"' SU)l.OCO -•- u ', r ' , 1 44 R : A t A ~-- ...., __ __,_ The latest from th iplor · tic front toni ht is t ~, t Ru ani is followin J the example of Finland. Te r port is t a t Ru~ nia has had enou 0 h of the war The story come om Bu ap st, capital of Hungary, bv a o Turkey. The ord is that the effort has n pro resse as far as th Finnish overtures for peace Also that the Rumanians are orkin throu b Stockholm. V I y Gener 1 •ark lerk' Fifth Army 0 has"-withstood t h e ~ Co:r:Q or ~iel ~rshal · on Kes elr1n . 's third attem t to throw the ~ llut the best that can be said is thatA.R A111 11 no worse ott than w. wer. before. Three crack divisions ot shook troops delivered the attaok, rort -rive thou~~nd Jermana on a narrow spearhead rront. They o . . . in screaming "Hell ltler", rldln& 8■JiF on the tops ot/\.~blg Tiger tanks. The momentum ot their tlr t assault was so teroo!oa• that lt carried the■ almost a m l l 6 , ~ 4 conslder■ble dent in ., A I\ -c. t ~ Anzio beachhead. But they didn't stay there. " They were hurled back by a combination ot artillery, bombtns by the air force, A:n erican infantry and weather. ~ ~ The air rorc~, • .'!•H l,be ~omethlng he did-Jet expect. rlylng Fortresses and Arter the bi bombers had disconcerted them, American sharp ~hooters sniped the pz1a . . azi shook troopers riding on the tanks. Then came it al y 2 a terrific •ind rollowd by a pelt9PIJ d ownpour. Jor once ad ••tber interYened on oar side.\tlhtl• the Oenana were tlomaderlng ln tile aa4 ~ - - ~ d l - - A ~ er1can O I•• tlltered through and 1aolate4/t8''~ 0.l'IIID alt•• .$ At dusk last nigbt the Amer1oan counter-attacked, droye lhe G ermana back and regained two-tblrd• ot the tltteen budre4 yuite ctsat the :Jerman• had gained on that ltlachh1a4. Later todaJ, aeaeral Clark biMelt vi11te4 the tleld ot battle and toaal that we ha• ~ recovered eTerJ yard ot it.AClart narrowlr e•oape4 beln1 hll W • ~ ~~ -re~A~ burst ot ~•rman shell~•ld•~land•4~rll••lr • ~ • ~ 'ta. - ~ ~ ~-tL-1-. I TA LY 3 ~ Aa•l~er ''•• re~on•• ~Th• Berlin radio S. that tbe Papal ,... aeontar, or atate bas handed to all th• torelp diplomata at•• - - Va\lcu tbe text or tbe protest ot Pope Plue asalnat th• bollbln1 ot ,Y the lloDte oaaaino 1.11naate17. CJeoretar., ot War Stla9on tCMlay annowaoet that the Allied toroea 1n the oountry around RoM •111 do th•lr ulllOal to apare all hiatorio and rd1g1oua bulldlnp and aaaanta, prOYllil they are not uae4 by the neJIIT tor mllllary purpos••• '1'be 9eorela17 aald he bad n o ~ ~ t ...-.r ruldnoe or the JIIIDpe•• at Caatel OOndalto ~ bombed. ~ \ S ~• tiuon alao anD011Doed that during tbe laat two welte Amerloan ~ ~~ oaaualtlee ha••Ainoreased by,l\ei g ht thousand and thirty. -0- _ . ITALY -4- ~ 1 Stimeon turther pointed out that the battle ot ItalJ ia the moat ezpenslYe orrensl•• tbll.t uncle s.m•a ro~baben.ak•n•* ~ ~ I\ A•• alNadJ ba•• lost about a thousand llON men tban • • ~ la tbe Ph111pplnea. iZA:<f, Not oDlJ Stimson but dee lfaYJ' Seontar, boz npeatecl to48T I\ tbe warn lng t bl t we ha•• not yet be1un to reel tbe tul ~ ~ , . ••fal enemies. Mwwal 11_.Q.A . . . /\aotlng aeoretar, ot atate acl4et ® ~ ~ - 1 ' - \ - bla luon, Enox and Stettlnlaa a17--~• •ob tba - ~ I\ thing:/\ "There are trials and dangers •-e•d ot u tar greater tllaD aa, ~ ..._ th• nation ha• yet had to t · . ce." . _ lmpre1111lon helcl 1-J aaae ~ ,. ~ ~ J . . ••••• that the war is ~••Sf.. ow-er la not ODlf"' I• ' •Ill • II I - 4 a n s - ~ ' : ' : a t be pre.,.re4 tor gruter battle■ tban w bHe •••l\.dreue4 ar,,-.. with ..a bloo4ahe4, 1orrow all4 auttvlna. Seoretary r.nox pointed ou~ that the atltt reaiatanoe ot th• Oel'IIADa onl:, a auple or wbat our tlgbtlag •n will • • t wben 4 ..._ LL~ VV\ ~ . lcrtz • • 1111 ope; 1D Italy ls ~ ~ ittauk Milllutua a•••••41du 8haze ot t,bu war11ta1 •• ba ilr..,::e add Italy 2 TP Congr••• not to relax our lend-lea•• program. "So long•• the war oontlnu•," b• aa14 •so long muat the tlow ot auppll•• to the war tronts be ~•1nta1ne4.• And he added that ••iotory la oertala)f oaly ~ 10 long •• we re:nain unitecl.ATh• ohiet ho!>• or th• ••1111 11 to cll•14• \AA.- ~roa our 81'1tlah, Ruaaian and Chin••• Alllea.• I I . . -------- Th air ~ar over Europe wa· o a in to ay at top tempo. In the RAF tt a ck on tutt art last night, t e thir in ten days, biX hundr ~d British heavy- bombers droppe a thousand six hundred anJ eighty ton and lost only four planes. Then the bi 5 Blenheim& and Wellingtons had hardly returned to base when a big formation of our Fortress and Liberators headed for Naziland. According to a . secret radio station in Germany the American objectiY being Fran,fort-am-~ain, last bombed on February lltb Again today the Fortresses and Liberators had an advantage. Once again Germany was covered by a bank of clouds which kept most of the Nazi planes grounded But which didn't keep our bomb e rs from leaving Britai The 8th Air force lost eleven bombers and three fighters. And they shot down t least eighteen of th enemy. ar hall · talin's armiec are no within able di t nee of their fir t bi 6 objective, all Ger~ ns driven from Rus i n soil. Such 1as the announce~ent ~a e touay in the Briti ~ h House of Commons, by Sir James Grilg, Secretary for lar. From oscow, we hear that Red battalions forced the passa e of the Narva River outhwest of the city with tremendous loss of life, and then swung in lortb ward behinci it. So the Nazis now - can't 11ven escape from Narva by sea, since the Russians also have thea hemmed in from the shore of the Gulf of Finland. According to tonight's newspapers in ~oscow the job a Marva is about cleaned up. A still more violent battle is ra 6 ing tonight at the gate of Pskov. The Ger~ans still have one line out of Pskov running South and ~est of the city. But it's a lready under fire from the heavy ~uns of the Svviet artillery. With Pskov in their hands, the Rus · ianb will h h ve · 11 oµen ro into c outhern stonia I and Nort ern atvia. And then - still a thir ■ ajor b a ttle is being fou g ht around Vitebsk, where the oviet armies under eneral Bagramian are attacking from North, East and South. The fall of •itebsk will open the way into Lithunia. • Te riLis h lar Seer tary to a v also ave the British pretty muc the same warnin that Stimson, Knox and Stettinius ave us. That Germany still is fi g htin& with the utmost resolution; and with consua mate skill, except where Hitler's intuitions have be at work. Be told the Commons further that the entire British home army baa . been reorganized for the invaa- ion of Europe, the be s t army Britain ever bad. Brita war secretary in expressing confidence that the inva- sion will succeed, pointed out that an invasion of the continent can only be attempted because of the British Navy and the RAF. He wnet on to say that there is no question of the Allies being able to obtain a landing, but that they learned from Dieppe, and from Anzio, that a lan- ding is not all there is to it -- in fact far from it Sir James fr e ly admitted that Anzio so far has ueen a failure, the ori inal '**~msa.«iAk~ purpose of _,R _ _ _ _ that beachh wa r t c ut t N zi c om m unications with Rom and capture the Eternal City. •so f~r, he adde, •it is too early to eay whether the failure as justified.• . ,\" FIC Toni , ht we ha ve an i n teresting revelation about ~•ral "ae Al Arthur' inv asion or the Admiralt y group ot 1 ■ lend in tbe Paoltlo, A almost a bilarioue revelation. ·· !h en he sent that expedition on lta way, be had not 9lanned on invadin g the i ■ land or Loa ffegroa. He""".,..~ sent tbe boys out as a reconnaissance toroe. But when that reoonnal- a ■anoe roroe arr1 ved NI••• they round the enemy garrlaon eo ooaplet -/L ~h--e,~aJil,-ta£r,~ ~,,Cit,. taken by eurpriae~ap,e• -..lglit 40 l9 1 " ' " OODNqUeDN " ~~ - the penetrationr•IIIR 1• now being explolte4~nto complete oooupation. ~~- ~ 'hi., v.ou:hur landed rein1'oroement~~ lnolu4" troopa, .\.-::; ::), «u: « Ot Ci 0 c> 4 7;,, artillery, and oonatruotlon equlpaent, •••&ae englneera. 'l'bey proaptly named onto the lfollOte alrdrome began work OD the a1rtle14, and wlll aooD haft it in shape as a base tor airplane attacks oa ~ tlae •••••~ Japanese bases. "41ha, 1• let• of ,be .Jei,•••• aarrl:aea -0- . '!f. A R OON The poll01 or Washington • c., :nov1d quickly today in that case ot murder within the preoinote ot the great Oath1dral ot t.P9tei and t, Paul, Catherin• Reardon th• attr otiYe 1: 1 ■1 librarian of the c atbedral ae reported missing at a quart1l'-paet-one 'l'buradaJ' morni ng , her bOdy was r ound this forenoon ln the aub-basaent ot tbe library bulldin within tbe ath94ral grounds. larly tonl~ht tbe aabington oops ploke4 up a suspect,• thirty-tour ,-ar old n•sro Damed Tullua Fisher. Later, the police announced that Fteber ha4 conteeaecl to ¼ ~ - - haYlng murdere4J\th1rty-aeYen year 014~•-•••• l■ wl •• P'ieber had been a handyun around the Cathedral. !!1•• Reardon had otten coaplaln1d about hls wort, aald be wu l••J' anl ablttl•••• Tbe police reporte~hat late yeaterd•J' atternoon 111•• Reardon ga•e Plaher 90!II lnstruotlona about cleaning up the library. Tb• negro resented what she sald, picked up a lo,g trom the tire- plaoe, struck her down, then obocked her and dragged her to the ' basement. That ts the story told by the polloe. -0- ., :!PK! -- "hen Thomas I. Dewey was prc..secuting attorney or !few Torie city he proclalaed that the most dan erous crl■lnal in America • • a labor union racketeer named !Dula Lepke Bucbalter. Lepke••• then in hiding, a tug1t1Ye t'rom Justice. Dewey prenilec! upon tbe aut11Dl'- Q.. 1tles or New Tork CitJ to orterA.twenty-tiye thousand dollare nwart ror Lepke, The ? ederal goYern?Dent alrea4y baYing ottered t i " t~n•a - Lepke cue inisurrendered. Tberearter he••• convicted all onr the lot, convicted in the ~ ederal courts, oonv1ote4 in the etatA oourt1 ot . •• York. The Dl•trict Attorney ot IC1ng•a county, wlliob ••-- ~ ~-6l,t-~ lJrooklJD, tlnally OODYioted hl■ ot murder. "')tllt" sott-looldac, ~ cow-eyed Buchalter ••a Just as dangerous as Dewey ~•id he wu. lie ••• pro•ed to haft been the head or a ring ot deadly a••••lu la ,, ,, Brooklyn known aa lmder, Incorporated. Lepke waa to have died tonight in the electric chair at Sing ~~ Sing at eight o'clock Pacit'ic time. ~did not die beoau•• 'l'bome E. Dewer, now govemor ot New Tork, 1n aooordano• with the la"J granted Lepke another postponement, Go•ernor Dewey acted according the the book, since L epke's counsel -#.iit- bad announced/\be was applying L!PK! 2 to t . he S upreme Court of the nited Statea.toz a writ ~ owattor ■ at;- The district ourt an~ ircuit ~ourt or appeals had already turn.a down applications tor a writ ot habeas corpu•, The stay or execution grantee! b1 he Rew York OoTernor oa• rather as an anti-climax to a day or exoltement in which the DmH ot Lepke, >i>Di ~ flashed repeatet!l1 over the wires. 'l'here wa• t . he report that Lepke had told the Sing Sing Chaplain hi would turn state's evidenoe 1t the IJOTernor would reprieve hia. Thia NJ s t • • baahn the tact that the ciapllan or the pentlentiary 414 arrln ln AllNuly toda1 and visited the Oovernor. But the CJOTernor•• ottloe gan out no lnrormatioii on thii subject. A And while this was goln on, Lepke's name was brought into another murder trial, which apparentl1 had no more to do •1th Lepke than it had with the assassination or Abraham Lincoln. This was the trial or ·~ ayne Lonergan, accused or having murdered bis rich and beautiful . young wlte atrlcia. Lonergan's attorney made an oration in which, according to reporters, he became so excited that his voice cracked. ~e declared that he was being framed, that his client was L"'PIC 3 being rremed. H e claimed that the New Tork TlM• was trying to railroad both him and his client. Then he charged that a tormv ,. attorney for Lonergaa named 1 "illard i Uliaon, had taken money to tlz ,, the Lepke oaae, as be put it. Tb• text or the oration was auch that none ot the reporten co•erin, the trial could make head or tail or it. Lepke ••• conYio'-1 or a murder which took plao• in 3rookl,n eight yeara ago. I.A»nerpa, whose path in lite was d etinitely ditrerent trom that ot Lepa•e,waa arrested laat 19ar on• charge or having murdered his wite. 'l'be connecting or tboae two '~~~ oa■ea in open court,';:,, •• 15bsl ~ ' I should add that Gonrnor Dewer has delayed Lepk•'• electro- cution only until later in the week, which means Just enoUgh tllle tor tbe qupreme c ourt or the ' ! ni ted States to act upon bia ooun■ el •• appeaL tor ■ IA4t, • Olrttora:rt-. '3uohal ter tonight learned that hie ~ Jt~" execution bad been postp o nedJt"'oa a lnltu;APriest. He heard it Just atter he had said good-bye to his w ite. ~U A OS The ua d rupleta borne by . r tt1 Mlsa Nora Garpmter or England are interesting people in this country almoat as muoh •• did the blankets, satety plna, night gowns, ••••P•, eYerythlng a ,oana mother oould aak. The two 'bop among th• qua4a ba•• re4 balr lat lit• their tether, start Sergeant tf1111am Tbomp•on, who P • ..,. t n a me or "R•4• among hls m••• mat••• The young mother, who u■e4 to servloe. When she round out• waa golng · to ha•• a baby- · •N 11111•• ottioer or th• A. Nora a dlaoharge. 1110, ••••• ,~, .. R liNo m; tbl a, ------------- -- Both Red and b ope to be married when hi■• gut 1!.rs. Thompson, a beautician in Pittsburgh, la a Ro11a11 catholic, her f.atber spoke ror her and said that his daugb,er wou14 not apply f or a divorce and he added that the book Wd closed ard v ' ITALY Tb• fighting men or General Mark C lark's Jitth Arm.y han tinally put a stopper on the third puah that the N azi• •4• at the ~o• beachhead. There were torty-tl•• tbouaand ot th••• tony-tlft thousand OerllUla in the narrow apearbea4-wedge that led the attack. In tba V an or it were three ot General Von Maokenz•n'• beat 41•1•1one, ~ d • into battle on bug• Tiger tent• shouting "llail Ritlerl • Tb• mo•ntwa or the tirat aasult was so powertul that it oarr1e4 ~ ~ r o U & ) l w.r1o11Jl iainetielda tor allloat an entire Idle. A 6luJ_ _p _ 1) tt\>Atd_,a ~ J..-wfti. Hilt there they were stopped. ~• air t o n ~ • • t:o 1111 • • • 11$ ~ ~. - - ,, ;!,'4• Ida ,!1J1ng..:_orta and Uberstora ~ b • role or tigbter-1>1•••• bedge•bopplng and b o m ~ ,::;f ,,, ~ vraall: Nazl !'book troopa. Arter tbe tirat wave or tbe attack bad spent lteelt, ~ I . ~ b a ~ ~ . 1 : . ~-~.-;.~ ~ wtt• aapaae.- ••tessnattt,, - .-.~ the artillery.J8')t into ■olJ.CS: ~ Sc venty-ti vee 1 a1eaa ,.,. hundred-and-th~ and ban4r~., 4- f 1 rt~ t 1Ye-m1l 11meter oanno~a,aMe4 peulae dee,, late t~• aermen I ALY 2 ~ Pa11H.-.'Qc11 ~ Br! tisb seYenteen-pounders and twenty-l'ift -POUDdera eeiijJtuh• .tJae eM.t11el-. ~te.c.. ~ ~ ~ ) Tbz aemsa,,broke and retreate4. '1'o make their oontwllon mre tborougb, a riolent wind tollowed bJ a pelting rain, swept tbe bllttl•- -rr::.:-,,,. ~ ~~. ~ tlel4./\~I • " ' the atol"lll t'aYor•~~- 1il~ Wblle t h e W W tlounder~ in ~he au4, with attaclc-tormatione tlung oat on eltber A aid•, General Clark•• lntantr,men beaan tll teriag throalb, and aucoeedecl ln leolatlng large unite ot the ••IIY• An elu •• Oetp4., wader a .,ring barrage. Md at lateat repor,e they bed won baok moat o~~ ~ l w ~ c ~ ~ ~ . ~ i ; o ~ a v v , ~ ~~' ' - 5'~ . The Nazi communique broadcast over the Berlin radlo admitted ~ ~ # ,, ~ ' the ta1lure ot Kaaeelr1ng•e third~•••••• drtwllN Al~lin•'t:"" ~-~~~ ~ .the s s,•a•z• :::: · "'•• '8 '-• •11•, ~be e11emy==ei:e-l11•• le t.an 1■r11e, .. • ': AR'.)() N An attractlve _ young librarian attached to the protestant ! piscopal a th•d ral o r ' t. :- eter a nd . t. P aul at "l aahlngton, o . c .~ ~ ~ y str d ay atternoon)arter her day's work.wau du■c. 1, :f er f a m ilyAorried)snd a quarter past one o•elo1II tbia momlng her aunt notlfi~d the police that she was missing. The library 1s in th• Cathednl preo1nots • in the shadow ot the •Jestic buildin g which is generally ot tb• • • • mapttlcient churoh•• in th• country. ezaapl• ot fourteenth oentury Oothic architeotun. Neither tbe Oathe4ral lteelt - - ~~-~ nor tbe library 1• ooaplete4. Atca, LIN ■&••I• of ,~rorenoon, tbl Curator and a young wo•n in obarge ot the Arohi••• went down into th• eub•bae••nt or the librarJ building. 'l'ber•. in a narrow well tormed by towerin g booketaoks theJ round the...., boclJ ot JCatherlne Reardon, t h e missing librarian. &o lsa4 ti&ss'Beaten to death, ber skul l fractured, many ot the bones or her body broken. ~ The Washington~ announce4 that they are looting tor a. ~ ~ it, ...-, an employee ot the Cat h edral who~ ti4- ~show up tor work Reardon 2 today. Tbe atire bollicide squad or the National Capital 11 on tbe 5 Job/and all - . entrance• to the Oathedral ground wen oloae4 • . . , rsltas I .. ,. ..... ~ Mias Reardon' a trl1nd1 and taailr ~•N •h• had only two lo•••• "' I' ~J.)~ her ~ other and the atudy ot ~••Ph1•loa. a■ ; ■ IN •f\ ah• • • lat- ereatet in tll ■ ■ tua, ., aatroloa. • • • • •• t~• . . lhednl P••••••e - • •••lJ ataeotln1 tale feh C!UM!S Rew York today bristled with sensations trom the criminal courts. ~lrst or all a report came trom Albany that Louis Lepke Buchalter, rounder and bead or a murder ring in BrooklJD, waa reaay to turn atate•s eYidenoe in the hope ot saving his lite. &a•~• •lu Ir •••••s IR&s .Ke was to have been eletltrooute4 at Slq Sing tonight. But yesterday the Prison Chaplain -.Ut to Albany to••• Oo•eraor Dewey. The report ls that the Sing !lng ohaplaln ba4 OOM to the Oo•enor bringing a measage trom IApke. -J:U- Rext t•1■8 we hear~ Lepke's oounael had applied to the > UDlted State circuit Court ot Appeal• applying tor a writ ot babea• oorpu■• Normally, this would haYe delayed the execution ot the -I£ murder gang leader. But,,. presiding Juatloe 1.llmediately oonvene4 the Circuit Court, held a hearing or the appeal an4 denied it. t : , - · - - - - ..... l'h• most extraordinary event or all occurred at the trial J ~ ~ -' ~~~ . ot Wayne L onergan aoous~d ;t-thJ---;~der ot his A . ~ Lonerpn•• counsel, Edward v. Broderick, in a tempestuous and turbulent speeoh, brCl.lght into tbat murder trial the name ot Lepke. Broderick had already provided many sensations during the crimes 2 condu c t or that trial. Re had obtained on• delay atter another, on one occasion railin to show up when the trial••• called and excu s ing himself on the ~ round that he bad to go to Cana4a to obtain information. Thie he did without the permission ot the Court, an4 the ~ udge hinted that he would dlscipllne Broderick atter tile trial la OTer. .... ~~ Then, a tew daya ag:o, Broderiok;',t . •• ~ riolent oration 111 oourt;d•mand~ that the . U4ge dhoharp the JUr)' panel lllld deolue a mlstrlal. 04) W\ L Ja eta■,I speech he made 1ra•e oharpa apinat the Pro1eoutort •••• aplnat tba ru4gez;:;, • -er ()~•- ~£ ~ Today he broke loose witb a tirade during wblob reporter• described hlm as bellowing and scr•ming ao loudly tbat at t l • • b11 ~~ ~ Toice cracked. 1'._ aoouaed the Proaecutor ot trylng to sell the . fV~.4 innocent Defendant down the riTer. ~,accused the Rew Tom 'l'taa or trying to haTe him, Broderick, dlsb~rred. At the top ot hla wioe he shouted that The Times was trying to put the electric chair in ' --6-tJ;X. t h e ~ so that Arthur ~•Y• Sulzberger, publisher and principal . I~ 3 owner or~Times, could pt 1 ll tbe switch on Lonergan. ~ ~ came the most bewildering accusation ot all. Broc!eriok declared tbat Lonergan' s tor:uer counsel, . illard !llison, one ot tbne attorneys appointed by the Court to defend Lonergan, took money lil the Lepke caae atter Lepke was convicted. 9ro4erlck used tbeae worcl81 •Ellison took the dough to make the tiz and wben tbe paper• •nl after hla he tell down and now they are trying to disbar m1.~ So ••14 !dward II. Broderick in defense or Lonergan. Reporter• promptly rushed to Klllaon, wbo deolare4 poaltlftly that he had never had anything to do wlth the Lepke case, directly or indirectly, never representect Lepke in his lite, never got a lliokle rro11 the Lepke caae and knew nothing about it. ~ A./'J CY\. ~ ~ O V \ , TIile • .. •••••hlaP7 epeeab bf '!tOdertot tello•t • •• - • - ' • crime • a.Jtf ' At the end 01A thi• 1•-•l:•1 •a•-. th• 1'14g• &llDOUDOe4 tba, h• would take under consideration the 110tlon to 4eolar• a ad.atrial in tho tonerpn oaN. -o-