The McCook Daily Gazette from McCook, Nebraska • 1

Wallace Takes aMsSS-rj jji At orbes In Action Along Time! For 'One Last Heave' Seems At Hand On European Front With Weather Turned In Allies Favor I Japan TricpJ Attacks Fifth Fleet Tokyo Admits Loss of, Airplanes In Asian tr Task Force Unieported; By Ualtad Frees 4': tvt American Superfortreasea ranged over Japans Inland aaa lM day apparently photographing' the deal ruction Inflicted by carrlir planea of the Fifth fleet last weak and mapping new targets, Tokyo reported. I The report, which said' that no bomba were dropped, came as Jananeae Imperial headquarters admitted the loss of 150 planes In attacks on the Fifth fleet. I Meanwhile, enemy forces suffered new setbacks throughout the Pacific. I. A survey showed that in the first 22 days of this month, planes and warships of Admiral Chester W.

Nlmitz and Gen. Douglas MacArthur destroyed or damaged at least 789 Japanese 'planes, 264 merchant veseela and 47 warships. In admitting their plane losses to the' Fifth fleet, the. Japanese said they broke off attacks with the American naval force'. -1 Wednesday night.

An earlier Tokyo report had placed the fleet off the Okinawa islands, 300 milas southwest of Japan, Wednesday night. There lias been no word 1 from A I1CI law UCVII HU wvni IIWIII wsessst: Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace has become, so air-mlnried in his new position that he has decided to learn how fly. At a recent appearance before a congressional committee he Invited members to Join him In mastering the art of flying, but there were no lakers. Wallace is shown here In the cockpit of a trainer plane just prior to his Initial lesson.

NEA Telephoto. nmam Supreme court. Two days Richard Meissner, chleT 'state probation officer, leviewed the testimony and asserted. that Miss Mllroys death resulted from "premeditation and deliberation." At the time of the crime MacAvoy was under- arrest and 1 supposedly. confined to -hia post, -awaiting trial on charges of attacking 'a Hastings 'woman.

Nebraskas last, execution was that 'of Harry Sherman, 19, in 1929. Sherman was convicted of a triple murder. I Brooklyn Army Sergeant Pays His Lite For Rape-Murder Of Sutton Girl; His Denial Is Disregarded beam; i Planea Hurl Greatest Of All Attacks Rich Industrial Ruhr XIW Biasing Infernal XltwT Now Brightest of War PARIS. (UP) Allied and German reports Mnted today that a grand scale win-the-wer offensive by Gen. Dwight D.

Wee shower's armies In the Rhineland was Tin--mlnent or British outriders thrust access tha lower Rhino on smoke-veiled 65-mlle front where the Nests said Marshal Sir Bernard I Montgomery's forces had stormed tho river line from Arnhem to thy Ruhr. i Lt. Of n.Georgt 8. Patton's shook troops and amphibious tanks undertook a Rhine crossing near. between Mains and under cover of violent gunfire and artificial fog.

Nasi broadcasts said. The German said river hank patrols with motorised anti-tank guns met tha Third army; troops and the detachment was "wiped out with the exception of small rem-nets." Thousands of allied wsrplanes floured lethal rain of bomba on the Ruhr nil day. Airmen said the ones'! rich" Industrial valley of northwest Germany was a biasing Inferno of dead cities. United Press Correspondent John McDermott reported In a dispatch from V. 8.

First Arfny headquarters that German reels-tsnce. had "vanished" on tha central arc -of the Remagen bridgehead- i i The German high command. re-' ported that troops of either tho U. 8. Third or Sevent army had I tied to cross the Rhine in the Ludwlgshafen area.

LL Gen. Omar Bradley, chief of the U. 0. 12th Army group said there was nothing to prevent ua from crossing the (Rhine most any Tha front from tha Karls ruha corner id tha Dutch lowlknd was tense and -j (See Page Three, No. 9) Nothing To Halt Rhinb Crossing Whoh Timo Ripo! I TWELFTH GROUP UP) Gen.

Omar Bradley, Meat Prices Be Boosted Uttle Encouragement Seen That Subsidy? Hike Will Keep Packers at Work WASHINGTON, (UP) Hon. Rb. bert A. Toft, proponed to day that niaat Mold to Ilia govern-mont be freed from- regular price ceilings to encourage production by hard-pressed pucker. Renewing chargee that ilia Ol'A'e -present poHrlee were farcing many packers to cloee down' and thereby woraenlng the meat ahor tage.

Taft anld Home change would, be made to allow them a "reasonable profit' on tlielr operational I II In propose I came both liouaea of congreae concentrated their alteutlonon the predicted food abort age and nought to learn If government egenclee were in any way reaonalble. The Senate War Investigating committee plane hi visit next week a llmeatone 1 cava which ha been ronverted into a gigantic government warehouae at Atchison, Kana. War Food administration officials were confident that the committee would find nothing nmlss there despite reports that the converted quarry was unsuitable for food storage and that apllage ha occurred, i At present only 36 carloads of dried egg powder (about 663 tons) are atored In space i designed to hold from 30,000 to 40,000 tons of food. WKA said; "The- biggest warehouse in the world on which tho, government is spending an estimated 32,000,000 wont be ready for general use until May 1. Taft said hla proposal would be workable solution fqr renegotiation of Packers' contractu with the federal government.

after July 3. to. rnnko certain they nge. racei- vlng a fair returiy in 1 hair-deal-ings. About half the.

meat processed In federally Inspected plants la now set usido for government purchase. In Taft "renegotiation of Packers contracts would bo taking regular price ceilings pff 'meat sold to.thq government. Taft said, he would bring the subject up when the Banking, committee resumes work next week; on legislation to extend through 1946- the price control act which exprtes on June 30. The committee Is already looking into OPA price policies us 1 (See Page Three, no. 8) Pioneer Zephyr Back In Service Tomorrow As Damage Repaired i Tho Burlington Pioneer Zephyr which has been out of servico since November 12, -will resume its former schedule tomorrow, when It-comes into McCook lot 6:20 p.

m. CWT. On November -12, the Zephyr, westbound, stood In the yards at Fairmont when a- Burlington freight train rammed Into the rear of the passenger train, killing four persons. The train was badly damaged. Zephyr operates as a local between Lincoln and McCook making the round trip daily.

LINCOLN, (UP) Joseph T. Muc-Avoy, 25, a Brooklyn, N. Army sergeant, died In the electrle chair at Nebraska! penitentiary today. MacAvoy was executed a year nnd half after he was convicted of the rape-murder. of Anna Mil-roy.

16-ycar-old Sutton, high school girl. Re was strapped tn the cl.ctric chair :67 m. He wu T'" PK1 force rrenounh.imwm-cM nor thr pronounced the announcement Wednesday that Its planes had crippled 17 Japanese warships and 600 planea id the Inland sea raids. In the Phlllipines, American troops and Filipino guerillas closed in from two sides on the no thern Luzon city- of Baguio, Ja anese headquarters for the reached -within 10 nilg moved to' less than miles res on the Rhine, (he guns were sounding the overture to the crossing, Berlin said. Military obsrrvrrs do not belli tie Germanys fanatiral resistance But they know the allied commanders wont move until they have the traditional threeto-one assault ratio, of superiority need ed to Insure success.

Xnd they wonder what the Germans have In thetr riddled cities nnd what they have in depleted army stores to use for defense when their first line goes. It looks as it me first swell of the Cliurchillian one last heave1 now is on. I j- BOMS. Sharp patrol clashes were reported today on! both itho -Fifth and Eighth army (floats In Italy. In -tho control i soctor bolaw Bologna, tho Got-I mans roactod strongly to Amor-! lean thrusts.

A 19-man Gorman raiding party seas ropulsod near Ansano, 10 milos south of Bologna. Other clashes wore reported in tho Serchio valley in the Ligurian coastal WASHINOTONr UFqynl' Air force pilots like the nightly Mosquito' plane bomb run to Berlin, according to the British Information' services. One the BIS said, explained It this way: "Wc can take off after tea and be bark before the officers club bar doses.1, CALCUTTA, British Indian troops have driven more than miles south ef Mandalay to compress remnants of tho Japanese 19th army into a narrow pocket on tho plains It miles nerthiof Meiktlla, a communique disclosed today. CHUNGKING, A Chinese army spokesman said today The Japanese had opened a new offensive from bases on the Pelklng-llankow railroad against the air-base town of Lochokow, 230 miles northwest of Hankow. I1L; Tha Womans Christian Tomparanca union Is going masculine.

In a ngw program announced today, Tha 'union plana to enroll 400, 000 men as members In tho nest five years. Prior to this, 1 men have been admitted only as honorary or associate members. Cedar Bluffs Saved From Blaze By. Hurried Efforts LONDON. I UP).

The Gernan radio aald tonight that Marshal Gregory SUiukovs assault forces had smashed six miles westward from the Oder river citadel or Kuestrin to the village of tSol-zow 32 miles east of Berlin. Nasi broadcasters admitted that crack troops, of Zhukovs First White Russian army had penetrated the -outer rings of Berlin's concentric maze of defenses between the Oder and the threatened capital. Golzow lie! just north of the Kuestrin-Berlin superhighway and trunk railway. The village, a local crossroads, Is one of tho strong points In the fortifications studding I tlaalln Pacific fleet headquarters on the pp to The Nazi admission of the Soviet penetration to Golzow followed a German high command report that Russian tanks and infantry in the Kuestrin sector after a strong artillery barrage and scored "som minor successes. 1 Aj Moscow broadcast said that Marshal Gregory K.

Zhukov's showdown assault! on 'Berlin "can be expected very soon" now that both his Hanks have been secured, Zhukov' First White Russian army captured -Kuestrin on March 12, and later iwas reported by the Russians to have 'broken across the Oder in' that sector. Marshal Ivan 8. Kovens Ukrainian army, was reported by the Nazi communique to ha smashed across the Silesian bor-der-l'lnto Csechoalovakla in the newly reported offensive whl had killed or 45,000 German troops. The Germans reported that tho Russians were attacking on either side of Hotzenplotz, a mile Inside Czechoslovakia and 38 miles southwest of Oppeln. 'i Konevs army was one of three reported on the march toward Vienna along a 200-mile front i in a possible bid to break up Nazi plana, for a die-hard stand iii southern Germany or Another was driving northwestward through i'the broken German defenses between Lake Balaton and the Danube northwest of Budapest.

i i The Third Soviet army pushing toward Vienna was attacking in central Slovakia. Berlin said con-tinous onslaughts "gained only a little in hitter lighting through the mountains. activities of the Filth fleet with its huge force of carriers since from the south. Other American troops seized control of Gufmaraa' island, off southern Pansy, to secure the so-, (See Page Three, No. 10) New York Officials Won't Try to.

Enforce Byrnes' Rule. La'Guardia Warns NEW YORK, (UP) Mayor Fio-rello LaGuardia turned today to problems of hla own city government and left the midnight entertainment curfew to whatever, enforcement measures federal agencies may find. LaGuardia explained his position in a nationwide radio broadcast last night. He ipd 'the request of War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes could be enforced only by congressional action, and told entartainers In the worlds largest city that it was -entirely up to them whether they would Soviets Rdm Through On Oder Front Assault Force Smashes Six Miles Nearer Berlin By Advance from Kuestrin Red Cross Donations Can be Made Now At Office Of Chamber 'Arrangements were made today whereby persons may leave their Red i Cross contributions at the Chamber of Commerce, Manny Reynolds, chairman of the Red Cross, drive for' tho city of McCook, stated this morning.

City aoHcitors have made a conscientious effort to contact everyone. In many instances they have called back several without results. Since everyone in the com-munityshould help so worthy a cause, the arrangement with the Chamber of Commerce was made, Mr. Reynolds said. mneorcocoisi LONDON, CUP) There was every sign today that the time of the "one last, heave together in the European war Is here.

Prime Minister 'Churchill said recently while touring the western front that such a heave plainly would end the war. The weather over tlio, continent was completely on the allied side for the first time since the inva sion armada1 set out last attacks of a range and continuity never seen before were blasting Germany, especially those German troops waiting just over the Rhine for- the blow they know is coming. Many enemy reports said a Rhine crossing on a huge scale is to begin right away. Germany's war iiositien and living conditions now were unquestionably for the first time so far toward the end that on! single push might, pul them In the abyss. Weal her over the continent was reported iwrfecL There i were no spring rains to bog down infan try.

Sunny blue skies were filled with the roar of endless streams of allied planes, always on the On the eastern front, the Red army's flanks were secure for the lunge at Berlin. The mop-up of pockets behind the front was far enough along to iooxo the drive froui the' Oder', valley ao-nr iso miles from the heart of Nnsidom, Already-through the clouds of artificial smoke veiling Marshal Sir Bernard L. Monlognierys for- Speed Urged On Missouri Sen. Butler Warns Against Delaying Plans Pending Any Valley Authority LINCOLN, (UP) Nebraska would bo unwise 1 to delay work, recommended by the Reclamation' bureau, on the theory that the state ultimately i will adopt a Missouri Valley authority. Sen.

Hugh Butler, said today. "I Was raised in' the Republican valley where, in 1935, flood' took 110 said. I -don't want to wait ariotjier 10 yean for a. second plan rwhen wa now can proceed" along the lines suggested by the Reclamation bureau and the Army Engineers. Butler emphasised that his recommendation did not place him In opposition to the MVA.

which he predicted' ultimately would be established. Benefits which the authority would afford, ha. are Irrigation, flood development of power, navigation. In the order named. The Nebraska senator Indicated his agreement with -the memorial recently 1 routed by the state legislature to congress, the Office of Price Administration ceiling prices on pigs should be raised.

OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, "well smart 'and able," is faced with the almost insurmountable problem of attempting to avoid inflation, Butler said. i( "He la trying to hold commo-dity; prices too especially on meat, in an effort to combat Inflation," Butler said, warning' that subsidies would not be an acceptable to Nebraska farmers. Butler- told, reporters he'- a a hopeful of, favorable, congressional action on -the Butler-Byrd bill providing that all federal corporations must' apply to -the budget bureau for tKeir 'apropriations, 1 bill, ha laid? is aimed at poratlona' carrying on "social" pits. grains int territory outside the ted States. Uni- Barry Fitgeralds OscarMs Caiualty li1 i HOLLYWOOD, (UP) Flaying golf in the living room Jeff Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald with; a headless' Academy award Oku today, a 1 4 Fitzgerald was practicing' golf swings With his stand-in, Gus Tallon, when a wild -drive r- close at midnight.

LaGuardia divided New night spots into two classes. -I. Those having entertainers end operating "under a city license1 must close at 1 a. he said, or face city, prosecution. 2.

Others, such-aa 'bars; opera-ing under a state license, can remain open until 4 a. the legal closing time. LaGuardia explained Ills stand with the statement that "the present mayor of the city of. New York believes In law and order. "He believes that, the American people should be governed by law," he 'said.

He "believes in enforcing the law. He hates hypocHsy and he; had fought' disregard or violation of the law all of his life. He 1 not satisfied, with lip service. rith proud proclamations of compliance when there is no compliance. He said- he was not ooncemed with the curfew- in other cities, but advised residents to look about them and see if it working." want to cooperate, Laguar-; die said.

"I am simply I 'refuse to; be hypocritical." -Reaction LaGuardias broadcast was slow. Entertainment I leaders were divided as -to whether to: observe: the 1 a. set by 'the mayor or the, midnight dosing set by Byrnes. -A few; that had goner back to the closing' after the 'Army: and- Navy ordered'. them! to cease serving military personnel at that hour remained open un-til m.

last' night, 80ma bars they, were discussing', remaining open until 4 a. m. i Mora than 100,000 seamen have been graduated ftm Mari-tinir Siifbe training: lsnl' Twelfth Army Group commander, said today "theraz nothing to prevent 4 us from coming Rhine most anywhere anytime." Bradley said at a press confer-' nee that Dwight D. Eise- bower's Instructions to "destroy tha German forces west of tha Rhine" have bean completed. "Now," ha said, "tha necessity of keeping our bridgehead small baa been Bradley said that allied forces could bo across tha Ruhr now with T.

the type of opposition they have been meeting the last few weeks. "I would like, however he said, "to put in a word of caution-on that. I dont think wa should write too glaring headlines that Ufa' war Is over anything Hka It may. be almost over or It may laat a long time to come. "The fact le we have destroyed lot of enemy forces.

How much resistance the enemy can put up' yet to be seen." Immediately before the switch was thrown MacAvoy called goodbye to Prison Chaplain Fred Lcss-tfen und Warden -Neil Olson. MacAvoy, stationed al the Harvard Army Air base, picked pp Miss Milroy tn Sutton the night. Of Aug. 7, 1943. 'He admitted at hia trial at Clay Center that he and, the girl drank "a and i drove to -a country road.

He. said, the girl submitted to his. advances, but after a quarrel- over possibility of disease she hit hind on the noso. This angered him, lie said, and he knocked tier out of tho car and hit hcV bn the head with a crank. He threw her.

into a clump of bushes. The soldier testified that he 'returned to the sceno the next day. The state conten that Avoy drove a wood chesel into her brain al that time, killing her, MacAvoy denied it. He claimed that he merely felt the. body, found it I stiff, and turned it face upwards.

He was arrested two days later. He admitted assaulting tho girl but pleaded not: guilty of murder by reason of Insanity. His mother. Mrs, Mary Moors, testified that her. son.

suffered an attack of fever, or the "sweats, in 1941 while he was a soldier in Panama. Medical testimony attempted to eslabislh that MacAvoy for short; periods of time after using alcohol "didnt know 1. did, and God guided us down here. The girl, said her husband was a soldier overseas 'but' that "the Lord told me not to write to him." At Independence, Floyd Dm-ham, jr 24, one of the pilgrims. Was ordered by his draft board to answer tts call on April 80 or face- prosecution as a delinquent.

And the eastern Jackson county rationing board said It wanted to knoW how the family got gasoline for the vkh Selective service; officials said that young Floyds farm work deferment-expired Feb. 'L On Feb. 23the board received' the following message from him at Laredo, "We are commanded by the Lord to go out of the country and do work lor him. The hoard commanded him to return. Missouri farm neighbors sai the 14-jrear-oId leader of the group had reported having just after several members of the -family were baptized Into a Church of Christ at Independence William A.

Ferguson, a neighbor, said the younger Floyds farm possessions had been left in his care but that he didnt what-to do 'with "Theyve gone on Missions pg-fore and' come back broke, Ferguson recalled. 1 Family Oi 14 Abandons Missouri Farm To Follow. Youtblul Messiah Barefoot Into Rio Grande Valley Hopes Rest On Subsidy s. Administration Depending Upon 50-cent Incentive to Boost Slaughtering WASHINGTON, (UP) The administrations new cattle subsidy program contemplates additional payments to slaughterers when their costs for livestock rise above certain levels. In this way, it is hoped to spur slaughtering and bring more beef into markets.

The payments are to be computed on the basis of the maximum and minimum price ranges established by the Defense Supplies corporation for its cattle price stabilization program, which haa been in effect more than a year. Maximum and minimum prices are set under that program so that there Is a range of $1.50 per hundred pounds Nve weight' between the top and bottom prices. For example, the two levels 'for choice beef at certain markets' are 316 and 317.60 per hundredweight. The new subsidy program calls payments to start when a slaughterers costs for live cattle exceed the floor plus one-third of the range in the ease cited. 316 plus 50 cents or 316.50.

If the slaughterers costs for livestock exceed that 316JS0 figure, then he would be paid a subsidy amounting to one-half of the excess. The maximum subsidy would be 50 cents a i hundredweight. The subsidy la to be computed on the basis of a slaughterers overall operation during an period a month for some, five weeks -for others. As' he does 1 now the cattle stabilization program, the slaughterer-. Is tot report to the Defense Supplies corporation figures- on hia total beef outptit and.

its grade together' with live cattle costs data and certain' other, The DS0 then determines Ha la entitled to. any The program is to start' April WAIfTED Boyi lor promabtoPdUy Gazette oagglevxDutesJikSXdCeok. Buy war Qndz: and stamps. CEDAR (Special) A prairie fire, fanned by a high wind, late last night swept up to the very edge of Cedar Bluffs and the town unquestionably was saved from destruction or severe -loss only by tho hurried efforts of the Oberlin Fire depa t-menta use of chemicals and far-menr with tractors who plowed fire-guard The fire started at tha edge of tho surfaced highway at a. point about a mile and ia half southeast of where a lighted cfgaret tossed from an automobile could- easily have started a blase in' dry grass.

blase had 'gained considerable headway, before it was discovered about 11:30 p. m. A strong wind swept the about 80 acres of pasture 1 land directly toward Cedar Bluffs. No livestock or buildings In the SUrdStar Awarded Son Later Killed In Action Bent Mother '-V i BROWNSVILE, Tex. (UP) A Missouri, farm family of 14 camped today In the brusli Wilds of the Mexican border after following barefoot a 14-year-oldi self-styled messiah" to Texas because "God us to." 1 I Daniel Denham, the messiah, told Chief Deputy Sheriff Will Ca-bler that he and hla family left Independence, In.

two ancient cars and a trailer several weeks ago, discarding their shoes, after getting- a message jfrom 'the Lord. I i Behind them the family left home with a sign in its window: "This house is the Lords and any one may use it If it. is his will. The boy said the heavenly message directed thg family to abandon Its worldly possessions and go to the "promise dj land to They planned the. gospel in the Rio Grande valley Lord bade us stop." j.

"We were used to il comfortable Ufa and had all the. money we needed, the mother "Mrs. Floyd JS. Denham, officers. Vlt wasnt easy to give Jill up--but "the Lord willed "The Lord." one girl said.

"told ua all, except daddy and one 'of theboys, to throw away Our shoes the first creek we crossed. We A Silver Star, awarded July 22, 1944to her son. the late Sgb H. Sasrdon, for gallantry in action was received Thursday morniiur by hif mother, Mrs. Ethet Codr, i 110 South Street.

The citation which accompanied the award read: 'J gallantry la action i July 1944, In thevidntty at da Puite, Normandy Fnsace'" Sgt; Sawdou observed a woaadad driver lying In abroad which ranM through narrow cut aadlsfelcfe wasi oxpootd, to enemy, fire." At leahe s' JS of the. The blaze was under control by 1 a. m. this morning. GermanPrisoner At Atlanta.

Camp Die r-i (UP) The first, death to occur at! the Atlanta prisoner of war. camp weet of Hot-drege, was; German prisoner, undergoing treatment' at tha v. Funeral aervices held the1 Indlanda preoner of wa rf Try Gazette Waxft Ada Today, lastic Irbppfffflg.Jffen- camp In accordance prowi-NelMlftBar toMU ifew of tha Geneva convention. and. carried: him piae Sgt'Sawdon'a Vi action saved the lift of the 3 Sgt-Sawdon, a Araduate cf '4.

McCook- High schJkaA bm three yean wtdaJCxTrl was kOted In action August -1 itla efts ftragoygto; thciican4if0ttoWiA: for- -1, haiperformancesn! -spriest My "Way." tv-'. e-.