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Doughboys in Race With Nazis Moving Up for Battle at Rhine

Trap Tightened On Enemy by 1st And 3d Armies

BULLETIN. PARIS Jones of McKee, Ky.

Sergt. Goodson was in command as the iron war horse crashed through the murky night. Pvt. Fried, was the cannoneer, Corpl. Richard was the gunner, and Sergt. Jones was at the controls.

Sergt. Drabik was called to Gen. Hoge’s command post yesterday to be interviewed.

Still grimy from combat and cradling an M-l gun in his arm, the raw-boned Ohioan spoke in simple, matter-of-fact phrases of one'of the war 's most dramatic mo- ments.

"It was like this,” he said. “Lt. Timmerman (Lt. Carl Timmerman, of West Point, Nebr.) told us to go across the bridge, with the first pla- toon leading.

“I’ve got the third platoon of a rifle company. We had fought through Remagen to the river and our com- pany was at the edge of the town about 200 yards from the bridge. “I waited until the first platoon

got out on the bridge, but they were (See BUTCHER BOY, Page A-3.)

Northern Transylvania Returned to Romania Under Truce Terms

Formal Action Taken On Territory Awarded Hungary by Hitler

Ej the Associated Pres*. MOP" GW Mar. 10.—Premier

Stalin has i iformed Premier Pe- true Groz^ of Romania that, in accord witl the armistice terms of last Sej tember 12. Northern Transylvar 4 has been returned to Romanic from Hungary.

The formal return of the territory awarded HUi gary by Hitler was made public today in a disclosure of letters from Groza and his For- eign Minister, Gheorge Tatarescu, to Premier Stalin and the Soviet leader’s reply.

The Soviet leader Informed Ro- mania it was her responsibility to maintain order and protect minor- ities in the territory and to see that any war front needs imposed on Transylvania were met.

Text of Letter. The text of the Romanian letter: "Mister Marshal: After the act

of September 23, 1944, by which Romania joined the United Na- tions in order to wage war against the common enemies, it has been the ardent desire of the Romanian people to see themselves once again within the limits of Transylvania, part of which was unjustly torn away from them.

"The province was liberated with thanks to the heroism of the Red Army in close co-operation with the Romanian Army and the Romanian people in Northern Transylvania await impatiently the day of their return within the borders of Ro- mania.

Justice Promised. “The Romanian government has

the honor to petition the govern- ment of the Soviet Union and to present the supreme Soviet com- mand a request that this desire of the Romanian people be carried out.

"The Romanian government pro- poses, suggests and asserts that the administration it will set up in this province will look after the rights of nationalities living there, being guid- ed by the principles of democracy, equality, and justice for the entire population.

"It (the Romanian government) will also take into consideration maintenance and complete order so that nothing will interfere with the proper functioning of all institutions serving the battle front.

"The Romanian government hopes its petition will be met with sym- pathy and a favorable decision on part of the Soviet government and the supreme command.”

Marshal Stalin's reply: “Mister President: The Soviet

government has considered the re- (See ROMANIA, Page A-2.)

U. S. Big Guns Shell Ruhr Valley Targets By the/.itociatVd Press.

WITH THE UNITED STATES 9th ARMY, Mar. 10.—Long-range artil- lery of the United States 9th Army stabbed deep into Germany’s Ruhr Valley today with 240-millimeter shells.

The Krupp armament plant at Essen, 14 miles from across the Rhine captured Homberg, was with- in the orbit of these big guns, which have a range much greater than the 155-millimeter Long Tom weapon used so effectively in the Normandy campaign.

For days these 58-000-pound be- hemoths have been getting priori- ties on all roads between the Roer Rhine. Most of them are dug in back of the Rhine’s banks, hi fields where camouflage makes them un- noticed until their blasts shake the countryside.

Duisburg, Duesseldorf and other important German towns on the east banks of the Rhine have been un- der American artillery lire for a week.

The howitzers’ 345-pound shells can be sent into Essen with the regularity of one round per minute.

Ordnance Loss In Europe Fixed At $500,000,000

By the Associated Press.

ABERDEEN, Md„ Mar. 10.—Ord- nance losses in the European thea- ter since D day have been estimated at $500,000,000 worth of materials, Maj. Gen. Charles T. Harris, jr., commanding general of the Proving Grounds here, disclosed today.

Included in the loss were 6,205 combat vehicles, 34,250 general pur- pose vehicles, 166.885 rifles and otJSer small arms, 23,871 mortars and ftia- chine guns and 75,245 binoculars, watches and compasses.

Gen. Harris said that enemy equipment captured or destroyed ex- ceeded losses by the United States in combat. Gen. Patton’s Army alone was reported to have destroyed or captured 17 pieces of enemy ar- tillery for every one lost.

FBI May Be Asked To Study Speculation On CCC Operations

Some Operators Reported To Have Made Millions On 'Inside Information'

By the Associated Press. An FBI inquiry into the Com-

modity Credit Corp. was pos- sibility today in the wake of allegations that speculators with inside information on the oper- ations of the agency had made “millions and millions of dol- lars” in the grain market.

The reputed situation within the CCC, which administers the farm commodity price support program and handles food purchases for lease-lend, was brought into the open yesterday when a House dis- cussion resulted in disclosure that three CCC employes have been “separated” from their jobs.

Representative Taber, Republican of New York asserted that a situa- tion exists which “tanscends Teapot Dome,” and he joined with Rep- resentative Keefe, Republican, ol Wisconsin in demanding a search- ing inquiry into the reports of spec- ulators’ operations.

A House subcommittee already is studying the affairs of the corpora- tion,

Marvin Jones Calls on FBI. Frank Hancock, CCC head, told

reporters of the three separations from service as he listened to the House discussion from a gallery seat Since he took over the agency Jan- uary 1, Mr. Hancock said, investiga- tions have been in progress and Marvin Jones, head of the Wai Food Administration, has requested the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make an inquiry.

Mr. Hancock did not indentify tht three ousted employes.

Representative Folger, Democrat of North Carolina took the floor tc ridicule what he called an attempi by the Republicans to make alleged “faithlessness to trust” by “some

(See CCC, Page A-4.)

Billion-Dollar Plan To Industralize China After War Is Mapped

Program Worked Out by FEA to Help Nation 'Mold Own Future'

By the Associated Press.

Foreign Economic Administra- tion officials disclosed today they have completed preparation of a $1,000,000,000 postwar industrial- ization plan for China.

The five-year program is in the hands of the Chinese government after more than a year's work by 40 FEA engineers and technicians, supplemented by the Nation’s best engineering and manufacturing tal- ent.

Believed to be the first study of such proportions, FEA officials said the plan was developed with this objective: “The making of the tools of industry with which China can mold her own future.” •

They emphasized that “it is not our official program for China. They asked us to help them work out a guide to the industrialization of China. And this is the result of our efforts.”

The program calls for construc- tion of 953 industrial plants. Rec- ommendations for an internal trans- portation system would involve the expenditure of an additional $1,000,- 000,000

Embracing 10 volumes, the plan covers these subjects: Mining and metallurgy, chemicals and basic processing, manufacture, power, transportation; production, proces- sing and distribution of food; river control and irrigation and construc- tion methods; industrial training and industrial hygiene; industrial research and the establishment of libraries of technical books.

The PEA estimates that the plan will provide employment for 700,000 Chinese, but no attempt is made to gauge the number of persons who could be employed in develop- ment of the transportation system,

The PEA plan is designed strictly for the postwar period, in contrast with the plan to increase China’s war production drawn by Donald M. Nelson, presidential adviser with cabinet rank who has made two trips to that country.

Late Bulletin Fund Bill Reported

The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved a possible outlay of $65,000,000 for the planning of postwar projects by the Federal Works Agency in reporting out a $3,- 145,134,000 independent offices supply bill. The committee also voted to renew its unsuc- cessful fight of last year to abolish the TV A revolving fund and require that agency to obtain direct appropriations from Congress.

Muddled English of Tokyo Radio Has Yanks Landing in Japan By tne Associated tress.

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 10.—A Japanese broadcaster stumbled over his English today and said “the en- emy • • • is now attempting to make a landing on Japan proper,” when obviously he didn’t mean a word of it.

The statement, apparently intend- ed to reiterate that American naval forces operating in Japanese waters threaten an invasion, was contained in a Tokyo radio review the current war situation hearoroy the Blue Network.

The report *as made in connec- tion with Tokyo’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of Japanese Army Day. After claiming that Japanese .troops had inflicted 503,- 000 Allied casualties, plus 70,000 on

Luzon and 30,000 on Iwo Jima Tokyo added:

“Due to heavy casualties, the enemy, trying to make a swift con- clusion of this war, is now attempt- ing to make a landing on Japar proper. The Japanese Army or the other hand is inflicting decisive blows against the enemy and ie waiting for an opportunity to make a large-scale counteroffensive.”

That was the only reference to “s landing.”

A Tokyo broadcast picked up it London quoted Field Marshal Gen Sugiyama, Japanese war minister as declaring that Japan’s situatior was "very serious” and that “the enemy is going to force an all-out decision as soon as possible an< will land In Japan in the neai future.”

Warrant Names Escaped Felon As Boyer Slayer

Suspect In at Least Two,Other Murders Sought in Wide Search

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Joseph Medley, 43, escaped convict and suspect in at least two other recent slayings in- volving women, today was charged with the murder of Mrs. Nancy Boyer, about 45, who was found dead Thursday night in her Washington House apart- ment, 2120 Sixteenth street N.W.

The warrant sworn out by In- spector Robert J. Barrett, detective chief, before United States Com- missioner Needham C. Tumage, specified murder in the first degree.

The filing was a formality since a coast-to-coaet search already had. been instituted last night for the ex-convict after he had been iden- tified as a caller at the Boyer apart- ment and a participant in a poker game there the night of the slaying.

The Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion will be called on to help in the Nation-wide search for Medley, one of whose many aliases here was L. A. Fisher, the name of the 28-year- old woman textile worker from New York whose nude body w'as discov- ered in the bathtub of her room in a New Orleans hotel Christmas eve.

Medley, a former Chicagoan who escaped from the Jackson (Mich.) State Prison November 27, where he was serving a 30 to 60 year sentence for kidnaping and armed robbery, is wanted for questioning in tha slaying of Miss Fisher and also the death of Mrs. Blanche Zimmerman, 38, a telephone operator found dead in the Atlantic Hotel in Chicago February 17. He was indicted in the Fisher slaying.

Medley made his escape when, as a “trusty” he was taking into Jack- son $700 which convicts at the prison had given him to buy War Bonds. He had been sentenced in 1927 in Arkansas to four to five years for larceny by conversion.

To Send Out Circulars.

Inspector Barrett said that cir- culars would be sent to every law enforcement agency In the country and that pawnbrokers also would be notified, since robbery has been the

I motive in most of the cases in which Medley has been involved.

Robbery was the motive, police said, in the slaying of the attractive, red-haired Mrs. Boyer, who was found shot twice in the head, in the kitchenette of her ninth-floor apart- ment in Washington House Thurs- day night. The body was discovered by Mrs. Ida H. Soelter, apartment manager, entering with a pass key at the insistence of a friend of Mrs. Boyer who said she had been un- able to reach her on the telephone for the past three days.

The autopsy indicated the slain woman had been dead since Tues-

jday morning, several hours after j a poker party in her apartment had broken up.

Hint at Other crimes,

Inspector Barrett said that Med- ley had been identified as one of those at the Boyer apartment Mon- day night.

Police were silent on whether there was any connection between the murder of Mrs. Boyer and the slaying of two men, Edward F. Barker and Pany Casbarian, in a trailer on a second-hand auto lot February 23. However, it was learned that police here had been asked by Chicago authorities to look for Medley in connection with the Zimmerman case on the day that the two men were slain and that they missed him by only a few min- utes at a downtown hotel.

Police said Mrs. Boyer was killed with a .32-caliber bullet. The slay- ing of Mr. Barker and Mr. Cas- barian involved a 55-caliber weapon, but the difference was not regarded Important.

Outlines Known Facts.

Inspector Barrett outlined the known facts in the case which led up to the fatal shooting. Medley met a woman in a downtown rest- aurant February 28. This woman, whose identity police declined to re- veal, introduced him to her mother and subsequently to several other friends and on Friday of last week to Mrs. Boyer.

Since then Medley had been seen frequently with the slain woman, the last time Monday night in the lobby of Washington House, only a few hours before she was slain. He is believed to have left the Boyer apartment early Tuesday morning after a late poker party, with an- other woman, whose identity was likewise withheld by police, but later to have returned. Since there are “peepholes” in all the doors of the apartments of the building, through which occupants may see who is out- side, police believe Mrs. Boyer was expecting him for the “snack" she was preparing in the kitchenette where her body was found, crumpled in a comer in a sitting position.

Fingerprints Found. The evidence linking the well-

dressed former convict with the slaying includes a profusion of fin- gerprints discovered by police finger- print experts in an exhaustive search of the apartment yesterday and Identification of his rogues gallery photograph by the woman who in- troduced him to Mrs. Boyer and also by several pawnbrokers, who said he was the man who pawned three expensive fur coats and two rings

i in January. Police are checking to (See MURDER, Page A-2.)