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Show v . ,4a ci'iJ-M-: : J ', l?vvf-iVisi:f iu V-1 - ' t Y u ' ;-Y, isfvj wV: y i- y j , J- " 4 THE WEATHER 'I UTAH Mostly dood tonlsltt and It n V ,' ' ,,- rfvoicu to ijsv iwc -EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 5 Tructi Lines InUiQliJdQho rite )yjtenrention ol war Miiw ewora voiy 7 Hope for Settlement 7 SALT LAKE CLTY, A .... - . 27 (UP) The trucking in dustry of .the intennountain west today was "badly crippled i by. a comrjlicated strike in :,v vcive Key tuues oi American Federation of labor; teain-sters. teain-sters. union' members ajfain mMjor truck lines r Only hope for an nd to the tangle, which i causing Itons of Vital ff eight to pile up in warehouses ware-houses and loaUngu?ock8 in Boise, Twin Pallti Pocatello, Idaho Fall and Salt Lake City, seeme to be intervention by the war labor board. .!. -: 'Operators and the army have wsKea roe department of labor to certify the dispute to the WLB in fact, they made the request Mon-daV--but no action has been taken In AVashlngtonv If the WLB did take : jurisdiction, the procedure Apparently would be for an order -V,' to b iaued. e&Ilinv tar lrhmKlit reikumntion of all ooerationa. Txnd Inv mediation.- if w"ork was nbt Xresuined; vthe government prob- i ':, .oiy, would- take-over temporary 14 ejtvWftf ot the lintw. W ' ' '-InvolTed-ir Nov 'involved in the strike in f lteA five key dtief are -Garrett t&tQbjtl&titi Inc. ih i GonsoUdated d the. Gallagher 'Transfer;' Co. "Jng between Salt Lake City and Aenver, was uie laieex aoatuon 10 theliit.ts union employes struck suddenly last night. AIL five com-pariies com-pariies were continuing operations outside the five-city area, but spokesmen said that 'the strike hjd been successful In "crippling large jiara of their usual work.. 800 Men invplved The striking; iriicJMitt . tag some too to 00, promised to 4arry all "government freight" despite the trouble. But army s transportation .corps officers, meantime rerouting shipments .. . ' over jnnaf f ected lines and by .r .other iheims of transportation, said it was 'impossible" to differ- enjuate between vgoVernment and i civilian Cargo since all goods "con-; "con-; libutes directly or Indirectly to : tne war.v .The dispute first flared up last it , month when employees of the four in lor cimcprnn atruclr whn tWn j oi insir union memoers were ais- charged for refusing to handle - ftoods transported in BOlse bv a local, non-union concern, the , Compton Transfer Co: This dispute was ironed out temporarily but broke out in Boise again ' last .week and spread to the other four ; pities. ; "l v The Gallagher company was in-; in-; yvolved last night when a: truck was being loaded. Part of its , cargo was. definitely govcrnment-.' govcrnment-.' owned merchandise, but to fill up , thei van, some vital merchandise. badly needed by the armjr' but that had been handled at ones point by Compton's, was loaded in. employees of the firm promptly struck and the truck and U oth- Aers at the Gallagher dock here w wea up. Stanford Board Sororities ALTOi Cal.. April 27 (HE) Stanford XCIniverslty's nine se lect JtororitleeK long criticized as lemocraticT v because only 270 of .1200 women Students could at- membership, , were ordered ollshed today by the university surd of trusteed and converter ?lnto residence halhtX broke the 'news to tajifords co- eos at a mass meeting vasi mgnt, isayingr rT would ratherbe any where else than here tonight" as he announced dissolution,, of the .Greek letter societies. V , PW .t. ...11. .1... pf the inost select In all Pahhel-. Pahhel-. lenia, are Alpha Omlcron Pi, Al-tiha Al-tiha PhL f!hl Omesral Delta Delta -Y Delta, pelta Gamm, Gamma Phi s ucata. Kappa, Alpha Theta, Kap-pa Kap-pa Kappa Gamma and "Pi Beta YPW- ".;' Housing at the. university will hi "unified,'' it ,.wS announced, . ,'WhOe the president., "in cooper- Yation with interested srouns. will A' work out equitable procedures for Y effecting: the unification which will & include - compensation on a tair basis for- the v property rights in- .yolved.Y Y? - Stanford already has three residence halls for-women iich house 053 students. . The 'action was taken In re- snonse' to student petitions sub mitted 14 months asro. the trustees I . PAL6 ; un A tain ab mfaid. ma lir the Interests of camp- .. nmtv in - nousmir ana social . programs. mention was made Yof' the unlversitv's fraternities, f which havev not been involvedT to 232 lpntgomeiyWard Dpfiev N Resident 6eweAvefyleft) of Montgomery Ward St CoJ greets Wayne Chatfield Taylor. underUcretary of Ly7! ,w1le Present presidenual prdir for the Government to take over the firm's Chicago Chi-cago properties. Taylor said be had -seized the pronertk as far as words can seize if ht thx. a r.f..n flnmfery From Cotnpahy Offices By Soldiers CSnCAGO, April 27 CC) Two husky soldiers picked up Sewcll Avery 69-year-old head of Montgomery Ward and company, today and carried him,, kicking and squirming from the executive offices of the nation's second larg- Lest mail order house to enforce ihe government's seizure of the firm's ; Chicago plants. The soldiers, accompanied feyX three other members of their de tail, carried Avery out of his pan eled, green-carpented office, load ed him Into an elevator, and hustled him through the. main lobby lob-by to the sidewalk where they P'jt him down on his feet. They carried him past startled employes of Wards while Avery JSm'la: ""tya can't do this ,to me." Reporters, who did not witness Issue To Bring TheN Prpvo city commission-effecting commission-effecting a, net savings of $20,-In $20,-In interest payments today to-day authorized the sale of $933,000 electric revenue refunding bonds at l4 per cent interest to John Nuveen end Company and Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, Chicago Chi-cago firms, and tfie Edward L. Burton corporation and the Lincoln Lin-coln Ure company of Salt Lake City, following recommendations by the Provo city board of utilities. utili-ties. . Mayor Maurice Harding and Commissioner Joseph Swapp, pass ing the motions despite the absence of Commissioner Blake Palfrey- man, also approvea a reimourse-ment reimourse-ment of $3500 at the time of the delivery of the refunding bonds as expenses incurred and for expect financial advice and services by the companies, In another motion, the comrnls-J aion xnovea iiiai tsojyw m cicvuh revenue bonds, series 1940, which have been authorized but not yet issued, be sold to the John Nuveen company at the 1 interest rate. This is the third refunding ne goUatioh which the utility board has successfully carried out, man insr a grand total savings of S165,- 587.90 since the Provo City revenue bonds were issued y6n June 1, 1939, for the construction . of the municipal power TWant The original issue at that time was for $850,000 atiW per cent One year later, art additional issue is-sue of $265,000 revenue-bonds was authorized by special ordinance, and Ithe $850,000 .already Issued were! refunded, the bonds bearing rates of 1. 2. 2, 2 and 3 pe'r cent, making a net savings ln Interest payments of $U3,05S.6Z. Again on December 1, 1942, after the new power plant had been In operation for nearly two years, and earnings wefe Tar -ex ceeding anticipated amounts, an other refunding program was un dertaken by the utility board, and rates were again lowered to 1 and 2 -per cent on a total of ii,- 037,000, being the outstanding rev enue bonds at that time. This effected a. savings of $30,136.53 interest German Resistance WASHINGTON. APrU 21 (KEV-r, . German resistance to air raids la steadily decreasing and the dam age inflicted by Allied: bombers is steadily increasing as the Allies press their, aerial warfare against Germany And ' occupied Europe, Secretary of "War Henry L. sum-son' sum-son' said todays ' ;; ' . "Probably : the Germans -are hoardimr some of their Ysir re-. serve for the tilne when they Refunding $20,394 Saving U I, J " I 1 to recognize the presidential order. IVaix President Evicted me eviquon Decauae me army re iwonigomery warua nicago ia-.Rpd Morin A.tA . -strictedYthem to oL room in the ctliUes. or to leave his. office. Manne defended the city Dlant. eot the desdrtntlon of the! scene from Attoimfey - General Francis' Biddlc. who had come here from Washirigtoif to help enrorce, ine seizure cixier, and; from Lt. Gilbert Oattahach, Ne - nwno, rvio., wnu uttautTU ine live soldiers tp rush Avery outside; - Biddles flt, account jsaid MSj- or J. R. Weber, who is cpmmandc;r1 of, the army forces patrolling the, plant, had earned Avery out, but later' he and Lt. Cattanach explained ex-plained that the actual eviction was done by a sergeant and a private, who remained unidentified. unident-ified. , . ' Riddle said Averv's eviction fol lowed tils refusal tp t jcooperate wiui commerce aepair ,i m e n w agents who had taken Control, of .i U. S. Labor Bbards Findings Held to Be Often UniOst NEW YORK, April 2 kP) vn American newspaper bublishers association committee, jln a 58th annual convention reporjt on arbi-tration, arbi-tration, today assailed J the findings find-ings of government labor "boards as "indiscriminate' and I frequently frequent-ly unjust." The charges, made in a report! of the special standing commit tee, were. made as the convention,,. now in its final day, scheduled the annual election of officers. "The creation of add tional government gov-ernment agencies to hindle labor matters has created confusion," the committee said.' "Many of these new agencies di iplicate the work of others. In feveral instances in-stances they furnish enforced procedures pro-cedures as , substitute for existing exist-ing voluntary relationships. The War Labor board's J arbitration machinery is typical of this form of involuntary arbitration." Precedent of 154 Years Brokep By Supreme Court WASHINGTON, AprHl 27 (EE) A precedent of 154 years' standing was broken today with the appointment ap-pointment of a woman to serve as a law clerk to a justice of the U. S. supreme court. The first cf her sex t4 hold such a position will be Luciille Lomen of Seattle, Wash., who will come east next fall to begl her . legal career -in the office 'of Associate Justice William O. Douglas, himself him-self a far-westerner. Miss Lomen witt be graduated frorti the University Uni-versity of Washington Jlaw school next month with top honors. Until Chief Justice (Harlan F. Stone was . appointed tp the high tribunal as an associate justice in 1925. even the stehosiraDhera of the justices Were mel Now allf the -secretaries are lyomen, ve oldest in the point of service being Gertrude Jenkins, who has been Stone's secretary since September, 1926. LONDON, April 'Prime Minister, w. u. nzie King London to- of Canada arrived day to attend a c nee of em- pire prime ministers. 27 MB? MacKe An onfere i to Air Raid s ISteadily Decreasing , judge an extreme emergency exists' Stimson told a news coh erence. . ey still have enpugh fight- to make each attack a battle. t it Is becoming more and more . apparent that the average, of German resistance is decreasing decreas-ing and becoming less forceful and tha damage to German Installations In-stallations is increasing. "The. Allied commajnd In . Lon- UTAH COUNTY, 'UTAH, S. Seizure ' , i iL mJiitZ M&ZjaM m Sit m . S a ' Bfddte described the Storm vi1 i scene inAverys oince before tnc soldiers took the millionaire ex- j ecutive away. The attorney general said that, ; after Avery refused the govern-; . nji'iiL ma uuu)riuuuii in iuiuiui !the plait he was asked to leave. Biddlc said Avery, i then replied: -4von't I'm the $ oss here; Wayne C. Taylor, undersecretary undersecre-tary of commerce who came, here to run the plant for the government, govern-ment, turned to Maj. Weber and 'Will you please. escort Mr. Av- ery.xout. . According to Blddle's account the mcident,HUlvcbr asKed av to leave, but the executive, who .. (Conllnnrd Vmm Thre) Utility GrOUpS nu.. Dai V Discuss Posf-VAar Uses For Power Anticipating that large amounts of excess power will be available after hostilities cease, members of the Utah War Emergency Power association laid plans in Provo thtstnornlng to find hew uses and outlets for electricity to make for better post-war living conditions. Framk Bodine of Salt . Lake City, president of the Electrical League of Utah, told those assembled assem-bled not to expect radically different differ-ent appliances too soon after the war but envisioned amazing, lab or-saving electrical devices for later post-war years. They includ ed automatic -washing machines. improved steam-electric irons which, will , eliminate clothes sprinkling; low-cost, efficient air1 conditioners for home and office; electrostatic air cleaners which will be 90 per cent efficient; stero-lamps stero-lamps to destroy air-bourne bac teria; quick freezers and great strides in fleurescent lighting. He warned that inadequate wiring of homes is now and will continue to be the bottleneck, estimating es-timating that 95 per cent of American homes are not ade- quately wired to handle present loads. - Paul P. Ashworth of Richfield, general ' manager of -the Telluride Power Company reported that the 225-kilowatt Mount Pleasant Municipal Mu-nicipal system is being interconnected intercon-nected with the TeUurhle system which In turn is a part of the vast Northwesjt Power pool7 which extends from ' Southern YUtah to Oregon and' Washington. The Beaver City municipal system likewise was recently 'intercon-neetedyhe 'intercon-neetedyhe reported-Mr reported-Mr Ashworth estimated ' that . tCoatlaned O0 Frngm Tkrrc 2- Burns ldtql to OgdehGirl, 5 OGDE3N, Utah, April 27 UHk Burned Monday when her dress caught fire while she was watching watch-ing a bonfire she had built near er home, Darlene - Cora- Cragun, 5, daughter of Air. and Mrs. William Wil-liam A, Cragun f Ogden died last-night hi a ' hospital here. don- has reported " a' steadily increasing in-creasing attrition In German blane output since January." cartfumstsjices are similar to the Balkans, Stimson said. He recalled thkt formerly it was very costly in planes to attack the Ploesti oil fields in Romania, but that the most recent attack on Ploesti ' and Bucharest was made with- a loss of lest than two per cent of the bombers. V " V THURSDAY, APRIL Launch New Offensive In Dunianifi i iii iiuiiiaiua ; Russians Capture Net Work of Trenches In Sevastopol fuea BY ROBERT MTJSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON, April 27 (UP) Powerful Russian forces have launched a new offensive in northeastern Romania, Berlin reported, today, Tind Moscow said the Sevastopol siege army had captured a network of trenches in wrVh - "" .ycara ago, The Soviet high command also revealed Russian troops have seized a stratejricaUv-imoort&nt hin ln th., -H Ho. , ,rI4.!Palau 1 " " " ' Y- attacks aoutheast of Stanislawow in old Poland. . ' A tank- detachment was credited cred-ited with successfully storming the hilV after killing nearly 200 Germans on its slopes. The attack further lessened German pressure against the Soviet flank below Lwow. The German high command reported the second Red army offensive in two days on .the southern front raa communique wnicn said troops supported by tanks and battle planes ; swung over to the attack north of Iasi In an attempt to' break through toward to-ward the Galati gap. x 1 Despite stubborn resistance by German and Romanian forces, the Nazi communique said, the Russians wedged into the Axis positions at . some points. It claim ed .the : customary propaganda wording that local penetrations were ,sealcd off." Berlin also; sald other Red army assault forces continued heavy attacks in the lower Dnestr valley southeast of Iasi, where earlier Axis reports Indicated the Russians were storming west ward toward . the Bessarabian stronghold of Chisinau and rolling roll-ing up the extreme southern flank of the Axis defenses Moscow has not yet announced the reported southern offensives. The- Red army usually reports.bn new operations only after they nave aeveiopea over a spenoa oi days. ' Soviet front dispatches relayed by Moscow Indicated that the siege Of Sevastopol, Black Sea naval base, was gathering momentum mo-mentum after & pause for moving mov-ing up troops and equipment in the wake of the whirlwind sweep through the Crimea. Y 2,000 Japs Killed inese Troops In Mishsien Area By GEORGE WANG United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, April 27 (OR) More than 2,000 Japanese were killed April 25 in a fierce three hour battle beyond captured Mishsien, Mish-sien, approximately 25 miles southwest of Chehghsien, Honan Province railway juncture, front dispatches said today. - The status of Chenghsien remained re-mained Unknown, although it was known powerful enemy forces con, tinued to advance in four direc tions west, and south of the once- strategic city. After suffering heavy casualties beyond Mihsien, Japanese troops retreated to' gather strength for another attack toward Tengfeng. 50 miles southwest of Chengh sien. N- Three other renforced columns continued to advance over the east-west Lunghai railroad and the Peiping X- Hankow railroad which runs north and south. ' Fifteen mflea, west of Chenghsien. Chengh-sien. Chinese defenders of Huladk- wan pass went Into their seventit day joI fighting today in a Bitter Bit-ter attempt to halt the enemy's westward advance. ! Driving directly south fron Chengsien ' on the east aide of the Peiping - Hankow railroad, enemy forces had reached Hoshangchiao, and others approached the vicinity vicin-ity of Yenling, to the southeast The Japanese air force, which Increased numerically from day to day, continued it unchalleng ed attacks on Chtoese rear lines. ByCh 27, 1944 Hollandia Seized, Mad v a ; n In AussiehAsSaalt , (: jv . - " - - Capture Gives Allies New Aerial Basis Within Striking Distance of Palau Islands And Possibly the Philippines, Belief . . , BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent ADVANCED MLUED r1 -. ? - ; l trkPm Tf4fi Tt n Ajuinea, April At vfr)f- u..o. troopB were Deiieveu today to have cprripleted the conquest of Hpllandla's three airfields, giving the Allies new aerial bases within striking distance of the palau islands and possibly tne rniijppines. The Tapld American ' thrusts. which tightened the Allied hold on northern New Guinea, came after Australian forces Sealed the southern south-ern front with the capture of Madang, one of the best .harbors along the entire coast. Possession of Hollandio's air fields gave the Allies new bases 800 miles below the strategic nds m the western Caro- Ilines, Davao- the southern tip of the Phillnoiies A communique from. Gen. Doug- m ' . las Macjlrthur's headquarters said veteran j. American jungle troops which started from Humboldt Bay seized two of Hollandia's airfields Cyclops and SentanI Tuesday. Another U. S. force, striking from Tanahmerah, reached the ;edge of Hollandia airfield, the same day, and lt was presumed to have fallen Kir ' firm -. l i The troops, which crossed Lake oenuuu ui an nmpui uiuus opera tion to capture Cyclops and Sm tani airdromes, also were believed Jap Supply Lines to Under Coordinated BT WALTER LOGAN , United Press War , Corerspondent ALLIED SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, KANDY, Ceylon, Cey-lon, April 27 (CLE) Allied land and air forces have opened a coordinated coordin-ated attack On the tenuous Japanese Japa-nese Supply lines leading to Imphal and Kohlma, a- communique said today, and offical .reports indicated indi-cated that a major ' co-unterof feh; sive to drive the invalers back across the Burma frontier is imminent. im-minent. - On.ly sporadic fighting was reported re-ported around Kohima yesterday, but British and Indian armored columns ranged over the Jungle, tracks leading to that stronghold and to Imphal, 60" miles to the Baruch Gift To Assist Veterans NEW YORK, April 27 UE Bearnard Ml Baruch, financier, philanthropist and a leading figure fig-ure on the home front in two -world wars, has donated $1,100,.-000 $1,100,.-000 for development of physical medicine, with the " stipulation that wounded war veterans be given:-particular attention. Baruch, in announcing? the donation do-nation last night, said his prime interests in establishing the fund were to help the ill and wounded and to establish an appropriate memorial to. his father, the late Dr. Simon Baruc, confederate army surgeon and a leader in the field of physical medicine at the college of Physicians and Sur geons. The fund was allocated to five individual programs, under a central cen-tral committee. Baftuch said he was Interested In making possi ble, perfection of physical disease treatment through such external methods as water, massage, heat, and electrical appliances. Heavy Ha izi Reinforcements Points to German Invasion of Sweden LONDON, April 27 (T-Large scale renforcements .of the, Ger man srarrisSn in Denmark brought concern In Stockholm ' today to-day that Germany may be plan ning" to invade neutral Sweden. Swedish retmrts said the Luftwaffe Luft-waffe pilots, ground 'crews, airborne air-borne Infantry ' And paratroopers were among the reinforcementsl mowed - into Denmark on a scale suitable for offensive as well as defensive iMtion. A . A.1 London Dauy -Man dispatch frcrn Stockholm sald Sweden believed be-lieved herself in graver dange? of invasion than even-at the time COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TEKET5RAPH NEWS SERVfGB i'k Airfield HEADQUARTERS, New J i . 1-1? 1 A 1 1 moving .toward Hollandia airfield, and the communique said "their junction with the Tanahmerah column is imminent," . As the American forces brought the immediate campaign in northern north-ern New Guinea to a rapid and successful climax, ' Australian troops completed their drive through jungles approximately 400 miles to .the south to seize Madang ana itsi airdrome. , The Australians met only light rear-guard opposition when they entered Madang Monday, - and found indications that the main body of. Japanese had evacuated the seaport about a month ago. Capture ' of Madang, -which had been held by the enemy since pe cember 1942, and the northern con quests ; brought further pressure on Wewak, Japan's last Dig . base in British New Guinea. At Aitape, the third - beachhead on the northern coast, tne com tnunlque said all enemy resistance had ceased and "our position-is consolidated with the airfield ln full operation Attack by Allies south. In an effort 'to choke off the flow of enemy supplies and rein forcements and isolate the two Japanese forces. Allied dive bombers and fighter bombers swarmed In over the roads leadine to both cities, bomb- ing and machine-gunning the en- emy ground forces from dawn lo dark. . , British flying columns operating north of Imphal were particularly particular-ly active, slashing at enemy positions posi-tions along; the Imphal-Kohima and Jmphal-Ukhrul roads, both of which had been firmly held by the invaders and were used to move in troops from the Burma border. One. British unit Was reported driving westward from Kangia-tongbi Kangia-tongbi village, 22 miles northwest of Imphal in an apparent envelopment envelop-ment sweep around, the Japanese forces in the Ikhrul area. The Allied communique hinted strongly that the stepped-up aerial and ground actions were designed to clear the way for a major Allied Al-lied counterblow from Kohima. Meanwhile,' however, Japanese units south of Imphal continued U1ULO SSU UU1 Vi AiUWWt VVI1UUMVU to press their attack .against thei British outposts guartllng that; city.. Fierce rignting was reportea in progress just north of Bish- enpur, about 15 miles below im? phal, and at Kungpl, along- the jungle., tracks. . leading westward from Blshenpur to Sllchar. ' On the north-central Burma front. Chinese troops, advancing southward along the east bank of the Mogaung river drove-, forward for-ward six miles yesterday "to capture cap-ture the village of Manpin, only 10 miles' from the Japanese: stronghold strong-hold at Kamatng. The latter, in turn. Is only '22 miles from Mo-gaung, Mo-gaung, an Important enemy i base on the. Mandalay-Myltkyina , railroad. rail-road. "'. '. ' There was no word on the prog ress of Allied air-borne troops operating along the railway line around Mawkj and Indaw, more than 70 miles south of Mogaung. ' Germany occupied Norway and Denmark In 190. "Sweden must be prepared" for eventual .surpises at i any moment,' mo-ment,' the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt . Allehanda warned, and then speculated whether b-hind-the-curtaih measures are being be-ing prepared against UBv" ;,i ; only last' week, the Swedish government announced ihe ; interception in-terception of a" large .shipment of military maps of Bwedfn sent from Germany ' to tha Gerniain femmand in Norway. Germanyts xplanatlon of : the shipment, if any, has not been disclosed. ; D A Imphal Prlday, few wldelT acattered V .showers west portion this after V noon, intermittent light rains tsy' night and Friday; cooler Friday It: and la southwest portion lonlght.' ' Temperatures : High ,.. Low . ! PRICE FIVE CENTS Pre-lnvasion 1250 American Planes, RAF Night Bombers Hit Strategic Nazi Points nv pmi, Am.'T United Press.. War Correspondent LONDON, April 27 (UP) The great pre-invasion bombardment ? of western Europe went . into its Uth day on Na mounting pitch of intensity today -as American planes, 1,000. to 1 ,250 strong, battered Germany's Atlantic wall .defenses In the wake of sv 1.000 bomber RAF night assault on Kssen, senwemfurt, and rail wav varda in Tmrfm mtMit4t UP to 750 four-eheined bomb ers with ah escort of some 500 fighters carried out the American; daylight attack - on German mil ' . itary installations ln .- northern , France, the 8th Air Force's 20tb operation of the month. Hundreds of medium and flarht- er-bombers of both the American ' and British air -forces also swept ' out across the sunlit channel for new attacks on . the invasion-- threatened coast- line of Axis Europe. Thunderous, explosion from th fcrasb of bombs on northern France shook houses in English ; coast .towns, V - German planes struck back last nlght'with sharp though comparay tlvely small-scale raids on what the Nazi DNB agency called shlp ping concentrations ln harbors along the English- southwest coast. Nazi broadcasts have claim that the Allies, were aaembllng , the greatest concentration of ship , ping since Dunkerque in British waters for the coming Invasion. 'The -British naval base port .of Portsmouth was hit with "good re- . suits," DNB said. Never before had the Allied air offensive Against ,AxiS Europa. achieved such Intensity or concen tration: From l.OOttjto 3,000 Aiued planes have attacked German orY occupied ternwry every z nours since April 17. with the greatest weight of explosives falling on railway-commumcautma on wnica the Nazi command aepenas to sup ply and reinforce its anti-invasion armies.. (D U. S. Casualties Mount to 192,836 " - i WASHINGTON, April 27 029-- : Announced casualties of the Unit-ed Unit-ed States armed forces total 192,838, it was jdisclosed .today. ; The total last Thursday was 189, 309. Comprising 14S.425 army cas ualties as of APfH 15 and 44,41 navy casualties as of today, the total includes 44,487 klUed; 72,030 y wounded; 41,923 missing and S .fy SSS prisoners oi war. :ni Secretary . of War Henry - - ... sj Stimson vlded army losses totq 25.582 killed, 60 1W wounded, 3 727 missing and 29,950 prisoners,. Of the wounaea, aaMt i nave dwph-v returned to dutyStlmson told -al;, press conference, wnue. x,t nrisoners haVe been reporte have died in prison camps, mostly in Japanese-occupied territory; v Navy casualties to date em- brace 18,915 killed. 11,864 wound ed, 9498 missing, and 4,436 pris oners of 'war. War in Brief AIR WAR Prelnyaalon of n' western Europe goes into llth- day at high pitch as j American planes 1000 to 2000 strong batter Atlantic seawall defense In waka of shattering assault by 1000 RAF night bombers on Essen and , Schwelnf urt and on railway yards In Paris suburb. ' V ' RUSSIAN Russian troops aelzac strategically Important hlU In secv pnd day of limited attacks south-- -east of Stanislawow in old Poland J v Germans report powerful Russian Y forces have launched new often -Y sive in northeast-Romania. Y PAClFiCmericap forces lieved to have completed occupa- tlon of Holland's three airfields openiAg . new bases f or growtntf Allied air offensive; Australian '' troops i 'capture Madang, one ) of best harbors On New Guinea i coast. Y-. .-. I ' ' . ' Y" i pi- ITALY--AHied nayaJ and air. forces sink nine ships and damage two destroyers in .series Of night ' acUons off w-est coast of-italyJ A if TUGOSLAyiA-Tugosiav par n tisans land on Koroula, less ttian Y mils off -JDalmation coast1 f -- . ' . : ' .- . ' - .!'. Y - r' -; b-:.?Y -Y .A . , -v. ..... .'v'--- r. . . ' . " A ?'i-Y iL VV' -. ' |