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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 61

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LEVEE BREAK

Strike Spreads, Detroit Tank Plant Faces Shutdown

HEAD OF UNION | Germany Can't Escape | Ziff Forecasts Surrender by Spring Under Saturation

PUTS BLAME ON

C.1.0. LEADERS

Says They Seek Political

Agorandizement’; WLB Orders Men Return.

DETROIT. May 21 (U. PP) —Four|

thousand workers in the De Sots bomber piant went on strike today, Joining 28000 other striking rem-

Workers

ing the strikes for their ‘own itical aggrandizement.”

poration plants in this huge war production center. Already on strike were 12000 workers 4t ‘the Dodge plant, 8000 at the Jefferson and Kercheval plants, 2000 at the Dodge trick plant, and 500 at the Dyrich road plant. The Ray-Day piston plant al%6 was striick. Chrysler faced the recdessity ‘of closing its huge tank arsenal within 2 few days if the stoppage convines. Wes Tha Notte, @ivector of tie Chrysler division of the union, and thie regional office of the War Tabor - Board intervened nh separate efforts to stop the walk-out.

tc Work at ‘orice

war.” The WILE orderéd officials Of Both milion 4nd company to shew cause today why production at al stick plants should not be .ye-| sumed Immediately. Critical oF Reather Tia Notte coupled his appeal with Bh attdck ‘on “high officials” of thie union, aimed particolarly At Walter P. Reuther, wWion president and director of its 'General Motors department, whom We charged With tring to take juris-| diction ‘over the Chrysler dispute “Tf these strikes Were just up to! the rank and file of Workers, they) would Wever happen,” We asserted.) “I kmow that the overeheming | majority of Workers are patriotic

RNG are willing to produce the im-

plements of war for Victory. “But Wnhfortunately,” We tinted, “there are certain MdividuRIS Within our own Whion that are

ready to sacrifice the mterests of) N the Workers ih the Shop awd en. OUHET Paralyzing blow At the TATt- |p: wavs he hasht anything to say

Tia Motte, appealed to all strikers te return! ‘in the interests of Gur union aa the mation at

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North

Bombings; Sees

By WILLIAM B. 21FF Writteh for The United Press WASHINGTON, May 21.—Winston Churchill's promise to his old adversary, Adolf Hitler, to plaster the German Reich from hell to breakfast means that in the short period of 17 months the United States and Britain have completely revised their concepts of strategy and weapons. We are row preparing to besiege the enemy vertically in his home cities and industrial centers. major stake Mm this war on air power.

We Yow have Germany in a Squeeze play of ‘epic dimensions

from which she ‘can never ‘emerge | whole if We follow ‘our cou: ge to |

its logical ‘¢onclusion. The key to the present united nations’ strategy is sat-

of ‘Germany. The Russian : ambassador, Maxim Litvinov, told me recently that in his ‘opinfon Germany will Not ‘collapse

but will fight ‘on to ‘the fad bit- | ™ this event Germany |

ter ‘end. will finally solute wilderness, tered to a pulp. However, I personally feel that cold, merciless Prussian Togic will give up the struggle as Hopeless by rext spring. With “ddequate bates on the Asiatic mamiand, the War With Japan should be over six ‘months Tater.

$ & % No Idle Boast NR, CHURCHILL'S promite of | Utter Gestiviction of ‘Germany's | War industry is Wo idle Womst. Tt |

be reduced to an ab-

marks Gn epic Th Wal-making | | | Whose Yevolgtionary Significance

5 Hot Wow rally understood. As Weriows as the devastation | already Was Been oh the German Reich, it is very little to What is (Cota on Wed Gh Pare hee)

U.S, FIGHTER PLANE

BOMB SARDINIA DAM

186 Axis Awesaft Downed ih Two-Day Battle.

ALLIED HRAPQUARTERS, Africa, May 21 YU. P)

Anfericah Air power Strick an |

literally bat- |

WALLAGE'S JoB?!

Ruior Has It That Capital 2c

Tet This Closest Friends Kiow Wit Ive imtenids to do about the U. 8. senate Thc ext Year, merely Tavighs at the

Japan Doomed.

] i BERLIN RAIDED |

66TH TIME BY RAF BOMBERS

This means Wwe are placing ‘our

‘Trains, Inland Shipping and

Industry Blasted; No Planes Lost.

LONDON, May 21 (U. P).=British Mosquito Yombers attacked Ber-

William 8. Ziff, editor and | | publisher of the aeronautical | | journal, "Flying," and author of the recent book, "The Coming Battle of Germany,” has written the accompanying dispatch Tn which he Wnterprets Winston Churchill's address to congress as evi dence that Great Britain and the United States are now placing & major shake on air power. He has long been an advocate of saturation bomb: ing of Germany.

“Is Looking for Wew Running Nate. By FARE RYCHERY Word seeping ont of Washington that President Roosevelt will diteh

| vie Président Wallace i favor of:

ah “Ola-tive” Democrat fiom the NIHEATe oF Fai West iF Tre ans again

(has put some very definite ideas in [the Heads of fiends of Governor ‘Schricker. THY would Tike very much to get a “Behricker - For - Vice - president” Boom started and Would have one rolling tomorrow if the severe: would give them the slightest Hod. But the governor, Wie Tash't even

— Vicepresidential talk. We admits the faea Was been browched vo him, |

|easty today in attacks on rail trans-

GArTied out for days by the R. A. F.

ea ad Oifeans in Frans.

|@own during the wight by a Beau:

EXTEND TINE FOR

fin for the second night in a row and intruder planes dashed across) Fravice and northwestern Germany

port, intand shipping and hydustry. The attack on Berlin was the 66th [of the War by the royal air force

land (he Afth Within an eight-day period.

The air ministry announced that)

an of the Berlin raiders veturied |

safely, as they had the night before. Neither raid Was in great strength. Nine Consecutive Days

The intruder sweeps have been nine «consecutive

A Nrosguite Tight bomber patiol-

ing between Essen in the German

SCHRICKER FOR

Rubi ang Bremen 8, fire to 4 fe- | tory with cannon bursts and at-

Boasted Too Soon

Admiral Tsoroka Yamamoto

YAMAMOTO DIED IN AIR COMBAT

Jap Naval © Chief Said He

Would Dictate Peace Ih White House. BY UNITED PRESS

Admiral TSoroku Yamamots, Whe boasted that he would dictate peace

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Chichagef harbor.

YANKEES AM FINAL BLOW AT IAPS ON ATTU

‘Remnants of Garrison Are

Trapped in Small Area Near Harbor.

WASHINGTON, May 21 (U.

15-square-milje area,

Atta village is The area where the Japanese are penned up by eur troops is between Chichago! harbor and Sarana bay. “On May 19, operations on Attu continved,” the navy reperted. Meanwhile army bombers blasted Japanese entienchments in the area north of Savana bay. trenehments were believed to be part of the enemys last remaining

[defense line.

K. 0. Expected Wowmly

Earlier official reports indicated tle American were expected to deliver a kieockout blow at any hour. completing a suecesstul pincers)

PY. =The battered remnants of Japan's | [Attu island garvison, trapped in a have dug in| for their last stand on high gioungd |

east of Attu village, the navy an- | ounced today. { at the head of

These en-|

Among |2 lak

Lt. Wary B. Messick

LOCAL MAN DIES IN PLANE CRASH

Lt. Harvy Messick Jr, Was On Way Home to

Visit Wife.

Fitst Lt Haity B. Messick », |

| Thdianapolis, and 11 companions

tacked aid halted & train. AWOHET wipe in the White House, died jn Movement, two columns of Ameti= | were killed yesteiday when their

| Nrosquito hit seven different trains wear Bremen. A Canadian Beanfighter squadion Attacked Tocomotives, barges, supply Wagons and canal jetties, and other DR two Toconioa motor truck

! Si a i

HER Bot Down One German Feinkel-111 Was shot

fighter. Two Peaufighters of the Coast] Command Wad shor down & Junkers-#8 over the Bay of Biscay

Vesteiday. London had one bit wit Wim [aout Mdnight=its 11th in five donecutive nights=—but no bombs were dropped. Was some antiATreraTt fire in the vicinity of the Tivaines & estuniy.

FOOD STAMPS 6, , J

OPA Seeks | to 0 Prevent Rush

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abiial combat, Radio Tokye dis closed today in broadeasts suggest ng that the Toiemiost Japanese naval commander was killed, pos-| sibly by Americans, while @ireet- | ing 2 South Pacific patie. THe Brondoasts @id wot fe wpe

| ciently How the Bo-year-ol com:

Wander in Chief of Japan's feet Was Killeq exeept that it was on a ‘foremost front’ and that Yewa- | moto, a Mien, had gone up to Nad the Right himself A Tokyo iepoit heard in Chung: | king fixed the appioximate place avd Seid the time was mid-Apwl | The South Pacific might mean ahyWheie along the biocad front wheve American Miers, With the aid of |

| Awstialians, aie holding allied dit |

Top Air Leader One of Japan's top air leaders (AMamors Was ehief of the Japapose feet fom whieh the fies! Spare to pull the siveak attack Peail Harbor that sent Japan | land the United States inte war. The fedeial communications commiksion Which ale iecorded he!

| hey

| army i July.

ean tioops had effected a juncture! [and succeeded in capturing the air[fleld Which the invaders had spent weary months in building. It Was revealed that the invasion

[Was caiied out under Maj Gen. | Eugene Landrum Who entered the

af mYy as an enlisted i

Pvt. if Is Killed in AfricaWar

Killed MRS. ONA BROWN, 2408 Cential ave, Das been notified that won, Pvt. Charles W. Biown, was killed in Neoith Africa on April 2. PVE. Biown gieduated Mom Technical high shoo! MW June, 1942 and enlisted in the U. 8. He Was went over Feat in November, He was 19.

& $ 9% 8. SGT. DOYLE D. GRIMM,

B=24 Liberator bomber erashed thiough the side of the worlds! Jargest Numinating gas storage tank located two miles fiom the) Chicago municipal airport. Plowing thiough the steel wall (of the 300-foot stiuctuie, the tank was transformed with a bust of flame inte a yoaring funeral pyre for all aboard The huge tank exploded in a

blast of Bames hundieds of feet

high and authorities believe the bodies I the wieckage never will be jecoveied. The bomber was on [a routine fight fiom Tarrant field, Ft. Woith, Tex. and was appioach= ing the Chicago aiiport for a landng Wn unfavorable weather. Lt. Messick had left Tarrant field yesterday to spend a short furlough

| with his and his wifes parents and

(Ootined « on Page Thier)

BIG TASK OF FLOOD

| REPAIR GETS GOING

msi —

50-50 Chance Seen to ~ Save Some of Residential

Terre Haute.

| VINCENNES, Ind., May 21 | (U. P.).=A record flood on ‘the Wabash river smashed a levee today and flooded 44,000 ‘acres of rich lllinois farms, res Hlieving Vincennes of its greats est threat in 30 years while Indiana’s toll mounted to six deaths more than 11,000 | homeless and millions in prop erty damage. | The water roared through a 100« foot break in the levee 1000 feet ‘south of the Memorial bridge across

the river on U., 8 highway 30) causing a 3:-foot drop in the river level.

| At 3 a.m. before the break, the ‘stage here was 26.75 feet, To the east, however, on the west fork of White river, I'mdiana was faced with a new orisis,

Appeal for Ald

Plainville and Westphalia, Yo= (cated on opposite banks of the White, appealed for levee workens and rescue squads after dikes were {smashed and thousands of acres of lowlands were flooded. They es quested boats and seagoing army Heeps to Patol the aten, Residents of this city of 18000 had prepared for a mass exodus and many persons had fed to the up [Jands by private trucks and autos | mobiles and by army vehicles from Ft. Harrison, mdianapolis, when word of the levee break came,

Crest Not Reached

Army engineers said the worst of | the food crest was yet to reach the | Vincennes aa Nom the Teme Haute vicinity, but that the wver was not expected to climb again to 26 feet. Two hours after the breach in the levee, it had dropped to 255 feet. | The flood orisis gripped southwests ern Ihdiana while the Wabash iushed to a juncture at Mt. Oars mell, 1, with the highest crest on the White river since 1913, and came while a score of northern and cons tral Mndiana counties cleared away

ei Lay Plans as Many debris and surveyed their losses,

| Soldiers Give AM | Evacuees Return HOME. | wyousands of soldiers from Camp The huge task of repairing the

u S. ELIERS DOWN Atterbury, Ft. Harrison, George ‘Gamage done By the woist food

Field, Il, and Camp Breckinridge, TWO JAP BOMBERS | ere since 1913 was begun today as)

Ky. joined state guards, policemen, WASHINGTON, May 21 (0. B). Wie river dropped below the flood | Moen. TERRI KERR SE Aa night fighters went Mmto | sage waters action against a foice of eight Japa Scores of families who evacuated pth ion eurrent crisis hese pombers dung an attack on their homes because of high water! were the Terre Haute-Sullivans SE be good thiough June 7. a Rnd I a Riier dated Jan 24 Guadalcanal dung the night of Moved Pack Ia and began Yepan Vincennes sector of the Wabash OPA also anounced that the 194i. May 19-20 (sland time) and shot Work, and city and county officials) La” ihe mdianapolis-Martinsvilles Th Bis rethinte-Work appeal Ta it 1ecalied tive Hecont RAP. Womb ial aes think that the OVRTHOD, wekt three wets of bive stamps : | down two of them, the navy ie Piepared 10 start reconstruction 'Biliston- Washington-Princeton area Motte promised the dorikers thee of thite Ruhr valley Gams |geopiaphically is ideally Tochted. vation book twe—K. © and M= | ported today. work on 1oads and bridges. “just rievaices Will be taken wip Which Toosehied foods in the dus He is the obly Demociatic gov totaling #8 points, will become Valid The bombers, Waking their we- The officiel thivtgh the proper Chanel.” (trial Weert Of Germany. leer in the Nida West, oh Niay 26 and, mised of expiitng ond consecutive night attack on W. 10vh st. showed the White viver “I ath Bh Favor of strikes in five American bombers, Hehe] He is the governor of the sabe lot the ed of Juve, will Continie to American position: fm the south. ievel to be 119 feet at Va. m. today. | BASS Commtiies © Be Waid, “but wot Bombers and fighters Shot Gown 22 fom Which Wendel Willkie will be good though Jey © This will astern Solomons, caused mimor Flood stage is 12 feet. The river he United States.” akis ailoralt awd destioved O1 wake Wis campaign if We should provide an over period of two | (damage. The previous night Guads| Lit Nrotte jssied the statement as Others agiond for & two-day oun: win the GO. PB. presidentinl nomi: weeks When Both sets of Sramps Wall | aleanal and the Ruel islands and (he crest was 17 feet on TH. Te Went inte Conference With Ohalr- of 186 enemy planes kitocked out. | mation HEX Year. be gové. : were attacked by ¢ mah Edwin EB Witte of the eiontl| Only one allied pane wes lost fn ANE bi popuTaiity Bele I | Emme— | Theie Was no jepoit of damage or war labor Board on setilement Be- the operations exrending $0 mites great that his friends think that] RUSS READ OF B. ¢. VISIT eaualties from that atiaek. Yor. Tia Mote is & WiemBer-of ve worthwest of Rome on Thurdday, Be Would be of inestimable and MOSCOW, May 21 (U. P)=All Sp WLB's regional Yabor-management making & total of five missing For Possibly @ecisike vale he Nroweow POWSDANETS today ORDERS STRIKE ENDED REVO Committed. the tae @ays—a ratio of about 3% Democratic presidential ike Me detailed accounts of Brame Mimis-| Regbrding Workers Charges their axis Planes @ectioyed for each allied far as Indiang is conceined. | ter Ohwiehiils Suen wefoie Jee Andtiver Jetier received todey Birdie achion Was the teslt Targely| crak Bost. | Allie GATHed the state by 25000 ; They | Tequesied his mother to wend him graphically reqented whion leaders CORUIRed of WLB delay i approving wage| The Gectioved enemy planes Fh-(votes Fh 10M With Governer wed wh) a ist of all his cousins “Still OR [qt the Ninos ordRaRce plant, Her | With slightly cooler Prorat proposals, Ta Nrotte wid he ChGed seven giant N-328 transport | Sehr, then teutenant goveinen, the other side.” called | tonight, Gd wot OIE te Wort responsible, DIMES thet arty Prom 120 to 140 Weng the only Dewmociatic candi He wiow, “I want © catch them | A gpokesman Tor the Onn: | ia eapped Soldiers. 4 (Contimwed oh Page Four) all”

a a rd Terre Haute Homes Flooded; Only Tree Tops Above Water Near Vincennes

gon of My and Mis Russell | (Counted on Page Thiee)

At End of | Ra said Tokyo reported nd the onth. Admiral Mhineichi Koga was ni WASHINGTON, Nay 21 (6. B).|

to Bueceed Yamamoto. —=Tihe OPA today extended for one Long high iW Japanese naval oir Week he bie duiing which bie ORS, Yamamoto wade his peace Stamps G, Hand J (Processed foods) | terms = [Most a year before ih War ration book two may be weed the Dee, 7, 1941 attack on i BY consumers. OPA said the move | Harbor. Was made to ielfeve ietaileirs of an “I am Woking forward to divtats| end of the Wonth buying Hush. ing Peace to the United States in stead of ing on Nay 31, the White House at Washington.” EVIOUSTY Annoaeed, the Stamps | Yemamomw was quoted as wiiting

Wate Yesterday by destroying 118 % [axis plares on the invasion route

At it, : Tt at AN Tak Tt isnt all tik however. Déwo-|

Citic Ohaiman Freq Bays, one Of tose Whe Would Tike to wee the

aqanger the Nation at War Ye ad- ||

vartice ‘thelr OM Political agEranGement vp el to ‘southern THaly, it Was disclosed to-

Bad Ho Comment on the Charges! The Tralian Gam, 10 miles east ok | OF STO) siden mediate: but 4 waion spiokes- | fe town OF ‘SASSATS, Was Drasted bY cores ae ER So man pomted out that Thomas said thite bombs Curing another Phase pos of Ohio and Theis te the Fast wight the Chrydier stoppages) of ‘tie fieide and Prowing Aled bid SOVETIONS office Within the mast ow were ‘entirely tive Yesponsibility of Tor complete aerial supremacy over) ee ARE the Democratic Chair tive wrarvapement ” [the Fascist Stopping-stone vation Ivan from Nhichigan is expected a Worle WEB Wiser |isters The Gah Was Wot TEEN pee Wort. lw pe (fied Wor Was damage reported, wut) ts of the Vick Presiden

Captures German | Kin, Hunts Others

SCRANTON, Pa. Nay 21 (©. P) =P. John Pehanick ap taied Bis fist cousin, Andiew Peach, of the German aiwmy, | Noith Africa, he reveakd mn a Rter to hiv Wmother, Nns Nary

temperatures for

lisse Ohang Kai-shek.

might Close Partighly tomorow if tive Strike Continues, and tat With | fh a few Gays the entire $5000 poy] one employed BY the Corporation wORIa be Hake wales the planks ow | Etriking Tesumed Pe.

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Amsenyents

Only the tops of the trees were above water in this Wabash river valley ne