Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition pages. Peg Winnipeg thursday april 2o one of the latest additions to the fast growing Fleet of e Carrier is commanded by Canadian officers and Canadian Navy. It is described As a ships Hull built around Nin ways hangars Repak lift an aircraft from the Given out by Hon. Angus is shown Royal the Ankara russians crush big scale nazi tank assault on polish front Cpl Narin f have Bee Back to of act Sitter fierce Seesaw Fishtine mos a communique which also told of the capture by russian Shock trocar eights formidable Barrier guarding the approaches to besieged Sevastopol broadcast a British report that russian troops have entered the City the is Azis launched the heavy tinier blows East of Miles Southeast of the big communications Centre of Lwow. While the German attacks seem primarily designed to save vow 45 Miles West of the near-1 russian forces the offensive Allied Headquarters Naples april 20. Night bombers carried Forward the Aerial offensive against nazi communications in Central Italy today with a pre Dawn strike on three West coast ports while fighting on the main land fronts again was limited to patrol and artillery exchanges. Following so could be an attempt to keep e red from driving through e czechoslovak Frontier passes by reached april s. Lwow itself As bombed by the russians tuesday night. Crimea Battle besides taking f e d y u k h i n y rights about five Miles from the Nore of Sevastopol and Over oking the Chornaya River Valley 2 russians also outflanked the ii of Sakharny Glovka. Cover 3 the entry to the Inkerman Val the communique said. Soviet planes and torpedo boats the past 2i hours were credited the sinking two transports total g 7.000 tons five barges and two tool cutters and setting fire to ree Large transports. Thousands enemy troops drowned. A British broadcast said the of two romanian liners the Sarabia and Transylvania re sed to sail to Sevastopol to Aid in. E evacuation rent despatches indicated blast three nazi ports in Italy up a series of Day Light blows on a score of enemy Railroad and Highway lines across the Centre of the Peninsula formations of wellingtons unloaded their blockbusters on Livorno leg san Stefano and Piombino the germans had been running supplies from South Ern France. American marauders attacked the Ancona railway Yards touching off Large explosions in the target area while Mitchell bombers hit the Piombino Yards. fighter bombers de railway Bridges in the Florence area strafed trains and Highway traffic and other fighter bombers gun motor transport and railway lines on the yugoslav coast and in Aloma. No Allied planes were lost in the Daylight operations and a communique said no enemy aircraft were sighted during the Day. Little change no essential changes were re ported in the ground fighting in Italy although Allied at Jap bases on Sumatra is Neanor my april mighty Allied Battle Fleet sweeping unchallenged to Era of Sabong and Zhonga in a surpass Dawn qua v within too Miles of Singapore bombed and burned Tuc Este m Sumatra. Wednesday and returned mid a Indian Oce Admiral sir caught the enemy completely by Surprise and blasted his base into s. Mass of wrecked planes and ruined fortifications. At least 22 japanese planes were caught aground and destroyed at he Sabang Ai drome and several others were a support ing attack on. The nearby Zhonga Airfield. Carrier based Allied bombers and fighters hit the startled enemy at Dawn bombing and machine gunning the waterfront Barracks and Airfield installations direct ills scored a terse communique announcing the strike said direct nits were scored on a dockyard Power station we sir areas Barracks and hangars. A bbl broadcast heard by the British United press said great fires were left in the town area of Sabang and that two japanese Mer chant ships were hit and Des Royers were strafed and afire Admiral Simerville commander of nil Allied naval forces led the Battle Fleet almost into the Mouth of the Malacca Straits which stretch southwestward to the Cap Turc d stronghold of Singapore and completed the attack without dam age to his Force. The bold attack brought Japan s Sou Hern Empire under sea and air assault from three sides with american warships and bombers on the offensive from the South and Central Pacific. All Southeast forces Somerville commands 11 Allied naval forces in Southeast Asia and prime minister Churchill two set a bounced Only last month that a powerful British Fleet Lias been Southern patrols fronts. Were Active on All the main capturing a number of prisoners on the Anzio beachhead near Littorio and in the Arielli sector of the British 8th thai land fighters raked Bridges trains verging soviet armies lines along the East and last night shooting zip two trains and attack ins Highway targets North of Rome. . Coastal fighters and fighter bombers again struck across the Adriatic to bomb and machine Feodor i. To Bukhin and an j West coasts. . I Yeremenko had overwhelmed were out after dark e outer Sevastopol and Ere assaulting the inner ring of ratifications. With no decisive la through yet achieved. Prisoners reported that the Ger an command had forbidden to Anion troops to leave their on penalty of being shot if by attempted either to desert to e soviets or to Retreat. Turkey cancels Home exports London april 20. Reut news Agency despatch from Ankara today said Turkey had an unwed officially it would Stop exit of Chrome Germany eds for munitions. N Uman Alenem Ebcioglu. Turkish eiga minister. Was quoted As ing the National Assembly that oort of All Chrome from Turkey lid Stop after tomorrow. Chrome is used in Al Loving steel Harden and strengthen such ides As crankshafts and machine is. Front. A Brief Cassino yesterday when flare us occurred inside Allied moved up to the German held machine gunners within Range of. _ hotel Continental and hotel roses to give their nazi occupants a heavy strafing. The germans countered with a mortar barrage on Allied petitions in the Cassenti railway station just outside town. Ford cuts . Tie As workers go out Windsor april 20. Ford motor company of Canada today gave notice in writing of termination of its collective bargaining agreement with local 200 of the United automobile workers of America bulgarian rail Junction reels under blast of . Attack London april Hal faxes struck from Italy at the bulgarian rail Junction of Plovdiv and Allied medium bombers attacked targets on the continent today As bad weather reduced the scale of the five ton a minute bombardment from Britain. United states head quarters announced that photographs taken during the assault on air centres in Germany yes Vandenberg named London april 20. Gen. Hos t s. Vandenberg was appointed Deputy commander in chief of the Allied expeditionary air Force by Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower yesterday succeeding . William o. Butler who was Given assignment. An undisclosed new Hitler is gloomy on 55th birthday London april 20. Celebrated his 55th birth y anniversary amid the bombed ruins of his once proud Many today As Allied armies massed on three sides of his rope an fortress for decisive assaults fore another year. That May end his reign there was no on whether men Cou found in except for the Ler would speak the the occasion. Ave years ago. Or otherwise v n is last peace time birthday. 40.0co picked soldiers Berlin showed off the most weapons of warfare and the the ski gesture to the world. Men could the Borders troops. Everywhere of the shrinking ule germans were be waiting for the May mean their Doo the allies prepared for the Gor expect at any blows which themselves expel Kler s lieutenants appear of the dismal confronting Germany. There shouts of Victory no singing of the nazi triumphant song the Horst rather an the company action followed by a Little More than an hour a mass work stoppage by Day shift employees of the company. The men quit work at 11 . In what a Union spokesman described As a Holiday to discuss dispute with the company Over grievance procedure. Company officials denied a Union report thai fill Gates of the giant War employs More Ithan workers aside from the office being locked. The work stoppage now described by Union officials As a lockout spilled thousands of workers into the narrow streets around the Plant at an unusual hour. Beer taverns and lunch counters in the area did a Rush hour business. The company s action in terminating the agreement with the Union is expected to provide an additional subject for discussion at a mass meeting of Union members called for 2 . To discuss the grievance dispute. On Way to investigate Fred Gainsborough labor depart attempt to have the German people rent conciliator who has been at believe that Hitler would become Sarnia. Is on his Way Here to in one of the great men of history. Propaganda minister Goebbels and Goering defended Hitler As a War Leader in pre Bir Hclay messages a esterday calling the German people to support him to the end. Goebbels spoke for about 30 minutes from the state opera House. Not once did the spectators interrupt with acclaim or applause. Only at the end of his speech was Vest Gate the dispute. The men left their work in accordance with an order issued last night by Union stewards and Corn Ford strike continued on Page 4, column 4 some applause exactly seconds. Then the orchestra played the the London april 20. Up Russia was understood today to have ten dered peace terms to tired Romania but the belief prevailed Here that the German satellite must act quickly or face the full weight of German Eagle and the i scrip the red Tion i details of the peace terms Likely our Walls Are breaking but not were communicated to Britain and concerto Grosso of Handel people applauded Widly. The Only ornament in the Berlin opera House was a Pedestal terms Romania placed at i unique s his disposal reference to Force indicated that australian. American dutch and possibly French and italian warships also May have participated in the a Banj attack. The attack came less than a week after . Lord Louis mount Batten supreme commander of the Southeast Asia theatre moved his near quarters from new Delhi in Central India to Ceylon Somer Ville s base for the announced Pur pose of getting nearer to his Thea tre of operations. Nazis May quit Rome London april 20. British press association reported without elaboration today that the germans have shown signs of n de Trie to abandon Rome. Report was carried by the Agency in commenting that Britain was unlikely to reply to Irish prime minister Eamon de Valera s Appeal for an Allied Axis agreement to make Rome an open City immune to and ground attack. Our ithe United states. Aggressive allies japs invading India not big worry a. T. Steele the april 20 special can announcement that. A. George Stratemeyer has his Eastern air command quarters Miles closer to is another symptom of the in aggressive Allied Atti this theatre despite recent 3.vsnltrations into India s North Frontier. Transfer of Stratemeyer s Bis from new s Interior to almost at the Delhi deep into the Calcutta Shore of the in nit Aji Uiti us Luc o Bengal reflects the official that and danger of a a scale Jap invasion of two years a definitely the present 4 operation though serious is in scope. It would take a "i7 bigger than the Jap Are now Ernp Lovina in Mani t5t.j ,._ v Tasior. Big enough to threaten India s major centres of wealth and population. One tart of plan Stratemeyer s Transfer is part of a Long planned general Forward movement of operational bases which was climaxed last week with the removal of lord Louis mount Batten s Headquarters from new Delhi to Ceylon. Two years ago both Calcutta and Revlon were under imminent peril of Jap these two centres Are now the main bases for present and future operations. Amphibious operations Mountbatten s primary interest is amphibious operations against the major japanese bases of South Eastern Asia. Ceylon s naval facilities an far Superior to those of s shift 1.0 Ceylon and Assam to launch an in does not necessarily mean that amphibious operations Are Immi nent. As a matter of fact with the approach of the monsoons the Bay of Bengal will develop heavy swells which would Small boats make landings with is Dif extremely difficult. However Mountbatten s presence in Ceylon in conjunction with the recent announcement that sub Stantial British naval Force is now stationed in the Indian Ocean certainly brightens Hopes for increased naval activity in this theatre. Calcutta is a belter base for so Halemeyer s Headquarters because it is closer to the land fighting in Burma with which British and american ground based aircraft Are chiefly concerned. Calcutta had become an important Centre of american military activity even before Strattmeyer s arrival. I. Looks if the process of americanization to which the City has been subjected will be intensified. Warm spell to hold temperature readings Low during the in fret 7.30 ., april 20 ., april 20 1.30 ., april 20 Clay last year Manitoba s warm spell will continue for another Day and there is a Chance of Light scattered showers in some districts during the next i8 hours Sites the Weatherman. The Only recorded Manitoba Point .0 receive any rain in the past 24 touts was the Pas and the pre Cipiti Tion there Only amounted to four hundredths of an Inch. A Light smoke Haze Over Winnipeg All thursday morning. Ter Day showed heavy damage to a Focke Wulf the Paris radio reported that 6401 persons were killed and in a Jared tuesday night in the Paris j legion when the Royal air Force scattered a record Weagha of More than tons of bombs across i Germany and occupied territory. Haze veiled the target area Over Plovdiv 80 Miles Southeast of Sofia but spreading fires among rolling Stock and railway install the com tips lighted the night sky As the an Allied big four engine i bombers began their homeward journey. Tons of bombs dropped the allies in More than sorties Between noon tuesday 6 . Yesterday1" poured 9.000 tons of bombs on selected German tar gets the. United states air forces winding up the period with a blow by heavy bombers and fight ers against plane factories parking Fields near Kassel Hamm in Germany and installations near Calais in France. The United states air forces communique referred to the Offen Sive As the air invasion of Ger the More enthusiastic protagonists of air Power in Lon Don began speaking of the possibility of breaking the Back of the German air Force in two or three weeks if the weather holds. Cost less than one per cent the Allied 30-hour offensive Cost less than one per cent of the at tacking Force. All yesterday 3 operations cot six bombers and two fighters the american communique said. This brought total american. . And . Losses for the entire around the clock onslaughts to 42 bombers and seven fighters. In deluded were the 14 . And five Canadian planes lost tuesday get. The americans reported yester Day they shot Down 21 of the Small forces of German fighters Bluit Rose to meet them. The three most recent phases of the invasion offensive saw about 2.000 american and 1.000 and . Bombers of the head Plant and other factories in the Kassel area. Death threat probed City police moved in thurs Day and took up the Hunt for the mysterious extortionist who last week mailed mayor Garnet Coulter a badly typewritten let ter demanding in Cash or his life. Thursday morning As detectives busied themselves on the Case. Mayor Coulter waited for Telephone instructions As to where the Money should be paid. During the morning detectives visited the mayor s office at the City Hall and picked up the death treat note. By the time we got it you had messed up All fingerprints and All other Means of smiled chief Smith As he talked with a free press reporter. The first thing f knew of the threat was late wednesday after noon when a wild eyed newspaper reporter burst into my office Dur ing a meeting of the police com Mission waving a copy of the free said chief Smith. Mayor Coulter then asked that the police not be involved As he had not reported the chief Smith was of the same opinion As mayor Coulter that the letter was sent either by a Crank or someone attempting to pull a practical joke. Criminal offence however in either Case a Crim Inal offence has been committed and every Effort will be made to Trace the sender of the extortion note the chief said. About 30 years ago when i was then a detective three mayors in a. Row received chief took notes demanding Smith revealed much notice of Iest types launched against Ger Many s primes air Craft installations and key Railroad centres upon which her armies de Pend to Supply hundreds of of the fortified Western Coj isl. The remainder of the 6.000-Odd inva Sion sorties were made by fight ers fighter bombers and medium bombers. Winnipeg plane Plant wage increase asked Ottawa april 20. International association of machinists . Of a today asked the National War labor Board to increases for 3.700 aircraft workers the majority employed in Winnipeg. Trie Board reserved judg for workers it Macdonald Bros., limited which has about 2.300 employees company Winnipeg creates of and Midwest aircraft with 550 workers at the Union asked in 10 cents an hour for journeymen 15 cents for pattern makers and five cents for other the cases came before the National Board on Appeal from a Manitoba War labor Board ruling refusing the increases. In an application for 160 Cana Dian airlines employees at Winni Peg and 700 maintenance and stores employees of Canadian Pacific airlines throughout can Ada the Union asked a straight in crease of 23 cents an hour similar to an application now pending from Canadian railway workers. In each Case heard today opposition was presented by the Corn rates indicated in the application for Macdonald Bros and Midwest aircraft Gor Don Wilkinson International rep panics. Resort Active of the Union said increases sought would bring the Winnipeg rates generally in line with those paid by Canadian car and aircraft at fort William. The rates now paid Winnipeg aircraft workers were also below those in effect at Edmonton and Vancouver. G. H. Bragg manager of Mac Donald Bros aircraft division said the company s rates were similar to those paid at Moose jaw and Prince Albert. Or. Bragg said his company had found it necessary to reduce its staff by in the last month and the end is not in sight. Because of competitive conditions the workers were acting against their own interests in seeking higher wage rates. By More regular at Tendance and the reduction of absenteeism the workers could in crease their earnings without any increase in rates. S. V. Stone appearing for the other three companies maintained their present Ratsso were fair and reasonable. Or. Wilkinson said the workers considered themselves As part of a National transportation system and so entitled to the same wages As railway workers. Two soviet armies Are storming Sevastopol and should take thai crimean fortress shortly. General to Bukhin s captured positions two Miles North of the naval Harbor a Day or two ago. General Germenko s maritime captured Balaclava and swept on to the accompanying map diagram. Londoners indignant at bus Drivers strike by William h. Stoneman London april 20. Special can retired to the position of Public enemy no. 2 in London today As irate citizens stood Long queues waiting came or disgustedly hoofed their thirteen Hundred of the 20.00ij Way for buses to work. That never conductors and Drivers of London passenger were out in an unofficial lightning strike and it just happened that the traffic circuits they tied up were those used Prin Lali y by clock workers and War of persons were stuck on the Way Lime last right and ran into the same business when they tried to get to the docks or neighbouring factories and offices this morning. The bus workers had a pretty Good complaint because summer schedules which came into effect going to work and even bus work ers like to eat regularly. The per sons to blame consequently seemed to be the technical personnel who had arranged the schedules. Coming As it does on the eve of the second front when everybody supposed to be at work or time yesterday nto two split parts. Ginning at 11.30 t impossible to their working Dav the first shift . This makes get lunch before and to devote his energies to War work instead of foot work this strike is highly reminiscent of Coronation Days when with the town with hundreds of thousands of strangers every bus Crew in London went on strike. This seems funny on paper but it was not funny then and it not funny now. And the local Popula Tion wishes the bus boys would improve their Liming. Money. Nobody them and the Money was never paid nor did anything the paper yellow sheets on which the extortion note was typed. Is similar that used by the City departments for duplicate sheets. All departments with the exception of the greater Winnipeg water District which provides its own paper uses this Vyp. Harry Loyd who is in charge of civic stores said thursday. The sheets Are purchased from the Hillier paper co. Second floor 722 Lang. Side Street. Purchases Are made at the rate of sheets at an order and they Are available to hundreds of civic employees or. Boyd said. Also strangers calling at the cite Hall and asking for a Sheet of paper to make a notation would Likely be handed one of these he added. I Don t think there would be anyone in the civic service who would be Low enough to try and terrify the mayor and his family n this or. Boyd Felt. A Check up of All typewriter keys ised in civic office will probably be made the police intimated thursday. Sadoglio forms new government Al Jori Headquarters. Naples apr. 20 Pictro Bado gho has formed a new government with All opposition parties participating except the action party it was a i bounced today. Bado Iio met with five parties of the six party Junta today at the Headquarters of the military gov i nor of Naples after haying Confer red with their leaders individually. Action party representatives were absent in line with their policy of refusing to collaborate with a new Sadoglio government. Sadoglio declined to name the membership of his new Cabinet until it has been approved by King Victor Emmanuel torn Orro w. Explosions shake coastal towns London april 20. Plo Sions coming from the direction of the Calais Cape Griz Nycz Section of France Shook the front line towns on the Dover Straits Early to Day. Simi fir unexplained explosions have been heard recently and it was believed the germans were lasting coastal fortifications do Ely in caves to provide sheltered approaches and hideouts for their anti Rasion troops. Ome sources speculated How Ever that the explosions May have been due to delayed action bombs dropped in the Allied air attacks yesterday. Puppet cardboard Empire goes up in Odessa s smoke four Days after the fal cof Odessa on april 10 Tif general s victorious 3rd ukrainian a so up american British correspondents arrived amid the still smoking ruins of vital Black porn. Chicago daily news Moscow correspondent. David m. Nichol was among the Firouz. A series of Brilliant articles of which this is the first. Or. Nichol tells the Story of the War torn City and its resort be . By David m. Nichol Odessa Friday april 14. F Spe Cial can Hitler had his big dream or Nightmare if you prefer a lot of Little hitlers had similar smaller scale visions of them the still one reached its end Here in smoking port and ruins of Odessa Industry but even More in the Resolution it the City s people. Whose Only support seems increasingly to be the remaining Power of the wehrmacht had planned an Empire. This was to be Romania s first fabulously Rich re Gion Between the Dniester Fine str and Bug which he gave the grandiloquent name trans Destria. Nothing was spared. Scientific commissions were established to determine Tator had Odessa was an old romanian name and that its people were romanians who somehow had been led astray into the russian fold. And from the pillared Palace that commands a magnificent View of the Black sea where count Vorontsov once ruled for Nicholas i and where subsequently soviet pioneers had their youth Home. What the midget die already romanian puppet Lor. Georgei Alexiana looked out upon his stolen Domain entertained with lavish banquets and spent Odessa s budget As on described it. On Nice legs. No amount of municipal extravagance could conceal the fact that the romanian Rule never was really successful. Their repressions were As brutal and their treatment of jews As ruthless As and thing the is Elit guard Ever devised. Their Economy was designed As thoroughly to milk the Region of its riches but underneath it was Broad scale embezzlement and corruption such As no City under Ger Man occupation Ever experienced except among the highest nazi officials. It is coup do Grace peculiarly fitting that the germans themselves should have Odessa continued on Page 4. Column 3 i in i if ;