Show Today Don't Miss 41' Editorial page article in which David Lawrence reviewing the Montgomery Ward dispute clares that the administration in dealing with the congressional inquiries into the case played into the opposition's hands Yol 149 No 22 House Votes 358 to 0 For Tax Bill Iti I -- 0s1 Saturaay tol III Health Brings 11 n — WM : ' ' : ' :! f - I ) - : - al'-A:::- :: -- : ' 0 - :s--- ::::: :' 4 ' : ' ii1':i:': : il ': : k -- ''" ":' 'C House Oliehs Probe of Seizure ' "14'- - ' 0-1 fK S- : 0:-::4- - :' :: ' i:: '' !! ' ::::: - :7-- - : B-1- :1 i 1 Second Jap Fleet Chia Dies litt Front Action Germans Rush Troops to Danger Zones - UP)21---T- labor-embattl- ed - i ' ' pay-as-you-- go Irrigation Plea 'Allies Launch Goes to Senate Kohima Push - ' Pacifi- Smith-Connall- Admiral Must Explain 'Slur' On Congress Air Photographs Bare Nazi Secrets nt - Military Plans Rush Output Of Secret Rocket Weapons - 6111 r 9 food Axis efense Line Unconditional Freedom By United Press LONDON May 6 (Saturday)—Mohandas K Gandhi wizened It'WK6w"""1""1"477"417 spiritual leader of the Indian independence moveWASHINGTON May 5 (AZM— ment is to be released unconditionally from internment st 8 tr4 Spurred by the national outcry a m Saturday because of ill health the India office announced Fri day against the intricacy and confusion of wartime taxation the Gandhi had been interned at house passed unanimously Frithe Aga Khan's palatial villa near 4::1-Poona India since his arrest in day a bill designed to relieve q:::Aisome 30000000 of the 50000- :ii:niR:i'!:'kz''':6 August 1942 during the serious Atniii4:M::::!::-:::1000 taxpayers of the necessity which followed Pearl disorders 400 of computing income tax reand 11 Harbor the Japanese sweep ?4S6! V: ''rV :'::': :' 04i turns then a grave threat r Burma into ?if -4" "'!!'"'"!'-"-t lr !::1 The vote wax 358 to 0 the first : - to India "-- time in the memory of house vetf was 41eld understood that It erans that :a tax bill passed with::Marshal Lord Waxen viceroy of out a dissenting voice '::7'!"14114 ': India himself decided to release :tf:::''17''''''!N-This action shuttled t h e tax 4:443K:t: Gandhi was but it assumed that e i:!: simplification legislation to the :::::is"I' the cabinet here approved his de- il iwnigP t::--:-:'v senate where Chairman George f cision particularly because Gandz:!:?k (D) Georgia of the finance com:::::: hi's death under internment would mittee predicted early approval have embittered nationalists :140 a:::::iDoes What ::::::'rJ:i: Gandhi 'Victory Ifs The streamliner would: :i:':::::Through recurrent illnesses and 1 :::40: Scrap t h e two - year - old '::''1: ts4t:::::-nationalist threats that vague Q: "victory" tax and set new normal :k: iV:1i:4 Gandhi' would start a "fast unto di and surtax rates and exemptions :':i: ::::'i$770::'' ::::e !' I:::':ii: 'li death" the Indian government while keeping actual tax burdens " :! had refused to release Ghandi un- sear present levels itii42i:::1f:41:a0' less he ormal af gave undertaking 2 Change the withholding levy 4Ittigioi':'7-:!I::iii4VONW"::ito do nothing to impede the war against wages and salaries—efeffort Gandhi in turn had firmly -fective next January 1—to deduct refused- Thus the uncompromiscurrently the full tax liability of Blohandas K Ghandi ing little nationalist leader and Yield persons earning up to $5000—thus of mass civil disobediense sponsor sines arrest in August 1942 removing the necessity for 30000- had triumphed 000 persons to compute formal reHowever aside from Gandhi's 1ki turns and the apparent reluctance frailty 7 ' ''7777ir5c 3 ' ::ir:iii:::" 4: Of the 20000000 who still of the Indian 'government to run j:L ::'': :s "" ! :': ' ' - 4:: t44 ::' e ' '':: would be required to file returns ': 'r'::::: the risk of martyrizing him 4 Ikc: 4::Aii :: 10000000 (those earning less than ' — Gandhi's release was taken here :::'::4it 11144iimoile011t—m64i :::::memo4ankwalkometA4s004Neambeimmoocww m0: Hi$5000 trut with income other than as an indication that British Formation of 7 Flying Fortresses of U S e tciry at Weiner Neustadt south of Vienna livages and salaries) could use a tary authorities no longer feared Austria In their latest raid mAerican Fifteenth air force flies on leaving deadly hail that he could again stir nationalist simple table showing their entire 7— Lax T h e remaining 10000000 NNTard facbombers struck at Ploesti Romania extremists to a frenzy which: of bombs on important German aircraft ' would constitute a threat to India with incomes ever $5000 - would fill out a simpler return than the It was taken also to mean that WASHINGTON pre(—Re the thrust of the Japanese into present long form K s Granger India's Manipur state The revised normal and surtaxes sentative Walter was not re-- 1 would be applicable for returns and J Will Robinson Democrats as a to the serious' threat garded of Utah voted against the resofiled nextMarch 15 on 1944 in country'a security : lution to authorize investigation come of the government's seizure of Malaria Victim Generally the bill would levy a Montgomery Ward & Co sintax It was announced April 28 that somewhat larger against Gandhi's condition was causing UP)--- By gle persons and couples without 5 May some children while the load would be a WASHINGteN although it was By Associated Press 300 to 80 vote the added anxiety thumping he had recovered from a for with GerLONDON May 5 taxpayers lightened NEW YORK May 5—Admiral Mineichi Koga commander large house recent attack of malaria families Friday authorized an inveswere mans reported night tigation of the government's seizMay 2 Dr B C Roy famous of the combined Japanese fleet was killed in action on an undisNot An Increase to have sent 20000 Flday Mont- Indian physician ure of the said that im- closed front in March—the second Japanese fleet chief to die into restive Denmark and 30000 provement which had been noted Chairman Doughton (D) North gomery Ward plant In Chicago seven-ma- n a A resolution official succeeded by the colorless Into Norway in a new series of within had not a been action in has been by physicians creating year—and Carolinaof the house ways and ' antlinvasion moves ran 'nlig along to determine maintaineo committee means committee said: "As far command announced almost the entire western front as burdens go the measure will whether President Roosevelt exThursday Roy gave a more Admiral Soemu Toyoda the Tokyo high Berlin radio commentators con- not hurt anybody much or help ceeded his authority was jammed cheerful statement He said that Friday was reported to have fled tinued to discuss th e e pected el- with only the staunchest Gandhi was very weak and that anybody much" He emphasized through An imperial headquarters com- warships no lied assault as being imminent area at doubt in the the time administration the opmalarial attack had supporters not "increased is that withholding S U recorded engovA high percentage 0 seasoned no were him made There by munique other of undertakmajor position incapable increased tax burden" The Republicans voted solidly ing his accustomed mental or ernment monitors said that Koga gagements during March at which veterans was included mong the The withholding system- of dework "But he is as jolly had "died at his post in March of the Japanese fleet was reported troops rushed to the Danish and ductions from pay envelopes and for the inquiry which will run physical and (Continued on Page Two) as ever" Roy said alive another with Norwegian sectors of permany's the by (Column One) while directing operathis salary checks was instituted last concurrently year western defenses said reports reDemosenate under way already as of the year apart ceived here through Stockholm tions from an airplane at the lines broke and 18 joined tax legislation It now takes cratic The Belgian news atency said G of in the P the favor 0 front" probe the approximate tax of persons Germans had fl t ded the the In the first income bracket It bore a striking similarity to President Assailed zone both east west coastal Under the new bill those earnthe Tokyo communique of May 21 'r of most Flanders inundat of draftBackers the proposal reing up to WOO in 1944 and news roads This flooding 1943 annouitcing the death of the ed by Representative Dewey (R) ceiving not more than $100 from Illinois underadded agency criticized the presalthough Isoroku former fleet chief boastful sharply sources not subject to withhold- ident the taken to check invaders has forced war labor board and At- Tribune Washington Bureau Yamamoto in a warplane the pre- By Associated Press ing would be permitted to file a torney General Biddle They conthe nazis to take speciAl protec— The vious April1 of a general allied of- tive measures with their defense copy of a withholding receipt fur- tended that the war plant is not so WASHINGTON May 5 Launching called amendment to Yamamoto who once boasted he nished by the employer in place a war the se4 and the factory and that Biddle's the river irrigation and harbor bill spon- would dictate peace terms in the fensive against the Japanese in works between of the regular tax return These inland in submerged of seizure regions India the eastern of sector Kohima support by-1the ruling sored senators Friday was White House was known as the taxpayers would list their depend- makes all private- property sub- introduced into the senate Especially in the neighborhood ents on the reverse side of this ject to government acquisition by Sen- man who torpedoed the London and the trapping of a Nippon gar- of Calais Dunkerque Gravelines ator O'Mahoney of Wyoming on naval conference in 1934 and rison in northern Burma were of- and receipt and enter amounts of Administrationists coun tered his own Nieuport rising water anddisbehalf and with concur- planned the sneak attack on Pearl ficially announced late Friday 'other income" sands from dunes are placed was seizure sanctioned the that by rence of a majority of the sena- Harbor Tokyo indicated last year On the other wing of the y the defense construeThey would mail it to the local the law threatening antistrike tors from irrigation states and that he died a spectacular death c-Asiatic Ameri- tion it was said war theater tax collector who would calculate As of voted a house the several from New England "on the very front lines in the can planes hammered Japanese the tax then bill the taxpayer or employes of Montgomery group The Germans announced they Ward's the in the midst of a naval island positions including a major were Being widely south" sponsored isstle a refund check depending Springfield Ill subsidiary the ready for assault from any takes on more impor- engagement naval basein the Kurile& direction whether the taxpayer was over- Hummer Manufacturing company amendment their latest tance if backed by only one In India strong British and In- omen from drawing Iceland with a report Exactly where Admiral Koga were off their jobs and said they senatorthan paid or undtrpaid The as amendment area premet his death was not disclosed in dian forces in the Kohima Allied acthat there was would remain idle "until the com- sented was the same as agreed Friday's communique However started a general drive against tivity and large "great concenshipping pany signs a contract or the gov- to 10 days ago at a conference powerful American the invaders and were making trations there reinforcing the imernment takes over the plant" of western senators Plans for on March 29 made at- "satisfactory progress" a naval forces that the allies are planThe plant was not involved in the western governors who tack on Palau island surprise American-traine- d 460 Chinese troops pression within hearing an invasion of Scandinavia" ning Chicago dispute are coming to Washington espe- nautical miles of the Philippines of the Stilwell command drove The radio Paris saw cially to urge adoption of this and a large force of Japanese through and beyond the town of gravity" in the west and "great Tempers Flare Berlin comamendment not been have Inkagahtawng northern Burma and Vichy commentators noted A company spokesman estiThey outflanked the enemy and "mounting allied reinforcements" mated 450 were involved The pleted had been announced that the It trapped a Japanese garrison of In Italy and predicted a blow there Inare workers members of the 10 would be'heard undetermined size governors May with the loffensive WASHINGTON May 6 Machinternational Association of commerce commitbut the Farther south Stilwell's advance simultaneously (CTPS)--Admi- ral Friday from the west Algiers said the Ernest J ists (A F 14 The plant produces tee postponed hearing army engiunits shoved forward to within Germans were rushing fortificafarrn equipment and war produc- neers until King commander in chief of 10 Whether this 30 miles of Mogaung their imme- tions on the island of Elbs the United States fleet and — tion parts Joe Winoski shop com- will force May lying The diate LONDON May 5 (UP) ara in the change objective on the Burma rail- between Corsica and the Italian chief of naval operations comchairman said mittee the a has allied command photohigh to hear the governors way northwest coast has been called upon to expany had rejected a war labor rangement covering every senators from the west are try- graphic mosaic It the expected that appeared nazi-helDispatches from Berlin to the board order for a four-ced plain his catigation of wage to ascertain They insist that Inch of the European Japanese smash in India's Imphal Swiss increase and recognition of the ing journal De Geneve as well ITILICS and to a depth congress for failure to for3000 coast for the a sector had not developed governors coming from as reports by other neutral corin his official reunion demands a is it tify Guam which Inland distance should be given In the north and central Pacific respondents in the German capalthough Tempers flared in the house de- great port on the navy at war it over officers of the secret is known to be consider- regions some 2000 miles apart ital said Berlin expects the allied was learned Friday night bate with Chairman Sabath (D) preference (Continued on Page Two) army engineer corps who are sta- able invasion within three weeks (Continued on Page Nine) (Column Four) Senator David I Walsh with made mosaic this From in tioned (Column Four) Washington Massachusetts chair(13) 500000 aerial pictures allied comman of the powerful naval manders have been able to make called affairs committee intimate studies of their invasion to expunge upon the admiral battle grounds h I s "unjustified" charge They will go into battle not only sunk or damaged off the Crimea Russia (Official) from the against congress with a detailed photographic map not LONDON Saturday May 6 in 22 days report The admiral has of the terrain and general defense The Moscow operatiohat war be to will yet replied this added lines but (UM—Warships and planes of the K D C May 5 from the navy that $15000000 even more reeent pictures show- soviet WASHINGTON Burton Senator which announced the sink bulletin sea Black fleet maintaining Wheeler (D) Montana defor rush pro- would be uxed along with $20000- - ing the last final enemy disposiplans there werel no imblockade a around ings reported manded that Admiral King besieged tight duction of newly developed highly 000 already set aside by the army tions to meet the attack portant changes on the ground supply ths official Informasecret rocket weapons were re- for the rocket weapons This detailed map one of the Sevastopol sank 11 more enemy fronts Berlin iaid the tion upon which he based officials said most valuable jigsaws ever com- vessels including five troop trans- Russiansalthough vealed Friday and congressional Navy department foe a third had attacked 1 s i e" accusation h s "f a leaders promised speedy action to there was nothing they could say pleted was made by American and tons in 13000 on middle Siret successive the day adday about rocket guns beyond the British photo ieconnaissance units ports totaling against congressnot The provide the necessary funds Roof northeastern front river off attacks and miral also has Wednesday reyet met night A house naval committee report statement at a press conference thousands of sorties alone flying shorta and Moscow mania Crimea the acknowledged southwestern demand this said the armed forces plan to spend cently by Rear Admiral George F In unarmed Mosquitoes Mustangs announced Friday night as the lull ening of the German lines southBoth senators chaTged that $35000000 for expanded manufac- Hussey Jr naval buread of ord- and Lightnings on the eastern ground front passed west of the Polish rail junction of the unfounded accusations over e ture of the weapons because of nance chief that "we are using ground Mapping of t h Kowel of laxillov against congress be will conflict through its second week them rocket demand" for which the coming guns" ''great A Moscow broadcast directed to The latest soviet triumphs has been employed unfairly Likewise an army spokesman fought began more than six No details about the guns or to red navy gave the first soviet fleets the nazi in primary campaigns trying no further information was months ago and reached its peak against their method of operation were said was available there except the pre-- - last month when nearly perfect evacuate the German and Ro- confirmation that fighting "Your against Senators Millard J contained in:the report raging in Romania saying: lsydings (D) Maryland and The committee recommended ap- viously announced use of the famed visibility for days enabled com- manian garrisons pinned inside since April 18 raised to comrades soviet troops who i Rufus Holman (11) Oregon propriation of $65000000 for naval "bazooka' guns which is rocket pletion of hundreds of successful Sevastopol 110 the number of enemy ships crossed the state frontiers at many camera sorties ordnance and included a statement propelled : Weather Price—Five Cents lilies It ow For Spiritual Leader Action Indicates Authorities No Longer Fear Influence George Predicts Final Passage Soon by Senate s Utah—Continued fair and warm er Idaho—Fair little change la temperature W3ebmingFair little change in temperature but warmer southeast portion Nevada —Fair little change in temperature Details on page 21 Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning May 6 1914 Britain Releases Gandhi Frominternment Today 9 Brilliant Air Operatto4 Threatens Chad's' to Enemy Below Pescara Bombs Batter South Europe Areas t - By Associated Press cracked open the great Pescara dam Allied fighter-bomber- s near the Adriatic sea in central Italy Friday and sent a wall of floodwater rushing toward the nazi-hel- d seaport of Pescara 19 miles away The brilliant operation threatening chaos to German deLich have blocked the allies for months just below fenses Pescara came while Berlin broadcasters were warning that the allies were preparing to launch a new offensive in Italy in coordination with General Eisenhower's invasion from the west Underwater explosions ripped open the dam's sluice gates and man line 20 miles northwest of the sent tons of water bearing down on dam Huge waves cascaded toward the bridges vital to nazi Military traf- - coast official dispatches said inundating the heart of the German defense line just behind the Thunder on Romania Ortona plain where Canadian- and Simultaneously with the dam- - Polish troops of the British Eighth fighting sharp but bursting American heavy bombers army have been from Italy tore up rail yards at inconclusive battles with the GerPloesti and at- Turnu-Severi- n in mans for months Romania and struck Podorica in Bunt Against Base Yugoslavia Budapest capital of Picked crews diving through Hungary still smoked from a breached the big heavy R A F - assault Thursdiqr heavy flak dam in three places hydroelectric night From Britain seven hundred using delayed action bombs that United States Liberators- crossed burst under water against the base the channel just after daylight of the structure So great a volume of water Is and pounded away at German de- fenses to keep the "air invasion" Impounded by the dam that an along through its twenty- - tempt by the Italians to drain off first straight day Fat the third part of the lake above it in 1934 disastrous when the water straight day the bombers and es- - proved inundated Pescara to a depth of corting fighters: returned without three feet loss The bursting of the darn also Later Thunderbolt fighter-bomb- the Germans' only major era snarled rail yards at Valen-flood- ' ciennes and Somain in northern communications to the Adriatic France and RA F mediums front the lateral rail and Cambrai another impor- - way runningfrom- Rome through tant rail hub A United States air Sulmona and Popoll From PoPelly force memorandum reported tre- - the railroad follows the Pescara mendous damage was done to rail valley to the coast No allied planes were lost in the yards at Brussels and other points dam attack which carried Into in last-- Monday's raid by several the seventh straight day a crushhundred heavy bomber A F Mustangs and Australian ing aerial offensive against Gercommunications in Italy while Kittyhawks of the desert air force man forces confined them-situatcarried out the attack on the dam the groundsmall-scale 12 miles southwest of selves to patrol operaChieti Twenty minutes after the tions on all fronts ' A German military writer attack began the iron sluice gates cracked and a wall of water quoted by Stockholm dispatches the possibility of ailed started moving downstream to- - discussed (Continued on Pare Three) ward Pescara bulwark of the Ger- (Column Two) 11 - - - ' - at-rock- ed high-pound- ed - ed l U S Planes Strew Explosives Over Ploésti Romanian Rails Allies (Official)--B- y United Press U S Flying Fortresses and LONDON May 5—Ita1y-bade- d Liberators heavily blasted Romanian rail yards and oil refineries at Ploesti and Turnu-Severi- n Friday as hundreds of d Liberator-leallied bombers other smashed al least three rail centers and coastal defenses in France Up to 150 American and British bombers and fighters took part miles north of Bucharest Flying in the powerful two-wa- y Assault Fortresses and Liberators heaviry on rail centers id preparation for bombed the city's extensive railallied land way yards and it was also believed the expected three-wa- y drive on Germay from the west they hit adjacent oil refineries a south and east In France alone Naples announcement said Lightning and Th underb olt neutral reports said the mobility of German antlinvasion troops al- fighters escorting the big bombers down several enemy planes in ready has been cut 50 per cent by shot what Berlin termed "violent air allied air blows While Flying Fortresses and battles" As the invasion eve air offenLiberators of Major General Nathan F Twining's Fifteenth U S sive to cripple the enemy's defenses air force blasted axis communica- and supply routes to the French tions in Romania other Liberators coasts roared through its twenty-fir- st of struckeacross the Adriatic to ham- allied straight day hundreds across the planes streaked mer Podgorica in Yugoslavia pear (Continuo(' on ell aft Timm) the Albanian border where large (Column Four) German garrisons were reported The American attack on Ploesti near the Dan- Ii and Turnd-Severi- n 1 ube river's iron gate followed closely an R A F predawn attack on the big rail yards at Budapest LISBON Saturday May 6 CPI capital of Hungary —Reports reaching here early n said violent gunfire Through the three big Saturday rail centers flow nazi indicating a possible naval battroops and supplies to the southern tle was heard Friday in the Gulf At Ploesti 35 of Cadiz off the coast of AlRussian front garve province in southern Portugal Bulletins Balkan-Danubia- Russ Navy Planes Sink lliMore Nazi Ships points at this moment are smashing enemy forces on Romanian stated territory" The broadcast that preparations for "decisive battles" were under way and urged the sailors to "be ready" The soviet midnight supplementary bulletin told of minor fighting in the Stanislawow area of southeastern Poland and near Tiraspol on the lower Dnestr river Southeast of Stanislawow German Infantry launched an attack and more than 300 of the enemy were killed by the Russians in a two-hobattle South of Tiraspol soviet units broke into enemy trenches and wiped out about a company of enemy troops and captured a number of the enemy's small arms ur CIUDAD TRUJILLO Dominican Republic May 5 UP -- A - strong brief earthquake was felt here Friday night at 9:40 p m STOCKHOLM May 5 (lTr) Eleven Finnish army deserters who escaped to Sweden reported that tension between Finns and Germans was nearing a climax and that the Finnish political situation wail so serious that civil war was possible a dispatch from limes Sweden said Friday LONDON Saturday May I (al—The Daily Herald said Saturday t h e European advisory commission h a d "practically completed" a long detailed docuout armistice ment terms to be presented Germany when the time comes setting ' - |