON. Aprlt 1L-(AP An AatesoB mother hag new boogy mau to hMp kaep her Utlo boy In Una. back hera, boy," dho aid to tha youngster acampfrtng phtad of bar on tho crowded Idtwalk. "tog ttw QFA wQ gvt you. ThochUd cam back th bur ry and grabbed hla moUurtoiklrL this country, earlite had been a basketball ataf successively at Drury and then at Springfield Teaehers college, Beiderllnden whip was born here, wu graduated from high school in If 13; from Drury in lBlI.

Ho has served In the regular Army Btowe 1B17, spent- IS months In Ranee and also served la' various posts la tha United Statya and In tha lUUppiaafcY i jb-. of a group of biojn attending Drury college nt the same time to bo pro moted to a general'a. rank. other, two ate 'Brig. Gem Homer Oase, of Manhfleld, who Ja wlUi'U.

8. troops hT England, and Brig. Gen Ralph Bravely, who alwtth tha alr corps in Africa. Oeii. iCase served la the find World, war.

Oen. Bnavely. a pioneer flyer her ttaa Ourtto txatntng i a-i. ri i 'i".