Boris King Reported One of Greatest War Conferences in Crucial * Red Army Advances ———— Allied t Here ♦ S History__ Maps Strateay Asking Hitler for Cee of the greatest war confer- ences the world ever has seen was Nazi Attacks going on in Washington today with Despite in Crisis the United States and Great Britain Troops putting into final shape the grand Near Novorossisk strategy of the offensives in both Gestapo Chief Himmler European and Pacific theaters of war. Heavy Artillery Said to Be Hurrying Barrage The highest names in both the Presages Big Push To Sofia After Plea American and British war machines, headed by President Roosevelt and Toward Black Sea By the Associated press. Prime Minister Churchill, were LONDON, May 14.—King Boris gathered around the conference By EDDY GILMORE, of Bulgaria has sent an urgent table. Every phase of operations is Associated Press War Correspondent. appeal to Adolf Hitler for addi- represented in the group that in- MOSCOW. May 14.—Battling cludes men with wide tional secret units as experience in against stubborn German re- police pro- the United Nations’ tection internal dis- operations in sistance in the Kuban, the Red against the Far East and India. turbances, reports reaching Al- Army has advanced in some sec- Eight of Great Britain's most im- lied said today. tors and captured additional governments portant and influential war leaders These advices said it was under- lines northeast of the Black Sea accompanied Mr. Churchill to stood that the chief him- of Gestapo Washington to plan the final port Novorossisk, dispatches Heinrich was self, Himmler, hurry- strategy with seven of America's from the front said today. to Sofia. ing top-ranking military leaders. Their (The German communique said There was no information, how- discussions probably will be the last Nazi artillery had set warehouses ever. on whether concerted out- between the two groups before the afire in Leningrad, but that the breaks had occurred. in the whole front was quiet yesterday. big guns open up war's final Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Meanwhile, indications that trouble Admiral Sir James Air Marshal Sir Richard Gen. Sir Alan Admiral Sir The bulletin was broadcast by phase. Wavell, Dudley might be brewing in France were Somerville, Peirse, Brooke, Pound, Berlin and recorded by the As- Top-ranking British officer is GEN. Chief in India. seen in reports of a recent Gestapo Army Naval Chief in India. Air Chief in India. Chief Staff. First sociated Press.) SIR FRANCIS ALAN Imperial Sea Lord. roundup of 200 members of the BROOKE, The dispatches did not Indicate youngest son of a family of Vichy government said to have been nine, the extent of the Red Army’s most chief of the Imperial General Staff suspected of communicating with recent gains, but said definite prog- and charged with all of French resistance groups or Allied questions ress had been made in the face of military the agents. policy affecting security strong German counterattacks. ! of the British Commonwealth and It also was asserted that Grand for Barrage Hints Big Push. Armiral Karl Doenitz, German | responsible the organization of victory in the field. Yesterday frontline dispatches naval commander in chief, had ; said the Red Army had smashed Born at de moved his headquarters from Paris Bagneres Bigorre, into secondary German defenses to Kiel. because he felt France, Sir Alan, who will be 59 on Germany, northeast of the city and was at- unsafe in France. July 23, brings to the conference a tacking the inner defenses under a vast fund of technical warfare Holland Is Warned. tremendous barrage of hundreds of Holland, seeth- knowledge, based on studies of Ger- German-occtipied big guns. I with had a from man Panzer divisions In action. Re- ing unrest, warning (The mid-day communique, as its exiled government, meanwhile, garded by many as Britain’s great- recorded in London by the Soviet that premature revolution would est expert on mechanization, he monitor, said the heavy barrage lead only to crushing German Re- organized the successful British re- was continued during the night.) taliation before it could into treat at the main grow Dunkerque, saving The artillery barrage was so heavy, warfare. of after it was large-scale underground body troops virtually these advices added that it pre- The official hint that the time is conceded to be doomed. This ac- Gen. George C. Marshall, saged a final big push to shove the not for tion was for his eleva- Admiral William D. yet ripe wide-spread upris- responsible Chief of Staff. Leahy, Germans into the sea. to Chief of Staff to President. ings coincided with reports of tion knighthood bv King George The air war, which currently Is violence in both Holland in 1940. spreading fiercer than anything on land, was and and a Swedish news- Belgium, Sir Alan, an expert angler and big mounting today following wide- that had oc- paper reported rioting game hunter, served in Ireland and spread action ranging from the cen- curred in Berlin itself. India in the early stages of his mil- tral front to Warsaw, capital of Radio of the Orange, mouthpiece itary career and during the World Poland, which the Russians bombed exiled Netherlands government, War served as a general staff officer Wednesday night. warned the homeland that a widely- in the Canadian Corps. He fought Soviet airmen blasted at many distributed circular urging the Dutch at Vimv Ridge and later, after being objectives during the night and to register in an underground move- attached to the British 1st Army, raided a railway junction and com- ment "to the British lib- help troops won the Distinguished Service munication lines. erate is a your people” German plot Order with bar, the Belgian Croix German Planes Active. "to incite Netherlands violence over de Guerre and many commenda- German planes also were active the shortest and to period possible tions. last night, striking at Liskl, about break it most forcibly so that the SIR DUDLEY POUND. First Sea 45 miles southeast of Voronezh on consequent terror regime and the Lord and Admiral of the Fleet, is the the southern front. A dispatch from German plans may be executed son of the former the Kuban to Izvestia, official without further disturbance.” Miss Elizabeth gov- Packman Rogers of Boston, Mass., ernment newspaper, related one in- Warned of Hitler Trick. who married Alfred John Pound, an stance where German air units were The broadcast, warning of one of English lawyer. superior to the Russians, but this Admiral Ernest J. -- was taken Hitler's oldest tricks of divide and Sir Dudley assumed his present ——wawr^rnMnnrgrii^M>rvii'Wgaii— Gen. H. H. not to mean that the Rus- was King:, sians had lost air conquer, reported by Aneta, offi- duties in 1939 and a month after President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill as they met earlier this week. Arnold, superiority, as it Commander United States Fleet. cial Dutch news agency. being elevated to that post became —A. P, Wide World and Photos. Chief of Air Forces. probably referred to only one battle. ler-TT—.-.-r..*" Hsrris-Ewinj ‘‘Resistance is only good if it is an admiral of the fleet—a rank con- T '1 ■•‘■***r Soviet forces made additional carried out in concert,” the an- ferred only by the King. : night forays behind the Nazi lines nouncer said. “The Germans are de- The admiral, who accompanied in the mud flats and marsh areas liberately provoking the Netherlands Mr. Churchill here on his first visit, of the Kuban and wore reported to people.” was a director of operations in 1917, have sunk eight boats loaded with Of the circular's statement that when the convoy system first was German troops. the time of liberation instituted on a scale. Before (The approaches, large midday communique as the announcer said: that he had commanded the bat- heard in London said Russian “That is but he went on HMS Colossus at the bat- and possible," tleship ships planes sank two enemy to warn that its appeal to the Dutch tle of Jutland, gaining the Admiral- transports and two trawlers in to volunteer and register for train- ty's attention by the skillful maneu- the Barents Sea in the far north.) ing was “a of his under fire. The pure transparent provo- vering ship Russians announced they had cation. a means for the Ger- has held ! getting Sir Dudley every impor- seized the initiative in the Lisi- man hands on able-bodied tant of command in successive good post chansk area of the Donets front Netherlander.” in as Ad- steps and 1932 served after several days of fierce German The of violence on the reports spreading miralty representative League counterattacks, had driven forward tn Holland and Belgium came from of Nations’ Commission in Advisory considerably and had improved their sources with close links to the Allied 1932. Known as a driving and ex- position. This was the best progress governments, but without official commander, Sir Dudley acting reported from the Donets since the confirmation. to the conference a brings precise Germans began their counterattacks of the naval Situation Tense in Holland. knowledge European a W'eek ago. situation through his experiences as However, Aneta said the situation Virtually no action was reported commander in chief in the Mediter- from the had “reached its tensest in the other fronts. point ranean during the early stages of three years of German occupation I the present war. Lt. Gen. Sir L. and might erupt momentarily.” Hastings Lord Marshal Sir Charles F. A. Lt, Gen. Joseph W. Vice Admiral S. Gen. Claire L. AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR Emory Maj. Increasing attacks on vital rail Ismay, Leathers, Portal, Stilwell, Land, Chennault, CHARLES FREDERICK ALGER Chief of Staff to Churchill. arteries for Axis troops and supplies Chief of War Transport. Chief of Air Staff. Army Chief in China. Chief of War Air Chief in China. NON PORTAL has the distinction Shipping. were reported in Belgium and Hol- of being the youngest and the first Gen. Graziani, and later to credit land. and a Russian domestic broad- coming major for the pursuit and planned the global strategy of the which he won the Distinguished are credited with re- SLIDE flying, having real airman ever appointed chief of grips with Marshal Erwin Rommel. cast said mass strikes are taking destruction of the German pocket United Nations. He was also among Service Medal for his participation sulted in the unusually high scofe air staff of the Royal Air Force. Marshal Wavell was wounded and place in Holland in protest against battleship Bismark. the American officers who were with in the St. Mihiel engagement, he flyers under Gen. Chennault were Under his direction are the eight lost an eye while on the the Nazi order that all former Neth- fighting Admiral Somerville entered the the President and Mr. Churchill at became a language student in China. able to mark before the air marshals of the RAF com- front up "Tigers" erlands soldiers must into con- eight Ypres during the World War. in 1898 and served as an in- sea RULES go Navy their famous conference, out of He remained in the East four years, were disbanded last year. Gen. mands. An adept pupil, he learned desert a centration camps. The Netherlands structor, destroyer commander, a which the Atlantic Charter grew. until 1923, and wTas sent back with Chennault is also credited with Complete With Book came a Sir Charles’ as head of fighting under Field Marshal Lord officer and in a outbreaks only day after the position signal number of Last fall, Gen. Arnold conducted the 15th Infantry from 1926 to 1929, having organized a highly efficient of Dutch in exile had the air staff has him in ex- Edmund Allenby in Palestine, where other before he became an Instructions government put posts a 22,000-mile survey of the Pacific From 1932 to 1939, he served as mil- air raid warning system for use by the former servicemen to traordinarily close relationship with he also won the of the admiral in 1933. urged defy friendship theater, for which he was awarded itary attache at Peiping. Last year, the Chinese. (While Lawrence They Last) the Germent internment orders, and the Prime Minister, with whom he legendary of Arabia. A he was made chief of staff to Gen- GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL, the Air Medal. He has been to It is said he knows more about book written Marshal Wavell on Radio Orange's warning may have probably spends more week ends by United eralissimo and a States Army chief of staff, is England several times, for confer- Chiang Kai-shek, Japanese air tactics than any other been an attempt to temper than any other man in the services. desert warfare is required reading little later the President resulting a veteran of previous Roosevelt- ences and on inspection tours. In placed him white officer violence. not for the aerial in all British military schools. today. Responsible only Churchill meetings, Gen. Marshall, February of this year, it was an- in command of American forces in In Norway, increasing resentment defense of the homeland but for the Marshal was Wavell the subject i mild-mannered and reserved, is nounced that he had made a 35,000- the East. 59e against forced labor has reached the offense on scattered global fronts of considerable to the gossip effect | highly respected by military men for mile trip to North Africa, the Mid- When the Japanese were bearing Benes Predicts point, the Stockholm radio as well, the air marshal that he was Germany breaking occupies in semi-disgrace when his soundness of Judgment. He as- dle East, India and China. He down on Chinese forces the and added that resist- | through said, passive one of the most responsible posi- his suffered reversals at the sumed his in an troops I present position, attended the Casablanca confer- jungles of Burma, Gen. Stilwell re- ance is into “active counter tions in the world. f*McDougall'ButierGoi turning military hands of German-reinforced Axis in Like Tunisia ! acting capacity, July, 1939, and ence, after which he flew eastward mained with his troops and spurned Will Collapse V, inc. _/ measures.” Sir Charles, who prefers the name forces the was on a following successful placed permanent basis and conferred with Generalissimo an offer to be flown to India in an The dramatic of of Peter, is noted for his calm direc- sudden, collapse DIVISION! The Berlin rioting episode was re- British sweep into Libya two years ; two months later. Chiang Kai-shek concerning opera- for 20 Army plane. Instead, days, to that of the ^MORGAN in a from tum and skill. After Germany, comparable ported Reuters dispatch fighting join- ago. His transfer from Egypt to During the first World War, Gen. tions against the Japanese in China. with a contingent of soldiers and Stockholm which was based on an ing a motorcycle unit in the World India Marshall served Axis armies in Tunisia, after a des- ^seemed to verify the rumors, with the A. E. F. ! ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY nurses, he beat his way through the 42M0^.N.W,NAt78aSv account sent from the German War, he transferred to the but from 1917 cap- Royal tlfie subsequent pattern of the I to 1919 as a member of became chief of stall to the President tropical forests, ducking Japanese perate defense of the Axis strong- ital by the correspondent of the Flying Corps, predecessor of the United Nations’ the staff of the 1st chief offense, plus his j Division, after his return from Vichy, France, warplanes, and finally accepting a hold in Europe, is the forecast for (Sweden) Handelstidnin- RAF, and in one took elevation to of for the 1st Goteborg engagement Field Marshal by the operations Army and where he served as American Am- “lift” to India only after supplies on five German chief of staff the war's end by President Eduard gen. opponents. King last January, indicated the of the 8th Army Corps. bassador the difficult ran low. I| during days thousands of men and His war won veteran officer had been to He was aide de camp to Gen. Persh- Benes of Czecho-Slovakia. It said feats him the post assigned after the fall of French arms. He has MAJ. GEN. CLAIRE L. CHEN- outside the inform- of chief an ing from 1919 to 1924. Since then visit to Presi- women gathered flying instructor at Cran- equally important post. gained a reputation as a cold logi- NAULT, chief of American air forces Here on an official Gen. Marshall has served in ation office to learn the fate of their dall, Britain’s W'est- Point of the AIR MARSHAL SIR RICHARD China, cian and an able executive, both on in China, achieved dent Roosevelt. Dr. Benes expressed an widespread recog- eons in North Africa. When Aii, after the war. In 1940 he was was instructor at the Army War in a conference late they PEIRSE, air chief in India, succeeded the sea and in the important duties nition as leader of the amazing “Fly- press yesterday were it went College here, was chief of the war brusquely turned away, raised to knighthood. Sir Charles Portal in the bomber he has carried out ashore. ing Tigers.” Once known in the Army his belief that the German Army on, the crowd and plans division of the General Staff would defend the so-called fortress began rioting, LT. GEN. SIR HASTINGS LIONEL command when the latter was ap- His present assignment is prob- as the greatest acrobatic flyer and SS Elite Guards broke the crowd and, becoming chief, was of then to up ISMAY Is one of Britain’s "brain pointed to his present post and was deputy ably his most difficult, since it is by airmen as an extraor- Europe fiercely, go pieces, top chief of staff. recognized Without resort to arms. trusters’’ and in his the guiding hand behind the his responsibility to deal with high- Gen. Chen- “completely broken and miserable present position early A few dinary precision flyer. Meanwhile, continued months ago, reports were at the same time.” Germany one of the most vital links in British mass aerial assaults on Axis-held ranking officers from every branch nault, then a captain, was grounded i circulating that Gen. Marshall was 'her widespread defensive prepara- military strategy. As chief of staff territory from Narvik to Naples. of the service. by Army doctors for "disability” in “When this will be, It- is very dif- to be promoted to the rank of field tions. to Mr. Churchill he also is Minister The son of Admiral Sir Richard After the World War, Admiral 1937. He promptly went to China, ficult to say,” Dr. Benes added. “I Travelers said marshal, a title that was to have reaching Turkey of Defense and secretary to the Peirse, Marshal Peirse was educated Leahy advanced rapidly, serving as where two former members of his have my own idea, but it is very been created for him. Gen. groups of German officers may be Chiefs of Staff in the H. M. S. Con- especially chief of the Bureau of Ordnance acrobatic had a to Committee, compris- training ship Marshall troupe opened fly- dangerous predict.” •eeen all over declined to indorse the pro- Bulgaria re-examining ing Gen. Brooke, Admiral Pound and way and at King's College and was a with the rank of admiral, com- ing school at Hanghow. Earlier in the day he said in and posal, and the matter was dropped. '^gasoline supply dumps, inspect- Marshal Portal, as well as military sublieutenant in the Royal Naval mander of the destroyers scouting "Tigers” who were tutored by speeches to Congress that at the ing and~communica- ADMIRAL roads, airports ! secretary to the British war cobinet. Volunteer Reserve at the outbreak ERNEST J. KING, com- force, chief of the Bureau of Navi- Gen. Chennault were taught the war’s end his republic will begin re- fton as if the mander in chief of systems preparing Tall and gray. Sir Hastings began of the World War. Bom near Croy- the United States gation. vice Admiral of the Battle most unorthodox methods of fly- construction as a democracy, “con- as a strong for the Fleet, is known to naval men and chief of ■country point his career following his graduation don Airport. Marshal Peirse became as a Force, Naval Operations ing. These tactics, which appear in sidering itself again the godchild” defense of the Balkans. from to from Sandhurst on the Indian a flying enthusiast at an early age. “triple-threat" specialist in sur- 1937 1939. In this latter ca- none of the standard textbooks on of the United States. air Reports reaching Istanbul said all Northwest frontier in 1908. The East being one of the earliest members of face, and submarine warfare. pacity, he doubled as Acting Secre- Balkans are in a state He carries some of the the seething African Somaliland was the zone of the Royal" Aero Club. When the greatest re- tary of the Navy during the pro- of unrest. his in the World War and Admiralty called for volunteers to be sponsibilities of the war, especially longed illness of the late Navy Sec- * j operations German flew over Athens 1 since the duties of chief of naval Swanson. planes it was during the course of his serv- trained as pilots he transferred to retary en 5. the and in the An Rrdent May reports said, ; ice on the Dark Continent that he the infant Royal Naval Air Force. operations, formerly hands advocate of Navy dropped leaflets warning the popu- In of Admiral Harold R. Stark, were strength, he before Con- i discovered many hitherto unknown 1915 he won the Distinguished appeared lace against having any “illusions” Service Order for his assigned to Admiral King in March, gress in 1938 as the Navy's ; valuable military routes. repeated and spokes- shout the of Allied land- 1942. man for the possibility daring bombing attacks on German first “billion dollar The leaflets said the Germans Tours of duty at Indian Army A stem ings submarine bases at Ostend and Zee- disciplinarian. Admiral Navy bill." headquarters were broken a term would defend Greece “house by by in King has always accepted his duties VICE ADMIRAL EMORY S. ABBOWI at Andover Staff in brugge Occupied Belgium. house and step and de- ! College England. with the War by step” LORD greatest seriousness. As LAND, Shipping Administrator, | ! From 1926 until the outbreak of war FREDERICK JAMES clared that no Allied invasion commander of the Atlantic Fleet, he who also heads the United States in 1939 he was associated at various LEATHERS entered the peerage as could succeed. They threatened had the vitally important respon- Maritime Commission, directs the times in capacities of im- a baron after the beginning of Regulation death to any one caught aiding increasing sibility of keeping open shipping most gigantic shipbuilding program i portance with the the war. when he was called in to Greek guerrillas. high-powered lanes between Great Britain and the world has ever seen. Hard-hit- Committee of place British shipping and trans- Allied military leaders appeared to Imperial Defense, the United States under conditions ting, plain-spoken, Admiral Land is 1 Army Officers* which co-ordinated the work of portation on an efficient basis. He be enjoying this war of nerves, the of undeclared naval warfare against a man who likes to get things done. MOMENTOUS DECISIONS jj United and promptly merged the Ministries of latest of Hitler's war inventions to Kingdom Dominion sea, Germany. He was recently confirmed by the j land and air and Shipping and Transport into the backfire. forces, planned Admiral King is a graduate of the Senate for a second six-year term is important to you. When making your combined in Ministry of War Transport and Every day “Let 'em guess what's coming, ! strategy- the event of Naval Academy at Annapolis, to as head of the Maritime Commis- war. straightened out difficulties which decision be sure to see Louis Brown your importer and the more guesses the better,” ; i which he was appointed in 1897. sion. ISHIRTSI had slowed the their FIELD MARSHAL SIR ARCHI- up flow of supplies the attitude might be unofficially During World War. he was Admiral Land was of fine woolens. Custom made suits for BALD into Great Britain. j graduated from English but accurately summed up. WAVELL, commander in chief awarded the Navy Cross for his the Naval j Academy at Annapolis in men in in India, probably is most familiar to One of his principal reforms is service as who take pride appearance. j assistant to the chief of 1902. He has served as assistant the American contained in the public because of the "diversion room," staff of the commander in chief of chief 3.50 1 in Brief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Congress prominence he attained in in which all at sea are the opening convoys di- Atlantic Fleet. He qualified, in chief of the Bureau of Cutter and Fitter in Attendance By the Asrocieled Press. Construc- Expert fit better wear S phases of the struggle for and verted to the proper port where as a naval They longer Egypt 1927, aviator, and for a tion and Repair and was a member Senate: India. He also holds the rank of railroad or other transport facilities time was chief of the Bureau of of the staff of Admiral Sims during and they're Sanforized Shrunk S Nears vote on pay-as-you-go tax commander in chief for the United are waiting to move the cargoes im- Aeronautics. the last war. Prices start at $48.50 to $75 legislation. Nations in the Pacific area—not to mediately. Previously, the main He is also a former commander He recently reported that Ameri- Military Affairs Committee re- be confused with Gen. MacArthur’s idea was to break the of the aircraft through carrier, U. S. S. Lex- can shipyards will build nearly sumes hearings on Austin-Wads- command of the blockade and make Southwest Pacific any port along ington, since lost in a Pacific en- 19,000,000 deadweight tons of dry Full line of regulation fi worth national service bill. area. the coast. counter with the enemy. He was cargo ships and tankers this year Agriculture Subcommittee studies Gen. Wavell Lord Leathers entered — comes from a family the ship- in charge of several submarine sal- compared with 8,000,000 tons last Pout* neckwear insignias for S food supply situation. of Scots which in and business as an Proton three generations ping colliery vaging operations. year. House: has office boy and as all branches of service B given many generals to the emerged managing GEN. HENRY H. ARNOLD, com- LT. GEN. JOSEPH W. S TIL WELL, English Custom Tailor Considers to British director at the legislation give Navy Army. Following his gradu- age of 33. mander in chief of the United chief of all United States forces in additional million tons of small ation from States Winchester College he ADMIRAL SIR JAMES SOMER- Army Air Forces, has been China, India and Burma, is a field (Civil an* Military) craft for amphibious warfare. was to the with appointed famous "Black VILLE, naval chief in India, was re- flying the Army since 1911. general of the highest ofder—a mill Ways and Means and Rules Com- Watch" when Regiment (Royal Highland- tired in July. 1939, but was soon re- aviation was in its primitive tary leader who dislikes ceremony 812 14th STREET N.W. mittees consider extension of bitu- ers) and began his career by win- called to active service. He took a stages and not highly regarded as and loves action. Best of he likes Coal Act. all, HERZOG'S minous ning the Queen’s Medal with four in the a military weapon. to be with his men. LONDON—ENGLAND—LEEDS RE. 1396 1 leading part evacuation from clasps in the South African War. Dunkerque and later was in charge A West Point graduate, Gen. Ar- Probably no man in the United F STREET AT 9th N.W. 1 There are more than 70 conven- Sir Archibald’s early battles in of operations against the French nold is anything but an arm-chair States Army knows as much fcbout ient branch offices for Star “Want Egypt found him with closing and fleet at Oran. strategist. Early in 1943, he was one China and the Far East as Gen. Ads" located throughout the city. defeating the Italian forces Admiral Somerville le