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FIGHTING
REPORTED IN
PSKOV STREETS
LONDON, Mur. 1.—(APV-Rus
sian troops today are reported
fighting in the very streets of
Pskov as the battle for the great
German communication base, the
key control to the Baltic, raged
with unabated fury.
“Our troops are overcoming
German resistance and advancing
swiftly,” the Russian communique
said.
Further bulletins said the Red
Army troops had captured more
than 250 additional towns and vil
lages, including Pogorelka, six
miles north of Pskov, and Kutu
zovo, 11 miles to the east.
Helsinki dispatches routed
through Stockholm, meanwhile
reported the Soviets had driven
across the icebound Lake Peipus,
and established bridgeheads on
the western shores and asserted
the Russians were attacking across
the narrows between Lake Peipus
and Pskov, 35 miles northwest of
the Baltic gateway city.
No immediate Russian confirm- j
ation was reported from Moscow,
on this sector, but there came the
announcement of a new offensive
in the Ukraine, soiijh of Krivoi
Rog, where the Russians claim
they have captured ’M) towns in a
26-mile drive down the Ingulets
river to Nikolaevko, liquidating a
German regiment and 700 other
enemy troops on the way.
GERMANS
USE SECRET
WEAPON
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Mar.- 1.—4AP)—Gentian
troops, armed with a new “secret
weapon—a tank loaded with ex
plosives, slugged out new' assaults
against the Anzio beachhead, 4 '
Allied headquarters said this
may be the third great offensive
aimed at driving the allies into
the sea.
The Nazis opened the heavy at
tack midway betweeu Carroceto
and Cisterna Tuesday morning,
and growing stronger, with terrific
artillery duels all along the front.
Dispatches last night said the
enemy pounded the beachhead
with the heaviest bombardment
since the initial landings.
Headquarters disclosed that the
Germans were using new radio
controlled tanks, bearing 1,000
’ pound charges of explosives, de
signed to blow up within the al
lied lines, in a major offensive
against the beachhead, but allied
artillery had exploded 14 of them
within the German lines, the
blasts probably caused great dam
age to Nazi positions.
£ 4 The Germans struck the beach
head at two points and continued
to exert pressure, but without any
i
material gains.
Headquarters said fighting con
tinued light on the CasSino front,
but to the east the British troops
threw back a Nazi attack near
Mt. Prinito on the lower Garig
liano river bend.
Allied guns successfully shelled
German motor-borne troops along
the highway near Cassino,
:
LOUISIANA HAS
“SONGSTER*
GOVERNOR
! NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 1— (API
—Louisiana democratic voters re
jected yesterday a group of can
didates for state office and advo
cated the return to “liberal gov
ernment of the late Huey Long,”
and elevated to the governorship,
Jimmie Davis, author of “You Are
My Sunshine,” who campaigned
with a hillbilly band.
The voters also defeated the bid
for state party power by the “old
.regular” organization of New Or
leans, and its leader. Mayor Robert
Maestri, was "unable durfyig the
second primary to campaign, be
lieved and expected, a heayy ma
jority from the metropolitan area:
The majority of the members of
the Louisiana congressional dele
gation also supported the “old reg
ular” candidates led by the for
mer Congressman Long's one-time
attorney, Lewis Morgan, who op
posed Davis for the governorship
The unofficial vote from 1,300
out of 1,800 precincts, was Davis,
1190,000, and Morgan, 158,000.
PLANES RAID
PENAPE ISLE
FLEET HEADQUARTERS IX
PEARL HARBOR. Mar. 1.—(AP) 1
—American planes dropped 30
tons of bombs on Penape, in the
Caroline Islands, about 400 miles
from Truk, the not so impregnable
enemy stronghold, and 50 tons on
several atolls in the Marshall
group.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced that navy planes strafed
a dock and a small ship in the
eastern Carolines on Penape Is-1
land.
Several of the raiding planes
were hit by anti-aircraft fire, but
all the planes returned safely.
REPUBLICANS ATTENTION!
Business meeting, Sunday,
March 5th. at 3:00 P. M. in Fed
eral Building.
BEN F. GILLETTE.
PTesidentfl.
RESENTMENT
POINTED OUT
■
PORTLAND, Ore, Mar. 1.—>
(APL—Resentment of the Ameri
can people against the release o:
the Bataan atrocities stories, just
prior to the Fourth War Loan
Drive, cost the treasury nearly
one billion dollars in War Bond
sales, Ted Gamble, national direc
tor of the treasury war finance di
vision, told the Junior Chamber
of Commerce and people here,
who blamed the treasury for the
release, claiming the story had
been withheld to increase bond
sales, .
He .said, adding: “The treasury
was not responsible for the poor
timing
PEACE TERMS
GIVEN TO
FINLAND
LONDON. Mar. 1.—<AP>—Great
Britain agreed to the peace terms
submitted to Finland by the Rus
sians. demanding that the Finns
cease ‘ military operations” and
break relations with Germany; re
establish the 1940 borders; intern
all Nazi troops and ships in Fin
land, with or without Soviet aid.
Moscow dispatches said the Rus
sians were ready to receive Dr.
Juho Paasikivi, who negotiated
terms at the end of the "winter
war” in 1940, and received the
terms from the Russian ambassa
dor to Sweden, Madame Alexdra
Kollontay.
The Finnish parliament held
two secret sessions yesterday, but
the communique gave no inkling
of the Baltic country’s attitude.
The Moscow communique said
"the Soviet authorities were aware
of the difficulty in clearing Ger
mans from Finland,” and the
same dispatch continues saying,
“there is reason to believe that
the Finns will meet the Soviet
suggestions and that discussions
will begin shortly.”
“Should the Finnish parliament
refuse to negotiate on the terms
set up by the Russians, terms and
proposals made subsequently will
SURPRISE
MANEUVERS
ARE STAGED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
— AP>—Today, in surprise man
euvers directed by General Doug
las MacArthur from the bridge of
a warship, destroyer-borne troops
struck boldly across the Bismark
Sea and landed on the northeast
ern shores of the Admiralty Is
lands.
The new landings not only
tightened the allied envelopment
of some 50,000 Japanese troops in
the Rabaul, New Britain, area,
but also severed the enemy east
west supply chain across waters
which a few months ago was lit
tle more than a “Japanese lake.” j
Brig. Gen. William C. Chase re
ported to General MacArthur that
the troops under him had swept
aside all opposition on Los Neb
ros Island. The enemy was so
completely surprised that not a
single Japanese plane or warship
appeared to contest the operation.
Turning to flank the once for
midable southern defense line,
the thrust carried the Americans
230 miles north of the foothold
gained by the marines at Cape
Gloucester, New Britain.
COM,. TULLEN
PASSES
WASHINGTON, Mar, 1.—(AP)
—Congressman Thomas H. Cullen,
democrat, of Brooklyn, New York,
died shortly before midnight of
uremia, after two weeks’ of ill
ness.
PIONEERS TO HOLD
CARD PARTY TONIGHT
Remember, tonight is the night
all good card players get together
at the “Old Odd Fellows’ Hall’’
for the Pioneer Card Party series.
The time is 9:00 p. m Prizes and
refreshments.
be extremely harsh.”
An advice from Moscow said
the German foreign office spokes
man reserved comment.
DEMOCRATS
WIN SEAT ^■
NEW YORK, Mar. l._(AP>—
The democrats retained the seat
in the House of Representatives
for New York’s 21st District yes
terday, after the close of a special
election, but republican and demo- ■
cratic leaders debated sharply its
significance on the presidential!
I
campaign in the year’s first test ]
of political sentiment in the ‘
President’s home state.
James Torrens, 69, Tammany’s !
district leader, who was a cam
paign supporter for the President,
was elected, defeating William
Bennet, who had been elected to
congress four times in the last 15
elections, by 1,571 votes. Approx
imately 22,000 votes were cast.
Bennet is 73. and a republican,
in a district which is normally
democratic.
CONTRACTORS
MEET FOR
ALASKA SCALE
' |
SEATTLE, Mar. 1.—<AP>—Con
tractors from Alaska and union
representatives joined in asking
for a meeting for the study of
Alaska wage and hiring practices,!
and to establish uniformity in the
wages for Alaska and the Pacific
Northwest, after being t6ld by
Jack McDonald, Hoisting Engin
eers’ Union agent that “on certain
jobs there is a lower rate paid in
Alaska than in Seattle, and we
are put in the position of asking
men to go to Alaska to work for
lower pay than they can get at
home.”
J. D. Stack, personnel manager
of Western Construction Com
pany, told in the meeting- “There
is an iron-clad contract now in ef
fect on return fares for Alaska
workers, and if the man’s, passage
is less than the charge made, the
company will refund the differ
ence,”
The meeting was split into two
committees to study the problems
and are to report back Thursday.
OFFICER IS
ARRESTED AS
INSTIGATOR
MONTEVIDEO, Argentine, Mar,
1.—<AP>—The Argentine govern
ment announced they had quelled
the revolt of the army colonel ancj
his infantry regiment who were
seeking to oust General Edelmiro
Farrell from the presidency which
he assumed last week.
The palace coup was engineered
by the country’s strongly nation
alistic elements under Lt. Col.
Thomas Duco, who is a close
friend of General Pedro Ramirez,
who delegated the presidential
powers to Farrell last Thursday.
The Third Infantry regiment
massed in the outskirts of Buenos
Aires, but failed to move in on
the capital, and instead the colo
nel himself entered the city at
government invitation for a con
ference with Farrell.
War Minister Juan Peron,
known as the man behind the
throne in Argentina’s turbulent
politics had Lt. Col. Duco arrest«<J
and held at headquarters while
another regiment was dispatched
direct to Buenos Aires. .
rerun announced this morning
that Duco’s regiment was return
ing to headquarters under com
mand of officers loyal to Farrell's
government, 1 «
Apparently, the attempted re-’
volt did not extend beyond Duco’s
own unit, but the Argentine naVy
reported, and demanded, that
power be returned to Ramirez,
who resigned ostensibly because
of ill health, or to the supreme
court.
OPA HEAD TELLS
OF RATIONING
WASHINGTON, Mar 1—<AP)
—The OPA jumped in ahead of
Canada Tuesday night after learn -
ing that Canada was preparing to
withdraw meat rationing and an
nounced point cuts in pork and
some beef cuts, but Administra
tor Chester Bowles said there was
no chance that the United States
would entirely withdraw ration
ing on account of shortages
SUSPENSION
ANNOUNCED
OTTAWA. Canada, Mar. 1 —.
>AP'—Temporary suspension of
meat rationing was announced by
the House of Commons Tuesday
night on account of the heavy
marketing of livestock, and the
shipping shortages being limited
in possible exports to allied na
tions, was given as the reason.
Rationing will be returned when
marketing drops and exports in
crease.
WOMAN NAMED
AS OFFICIAL
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—(AP>
—Mrs. Dorothy McElroy Vreden
burgh, 27, wife of a wealthy Ala
bama lumberman, and vice-presi
dent of the Young Democratic
Clubs of America, was named sec
retary of the Democratic National
Committee, by Chairman Hartne
gan. f