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* CHURCHILL
SAYS BALKANS
“ VICTORY AREA
LONDON, May 24.—fAP>—
Confidently, Winston Churchill
looks toward the Balkans as a
theater for coming victory, and
told the House of Commons today,
that the allies will decided wheth
er or not Germany must under
go territorial changes.
“The Atlantic Cfiharter,” he
said, ‘‘in no way binds us about
the future of that country, but
we intend to set up a world or
der with all the attributes of
power in order to prevent the
breaking out of wars or the long
planning of them by ambitious
na*ions.”
Churchill went on: “We have
great hopes that Rome may be
preserved.”
The prime minister spoke for
85 minutes, opening a foreign
policy debate, druing which he
said the allies had “suspended"
efforts to bring Turkey in with
them, but ‘‘it looks probable that
the allies will be able to win the
war in the Balkans and through
out southeastern Europe without
Turkey being involved in it at
all, although, of course, the aid
from Turkey would be a great aid
in acceleraMon of that process.”
Churchill spoke kindly of
Spain, criticizing those who “in
sult and abuse” the Franco gov
ernment as, he said, “Spain’s in
ternal policies are a matter for
Spaniards alone.”
Proclaiming the British Com
monwealth and Empire in com
plete unity for good with the al
lies, “we will beat the enemy as
soon as possible,” Churchill advo
cated “A World Council of Great
States,” to keep up enough arms
to preserve peace after the war
—a world assembly of all pow
ers.”
SHELLFIRE
OVER CHANNEL
LONDON, May 24.— fAP>—
Today, heavy shellfire from Brit
ish and Nazi batter es, shook the
daylights out of the Straits of
Dover for a half hour early this
morning.
The big British guns opened a
barrage, presumably on a convoy,
which was trying to break through
the Channel, and was answered
sporadically by German guns on
the French coast.
SIXTH ARMY
EXPANDS ITS
BRIDGEHEAD
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
May 24.—fAP)—Today, the Sixth
Army expanded its bridgehead on
the mouth of the Tor river, op
posite captured Wakde Island, in
the first move of consequence in
a week, General MacArthur an
s nounced today.
The forces on the beach were
reinforced by air transport from
the Ws»kde air atrip.
In sweeping aerial attacks, 150
tons of bombs were dropped on
Biak Island and on Manokwari,
in western Dutch New Guinea
Wewak, Hansa Bay area and
Buka, off northwestern Bougain
ville Island, felt the weight of th«
raiders.
EMPLOYEES
ARRESTED
i
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May
24.—<AP>—Three employees of
the SKF roller bearing works at
Goteborg were arrested on char
ges of supplying information to
a foreign power about six orders
and their destinations, the news
paper Af'onbladet, said today.
Two of the employees were
Swedish, and the other described
as a foreigner, all of whom work
ed in the company’s order depart
ment.
The newspaper continued:
‘‘One of the employees fur
nished information to an unnamed
foreign power for tdealog cal
reason.”
EARLY FLAYS
BRIDGES ON
SENATE TALK
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.
— (APt — Presidential Secretary
Stephen Early said that yester
day's speech by Senator Bridges,
concerning the reported transfer
of U. S. naval units to Russia, was
tantamount to getting information
out which; would otherwise be
barred by the censorship code.
When asked whether he had
seen Bridges' speech. Early said:
‘‘Yes, I saw it in the papers."
A reporter asked: “What reac
tion did you have to the speech?”
The secretary said: “None, but
that it is one way certain people
have of getting information out,
that is very probably of military
value, and which some other na
tions like to have and can't get
it through the executive branch
of the government. They can get
it through friends on the hill, who
in turn pass it out as privileged
matter, making it publishable
under code.”
CAUCUS ENDS
IN SPLIT-UP
AUSTIN, Texas, May 24— (AP)
—The “Fourth Term” issue split
the Texas democrats in'o two ir
reconcilable conventions, when
the faction supporting it, in
structed the delegation for Roose
velt. The one group walked out
of the regular convention.
After a caucus the “fourth
termers” attempted a reconcilia
tion, but left, after being voted
down twice on test issues. As a
result, there will be two delega
tions to the national convention
—one instructed for Roosevelt,
and the other uninstructed.
LUMBER MILLS
ON STRIKE
SEATTLE, Wash., May 24.—
fAP)—The total of lumber mills
! closed by strikes has now passed
I 50, as boom men in Tacoma join
ed the walkout.
More than 15,000 lumber indus
i try workers are protesting the
War Labor Board denial of wage
I increases.
Hilding Lindberg, „ operator oi
] logging camps in lower Pugel
! Sound, predicted that “within an
other day, in all states, CIO
boommen who handle every log
ging center on salt water, will be
off the job, ending all logging
operations.”
LATEST SPITFIRE — Here Is a formation of the latest Spitfires, the Spitfire Mark XII, in
flight. Note clipped wings for low altitude fighting, pointed rudder.
U. S. TROOPS
SEIZE SECTION
OF APPIAN WAY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, May 24.—<AP'—U. S.
troops, bursting inland from the
Anzio beachhead, seized a section
of the Appian Way to Rome to
day. while a great allied pincer
push from the east, to breech the
Hitler Line from the Liri Valley,
to the coast, was in progress.
Forces driving up the coast from
Terracina seized Monte Alto, 10
miles to the north, in an encircle
ment move to cut off the port of
Sabaudia, and now, only 19 miles
separate the advancing allies from
the Anzio beachhead.
These advances will trap thous
ands of German troops between
*he stretch of mountains and the
Pontine marshes below the beach
head.
The allied Anzio forces broke
through to within one-half mile
of Cisterna, nipping the railway
to Rome, four miles below Vel
letri, while their British Anzio
comrades forged farther west
across the Moletta river, and
rammed the defenses anchoring
the Nazi line, and coordinated
their attacks with the main front
offensive.
Canadian troops steam-rollered
the Hitler fortifications near
Pontecorvo, a part of the formid
able line across the Liri Valley,
while the French won Pico, the
pivot point in the mountains on
the center front.
The total bag of prisoners in
| the entire offensive rose to 7,500.
The German high command ad
mitted “major breeches in sev
eral sectors.”
The Americans on the lower
i front had advanced 10 miles in
! 36 hours, to take the dominating
heights of Monte Alto and push
closer to a junction with the An
zio beachhead troops.
The German situation on the
main front is potentially grave,
especially in the Liri Valley, their
main supply and retreat route
j leading from the valley, 65 miles
! from Rome.
American troops, driving out
I from the beachhead, are only fl
mlies from this key road.
Some 10,000 items are now
packaged in glass.
COMMAND PERFORMANCE —A refugee war or
' plian from France Is an enthusiastic listener as John J. Latwas.
Wilmerding. Pa., tuba player with the U. S. Army band now In
the Mediterranean theater, obligingly makes the music go round.
GARRISON
NOTES
Promotions
Two staff officers of this post
pinned new bars on their shoul
ders this week: Captain Neil W.
Phillips was promoted to the
grade of major, and 1st Lt. Frank
A. Whiteley, tq the grade of cap
tain.
Furloughs *
Just returned from short fur
lough leaves in the states are the
following officers and enlisted
men: Lt. Milton W .Schreyer from
Redwood, Calif.; Tec 4 Bryl B.
Hill, from Oklahoma City, Okla.;
Sgt. Keith Bradley from Kansas,
and incidentally he was also in
! Chicago for a visit with his girl
friend; Tec 4 Albert D Burnette,
from Chicago, 111.; Tec 5 Arnold
L. Mickelson, from New Bedford,
Mass.; Tec 5 Bernice W. Hollin
ger, from Prattsville, Ark.; and
Pvt. Steve Kotsarelis, from Chi
|cago, 111.
N. C. O. President and Secretary
Election
A special meeting of the Non
Commissioned Officers’ Board of
Governors was called this week
for the replacement of M-Sgt.
Johnson Wyatt, president, and
Tech. Sgt. Kenneth Thompson,
secretary, who are leaving for the
States soon. The well-known, most
reliable, and always willing to
help, M-Sgt. Joseph I. Olson, was
elected president. S.-Sgt Donald
A. Baitinger, although he has
been on the post only a short
time, has been very active in the
NCO work and was elected secre
tary.
VETERANS TO
HOLD MEETING
. ' t
CHICAGO, 111., May 24—(AP>
—Veterans of Foreign- Wars an
nounced today, that- they would
hold a national encampment in
Chicago August 22 through Aug
ust 24th.
Subscribe to The Nugget.
AMERICANS
BOMB BERLIN,
PARIS, VIENNA
LONDON, May 24.—<AP>—Pre
dominately American forces of
around 5,000 planes bombed Ber
lin, Paris and Vienna, in what
may well be the greatest allied
aerial assault of the war, accord
ing to official announcements.
The German radio said, in their
reports, that “Up to 2,000 heavy
bombers and fighters soared out
from Britain in twin attacks on
Berlin, and the German airfields
fringing Paris, and another great
armada from the Mediterranean
air forces, consisting of bombers
and fighters, swept across the
Alps and battled their way to the
area around Vienna, the railroad,
transportation and airplane man
ufacturing center in southeast
Europe.
Berlin radio said that “Wave
upon wave of U. S. medium Mar
auders shook the threatened in
vasion coast with bombloads
which rattled the houses on the
English side of the Channel, 20
miles away.”
Dwellers on the south coast of
England said: ‘The outpouring of
aerial strength was awe inspiring,
and the greatest many of us have
ever seen.”
i These terrific attacks carried
S the renewed aerial assault into
the sixth consecutive day, run
ning the bomb total above 25,000
tons for the six days.
SI PPLIES PROVE
LARGE ITEM
PEARL HARBOR. T. H., May
24.—<AP*—Rear Admiral J. J.
Gaffney, head of the Navy’ Pa
cific Supply System, declared in
an interview today, ‘‘The turn
! over of supplies handled here is
seven times greater now than it
was last year for the same area.”
He explained that the difficul
ty of supply increased with the
distance to the theater of opera
tions.
He add:
“In the central Pacific area
each man required eight tons of
supplies per month, while in the
Aleutians, 10 tons per man per
month are necessary."
DECRIES SPIRIT
OF DISUNITY
NEW YORK. N. Y., May 24 —
iAP>—Director of War Mobiliza
tion Byrnes today declared that
disunity in the United States can
lose the next peace, and ‘‘the
country must take its proper place
i in the community of nations.”
Byrnes spoke at the 140th an
niversary dinner of the Church
men, Chapters T. and C., in hon
| or of Bernard Baruch, who re
ceived the award for the promo
tion of good will and understand
ing among peoples.
‘‘We must face the facts. That
is if we cannot agree among our
selves, we will lose the next peace
as we have lost the last peace,”
the director concluded.
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