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Show 1 THE WEATHE& trrAH--ParUy cloudy toedgnt and, -tomorrow '.little change tn tern-:': perature tomgbt ad warmer to morrow. Temperaturesj High v V . 63 . A 4 FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO . .V l V, iis Si. Louis HWOO Spldiers Work n Levees? 6000 People Reported Homeless ST. li)tris: Mav 1 OJ-R) . More thjin 10,000 soldiers, aided by Hundreds of civilian "defense and volunteer, work-;ers work-;ers and fcrisonewr of war, . worked in. the rain ' today, strengthening and repairing Mississippi river levees as . the flood crest swept put St Louis, leaving more than 6,000 families homeless and almost 2,000,000 acres of devastated farm Zand in it wake. The 39-(oot. crest recorded at St. Louis was the highest official reading ever taken at that hydro- logic survey, post, breaking the -record established a year ago by several inches. . The unofficial crest record at St: Louis of 41.4 7' feet was set in 1844. ' ' .'A light rain fell in the' inun . dated areas as workers, travelling in trucks and boats between levees ' .weakened- toy a week of pounding. tuiffd .anaxarsin oreacnes in me awalla to keep the water from. coming wirougn, ana on top 01 tne levees u now ins rising water. Numerous, breakthroughs were r-pbjted 'f,tj& ,ctvU air patrol , creWfc flew over the raging river to guide workers and direct evacuation activities where neces-aarv. neces-aarv. In addition to the more - than 6,000 families left homeless,1 ths Red Cross 'Said himdredsQi others' had been takert to higher ground as a ipreoiutionary measure. meas-ure. ',.. : -. , ' The Mississippi continued Kts . rise between mi j-oum ana uuro. HL. but began to falK slowly above St Lbuis. The Dllnof river, which also approached ' 184arec erd levelf. crested at Beards MIL. but dropped sharply abo Havana. DL Several poinU reported re-ported that the river level had fatten beldw flood stage. vWH';isost7 critical eenditions tmK':'Cti' Girardeau, Mo and several levees on the II-jinoia II-jinoia side threatened to give way. A coast guaW cutter patrolled in river ana iraijoportcw gency crews for work on the levees on the Illinois bank. Army engineers, directing the . overaUXpperatlons, said, the hteh lavels would be maintained Tor several days, and predicted that it would be at least a weeK De-fore De-fore the inundated bottomlands began to dratn Montgomery Ward Seizure Argued In Federal Court CHICAGO. May 1 (tlE) The government presented affidavits from the heads of several federal , war agencies today as attorney general Francis BJddle sought to prove to a U. 8. district Judge that Montgomery wara ana company 1 Mntial-'to' the war. effort and that President Roosevelt acted fnrrrtlv in orderincr seizure of Ward's Chlcafiro DroDertieS. The affidavits were handed to federal ludre William H. Holly as he resunied hearing of arguments .oh Montgomery Ward's petition, to dissolve a temporary injunction restraining company officials from interfering with government op eration of the seizeq pian. fine of the affidavits was from Varvfn Jon ea. war food adminis trator, and another from William H. Davis, chairman of we war tabor ta-bor board.' Jones' affidavit claimed that the company deals in farm supplies and that interruption of Its flow of farm equipment to buyers would affect the war effort seriously, seri-ously, . - - DaVis. head Of the agency whose orders touched off the controversy con-troversy between the mail order firm and the government, said in his afidavit that the danger of a labor dispute or strike at Mont spreaa vo viavr pwu wholly in war production. Biddle also filed an affidavit from Clifton E. Mack, head of the XJ. S. proeurfrmentidivtsion, claiming claim-ing that Mohtgomery Ward handled handl-ed materials such. as shoes and clothing which are essential to the -war effort. Thfr attorney-general gave the court another affidavit showing that the company had sought priorities as an industry essential to thprosecution of the war, and lis claimed that repairs made at the Chicago plant Constituted di rect war productionA , As the hearing was resumes De-fore De-fore a packed courtrooin. counsel for the company filed anyiunend- menf answer to the government's mmntfnt taimlncr: , ' 1. That the Hummer Manufac . " tUring company, or vjepruigrie t HL. a subsidiary, was the on Ward plant engage m war pro- , (Suction. " ' ' ' 2. TJmt the Chipago plants did nnt mm.'iinilrr itt of the L president's Sxecuuve order for the ' ernment operation was invalid and imauxnonzeuDy law. 234 0. S. Steel Navy Distri bute Olds Announces Completion of Geneva Works At Stockholders Meeting; Corporation Corpora-tion Unable To Grant CIO Wage Demands HOBOKEN, N JJ, Mdy 1 -Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board .f the United States Steel Corporation, revealed re-vealed today for the first time that his company and General Gen-eral Motors Corporation had accepted a request of the navy to as$ist in distribution of combat equipment for effective use against the eneiny. Olds made this announcement at the annual meeting of the U. S: Steel Corporation's stockholders here in a single paragraph near the end of an address which traced the war work of his company, its re duced earnings caused by higher tajesnd labor costs, and its inability to meet higher wages without increasing steel prices. . ' ' - '.. r On the question of granting de mand of union steel workers, Olds said a portion of these demands IWould Cost the corporation $166.- oop.oqo annually, a total of more than two and a half times the company's net income for 1043. That cost would apply only to the company's five- steel making sub sidiaries.. Olds said. The. sum would become j far greater when the union's demands are applied Army Taking Disciplinary Action In Ogden 100;00Q Dry-Cell Battery Deal WASHINGTON, May 1 (EE The army is taking disciplinary action against "responsible offi cers at all levels of command''' for the sale of 100,000 governnient- fowned .dry cell batteries that sub sequently netted their civilian purchasers multifold profits, Rep John J. Cochran, D., Mo- disclos ed todi He made public a report from undersecretary of war Robert P. City Commission The Provo city commission this! morning authorized the construction construc-tion of a temporary memorial signboard sign-board honoring the women of Fro- vo city and Utah county now serv ing with the armed forces, trie first in a series of proposed tooves to give a lasting public recognizance recogni-zance to men and women Who have been -called or volunteered for duty during the present war. i r The signboard to be constructed construc-ted on the strip of lawn in, frimt of the City building, facing University Uni-versity avenue, will be unveiled May 13 as part of. the program to be staged in the city honoring the women's services: A caravan, similar to those used for war bond drive rallies, will arrive in ProVo the night of May 12, to begin' an intensive cam paign for volunteers in the WAVES, SPARS, WACS, and lady Marines.! 'y " The sgnboard, to measure nine feet six inches square, will be constructed at a cost of about S120. The names of all women in service Will be inscribed on each side of a. center section scheduled to hold recruiting posters. Plans are now being ' made , to construct a lasting remembrance for all .Provoans who have donned uniforms during the war, to be constructed after the armistice. The idea of a memorial building, to be used as a community center, is rapidly gaining favor throughout through-out the city as a lasting monu ment. Under this plan, the names would be inscribed on ' plaques mounted on the walls. It is considered likely that a signboard memorial will be con structed for the present to honor the men in service.' Proposals now before the .commission call for about $600 to $1000 wood . and stone plaque, to be mounted on the north corner of the tabernacle grounds. Memorial Plaque Authorized By Termination of War Contracts to Be Provided In Proposed Legislation WASHINGTON, May 1 fc i The senate was expected today to begin debate by midweek on leeisiaiion seiine ud a new .gov ernment agency to expedite ter mination of war contracts. The senate's calendar for the week contains two ether Import ant measures the agriculture department de-partment "omnibus bill and leg-islation leg-islation to extend the lend-lease program. Tnr1ora (inna tit tret aTl three out of lhf way this week to clear the wav for consideration on May & of the explosive anti-poll tax bill, which is certain to set off a filibuster by southern' senators. ' The contract termination bin was introduced by Sens. .Walter PRQVO, Accepts to the corporation as a whole, and they are addition to demands for flrtlWutt(Ml man uvtronon pay, and a fund for -steel workers in - the armed forces all being asked by the union he said. vx&si quoting Benjamin Fair- less, president Of the corporation. said a guaranteed annual wage would inevitably destroy the financial ability of the steel industry in-dustry to employ. . ' Among other things. Olds told the stockholders that two of the largest plants built by the com pany for the , governments at Homestead, Fa., and ueneva, uxmn, are- now suDstanuauy compietea; and that the- company carried to surplus ?3,fl9,861 in 1943; 11.- 215.884 in 1942; and $56,139,390 in 19411 ' Patterson attesting to his charges Assignment - W." .:-r;:.r : " " .'vV that a governmentemploye, whojeP8 paid out less than $125, resoldone lot of the batteries for more than $21,000- The report said the battery bat-tery sales "were the . result of errors of - judgment and adminis tration,' adding that "corrective action has been taken to prevent the recurrence of such improper! transactions.' The batteries, which cost the army over $200,000 when new. were Sold by an army salvage ofV ficer at the Ogden, Utah, army services forces depot after being declared unserviceable. Pattersonjlwere however, admitted "a more experienced ex-perienced officer should have been selected to check them. He said the lnvstigation showed bids were- not and should have been solicited for the batteries, that their potential sales value was not determined, and that "inadequate "in-adequate instructions were issued by the War department concerning overage batteries whieh tended to give the impression that such batteries bat-teries had little or no value or utility." The reoort said there was no in dication of fraud or collusion by Ulcers or employes of the war department in any of the sales. f atterson said the discipline rv action being taken includes reprimands, repri-mands, relief from duty, and reclassification. re-classification. He assured Goch- rran that salvage property here after will be sold only on written bids and that dry-cell batteries, other than those exhaused by use, will be resold through the treasury treas-ury otpartment's procurement di- viiiinn: "The unfortunate experiences o this case ! have been widely disseminated', dis-seminated', and are expected to stimulate renewed diligence against the occurrence of further transactions of this character," Patterson added. 'v Cochran commented that "while it is 1 regretted that this incident occured, nevertheless it Is pleasing pleas-ing to know that steps have been taken to prevent a recurrence,"' CANADIAN DESTROYER RESORTED SUNK LONDON, May 1 (HE) The Canadian " destroyer Athabascan was torpedoed and sunk during an engagement with two enemy de stroyers on tne nortnwesr up or Frence early ' yesterday, the British Brit-ish admiralty announced. - The communique said .numerous hits were scored on the two enemy ene-my destroyers. One was driven ashore and left burning, while the other escaped in the darkness. T$. George. D.. Ga.. and James E. Murray, P., Mont. It provides ror 1.- An independent office of 'A contract settlement. 1 2 A. contract settlement ad- visory board. t 3. Direct government pay ments to subcontractors. '- 4. Interim financing of contractors con-tractors for 30 days after they file application, pending final set tlement. 5. A provision to make the. court of claims the final arbi ter of settlement disputes. 6. A provision to give the! general accounting office a post-audit post-audit to catch' fraud and deter mine justice of settlements.' ' UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, MAT I, ae - - '.e . .. I 1 ' y r ' . 1 -) i i t nev liea sArmy Offensive May Be In Offing Joint Blows From The East and West to Crush Nazis Asked by Stalin 1 By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff. Correspondent MOSCOW, May 1 Pre pnier Marshal Josef Stalin, in a may-day oraer or xne day, called today for joint blows From the east and west to crush Germany "in its own lair," as Soviet planes soft ened the enemy s central froht for what may be the next Red army offensive. 1 "To rid our country and the countries allied with us from the danger-ofenslavement." hesaid. "the wounded Germa"beast must be pursued close on Its heels and finished, oft in its own lair "This task . . . can be accom plished only on the basis of foint efforts of the Soviet ynion, Great Britain and--thBrUnlted States of North America by Joint blows from the east dealt by our troops and from the west dealt by the ops or our allies. Underlining Stalin's words, the third major Russian air attack on German base on the central front within 72 hours indicated; that the Red army 'shortly may ereajt the stalemate on the ap proaches to the Baltic states, perhaps per-haps cotnncldentally with the Allies' opening a western front lilt Near Latvia Long-range Russian bombers ashed at Idritsa, gateway to tral Latvia. Saturday night. concentrating on railway tareets and nearby airfields. Several mil- itary -trains and a number of air craft were destroyed. Large fires observed. EarUer. Sdfciet lanesr.hit-rtheioss of UJSt. lives in a troop ship big German airfield at Orsha in White Russia and another field in the same area, where 21 planes were destroyed. Front dispatches reported the weather steadily .was improving on the central, front, drying out passes traversing the great mar shal an da barring tne approaches to Latvia, Lithania, ; and east Prussia. In old Poland, the Soviet mid night communique announced, the Russians .seized 1 w o villages southeast of Stanislawow in a flanking attack. Some 150 Hungarian Hun-garian officers and men were captured. cap-tured. Three hundred Germans killed in futile attempts to dent the Soviet line in an adjoining sector. Enemy attacks also were re pulsed north of Iasl on the Romanian Ro-manian front. - where 33 German planes were Shot down in ae combats. :r Ships" on the Black sea fleet sank two of three transports in attack on an enemy convoy west of'beseiged Sevastopol, Crimean naval base, the communique skid. Stalin, in his order of the nay. said the Red army, in cooperation! with the sites, "must deliver from German bondage our brothers, Poles. Czechoslovaks and other allied peoples of wester Europe which are under the heel of Hit lerite Europe.' He called on the people of Ro mania, Hungary, - Bulgaria and Finland To take the cause of their - liberation from the German yoke' Into their own hands," over throw their governments and make peace with the allies. America Firster Repudiates Devey CHICAGO, May1 HE) 3erald L. K. Smith, chairman of the America Am-erica First party; believes that Gov. Thomas JE. Dewey "will go the Willkie way and says he will Insist that his Illinois party lead ers present the name of Col. Rob ert - R. Mccormick, publisher the Chicago Tribune, as fav son candidate at the Repub national convention. ' "As far as America ftrsters are concerned," Smith told an audi ence of 500 persons here - last night, "Thomas Dewey IS out. He has attached himself t& the Wttl-kie Wttl-kie Corpse. When Dewey , endors ed Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign lfcy hFcommitted political sul-crae. sul-crae. I prophesy that he will go the Wllkie Way.7 TRIAL HELDUP WASHINGTON, May 1 (UE two weeksof effort! to get the mass . sedition trial under way went Into7 the discard today when Judge Edward C. Etcher dis charged ail prospective jurors. m - V Oft. 5oyton irou ee t ;j y ' ' ' - The dramatic photo above, showing a wrecked Jap bomber alongside Stripes on Cape Gloucester 498 Men, Officers Lost In Sinlung Of American Ship WASHINGTON, May 1 a- The War department announced today that 4S8 men and officers were lost in the .recentnklng of an American ship In the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. A brief announcement said that the ship wa' sunk by enemy ac tion and Went down quickly. Next of kin of the missing have been notified. This was the aecond heaviest miifvitig . i a tcucob ivoo wpe cmc nounced Feb. 17 by the war department,, de-partment,, which said about 1000 men had perished in the sinking of an aled ship sdmewhers in European waters. Thus far in the war at least 19 ships carrying troops have .been lost. i The navy has announced the loss of 14 transports, including the ,U. S. army transport President Presi-dent Cooiidge which went down In the South Pacific in October, mi ri e TVl 1 a tra 1ea urn at an 19f2. with the loss of only 'IveUa-ft-itslv were hit in heavy liyes out of more man ow orn - cars, enlisted men and crew members mem-bers aboard. Three additional transport sinkings, sink-ings, including the 1000-man loss announced in February, have now been revealed by the army. . x- The most recently announced sinking from the navy was the loss of the S. S. Cape San Juan last fall in .shark-infested Pacific watf rs. which" was announced April 22. Seventy lives were lost and 1359 persons aboard the vessel ves-sel were rescued by a Libey ship, a U. S. destroyer, and a Pan- American airways- flying boat. . The navy also announced In February, 1943. the sinking of two ships within fourlays in the Atlantic At-lantic with a combined loss of 850 lives including 'personnel., of Various Vari-ous services. The vessels were listed as -cargo ships but are included in-cluded in the above total of 19. The loss of life in transport sinkings in this war has been proportionately pro-portionately light, - considering that some 3,000.000 or 'more troops have been sent overseas. TRUCK LINES TO BE BADLY CRIPPLED PmSU! Ma Ma1 IIP5 TVli- se's four'truckline operators in a oreoared statement today said that though a decision of the War Manpower j commission - to issue striking teamsters certificates of availability to find other jobs 'will cripple and possibly disrupt our operations," their position in the 10-day old strike remains un- cnangea. Allied Air Attacks in BY EDWARD W. BEATTlE United Press Staff Corresppndent LONDON, May (HE) Allied pians can tor air attacics irom now on which will overshadow the April record for a wide tnsxginjly enough ttt the process, that it and' which, with good weather, and good luck, might reduce the German Ger-man air force to skeleton before the great land' Campaign gets, under un-der way. . Three months ago that sort of Statement would have been classed, as rank wishful thinking. Today on tne oasis of full information, much of It still unknown publi-4ly, experienced, observers think it is entirely within, the limits of possibility. pos-sibility. , v ; 'in m ' .- i ' i -. i i if ii i i Mini 194:. epitomizes the inevitable. end. of Invasion Fever in Europe Runs High By ROBERT, DOWSON : .the Caimans when the zero hour United-Press Staff CorresDondent! arrivpa ' ' LONDON, Mayil (tt Invasion rever mounica ioaay amia ornc-(creei, ' Kooert is, enerwooa, over lal Allied assurances that the day, seas director for OWl, said in in- of libetatlon for occupied Europe is not far disUnt." Europe's vast underground army, estimated In the millions, was told by the new American in Europe v i i. i.iff broadcasting station In Its opening broadcast last night; that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme Allied commander, will1 give the signal to rise up against German Railroad Targets Blasted On Italian Front ( ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, May ,1 Nazi railroad rail-road tarrets and suddIv ports in 1 - M day and night assault by more than 1,000 American and British warplanes yesterday, while, hundreds hun-dreds of other Allied : raiders pounded the enemy's Uneslof com munication across tne . center oi the peninsula, a communique announced an-nounced today. More than 500 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, covered by a strong fighter, escort, paced the daylight offensive, striKing at tne Milan. Castel Maggiore and AleS- sandrio railway yards, aircraft factories at Milan Bresso and Va-rese, Va-rese, and the Reggio- Nell' Emilia airdrome. Another Flying Fortress Fort-ress group hit the already-battered Fano bridge on the - east coast railroad line. . The .raiders encountered only Weak German fi enter and" flak op position. Five heavy bombers were lost in tne widespread aitacas, while 12 enpmv nlanes were shot down, 11 by the Fortress and Lib erator gunners. v R,AF Wellingtons, Ljberatozs and Halif axes followed up tne daylight day-light offensive with a series of heavy night attacks on ; Genoa, Spezia, and Livorno (Leghorn) on the . west coast and the Monf al-eone al-eone shipyards IS miles northwest of Trieste: First reports on the day and. night attacks indicated that tne, bombers inflicted extensive dam- (age oh the vital ports and railway centers through which the Ger mans have been f unnetihg SUp plies and reinforcements to their armies in southern itaiy. v May to 0 vershadoiv These men feci today that at the worst the German defensive fighter force can be made to fight of ten enough, and can be hurt bad- can be crippled dnce "and for ViH tvh fhA Invailnn pnntM - The battle for the destruction of I the Geraant air forcer-the battle between American heavy bombers with their 'escorts ana the hard pressed Nazi f ighters . squadrons which hold, western Euisope now- seemed Ukely to reach a. cumjax soon. ' t,''.'.1 - ; :- Some enthusiastia compare the role of American air striking force with the invention of gun powder, COMPLETE UNITED RESS 5IWCB T KliEO RAPH NEWS the flagpole bearing the Stars ani Japan's dream of conquest; 1 TBlCO RiPHPlM .-. - . - . . : J- . : ' . 'Un014heh bo' taaU'ypo. '0t :-toht laugurating the new station in Britain. "Do not be tricked) into premature action by Nazi lies or I deception Underlining Sherwood's words of e f,"1 "f' VFZt of Caution, the London Daily HufK"(,M,lltu?. m r-r : ci.4.iand Thunderbolt fizhters. press reported from Geneva that the Germans already -have out intd effect "Plan Nc 1" in France to counter the lmDendihc invasion. Suspected members of the' Under ground were being rounded up and travel has beem restricted, the rlianntrh boIH said Swedish sources believed the invasion wouia cpmc wis -wee, probably within,' the 'next 4 hours, or not until May 17 because be-cause channel tides would be at low ebb during the -mterini. The Swedes expect penmark to play 'one of the leading roles in' the Invasion." the dispatch said, with diversionary operations against Norway. Radio Ankara ulated the Anglo-American armies would land to norwerr i 7 i "v , . j r ranee anu In Britain Itself, the troops car- rler command of the th U. S. air force- was revealed to have com Dieted what was described of fie ially as one -of the most massive airborne operations of the var In preparation, for ihe opening of a uraaUrn fmnt:. I From a United Kingdom poH area came word that a vast American merchant fleet was be ing readied to follow a great bat tle-fleet into enemy water , wiin troops and miutary suppues. Gov. Bricker Raps kkesl Statement " COLUMBUS. Mav i UttE) - Gov. johnrW. Bricker said today that criticism by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes of his statement that local communlues should have a voice in postwar re settlement' of Japanese Americans was an attempt "to take the mind of the country off the mismanage ment of these Japanese reiocauon camps. ; ' . ' i i Ickes' criticism ronowea a statement state-ment bv Bricker that the 'Tights and wishes" of west , coast ' com munities should be considered in postwar ' resettlement plans and that "disloyal and non-ciuzen Japanese' Jap-anese' should be ' returned to Tanati . , ' April Record i the first use of the British bcV lagalnst the knights of the mlddlel ages, and tne busw or tne modern battleship in the dash between" the Merrimac and Monitor - Ail agree that if hopes are fulfilled ful-filled and the German air force Is reduced to a minor factor in the comlpg ' campaign, air power will Jbave made its greatest single con- trlhiiUnrt tn the war. Lt, GeaT James H. Doollttle said yesterday Njthat the luf twaffe "by a substantial ttiargin ios these days than it can reolace. It has been, heavuy since ute Feb: in all. probabllty there i reserves left to draw on. mg more hope to losing so ruary mat ire no real PRICE FIVE CENTS "v. ' if ollws.i Pre-lnvasion . Air Offensive British Coastal Resi- ' ' ' dents etit;jhfl8) For Invasion Had Come Py PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 1 d . Nearly 1,000 American" Jieavyy f bombors and iiifhters spear-, headed a smashing Maydajr assault on Germany's Atlantic Atlan-tic wall today, sending tho' ' non-stop air offensive into its. third week on a scale so great many British: coastal residents) thought the invasion of western f Europe had begun, t. ' A seemingly ceaseless, procession proces-sion of American, British and Al lied planes across the Straits of. Dover and English Channel began 5-at 5-at the first light of dawn, only a few hours after hundreds of RAP night bombers wrecked two Frenclt railway yards and blew up an Mr munition dump behind the French coaatai aeienses, ' ' The thunder of aircraft engines', drowned out traffic noise In Folke- stone Dover and other English . coastal towns, The offensive began ' inimraeeu so early and on such a large scales y that a number of lnnaDitanis- rushed from their beds to tk cliffs overlooking the Straits 6f, Dover in the belief that invasion France. Jn the vanguard of the daylight formations inaugurating the May phase of the' pre-invasion Offensive Offen-sive were UP id 500- American-- Flying Fortresses and Liberators ! Ttrnti itfot tilMtlflml Their targets were identified only as "military installations in, northern France," the vague appellation ap-pellation which the American air command applies to gun emplace-f fnents, underground forts,, supply-. Boston and Mitchell bombers or the RAF's 2nd ' tactical command, escorted by British, New Zealand' and Allied Spitfires, Joined ; the daylight offensive with attacks on- railway targets In France, ; . American Marauders also werp among the raiding formations;' , The Nazl-conta-olled Paris radio said that large-scale air activity had been reported over Franca since early morning.' Coastal' ob- I D1AIVU VV ? -fmmm wa, - : ' server? believed that the early J itpace were rhaintained, the aar- attacka mav get R w record: . I Crews of the RAF's four-en gin- - ed Lancasters which participated in last night's attack on a German Ger-man ammiiniMnn diimn at UailM tenon, 35 to 40 miles southwest of Paris, said their planes were tossed as much as'400eet In tha.i . air oy successive rmumuons w1 plosions. l . Flashes stiU Were visible when the planes were passing over tho . English coast, nearly zoo miiea . away. Smoke . plumed 9,000 feet , in the air over the target area. War in Brief By' UNITED PRESS " ?m Air War Nearly 1,000 heavj bombers spearhead Smashing May Day assault, on Germany's Atlan- y tic sea wall sending non-stop' aerial aer-ial offensive Into third week. r.: Italy Nazi e-aU targets , and, supply ports in northern Italy rock under assault, of 1,000 'Al lied , planes; . hundreds ! Of -other planes pound communicationlines across centec of peninsula. ' ' Paclflc Aerial offensive in Pacific Pa-cific brings new .attacks on Jap-, an's key bases in Carolines and New, Guinea whera naval vessels - join lin bonibardlng enemy lrL fields and coastal Installations 00 -miles west ff Hollandia. . V ' h ' Yugoslavia Yugoslav Parus ans operating inside Austria rout . strong - German column in. first : big-scsle fighting'across frontier.-, Rrasla . Soviet planes , soften enemv's central front With raids Viet planes also hit German airfield air-field "at Orsha in White Russiai. Stahn. calls for joint blows from. cast and west to. .crush Germany, ESCAPED PRISONER ' f A" FORGIVEN IF HE'LL TELL ; r LOS ANGELES,! May 1 dlfS- ; Jatt today, issued :. "coma back, all is f ordven'? rJeat to a prlsonr ' who escaped yesterdays i J -neason: i uner; ; want wxnow now as sio .Ki :. 4z V i' 01 |